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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by William Bain 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Sorry for previous truncated send. It was meant to refer to Ellis Godard's comment on what other creative applications of Wiki might exist. I just wanted to mention Alan Sondheim's WRYTING-L(a)LISTSERV.WVU.EDU and his experiments merging image/word. Samples of his work are available at http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ Actually this is probably very old news--I think I first learned of wrYting on this list. For what it's worth, anyway............ WB William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by William Bain 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

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. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.

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Fwd: Positions at Georgia Tech
by Steve Jones 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

> Please circulate! Apologies for cross-posting. > > Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture > (LCC) is seeking to fill 2-3 positions at the rank of Assistant > Professor in the emerging discipline of Digital Media. We seek > practitioner/theorists who combine technical expertise with a > strong grounding in the arts and humanities. Candidates should be > prepared to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level in LCC's > suite of programs in computational and digital media. A Ph.D. or > terminal degree in an appropriate field is required, as is > computational proficiency and a demonstrated capacity for > significant original research/creative work. Evidence of > significant potential in generating external funding is desirable. > Preference will given to candidates who demonstrate expertise in > one or more of the following fields: > > Digital Art and Design > Practitioner in the use of digital technology for communication and > expression. We particularly seek candidates in the area of visual > design (graphic design, visual arts, moving image). Candidates > should be prepared to situate their practice in the social and > cultural contexts of new media. Preference will be given to those > whose work relates to strengths of our department, such as > experimental media, game design and critique, interactive > narrative, tangible media, and mixed reality. > > Information Architecture/Information Design > Designer/producer/researcher with a focus on the expressive > application of emerging structures of information distribution and > organization (e.g. media syndication widgets, google map mashups, > folksonomies & tag clouds, social networking sites, semantic web) > and the technologies of information abstraction that underlie them > (e.g. relational databases, structured documents, XML metadata & > controlled vocabularies, wikis). > > Interactive Narrative > Practitioner/theorist of computational expression, with an emphasis > on procedural approaches to interactive narrative in various media > forms such as virtual/mixed reality, games, and interactive > television. Specialties could include one or more of the following: > interactive fiction, computational story systems, computational > poetry, narrative and cognition, story generation, interactive > documentary, narrative intelligence, and AI. > > Applicants should send a letter with a statement of research > interests and pedagogical approach, a CV, one or two pages of > screenshots, and/or a pointer to an on-line portfolio. (Requests > for full dossiers and portfolios will be sent to selected > applicants.) Applications should be addressed to Chair, Search > Committee, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA > 30332-0165. Review of applications will begin October 15 and > continue until the positions are filled. The Georgia Institute of > Technology is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. > Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. For more information > about the School, please visit http://www.lcc.gatech.edu.

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Re: [Air-l] vampirefreaks et al
by William Bain 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

In relation to this thread in general but maybe more explicitly to John Wunderlich's mention of "The Human Behavior Experiments" on CBC and the research on obedience, authority, and related issues, there might be some interest in the series of ongoing conferences "At the Interface". Within this is "Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphors of Enduring Evil" (18-21 September, Oxford, UK, http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M4/cfp.html I'm only familiar with the websites, but the slant is inter or transdisciplinary and it looks like it might match up with a lot of the research being mentioned here. There are llinks to the parent site, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ati.htm and I found some interesting Nietzsche research in the e-journal, as well as gender related issues, http://www.wickedness.net/ej.htm Best regards, William William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

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Listserv Research
by Kevin Guidry 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

I'm fairly new to the list and I'm trying to place the recent metadiscussion about the listserv itself and participation in context with what I know about typical and historical behavior on and characteristics of listservs and listserv participants. I am not interested in (publicly) discussing this listserv and its recent and ongoing events. What I am interesting in is expanding my own knowledge of relevant research which may inform the discussion and aid me in placing this into context. I am aware of some resources specifically related to this topic, particularly Brian Butler's 1999 dissertation "The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Examining and Modelling Online Social Structure" and the works referenced therein. However, I am having some difficulty locating additional and more recent relevant research as much of what I am finding is research performed *using* listservs but not *about* listservs. I suspect that I may not be using the correct terminology or jargon to perform a sufficiently narrow search. I also suspect that my topic may simply be too broad or undefined. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction or towards specific resources that may be useful? I also have to wonder if my difficulty in finding more recent resources may be attributed to a dying off of listservs as they are replaced by wikis, blogs, bulletin boards, and other resources. But that does not match my experience at all. It may indeed happen over time but it seems that although younger persons are often dismissive of e-mail it many older persons, particularly in the professional worlds in which I have worked, still hold onto e-mail and thus perpetuate listservs as a viable, useful medium. Kevin Guidry Information Technology Fellow Sewanee: The University of the South

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CFP: INTERNET RESEARCH
by R.Mabry-Hubbard (UMC Student) 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Call For Papers: INTERNET RESEARCH (1) The Online Social World as a living Laboratory? Call for paper or presentation proposals regarding this proposition. Does the online world sufficiently mirror the physical world such that social science, cultural studies, communications, political science, economics and related disciplines could study (or have studied) online behaviors to theorize, predict, or confirm offline, real world behaviors and outcomes. Student papers are especially welcomed. (2) Suggested Chapters for a Comprehensive Handbook of e-Research for studying online/Internet or using online tools for research? Call for paper or presentation proposals regarding this topic. Methodology and "How to ." presentations welcomed about research methods, software, and scholarly writing. Student papers are especially welcomed. April 4 - 7, 2007 North Central Sociological Association & Midwest Sociological Society Joint Meeting Chicago Downtown Marriott http://www.ncsanet.org/Jointtheme.pdf. PROPOSAL DEADLINE: October 31, 2006 Organizer: Robin Y. Mabry-Hubbard University of Missouri-Columbia 101 Gentry Hall Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-268-0583 FAX: 573-884-4444 E-mail: ryh352(a)mizzou.edu ------ Robin Y. Mabry Hubbard, MBA, EdS Rural Sociology Doctoral Student - Community Informatics Email: ryh352(a)mizzou.edu My Homepage: http://www.rrchubbard.org Murphy's Law: There is never enough time to do it right; but there is always time to do it over ~ Our Future arrived Yesterday! ~ [I am not inviting any postmodernist to my party!]

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Re: [Air-l] CMC in social work
by John McNutt 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Chris, This is actually a pretty broad area with an extensive literature. I would start with the 2-3 Journals that specialize in this issue--such as Journal of technology in human services and New Technology in the Human Services. Best of Luck, John McNutt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mestdagh Chris Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 8:54 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] CMC in social work Hello, I am preparing a Phd on the use of CMC (mainly e-mail and online chat) in social work practices. Does anyone have any references on this matter? Many thanks, Chris Mestdagh University of Ghent _______________________________________________ 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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Wiki Fiction
by Ellis Godard 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

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

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Psychological impact of telework
by 'Gail Taylor 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

There is a growing body of literature on this topic in the business and health sciences, as well as social sciences. Here are a few references for articles that present some interesting perspectives on related issues. These articles can be located, and accessed, using the EBSCO Academic Premier database. I primarily use this database to locate articles reporting research that has been conducted on workplace employer and employee practices. If you don't have access to this database, articles can also be located using the Google Scholar search engine. Feelin' groovy♪: appropriating time in home-based telework. Musson, Gill; Tietze, Susanne. Culture & Organization, Sep2004, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p251-264, 14p. Home-based Telework, Gender, and the Synchronization of Work and Family: Perspectives of Teleworkers and their Co-residents. By: Sullivan, Cath; Lewis, Suzan. Gender, Work & Organization, Apr2001, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p123, 23p. Situational leadership: a model for leading telecommuters. Farmer, Leigh Ann. Journal of Nursing Management, Nov2005, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p483-489, 7p. Telework and occupational health: a Quebec empirical study and regulatory implications. Montreuil, Sylvie; Lippel, Katherine. Safety Science, Jun2003, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p339, 20p. ***************************** 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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Re: [Air-l] vampirefreaks et al
by Jonathan Sterne 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Thanks for the kind and interesting replies. This isn't a research topic for me. I just keep getting queries and so it seemed worth posing the more vexing part of it to a group who cares about such things. I just wanted to clarify one for Sabryna (that may have been unclear in my original post). I considered my encounter with the National Post writer fairly typical, if disturbing in this context. A good portion of the reporters I speak with (half? more? less?) are just fishing for quotes for a storyline they've already plotted out. You don't fit, you don't get in the story, or your words get turned around. The other reporters are the ones worth talking with, but of course you can't know ahead of time who's who. Best, --J -- Jonathan Sterne Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org

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