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

Re: [Air-l] iTunes 7.0
by Stephanie Jo Kent 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Thanks Nancy - LOL - that's exactly how I was feeling! I appreciate the rest of the responses too. steph http://www.reflexivity.us On Sep 18, 2006, at 1:08 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 14 > Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:07:27 -0500 > From: Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] iTunes 7.0 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <p0623090ac133bcfda1f4(a)[192.168.2.17]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > I thought the algorithm behind the shuffling was a closely guarded > trade secret. Personally, I suspect there's either a secret GPS > system or a psychic guiding the next song selection in my iPod half > the time. At the very least, there's a gremlin with an excellent > sense of humor. > > Nancy

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Fwd: [cultstud-l] Job search: Associate or Assistant Professor of Communication, Old Dominion University
by Jeremy Hunsinger 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Begin forwarded message: > From: Avi Santo <avisanto(a)mail.utexas.edu> > Date: September 18, 2006 8:14:03 PM EDT > To: Cultural Studies <cultstud-l(a)x94-249-29.ej1071.umn.edu> > Subject: [cultstud-l] Job search: Associate or Assistant Professor > of Communication, Old Dominion University > Reply-To: Cultural Studies <cultstud-l(a)comm.umn.edu> > > Associate or Assistant Professor of Communication > Old Dominion University > > The Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion > University > invites applications for a position at the rank of Associate or > Assistant > Professor (tenure-track). Successful candidates will hold a Ph.D. in > Communication, Media Arts, or related disciplines, and have an > established > research and publication record in digital media with a broad focus > in web > studies and/or new media. Possible specific interests include one > or more of > the following areas: convergence, human-digital communication, > creative > industries, globalization, law and policy, and/or virtual/interactive > environments. Candidates comfortable working with digital media and > who possess > multimedia and digital authoring skills are desirable. Candidates > should be > committed to undergraduate and graduate teaching, and are expected to > participate in university/college/departmental service activities. > Send a > letter of application that addresses the position, a curriculum > vitae, a sample > publication, and the names and contact information of three > references to: Dr. > Jeffrey Jones, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication > and Theatre > Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0087. > Review of > applications will begin on November 15, 2006 and will continue > until the > position is filled. Old Dominion University is an equal opportunity, > affirmative action employer and requires compliance with the > Immigration Reform > and Control Act of 1986. > > > _______________________________________________ > CULTSTUD-L mailing list: CULTSTUD-L(a)comm.umn.edu > http://www.comm.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l Jeremy Hunsinger School of Library and Information Science Pratt Institute () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Extension of Proposal Due Date - Call for Contributions to Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission
by Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Dear All Due date for submitting the proposals for the Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission has been extended to September 30, 2006. The updated original call for chapters is appended below for your information. We look forward to receiving your submissions as soon as possible. Detailed Call for Chapters can be found at: http://ykdwivedi.googlepages.com/home The updated schedule is as follows: Proposals due: September 30, 2006 Notification of proposal: October 15, 2006 Full chapter due: November 30, 2006 Please submit your proposals via e-mail to Dr Yogesh K. Dwivedi at ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com / y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk latest by September 30, 2006. If there are any questions, feel free to contact me at above email address. I look forward to receiving your proposal for this handbook soon. Sincerely, Yogesh -- Dr Yogesh K. Dwivedi School of Business and Economics Room 25, Haldane Building Swansea University, Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK. Phone: +44 (0)1792602340Email: y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk; ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com

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AoIR2006 - About Brisbane...
by Adam Muir 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Dear AIR-list members, While reading the program for AoIR 06, I was thinking about other international conferences that I've attended (the Melbourne_DAC03 Conference comes readily to mind) where the conference website or the program booklet had a pool of knowledge about the local area so that visitors to the host city could make the most of their time; where to find good food, maybe some good value restaurants, or maybe some good book stores, or music stores, or places for other shopping adventures or [insert your own cultural interest]. >From the AIR-List so far I get a sense that everyone is doing their own independent research via the web, for hotels and so. Why not pool the knowledge from the brains on the list who are from Brisbane or have lived there for a while? What are the best places to get a good meal for a reasonable price? And so on. I'm sure there are cool, quirky little places to grab a bite to eat that you won't find via the internet! I'm not sure how much traffic and usage the AoIR.org wiki gets.. would that be the place for this kind of thing, as per a previous message? I saw some general information there about the region. I originally thought about those earlier posts calling for extra-curriculum activities that some of the conference-goers might be interested in attending. I'll get the ball rolling with some things that I am pretty sure I will go along to, that some of you might like to attend, too. It's not a definative list, so if you know of other things that are on.. then de-lurk and post them as well! :) The first event I wanted to mention is the "syncretism" event (featuring Richard Chartier, and others) on Thursday the 28th of September @ the Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley (not far from the city centre, about 10minutes by bus or taxi). Syncretism costs $12 at the door ($10 booking in advance), doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start. This might be of interest to those of you with a technological bent, or those of you who might be into unusual music and sound performance. Have a look here for some more information: http://www2.judithwrightcentre.com.au/02_whats_on/details.asp?e_id=408 For something more normal-sounding, there are many excellent local original bands playing around town in the evenings of each of the days that AoIR06 is on.There are a few street press magazines in Brisbane, of which two of the larger ones are online at: * Rave - http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/ * Timeoff - http://www.timeoff.com.au/ You can also find the dead-tree versions around the city in selected music retailers. (that's a whole other kettle of fish). Check out the Gig Guide listings at those websites, and if it makes no sense to you, or you want some help finding something to suit your own interests, feel free to zap me an email... Just a word of warning for those staying in the Hilton: The public bar downstairs at the Hilton called "Her Majesty's Basement" (sometimes shortened to "the basement") has live bands regularly; however it must be said that on Wednesday nights, and some weekend nights are often heavy metal, hardcore or punk bands, and there's plenty of the black t-shirt brigade hanging out there. So unless that's your thing...... there's your warning. :) Lastly, I recommend taking a trip up to the Powerhouse in New Farm (a nice suburb that's a short 15 minute bus/taxi ride from the city) which has a lot of really cool things going on, from theatre to comedy to jazz to other performance stuff.. art shows.. lots of diverse cultural events. (trivia buffs: I saw The Residents play there on their 2005 tour). more info: http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.com.au/ Of note: at the Powerhouse on Saturday evening - 30th of September- is the next in the Silhouette Series, this one inspired by the music of Björk Gudmundsdóttir featuring local Brisbane electronic music artists. Cost: $10 - 8:00:PM (in the Visy Theatre). Anyway I'll end this here because this email is getting really long --- I don't even have any previous email history at the bottom either! :0 ;) Thanks for your time, I look forward to meeting those of you who come down for the conference. :D regards, - adam muir PhD Candidate in Internetwork Ecology. School of Arts, Griffith University. http://amuir.edublogs.org/ http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/ http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cpci/

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Re: [Air-l] iTunes
by Marj Kibby 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

My paper at the conference next week looks at how the Y!Music playlist adapts to indvidual input - covers some related areas. "Radio That Listens to Me" 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

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iTunes
by Peter Timusk 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Hi Steph your would have to ask the Apple engineers about how they build the algorithm...you need to ask about probabilities or setting for RND (random in computer programing) settings. You could also test it and find the relative frequencies of songs inclusions. This would give you quantitative answers. For qualitative answers I would suggest asking musicians who support being paid excess amounts of money and other musicians who might support free music. Also ask musicians who think they might benefit by their song being in one of your random plays i.e musicians seeking exposure but perhaps not money. Peter On 17-Sep-06, at 5:00 PM, Stephanie Jo Kent wrote: > Ok. Here's the deal. I'm really dumb about a lot of this stuff. I > just updated iTunes to 7.0. Did a Party Shuffle. I'm wondering about > the "randomness factor". Specifically, the chances that a sequence of > several songs would fall into sync? > > I'm interested in qualitative answers as well as any quantitative > results. For instance, is there some snoop software that reads my > measurable statistics in relation to online music? > > steph > http://www.reflexivity.us > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Air-l] Taxonomy of Content on the Internet (Eliezer Ferreira)
by Christy Dena 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Hello Muhammad and Eliezer, Thankyou for taking the time to further define metadiscursive. I employed the term as a lazy catchall for the sake of brevity, but ended up causing concern for my research. You're right, I shouldn't employed a term that is wrought with plurality. I appreciate the guidance you have given because I have only looked at this question from the point of view of the paratextual and intertextual at this stage. I'm also aware of the difficulty of defining what is a discussion about something and what is a work. Indeed, this is what I argue -- that they are all layers of the 'work'. But I don't think there is data that is that specific (tell me if there is!). I have assumed that there is not data that already clusters activity on the Net according to its status in a 'work', and instead am trying to find any data that provides a snapshot of different types of activity. Since a lot of research has gone into blogs, forums and listservs (in particular fan communities) I thought there would be some data on this that I can compare with data on how many works are available on the Net: how many films webcast for instance, how many hypertext works etc? Even data for a specific country or even data around a particular work would help. At present I'm comparing data on a per-work basis: comparing sites that are part of the fictional world, forums, listservs, news articles and so on. I label them all as part of the work and describe their various functions in the work. In the end, I think I'll have to just go with this per-work analysis. But it would be nice to find out if there is any data that provides some form of taxonomy of data on the Net. Is this clearer? Thankyou for your assistance in advance, Christy Message: 6 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:58:52 -0300 (ART) From: Eliezer Ferreira <tradutoref(a)yahoo.com.br> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Taxonomy of Content on the Internet To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20060917155852.16082.qmail(a)web51706.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Christy, As professor Muhammad has said I don't have a definite answer to our investigation. But I guess any study of this nature must be considered by an etnographic point of you since we are to take into account the diversity of material posted on the Net and the culturally situated individual who has written that. As the very concept of discursive and metadiscursive may vary feom Scholars to Scholars, so the approach peolple may have of the other discourse. Maybe it hasn't been the focus of your research, but at least it is some food for the thought. My research project is related on how students read on the internet and hoiw the digital divide affects this reading. So, in a way, I am to analyse data from an etnographic pespective also. Hope I have shed some light... Good luck in your journey, Eliezer Ferreira Professor of English Faculty of Arts and Letters /UFPE Brazil Muhammad Abdul-Mageed <mumageed(a)yahoo.com> escreveu: Dear Christy, and all, Although I do not have an answer for the question you raised, I guess an important point is the one related to the criterion upon which we label anything as being metadiscursive. As far as I can see, two main perspectives can emerge. First, it can be said that anything that is not related to the propositional content--which Christy seems to call the 'actual thing,' is metadiscursive. Second, anything related to 'writer-reader' interaction can be taken as being an example of metadiscourse. Again, as far as I know, this will depend upon the perspective from which we strike the distiction between discourse and metadiscourse. But I am not sure whether you Christy is concerned with these theoritical issues about the nature of metadiscourse or not. Anyhow, 'metadiscourse' has been defined differently by different people. Scholars like Williams, Deborah Schiffrin, Vande Koople, Avon Crismore, and Ken Hyland have been actively involved in theorizing about the concept. And it is the more recent writings of Hyland that seems to challenge the traditional definitions of the concept and offer a different classification, not based upon the dichotomy of discourse and metadiscourse as two opposing, but intricately related, concepts. I think that we need to be clear about the criterion before deciding. Best Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Dept of English, Faculty of Arts, Kafr El-Sheik Univerity, Egypt Christy Dena wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to find out if there is any data to support the contention that the majority of content on the Internet is meta-discursive: discussions about things rather than the actual thing. This is I believe a logical assumption to make considering the amount of content in blogs, wikis, forums, listservs, news, general websites and so on; and the affordances of the web and the primary function of the web for many. But perhaps there is more content (mainly remediated perhaps) that I may be aware of. I'm aware that more and more content is being made available on the Net but I don't think it outweighs discussions about it yet. I can look at the stats on the amount of blogs and so on and the stats on why people use the web but I'm wondering if there are any studies that compare the various types of content available on the Net? And, I'd also be interested on the views of those on this list. Do you think there is more meta content than anything else? Do you think there more discussions about content than anything else? I'm aware that a snapshot of the entire Net is not an option, nor is there the possibility of a conclusive taxonomy of the Net, but just interested in pursuing the idea. As a background, I'm looking at this question from the view of an analysis of how entertainment has changed with the Internet. If I simply missed studies that are already on the AOIR website or have been discussed on this list, could someone just send me a link, and accept my apologies! Cheers, Christy Dena School of Letters, Art and Media University of Sydney, Australia Web: http://www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com Web: http://www.ChristyDena.com Web: http://www.WriterResponseTheory.org Web: http://www.SlateNight.com _______________________________________________ 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/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. _______________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by Ellis Godard 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Yes. But the apparent "register to edit" option could have been a ruse to conceal that it's a non-editable marketing ploy. I didn't register to check. -----Original Message----- From: phoebe ayers [mailto:phoebe.wiki@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:54 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard(a)csun.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction On 9/15/06, Ellis Godard <egodard(a)csun.edu> wrote: This is probably olds (not news) to at least some of you, but there's a fairly comprehensive Wiki site devoted to the story behind the television show Lost, and to ongoing associated fiction, much (though not all) as if it were nonfiction. http://lostpedia.com/wiki/ Editing requires a login (which I didn't register for), so perhaps it's not Wiki-powered just Wiki-in-appearance, but it still made we wonder what other creative applications of Wiki might exist. -eg A quick technical note: that site is based on MediaWiki, and is certainly a wiki -- it simply requires registration before editing, which is not uncommon. There is nothing in the "wiki" concept that requires *anonymous* editing to be possible :) Whether to require registration or not, or restrict editing to a specific user group, or have some finer distinctions such as not allowing anonymous editors to create new pages etc, is typically something that you can set up when administering a wiki. See the sites listed at Wikia: http://www.wikia.com/ for more wiki-powered fan-sites (Star Trek, etc), sites on various specific topics, etc. etc. best, phoebe -- phoebe ayers | brassratgirl /at/ gmail.com | "Reading, almost as much as breathing, is our essential function." -- Alberto Manguel

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Conference: Literacies of the Body and Image
by Kevin Leander 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

The website for the 2007 Mid-Winter Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research is now available. Please consider submitting a proposal for this year's conference. The conference theme is What Counts As Literacy? Living Literacies of the Body and Image. Contact Kevin Leander (<mailto:kevin.leander@vanderbilt.edu>kevin.leander(a)vanderbilt.edu) or Cynthia Lewis (<mailto:lewis@umn.edu>lewis(a)umn.edu) with any questions. We look forward to seeing many of you there! <http://education.umn.edu/NCTEAR/>http://education.umn.edu/NCTEAR/ -- Kevin Leander, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University

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Taxonomy of Content on the Internet
by Christy Dena 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello All, I'm trying to find out if there is any data to support the contention that the majority of content on the Internet is meta-discursive: discussions about things rather than the actual thing. This is I believe a logical assumption to make considering the amount of content in blogs, wikis, forums, listservs, news, general websites and so on; and the affordances of the web and the primary function of the web for many. But perhaps there is more content (mainly remediated perhaps) that I may be aware of. I'm aware that more and more content is being made available on the Net but I don't think it outweighs discussions about it yet. I can look at the stats on the amount of blogs and so on and the stats on why people use the web but I'm wondering if there are any studies that compare the various types of content available on the Net? And, I'd also be interested on the views of those on this list. Do you think there is more meta content than anything else? Do you think there more discussions about content than anything else? I'm aware that a snapshot of the entire Net is not an option, nor is there the possibility of a conclusive taxonomy of the Net, but just interested in pursuing the idea. As a background, I'm looking at this question from the view of an analysis of how entertainment has changed with the Internet. If I simply missed studies that are already on the AOIR website or have been discussed on this list, could someone just send me a link, and accept my apologies! Cheers, Christy Dena School of Letters, Art and Media University of Sydney, Australia Web: <http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/> http://www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com Web: <http://www.christydena.com/> http://www.ChristyDena.com Web: <http://www.writerresponsetheory.org/> http://www.WriterResponseTheory.org Web: <http://www.slatenight.com/> http://www.SlateNight.com

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