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Conference submission site is OPEN
by Mia Consalvo 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Hi all, This is a quick announcement to let you know that the submission site for AoIR's 2007 conference in Vancouver is officially OPEN and ready for business! We're using the same system as last year, so things should look familiar to those of you who have submitted in the past. If you are new, please follow the basic directions to create an account and then upload your submission. I've attached the CFP below as a reminder, and please note that submissions are DUE by February 1, 2007. Likewise, if you have questions about the submission process, please email me offlist at consalvo @ ohio.edu. Happy Holidays! Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 740.597.1521 *********** 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. 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 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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Video analysis software
by Anders Fagerjord 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video. They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information. Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them? --anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no

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writing effective questions to lists
by Barry Wellman 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I'm gearing up to write a book on writing for the social scientists. I want to put in something about how to write in listservs, chat groups, IM, etc. I was struck this week by Abigail's Q (see below) which I thought was a good example on how NOT to answer a question, because it was so broadly framed: what is it about time that Abigail is interested in? (dissertation advising manta). Yet, I have been struck by how much interesting discussion Abigail's Q has evoked. For one thing, there ain't much on time (altho did anyone mention Evitar Zeruvabel?), so anything might be worthwhile. Second, the broadness of the Q seems to have served as a projective test -- evoking a variety of responses. So, I am lead to wonder and to ask: what tips do people have for posting to lists? My quick guide is: 1. Be specific as to content and need. 2. Lurk on the list for a while to get a sense of its style. 3. Try to post something else first, so that you are contributing as well as asking for information. PS: I'd like to endorse Frank Thomas' request for evidence on Virillo's conjectures. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On 12/7/06, Abigail Groves wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am writing about the internet and its effects on time. I was wondering >>> if anyone could suggest some readings on this topic? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Abigail Groves >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> National Centre in HIV Social Research >>> University of NSW >>> http://nchsr.unsw.edu.au

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Fwd: CFPanelists: Berks 2008 on women's internet culture
by radhika gajjala 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

fyi > >>Approved-By: barnes(a)MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU >>X-Original-To: H-Women(a)h-net.msu.edu >>X-Mailer: TWIG 2.8.2 >>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:43:35 -0000 >>Reply-To: "H-NET List for Women's History" <H-WOMEN(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU> >>Sender: "H-NET List for Women's History" <H-WOMEN(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU> >>From: Paula Barnes <barnes(a)MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> >>Subject: CFPanelists: Berks 2008 on women's internet culture >>To: H-WOMEN(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU >>X-MASF: 0.00% >> >> >> >>For a panel on women's internet culture for the 2008 Berks, we seek a >>third panelist. Our papers deal with online communities of pregnant >>women and mothers: we invite proposals for papers looking at online >>communities related to women and reproduction, such as adoption; >>infertility; pregnancy loss; special issues in parenting; childbirth >>preparation, etc. An international focus would be welcomed. We are >>interested in historicizing these communities as well as looking at the >>change in women's groups brought on by the particularities of cyber >>connections. The paper proposal, while looking at contemporary or recent >>past sources, should be informed by an understanding of the historical >>origins of these communities. >> >> >>Please contact us by email: >>Michelle Moravec, Ph.D. >> >>Assistant Professor of History, Rosemont College >> >>mmoravec(a)rosemont.edu >>and >>Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D. >> >>Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health >> >>leavitt.sarah(a)gmail.com >>

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Re: [Air-l] internet and time
by Heather Wiltse 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

Abigail, Here is another one on the internet and time: Gotved, S. (2006). Time and space in cyber social reality. New Media & Society, 8(3), 467-486. Best, Heather Wiltse Master's Student, Human-Computer Interaction School of Informatics Indiana University hwiltse(a)iupui.edu

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Re: [Air-l] writing effective questions to lists
by Marj Kibby 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

I'd think the only rule is 1. engage the interest of the list. Abigail's question is obviously an excellent example of writing an effective question to a list - given the responses that it generated. Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> 12/10/06 1:24 PM >>> I'm gearing up to write a book on writing for the social scientists. I want to put in something about how to write in listservs, chat groups, IM, etc. I was struck this week by Abigail's Q (see below) which I thought was a good example on how NOT to answer a question, because it was so broadly framed: what is it about time that Abigail is interested in? (dissertation advising manta). Yet, I have been struck by how much interesting discussion Abigail's Q has evoked. For one thing, there ain't much on time (altho did anyone mention Evitar Zeruvabel?), so anything might be worthwhile. Second, the broadness of the Q seems to have served as a projective test -- evoking a variety of responses. So, I am lead to wonder and to ask: what tips do people have for posting to lists? My quick guide is: 1. Be specific as to content and need. 2. Lurk on the list for a while to get a sense of its style. 3. Try to post something else first, so that you are contributing as well as asking for information. PS: I'd like to endorse Frank Thomas' request for evidence on Virillo's conjectures. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On 12/7/06, Abigail Groves wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am writing about the internet and its effects on time. I was wondering >>> if anyone could suggest some readings on this topic? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Abigail Groves >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> National Centre in HIV Social Research >>> University of NSW >>> http://nchsr.unsw.edu.au _______________________________________________ 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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2nd Call for Chapters - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition
by Rita Marriott 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposals Submission Deadline: 1/31/2007 Full Articles Due: 4/30/2007 Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition For more information please access the website http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=146 or send an e-mail to rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott Editor --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.

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Moscow COST conference call for papers: Politics Online
by Jankowski 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Please find below a CFP for a EU COST conference, to be held in Moscow, 23-25 May 2007: Politics Online: Comparative Perspectives, Theories & Methodological Innovations Feel free to redistribute as you deem appropriate, and apologies for any cross-posting. Best, Nick Jankowski ********************************************************************** Visiting Fellow Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences nickjan(a)xs4all.nl www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl *********************************************************************** Politics Online: Comparative Perspectives, Theories & Methodological Innovations Contributions are invited for two conference sessions devoted to recent theoretical developments in online politics and methodological innovations for investigating these developments. Politics Online should be conceived broadly to include both traditional politics such as top-down government-driven activities as well as bottom-up citizen-based initiatives. Session 1: Comparative Perspectives For Session 1, comparative contributions as well as single-country case studies are invited, independent of geographical region. These papers may be either primarily theoretical or empirical studies. The site of the conference in Moscow provides opportunity to explore developments regarding online politics in post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and other CIS countries as well as China and Southeast Asia from the perspective of comparative post-communism. Contributions from elsewhere including North America, Western Europe and other regions are also welcome. Suggested topics for Session 1 include: * use of mobile telephones (e.g., SMS exchanges) and e-mail during election campaigns, political and social movement actions; * web presence (websites and blogs) by political actors; * online discussion and chat forums oriented towards politics, public affairs and social movements; * Internet censorship and authoritarian measures regarding new media; * online privacy; * theoretical conceptualizations (such as social-shaping of technologies). Session 2: Methodological Innovations For Session 2, we invite methodologically-oriented papers concerned with conducting research in the online environment. As with the papers for Session 1, online politics should be seen as encompassing traditional political communication as well as citizen and social movement oriented political initiatives. Suggested methodologically oriented topics include: * comparative online research; * content and discourse analysis techniques for studying political websites; * ethnographic exploration of online political engagement; * link analysis; * mixed-method research designs. The sessions are planned as part of a larger EU COST Action 298 conference, to be held 23-25 May 2007 in Moscow. This conference, entitled The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected: The user and the future of information and communication technologies, is hosted by the Institute of the Information Society, Moscow, Russian Federation. For further details, see the conference site <http://conference.cost298.org/>http://conference.cost298.org. These two sessions about online politics are co-organized by COST Action A30, which is concerned with establishing a new media research agenda for East and Central Europe. For further details, see <http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu:8080/cmcs/a30cost/>http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu:8080/cmcs/a30cost/. Interested persons are encouraged to contact the session organizers as soon as possible regarding ideas for papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10 January 2007. Authors will be notified by 31 January regarding acceptance. Full papers are to be submitted no later than 15 May 2007. Plans are being made for a journal theme issue and submissions will be considered for inclusion. The sessions are co-organized by: * Miklos Sukosd (Central European University), Chair, COST Action A30: <mailto:sukosdm@ceu.hu>sukosdm(a)ceu.hu * Nicholas Jankowski (Virtual Knowledge Studio, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), COST Action A30, Working Group 1 leader: <mailto:nickjan@xs4all.nl>nickjan(a)xs4all.nl * Chantal de Gournay (France Telecom R&D), COST Action 298, chantal.degournay(a)orange-ftgroup.com Please send abstracts to: * Miklos Sukosd, Chair, COST Action A30: <mailto:sukosdm@ceu.hu>sukosdm(a)ceu.hu * the organizational address for the conference: <mailto:costconference@fub.it>costconference(a)fub.it.

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Re: [Air-l] The internet and time
by Hagit Tal 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Hi all, Manuel Castells wrote in his book "The Rise of the Network Society" about "timless time" Castells, M. The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (three volumes (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996-1998; 2nd edition, 2000) Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, and Malden, MA), 1996. Hagit Meishar-Tal Open University Israel -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Abigail Groves Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:37 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] The internet and time Hi all, I am writing about the internet and its effects on time. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some readings on this topic? Thanks, Abigail Groves PhD Candidate National Centre in HIV Social Research University of NSW http://nchsr.unsw.edu.au _______________________________________________ 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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Is Myspace dying? Or a dead site trading?
by Hugemusic 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Found this article a little late: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR200610280… This has been a pet theory of mine for some time, though for different reasons. Previous attempts to generate discussion failed ... further analysis here: http://www.puddlegum.net/?q=myspace-dying But this is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. MySpace wanted to make their presence in people lives "permanent" - but can this be acheived, or is the phenomonology of the Internet so transient that these things will come and go like the seasons? My own recent experience of MySpace is singularly unsatisfying ... Or is this just a case of an immature market?? WDYR?? BTW - another (related) pet theory: Google don't give a damn about Youtube as a business. They bought it as a research tool to investigate indexing video and audio materials, just as they bought Blogger to experiment with link traps and their search algorythm ... or am I just being a consiracy theorist??? Please discuss. Cheers, Hughie BTW - are you an independent Muso? If so, you ought to complete my survey at http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=4. If not, you need to tell every independent muso you know about it.

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