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Reactions to language in CMC
by Lauren M. Squires 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Dear list, I am searching for some discussions online (in interactive formats like message boards, blog comments, forums, listserv archives, etc.) that include opinions/judgments about the language used in CMC - often referred to as "netspeak," "AOLspeak," "chatspeak," "IM language," "internet slang," etc. In particular, threads or posts that contain readers' reactions to media accounts of such phenomena (popularly including terms like "LOL," "BRB," emoticons, punctuation practices, failure to capitalize, etc.). I am interested in what the media accounts themselves say, but I am MORE interested in other people's reactions to what they are reading about (i.e., "People who use emoticons are _______" or "LOL is so _____"). For instance, here are two response threads to an article earlier this year published in a campus newspaper: http://maroon.uchicago.edu/viewpoints/articles/2006/04/14/aolspeak_is_destr… http://digg.com/tech_news/AOL_has_destroyed_the_English_language_with_chat_… If anyone has other examples of these kinds of discussions, I would be grateful for links. Thanks in advance. Best, Lauren ps - Also, a while ago I asked for recommendations of listings of internet-related conferences, and I failed to properly thank my respondents. Thanks to everyonen who responded (with apologies for my belatedness)! -- lauren m. squires lx: http://polyglotconspiracy.net cmc: http://sociocmc.blogspot.com

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Re: [Air-l] Open source bibliography database
by Julian Hopkins 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Thanks everyone for the recommendations, they are much appreciated! I will be checking them out (while trying not to use it to distract from real work ;) By the way: as regards jabref - I ran it online for a quick look, and it may have done something funny to my AVG antivirus which gave this message the next time I booted up: "Could not initialise AVG Anti-Virus kernel interface". Looking online I found that it *may* have something to do with using the Java. Also: in my Opera browser all my settings for cookies disappeared... Anyway, I reinstalled AVG etc. and all is fine so no harm done - but just a word of warning to anyone out there. Thanks again, Julian ++++++++++ Julian Hopkins Senior Lecturer HELP University College - ADP Kuala Lumpur tel: +60 3 2095 8791 x2913 email: julianh(a)help.edu.my web: http://www.help.edu.my -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.

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Membership / conference registration issue
by Matthew Allen 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Dear all A few people who registered for the conference had their fee paid by someone else (normally an administrative officer) who, in most cases, would have been sent the email concerning your membership of AoIR. If you are in that position, let me know and I will attempt to take care of it for you over the next week or so. Matt Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor in Internet Studies President Association of Internet Researchers Faculty of Media Society and Culture Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 92663166 (f)

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Definitions
by Sam Tilden 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Et all, If you disconnect the definition of the Internet from what occurs on the internet, what are the implications? Sam --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates.

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live chat with Jason Nelson 10/24 (Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion)
by Charles Baldwin 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

<apologies for cross-posting / please pass on> _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with digital artist and cyberpoet Jason Nelson, discussing fictobiography, responsive poetry, and other topics. :: Chat date: Tuesday, October 24. :: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/> Chat instructions are here: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For example, some clients may require the chat room server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for instructions on joining chats. -------------------------------------- Artist Biography With work recently appearing in Singapore at the Asian Civilizations Museum, St. Petersburg Florida, UCLA, Hermeneia from Barcelona, Spain, Vancouver Washington, around Australia, and other worldly parts, Jason Nelson is always charmed by how rarely he travels beyond the distance provided by a tank of gas. Being a Digital Writing Lecturer at Griffith University in the Gold Coast of Australia, he deeply misses the snows of the Oklahoma plains, so miss the snows. Come explore his creatures at: http://secrettechnology.com or http://heliozoa.com

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AoIR 8.0 Call for Papers
by Mia Consalvo 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

ANNOUNCING THE NEXT AOIR CONFERENCE CFP! [Please feel free to circulate widely]: **************************************** Internet Research 8.0: Let¹s Play! International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Workshops: October 17, 2007 AoIR conference: October 1820, 2007 Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2007 Let¹s Play The Internet better, internet/s - is at once part of the background hum of the developed world and an exotic realm of fantasy and play. It is an essential, mundane part of daily life, and simultaneously radical, revolutionary, profane, and fun. Internet/s invite us to play. We surf, blog, role play, and chat in the interest of work, learning, and play. Serious technologies and applications invite playing around as a way to learn how to use them. Playful applications take root in serious business, as online chat becomes a business communication tool. Games find applications in education, business, and war. Playful blogging evolves into a social and political force to be reckoned with. We play with our identity online, shaping current and future roles offline. The play goes on Our conference theme of play invites empirical research and theoretical reflection on how human beings ³seriously play² with one another on, via and through internet/s, on local, regional, and global scales. We call for papers that explore the intersection of the serious and the playful, the sacred and the profane, the revolutionary and the mundane, and fantasy and the reality. CALL FOR PAPERS We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and communities, that address the (playful) blurring of boundaries online. The following TOPICS are suggestions simply intended to spark initial reflection and creativity: - Mundanity implies normalcy, and thereby, the efforts to understand and regulate online interactions in ways that are analogous to and consistent with offline practices and norms (e.g., privacy protection, norms for community interaction, efforts to regulate information flows involving pornography, hate speech, etc.). As internet/s become interwoven with ordinary life on multiple levels, in what ways do these alter ordinary life, and/or how do prevailing community and cultural practices reshape and tame¹ such internet/s and the interactions they facilitate? - Global diffusion: how do internet/s, as they exponentially diffuse throughout the globe facilitate flows of information, capital, labor, immigration and play and what are the implications of these new flows for life offline? - eLearning: how can such practices as distance learning and serious games utilize the liminal domain (the threshold world of dream and myth, in which important new skills, insights, and abilities are gained in the process of growing up) to go beyond traditional ways of learning? Are they necessarily better, or easier, to use or to learn from? - Identity, community, and global communications: how will processes of identity play and development continue, and/or change as the role and place of the Internet in peoples lives shift in new ways including the expansion of mobile access to internet/s? - E-health: what do new developments in sharing medical information online and expanding telemedicine technologies into new domains imply for traditional physician-centered medicine, patient privacy, etc.? - Digital art: from downloading commercially-offered ringtones to facilitating cross-cultural / cross-disciplinary collaborations in the creation of art, internet/s expand familiar aesthetic experiences and open up new possibilities for aesthetic creativity: how are traditional understandings of aesthetic experience affected and how do new creative / aesthetic / playful possibilities affect human ³users² of art? - Games and gaming: the average gamer in North America is now a twenty-something whose lifestyle is more mainstream than adolescent. As games and gamers ³grow up² and as games continue their diffusion into new demographic categories while they simultaneously continue to push the envelopes of Internet and computer technologies what can we discern of new possibilities for identity play, community building, and so forth? Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference theme, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on that theme. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference theme - e.g., in CSCW and other forms of online collaboration, distance learning, etc. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written paper.¹ We also welcome proposals for roundtable sessions that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as organized panel proposals that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 500-750 words - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words - PANELS - submit a 500-750 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a panel session, which may include a second paper that they are presenting OR submit a roundtable proposal. You may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not presenting them. Detailed information about submission and review is available at the conference submission website http://conferences.aoir.org [available December 1, 2006]. All proposals must be submitted electronically through this site. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Several publishing opportunities are expected to be available through journals, based on peer-review of full papers. The website will contain more details. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must send a final paper by June 30, 2007. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquires regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the Conference Chair and no later than March 31, 2007. DEADLINES Submission site available: December 1, 2006 Proposal submission deadline: February 1, 2007 Presenter notification: March 31, 2007 Final workshop submission deadline: March 31, 2007 Submission for student award competition: June 30, 2007 Submission for conference archive: July 31, 2007 SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS Full papers and a conference registration by at least one of the paper authors must be in place by July 31, 2007 for papers to be presented. Formatting: Please submit papers in PDF with simple formatting, using sans serif font and in-text referencing. If you can't submit in PDF, use DOC or RTF format. Submission process: Submit full papers to aoir2007(a)gmail.com by July 31, 2007. CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Dr. Mia Consalvo, Ohio University <consalvo(a)ohio.edu> Conference Chair: Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University <smith(a)sfu.ca> Vice-President of AoIR: Dr. Charles Ess, Drury University <cmess(a)drury.edu> Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org ****************************************************************

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Job Posting: Full professor of Journalism and Media Studies, emerging media specialization
by Julian Kilker 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

My school is searching for full professor with an "emerging media" specialization--details below. Please contact paul.traudt(a)unlv.edu if you have questions! Thanks, --Julian Kilker J. Kilker, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas kilker(a)unlv.nevada.edu http://www.nevada.edu/~kilker <http://www.nevada.edu/%7Ekilker> * * *POSITION TITLE* The Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies seeks a full professor of Journalism and Media Studies. The School was created in 2004 and includes a very congenial and growing faculty. In 2008, the School will be housed in a new $60 million Greenspun Hall with television studios, an FM radio station, convergence labs and many other facilities. The university includes excellent research and law libraries and is in the midst of a major building campaign. * * *RESPONSIBILITIES* This is a full-time, 9-month, tenured full professor position starting August 2007. The successful candidate will teach a combination of theoretical and applied undergraduate and/or graduate courses in media specializations strongly connected to emerging media. Integrated marketing communication, social marketing, advertising/public relations design, multi-platform content development are preferred areas of expertise. The successful candidate will welcome engagement in curricula development, have a demonstrated record of outstanding teaching and/or training success, and have a nationally recognized program in research and/or creative activity in media studies. Other responsibilities include working with graduate students as a committee member or chair of theses and participating in appropriate levels of service at the school, college, and university levels. *QUALIFICATIONS* *Required:* Ph.D. in journalism, mass communication or relevant field from an accredited college or university. *Preferred:* Professional experience desirable. Preference will be given to candidates with a demonstrated record suitable for tenure consideration at time of hire. *SALARY RANGE* Salary competitive; contingent on labor market. Position is contingent upon funding.

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR 2006 keynote published
by Suely Fragoso 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Axel Thanks, this it is brilliant for those who could not be there (like me, snif!) and I guess it is also good for the ones who went. Sue >>> a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au 23/10/06 2:38 >>> G'day ! For those of you who weren't able to make it to the AoIR 2006 conference in Brisbane, or would like to relive the experience: I'm happy to let you know that an edited version of "Uses of Creativity: The Citizen Consumer and New Media Culture", the conference keynote by Professor John Hartley, has now been published by the Australian e-journal Online Opinion (as "Facilitating the Creative Citizen"). The article is at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5036, and your responses are encouraged. I'm also delighted to announce that an interview with our other keynote speaker, Professor Guo Liang, conducted by AoIR's own Randy Kluver, has been published by M/C Dialogue (http://dialogue.media-culture.org.au/) Again, your responses and comments are encouraged. -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z2-202, CIP Skype: LexaSnurb Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J _______________________________________________ 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/ -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv�rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.

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4S Conference in Vancouver
by Jonathan Stern 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

I'm writing to see if anyone else is attending/presenting at the upcoming 4s conference in Vancouver. Thanks, Jonathan Stern On 10/22/06, Axel Bruns <a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au> wrote: > > G'day ! > > For those of you who weren't able to make it to the AoIR 2006 conference > in > Brisbane, or would like to relive the experience: I'm happy to let you > know > that an edited version of "Uses of Creativity: The Citizen Consumer and > New > Media Culture", the conference keynote by Professor John Hartley, has now > been published by the Australian e-journal Online Opinion (as > "Facilitating > the Creative Citizen"). > > The article is at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5036, > and > your responses are encouraged. > > > I'm also delighted to announce that an interview with our other keynote > speaker, Professor Guo Liang, conducted by AoIR's own Randy Kluver, has > been > published by M/C Dialogue (http://dialogue.media-culture.org.au/) Again, > your responses and comments are encouraged. > > > -- > Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ > Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au > Creative Industries Faculty, Z2-202, CIP Skype: LexaSnurb > Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 > Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Jonathan L. Stern jlstern(a)ucsd.edu Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego

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Re: [Air-l] Open source bibliography database - Sending mail server found on sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
by Arjan Geven - CURE 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

I've had good experiences with Jabref, a Java-based ref-manager. http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Arjan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] Im Auftrag von Julian Hopkins Gesendet: Montag, 23. Oktober 2006 15:08 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: [SPAM] - [Air-l] Open source bibliography database - Sending mail server found on sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org Hello All, Can anyone recommend a good open-source/free bibliography database programme? It doesn't have to be integrated into Word and all that jazz, just be able to print out bibliographies in a variety of styles, and store all the material in a sensibly accessible database. Ideally it would also have the capability of doing online sources too. I have never used open source, so I would want something relatively easy to install. Thanks for any advice, Julian ++++++++++ Julian Hopkins Senior Lecturer HELP University College - ADP Kuala Lumpur tel: +60 3 2095 8791 x2913 email: julianh(a)help.edu.my web: http://www.help.edu.my _______________________________________________ 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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