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Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?
by Nancy Baym 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Also I do want to mention the Pew chart on American internet adoption at this page: http://www.pewinternet.org/trends.asp Nancy

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Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Figure 1 in this US Census report gives numbers on computer ownership from 1984 to 2003, and internet access from 1997 to 2003. http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf Here are the numbers (much more readable in the original) 1984 1989 1993 1997 1998 2000 2001 2003 Computer 8.2 15.0 22.8 36.6 42.1 51.0 56.3 61.8 Internet access n/a n/a n/a 18.0 26.2 41.5 50.4 54.7 Source: US Census Bureau (Oct., 2005). Computers and Internet Use in the United States: 2003. http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf. /Caroline ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Facebook protests
by 'Gail Taylor 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Amanda Lenhart raised concerns related to 'stalkerish' behaviors that are being exhibited through the introduction of the mini-feeds into the software. These feeds are sharing information that is automatically built into a history file that records member actions, such as logging into the software or performing other functions such as adding a new friend. This information is always visible to the user. Transparency is controlled by understandings of computer processes in networked environments. No one has raised concerns relating to the fact that Facebook members have pre-existing accounts. These accounts are activated when someone chooses to join Facebook. At the time of joining the group, members become shareholders by buying into the design of the product and services being offered. As someone else pointed out, members who are protesting the change in practice are exhibiting behaviors of shareholders who have a vested interest in the product. In the business world, these actions might result in changes in practice including the decision to take the product off the market. This would be a great case study for consultants and faculty who are using a case study approach to teaching students about scenario planning in the context of technology adoption processes. /Gail ***************************** Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society. We have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior." -- Jerry Springer

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BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, 9/15-9/17
by Charles Baldwin 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. September 15-17, 2006. More information, including a complete schedule at: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc//bios_flyer BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary symposium gathering artists and scholars to WVU for an exploration of the re-invention of life in digital media. The program combines talks and creative work / performances along broad and inclusive lines. Hosted by the Center for Literary Computing and the Division of Art at West Virginia University. Part of the E-Poetry Symposia and Festivals. Co-organized with the Electronic Poetry Center and Digital Media Studies Program (SUNY-Buffalo). Support from the WVU Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Art. All events are free and open to the public.

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Call for book chapters: New HCI design challenges in Space
by A.C.Roibas＠bton.ac.uk 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: April 15, 2007 Designing the user experience of future peripatetic users: new HCI design challenges in Space A book edited by Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás, University of Brighton; Loredana Bessone, ESA and Dr. Patricia.M.Jones, NASA Introduction: Travelling to the depths of Space is no longer a privilege of astronauts and scientists. Space Agencies are starting to allow those who have the means to afford it, provided that they fulfil a minimum set of physiological requirements to join the ventures into outer space. At the same time, companies are developing spacecrafts for civilian use and plan huge space stations capable of accommodating thousand of settlers. However, micro-gravity or reduced and enhanced gravity environments strongly influence the way users interact with technology. In other words, what works on earth does not necessarily perform in Space. As the age of space habitation dawns, we must work to find ways to transfer our technological advances on Earth to Outer Space The Overall objective of the Book: This book aims to present significant projects carried out in academia, space agencies and in industry regarding the quality of the user experience with interactive systems in Space. The idea is to promote awareness of interdisciplinary work concerning methods and tools for HCI in Space in order to be ready for the future life beyond the terrestrial atmosphere and to share knowledge to develop innovative interactive systems on Earth. A crucial problem when designing HCI for Space systems refers to the validity of data gathering and the realism of user scenarios. Ethnographic on-site studies and evaluation methods show that some problems concerning the user behaviour and environment are only identified when capturing the rich texture of activity being performed in the field. The Target Audience: Educators, and Researchers in HCI, managers of HCI projects working in Space and mobile industry (telecom companies, device manufacturers, service providers, game designers, etc.); industrial designers; new media trends sociologists; new media journalists; human factors practitioners; interface evaluators, information architects, designers and testers. The book is intended to provide valuable material to be used for research and teaching purposes (in any curricula including communication and information systems in its set of disciplines). This book is also intended to be useful for designers and engineers that need concrete materials to understand the user experiences in social practices and to evaluate the applications used and combined. RECCOMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: Technological, cultural, political, philosophical, psychological and economic dimensions of future pervasive and interactive communication systems; New challenges in pervasive communication systems in Space: new users and uses, interoperability amongst interfaces, tangible computing, intelligent environments, context awareness, etc; Innovative research approaches for the creation of operationally relevant and realistic future scenarios; Taxonomy of radically new applications; Art expressions (e.g. locative art) in space and patterns for smart & malleable digital content; Advanced interaction models (immersive & intelligent environments, humanising interfaces, haptics, etc); Transferring interaction patterns between usage areas (e.g. games, Space industry, medical, etc); Advanced evaluation techniques for pervasive systems in Space. Participatory Design and other user-centered approaches focused on users' cultural, social, behavioural and ergonomic backgrounds. Challenges of analyzing and designing to support sociability in the Space; Emerging nomadic societies, communities and related socio-cultural trends; Assessment of the Perceived Quality of Experience through ethnographies, or other experimental evaluation techniques. Novel methodologies for services design. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Authors are invited to submit on or before December 1, 2006, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and topic of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group reference imprints. Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (World document) to: a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk

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Re: [Air-l] disjunction - sample
by Rob Patton 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

In response to Barry's question. Here's a small random sample of Facebook user local friend networks. Local network friends are only from the user's College or University. n=300 Mean 147 Median 126 Mode 70 Range 10-567 Quartiles 1st 78 2nd 126.5 3rd 192 4th 567 Female n=168 Mean 158 Male n=132 Mean 133 Rob Patton Department of Communication and Center for Information Technology and Society Univerity of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 patton(a)cits.ucsb.edu www.cits.ucsb.edu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:42 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] disjunction The US General Social Survey claims the average American has slightly more than 2 people they discuss important matters with. Our Connected Lives and Pew Strength of Ties studies show somewhat higher numbers (see Hogan, Carrasco & Wellman on our website). But still reckoned by the dozen (or two). When the inevitable reporter calls, how do I reconcile these numbers with the 100-200 or so that folks on this list are saying are Facebook "friends". Does anyone have a distribution of the # of friends per Facebook account: mean, median, mode, quartiles, ranges would be nice too. Barry

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Re: [Air-l] disjunction
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

There is a similar thing when looking at the telephone directories on mobile phones. The mean number of entries is often huge. For teens it can be over 100. However, when you ask how many have been contacted in the past week, the number is usually under 10. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Cliff Lampe Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:45 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; 'aoir list' Subject: Re: [Air-l] disjunction Hi all- In a recent crawl of users at Michigan State University, here are the numbers of "friends" as scraped from profiles. Friends at MSU mean: 84 median: 66 mode: 1 range: 1 - 418 quartiles: 25 1 50 66 75 136 Friends at other schools mean: 80 median: 65 mode: 1 range: 1 - 1297 quartiles: 25 1 50 65 75 115 The usual caveats apply. These results are from MSU solely, from a few months ago. etc. etc. Our survey data indicates that "friends" are people met offline who become online connections. This is my first post to the list, so "hi" as well. Cliff Lampe -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:42 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] disjunction The US General Social Survey claims the average American has slightly more than 2 people they discuss important matters with. Our Connected Lives and Pew Strength of Ties studies show somewhat higher numbers (see Hogan, Carrasco & Wellman on our website). But still reckoned by the dozen (or two). When the inevitable reporter calls, how do I reconcile these numbers with the 100-200 or so that folks on this list are saying are Facebook "friends". Does anyone have a distribution of the # of friends per Facebook account: mean, median, mode, quartiles, ranges would be nice too. 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 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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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disjunction
by Barry Wellman 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

The US General Social Survey claims the average American has slightly more than 2 people they discuss important matters with. Our Connected Lives and Pew Strength of Ties studies show somewhat higher numbers (see Hogan, Carrasco & Wellman on our website). But still reckoned by the dozen (or two). When the inevitable reporter calls, how do I reconcile these numbers with the 100-200 or so that folks on this list are saying are Facebook "friends". Does anyone have a distribution of the # of friends per Facebook account: mean, median, mode, quartiles, ranges would be nice too. 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 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?
by Philip Howard 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

Hi Nancy: The World Information Access Project has done a good job collecting and cleaning data from multiple sources, and we put the raw spreadsheets from our 2006 report online for people to use. www.wiareport.org The story http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/11/patterns-of-inequality-in-technology-a ccess-1995-2005 Uses World Bank and ITU data going back to 1995, Phil Dr. Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington

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Dialectic XY
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Http://www.dialecticxy.org Internet Scholars are invited to participate in a threaded, searchable, indexed Forum on the internet. DialecticXY is an interdisciplinary research forum created with the purpose of systematically investigating the vast intersection of Internet technology and the human experience. This exploration is taking place from a variety of perspectives including information technology, ethics, psychology, commerce, politics, anthropology, semiotics, sociology, pedagogy and computer science with interests that span the industrial, government, scientific and academic communities. It is only by virtue of the existence of the Internet that this collaborative paradigm, at this scale and scope, is even possible. It is the ultimate objective of DialecticXY to not only advance pure scientific understanding of the Internet but to also produce practicable technologies and knowledge that will help to shape the future of the Internet. DialecticXY welcomes the participation and contributions of the worldwide community of Internet scholars. http://www.dialecticxy.org ________________________________ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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