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JCMC 11(1) is online
by herring＠slis.indiana.edu 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

The latest issue of the JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION is available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/ A Table of Contents is included below. --------- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 11, Issue 1, October 2005 --------- Sharing or Piracy? An Exploration of Downloading Behavior - Robert LaRose, Ying-Ju Lai, Ryan Lange, Bradley Love, and Yuehua Wu Where the Action is: Internet Stock Trading as Edgework - Detlev Zwick Corporate E-Cruiting: The Construction of Work in Fortune 500 Recruiting Web Sites - Jun Young and Kirsten Foot Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework - Kirsten Foot, Barbara Warnick, and Steven M. Schneider The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction - Mohan Dutta-Bergman "For she who knows who she is:" Managing Accountability in Online Forum Messages - Charles Antaki, Elisenda Ardevol, Francesc Nunez, & Agnes Vayreda Computer-Mediated Relationship Development: A Cross-Cultural Comparison - Young-ok Yum and Kazuya Hara The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction - Kristine Nowak and Christian Rauh ---- Special Theme: Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication Guest Editors, Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks ---- Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings - Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks Culture and Internet Consumption: Contributions from Cross-Cultural Marketing and Advertising Research - Marc Hermeking Culture and the Structure of the International Hyperlink Network - George A. Barnett and Eunjung Sung Cultural Similarities and Differences in the Design of University Websites - Ewa Callahan Intercultural Communication on Websites: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Websites from High-Context Cultures and Low-Context Cultures - Elizabeth Wuertz Polychronicity, the Internet, and the Mass Media: A Singapore Study - Waipeng Lee, Trevor M. K. Tan, and Shahiraa Shahul Hameed The Role of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism in Online Consumers' Response toward Persuasive Communication on the Web - Wei-Na Lee and Sejung Marina Choi Culture in the Online Class: Using Message Analysis to Look Beyond Nationality-Based Frames of Reference - Anne Hewling "A Belief in Humanity is a Belief in Colored Men:" Using Culture to Span the Digital Divide - Andre Brock Cultural Cognitive Style and Web Design: Beyond a Behavioral Inquiry Into Computer-Mediated Communication - Anthony Faiola and Sorin A. Matei --------- The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that has been publishing on the Web quarterly since 1995. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ---------

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Jenkins at NCA
by Mark D. Johns 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

JENKINS TO PRESENT STEVE JONES INTERNET RESEARCH LECTURE IN 2005 NCA CONVENTION The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.org) sponsors the annual presentation of Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series at the annual convention of the National Communication Association (NCA). In the 2005 NCA Convention, November 17-20 in Boston, the Jones Lecture Series presents a lecture by Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In his lecture, “Spoiling Survivor: Anatomy of a Knowledge Culture,” Jenkins asks the audience to imagine Survivor as informational warfare-- a giant cat and mouse game played between the producers and the audience, as he details how the audience will try to exhaust all the resources to figure out the game before the producers reveal what happened. Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, is a leader of the Education Arcade. The lecture is scheduled on Friday, November 18, 6:30-7:45 PM in Kent, Sheraton. For more information about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Chen at chen(a)cccsir.org ******************************************************** -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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CFP: Blogging and Online Journalism Student Conference
by Michael Zimmer 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics April 7 & 8, 2006 The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics at Ohio University and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism announce "Blogging and Online Journalism." BOJ will bring together a small group of successful, highly motivated students with some of the leading figures in journalism and media ethics for an intimate, in-depth two-day exploration of one of the most interesting and dynamic areas in applied ethics today. After a daily keynote address on a topic of general interest, participants will break up into workgroups. These workshops will feature presentations by invited scholars and by student participants, with discussion and critique of the presentations. Presentations and workshop summaries will be published on the Institute website. Participation is limited to 25. Students interested in participating should send contact information and a brief paper on one of the workshop topics to ethics(a)ohio.edu by January 20, 2006. Participants will be selected on the basis of the paper they submit. Please visit the "STUDENT CONFERENCE" section of ohio.edu/ethics for submission requirements. Travel grants (travel, room, and board) are available for a limited number of participants. Students interested in applying for travel support should indicate this in their application. Keynote speakers: Dan Gillmore (author of "We, the Media") Clifford Christians (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain) Workshop topics and leaders: Friday, April 7 Martin Kuhn (U North Carolina): Blogging Ethics Fernanda Viegas (MIT MediaLab): Privacy and Accountability in Blogging Jan Boyles (U West Virginia): Rhetoric of Political Bloggers Sandeep Junnarker (Columbia University): Blogging investigative reporting: The Videoblog Saturday, April 8th Mark Deuze (Indiana University): Typology of Online Journalism Bob Benz (Scripps Company): Reality Constraints of Online Journalism Bernhard Debatin (Ohio University): Online Journalism Ethics ------------------------- Kathleen Evans-Romaine Assistant Director Ohio U. Inst. for Applied and Professional Ethics www.ohiou.edu/ethics office: 740 593 9802 cell: 740 590 2410

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Social Informatics book
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

>Subject: Social Informatics book >From: Steve Sawyer <sawyer(a)ist.psu.edu> >Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:30:43 -0500 > >Hi All > >I'm delighted to note that Rob Kling's last book (and the first for >Howard Rosenbaum and I :), on social informatics, is now available: > >http://books.infotoday.com/books/UndComSocInf.shtml > >Steve Sawyer ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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RE : [Air-l] Network Software
by OGEZ Emilie RD-TECH-LAN 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hello Yosem, I invite you to subscribe to the Socnet mailing-list which is about social networks : http://www.insna.org/INSNA/socnet.html And here is an article that could be useful: Huisman, M. & Van Duijn, M.A.J. (2005). Software for social network analysis. In: P.J. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (eds.), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 270-316). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/snijders/Software%20for%20Social%20Network%20Analy… Regards, Emilie -------- Message d'origine-------- De: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org de la part de Yosem Companys Date: dim. 06/11/2005 01:09 À: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Objet : [Air-l] Network Software Dear All, Does anyone know of any good network software programs with which I could analyze an email dataset of html files to be able to construct a social network of relations between senders, recipients and CCs? Thanks, Yosem _______________________________________________ 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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Artifact - a new journal from Routledge
by Ken Friedman 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Artifact - a new journal from Routledge Artifact is a new international, peer-reviewed academic journal treating the impact of computerization on design. VISION The computer has had a profound impact on the look, feel, and function of our everyday world. As a tool, the computer has become indispensable for the design professional, profoundly changing the design process. As a design material, the computer is extremely versatile, enabling intelligent objects and processes. As a medium, the computer transforms our understanding and stores our experiences. The combined impact of these forces is changing the relations between humans and our technology in unprecedented ways. Artifact does not draw an artificial line of demarcation between the virtual and the physical. It strives to illuminate the problems and possibilities in their interaction. The journal does not frame digital design as a design discipline such as industrial design or graphic communication. The unique role of the computer as tool, material, and medium, makes digital design an integrated element of almost any design project today, with designers in all fields and disciplines using digital design in some way. Artifact assumes an open position. The journal strives to promote transdisciplinary design research. It will not create or maintain disciplinary boundaries. Rather, Artifact will encourage cross- fertilization, interconnections, and crossbreeding among different scientific disciplines, the design industry, and the arts. PUBLICATION The journal appears in both a print version and a digital version. The journal is published using a 'Web first' concept. Each issue is first published on the web. The year's issues are gathered together into a full paper volume published at the end of the year. In some cases, web technology will mean that the web version supports special interactive features and links that can only appear in the print volume as illustrations and references. SUBMISSION We welcome contributions which seek to understand and reflect the different aspects and impacts of virtuality within the field of design from theoretical or applied perspectives. Artifact brings contributions in the form of academic articles, book reviews, design case post mortems, and design company profiles. To point to possible directions, we have selected themes for the first four issues of Artifact: - Volume 1, issue 1: What is an artifact? - Volume 1, issue 2: Soft artifacts. Tracing 'soft movements' in several creative domains, notably architecture and digital film. - Volume 1, issue 3: The third place? The ontological status of objects and events in computer games. - Volume 1, issue 4: Digital design processes. What impact has digital technology had on the design process? The themes are not meant to be exhaustive. We hope they will trigger ideas and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. Deadline for the first issue of Artifact is 18 November. Articles will be published 1 March 2006. However, contributions addressing the theme of the first issue may be published on-line at a later date and appear in the print volume. Please send submissions and queries by e-mail to Ida Engholm at <ida.engholm(a)karch.dk> or to Charlie Breindahl at <hitch(a)hum.ku.dk>. Articles should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word .doc format or as PDF files. Please send articles with a cover letter containing full author information. Articles should be prepared for double- blind review using anonymous format and full references in APA style. In addition, we welcome suggestions for design case post mortems, book reviews and designer profiles. EDITORS Charlie Breindahl External Lecturer University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen Denmark Ida Engholm Associate Professor Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Judith Gregory Faculty of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Erik Stolterman Director, Human-Computer Interaction Design Professor of Informatics Indiana University School of Informatics USA ADVISORY BOARD Thomas Binder Director Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Jeanette Blomberg Director of Experience Modelling Sapient Professor of Human Work Science University of Karlskrona/Ronneby Sweden David Durling Professor of Design Director of the Advanced Research Institute Middlesex University UK Lars Dybdahl Associate Professor The Department of Art History University of Copenhagen Denmark Pelle Ehn Professor School of Arts and Communication Malmö University Sweden Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School Norway and Denmark Susan M. Hagan Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University USA Marius Hartmann, Ph.D. Designer Danish Broadcasting Corporation Denmark Steve Jones Professor and Head Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago USA Klaus Krippendorff Gregory Bateson Term Professor University of Pennsylvania USA Lev Manovich Professor of Visual Arts University of California, San Diego + Director, Lab for Cultural Analysis California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology USA Bonnie Nardi Associate Professor School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine USA Jannie Nielsen Professor Department of Informatics Copenhagen Business School Denmark Christiane Paul New Media Curator Whitney Museum of American Art New York USA Martin Pingel Technological Coordinator Denmark's Design School Denmark Sharon Poggenpohl Professor Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Johan Redström Research Director, studio Design Göteborg Interactive Institute Gothenburg Sweden Michael Schmidt Createch Director k10k and Cuban Council Denmark/USA Lisbeth Thorlacius Associate Professor Department of Communication, Journalism, and Computer Science Roskilde University Denmark Wendy Siuyi Wong Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts York University Canada Kristoffer Åberg Senior Interaction Designer Sony Ericsson Sweden --

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Network Software
by Yosem Companys 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Dear All, Does anyone know of any good network software programs with which I could analyze an email dataset of html files to be able to construct a social network of relations between senders, recipients and CCs? Thanks, Yosem

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: JoCDS ... Special Issue on CI and CD
by Michael Maranda 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Friends, Upon my return from recent travels I was very excited to find waiting in my bushel of mail: "Community Development: the Journal of the Community Development Society, vol 36, No 1, special issue on "Community Informatics and Community Development" with Kenneth Pigg as Guest Editor. Unfortunately the abstracts are not available online (yet?) but I hope that the titles and authors I will list will prompt you to consider how we in the broader Community ICT field can work more closely together with organizations such as the Community Development Society: http://www.comm-dev.org Their conference will be next June in St. Louis, and is themed "Communities that Click" unfortunately their site indicates that the call for abstracts closed Oct 31 but I am sure that committed and interested parties can be accomodated it would be really great for Community Informatics, Community Networking, CTC and Community Development folks to connect there. We really are in an era of a convergences. Titles and authors in this special issue: Introduction: Community Informatics and community Development . Kenneth E. Pigg Bowling Alone and Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities . James K. Scott & Thomas G. Johnson Library and Information Science (LIS) and Community Development: The Use of Community ICT towards a Social Equity Agenda . Bharat Mehra Information Technology and Community-Level Socio-Economic Development Greg Laudeman Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development Norman Walzer & Justin Colavito Do Information and Communication Technologies Promote Rural Economic Development? . Kenneth E Pigg & Laura D. Crank Participatory Action Research for Electronic Community Networking Projects Larry Stillman Bulding Knowledge, Buidling Community: Integrating Internet Access to Secondary Data as Part of the Commity Development Process Julie N. Zimmerman and Alissa Meyer The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP): Networking our Nation -- A Decade of Lessons Learned Amy Borgstrom, Don Druker & Judith Sparrow A good number of recognizable names! The Journal is avialble with membership in CDS, but I can't find info at the moment as to ordering individual copies by other means. Regards, MM ____________________________________________________________________________ Michael Maranda President, The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) http://www.afcn.org Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter http://www.ctcnetchicago.org Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition (ilCTC) http://www.ilctc.org Vice President, CAAELII http://www.caaelii.org Vice President, NPOTechs http://www.npotechs.org Attend the Illinois Community Technology Conference, November 16-17, 2005. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference

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new issue of JCMC - including theme issue on culture and communication
by Charles Ess 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Dear Air-ists, JCMC's special thematic section on Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication (edited by Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess), is now available on the JCMC website: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ This issue was inspired by (and includes) several presentations made originally at our biennial conference series on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication" (CATaC) in 2004, Karlstad, Sweden. This issue brings together both: successful uses of the frameworks developed by Edward T. Hall and Gert Hofstede for analyzing cross-cultural communication online (primarily, interestingly enough, advertising websites - and in this genre, these frameworks "work" better for fast-food and universities [!!!] than for, say, durable goods - see the first article by Marc Hermeking, Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtaet, Munich) and critiques of Hall and Hofstede, coupled with proposed new models - including one based on the work of W.E.B. Dubois - vis-à-vis critical applications and empirical studies in Singapore, international online classes, and "mainstream" vs. sites designed by and for African-Americans (Brock). The explicitly ethical impetus behind this work is: how do we develop forms of cross-cultural communication online that do _not_ colonize "the Other" by imposing Western cultural values and communicative preferences? That is, despite our fond belief that these technologies are "just tools," i.e., somehow culturally and communicatively neutral, they demonstrably embed and foster the values and preferences of their Western [indeed, largely white male middle/upper-class] designers - thus threatening a form of "computer-mediated colonization" as they are enthusiastically diffused throughout the globe in the name of wiring an electronic global village, ostensibly for the sake of democratization, freedom of expression, economic prosperity, etc. By contrast, if such computer-mediated colonization is to be avoided, we need to become much more savvy about how to undertake cross-cultural communication online in ways that acknowledge, respect, and foster the cultural values and communicative preferences that define distinctive cultural identities and persons. Enjoy! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Heidelberg, Chris 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Thanks Denise! This article was helpful because I am doing my dissertation on "Edutainment & Convergence: How Entertainment Techniques Can Be Utilized In Higher Education." This article is interesting because it mentions a fact that I have discovered in my research since 9/2003 when I began my doctoral program in higher education administration: there is only limited meaningful empirical research to guide and enhance the quality of distance learning. Australia, Canada and Great Britain appear to be ahead of us here in the United States on applying distance learning. In fact, most of the meaningful research that I found that specifically helped me emanated from those nations. This does not mean that the U.S. does not have some success stories. However, the U.S. appears to have allowed distance learning, especially online learning, to become dominated by for profit institutions which may be a problem. Specifically, because of this problem, I am investigating another model. I am looking at the technology and entertainment practitioners as my subjects for my qualitative study. After graduation or if I receive funding, I will hire and find a great quantitative researcher/statistician and I will do a larger study, and from that sample I will continue my qualitative efforts. Since I already work as a producer/director/writer, I know fellow practitioners in Hollywood, Houston/San Antonio, Miami/Palm Beach and here in the Washington/Baltimore area. I have conducted a few pilot studies and I am working on an interactive website. If you know of any articles that you believe can help me, please forward them to me. I really want to contact James Gee because he has some provocative thoughts on edutainment. It may not be a panacea but it has some merits. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Roversi Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:43 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher? Denise N. Rall wrote: > Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the >lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the >University of Southern Queensland or gave the paper there. Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio _______________________________________________ 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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