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Re: [Air-l] MySpace readings
by Paul DiPerna 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Hi James, Last fall I presented a paper at ASA that gave a brief overview of MySpace, discussing some of its organizational and online history. The study surveyed social search and networking sites, and analyzed their usage over time. I found these popular press articles helpful context on MySpace: Steven Levy and Brad Stone, "The New Wisdom of the Web," Newsweek, April 3, 2006, pp. 47-53. Leslie Walker, "New Trends in Online Traffic," Washington Post, April 4, 2006, p. D1. Anya Kamenetz, �The Network Unbound,� Fast Company, Issue 106, (June 2006), p. 68. Rachel Rosmarin, "The MySpace Bubble," Forbes.com, June 29, 2006. This is the link to the ASA conference paper-- http://pauldiperna.typepad.com/Connector_Website_Model_FullReport.pdf Hope this is helpful. If you have any trouble accessing the pdf, just let me know. Best, Paul -------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org Online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna 2007/1/15, James W Craine <james.w.craine at csun.edu>: > > I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include > a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings > that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - > I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural > construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just > basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks > > > James Craine > Department of Geography > California State University, Northridge > APCG Yearbook Editor > _______________________________________________ > The air-l at 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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Reminder ASIS&T AM 07 proposals due this week
by Richard Hill 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Deadlines January 21, 2007 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre- conference sessions February 25, 2007 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers March 31, 2007 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance May 27, 2007 Final versions due for conference proceedings --------- Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science October 18-25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Wisconsin URL for the compelte Call for Participation: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html All submissions are made electronically via a link from the ASIST Web site (http://www.asis.org) Details on acceptable file formats, citation style, and specific contact information required in the online submission form are on the Web page. Any problems with electronic submissions should be directed to: Richard Hill, Executive Director (rhill(a)asis.org) ASIS&T, 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: 301-495-0810 Phone: 301-495-0900 rhill(a)asis.org Dick Hill ------------ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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CAQDAS 07 : 2nd Call for Papers
by C.Silver＠surrey.ac.uk 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward this to anyone who may be interested. 2nd Call for Papers : CAQDAS 07 : Advances in Qualitative Computing : 18-20 April 2007, Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 31st January 2007. The main conference website can be found here : http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm Please see the website for more info, or contact me Many thanks and hope to see you in April. Christina Dr Christina Silver, Resource Officer CAQDAS Networking Project Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey GUILDFORD GU2 7XH, UK email: c.silver@ surrey.ac.uk

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[Fwd: [JoCI] FW: Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian
by Michel J. Menou 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah_a@yahoo.com] Sent: January 13, 2007 9:38 PM To: .../.... Subject: [SPAM] Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian Friends: Here is the final call for papers for publication in a special issue of Journal of Community Informatics. Here is a tentative schedule: four months for papers (from January 15 2007 to May 15 2007), four months for editorial work (not to go beyond September 2007) and publication in October or November 2007. Journal of Community Informatics Special issue on India and Community Informatics Guest editor: Subbiah Arunachalam January 13, 2006. The Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net> brings together academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers from around the world. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics contains double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. (For a brief introduction to Community Informatics see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics>) A forthcoming special issue of the Journal will focus on India and community informatics. It is intended as a forum for specialists in India and elsewhere to systematize the research currently being undertaken by CI practitioners and academics with respect to CI in the Indian context. This issue will also integrate the national discussion with the academic research in community informatics worldwide. We would like to cover both the work of practitioners in the field and theoretical and methodological proposals directly and indirectly related with community informatics. We invite original, non-published articles. Comparative and analytical exercises, based on original research or secondary sources, are also welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics. If you feel that there is any subject related to Community Informatics and India worth including, please feel free to submit a paper or to consult with the guest editor. o General outlook of the issues of CI in India o Country Case Studies, including comparative studies with other countries o Discussion of specific issues, among them: o New analytical and methodological approaches to address, research or drafting of public policies regarding imbalances of access and usage of ICTs in India o Multilingual, multiethnic communities o The role of Community Based Telecenters and Cyber Cafes o Infrastructure development and regulation o IP regulation and its consequences for CI in the region o Community oriented ICT hardware developments o Community oriented ICT software developments o ICTs and Education in communities o ICTs and Health in communities o Strategic use of ICTs in communities o Approaches to sustainability of CI related projects o Small and Medium Business support within communities o Community based Business Models o Usability and Communities - Problems and Innovations in Human-Computer-Interaction It is expected that potential authors will submit both full articles for peer-review, as well as short pieces, commenting on specific experiences and / or policy / regulatory issues, to be reviewed by the guest editor. Authors of books and reports are invited to send them for comment in the book review section of the special issue. This issue of the Journal will accept submissions in English only. For information about submission requirements, please visit: <http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php> or to submit an article directly register as an author and upload to the system. A free subscription may be obtained by registering at http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/user/register For further information, clarifications, comments or suggestions, and to send papers for consideration, please contact the Guest Editor Subbiah Arunachalam [subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com] or the Editor in Chief: Michael Gurstein [Gurstein(a)gmail.com] -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou [at] gmail[dot]com Michel[dot]Menou [at]wanadoo[dot]fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php =====================================================================

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'Internet Histories' cfp
by Gerard Goggin 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

'Internet Histories' a pre-AoIR 8.0 workshop October 16, 2007 Vancouver, Canada Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. In this one-day workshop, to be held 16 October 2007 directly before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference (http://conferences.aoir.org) we aim to explore the questions, assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie the Internet’s diverse histories. In particular, in the spirit of our 2006 ‘Internationalising Internet Studies’ workshop (http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences/2006/conferences-2006-ine…) we start from the notion that the history of Internet uptake has been widely divergent across cultures and regions. In Asia, in particular, the initial PC-based phase of connectivity typical of the US and Europe, has not been replicated. Instead, Internet penetration was achieved via a variety of mobile devices, including Internet-enabled cell phones resulting in very different cultures of use and practice. Accordingly, we call for papers on Internet histories, including, but certainly not limited to the following issues: • what sorts of Internet histories are currently available, or in progress — whether national, country-specific, local, subcultural, community, or transnational and translocal? • what are the histories and trajectories currently missing and why do these particular lacunae exist? What histories of the Internet are being foreclosed, overlooked, or not yet imagined, and what are the implications of this? • who is currently writing, reading, collecting, valorising, or even enshrining Internet histories? • what are the dominant accounts of Internet history, or dominant assumptions regarding these? • what histories do we have of Latin American, African, Oceanic, or Asian Internet, for instance, compared to European or North American Internet? • what challenges does doing Internet history pose? what is specific about Internet history compared to histories of media, communications, or other technologies, or broad social or cultural histories? • how do our understandings of Internet and mobile technologies and cultures vary depending on the kinds of quite specific histories that condition these? • how do a researcher’s own culture and patterns of use determine the kinds of questions s/he may raise concerning the history of ‘the Internet’? This project brings together researchers working on country-specific and regional histories of the Internet as well as those researching Internet use by local and transnational subcultures and communities. This will be the first of what is anticipated to be a series of workshops, leading to an edited collection aimed at understanding the different historical patterns of Internet deployment and cultural and technological development. We welcome abstracts of no more than 500 words by Monday 16 April 2007. Please send your abstract to both organisers: Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au) and Mark McLelland (markmc(a)uow.edu.au) Acceptance will be advised by the end of April 2007. Subsequent to acceptance, presenters will need to register for the workshop and the AoIR conference via the AoIR online conference registration system. Please note that acceptance of your paper at the pre-conference workshop does not preclude you from also submitting a different paper to the main conference. For those selected, papers of 5,000 words will be due by mid-September 2007. Following the workshop, papers will be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on Internet Histories. The project website is: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/events/2007/inet-histories/ About the organisers: Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Dept of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia. His books include Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), and Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and he is currently working on a study of global mobile media. Mark McLelland lectures in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong. His publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2000) and Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005). Gerard and Mark are editors of Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge, 2007). -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Editor, 'Media International Australia' Department of Media and Communications The University of Sydney e-mail: gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au p: +61 2 9036 6424 f: 61 2 9351 5444 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

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Final CFC - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition - Deadline 31 Jan 07
by Rita Marriott 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

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 Birmingham University / UK --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

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CFP: those persistent boundaries (AoIR Conference 2007)
by Jillana Enteen 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

> > CFP: Those persistent boundaries > > Internet Research 8.0 > Vancouver Canada, October 17-20, 2007 > > This panel considers internet uses in transnational contexts. Since > initial considerations of the internet, which premised new media as > abolishing racial, ethnic, national and supernational boundaries, > cyberculture studies have noted that online practices conform to > geographical and cultural understandings of our physical world. > This session will consider the affects of internet use as internet > practices increasingly intersect with and reinscribe local > environments. There will be particular emphasis on non-western or > non-white internet participation. > > Send 200-word abstracts to j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu by 25 January. > > Jillana Enteen > Associate Director > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Gender Studies Program > 2-360 Kresge > 1880 Campus Drive > Evanston, IL 60208 > (847) 491-5872 > j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu > http://jillana.net > > >

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Final CFC - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition - Deadline 31 Jan 07
by Rita Marriott 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

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 Birmingham University / UK --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.

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AOIR 8.0 Panel Proposal "The Internet Goes to College"
by Marj Kibby 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

The Internet Goes to College This panel is inspired by the PEW report of the same name ( http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/71/report_display.asp ) and, it is proposed, will feature research that examines similar issues and practices in Colleges five years on. Topics might include: The Internet’s impact on college students’ daily lives. Students’ experiences with online distance education Online plagiarism and plagiarism detection Web-based communication between professors and students or students and students The use of the internet to deliver authentic learning experiences. The integration of web-based learning into the face-to-face classroom. Online administration / assessment / portfolios / Please email me privately with expressions of interest and ideas for papers. marj.kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au 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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workshop
by T. Kennedy 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hello fellow SL researchers and educators! My name is Tracy Kennedy - I'm a Virtual Research Assistant for the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of you may remember me from last November when I posted an invitation to our Virtual Open House at the Virtual Center for Digital Media where we talked about a new Masters of Digital Media (MDM) program at the Great Northern Way Campus starting in September 2007. The open house was a great success and we are moving forward to put together some innovative ideas & educational tools in Second Life for our 'real life' curriculum. One initiative that we are currently working on is transforming traditional style educational spaces (for example lecture halls and seminar rooms) into student designed collaborative learning environments. We would like to move beyond conventional 'real life' pedagogical delivery modes and encourage students to actively engage and participate in their learning milieu by creating virtual learning spaces & places, and have students learn technical design skills (and modding) at the same time. Having said that, I'd like to invite you to a workshop we are having at the Virtual Center for Digital Media (139, 34, 25) on Thursday January 18th - 1pm SLT where we will have a 'brainstorming' session to take the existing seminar room at the Virtual Center for Digital Media, and transform it into a dynamic, creative workspace that is collaboratively designed and built by a group of individuals - the intention is to show that a group of individuals can come together and create their own learning space. The following week (Wed Jan 24th 1pm SLT) we will put theory into practice and actually do the modifications and changes to the room to see what the end result might look like. However if you only want to come to the brainstorming session on the 18th - that's fine too - We're interested in your thoughts, ideas and expertise. If you have questions, please feel free to email me off-list at tracy(a)gnwc.ca. More information about the program here: http://www.gnwc.ca/mdm/ http://www.mastersofdigitalmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnwc Thanks! Tracy Kennedy ******************************************** Second Life - TracyTrail Blazer Virtual Research Assistant Center for Digital Media Great Northern Way Campus 555 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 1E2 tracy(a)gnwc.ca First Life - Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative Research Coordinator - NetLab - Center for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 www.netwomen.ca/Blog Research Director - Netwomen Consulting tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ********************************************

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