October 2006 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

AoIR 2006 keynote published
by Axel Bruns 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

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

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Re: [Air-l] Question about psychological aspects of online games
by Sal Humphreys 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Janet For a psychology based investigation of online gamers, try Nick Yee. http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/report.html for extended research into EverQuest players. and http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/ for a more generalised investigation into MMORPG players. For my money TL Taylor's approach is way more interesting, but if you are after psychology framed studies, Yee will suit you better. cheers Sal Humphreys Dr Sal Humphreys Post Doctoral Fellow Faculty of Creative Industries Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia Mob. 0414 456 078

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AoIR members - minutes of AGM and 2005/6 Exec report on website
by Matthew Allen 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Dear all For members of AoIR, you can now access the minutes of the 2006 AGM held in Brisbane and the Executive's 2005/2006 report. These are available via http://www.aoir.org. Remember to log in :) Cheers 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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Re: [Air-l] McLuhan meets the net
by Larry Press 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

> I couldn't get your link to work. > http://localhost/som/articles/macl.htm, Sorry! That was to my local mirror. It is at: http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/macl.htm Larry

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McLuhan meets the net
by Larry Press 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

> McLuhan. The Medium is the Massage (1967) and his next book War and > Peace in the Global Village (1968). McLuhan predicted that technology > would be an extension of our physical bodies and that electronic > technology would enable us to live in a global village. The Internet was I do not doubt that McLuhan came to his conclusions independently, but folks like JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart and Vannevar Bush wrote about such things earlier (as did McLuhan). For a discussion of Mcluhan's earlier book, Understanding Media, and the Net see my old article "McLuhan Meets the Net:" http://localhost/som/articles/macl.htm, Larry

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Re: [Air-l] Question about psychological aspects of online games
by Colin Donald 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hi Janet, Not research, but a blog post self-report from someone who claims he was addicted to World of Warcraft, with dozens of comments: The View From the Top http://soulkerfuffle.blogspot.com/2006/10/view-from-top.html Via Ben Metcalfe's blog post, MMORPG: Time the industry started to act responsibly? http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/18/mmorpg-time-the-industry-s… Might be worth checking in Technorati, Digg etc for other commentators or researchers referencing The View From The Top post. Regards, Colin Donald Editor, JigsawUK - the wiki for British digital media start-ups http://www.jigsawuk.org Internet Futures blog http://if.futurescape.co.uk Live Net Music blog http://www.livenetmusic.com At 20:19 20/10/2006, you wrote: >I am trying to locate research on online games. I am particularly interested in psychological profiles of game players, especially those who become obsessed with games. >Many thanks, >Janet Morahan-Martin >__________________________________________________________________________________ >Janet Morahan-Martin, Ph.D. jmorahan(a)bryant.edu >Professor of Psychology >Bryant University >1150 Douglas Pike >Smithfield RI 02917 USA > > > >_______________________________________________ >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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Croquet Project
by Irina Gendelman 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hello there, does anyone have any opinion or knowledge about the Croquet Project. I am interested in it's use of spatial visualization to assist collaboration on projects other than gaming (such as editing, creating art, etc.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project irina Irina Gendelman, PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Washington, Seattle

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A definition of the internet
by Sam Tilden 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

I know this is a trivial question! Does anyone have a really good definition of the Internet. The only ones I have speaks only to the technology. Sam --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Tuckman
by Sam Tilden 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Does anyone have a copy of Tuckman's "Development Sequence In Small Groups" My library does not have it. Thanks In Advance, Sam --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.

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Re: [Air-l] Reification was Definitions
by Dr. Steve Eskow 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

_____ From: Dr. Steve Eskow [mailto:drseskow@cox.net] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:41 AM To: 'Sam Tilden'; 'air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org' Subject: RE: [Air-l] Reification was Definitions Sam, None of us here has the ability or the power to make the term "community" "robust," if by "robust" you mean getting agreement on a single and bounded definition. One scholar found 90 different definitions and usages of the term. Is Paris a "community"? One definition says yes, another says no. Benedict Anderson wrote of the role of newspapers and other media in generating the sense of nationhood: he called his book on the subject IMAGINED COMMUNITIES. In Anderson's view the United States, then, is an "imagined community." I believe it was Howard Rheingold who first coined, or popularized, the term "virtual community." What the term has done, among other things, is call attention to the fact that the Internet is unlike earlier "mass" media that were essentially monologic, broadcasting one to many: the Internet, he showed, was dialogic, allowing for the conversations and the commonalities that characterized (he argued) "community." Before the Internet communities had to involve proximity in space and time: now we could have community without proximity: thus, "virtual communities." The term was widely adopted because it was useful. For many of us, it continues to be useful in pointing to a characteristic of the Internet that makes it different from the broadcast media, and from proximate communities, face-to-face communities. What keeps a locution alive is usefulness, not logic or precision or "robustness." When it ceases to be useful it disappears. Steve Eskow All-new <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43256/*http:/advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbe ta> Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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