June 2004 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: first post (An Internet Without Space)
by Michele White 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Dear Colleagues, Thanks for the interesting posts on space. One of my concerns is the ways that the concept of Internet space often leads to the idea that there are people on the screen or inside the interface. While there are certainly people engaging through varied technologies and they are very invested in their connections, the mediated aspects of engagement and the deeply constructed interfaces and identity representations are sometimes not addressed. This mediation significantly shapes what we see and experience. With increasing computer processing speed and connectivity, ubiquitous computing, and more detailed simulations it becomes easier and we are often encouraged to forget the technologies and representations. My hope is that we can address both user interests and the ways that traditional ideas of age, class, gender, race, and sexuality (which are conveyed through visual and textual representations) are reinscribed through technologies, practices, and depictions. I know that Ulla has asked me about alternative terminology and I often try to model this in my writing. I employ such terms as "setting" instead of space. Admittedly, sometimes thinking through our ways of speaking the Internet removes further words from my vocabulary and leads to a spluttering or form of unspeaking. As I researcher, I believe that one of my responsibilities is to consider the ways that individuals view and speak about Internet settings, contemporary technologies, and other social experiences and to suggest the problems, promises, and (as Ulla prompts) the other ways that individuals and societies can represent and produce these technologies and cultural practices. I sometimes rework a vocabulary from the humanitiesparticularly film and media studies, photography theory, literary studies, and art history to write about such depictions as the rectangular or body-shaped images of synchronous graphical settings or the photo-like images of webcams. We might also look to writings about past technologies to understand our representations of the Internet. Television and other media have been understood as live, alive, and a space. Thomas Hutchinson indicated, that with television "the outside world can be brought into the home" (ix) and Charles Siepmann argued that television was a way of "'going places' without even the expenditure of movement" (340). More recently, Rhona J. Berenstein has noted that television also had the reputation of "being a medium of immediacy: an apparatus that, more than film, offers its viewers live access to the world around them and hence it was assumed, to reality " and that television resonates "in spatial terms, suggesting a physical proximity between the viewer and the performance rendered" (26). In any case, it seems to me that each vocabulary and way of understanding the Internet produces a set of cultural perceptions that shape our understanding of these technologies and social practices, what they are, and what they can be. All my best, Michele Rhona J. Berenstein, "Acting Live: TV Performance, Intimacy, and Immediacy," Reality Squared: Televisual Discourse on the Real, ed. James Friedman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Thomas H Hutchinson, Here Is Television, Your Window on the World. New York: Hastings House, 1948. Charles Siepmann, Radio, Television, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.

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Reminder Workshop on information society metrics at AoIR5
by Michel J. Menou 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Dear colleagues Some time ago a CfP was posted for the pre-conference workshop MEASURING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY : WHAT, HOW, FOR WHOM AND WHAT ? Co-Sponsored by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology - ASIS&T/EC. Thorough descriptions can be found on the conference section on the AoIR5 web site http://aoir.org/2004 and at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/announcements/Measuring-eng.htm , in English, French and Spanish. Abstracts of the proposed position papers are due June 26. They should be sent to the undersigned. An online discussion will allow to prepare for the F2F event and broaden participation to colleagues who won't be able to attend. it will take place on the listserv of the Monitoring and evlauation section of the ICT4Dev site of the Development Gateway http://www.developmentgateway.com/evaluation We look forward to your contributions. Yourself, your behaviour, your society are being measured. This is an unique opportunity for you to tell what all these measures and indicators mean to you. Cordially Michel Menou mailto:Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr

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percentage online surveys
by Ec.Deutskens＠MW.unimaas.nl 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hallo everybody, I am looking for statistics that reveal which percentage of market research is conducted via online surveys, or alternatively, how much is spend on online market research If have been looking on the web but could not find good sources. It would be great if anyone would have some figures or know where to find them. THANKS! Lisa -------------------------------------------------- Drs. Elisabeth Deutskens PhD Student Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Department of Marketing Tel: +31 (-43) -3883716 Fax: +31 (-43) -3884918 E-mail: ec.deutskens(a)mw.unimaas.nl website: http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/ec.deutskens/ <http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/ec.deutskens/>

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Re: SNA & OSS
by mboudour＠upatras.gr 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hello all, Thanks to everybody who has responded. Special thanks to Lada Adamic, Mariano Belinky, Irene Berkowitz, Ron Burt, Kathleen Carley, Roberto Dandi, Danyel Fisher, Jon Froehlich, James Howison and Robin Teigland. The list below includes only works making use or referring to social network analysis. --Moses M.A. Boudourides Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 265 00 Rio-Patras Greece Tel.: +30-2610-996318 Fax: +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour **************************************************************************** Works on F/OSS and Social Network Analysis Crowston, K., & Howison, J. (2003). The social structure of Open Source Software development teams. Submitted for presentation at the "2003 International Conference on Information Systems." http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/icis2003sna.pdf Ducheneaut, N. (n.d.). The reproduction of open source software communities. Ph.D. work at Berkeley. http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/open-source.html Gao, Y. (2003). Topology and evolution of the Open Source Software community. MS Thesis. University of Notre Dame. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/ygaoThesisFinal_12-2-03.pdf Gao, Y., Madey, G., & Freeh, V. (2003). Modeling and simulation of a complex social system: A case study. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/SimulationSym37_gao.pdf Kuwabara, K. (2000). Linux: A bazaar at the edge of chaos. First Monday, vol. 5, no. 3 (March 2000). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_3/kuwabara/index.html Lopez-Fernandez, L., Robles-Martinez, G., & Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M. (2004). Applying social network analysis to the information in CVS repositories. http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/html/downloads/sna-icse-2004.pdf http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/slides/LopezFernandez.pdf Madey, G., Freeh, V., & Tynan, R. (2004). Modeling the F/OSS Community: A quantitative investigation. In S. Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Publishing. http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Papers/BookChapter.pdf Meyer, P.B. (2003). Episodes of collective invention. Working Paper 368. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meyer.pdf Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., & Herbsleb, J.D. (n.d.). Two case studies of Open Source Software development: Apache and Mozilla. http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf Myers, C.R. (2003). Software systems as complex networks: Structure, function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs. Cond-mat/0305575. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305575 O’Mahony, S., & Ferraro, F. (2003). Managing the boundary of an ‘open’ project. Prepared for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Workshop on .The Network Construction of Markets.. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahonyferraro.pdf te Meerman, S. (2003). Puzzling with a top-down blueprint and a bottom-up network: An explorative analysis of the Open Source world using ITIL and Social Network Analysis. MS Thesis, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/meerman2.pdf Waguespack, D.M., & Fleming, L. (2004). Penguins, camels, and other birds of a feather: The emergence of leaders in open innovation communities. http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/elf/ECON222/Waguespack%20Fleming.pdf Wasko, M.M., & Teigland, R. (2002). The provision of online public goods: Examining social structure in an electronic network of practice. 23rd International Conference on Information Systems. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~aschwarz/workshop/abstracts/teiglanda.htm Xu, J., & Madey, G. (2004). Exploration of the Open Source Software community. NAACSOS Conference 2004. http://casos.isri.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2004_proceedings/XuJin1.pdf

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AoIR conference workshop call for abstracts: Methods for studying the academic web
by Mike Thelwall 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

"The web as a mirror of scientific and technical achievements: issues in access and measurement" The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in studing any aspect of the academic web in order have a fruitful exchange of views and ideas, particularly relating to methods. The deadline for submitting an abstract for the above workshop is a few days away: 26 June. Please submit to m.thelwall(a)wlv.ac.uk. More information is at: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/announcements/AoIR.htm And also on the conference web site (workshop 4) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/conference.html

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Contact
by Dianne Looker 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi there, Since you sent your query to the whole AoIR list, I got to see it. I will be there - hopefully we can connect and talk about my research in more detail than you are getting from the e-mails we send to collaborators. Cheers, Dianne Looker Professor Of Sociology Acadia University Wolfville, N.S. Canada B4P 2R6 Phone: (902) 585-1257 Fax: (902) 585-1769 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of mwhitty Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:57 AM To: 'Association of Internet Researchers' Subject: RE: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open! Hi Kate, Is the full programme up now (or did I miss it?). Not sure if others would find it useful too; however, I would find it helpful to know what date I'm presenting so that I can work out what days to register for and book my trip. Regards, Monica Dr. Monica Whitty Queen's University Belfast School of Psychology David Keir Building Northern Ireland BT7 1NN Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 5654 Email: m.whitty(a)qub.ac.uk http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/whitty.html -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kathleen O'Riordan Sent: 24 June 2004 12:40 To: Association of Internet Researchers Cc: air-meet(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open! Dear Colleagues The registration for Internet Research 5.0, the 2004 AoIR conference, is now open. Please register via the 'Conference' page of the web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/ or www.aoir.org/2004 We extend a very warm welcome to participants in the AoIR conference and hope to see as many of you as possible there! Apologies for the delay in offering this service, as you will notice we still have a technical issue with the web form, in the interests of expedience, registration is via PDF in the interim. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Regards Kate O'Riordan Please distribute this notice. _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Netville paper wins 2nd prize
by Barry Wellman 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Folks, I'm delighted to tell you that Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman's paper has won second prize (aka Honorable Mention) for the Park Award for an Outstanding Publication, given annually by the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology section: "Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb." _City and Community_ 2, 3 (Fall 2003): 277-311. It's nice to see Internet based stuff recognized by a non-Internet section. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: CFP Other Players reminder
by T.L. Taylor 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Passing along for Miguel & Jonas... TL ------- From: Jonas Heide Smith <jonas(a)AUTOFIRE.DK> Subject: Call for papers - Other Players conference in December (REMINDER) Hi all (apologies for cross-posting), This is to remind you of the AUGUST 1st deadline for paper submissions for OTHER PLAYERS - A CONFERENCE ON MULTIPLAYER PHENOMENA (www.itu.dk/op) Full call for papers: www.itu.dk/op/callforpapers.php Conference: December 6-8, 2004 Place: Center for Computer Games Research (The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) We accept full papers (up to 6000 words) only, and all submitted papers will undergo blind review by expert game scholars. Papers must deal with one or more multiplayer issues in digital games. If you are interested in the conference, please subscribe to the special notification list - available from the front page of the conference website: www.itu.dk/op. Please note that we are in the process of revising the conference website considerably. We'd be grateful for suggestions or error reports (smith(a)itu.dk) We look very much forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen in December! If you have any questions regarding the conference please write to - Academic questions: Jonas Heide Smith (smith(a)itu.dk) - Administrative questions: Lise Louv (louv(a)itu.dk) Kind regards, Miguel Sicart and Jonas Heide Smith The Center for Computer Games Research - http://game.itu.dk -------------------------------------------- JONAS HEIDE SMITH PhD candidate, MA in Media Studies IT University of Copenhagen Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication Glentevej 67 / Office 1.12 DK-2400 Copenhagen Tel: (+45) 38 16 89 35 Mobile: (+45) 24 91 33 13 Web: http://www.itu.dk/people/smith

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ELO Publishes "Acid-Free Bits" on the Web
by Carol Wald 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

I followed the instructions on formatting my post as plain text; is this OK? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- "Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature" by Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin v. 1.0 June 14, 2004 ELO's Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination Committee (PAD) has just published an important set of guidelines for creating enduring eliterature and digital media works. "Acid-Free Bits" is now available at the ELO's website, http://www.eliterature.org . We hope that artists, writers, instructors, scholars, and librarians will find "Acid-Free Bits" both useful and provocative for writing, art-making, teaching, and debate about the nature and future of born-digital writing. We look forward to hearing your thoughts about "Acid-Free Bits." Please feel free to contact the authors with your feedback: Nick Montfort: nickm [at] nickm [dot] com ; web: http://nickm.com Noah Wardrip-Fruin: nwf [at] brown [dot] edu Please also feel free to post comments on the PAD discussion forum. You will find a link to this forum on the "Acid-Free Bits" web page. Best regards, Carol Ann Wald Program Assistant Electronic Literature Organization ---------------------------------------------------- 11000 Kinross Ave., Suite 245 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1615 t 310.206.1863 f 310.206.6676 http://www.eliterature.org

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Photoblogs and MoBlogs
by Zach Johnson 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

All, I've done some preliminary searching for academic research related to Photoblogs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=photoblog&r=f) and MoBlogs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moblog&f=1) and so far have come up pretty short. Any references published or otherwise would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance. Zach Johnson PhD Candidate Bournemouth University Media School Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB UK

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