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The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. These developments have created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This conference aimed to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments. The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference received 98 submissions from more than 24 countries. Out of the papers submitted, 29 were accepted as full papers. In addition to the presentation of full papers, short papers and reflection papers, the conference also includes a keynote presentation from internationally distinguished researchers. Individual papers contain figures, tables, and references.

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games are highly successful, in terms of sales, and their content is part of an explicit business strategy which aims to exploit the latest technologies and platforms to develop content aimed at adult game players in certain markets. By all accounts this has been a highly successful strategy with the GTA franchise selling more than 30 million units across platforms by 2004, even before Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA) was launched in late 2004 (Take Two Interactive 2004). The latter was the top selling console game in the USA and in the top 10 in the UK in 2005. At the same time the GTA series are arguably the most maligned of game products in many markets attracting much negative commentary and numerous legal actions in the USA. This paper examines the structure of the games industry and the culture of modding, the global production network of GTA games and public reaction to GTA:SA in the USA, Europe and Australia. This paper concludes that despite the widespread rhetoric of globalisation and the dismantling of state sanctioned censorship systems the censorship of cultural products continues in a less overt, but nonetheless, highly political, socially negotiated and nationally contingent way. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social scientists have conceptualized market exchange relationships as governed by market calculus, socially embedded ties of trust and obligation, and legal ties of contract. We conceptualize and then measure these orientations to exchange relationships. We focus on the relationships of market exchange for a sample of Australian organizations with their largest supplier and customer. We find that market, socially embedded, and contract governance of exchange are widespread in the Australian economy. Consistent with the socially embedded perspective in sociology, we find that market calculus expectations are actually enhanced when the exchange relationship is socially embedded. The use of contracts is not strongly related to either market or social governance mechanisms. We also estimate statistical models predicting variation in market, social and legal governance mechanisms derived from neoclassical, social embeddedness, transaction cost, and flexible specialization theories. All of these theories, with the exception of flexible specialization, receive considerable support in these models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]