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

role set
by Barry Wellman 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Conor Schaefer asked if pre-Internet, there had been multiple roles, so that people would show different personas on FB and MyS, etc. The concept of "role set" was developed by sociologists in the 1950s for the notion of multiple roles. Key scholars were Robert Merton and Neal Gross, both eminent, and both onetime students of Talcott Parsons. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC 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 these days _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] online ethnography
by Olena 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hey Lilly, Check out the works on "netnography". Main works are by Robert V. Kozinets and Langer and Beckman. Good luck! -- Kind regards, Olena www.olenka.wordpress.com Original message: Message: 7 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:14:16 -0700 From: lilly nguyen <lillynguyen(a)ucla.edu> Subject: [Air-l] online ethnography To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <F3822AF9-C577-4BC3-AC63-C09528C3FA0C(a)ucla.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi all- I was wondering if anyone has come across articles and literature on doing online ethnography. I know that AOIR has put together an ethical document on doing online research more broadly, but has there been any kind of exploration of the role and definition of ethnography in online environments? It seems to me that there has been work into online communities and online behaviors and practices through the use offline ethnography, but has there been any kind of consideration of what online ethnography would look like or be defined as? -lilly Lilly Nguyen PhD Student, Dept. of Information Studies lillynguyen(a)ucla.edu

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Re: [Air-l] viewing American class divisions through Facebook andMySpace
by nsenga＠mediom.qc.ca 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hello, Christian and everybody! You wrote: "basically there are two possibilities: a marxist notion of class connects the concept to exploitation, a weberian notion to life-situation, life-style, etc." What about a third view, simply descriptive of the core of the entire (human) social life? That of Veblen's distinction between the class of those engaged in daily bread-earning activities on one hand, and on the other the class of those involved (or aspiring to be) in "conspicuous consumption". I guess both FB and MS people would then belong to the second same class, as mere sub-classes! François Nsenga Montréal, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint

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"Facebook for professors, postdocs and PhDers in the sciences" ?
by David Brake 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

According to The Guardian <http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/ story/0,,2116835,00.html> that describes Nature Network: <http://network.nature.com/> I would say it is very much at the early stages (several thousand users, less sophisticated than apps like Facebook and LinkedIn and has (as you might expect) a strong hard science bias. But I thought it might be worth noting for some of you... --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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Self reflexivity as a stratified phenomenon
by David Brake 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

In an article I will be submitting shortly I am looking at the use of profiles as self reflexive tools and asking why this form of use didn't appear to be something the MySpace users I talked to were interested in. I speculate that one possible reason why scholars studying personal home pages and weblogs over the years seem to find quite a bit of self-reflexive activity is because early adopters tend to be more educated and have a higher SES and that self reflexivity is itself something that those with higher education and SES (academics included) are both more comfortable doing and more inclined to do. I was wondering if there was any study or literature that might back the link up between self reflexivity and SES or education (or for that matter challenge it). It seems like something Bourdieu might have alluded to but I don't recall reading anything by him that bears on the subject. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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Favorite Link Analysis Software
by Ben Spigel 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Do list members have a preferred program for analyzing links between webpages? In particular, I'm looking for something that can take a blog (or really any website), spider through the site, and record where the links go to. While there are no lack of computer science papers on such software, those are usually published when the programs are in pre-alpha, so I was hopping that someone knows of a close-to-stable program. While working on a mac would be preferable, I can learn to live with a Windows or Linux one. Any advice for the list for link analysis software that works and isn't a huge pain to set up and use? Thanks in advance Ben Spigel Graduate Student Department of Geography The Ohio State University

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MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
by Luis Gutierrez 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

NOTICE The July 2007 issue of the SSNV newsletter has been posted: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Volume 3, Number 7, July 2007 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n07.html The central theme is MDG7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY The August 2007 issue is in preparation - the central theme will be MDG8: BUILD A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT The SSNV newsletter is a free monthly service of The Pelican Web. As always, feedback and collaboration are welcome. Sincerely, Luis ----------------------------------------------- Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D. Website: The Pelican Web http://www.pelicanweb.org/pelweb.html Newsletter: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisust.html Email: luisgutierrez(a)peoplepc.com

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Re: [Air-l] Submission for list--->Vernacular Creativity/Cultural Citizenship
by Sal Humphreys 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

For vernacular creativity, Jean Burgess has done a lot of work in this area. http://creativitymachine.net/ cheers Sal

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building online communities
by Maciej Kos 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi, I am looking for literature that deals with building online communities in light of web2.0. I would be especially interested in market entry strategies - viral marketing, building community's critical mass, etc. Can you suggest anything valuable? Of course I prefer free resources (+elsevier) but a good book or two would be fine as well. Kind Regards, Maciej

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Doctoral Colloquium
by Nancy Baym 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

It seems my spam filter may have been overactive -- if you applied for the AoIR Doctoral Colloquium in Vancouver and have not heard from me, please contact me asap! Thanks, Nancy

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