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New Media Research - Call for Papers
by Vanessa Higgins 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I apologize if this is a duplicate, wasn't sure if the other message was sent successfully Dear colleagues, I'd like to extend this invitation to an upcoming event to be held in April 2008, at The University of Texas at Austin. This is a good opportunity to present your new media/online journalism research. The symposium combines presentation by online journalism professionals with academic research presentations. For the fifth year, the International Symposium on Online Journalism will include presentations of original research into online journalism. All presentations will take place on the second day of the conference. The first day is devoted to presentations and panels of online journalism professionals. Prior symposia have included professionals from around the world from news organizations such as the NYTimes.com, OhMyNews, ep3.es (El Pais' multimedia magazine in Spain), MSNBC.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, WashingtonPost.com,ElTiempo.com (Colombia), ElComercio.com.pe <http://elcomercio.com.pe/> < http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/online/> (Peru), and several others. Deadlines for papers or three-page abstracts: January 25, 2008. Symposium dates are April 4-5, 2008 Submission requirements: Academic papers should present original research into any aspect on online journalism including, but not limited to, changes in news content and presentation, business models for online journalism, shifting roles of journalists and readers, and the legal and ethical implications of globally accessible journalism. For submission details and requirements, visit this site for more details: http://online.journalis m.utexas.edu/callforpapers.php<http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/callforpapers.php> The symposium also has a website containing transcriptions, videos and other documents from previous year's presentations. Visit the site at http://online.journalism.utexas.edu Thank you and hope to see you there, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins PhD candidate The University of Texas at Austin

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communicating online
by joana ro 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Dear List, I am using a Wiki for my undergraduate class - something relatively new for most of my students. We are using it at the moment to publish summaries of theoretical texts and give feedback to those summaries. I am worried about the way the students are communicating in the Wiki. The usual problems of short, unrevised and heated language are turning the feedback into a competitive space - something I really wanted to avoid. I have passed out feedback and discussion guidelines but I am lacking a good set of guidelines for communicating online. The Netiquette lists I know are too technical and not specific enough. I would be very happy about any suggestions how to deal with a situation like this and where to find a good set of rules. Thank you very much for your help, Johanna Roering University of Tuebingen Sfb War Experience Brunnenstrasse 30 72070 Tübingen www.johannaroering.wordpress.com

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Announcing JCMC v13 no1
by elw＠stderr.org 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

A new issue of the JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION is available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ Be sure to check out the special theme section on Social Network Sites, guest edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison! A Table of Contents is included below. --------- Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2007 The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones - Jonathan Donner IM=Interruption Management? Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace - R. Kelly Garrett and James N. Danziger Email Flaming Behaviors and Organizational Conflict - Anna K. Turnage Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine - Jamie Murphy, Noor Hazarina Hashim, and Peter O'Connor The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions - Kenny W. P. Tan, Debbie Swee, Corinne Lim, Benjamin H. Detenber, and Lubna Alsagof Every Blog Has Its Day: Politically Interested Internet Users' Perceptions of Blog Credibility - Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Shannon L. Bichard, and W. Joann Wong Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs - Michael A. Stefanone and Chyng-Yang Jang Mein Nick bin ich! Nicknames in a German Forum on Eating Disorders - Wyke Stommel University Instructors' Acceptance of Electronic Courseware: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model - Namkee Park, Kwan Min Lee, and Pauline Hope Cheong The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses - Minjeong Kim --- Special Theme: Social Network Sites --- Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison Signals in Social Supernets - Judith Donath Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances - Hugo Liu Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites - Eszter Hargittai Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site - Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com - Dara N. Byrne Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball - Lee Humphreys Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube - Patricia Lange ---- This issue and all past issues of JCMC are available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ----

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computer self help press
by Peter Timusk 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

About activism and the net. I am put off by most computer self help books being written for business applications. I wonder if anyone else is studying the explosion of the Diummies books, the Complete Idiot guides and the more serious less funny books on how to "program computers". What if I want to program in XML or AJAX and don't want to sell anything? Am I really in the computer self help book audience? Does any one care to discuss this? I have written an undergrad paper introducing the semiotics of the computer self help press. Is anyone working in this area of study? Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.

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CFP -- Design: Management: Organization -- 4th Art of Management Conference
by Ken Friedman 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

---> Design: Management: Organization <--- ---> Call for Papers to the 4th Art of Management Conference <--- The fourth Art of Management Conference meets from September 9 to 12 at the Banff Center in Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm This call invites papers and presentations for the stream on Design: Management: Organization The potential of design in management and organizations is now the focus of a growing body of knowledge in practice and theory. Theoretical results appear in books and journal articles, education programs, and research projects, while businesses of all kinds put the findings into practice, along with design firms, consulting firms, and universities. Design is a practice of making. We realize design in many ways: as artefact, system, and experience. The complexity and seemingly endless potential of design is visible in fascinating and continuously evolving ways. In this stream, we ask what design thinking can mean, examining how we can interpret and enact design thinking in thought, artifact, experience, and action. We invite contributions to this stream from practitioners and scholars who explore the intersection of design, management, and organization. We are particularly interested in discovering how people engage design in management and organizational contexts. We welcome case study accounts from designers, design managers, general managers, and scholars in design theory and organization theory. We also welcome theoretical and conceptual presentations. Many questions will interest participants in this stream: Why is design important to the future of management and organizational contexts? Can design help us to save organizations? How do design organizations enact design within their own management and organizational contexts? What is design management? Is there a space for poetic design in managerial and organizational contexts? We hope to explore design as creative practice, design as critical thinking, design as systems management, and design as The conveners of the stream hope to develop the presentations from this stream into a special journal issue. For papers, please submit abstracts of 500 words. For other presentations, we will accept any appropriate media submission. Please send submissions to Dr. Laurene Vaughan at <laurene.vaughan(a)rmit.edu.au> with a copy to Ms. Jane Malabar at <artofman(a)essex.ac.uk> The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2008. For more information on the conference, visit URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm Stream Convenors: Prof. Ken Friedman Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen <ken.friedman(a)bi.no> Dr. Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Melbourne, Australia <laurene.vaughan(a)rmit.edu.au>

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CfP: Green Pervasive 2008, Sydney
by Marcus Foth 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability Workshop to be held at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008 May 19-22, Sydney, Australia http://www.urbaninformatics.net/green/ Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The Nobel Peace Price 2007 was awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. The citation highlights the urgency of the fact that information and awareness around causes and implications are necessary but not sufficient to combat climate change. Action is required. The key theme of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold: 1. Providing people with environmental data and educational information – via mass communications such as film, TV and print and new media, or micro communications such as pervasive sensor networks (cf. Participatory Urbanism and Ergo at urban-atmospheres.net; real- time Rome at senseable.mit.edu; biomapping.net; placeengine.com) – may not trigger sufficient motivation to get people to change their habits towards a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle. This workshop seeks to develop a better understanding how to go beyond just informing and into motivating and encouraging action and change. 2. Pervasiveness can easily turn invasive. It has already caused negative consequences in biological settings (e.g., algae in lakes and oceans, kudzu vine in the southeastern US, rabbits and cane toads in Australia). Pervasive can be a dangerous term when the ecological impacts are disregarded. Pervasive technology is no different. In order to avoid further serious damage to the environment, this workshop aims to lay the foundations to start re-considering the impact of pervasive technology from an ecological perspective. 3. Addressing the 21st century Digital Divide: The mass uptake of pervasive technology brings about digitally networked and augmented societies; however, access is still not universal. Castells and others use the notion of the ‘digital divide’ to account for those whose voices are not heard by this technology. Initially, the divide was seen only between the first and third worlds and then between urban and rural, but with today’s near ubiquitous coverage, the digital divide between humans and the environment needs to be addressed. Virtual environments could give the natural world an opportunity to ‘speak’. How can we address imbalances? For example, sensors embedded in the environment could allow creeks and rivers to blog their own pollution levels, local parks can upload images of native bird life. Can the process of ‘blogging sensor data’ (sensorbase.org) assist us in becoming more aware of the needs of nature? How can we avoid the downsides? We kindly ask prospective participants to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, .doc, .rtf or .pdf file formats) related to one of the workshop topics to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au by January 25, 2008. Each submission should include a short biography stating the author’s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee and selected on the basis of relevance, originality and impact. Accepted position papers will appear in the Pervasive 2008 Workshops Proceedings. A template will be made available at the Pervasive 2008 website. The workshops proceedings will also be published online and distributed electronically at the conference (on a CD or memory stick). All workshop participants will need to register for the conference. Further information is available at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/green/ Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology Eric Paulos, Intel Research Berkeley Tom Igoe, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Pictures from IR 8.0
by Phillip Jeffrey 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi Everyone, I took some pictures at the Internet Research 8.0 conference last week that are uploaded here. http://www.flickr.com/gp/12058031@N00/29EZ39 thanks Phillip

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cfp: Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities
by Boos Daniel 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

====================================================================== Social-IoT 2008 Call for Papers and Participation International Workshop on Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organisation, 26 March 2008, Zurich, Switzerland In Conjunction with the Internet of Things Conference 2008 - International Conference for Industry and Academia Submission Deadline: 12 January 2008 http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008 PDF of this call: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008/assets/cfp.pdf Conference Website: http://www.internet-of-things-2008.org/ ====================================================================== The rise of the Internet of Things has important socio-technical implications for organisations. While ubiquitous and wireless technologies are developed to enable new ways of working, to increase safety and to facilitate coordination, they may interfere with established work practices, undermine productivity and individuals’ satisfaction, and have an unforeseen impact on relations of power and control. These issues, however, are rarely addressed in development and research projects for the Internet of Things and in the public discourses surrounding it. We are interested in research, that addresses a wide range of social and organisational issues, such as organisational flexibility, organisational alignment, working roles, practices and strategies, and power and control. The workshop has the goal to increase awareness of organisational issues of the Internet of Things and to provide a forum for discussion of design approaches to manage critical organisational issues. Furthermore we would like to build a bridge between the various research communities exploring organisational, social and cultural aspects of the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing. A multitude of methods and guidelines (e.g. participatory design, work place studies, ethnomethodology, resilience engineering, socio- technical system approach, scenario-based design, ANT) have been developed to address organisational, human and social issues in technology design, deployment and use. However, those methods have often not yet been adopted and tested for the Internet of Things or ubiquitous computing. We encourage submissions presenting a particular design method to address social, cultural and organisational perspectives or relating experiences from modeling these processes within research and development projects. The Internet of Things is emerging as a powerful force for reshaping organisational and social realities, potentially affecting the (work)lives of millions of people. Current political agendas, a rising awareness of health and safety issues, security, and new legal requirements due to the European legislation often first cause the need for a new (ubiquitous) technological system and also have an impact on the role ubiquitous computing plays. We welcome especially attempts to gauge the wider implications of these developments on society and culture that then in turn have an impact on organisations and workplaces. We not only want to consider the impact of the Internet of Things but rather understand those technologies and the surrounding cultural and social logics in a co-constitutive process. Scope of the Workshop ====================================================================== We welcome contributions that investigate the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing from a technical, organisational, cultural and social perspective from areas such as organisational studies, science and technology studies, anthropology and human computer interaction. We are especially interested in papers by practitioners, technologists, designers and social scientists and contributions that are interdisciplinary. Position papers on the following topics are welcome: • Organisational drivers and issues of the Internet of Things • Adoption and use of Internet of Things technologies in organisations • Real world case studies of Internet of Things applications in organisations • The Internet of Things as a socio-technical system • The alignment of the Internet of Things to workplace realities • Design methods and processes that address organisational, cultural and social issues • Methods that address how to manage opportunities and risks associated with the Internet of Things • Public perception of and discourse about the Internet of Things (and the impact on technology development and adoption) • High level and general drivers of the internet of things such as risk and information society • Conceptual frameworks for the Internet of Things Format ====================================================================== The workshop will be highly interactive to maximize information exchange and foster collaborations. Three or four issues will be set as the agenda of the workshop. The activities will be based on the position papers and on the participants’ background. Major workshop activities will take place in discussion groups following presentations of workshop participants and invited keynote speakers. The selection of workshop participants is based on submitted position papers describing ongoing research and experiences. Submission Guidelines ====================================================================== We solicit papers describing original research. Contributions should cover current, ongoing or recently concluded work and cannot in this version have been published elsewhere. The position paper should address at least one relevant organisational or social issue of the Internet of Things and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee. All accepted workshop papers will be published in a single workshop proceedings volume. Submissions should be single-column and not exceed 6 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. LaTeX-users should use the Springer LaTeX2e template. While we strongly recommend LaTeX for the preparation of your document, you can also use a Word template if needed. You can download the templates from: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Please forward the workshop paper to social-iot(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk in PDF format. Important Dates ====================================================================== January 12, 2008: Submission Deadline February 9, 2008: Notification of acceptance February 18, 2008: Early registration deadline March 1, 2008: Submission deadline for camera-ready papers March 26, 2008: Workshop Date and Place ====================================================================== This workshop will be held on March 26, 2007 in Zurich at the Conference Hotel of Internet of Things 2008 the International Conference for Industry and Academia. Organisers ====================================================================== Daniel Boos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Katharina Kinder, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Program Committee ====================================================================== Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland Paul Devadoss, Lancaster University, UK Gudela Grote, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Stephan Haller, SAP Research Lorenz Hilty, EMPA, Switzerland Erik Hollnagel, Ecoles des Mines de Paris, France Kalle Lyytinnen, Case Western Reserve University, USA Martina Merz, University Lucerne, Switzerland George Roussos, University of London, UK Saadi Lahlou, R&D, Laboratory of Design for Cognition, France Craig Shepherd, University of Leeds, UK Nils Zurawski, University of Hamburg, Germany Additional PC members will be added on the website. For further information please contact the workshop organisers at social-iot(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk . Daniel Boos, lic. phil. ETH Zürich Forschungsgruppe Organisation - Arbeit - Technologie Kreuzplatz 5 CH 8032 Zürich Tel: +41- 44 -632-8921 Mob: +41-78-767-2238 e-mail: dboos(a)ethz.ch www.oat.ethz.ch

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lessons in second life
by Jeremy Hunsinger 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

distribute as appropriate -jh Every Week on Tuesday (1:30-3pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ this week's Lessons in Second Life is brought you by: The Promotion and Care of Thieving Monkeys next week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: Typed Oratory is not Oratory Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ Slrl mailing list Slrl(a)list.academ-x.com http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com _______________________________________________ softwareandculture mailing list softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com

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Ethical approval for online data collection?
by Tomas Lin 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi everyone, I am starting a research project that tries to explore the potential of data collection and online surveys through Facebook Applications. Given that this is an independent project not founded by my university and not attached to any faculty member, should I go through the ethics process of getting approval and ethical review? How would this affect the validity and publishing potential of this data? There are already applications on Facebook that claim in their terms of services "This data could be shared with interested third parties". And I think my application is no different. What would be the advantages of getting ethics forms approved for this type of research? Do journals look down on data that is not obtained through traditional academic routes? I am concerned that since ethics review boards do not understand the nature of this technology, and there are many dimensions of this exploratory study that simply do not conform to the information being required in forms from ethics boards. I am also concerned about many of the potential limitations that will be placed on this research project from ethics. Any guidance will be appreciated, Thank you, Tomas

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