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[Comtech] First call for papers for Communities and Technologies 2007 (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:06:06 -0500 From: Charles Steinfield <steinfie(a)msu.edu> To: comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de Cc: Noshir Contractor <nosh(a)uiuc.edu>, Brian Pentland <pentland(a)bus.msu.edu>, C. Steinfield <steinfie(a)msu.edu>, Mark Ackerman <ackerm(a)umich.edu> Subject: [Comtech] First call for papers for Communities and Technologies 2007 Dear Colleagues, I realize this is quite early, but I would like to get the next Communities and Technologies conference on your planning horizon. The call for papers is provided below, and we encourage you to share this with interested colleagues. We hope you will find the topics to be of interest, and we look forward to welcoming you to Michigan State University for C&T 2007. Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, Mark Ackermann, and Noshir Contractor p.s. we apologize for any duplicate emails resulting from our posting this to several different listservs. ----------------------------------------------- 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies hosted by Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan U.S.A. June 28-30, 2007 First Call for Papers Conference Website: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007 Following the success of two prior conferences, we cordially invite submissions to the third International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007), hosted by Michigan State University. This biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities - both physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies. C&T 2007 welcomes contributions from researchers in many fields, given the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of inquiries into the interaction between community and technology. Past meetings have involved researchers working in such areas as computer supported cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, human computer interaction, information systems, community informatics, knowledge management, and Internet studies; across such fields as anthropology, communication, computer science, economics, geography, information studies, information systems, management science, political science, psychology, sociology, and telecommunication. The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as workshops, tutorials, and a small number of invited speakers. Important Dates: November 13, 2006: Paper submission deadline December 4, 2006: Deadline for submission of workshop proposals Conference Themes: There are many definitions of community. We focus on the notion of communities as social entities comprised of actors who share something in common: this common element may be geography, needs, interests, practices, organizations, or other bases for social connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social experience. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can interact with communities in many complex ways. For example, ICTs can support community formation and development by facilitating communication and coordination among members. Conversely, the lack of attention to the surrounding community context may inhibit the design and effective use of ICT innovations. Hence, new research into the creation, use, and evaluation of ICTs aimed at community support is appearing at an increasing rate. New phenomena such as blogs, podcasting, smart mobs, and the popularity of social network software illustrate some of the new areas for research into the powerful and changing connections between community and technology. Empirical, conceptual, and design contributions are invited, involving a range of methodologies and approaches. These might include application designs, innovative frameworks, case studies, ethnographies, experiments, survey research, network analyses or economic studies. Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold. Examples of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology research include, but are not limited to: * virtual community formation and development * communities of interest and practice, knowledge sharing and organizational learning * communities and innovation * community informatics * technical support for communities * innovative applications of communityware * ad hoc communities and ICTs * innovations in community technology design * system platforms for e-community research * design methods for communityware * ICTs and geographical business communities (e.g. clusters and/or regional development) * ICTs and virtual business communities * community e-commerce business models * interactions between online and offline communities * social capital, communities, and technology * communities and e-government * ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities * trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities * communities, technology and social movements * interaction in large scale online communities * persistent conversation in technology-facilitated communities * supporting collaboration in local and distributed communities * economics of technology-facilitated communities * inter-organizational communities and technology * communities, technology, learning and education Submitting Papers and Workshop Proposals Completed and original research papers of not more 20 pages must be submitted electronically to the conference website, and will undergo a peer review process. We are preparing submission guidelines and a conference management facility to enable online submission. In the meantime, general information about C&T 2007 is available at the conference web site. We also invite the submission of proposals for workshops, which will be held on June 28, the first day of the conference. Workshops can be either half or full day in length and built around specific themes relevant to the conference. Workshop proposals should be 4 pages in length, and should define the theme(s) of the workshop, the main activities and goals, the background and contact information of the organizer(s), the maximum number of participants in the workshop, the means of soliciting participants, and the method of selecting participants. Proposals should also include a brief summary of no more than 150 words suitable for describing the workshop in the conference program. Proceedings As with prior meetings, the Conference on Communities and Technologies Proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Conference Organizers and Contact Information The 2007 meeting is being co-organized by Charles Steinfield and Brian Pentland of Michigan State University, Mark Ackerman of the University of Michigan, and Noshir Contractor of the University of Illinois. Questions regarding C&T 2007 should be sent to the conference email address, which is cct2007(a)msu.edu. _______________________________________________ Comtech mailing list Comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de https://mail.fit.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/comtech

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Fwd: Fantasy football survey...
by Jeremy Hunsinger 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Forwarded as per request, please participate as appropriate >> Jeremy, >> >> >> >> Could you make an announcement on the listserv that we are doing a >> fantasy football survey here at Florida State and we a looking for >> respondents. It take about five minutes and we are looking for >> players at every level. >> >> >> >> >> >> http://fantasy.comm.fsu.edu/ >> >> >> >> Many thanks, >> >> >> >> Steven. >> >> >> >> "Little things are goin' down..." - Shuffle Your Feet - Black Rebel >> Motorcycle Club. >> >> >> >> Steven McClung, Ph.D. >> >> Assistant Professor, Integrated Marketing Communication >> >> 356 Diffenbaugh >> >> Florida State University >> >> Tallahassee, FL 32309 >> >> Voice: 850.644.9125 >> >> E-mail: steven.mcclung(a)comm.fsu.edu >> >> WWW Site: http://mcclung.comm.fsu.edu/ >> >> >> >> <McClung, Steven.vcf> > > jeremy hunsinger > jhuns(a)vt.edu > www.cddc.vt.edu > jeremy.tmttlt.com > www.tmttlt.com > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers

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Please take this online survey
by Steve Jones 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

A group of students in a graduate seminar I am teaching has developed an online survey to learn more about the use of the internet and new media by air-l subscribers, and about internet tools made available at AoIR IR 6.0. I would appreciate it if you would take the survey. In all likelihood, unless you write extensive responses to the open- ended questions (which I would encourage), the survey should take about 10 minutes. It will be online until Tuesday, November 22. The url for the survey is http://toolssurvey.notlong.com. For those of you who filled out the conference evaluation that was online, please note that this is an entirely different survey, and is not a conference evaluation. If you have any questions please email me off list. Thank you in advance. Sj PS: Those of you who attended the conference met most of these students there, they were the volunteers without whom the conference would have been, logistically, a flop. I hope you share in my gratitude for their work and can repay the favor they showed AoIR by helping them out. Thanks.

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Research Participants Needed
by Jiali Ye 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hello, all: My name is Jiali Ye and I am a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. As part of my dissertation research, I am conducting a survey on the maintenance of friendships developed on the Internet. To explore this issue, your help is requested. I would really appreciate it if you can let your students know about this survey. Of course, if you are currently having a friendship (not romantic relationship) initiated and exclusively maintained online, you are welcome to participate in the study. To participate in this study, simply go to http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwjou/esurvey/consentform.html Your responses will be confidential. The survey will take about fifteen to twenty minutes. After completing the survey, you can send an email to jye1(a)gsu.edu with subject "participation" in order to receive information about the survey results when they become available. Providing your e-mail is not required, but many people like to do this simply to learn about the results themselves. Again, your help in this endeavor is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jiali Ye Ph.D Candidate Department of Communication Georgia State University Atlanta, GA,30303 404-463-0570 joujyyx(a)langate.gsu.edu www.student.gsu.edu/~jye

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Google Print & Mass Digitization Projects: DC Humanities & Tech Forum on 11/28
by Jeremy Hunsinger 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

>> >> I thought that some DC area editors might be interested in this >> forum. Charlene >> >> >> This fall's Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities >> focuses on: >> >> "Massive Digitization Programs and Their Long-Term Implications: >> Google >> Print, the Open Content Alliance, and Related Developments" >> >> Our panelists are Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for >> Networked Information, and attorney Jonathan Band. (See their bios >> below.) >> >> We will meet on Monday November 28, 2005 from 4:00-6:00 PM on George >> Mason University's Arlington Campus (not the Fairfax campus, as in >> the >> past) in room 121 of the (brick) "Original Building," which is at >> 3401 >> Fairfax Drive, Arlington-just one block from the Virginia Square >> Metro >> on the Orange line. There will be an informal dinner after the forum, >> at a cost of $10 per person. You must RSVP online for dinner by 21 >> November at: >> >> http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/1224/ >> >> Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at GMU and >> the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at >> Georgetown, the DC Area Technology and Humanities Forum explores >> important issues in humanities computing and provide an >> opportunity for >> DC area scholars interested the uses of new technology in the >> humanities to meet and get acquainted. >> >> You can find directions to GMU at: >> http://www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html >> >> and an Arlington campus map at: http://coyote.gmu.edu/map/arling.html >> >> There is no public parking at the Arlington campus, but you can >> probably find metered parking on the street at that hour. Arlington >> County has a parking guide here: >> >> http://www.co.arlington.va.us/Departments/EnvironmentalServices/ >> dot/traf >> fic/parking/RB/RBParking.aspx >> >> Please feel free to share this invitation with others who might be >> interested. (If you prefer not to receive subsequent notices for >> these >> forums, please email hvelez(a)gmu.edu) >> >> Speakers: >> Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked >> Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the >> Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 >> member organizations concerned with the use of information technology >> and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual >> productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the >> University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as >> Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer >> Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct >> professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. >> Jonathan Band is a Washington-based attorney who helps shape the laws >> governing intellectual property and the Internet through a >> combination >> of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented library and >> technology clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital >> Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), database protection legislation, and >> other statutes relating to copyrights, spam, cybersecurity, and >> indecency. He received his BA from Harvard College and his JD from >> Yale >> Law School. He worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & >> Foerster for nearly 20 years before opening his own law firm earlier >> this year >> >> -Roy Rosenzweig (Center for History & New Media; http://chnm.gmu.edu) >> and Randy Bass (Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship; >> http://candles.georgetown.edu/) >> > > > -- > Duncan M. Porter > Director, Darwin Correspondence Project > Department of Biological Sciences > Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University > Blacksburg, VA 24061 > 540-231-6768 jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers

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language awareness and wikis
by David Palfreyman 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Apologies if you have received this before. I am editing a special issue of the journal "Language Awareness", on the use of online media. I have received papers on a range of topics related to this, but I am looking in particular for one involving research on the use of wikis to raise language awareness. I am pasting an invitation below, and I would be grateful if you could forward this to anyone who you think might be interested. Note that the journal publishes papers on language awareness not only in English teaching but in the learning of other foreign languages or mother tongues as well. Hoping to hear from you, David Palfreyman Zayed University, Dubai ***************************************************** "Language Awareness" is an interdisciplinary journal which seeks to encourage and disseminate work exploring the following: * the role of explicit knowledge about language in the process of language learning; * the role that such explicit knowledge about language plays in language teaching and how such knowledge can best be mediated by teachers; * the role of explicit knowledge about language in language use: e.g. sensitivity to bias in language, manipulative aspects of language, literary use of language. This is an invitation for submissions for a special issue of "Language Awareness", focusing on the use of electronic media (including web-based media, virtual learning environments, online interaction and multimedia) to promote or investigate awareness of language. The intention is to bring together recent empirical work exploring the potential of new media in a range of fields, which may include first or second language education, teacher education, literature teaching or critical literacy development. Contributions need not be pure 'success stories', but may highlight challenges of the new media and possible responses to these. If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, please send an abstract (200 words approx) to <David.Palfreyman(a)zu.ac.ae> by 30 November 2005, outlining your study and its relation to the theme of the special issue. For further information about "Language Awareness", please see the journal website <http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_la.asp>, and for queries about the special issue, please contact <David.Palfreyman(a)zu.ac.ae>. :-D

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Re: [Air-l] Friendster
by Ingbert Floyd 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

The social networking software is not my area of expertise, and neither is culture, but I am interested in how various aspects of software afford certain behaviors, but do not afford others. One of the things I find fascinating is how social software like myspace have facilitated a culture of casual hook-ups among some teenagers. Obviously, it's an interaction between certain teen cultures and the affordances of the software, but I was wondering if anybody has studied (1) how this online aspect of those cultures developed, (2) what purpose these behaviors serve in the culture: What needs of the teenagers are met? Is it simply because it allows them an opportunity to have sex? Why don't they just have casual sex with their F2F friends? Why does the software need to mediate the behavior? Does somehow not having a relationship make it easier to have sex? Or is that a mythology that contributes to facilitating such behavior? Does this have something to do with stealing power from their parents/adults in general, in that they are trying to behave like adults when society is still treating them like children (can't drive until 16 or 17, can't smoke, can't drink, have curfiews, most don't have to work to support themselves, only have to work to afford luxuries, etc.)? (3) what is it about the software that affords the creation of these types of casual relationships? why is it different than "normal" F2F relationships that kids develop? or is it so different? (4) is there a culture of practicing safe sex, or is the culture a potential STD disaster? (this is less research related and more a concern for the health of our youth question). Anyway, anthing people can point me to to read about this would be appreciated. Ingbert Floyd PhD Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Call for papers and writing competition -- Yale ISP Conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K)
by Rotenberg, Boris 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Dear All, I attach information regarding a call for papers and writing competition in conjunction with the upcoming Yale ISP conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K). Please forward this information to anyone who may be interested. For more information please visit www.ijclp.org Regards, Boris Rotenberg ---------------- YALE ISP CONFERENCE ON ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE (A2K), APRIL 21-23, 2006 THE YALE LAW SCHOOL INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT (ISP) and THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS LAW & POLICY (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their third interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers in conjunction with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference taking place on April 21-23, 2006 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars, policy makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the writing competition and/or for publication by the IJCLP. CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION In the digital era, most multinational corporations and policymakers are of the view that the current trend characterised by increasing intellectual property rights and corporate control over knowledge best serve society’s interests. At the same time, however, a growing number of commentators believe that widespread access to knowledge (A2K) and the preservation of a healthy knowledge commons are the real basis for sustainable human development. Nonetheless, intellectual property-based approaches continue to singlehandedly dictate global legal norms and shape national legal infrastructures. The first goal of the Yale A2K Initiative is to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively on intellectual property rights. Beyond this aim, the A2K initiative seeks to support the adoption and development of alternative ways to foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected environment. The landmark A2K conference at Yale Law School will bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South, in order to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access to software and medicines. The A2K Conference aims to help build an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights. Key issues to be considered include, among others: - the economics of A2K in a digital environment; - A2K indexes and measurement techniques; - the limitations to A2K; - digital libraries and archives; - government investment in information production; - government procurement policies; - open source software; - the WIPO Broadcast Treaty; - access to education and scientific knowledge; - universal service in telecommunications; - the digital divide; - digital rights management; - open access journals. A full conference description will be available on the Yale ISP's A2K Initiative page at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html. WRITING COMPETITION Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon EST, February 15th, 2006. The author of the best paper, as well as two runners-up will be invited to present their work at a panel during the conference. The author of the winning paper will receive coverage of his/her travel to and accommodations at Yale University for the conference. Selected papers will be announced by April 1st, 2006. The authors of the award-winning papers will automatically be invited to publish their work in a special Autumn 2006 volume of the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (http://www.ijclp.org) devoted to Access to Knowledge. JOURNAL PUBLICATION Submissions for publication must be received by noon EST, May 1st, 2006. The selection committee, composed of the editorial board of the IJCLP, and some of the Yale ISP Fellows, will review and consider all submissions for publication in the special Autumn 2006 volume of the journal, including submissions for the writing competition. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 15th, 2006. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers may be submitted on any A2K-related issue, provided that they lie within the central focus of the IJCLP – communications law & policy. All submissions should be written in English in .rtf or .pdf format. They should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000 words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be e-mailed simultaneously to the lead editors of the IJCLP, Simone Francesco Bonetti (simo.bonetti[at]tiscalinet.it) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (krishnaswamysudhir[at]gmail.com) Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above.

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facebook
by Nicole Ellison 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi all, Chip Steinfield, Cliff Lampe and I (all in the Telecommunications, Information Studies, and Media dept at MSU) are in the early stages of data collection for a project examining facebook, but nothing to share quite yet. The Acquisti piece mentioned earlier is the only published work I've seen on Facebook, but would love to know if there are others I'm missing. There seems to be more work on friendster and the more established systems. danah's work would be a good place to start: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/10/24/my_articles_on.html Nicole ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Nicole Ellison, PhD Asst. Professor, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University 517.432.1667 nellison(a)msu.edu

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Re: [Air-l] Facebook
by Ren Reynolds 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

The 'many to many' community focus on 'social software' they can be found here: http://www.corante.com/many/ M2M includes Danah, Clay Shirky and others. ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:00:49 -0600 >From: Jill Walker <jill.walker(a)uib.no> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Facebook >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >danah boyd is doing really interesting work on this - she has a >weblog with links to papers, and you can probably find others through >her work. > >Also check out the Many2many weblog with danah, Liz Lawley, Clay >Shirky and other online social network researchers. > >Jill >> Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes >> come >> up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, >> such >> as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of >> any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. >> Thanks. >> -- >> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor >> Dept. of Communication Studies >> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa >> http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ >> ----------------------------------------------- >> "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." >> ---Mark Twain >> _______________________________________________ >> The air-l(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://www.aoir.org/ > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(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://www.aoir.org/

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