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Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Steffen Büffel 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Dear all! I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological approaches to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and more recent publications (implying that classics have to be "old" *g*) you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! Steffen P.s. Seems I had some trouble with my Emails. Hope this one gets trough to the list.

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Re: [Air-l] Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Anne Beaulieu 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Jason Rutter's work springs to mind. he also has a specifically methodological paper coming out in C. Hine's anthology on virtual methods to be published this year. http://les1.man.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter/ Michael Lynch (Cornell) has also done important work on technology (though not specifically the internet) from an ethnomethodological perspective. http://www.sts.cornell.edu/viewprofile.php?ProfileID=9 regards, Anne >>> ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca 30/03/2005 23:24:04 >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steffen Büffel" <bueffel(a)uni-trier.de> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:33 PM Subject: [Air-l] Ethnomethodology and Internet Research > Dear all! > > I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological > approaches > to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and/ or more recent > publications you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! > > Thanks! > Steffen > > -------------------------------------- > wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter > University of Trier - Media Studies > phone +49 651 201 2273 > fax +49 651 201 3741 > mobile +49 176 2120 4435 > icq 115761393 > http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html > > > _______________________________________________ > 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://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ 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://www.aoir.org/

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Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Steffen Büffel 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Dear all! I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological approaches to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and/ or more recent publications you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! Steffen -------------------------------------- wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter University of Trier - Media Studies phone +49 651 201 2273 fax +49 651 201 3741 mobile +49 176 2120 4435 icq 115761393 http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html

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Document History visualization
by Ellis Godard 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Interesting freeware tool, from IBM and noted on /. yesterday, that users Java to analyze collaboratively authored and edited documents like wikis (or any complex document developed over time) in a visual representation. >History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve > from the shows-border-wars-between-wiki-thugs dept. > posted by Zonk on Monday March 28, @00:43 (News) > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/054225 > > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/historyflow > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/screenshots/4985F7ED629EE82D88256FC700764 >E11/$FILE/historyflow03.jpg > > >What is History Flow Visualization? >History Flow Visualization is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving >documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. The >application includes online help, as well as a plug-in for retrieving the >history of a given page from any MoinMoin "wiki." ("Wikis" are Web sites >that are freely editable by anyone who visits them.) >

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Seminar series announcement - Online Learning
by Rebekah Willett 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

An exciting seminar series entitled ONLINE LEARNING: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES will be held in May and June at the Institute of Education, University of London. The series is organised by The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. Tuesday 3rd May 5.30-7.00, Room 639 Active participation or just more information? Young people's civic uses of the internet Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics Tuesday 17th May 5.30-7.00, Room 639 “Hello newbie! **big welcome hugs** hope u like it here as much as i do!” An exploration of teenagers’ informal on-line learning communities Julia Davies, Sheffield University Tuesday 7th June 5.30-7.00, Room 639 Online/Off-course: Exploring the political and economic construction of the digital curriculum Neil Selwyn, University of Cardiff All seminars are free and open to the public. For more information contact Rebekah Willett (r.willett(a)ioe.ac.uk) For directions to the Institute of Education, see www.ioe.ac.uk There is a map on the home page in the lower left hand corner.

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virtual rape?
by Kathy Mancuso 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

AoIRers, Who writes about virtual rape and sexual harassment other than Julian Dibbell (or people arguing online about the mr bungle case who get their facts from dibbell)? Thanks, Kathy Mancuso University of South Carolina Department of Anthropology -- "Sometimes, I get so sick of fighting. I have to slay the dragons of the myth of heterosexual European [able-bodied] male society in my dreams, then get up in the morning and be an activist . . . What if there really was a level playing field? I would love to see how far I could actually go. What if all I had to show off was my mad skills? Wouldn't I really be able to fly then?" --Margaret Cho Websites for my projects: Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software/blogging research (ask for CFP): http://del.icio.us/museumfreak SC Student Anth Conf (CFP): http://www.cas.sc.edu/Anth/events/scconference.htm USC does Britten's War Requiem: April 19, 7:30, Koger Center

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book announcement
by Ulla Bunz 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Upon request I'm forwarding the following. Ulla CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005 User-Centered Evaluation and Online Communities A book edited by: Niki Lambropoulos, Intelligenesis Consultancy, London, UK Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/communities-book.html -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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PhD course announcement at IT University of Copenhagen
by T.L. Taylor 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi folks. I will be hosting a PhD course at the IT University of Copenhagen on June 2-4 entitled "Mundane Technologies: The Structures and Practice of Everyday Use". The guest lecturers for it will be Lucy Suchman and Nina Wakeford. The course will explore the intersections between the structures of use embedded in technologies (be it physical configurations or software and architectures) and the actual practices that circulate through them. Rather than taking technological artifacts at face value, this course will examine 1) the embedded values, social & political configurations, and use-orientations within a technology (normative orientations) and 2) the intervening ways actual use is constructed, contested, and negotiated. The course will take up the notion of the "imagined user" and draw on work that seeks to understand the (at times messy) co-construction of technology and everyday users. Additionally, consideration will be given to methodological orientations that foster research exploring this relationship. The course will include students from a variety of fields, including those doing work on computer gaming, CSCW, Ubicomp, and internet studies to name a few. Students will focus on exploring - through the readings and reflections on their own research - the intersections between systems, values, and practices. Despite divergent objects of study (across several research departments), the goal of the course is to create a venue for some shared inquiry into the normative aspects of systems and the intervening everyday use of technological artifacts. Space is limited and applications are required. Check out http://www1.itu.dk/sw29224.asp for more details (ECTS will likely be 5 if a paper is submitted and a lesser amount if not). TL -- ___________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor Center for Computer Games Research Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communication IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax) tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.itu.dk/~tltaylor/

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universal ethics?
by Charles Ess 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi all, Radhika wrote in response to Peter T. PT >> If there are universal ethics we can prove these on the Internet. > > RG> whose ethics will be universalised do you suppose? and what kinds of > intolerances might that validate/legitimize? > Exactly the right questions - thank you, Radhika! And I would gently reply: I think we can propose an ethics that begins in part with the universal value implicit in the suggestion here that "universal" claims have all too often in the past served as excuses for colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression and violence - namely, that tolerance for Others (those whose identities, views, and practices may differ radically from our own) and affiliated presumptions of human equality should be endorsed exactly as the bases for criticizing claims to universality that instead led to colonialism, etc. I would add: this tolerance is not unlimited. Rather, I think it's quite possible to endorse tolerance as a universal value - but not thereby be committed to tolerating, say, fascist regimes and violent repression of women and minorities. On the contrary, by proposing that rights to integrity, autonomy, cultural identity, and so forth are, at the very least, strong candidates for universal rights (and their attendant obligations) - such universal rights and values provide precisely the grounds for criticizing earlier "universal" claims affiliated with colonialism, etc., as well as for criticizing contemporary expressions of violence and intolerance of "the Other". My (admittedly characteristic mid-Western [North American]) optimism on this point is fueled in part precisely by the success of the AoIR ethical guidelines. Admittedly, while our ethics working committee included members from Malaysia and Thailand, the background for the guidelines were largely derived from "Western" countries such as the U.S., the E.U., Scandinavia, and the U.K. Nonetheless, the guidelines are reported to us as being used in apparently effective ways in an increasing range of cultural venues. Moreover, my more recent work (with the help, I must hasten to add, of many, many colleagues in these domains) on Information Ethics and Internet Research Ethics in countries such as China, Japan, Thailand, and Korea also offer grounds for optimism. For example, two recent examples of Internet research in Japan demonstrate more or less perfect consonance with the AoIR guidelines recommendations regarding informed consent, protection of confidentiality, anonymity, and personal data, etc. Indeed, emerging conceptions of privacy and data privacy protection law in these countries - while clearly retaining distinctive cultural shape in their conception and application - are nonetheless recognizable cousins of "Western" conceptions and laws. This suggests that even across the considerable cultural differences, say, between the U.S. and Germany, on the one hand, and China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, and Hong Kong, on the other - there may be agreement on basic (universal?) values such as privacy, while at the same time recognizing the validity of clearly different implementations and understandings of what data privacy protection means in practice in each country, as shaped by very different cultural backgrounds, histories, and traditions. This is not to say that all cultural differences and resulting conflicts can be deftly side-stepped through such pluralism (I have examples of these as well). But I do think that universal values may be discerned - in part, through an on-going dialogue that works to critically assess any such putative values, precisely with a critical eye towards how any such values might in fact work in oppressive rather than liberating ways. Indeed, I think we make more progress towards some sort of shared, humane value system_s_ and ethics through such dialogues, rather than giving up the effort, however much previous failures and disasters might tempt us to do so. I _dont_ take Radhikas point to encourage such temptation but wanted to offer these comments. Hope this helps in some way. All the best in the meantime, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA voice: (1) 417-873-7230 fax: (1) 417-873-7435 homepage: www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html "The world can provide for everyone's needs - but not for everyone's greed." - Gandhi

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jesse jackson -- digital divide
by Barry Wellman 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

He sure didn't invent the term, digital divide, but Jesse Jackson did much to popularize it in the mid-late 1990s. 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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