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

Kelvin Grove Urban Village design competition
by Marcus Foth 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

ENTRIES CLOSE 31 MAY 2007 Kelvin Grove Urban Village design competition The Kelvin Grove Urban Village Project Team is conducting a design competition, seeking ideas and proposals for an installation (or multiple / distributed installations) at the Kelvin Grove Urban Village that will “display visual evidence of connectivity within the community”. This competition aims to attract students and professionals who have an interest in the visual and multimedia applications of Information and Communication Technology. The competition has two streams. The student stream is available for full-time or part-time Australian secondary or tertiary students and offers a prize of AUD 2,000. The open stream is available for everyone including businesses and offers a prize of AUD 5,000. The indicative budget for creation and installation is AUD 40,000. The competition commences on 1 January 2007 and closes on 31 May 2007. For further details or to obtain an entry form visit the Kelvin Grove Urban Village website. http://www.kgurbanvillage.com.au/news/design_comp/ Please consider entering this competition and please distribute widely. Thank you. Dr Marcus Foth Kelvin Grove Urban Village Information and Communication Technology Committee -- 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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Carl Couch Internet Research Award -- deadline extended
by Mark D. Johns 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2007 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 14, 2007 A student award competition Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch's theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Katherine M. Clegg Smith, Johns Hopkins University Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2007 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) in Vancouver, BC. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $200 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 18-20, 2007. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is extended to May 14, 2007. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Doctoral Colloquium at AoIR 8.0 Vancouver
by Nancy Baym 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Call for Participation Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 2007, Vancouver, Canada Doctoral Colloquium =================== The AoIR 8.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a 2 page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Faculty mentors include: Ronald Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, University of California-Santa Barbara, United States. Maria Bakardjieva, Associate Professor. Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Canada. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education & Counselling Psychology and Special Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Robert Burnett, Professor and Chair, Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden. Lori Kendall, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States. We hope to announce additional mentors shortly. Please submit your 2 page application by Friday, May 25 2007 to: Nancy Baym : nbaym [at] ku.edu Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 15 June 2007. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an 8 page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by 1 August 2007. For further details please visit the conference website at http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=6 or contact the organizer of the AoIR Doctoral Colloquium, Nancy Baym : nbaym [at] ku.edu The AoIR 8.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by Microsoft Research. Please forward to relevant lists, and please excuse cross-postings.

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Event at the Centre for Research into Material Digital Culture, Sussex, UK 21st May
by Kathleen O'Riordan 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

The Centre for Research into Material Digital Cultures at the University of Sussex, Public Lecture: 'Sensorium: Embodied Experience versus Digital Media' Speaker: Caroline Jones, Professor of Art History, MIT Respondent: Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Welcome: Professor Sue Thornham, University of Sussex/Caroline Bassett, Director, Centre for Research in Material Digital Cultures Chaired by Dr Michael Bull, founding editor of Senses and Society. Monday 21st May 2007 At 5:30 at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex All Welcome. RSVP to Vanessa Sammut so we can keep track of numbers: V.A.Sammut(a)sussex.ac.uk The Centre for Research into Material Digital Cultures http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/

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Re: [Air-l] Our VT colleagues
by William Bain 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Ellis Godard wrote "Consider high school prep rallies. They bring many folks together, but also elucidate and enunciate boundaries between boosters and those disinterested or opposed, and so are the subject of not only celebration but scorn." Well, yes, of course, but I mean so I would have assumed. You have to negotiate. Being probably too reductive about something complex, I'd offer the idea that part of what happens in the type of derangement that explodes into "inexplicable" violence is a lack of understanding about how to negotiate or a lack of negotiators. I'd take it further and say something about SSGs but I'd be way out of my depth. Anyway, my words mean exactly what you read there. I wouldn't want them to be misconstrued as indicating that I am against differences. I am highly in favor of the rhetorics of difference. It seems to me that at perhaps its best a society is an agreement to disagree. You have to negotiate things. Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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speed record
by J. J. 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps. from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18293970/ Jarek

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Re: [Air-l] real good e-writing
by Dominic Pinto 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

--- Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> wrote: > I received this note from the word guy of one of our > local newspapers. > > He basically argues for consistency. Grist for our > mill. > > Which reminds me: there's a show opening tonight in > Toronto called > e-dentity. > Sounds like an on-line convention of dental surgeons with speech impedimenta :-) Dominic Pinto http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto Live, work in, or visit Covent Garden and Westminster? Check out http://www.westmin.co.uk/index.php e-m: dominic.pinto(a)ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001

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Call for Book proposals in the area of Inclusive Design of Interactive Systems
by Advances in Technology and Human Interaction Book Series 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Advances in Technology and Human Interaction Series (ATHI) Book Series http://www.igi-pub.com/bookseries/details.asp?id=10 Call for Edited Book Proposals Publisher: IGI Global Series Editors-in-Chief: Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris (City University, UK) Series Operational Editor: Chee Siang Ang (City University, UK) LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Technology has rapidly become more and more pervasive in almost everybody's lives. There are many daily activities that can be performed much more comfortably. For example, much of the power of the Web comes from the fact that it presents information in a variety of formats and, therefore, is theoretically accessible by users using a variety of technologies, devices, and computer applications. The Web also becomes a medium to disseminate information in more places and times, and to more people of varying characteristics than any other media can ever achieve. For that reason, the key objective of this call for book proposals is to publish books in the area of inclusive design and evaluation of interactive systems by focusing on the user aspect of Universal design and interaction, and to present the wide range of advanced technology that can help disadvantaged users get access to technology. Inclusive design in this context refers to the approach to the design of interactive products, technologies and services to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability or situation. Editorial Review Board: Editors-in-Chief: Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris (City University, UK) Series Operational Editor: Chee Siang Ang (City University, UK) Associate Editors: Daniel Cunliffe Claude Ghaoui Epaminondas Kapetanios Tom McEwan Mats Edenius Anabela Sarmento International Editorial Advisory Board: Willem-Paul Brinkman Bendik Bygstad Anita Greenhill Sunil Hazari Carolyn Jacobson Lynette Kvasny Seamas Kelly Deborah Lafky António Lucas Soares Diane Murphy Michael Waltemathe SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 1st of June 2007 MISSION OF ATHI: The Advances in Technology and Human Interaction (ATHI) Book Series provides a platform for publication of books that address the broad topics of Human-Computer Interactions (HCI). The type of books that the series intends to publish is therefore broad and interdisciplinary and can include aspects from a wide variety of disciplines. These disciplines range from more classic HCI ones such as usability and accessibility evaluation, user modelling, user interface design to non-classic HCI domains like social computing and online communities, interaction with computer games, CSCW, ethnographic study of human-computer interaction and human interaction from the point of view of sociology or philosophy. We are primarily interested in edited volumes that provide a forum for multiple views and voices to be heard. But we are also happy to consider authored books. It is open to all research paradigms, be they empirical or conceptual, but requires that they be accessible and reflected. COVERAGE OF ATHI: Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following: Access to education and learning Accessibility guidelines Accessible network communities Adaptive and augmented interaction Alternative I/O techniques Ambient intelligence Architectures and tools for universal access Computer-mediated virtual spaces Context-aware, personalized computing Designing for diversity Development methods Disappearing computer Economics of universal access Environments of use Intelligent user services Interaction techniques, platforms and metaphors Modality-independent interaction Multi-sensory interfaces Personalization Privacy issues in sensor-augmented environments Proactive computing Smart artefacts and smart environments Ubiquitous access Universal design SUBMITTING TO ATHI: Prospective editors are invited to submit proposals for possible edited volumes in the Advances in Technology and Human Interaction (ATHI) Book Series. Prospective editors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Edited books usually contain approximately 15-20 comprehensive chapters of 7,000-10,000 words each. All proposal submissions will be evaluated by the series editorship. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews and assessment of the publisher, IGI Global. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to cf559(a)soi.city.ac.uk by 01 June 2007. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Your (5-10 page) prospectus should include: 1. TITLES: 3-5 suggested titles 2. A SYNOPSIS of your proposed publication, including a concise DEFINITION of the subject area 3. INTRODUCTION: An introduction to the subject area 4. OBJECTIVES: Overall objectives and mission 5. 5-10 INDEXING KEYWORDS for your proposed subject area 6. CONTRIBUTION AND SCHOLARLY VALUE: Novel input to the topic field 7. PURPOSE AND POTENTIAL IMPACT on field of e-business research 8. UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS of your proposed publication 9. AUDIENCE: Projected audience 10. POTENTIAL BENEFITS: Readers will gain from your proposed publication 11. EXISTING COMPETING PUBLICATIONS: Existing publications (competitors) and those publications' advantages and disadvantages 12. CONTENTS: Tentative table of contents 13. PROJECTED TOTAL PAGE/WORD COUNT for proposed publication 14. TIMETABLE: Tentative timetable for the entire project 15. POTENTIAL CHANNELS OF CALL DISTRIBUTION for the procurement of submissions and contacts (List-Servs, Universities, etc.) 16. CONTACT INFORMATION: Mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail of editor(s) 17. CURRICULUM VITAE: A copy of your CV listing your education and publication records Should you have any questions, please contact us (cf559(a)soi.city.ac.uk) ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: The Advances in Technology and Human Interaction (ATHI) Book Series is published by IGI Global, publisher of the "IGI Publishing," (formerly "Idea Group Publishing"), "Information Science Publishing," "IRM Press," "CyberTech Publishing" and "Information Science Reference" (formerly "Idea Group Reference") imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-pub.com.

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Video of Wikipedia changes
by Anders Fagerjord 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

A few years back, I remember seeing a video made of screenshots of how competing Wikipedia writers were changing a page back and forth for a long period of time. (I think I remember the page was about a rock band -- but I may be wrong) Does anyone know where I can find it? Other effective demonstrations of battles of ideas within Wikipedia are also most welcome. -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no

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'Mobile Media'/2-4 July 07/Sydney
by Gerard Goggin 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

[apologies for x-posting] Registration is now open for 'Mobile Media' an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies 2-4 July 2007 The University of Sydney, Australia convened by Gerard Goggin (USyd) and Larissa Hjorth (RMIT) Full program, registration, and all details at: http://www.mobilemedia2007.net/ Featuring eleven keynotes from leading scholars and over seventy papers, the conference aims to analyse and debate mobile media – exploring its emerging structures, features,practices, value chains, producers and audiences, delving into its social, cultural, aesthetic and commercial implications, and debating its futures. As well as over seventy papers on contemporary mobile & wireless & online media, the conference will feature keynote presentations from leading scholars including Genevieve Bell (Intel), Stuart Cunningham (Queensland University of Technology), Shin Dong Kim (Hallym University), Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Undine), Leslie Haddon(London School of Economics), Dong-Hoo Lee (Incheon University), Rich Ling (Telenor), Shin Mizukoshi (University of Tokyo), Raul Pertierra (Ateneo de Manila and University of Philippines), Misa Matsuda (Chuo University) and Judy Wajcman (Australian National University). Spaces are strictly limited for the conference, so we encourage to secure your registration as soon as possible. Enquiries to: conference(a)mobilemedia2007.net -- //////////////////////////////////////// Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Editor, 'Media International Australia' Department of Media and Communications The University of Sydney NSW 2006 e-mail: gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au p: +61 2 9036 6424 f: 61 2 9351 5444 m: 0428 66 88 24 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

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