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AOIR on AUT
by Derek McMillan 26 May '06

26 May '06

LOL. I am amused by the idea that supporting AUT would be political but opposing them is OK because it is non-political. This is doubleplusungood doublethink isn't it. FWIW I support AUT.There is an advert on British TV to encourage people to vote It says "If you don't do politics, you don't do anything." and suggests that if you are interested in the world around you then you are de facto interested in politics. I favour a boycott of Israel, not because of its effect of otherwise on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians but because we do not have to be accomplices in that brutal oppression and a boycott is a non-violent civilised way to express that. You have only to listen to the intemperate language with which the Israeli right has responded - rejecting AUT as irrelevant and in the same breath denouncing them as terrorists - to see that it is having an effect. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Join The Document Theory Online discussion NOW
by Niels Windfeld Lund 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Dear colleagues and friends If you think it is interesting to discuss the characteristics of what you mostly are searching for on the Internet, a useful DOCUMENT, then join the online work on Document Theory, now in a bilingual form , go to http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=190&recalcul=oui, , follow the guide how to contribute to the discussion. It is a initiative taken by the International document research community primarily based on the French RTP-doc community, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=33, but also more and more document scholars around the world, related to the Document Academy, an international network based on collaboration between Documentation Studies, University of Troms, Norway and SIMS, University of California. http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/index.html French Document Scholars have for 2-3 years now worked on document theory through a collaborative writing process, better known as Monsieur Roger T. Pedauque. The first paper, existing in a French version as well as in a English version, mention three main perspectives, form, sign and medium. The first text focus on form, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=67 while the second (only in French) focus on sign, on meaning, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=209 The third one focus on document as medium or document and the medium dimension. The starting text has just been launched in a French and a English version http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=190&recalcul=oui and they are supposed to be discussed and revised during the coming months. At the Summerschool in Tromso in late June/Early July , There are still more seats available at the summerschool http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/sommerskole/indexecole.html, a preliminary status text will be presented and discussed. A more final version of the works by M. Roger will be presented at the DOCAM conference at Berkeley in October 7-9 2005. If you think the document is an important dimension on the Internet, then join the discussion and be a part of the emergent document theory building process best Niels W. Lund professor, Chair of The document Academy, member of Roger T. Pedauque group -- Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Dokumentasjonsvitenskap - Documentation Studies Institute of Culture and Literature HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/index.html http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/dokvitnwl/dokkenind…

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AOIR on AUT?
by Ellis Godard 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

This seems like an appropriate topic on which AOIR, as international and interdisciplinary as well as academic and open minded, should take a stand. What are the appropriate steps/procedure(s) thru which that could/would/should happen? http://ellisgodard.blogspot.com/2005/05/aut-is-out-of-line.html -eg

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (june 2005)
by david silver 31 May '05

31 May '05

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) include: David de Ugarte, 11M. Redes para Ganar una Guerra (Icaria, 2004) Reviewed (in Spanish and English) by Maria Goicoechea, American University in Madrid Anthony G. Wilhelm, Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society (MIT Press, 2004) Reviewed by John F. Barber, University of Texas at Dallas Reviewed by John Carr, University of Washington Marie-Laure Ryan, ed., Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) Reviewd by Jessica M. Laccetti, University of London Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society (Free Press, 2005) Reviewed by Lisa Smith, American Humanist Association Enjoy. david silver http://theseptemberproject.blogspot.com/ To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Re: [AIR-L] live-journal research
by Kathy Mancuso 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi Radhika and AoIRers-- I've been reading the LJ research communities and such forever, and the answer to your question seems to be that there IS no good answer. Besides the folks on my panel for the American Anthropological Association meetings in the fall, and the citations I list below, a couple of people have written dissertations, which I'll be glad to point you to once my computer comes back from the repair shop. However, the LJ staff has actually ceased to help social science researchers because they never seem to produce anything or give anything back to the community. For my part, I'm not sure how to give back to the community--I posted in the main LJ-research community saying my stuff was done, pointing people to the abstract, and mentioning that I'd be glad to send my research out, and nobody's been interested in it. Here's what I have that directly addresses livejournal. The communities <lj user=metajournal> and <lj user=lj_research> also address these issues. As always, I'd really appreciate more sources! There's also a lot of little applets that map friends networks and interests which could be useful in a research way--I have a collection of these too. --kathy Google scholar brought me these: Contribution in Online Communities http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:g3YuQ9Zj-jEJ:www-2.cs.c… Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:7L20xbkJ1LUJ:www.blogni… Achieving Privacy in Hyperblogging Communities http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:4x-M9DRe864J:www.sics.s… Running Head: Language Use Surrounding September 11 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:4zPLchN_VkoJ:homepage.p… Implicit Links in Asynchronous Communication http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:AthzwW2fQDsJ:www.datawa… A Matter of Life or Death:Modeling Blog Mortality http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:dvGy46OUt6IJ:research.m… Structure & Evolution of Blogspace http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035162/p35-kumar.html?key1=1035162… the following were taken from a blog bibliography, which I have but do not have a citation for--I know it's by someone with the e-mail address lscheidt(a)indiana.edu--if you are this person I would love the citation: Kendall, Lori (2003). Diary of a Networked Individual: Interpersonal Connections on LiveJournal. Presented at the meeting of the AoIR 4.0, Association of Internet Research, Toronto Canada. Lin, Jia & Halavais, Alexander (2004). Mapping the Blogosphere in America. In 13th World Wide Web Conference. New York: The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Retrieved June 30, 2004 from http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/www2004linhalavais.pdf. Abstract: This short paper constitutes the first phase of a long-term project focused on probing American urban culture by examining the hyperlinks and text of personal weblogs. It discusses methods of extracting geographic location information from weblogs and ways of indexing weblogs to city units. After a brief introduction to the broader research plan, the paper proposes a process to automatically extract geographic information from different weblogs. From both theoretical and practical perspectives, we will explain and justify the rationale of using 3-digit zip codes as units for comparing urban cultures. A distribution of American bloggers registered with Livejournal and Diaryland, two popular blog hosting services, will be presented to demonstrate the geocoding of the blogosphere, and to compare the distribution of these two hosts in terms of concentrations of populations and demographic profiles. Finally, we will discuss how to further improve the indexing methods. Paolillo, John, Wright, Elijah, and Mercure, Sarah (Feb., 2005). Mood, Music and Friends: Mapping the Culture of LiveJournal. Presented at the meeting of the Sunbelt XXV, International Network for Social Network Analysis, Redondo Beach CA. Abstract: LiveJournal is a popular weblog/community hosting service with over five million predominantly young, female users from the US. Although reported ages range from 13 to 55, and users hail from 240 different counties, users nonetheless experience LiveJournal as having its own distinct culture. How is this culture created, and is it observable in the posts and profiles of LiveJournal's users? To address these questions, we collected a snowball sample of LiveJournal user profiles, containing information about users' interests and friends, as selfreported and regularly maintained through a web form-based interface. Principal components analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to analyze the interests and social positions of a subset of users (approximately 10,000) for whom complete information was available. The results were visualized in a series of reduced sociograms, which were used as a guide to select representative blogs for qualitative content analysis. The results reveal that there is a highly-structured core of LiveJournal users with well-defined and contrasting sets of interests as well as a large periphery defined by sets of contrasting, but less coherent interests. Qualitative analysis confirms the existence of these groups, and shows them to be correlated with off-line subcultural styling (e.g. goth, punk, etc.). Musical taste is the clearest correlate of group membership, while weak-tie channels of interaction relate the groups to one another. LiveJournal is thus a dynamic social market where youthful users craft and explore their public identities in ways that conform to off-line social categories, often through the commoditized world of popular music. The mechanisms of this process are exposed through the publicly-available profiles and posts of millions of users of LiveJournal and other weblog sites. Raynes-Goldie, Kate (Dec., 2004). Pulling sense out of today's informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing. First Monday, 9(12).http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/raynes/index.html. Abstract: The informational overload currently facing Western society is changing the way we understand the world as well as rendering obsolete our current ways of managing information and creating knowledge. With these changes in mind, I will examine the blogging service LiveJournal as a new and more applicable way of managing information and creating knowledge in today's society. -- Katherine Mancuso academic, interrupted. new e-mails (don't use sc dot edu) personal: kmancuso at gmail dot com professional: katherine dot mancuso at emory dot edu Because long sig quotes are annoying, read mine below instead: http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/writing/selflove.html Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software research linkage: http://del.icio.us/museumfreak

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HICSS39: Final Deadline Reminder (June 15)
by Jochen Scholl 31 May '05

31 May '05

Apologies for unintended double-postings-- FINAL DEADLINE REMINDER-JUNE 15, 2005 (CALL FOR PAPERS) Electronic Government Track Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ Within the newly established e-Government Track < http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss >, a total of eight minitracks will cover the rapidly expanding e-Government research agenda at the 39th Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS39). Please find the detail minitrack calls under the specified URLs: - E-Gov Services, co-chairs: H. Brücher, K. Eschenfelder, & H. Krcmar http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsvcs?sub=egovsvcs - E-Policy, Law, and Governance, co-chairs: M. Janssen, S. Holden, & T. Maxwell http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/epolicy?sub=epolicy - E-Democracy, co-chairs: A. Macintosh, E. Welch, & S. Beaumaster http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/edemocracy?sub=edemocracy - E-Gov Organization and Management, co-chairs: M. Wimmer, S. Dawes, & T. Pardo http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmgmt?sub=egovmgmt - E-Gov Infrastructure and Interoperability, co-chairs: K. Andersen, R. Klischewski, & J. Scholl http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovinfra?sub=egovinfra - Mobile Government (m-Gov), co-chairs: R. Krimmer, R. Hackney, & J. Moon http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmobile?sub=egovmobile - E-Gov Security, co-chairs: G. White, T. Cresswell, & S. Jones http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsecurity?sub=egovsecurity - E-Gov Research Methods and Foundations, co-chairs: Å. Grönlund, J. Gant, & D. Norris http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovresearch?sub=egovresearch IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 !!New Date!! - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. - Late registration fee $675 applies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION € HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. € Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. € (Optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. € Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. € HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. € Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk(a)nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl(a)u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar(a)hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king(a)jda.com <mailto:david.king@jda.com> ; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis(a)indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen(a)aol.com <mailto:murphjen@aol.com> ; Dave Croasdell davec(a)unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague@hawaii.edu> Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu> Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis@indiana.edu> 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com <http://kauai.hyatt.com/

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Fwd: Call for Papers - ISA World Congress - Futures of New Mediascapes - Durban 2006
by Steve Jones 31 May '05

31 May '05

Begin forwarded message: > Call for Papers > > The Futures of the New Mediascapes: Communication, Knowledge, and > Culture in a Globalizing World > > Joint Session of RC07 Research Committee on Futures Research and RC14 > Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and > Culture at the XVI World Congress of the International Sociological > Association in Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 > > Chairs: Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, > markus.schulz(a)nyu.edu and Gaëtan Tremblay, UQAM, Canada, > tremblay.gaetan(a)uqam.ca > > The Internet and its related information and communication > technologies have experienced tremendous growth rates and given rise > to booming industries. Yet, the benefits of these technologies are > very unevenly distributed among and within countries. The once > euphoric hopes projected on these new media are being met with more > pessimistic warnings of unprecedented means of surveillance, an > increasing fragmentation of public discourse, restrictive intellectual > copyrights legislation, and new digital inequalities. This session is > meant to provide a forum for scholars working on communication, > knowledge, and culture to discuss the processes in which the new > global mediascapes are being shaped and their future implications and > social consequences. > > Deadline for paper proposals (200-300 words): October 15, 2005 > > More information: > http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc07_durban.htm > > Markus S. Schulz, PhD > Asst. Professor, Sociology > New York University > 53 Washington Square South, CLACS-4W > New York, NY 10012 > Phone: +212.998 35 76 > Fax: +212.995 41 63 > Email: markus.schulz(a)nyu.edu

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boycott AoIR
by Barry Wellman 30 May '05

30 May '05

It strikes me that if the boycotters are going to boycott Israel, they should go beyond that and boycott the AoIR conference and list. AoIR has been founded by Americans, is based in the US, and takes full advantage of American law and tax advantages. I know it has an Aussie as the next head, but we all know that the Australian government is an American ally. Whatever their personal politics, Americans (and Aussies) are complicit in the affairs of their government. So please boycott the AoIR list! And if you insist on being Middle Eastern focused, perhaps organize boycotts of Egypt (torture, sexism, lack of democracy), Saudi Arabia (ibid, with hyper-sexism), the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrein (unbridled capitalism), Jordan (didn't do nice to the Palestinians when they controlled the area and have never apologized); Syria (treatment of Lebanon, secret police, torture of Canadian); Iran (constraints on religious freedom and democracy; killed a Canadian); Iraq (endless list); Turkey (Kurds; Midnite Express); Kuwait (sexism; resisting the just occupation of Saddam Husein); Yemen (??). Most of these countries treat foreign workers very badly. Guess that leaves only Lebanon ok now. 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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british boycott over
by Barry Wellman 30 May '05

30 May '05

Although there are counter-arguments to the anti-Israeli posting yesterday, I agree with Jeremy Hunsinger that they are out of place on this list. But since the issue has been brought up, my position is that professional societies should be extraordinarily cautious about encouraging boycotts of universities. I don't believe in collective punishment, even if there was a crime -- and there are different sets of "facts" floating around on this matter. Hence, I have worked a bit to encourage the ending of the boycott. And am glad that it happened. For reasons of the first para, I won't respond to any postings about the boycott -- or Israel -- on this list and urge us all to refocus on AOIR stuff. 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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Re: [Air-l] livejournal references?
by Eugene Gorny 28 May '05

28 May '05

Dear Radhika, Please have a look at my piece about the Russian community on LJ, if you haven't seen it yet: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/texts/en/gorny_rlj.htm Best wishes, E_G Saturday, May 28, 2005, 12:52:03 PM, Radhika Gajjala wrote: > Okay I have another request . > I looked back at the archives of Aoir conferences (esp Toronto and > Sussex) and also the list - > found a few references to research on livejournal - but nothing > seems to have come of Terri Senft's question about other pubs (there > are titles and abstracts by aoir participants - its entirely possible > that someone has something published but I havent yet found it)... > so can I ask again - anyone know of journal articles or books that > have examined livejournal in any detail? > thanks for your help, > r

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