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

RE: [Air-l] Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)
by Marc Smith 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Consider as well: - ntag.com - IR based "name tags" tracks who you meet (and have met) and suggests things you may have in common with your interaction partner. - spotme.ch - RF based PDA style device allows users to fill out a profile and get informed when people interested in similar topics are "near". - Marc ====================================== Marc A. Smith Research Sociologist Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group http://netscan.research.microsoft.com http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith masmith(a)microsoft.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of David Tannenbaum Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:12 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) SubEthaEdit is a useful (and fun) tool that that lets several people work on a single text document at the same time, in real time. Participants could use it to collaborate on a written record of a conference session, note taking, commentary, etc. It can also be used as a flexible chat room. I've used it very effectively in a small wi-fi network to provide a record of an international treaty negotiation (see http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/42#transcript) The major downside is that it only runs on Macs. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0500 > From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) > To: "AoIR" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Message-ID: <001f01c45485$aa5be830$991e7e82@D9447B11> > > There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by Nosh > Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and IKnow > then shows the social networks among them based on their interests. > > http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/ > > The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox, using > RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences > > http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm > > Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical > devices, but IKnow does not. > > /Caroline > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn > Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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leigh star gets honored
by Barry Wellman 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

I'm delighted to give all list members the inside information that Leigh Star has been elected to the Sociological Research Association, an honor society that is hard to get into. (only 14 new members per year). The only thing is that it makes me feel old, when someone I knew as a grad student only 20 years ago, is now getting what is in effect, a lifetime achievement award. But surely this is a testament to how much innovative work Leigh has done over time. And given her energy and mind, how much she surely will do. 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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Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)
by David Tannenbaum 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

SubEthaEdit is a useful (and fun) tool that that lets several people work on a single text document at the same time, in real time. Participants could use it to collaborate on a written record of a conference session, note taking, commentary, etc. It can also be used as a flexible chat room. I've used it very effectively in a small wi-fi network to provide a record of an international treaty negotiation (see http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/42#transcript) The major downside is that it only runs on Macs. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0500 > From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) > To: "AoIR" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Message-ID: <001f01c45485$aa5be830$991e7e82@D9447B11> > > There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by Nosh > Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and IKnow > then shows the social networks among them based on their interests. > > http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/ > > The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox, using > RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences > > http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm > > Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical > devices, but IKnow does not. > > /Caroline > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn > Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)
by David Tannenbaum 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

SubEthaEdit is a useful (and fun) tool that that lets several people work on a single text document at the same time, in real time. Participants could use it to collaborate on a written record of a conference session, note taking, commentary, etc. It can also be used as a flexible chat room. I've used it very effectively in a small wi-fi network to provide a record of an international treaty negotiation (see http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/42#transcript) The major downside is that it only runs on Macs. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0500 > From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) > To: "AoIR" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Message-ID: <001f01c45485$aa5be830$991e7e82@D9447B11> > > There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by Nosh > Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and IKnow > then shows the social networks among them based on their interests. > > http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/ > > The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox, using > RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences > > http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm > > Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical > devices, but IKnow does not. > > /Caroline > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn > Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hawaii conference deadline for papers extended
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Papers are still being accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Lots of sessions deal with issues of interest to Internet Researchers Papers must be uploaded by next week, Wednesday, June 23rd, 5:00pm Pacific (California) Time. http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Deadlines for all HICSS sessions have been extended by one week. See the listing of tracks and minitracks for content areas. I am co-organizing a session on Information and Communication Technologies in Support of Knowledge management, Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning. The CFP can be found here (and below) ... http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Hicss38/foscfp.htm If you are still interested in submitting for this session, please contact me asap! /Caroline ------------- Information and Communication Technologies in Support of KM/OM/OL This minitrack looks at technical issues and tools for building and supporting knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning systems including the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support the sharing of knowledge between individuals, groups, and organizations in a variety of contexts (e.g., collocated, distributed nationally or internationally). In addition, we welcome studies with implications on social/technical design of systems enabling knowledge sharing. We encourage papers that explore the role of information and communication technologies (e.g., knowledge management systems, digital libraries, online learning environments, intranets, etc.) in mediating/facilitating knowledge sharing. Papers that generate new paradigms and present alternatives to the knowledge-based systems' concepts of knowledge "codification" and "transfer" are of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn

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question about cyberspace ethnography literature
by Alireza Doostdar 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Dear AoIRs, I'm in the process of revising a paper I've submitted to the American Anthropologist about blogging in Iran, which I've titled "'The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging': On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan". My ethnographic research consisted in part of maintaining a Persian-language blog where I wrote observations and commentary on a debate that was raging among many Iranian bloggers at the time on "vulgar" linguistic and cultural practices, and where I engaged in conversations with other bloggers. In my paper, I reflect on my methods of drawing attention to my own words on my blog (through hyperlinking, explicitly invoking other people's blog entries, sending trackback pings, making provocative statements, etc) so as to get comments from other people, and I analyze these methods within a larger context of communicative practices by bloggers who write to be noticed and who need to be noticed in order to be read. Based on this and other analyses, I conceptualize blogging (in the Persian language at least) as an emergent speech genre (in the Bakhtinian sense) that draws on various on- and off-line genres of speech. One of my reviewers has asked that I situate my intensively engaged ethnographic method within a literature of cyberspace ethnography that discusses such engagement (and other methods, like lurking) and the relevant theoretical and ethical issues. I already have several pieces I can use, including Christine Hine's "Virtual Ethnography" and David Hakken's "Cyborgs@Cyberspace?". I would TREMENDOUSLY appreciate pointers on other relevant literature, preferably things I can get my hands on fast, as my revisions are due by Monday! Thank you in advance, -Alireza

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Tech Active: London, 28 June
by csandvig＠uiuc.edu 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Dear AIR colleagues, The attached event might be of interest. Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/ Please forward as appropriate. ************************ TECH ACTIVE A panel discussion in London on 28 June 2004. Activists, scholars, and programmers have sometimes seen the Internet as a lever they can use to change the world, or they have seen the world as a lever they can use to change their Internet -- for the cause of privacy, liberty, democracy, or equity, among others. Where has this online activism about social justice faltered and how has it triumphed? If you own a computer and a conscience, please join influential activist/scholars to consider the meaning and practice of online activism. What has changed after all this effort, and what might change if we get it right? Details: Monday, 28 June 2004 A panel discussion from 15:00 to about 17:00, with drinks to follow, at the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (tube: Marble Arch, use exit #11 from the Hyde Park pedestrian subway) Stanhope House, Stanhope Place (at Hyde Park), London W2 2HH Free and open to the public; no advance booking is required. Featuring: *** Nerd Determinism, Nerd Fatalism, and the Copyfight *** CORY DOCTOROW is the European Affairs Coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University. *** Civil Society Bites, and other Privacy Failures *** GUS HOSEIN is a Fellow in Information Systems at the London School of Economics, a Senior Fellow at Privacy International, and an advisor to non-governmental organizations in Europe and the US. *** Online Activism in Raced and Queer Media Spaces *** LISA NAKAMURA is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the author of Cybertypes and co-editor of Race In Cyberspace. *** If You're Going to Play the Game, You Need to Play it Well *** BILL THOMPSON is a writer and journalist for BBC Radio and BBC News Online, an external lecturer at City University, a research associate with the iSociety project, and an editorial advisor to OpenDemocracy.net. This event is hosted by the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, and kindly co-sponsored by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and The Internet Society of England. For more information: http://www.stanhopecentre.org/ info(a)stanhopecentre.org Tel. +44 (0) 207 479 5900

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re: [Air-l] question about interview language for online/offline distinction
by Sal Humphreys 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

I too have been interested in how to frame the distinction or lack of distinction between on and offline spaces. One of the things that struck me in a recent set of interviews with online gamers, was that some had a kind of instrumental use of the terminology 'RL'. It seemed to be a way of resolving what would otherwise be some very troublesome contradictions in their lives. For instance, a woman who is 'happily married', has an avowed commitment to monogamy, and who spends up to 40 hours a week in the game, where she has about 6 different characters, all married to other players' characters, some with an accompanying intense emotional involvement, most with online cybersex involvements. For her, invoking RL also allows her to rationalise her in-game involvements as not RL and therefore not at all contradictory to her stance on marriage and monogamy. Granted, game worlds specifically give people a licence to create and live fantasy, unlike some other online environments spoken of in the list discussion, but the convenience of the term RL for people living with a series of contradictions about their lives did strike me as a possible reason for its use. Not suggesting it is a universal....just a small observation. cheers Sal Humphreys Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology

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tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by Nosh Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and IKnow then shows the social networks among them based on their interests. http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/ The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox, using RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical devices, but IKnow does not. /Caroline --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Kris Markman wrote: > Dear AoIR folk, > I'm part of a group of graduate students at the > Univ. of Texas working on a consulting project > for the organizers of the 2006 World Congress of > Information Technology > (http://www.wcit2006.org/) One of our projects > is to come up with recommendations for > technologies that can enhance the social > networking of conference delegates during and > after the conference. We're looking for ways that > different devices and applications (and > especially ones that make use of wireless & > mobile technology) can help conference delegates > track, find and manage contacts and extend > face-to-face discussions during the conference, > and help them continue networking after they've > left. > > I'm interested to know if any of you have ever > attended or organized a conference (professional, > academic, industry, or other) where technology > was used in interesting/useful/innovated ways > specifically to enhance social networking. I'd > like to get an idea of what kinds of things have > been done (successfully and unsuccessfully) in > the past as we develop our plans for this project. > > Please feel free to share your experiences and insights with me off list. > > Thanks! > -Kris > -- > ffffff ffffff ffffff ffffff > Kris M. Markman, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate > Dept. of Communication Studies > The University of Texas at Austin > 1 University Station Stop A1105 > Austin, TX 78712-0115 > Email: jho-kmm(a)mail.utexas.edu > ffffff ffffff ffffff ffffff > > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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question about interview language for online/offline distinction
by andrea baker 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Mary, you raise a very interesting question. To add to what Annette said I could propose that *f2f* (face-to-face) or ftf might fill work with *online*. Like her, I tend to use online/offline which works best for studies emphasizing online interactions, I agree. Distinctions used: online/offline online/f2f OL/IRL or RL virtual reality/physical space cyberspace/meatspace The last is controversial among some for perhaps obvious reasons. I have found it useful to discuss comparative features of the two realms. Virtual reality vs. physical space or physical reality have served us in times past but seem dated also, even more than online/offline. What terms do young people use? As you note, their realities are more seamless, what with phone, IM, maybe texting...And yet, meeting "in person" retains a distinct flavor of its own, methinks. best, andrea (andee)

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