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Tenure-Track Position at Colorado State University
by Switzer,Jamie 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Technology and Communication Policy Department of Journalism and Technical Communication Colorado State University Technology and communication policy tenure-track appointment in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication. Ph.D. in communication, journalism/mass communication, policy, or related field, or J.D., is required, as is professional experience in one or more of the department’s teaching areas. Demonstrated research interest in technology and communication policy, law, and/or regulation is required. Previous college teaching experience is preferred. Potential for external funding is a plus. Candidates who can advance the Department’s commitment to diversity and multiculturalism through teaching, research, and service are encouraged to apply. Begins August 18, 2008. Apply by November 15, 2007 for full consideration. Send cover letter outlining qualifications, c.v., sample publications, and a list of four references to Search Committee Chair, C225 Clark, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1785. (970)491-6310. Electronic submissions are not acceptable. For more information on the position, visit http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/TJ/. This is an “open” search: once the search committee has identified semi-finalists, departmental faculty will have access to those files, including letters of recommendation. Colorado State University is an EO/AA employer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jamie S. Switzer Assistant Professor Department of Journalism and Technical Communication Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, USA 80523-1785 jamie.switzer(a)colostate.edu 970.491.2239 fax 970.491.2908

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New Early registration Date - 2007 ASIS&T Annual - Oct 21-24, Milwaukee
by Richard Hill 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

By request, and because of the short time between Labor Day and the early cut off date, we have made the deadline for registering and getting the early rate September 21, 2007 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting October 21-24, 2007 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/ Come to Milwaukee, expand and enrich your network by Joining Research and Practice Register now before early rates expire on Friday, September 21, 2007 Web 2.0 and social computing are changing the way people use information for work, play, research, and everyday activities. Sponsored by ASIS&T, the premier society for information science, the 2007 Annual Meeting is devoted to the discussion of Social Computing and Information Science. More than sixty sessions of contributed papers, panel discussions, poster sessions, etc. have been planned. They will address a wide variety of topics, ranging from tagging, online communities, information seeking behavior, web log and transaction log analysis to research directions, education, and ethical practice for information professionals in the new world of social computing. Two plenary sessions have been planned. On Monday morning, Ms. Anthea Stratigos, co-founder and CEO of Outsell, the leading research and advisory firm focusing on information and publishing industry, will address the overall trends, impact of social computing and web 2.0 to the information industry. On Wednesday, Dr. Clifford Lynch, Director of Coalition of Networked Information and long time member and former President of ASIS&T, will tie everything together, and discuss what these all meant to information science and information professionals. Exciting Pre-Conference Seminars: Friday, October 19 * Research Into Practice: Studying Producers and Consumers in Social Computing Environments * Making D Space Your Own * Taxonomies in Search * Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Social Web, Social Computing and the Social Analysis of Computing Sa turday, Oct. 20 Saturday, October 20 * 18th Annual SIG CR Classification Research Workshop * Social Information Architecture * 7th SIG USE Symposium: Mobility and Social Networks in Information Behavior * RSS 2.0 for Current Awareness and Alerts: A Hands-On "Getting Started" Experience Sunday, October 21 * Information Architecture 3.0 Special Conference Hotel Room Rates $124 single/double, $144 triple, $164 quad. Rates are good until September 27, 2007. Contact the hotel directly to make your hotel reservations and ask for the ASIS&T rate (code JIST). ASIS&T AM07 Conference Hotel Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Tel: (414) 276-1234 Fax: (414) 276-6338 For more information about the meeting or hotel, please visit our site http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/ Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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International Journal of Design - CFP - Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design
by ken.friedman＠bi.no 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Issue on "Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect of product design and development, especially for those products with embedded information technologies. While traditional industrial design focuses on a product's functionality and its physical features, interaction design focuses on the interactive experience of users. Since products are becoming more pervasively and more tightly interwoven with our daily activities, design calls for a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives of product use. Culture has been considered to play a critical role for users in their understanding, acceptance, positioning, and use of an artifact. The quality of an interactive experience is produced in a particular cultural context and is determined or evaluated in that context. Yet, when it comes to incorporating cultural factors effectively in design practice, knowledge is insufficient at all levels -- conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practical. Cultural factors need to be integrated in the design process in order to achieve the high quality of product interaction that enables our experience with a product to be effective and enjoyable. For this special issue of the International Journal of Design, we are seeking papers that present breakthroughs in conceptual, theoretical, methodological and practical research that enhance the formalization of design knowledge with regard to the "cultural aspects of interaction design." In particular, these contributions should focus on representing cultural factors in describable, operable, and usable forms of design knowledge with relevance to interaction design. The following topics are of particular interest, covering fundamental and contemporary issues in this domain: - Conceptual framework of cultural factors in interaction design - Acquisition and representation methods for cultural factors in design - Formal models of cultural factors in interaction design - Planning, design, and evaluation methods that involve cultural perspectives - Cultural aspects of interaction methods and languages - Assessment of the cultural effects of new interactive products - Cultural factors in Kansei/emotional/affective aspects of interaction - Cultural contexts of interaction design for ambient intelligence environments - Cultural factors related to usability Schedule: Full Paper Due: 28 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2008 Final Version of Paper Due: 31 May 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: 1 August 2008 Submission of Papers: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines found at www.ijdesign.org/authorGuidelines Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A double-blind review process will be employed for this special issue. Manuscripts should be sent through the on-line system at www.ijdesign.org/submissions Authors should choose "Special Issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" as the Journal Section when submitting papers. Special Issue Editors: Keiichi Sato Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Tel: 312-595-4912 E-mail: sato(a)id.iit.edu Kuohsiang Chen Department and Institute of Industrial Design National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tel: +886 6-2757575, ext. 54335 E-mail: kchen(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw

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quotations on line
by Barry Wellman 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

I yet again ran into frustration trying to find the source (publication, date) for a quotation. Finding the quote is easy. In this case: Gene Fowler, "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until little drops of blood form on your forehead."* But when was it uttered or written. The many quotation pages on the web seem Never to give sources. (Methinks, many just copy from each other.) They seem to be aimed at giving sound-bytes to speakers, bloggers, etc. Barlett's QUotations was sterling on this in print days. Does it still exist? Any other advice? *A cognitive psych research question: is writing easier with screens and word processing than in the old days of blank pages, pens and typewriters? Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________

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a personal history of computing stuff
by Barry Wellman 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

In response to queries about internet history: It sure ain't definitive, but here's my Personal History of HCI. Part is in the Encyclopedia of HCI, but given I span 43 years, they couldn't fit it all;-) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/hci_timeline/timeline-hc… It's also online in Bruce Damer's wonderful Digibarn Museum site. http://www.digibarn.com/friends/barry-wellman/index.html I give this timeline to my students the first day of class (yikes, Monday!), to counterbalance the "It all started with the Macbook" mentality. Hoping that some compulsive soul will someday provide pix and links to all of the equipment mentioned. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________

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WikiSym'07 in Montreal - Call for Participation
by Andrea Forte 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

---------------------------------------------------------------------- WikiSym 2007 2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century October 21-23, 2007 Palais des Congrs de Montral Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21 through 23 in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec. **Deadline for early registration is September 13th** NO ORDINARY CONFERENCE WikiSym is the only international scientific conference dedicated to wikis. It brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community. It has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and open discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2007! We recognize that the online world is always evolving, and therefore welcome people interested in other online media consistent with the wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Our headline speakers this year include many of the thought leaders on wiki. Our keynote speaker will be Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research), one of the world's leading researchers on Computer Supported Collaborative Work. Ward Cunningham (AboutUs), inventor of wiki and founding father of our field, will give the closing talk. Peter Thoeny (StructuredWikis), creator of TWiki, will give a half day tutorial on wikis in the workplace.

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Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?
by Robert Worthington 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

I've used both www.socialtext.com and Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com) The former offers a free hosted service and is very easy to use. I particularly like the big "edit" button at the top of each page - you can't make it much easier than that. Confluence is a little different from the more typical, open-ended wiki structure. New pages are organised hierarchically, with breadcrumbs assigned automatically. I think this gives users more of a feel for where they are in the wiki, which can be confusing if you are used to more traditional navigation structures. Hope that's useful. Rob -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Emma Duke-Williams Sent: 07 September 2007 14:12 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions? I personally like Wikispaces, which, by default, has a discussion board attached to each page. That could be good to ensuring that discussions between students about changes, are tied to a particular page, rather than getting lost in other discussions/ emails that they're having. I've recently been to ALT-C - a conference in the UK for Learning Technologists. One of the papers ( http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=1220 ) looked at how students were using wikis etc. They found that students found the group work aspects very difficult, and the most common way of creating a wiki was for them to divide up the content and create a "page" each. Reference was made in the presentation to a different session, when "Wiki etiquette" was discussed (not sure which session, as i didn't go to it). They made the point, however, that they'd spend a lot more time discussing how much work most students need to help them effectively use a wiki. (The presentation doesn't seem to be linked to from the page. Others that I went to were, so hopefully this one will appear at some point) I know that when I had students creating wikis, they were definitely of the "I'll do that page & you do that page" variety. So, getting them to understand what a wiki really involves is, I think, going to take quite a bit of work. -- New URL: Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/ _______________________________________________ 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ DFID, the Department for International Development: leading the British government's fight against world poverty. For more information subscribe to our e-bulletin at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/feedback/ ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Peapod. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.peapod.co.uk/cleanmail

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Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?
by Jason Mittell 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

My own preference is for using MediaWiki, which I've done both via a local install and off-site at wikia.com. The main reason that I prefer MediaWiki is that I try to emphasize that wikis are tools that matter in the "real world," and I encourage/require students to apply their wiki skills to the world's largest wiki, Wikipedia - the consistency of platforms gives a form of software literacy that feels more useful than learning a specific set of protocols that only apply to a single class project. Also, given that I teach at Middlebury, embracing wikis and Wikipedia is a political act... -Jason -- Jason Mittell, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Middlebury College 204 Adirondack House Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-5123 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?
by Cargill-Kipar, Nicole 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

If you have no other option, then this is the best option. Simple. Nicole -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of elw(a)stderr.org Sent: 07 September 2007 13:49 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions? > I, too, keep coming back to PB Wiki, and so do several people in the > institution. Some critical-engagement-with-technology problems with pbwiki: 1) You're relying entirely on an outside entity to keep the thing running- servers up, data intact, reasonably secured against outsiders. You have zero control over any of this, even if you want or suddenly need it. 2) What do those "backups" look like, from a data POV? Can you import them into something else usefully? Without assistance or reverse-engineering? Or are they locked in with the single-source pbwiki vendor? 2b) "hey man, where's my source code?" 3) FERPA, privacy, and security. Are you really comfortable with moving your student activities offsite? Would your campus counsel be comfortable with that move? [I just finished reading the "security" documentation pbwiki provides "for IT folks"; I classify it as "whitewashing" rather than "whitepaper", and am not at all comfortable with the tone of what's presented therein.] The notion of moving academic activity off-campus and into the hands of a commercial entity... well, to be frank, it makes my skin crawl. There are *so many* serious problems that could spring up - it is truly frightening. --elijah > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of catherine > middleton > Sent: 06 September 2007 21:36 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions? > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for suggestions for wiki software to use with a class. I > don't want to have to install anything, and am of course looking for > something simple to set up and use. When this question was asked some > time ago, the following sites were suggested: > > http://www.mediawiki.org > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ > http://moodle.org/ > http://pbwiki.com/ > http://www.seedwiki.com > http://www.pmwiki.org/ > > What would you recommend now? _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?
by Cargill-Kipar, Nicole 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

I, too, keep coming back to PB Wiki, and so do several people in the institution. Nicole -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of catherine middleton Sent: 06 September 2007 21:36 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions? Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions for wiki software to use with a class. I don't want to have to install anything, and am of course looking for something simple to set up and use. When this question was asked some time ago, the following sites were suggested: http://www.mediawiki.org http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ http://moodle.org/ http://pbwiki.com/ http://www.seedwiki.com http://www.pmwiki.org/ What would you recommend now? Thanks, Catherine Middleton _______________________________________________ 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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