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Re: [Air-l] I think you'll like this book
by M.J. Menou 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

OOOOUPSSS I did it again. So so sorry My note was meant to Taran But anyway have a look at his review of > Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines, by Steve Talbott Michel Menou air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org a écrit : > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:02:22 +0200 > From: "M.J. Menou" <michel.menou(a)wanadoo.fr> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] I think you'll like this book > To: Taran Rampersad <cnd(a)knowprose.com>, air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <4671122E.1090503(a)wanadoo.fr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > Hi Taran > > Good to hear from you > > Interesting piece. > > You may ask David Silver mailto:dmsilver@usfca.edu if he would like to > include it in his site http://rccs.usfca.edu/ > > You may also pass it, or rather a short summary with link your site to > the Association of Internet Researchers list air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org. > The list is open not sure if one needs to register first. Yhant may be > good "promotion" for you :-) > > Hope all is reasonably well with you. > > Best > > Michel > > Taran Rampersad a ?crit : >> Normally, I don't do this. This one time, I will. >> >> I recently reviewed Devices of the Soul. Since many of you are >> educators, digital divide activists or involved in cultural ICT, I >> wanted to share this particular book with you. >> >> http://www.knowprose.com/node/17646 >> >

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YouTube Research
by Jean Burgess 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Apologies for cross-posting. Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about current YouTube research projects. For the benefit of everyone who said they were interested in what I found out, I've posted a summary of the results of this little fishing expedition online: <http://creativitymachine.net/2007/06/15/youtube-research-gazette/> Jean -- Jean Burgess Postdoctoral Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (cci) Queensland University of Technology Blogs: http://creativitymachine.net http://propagatingmedia.com Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=196 ISSN: 1367-8779

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Re: [Air-l] I think you'll like this book
by M.J. Menou 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hi Taran Good to hear from you Interesting piece. You may ask David Silver mailto:dmsilver@usfca.edu if he would like to include it in his site http://rccs.usfca.edu/ You may also pass it, or rather a short summary with link your site to the Association of Internet Researchers list air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org. The list is open not sure if one needs to register first. Yhant may be good "promotion" for you :-) Hope all is reasonably well with you. Best Michel Taran Rampersad a écrit : > Normally, I don't do this. This one time, I will. > > I recently reviewed Devices of the Soul. Since many of you are > educators, digital divide activists or involved in cultural ICT, I > wanted to share this particular book with you. > > http://www.knowprose.com/node/17646 > -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Chair ASIS&T International Relations Committee http://www.asis.org/irc.html 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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Re: [Air-l] last.fm group
by Martin Garthwaite 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Nancy, I can sort of explain the 108,323 tracks thing, I worked at the BBC last year in Radio and Music Interactive (all radio interactive sites) and one of the things we did was to pump all of the tracks played into a last.fmaccount from the stations that used digital playout systems. As you can imagine this showed some interesting trends. 1xtra for example was very good at predicting future hits. Martin. On 5/29/07, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reference. I did once check into the "top players" of > >> particular groups and they seem to be playing those tracks an > infeasible > >> number of times. As you say, there's definitely an element of gaming > the > >> system going on. Relatedly, I wonder if we'll get a story of "so and > so" > >> sacked/disciplined for playing unsuitable music during working hours > >> with their scrobbler record being used as evidence. > > > >out of curiosity, what order of magnitude is "an unfeasible number of > >times" in this case? 10^4+? or somewhere around 10^3? > > Last.fm has moved away from designating "top fans" based on # of > listens and don't report that info anymore (or use the word "fan" > which seemed to encourage this kind of gaming). Now they report the > week's "top listeners". I assume this is in response to ongoing > squabbling over 'cheaters' (last.fm forum terminology, not mine). The > discussions of this on the forums is interesting, because some people > are really offended by the fact that others do it, while still others > find it very hard to understand why it matters. It also leads to all > kinds of value judgements about the 'right' way to listen to music > and the right to judge how others' listen. > > To answer the question about what constitutes unfeasible, here's an > example: I found it hard to believe that someone's listened to > 108,328 REM songs since registering in March 2004. That's about 45 > hours/week of REM every week for 3 years. On his profile he writes: > > "I listen to a lot of music, I don't sleep very much. I've (knock on > wood) never lost my stats due to server problems. Therefore, I have a > massive playcount. Now quit bothering me about it. Jeez. And yes, I > do listen to that much R.E.M., so consider yourself informed." > > which speaks to the notion that some Last.fm users are policing the > system looking for suspected cheaters and calling them to account for > what they perceive as unfeasible numbers of listens. > > > > Nancy > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Martin Garthwaite PhD candidate, London Knowledge Lab www.lkl.ac.uk +447957 764819 Skype id mgarthwaite1330 MS IM marting(a)gmail.com

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Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

FYI. I've removed the attendee attachment form, so you'll have to chance it on web or ask Sarah S-M. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender now _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:36:48 +0100 From: Sarah Shrive-Morrison <ssm500(a)york.ac.uk> To: ssm500(a)york.ac.uk Subject: Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference Dear Colleagues, This email contains information about the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference - 5 - 6 September 2007. The Conference We are pleased to announce that keynotes at the conference will include: * Andrew Keen, author of the recent book "The Cult of the Amateur" <http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/> http://andrewkeen.typepad.com * Charles Leadbeater www.charlesleadbeater.net <http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/> * More keynotes will be announced in due course This conference focuses on some significant developments in Internet culture that have emerged in the last few years. Although these developments have received widespread media coverage they have so far received little in the way of sustained investigation by the social sciences in the UK. This conference is intended to work toward the development of a social science of what has come to be known as Web 2.0 a much heralded transition in Web media characterised by social practices of generating and browsing, tagging and feeds, commenting and noting,reviewing and rating, blogging, mashing-up and making friends . The conference is shaping up to be extremely exciting with over 50 papers being offered from locations across the world including the US, Australia, Canada, Europe and South America as well as the UK. Conference Wiki Link: http://www.eu.socialtext.net/socsciweb2conf/index.cgi?towards_a_social_scien ce_of_web_2_0 Registration If you would like to attend the "Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0" conference , please complete the enclosed registration form. Once we receive your completed registration form, we will send by return an invitation to sign up to the Conference Wiki so that you can contribute to discussions prior to the conference. The Wiki also includes information about accommodation, location of the conference and details on how best to travel to York. Registration on the first day will be from 9.00 - 11.00 with the first plenary beginning at 11.00am. Regards Sarah Sarah Shrive-Morrison ESRC e-society Research Programme Administrator Department of Sociology University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD t: +44(0)1904 433050 f: +44(0)1904 433043 e: <mailto:ssm500@york.ac.uk> ssm500(a)york.ac.uk Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Wiki <http://www.eu.socialtext.net/socsciweb2conf/index.cgi> http://www.eu.socialtext.net/socsciweb2conf/index.cgi e-Society website <http://www.york.ac.uk/res/e-society/projects.htm> http://www.york.ac.uk/res/e-society/projects.htm University of York <http://www.york.ac.uk/> www.york.ac.uk

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Mixed Media Interviews and Focus Groups
by Pam Brewer 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

AoIR List Members-- I have followed the thread on online focus groups. Thanks for the many useful references. As part of my dissertation research, I will be conducting distance interviews and focus groups. I had thought to give participants a choice of media for the interviews so that they could pick that which is most comfortable for them. Assuming that participants will choose different media, I wonder if you can provide me with any references on the validity of mixed media for interviews and focus groups. Are there solid precedents for mixing media? Best, Pam Pamela Estes Brewer Lecturer -- Coordinator, Professional Writing Department of English and Philosophy Murray State University PhD Candidate, Texas Tech University 270-809-4719 fax 270-809-4545 pam.brewer(a)ttu.edu Please note that in August 2007, I will begin a new position at Appalachian State University. My Texas Tech email (pam.brewer(a)ttu.edu) can be used to reach me at any time.

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Re: [Air-l] women bloggers
by Lilia Efimova 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Probably this would be helpful - more pointers to publications on gender and blogging: Book chapter - Posting with Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender by Melissa Gregg in Uses of blogs (http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/335) Papers from AAAI 2006 Symposia on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs (http://www.aaai.org/Library/Symposia/Spring/ss06-03.php) - The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and gender in personal weblogs by Scott Nowson and Jon Oberlander - http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s9553330/papers/SS0603NowsonS.pdf - Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging by Jonathan Schler, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon, and James Pennebaker - http://lingcog.iit.edu/doc/springsymp-blogs-final.pdf - Gender Classification of Weblog Authors by Xiang Yan and Ling - http://www.stanford.edu/~xyan/publications/SS0603YanX.pdf I also blogged some time ago on "generalising from own experiences", which for me partly explains why certain types of blogs could be misrepresented in the media - http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/12/02.html#a1866 Regards, Lilia --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lilia Efimova PhD researcher, Telematica Instituut Telematica Instituut: http://www.telin.nl PhD: http://iceberg.telin.nl Weblog: http://blog.mathemagenic.com On 10/06/07, Paul Teusner <paul.teusner(a)rmit.edu.au> wrote: > G'day everyone, > > > > Has anyone on this list come across data or reflections on the apparent > under-representation of women in the blogosphere? > > > > paul teusner > > fishers, surfers and casters - http://teusner.org/ > > bio - http://paulteusner.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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From Internet Wayback: SDF is 20 this week
by Alexis Turner 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Just a little bit of historical Internet nostalgia: ------------- The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 20 Years! from http://sdf.lonestar.org "It was on June 16th, 1987 that the SDF-1 received its first caller at 300bps. This little Apple ][e BBS of the late 80s turned into a Public Access UNIX System with the demise of "killer.dallas.tx.us" during the "Operation Sundevil" raids. Since then it has grown to become the oldest and largest continually operating PUBNIX on the planet...." ------ -Alexis

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CFP - Mobile Society Special Issue : Canadian Journal of Communication
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones, and portable computers are part of a changing landscape of communications and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance, the use of cell phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a remarkable shift in the telecommunications industry, the convergence of a number of technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of conducting person-to-person communication and creating community. In addition to these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS comprise integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so- called wireless world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens and consumers. The Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts. Possible themes include: Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video) Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies Wireless services and emergency communication Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones Community Wireless Networks Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds Art, design and mobile technologies Mobile genres and cellular convergence Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions website ( http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php ). Make sure to write in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor field, and to include it on the cover page of your article as well. Do not include your name on the cover page. Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers selected by the editors will then be sent for peer review for final decision. Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors: Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, [send email to bacrow(a)sympatico.ca via gmail] bacrow(a)sympatico.ca Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, [send email to kim.sawchuk(a)simpatico.ca via gmail] kim.sawchuk(a)sympatico.ca Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, [send email to smith(a)sfu.ca via gmail] smith(a)sfu.ca

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #3 (June 8, 2007) - Part 3
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

{part 3 of the June update on IR8 in Vancouver} Items in this part: - Facebook group for IR8 - Be a chair! Facebook Facebook continues to amaze me, and I hope some of you are enjoying it too. We have about 69 members of the group already. Join us: http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2331171313.<http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2331171313>There is also a Facebook "Trips" application (several, in fact) where people can share travel plans and so on. Check it out. Chairs No, we don't need help setting up the folding chairs before the sessions. We have the covered, actually. This is better. I have heard from a number of people who (tsk tsk) missed the submission deadline but still want to come. Well, have I got a deal for you! We're recruiting folks who would like to take part as session chairs. Send me your name, email, and areas of interest and we'll fit you in. You'll be on the program as chairing a panel (which might help with the expense form), and we'll get some interesting session chairs. Here are the duties: - introduce the participants - keep everyone on time - manage the questions and (if necessary) "seed" the discussion with an integrative question as a starter - make sure people have water and the a/v works (You don't have to fix it - just make the call). If you think you can do that, let me know: smith(a)sfu.ca That's all for now, folks. Next newsletter in July. But if you have any questions - let me know. -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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