January 2005 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

RE: [Air-l] social software reading recommendations?
by Amanda Lenhart 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

T.L. Take a look at: Donath, Judith & boyd, danah. (2004) "Public Displays of Connection," BT Technology Journal, vol 22, no 4., October 2004. http://www.danah.org/papers/PublicDisplays.pdf Actually, I'd just peruse danah's website--she's got a number of papers there that might be of interest. http://www.danah.org/papers/ --Amanda Amanda Lenhart Pew Internet -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of T.L. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:00 PM To: air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] social software reading recommendations? Hi. Can anyone recommend a couple key (scholarly if possible) readings on social software? Thanks in advance :) TL _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org/airjoin.html

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collaboration on email -- 1 more article
by Barry Wellman 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Karim Lakhani has asked about papers about collaboration via email. Anabel Quan-Haase and I have just finished a few such papers. One has been published (in Analyse und Kritik which is not online) and one will be published within the year in a book about Community and Collaboration in Business that Oxford U Press is publishing, and is edited by Paul Adler and Charles Heckscher. Almost final versions of both of these papers are available on my website. Look under Publications - Cybersociety - Work. Also see Anabel's Univ of Toronto dissertation, 2004, at the University of Toronto. 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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Studies on email use and collaboration
by Karim R. Lakhani 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi All, I was wondering if people can point me to articles and studies on email use and collaboration - are there any studies that show how collaboration occurs via email? Also any studies that look at how many recipients per message? TIA K -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu

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RE: [Air-l] Missing link to the IR 6.0 site
by Charlie Breindahl 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

> Nice to see the improved site! It deserves a link to it. > > AoIR's main page (http://aoir.org) does not have a link to the > conference! The title of this year's conference ought to be a > link, and > there should ideally also be a link in the left-hand menu. To add > insult to injury, the conference is not linked from the "links" > section, and if you choose "conference" from the "resources" section, > you get the 2003 conference. How are people supposed to find the cool > new site? I was outraged AS WELL... and then I remembered... _I_ am the WEBMASTER of that SITE!!! I rushed to fix it. Thankfully, it's now done. Almost 48 HOURS after the announcement to AIR-L. Gee, I'm just so embarrassed! I'm just joking, of course. Sorry, Anders. This association is run entirely by volunteers. You are entirely welcome to criticize how it's being done, but do consider contributing yourself. Now that I have already reared my ugly head: A newcomer to this list has asked me to politely request you to edit out the redundant parts when you reply to a posting. Please try to remember this - it really means a lot to the usability of the list. Thanks, everyone. Best, Charlie (For the record: The cool new site was created by Jeremy with the help of several volunteers - I am just webmaster of the association's main site).

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Missing link to the IR 6.0 site
by Anders Fagerjord 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Nice to see the improved site! It deserves a link to it. AoIR's main page (http://aoir.org) does not have a link to the conference! The title of this year's conference ought to be a link, and there should ideally also be a link in the left-hand menu. To add insult to injury, the conference is not linked from the "links" section, and if you choose "conference" from the "resources" section, you get the 2003 conference. How are people supposed to find the cool new site? Less important, but nice, would be to make the AoIR logo on the 2006 conference page a link to http://aoir.org. Lots of people will click the logo anyway, before they see the text link to the right. --anders ........................ Anders Fagerjord, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Research Fellow Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway Tel. +47 22 85 04 11 Fax +47 22 85 04 01 http://fagerjord.no

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PhD studentships in Electronic Communications
by Simeon J. Simoff 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney PhD studentships [3 years fixed term]-- up to $32,000 per annum Applications are invited for a number of full-time PhD studentships in the areas of network mining [a new branch of unstructured datamining], e-negotiation and multiagent systems in the eMarkets Group of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney. The Faculty has a vibrant research culture with strong emphasis on basic research, and on applied research in collaboration with industry partners. The e-Markets Research Group (http://research.it.uts.edu.au/emarkets) has funding from two ARC Discovery Grants, and a Linkage Grant with the international telecommunications company Alcatel (France). The e-Markets Group focusses on developing Artificial Intelligence techniques for deployment in distributed market-based applications including, but not limited to, next-generation communications networks. The total scholarship support per studentship is negotiable up to 32K. Students, who have already been granted postgraduate awards are particularly encouraged to apply as negotiable top-ups are available. The successful applicant is expected to have a solid background in Computer Science and Information Technology and a sustained interest in multidisciplinary research in applied artificial intelligence particularly: multiagent systems, e-negotiation, data mining, network mining and network analysis, understanding of complexity issues, and interaction with the researchers in the fields. Applicants should have a good academic record with a demonstrable capacity for research and should be willing to work to deadlines in a dynamic team. If you are interested, please, send CV, transcripts, and samples of research and development work to Associate Professor Simeon J. Simoff email: simeon(a)it.uts.edu.au Voice: +61 2 9514 1103 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807

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Current demographics of online journalists
by Shayla Thiel 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Hello. I've exhausted all my scholarly and professional resources searching for this one over the past month or two, but perhaps someone on this list can help me. I am attempting to find current numbers of people working specifically in online newsrooms (the "traditional" kind that have offline counterparts, though if Salon were included, I'd take it) and how they are divided by gender and race. I have checked with all the usual suspects -- ONA, ASNE, Pew, API, AOIR archives, Weaver/Wilhoit/Voakes studies, comm abstracts and mass comm. scholarly journals, human resource directors...). If anyone has this information or a link to a good recent study that contains it, would you please email it to me at sthiel1(a)depaul.edu? Thanks in advance, Shayla Thiel Shayla Thiel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor DePaul University Department of Communication 2320 North Kenmore Avenue, SAC 574 Chicago, Illinois 60614 Phone: 773.325.7659 Email: sthiel1(a)depaul.edu

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Disadvantage of the Internet
by Kyun-Soo Kim 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Dear Air'ers, I am looking for the literatures dealt with "disadvantage" of using the Internet, computer technology, webpages, or blogs. I know it might be a sort of embarrasing topic. I prefer the micro-level or psychological aspects (annoyance, time sink, harm, and the like) to the macro-level or social aspects such as privacy, anonymity, and participation. I'd appreciate any help here. Kyun-Soo Kim

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RE: smal-i Internet - here's the document from the NYT
by Denise N. Rall 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

1 of 3 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company The New York Times December 29, 2002 Sunday Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 4; Column 1; Week in Review Desk; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 843 words HEADLINE: The Nation: Case-Sensitive Crusader; Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do BYLINE: By JOHN SCHWARTZ BODY: SOMETHING will be missing when Joseph Turow's book about families and the Internet is published by M.I.T. Press next spring: The capital I that usually begins the word "Internet." Mr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, studies how people use online technology and how that affects their lives. He has begun a small crusade to de-capitalize Internet -- and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world. "I think what it means is it's part of the everyday universe," he said. Capitalization irked him because, he said, it seemed to imply that reaching into the vast, interconnected ether was a brand-name experience. "The capitalization of things seems to place an inordinate, almost private emphasis on something," he said, turning it into a Kleenex or a Frigidaire. "The Internet, at least philosophically, should not be owned by anyone," he said, calling it "part of the neural universe of life." But, he said, dropping the big I would sent a deeper message to the world: The revolution is over, and the Net won. It's part of everyone's life, and as common as air and water (neither of which starts with a capital). Some elements of the online world have already made the transition. Internet often appears with a lowercase I on the Internet itself -- but then, spelling online is dreadful, u kno. Although most everybody still capitalizes World Wide Web, words like "website," and the online journals known as weblogs (or, simply, blogs) are increasingly lowercase. Of course, the Internet's capital I is virtually engraved in stone, since Microsoft Word automatically capitalizes the lowercase "i" unless a user overrides its settings. For Mr. Turow, the first step in his campaign was persuading his book editor to enlist. She compromised, dropping to lowercase in newly written parts and retaining the capital in older articles reproduced in the book. Then he nudged Steven Jones, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and president of the Association of Internet Researchers. Mr. Jones was cool to the idea, until he looked at copies of Scientific American from the late 19th century, and noticed that words for new technologies, like Phonograph, were often uppercased. Today, Mr. Jones is a crusader himself. "I think the moment is right," he said, to treat the Internet "the way we refer to television, radio and the telephone." He shared his view with a few hundred close friends last month at a meeting of the National Communication Association, an educators' group. "I just noticed everybody's attention kind of snapped forward," he said. "I'm used to having people say nice things," he said. "We're scholars, not wrestlers. But this time I was struck by the number of people who were saying the equivalent of, 'Right on!' " DICTIONARY editors, though, have dismissed Mr. Turow politely but firmly. Dictionaries do not generally see themselves as making the rules, said Jesse Sheidlower, who runs the American offices of the Oxford English Dictionary. "What dictionaries do is reflect what's out there," he said. He and his fellow dictionary editors would think seriously about such changes after newspapers make them, he added. That could take a while. Allan M. Siegal, a co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage and an assistant managing editor at the newspaper, said that "there is some virtue in the theory" that Internet is becoming a generic term, "and it would not be surprising to see the lowercase usage eclipse the uppercase within a few years." He said, however, that the newspaper was unlikely to make any change that was not supported by authoritative dictionaries. Time to ask Robert Kahn, who is as responsible as anyone for the creation of the Internet, having helped plan the original network that preceded it and having created, with Vinton Cerf, the language of computer networks, known as TCP/IP, that allowed the vast knitting-together of systems that gave birth to the modern medium. He cares deeply about the name, having led a fight for years to ensure that its use is not restricted or abused by the corporation that received the trademark in 1989. A settlement was reached two years ago with the company now known as Concord EFS. The company agreed that it would not dun people who used the word, which meant that "Internet" now belongs to everybody, Mr. Kahn said. "We defended the right of people to use the word 'Internet' for what we think of as the Internet," he said. THAT was the important fight, according to Mr. Kahn. "Whether you use a cap I or little I" hardly matters, he said. Which leads us back to a profound question for Mr. Turow: Don't you have anything better to do? "That's a really interesting question," he said. "I was an English major. I'm very sensitive to the nuances of words, and I'm very concerned about the nuances, the feel that words have within the society." Fair enough; Perhaps the next big thing, after all, will be small. At least initially. URL: http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Drawing (Stuart Goldenberg) ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD candidate, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 - Mobile 0438 233 344 Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & Internet Researcher Presented! 2004 Conf. Association of Internet Researchers: www.aoir.org http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html

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IR 6.0 SITE READY FOR SUBMISSIONS
by jeremy hunsinger 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

> > IR 6.0 SITE READY FOR SUBMISSIONS > > The day you have all been waiting for ... the Internet Research 6.0: > Internet Generations website is up and ready for submissions. > > Please go to ... > > http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3 > > where you can submit your abstracts for the conference. Some details > about the conference site are still coming, so please check back on > the website later for such information. > > Please provide keywords with all submissions -- either in the text of > the abstract or where indicated at submission. These will be used to > assess who reviews the submission, and to allocate papers to sessions. > > The deadline for abstracts is February 15, 2005. So do not delay! > Submit your abstracts as soon as possible. > > Please direct questions about the program to Caroline > Haythornthwaite, Program Chair, IR 6 (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) > > /Caroline > > PS. Please distribute this notice to relevant lists. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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