October 2007 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

[AIR8] Last words...
by Richard Smith 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Dear AIRhearts, I am sure these won't be my LAST last words, but I just wanted to say how honoured and proud I am to have been your host here in Vancouver. It is like having a party at your home and seeing the guests enjoying themselves and going away with the fun that they have created between themselves. The magic of co-presence, perhaps. I have a glow on. LUNCH The conference has gone very well - with the exception of the weather, I'm afraid - and in almost every case where something wasn't quite right it was a simple thing that I had forgotten or not thought about (e.g., titles for the keynote speakers!). Your staying power (almost all of the Saturday afternoon sessions are either full or half full) is a credit to your dedication to the field and each other, even if it is stressing my catering predictive powers (I am sorry if you didn't get a sandwich at lunch). While your kind words have been much appreciated, I am also quite happy to hear about things that HAVEN'T gone well and will try to fix anything I can. RECYCLING I hope you will all recycle your badge holders and bags. I don't imagine that everyone will do so, but everyone who does reduces our planetary impact a little bit. I have chosen "year neutral" text on the bags, so you can do even better than recycling by reusing it at next year's conference. We will be bundling the ones we collect up and sending them to Copenhagen, and I hope that a "last year's badge/ bag" becomes a badge of honour (ahem) in future conferences. Perhaps we can "create a tradition" in this way. TRAVEL Have a safe trip home. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you in your departure/travel plans. I shall be here in the building until at least 6pm. ...r -- Richard Smith, Professor, School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 New phone number: +1 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ Skype - callto://richard_k_smith New book: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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AoIR photo group on Flickr
by Matthew Allen 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi all Wanting to see pix from AoIR? Have pix from AoIR events? - don't forget there is a flickr group AoIR - set up in 2006 - I've added mine. Check my delicious tags at http://de.lic.io.us/netstudies_matt for links to some ppl's photos, and blogging. Mine are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/15467831@N02/sets/72157602565869637/ matt PS - yes, I know I have to change my sig file Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm <https://email.curtin.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://smi.curtin.edu…> +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org <https://email.curtin.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.aoir.org/>

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iCS & open access etc (c.f. Willinsky AoIR keynote)
by Ben Anderson 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

<declaration of interest> I review for iCS and have published in it and I was just in a bar in Downtown Vancouver with one of iCS's co-editors (Brian Loader) who missed the keynote as he had to write an iCS editorial this morning! </declaration of interest> For those not at AoIR Axel Bruns has already blogged a comprehensive note on the talk content: http://snurb.info/node/738 (which perhaps underplays the extent to which John used iCS as a 'straw man') I have published a number of pieces via Taylor & Francis (e.g. via Routledge books, iCS) and Wiley which have used the JISC/SURF copyright model. This does NOT transfer copyright to the publisher but gives them a non-exclusive license to publish and gives the author a default right to deposit in an institutional archive IMMEDIATELY ON PUBLICATION or (if need be) after an agreed period (maximum of 6 months). Ok, so they still keep the revenue but... I would strongly encourage all authors to push their publishers to use this model, many are moving towards it and will listen if you make the request. Publishers will point out that in not transferring copyright it is then up to you (or your institution) to pursue breaches of copyright. I think we all have to make a judgement on cost/benefit of that. If the first publisher on your list does not listen, vote with your feet. More info (including a link to a template) here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/10/news_model_surf.aspx http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/ I'm aware that it is a UK/NL effort and may not transfer - or perhaps it will? Ben -- http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk/tasc

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Fwd: [iR8.0] Bird of a Feather: Scholarly YouTube NOT canceled
by Alex Halavais 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Well, drat. It's not canceled. I'm just completely exhausted and unable to write a subject line. :) On 10/20/07, Alex Halavais <alex(a)halavais.net> wrote: > For those of you who are not all conferenced out, and who might want > to drop by, I'm "moderating" a BOF on Scholarly YouTube tonight. There > is no specific agenda (thus the BOF), just a chance to chat as a > group. But given that the name is a bit cryptic... > > First, I hope this can generally gather together folks who are > interested in online video as a topic of research. Not just YouTube, > of course; there are a wide range of interesting projects out there > from full movie downloads to justin.tv and the like, and with some > notable exceptions (including the recipient of the best student paper > award), studies of these uses of the internet were relatively thin > this year. > > Second, I hope to give a 2 minute stump speech on organizing a "guest > lecture cooperative" that trades on the enormous expertise gathered in > AoIR. The idea is that contributors of a 30-45 minute guest lecture on > video would have access to the collection of guest lectures. > > Hope to see you tonight at 5 in room 2200. > > - Alex > > -- > > > -- > // > // This email is > // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. > // [X] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. > // > // Alexander C. Halavais > // Social Architect > // http://alex.halavais.net > // > -- -- // // This email is // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [X] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //

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[iR8.0] Bird of a Feather: Scholarly YouTube CANCELLED
by Alex Halavais 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

For those of you who are not all conferenced out, and who might want to drop by, I'm "moderating" a BOF on Scholarly YouTube tonight. There is no specific agenda (thus the BOF), just a chance to chat as a group. But given that the name is a bit cryptic... First, I hope this can generally gather together folks who are interested in online video as a topic of research. Not just YouTube, of course; there are a wide range of interesting projects out there from full movie downloads to justin.tv and the like, and with some notable exceptions (including the recipient of the best student paper award), studies of these uses of the internet were relatively thin this year. Second, I hope to give a 2 minute stump speech on organizing a "guest lecture cooperative" that trades on the enormous expertise gathered in AoIR. The idea is that contributors of a 30-45 minute guest lecture on video would have access to the collection of guest lectures. Hope to see you tonight at 5 in room 2200. - Alex -- -- // // This email is // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [X] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //

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videovortex: responses to youtube, conference (amsterdam, january 18-19)
by geert lovink 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Institute of Network Cultures Video Vortex International Conference, January 18-19 2008 Location: PostCS11, Amsterdam Quick registration: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/?page_id=12 Full conference program: http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/?page_id=18 Confirmed speakers: Nora Barry, Tilman Baumgartel, Geoffrey Bowker, Dominick Chen, Sarah Cook, Stefaan Decostere, Thomas Elsaesser, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Marscha Kinder, Patrick Lichty, Matthew Mitchem, Dan Oki, Ana Peraica, Emma Quinn, Florian Schneider, Tom Sherman, Jan Simons, Valentin Spirik, Tal Sterngast, Thomas Thiel and Andreas Treske. Themes: Online Video Aesthetics, Cinema and Narrativity, Participatory Culture, Alternative Platforms and Software, Curating Online Video and Video Slamming (evening program). Introduction In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. What are artists and activists responses to the popularity of ‘user-generated content’ websites? Is corporate backlash imminent? After years of talk about digital conversions and crossmedia platforms we are now witnessing the merger of the Internet and television at a pace that no one predicted. For the baby boom generation, that currently forms the film and television establishment, the media organisations and conglomerates, this unfolds as a complete nightmare. Not only because of copyright issues but increasingly due to the shift of audience to vlogging and video-sharing websites as part of the development of a broader participatory culture. The Video Vortex conference aims to contextualize these latest developments through presenting continuities and discontinuities in the artistic, activist and mainstream perspective of the last few decades. Unlike the way online video presents itself as the latest and greatest, there are long threads to be woven into the history of visual art, cinema and documentary production. The rise of the database as the dominant form of storing and accessing cultural artifacts has a rich tradition that still needs to be explored. The conference aims to raise the following questions: - How are people utilising the potential to independently produce and distribute independent video content on the Internet? - What are the alternatives to the proprietary standards currently being developed? - What are the commercial objectives that mass media is imposing on user-generated content and video-sharing databases? - What is the underlying economics of online video in the age of unlimited uploads? - How autonomous are vloggers within the broader domain of mass media? How are cinema, television and video art being affected by the development of a ubiquitous online video practice? - What type of aesthetic and narrative issues does the database pose for online video practice? The closing night will feature live acts, performances and lectures under the banner of video slamming. We will trace the history from short film to one-minute videos to the first experiments with streaming media and online video, along with exploring the way VJs and media artists are accessing and using online archives. Video Vortex is a collaboration of the Institute of Network Cultures with Argos Brussels and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam, featuring a series of international events. See http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex for more information, or contact conference producer Shirley Niemans, shirley(at)networkcultures.org. ---------------- Institute of Network Cultures www.networkcultures.org info(a)networkcultures.org t: +31205951736 f: +3165951840

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baseball
by Katy E. Pearce 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi all. Any plans for tomorrow's Game 6 at 5pm PDT? Malone's again? Thanks! Katy No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.0/1077 - Release Date: 10/18/2007 9:54 AM

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racist comments by James Watson?
by William Bain 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I just wanted to note that the allegedly racist statements by James Watson have been partially retracted it seems. My only source on this I hasten to add is the online articel in today's Independent. Also, I haven't read the actuall interiview in which Watson's comments were made, and if anyone knows where to find that interview I'd be interested. Or other comments in the scientific and/or journalistic press. So the latest article I'm referring to is at http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article3075642.ece wb William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Social Network Site Research (who has publications?)
by danah boyd 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

I've noticed that there are lots of folks at AOIR doing work on social network sites. Because this work is happening across numerous fields, I'm trying to keep track of everything that is popping up: http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html If you (or someone you know) has a publication on social network sites that is not listed, can you please drop me a note with the citation information and the link to the doc/PDF? I want this to be a resource for other scholars who are doing work here (and for students doing literature reviews). Thanks!! danah

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Fwd: SSRN Announces New Humanities Research Network (HRN)
by Jeremy Hunsinger 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

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