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

Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Antonio Roversi 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

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

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Birth of virtual communities
by Emilie MARQUOIS-OGEZ 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello everyone, I'm looking for examples of virtual communities that gave bearth to other virtual communities. I mean that the members of one virtual community (a mailing-list for instance) decided to have two virtual communities instead of one. The first one is about a subject and the second one is about another subject (linked to the first one, more specific, for instance). Have you ever heard of cases like this? Many thanks. Regards, Emilie Marquois-Ogez ---------------------------------------------- Emilie Marquois-Ogez Doctorante en informatique France Telecom R&D 38-40, rue du Général Leclerc 92794 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex France Equipes de recherche : - TECH/EASY/DIAG (France Telecom R&D) - Systèmes à objets coopératifs (IRIT - UT1) Tel : +33 (01) 45 29 81 91 Fax : +33 (01) 45 29 69 26 Page Web : http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/ceriss/soc/perso/marquois/Emilie% 20MARQUOIS.html

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Antw: air-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4
by Carl-Markus Piswanger 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I am out of office - for requests please call +43 (0)664 8340264 (Mailbox). I will be back on November 7. Carl-Markus Piswanger

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New mailing list: eBay studies
by Ellis, Rebecca M 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I would like to inform the AOIR list membership of a new academic mailing list set up in response to our recent successful conference, Cultures of eBay, held in August 2005 at the University of Essex. To join the list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ebay-studies.html The list is regarded as an undisciplined space for the discussion of a variety of eBay research themes including (but not exclusively) eBay and... identity, community, social capital, collecting in an e-society, consumption, consumer lifestyles, employment effects, website design, usability, the 'real' economy, the 'perfect market' and representations of eBay. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary research and collaboration through a discussion of eBay-related ideas and ongoing research. It also welcomes postings on relevant calls for papers and conferences. ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ________________________________________ E: rellis(a)essex.ac.uk Adastral Park, PP1 Ross Building, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 3RE _________________________________________

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suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Charles Ess 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi all, One of my undergraduate students (and, indeed, for another class) would like to research message boards (as a lurker - though I've apprised her of the AoIR guidelines) to determine what relationship(s), if any, may exist between amount/kinds of information under discussion and the emergence of hierarchical / power structures. I just know that there must be a thousand citations out there that she should look at - if you have any to recommend, I'd be grateful if you could forward those to me. Many thanks! And cheers, 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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Call for Papers: Barriers to e-Government
by Rebecca Eynon 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is soliciting high quality papers for a special issue of the journal on Barriers to e-Government, to be published as Volume 3, Issue No. 1, January-March 2007. The paper submission deadline for this special issue, is March 1, 2006. Abstracts are required by December 1, 2005. Papers may address any social, organisational, economic, legal, international, technological or other aspect of actual or potential impairments to the introduction, take-up and support of effective e-Government activities. For more information please see http://www.egovbarriers.org <http://www.egovbarriers.org/>

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IP3: "ICANN Reform: Establishing the Rule of Law"
by Hans Klein 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

The following is a policy analysis prepared for WSIS: "ICANN Reform: Establishing the Rule of Law" Abstract ====== Debates over Internet governance can be clarified by the recognition that ICANN is a regulatory agency. Its responsibilities for setting base prices, protecting trademarks, and controlling market entry are typical of a regulatory agency. Principles for good governance of regulatory agencies exist and should be applied to ICANN. These emphasize the rule of law, i.e. reliance on rules to limit power politics. ICANN's history shows how private governance can be captured by powerful players. At WSIS governments need to create and enforce a legally-defined framework that limits the power of all stakeholders -- including governments themselves. By establishing the rule of law, the politicized processes of ICANN can be replaced by more predictable, fair, and efficient decision-making. http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/images/ICANN-Reform_Establishing-the-Rule-of-Law.… Author: Hans Klein, Associate Professor of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Available at: www.IP3.gatech.edu ###

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MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
by Alec MacLeod 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS media-N is the invitational and peer-reviewed online journal of the New Media Caucus. The aim of the journal is to reflect the energy and interests of media arts practitioners, educators and theorists. For the forthcoming issue we invite submissions on any new media topic; papers, commentaries, reviews of exhibitions, etc. are invited for the next edition of the journal (new deadline: November 21, 2005). We seek a broad range of themes to enable us to define the scope of the media-N journal and our readership (you do not have to be a member of NMC). We also strongly encourage you to submit texts for future editions of media-N. Each issue will feature a call for themed texts for forthcoming editions. We are also seeking guest editors with proposals for themed editions of the journal. Regards, Rachel Clarke, media-N, Editor at large Here is a link to the submission guidelines: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/sub_guidelines.htm

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Intl Electoral Standards and the Internet - Discussion Paper for Comment
by Steven Clift 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

See my blog post: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=66 Challenging the Norms and Standards of Election Administration: Standards for EMBs (Election Management Bodies) Use of the Internet <http://www.ifes.org/files/Clift_Paper_final.pdf> is part of a series of discussion papers in the Election Standards Project <http://www.ifes.org/arc-project.html?projectid=electionstandards> asking for your comments. >From the paper ... II. Two Proposed Internet-Era Electoral Standards This article contains numerous recommendations, but two key suggestions for information-age electoral standards particularly deserve attention and debate and inform all of the recommendations below: 1. All information produced, compiled, disseminated or disclosed to implement electoral standards must be publicly accessible on the Internet in a standard, authoritative format. 2. Voter privacy must be established to cover all voter actions online (seeking information about political candidates and issues; communicating with family, friends and members of private associations about elections or governance; and voting). Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org

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Researchers focused on e-activism/e-advocacy
by Steven Clift 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

As I have detailed on my blog <http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=64> I am helping facilitate the online portion of an advisory group on "Community Campaigning" in the UK. This is a 395,000 GBP government funded project - here is there blog: http://www.communitycampaigning.org I'd like to bring in a few more academic experts who have dug into the details of the use of online tools in citizen activism/advocacy. The more local your research the better, but anyone with granular analysis on the techniques, tools, and best practices in e-activism/e-advocacy should drop me a note: clift(a)publicus.net Cheers, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org

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