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open-source journals?
by Barry Wellman 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I received the note below, as perhaps many of you did. It raised several questions: 1. They use the term Open Source, but I can't get into and modify or comment on the articles (something I'd dearly love to do in some journals). Isn't this really Open Access? 2. What's their business model? Suspicious guy that I am, I looked for submission fees (couldn't find a mention) or advertiser-supported (ibid.). Somebody has to pay for admin and editing costs. I doubt they will get many library sales -- even the huge U of Toronto library basically says NO NEW JOURNALS. And they don't seem to be supported by a non-profit willing to absorb the costs. No private emails please, but would appreciate reading the digested comments. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:30:31 -0800 From: Scholars Retain Copyright <commstudies(a)marquettejournals.org> To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Scholars Retain Copyright with New Journals CALL FOR PAPERS Scholars Retain Copyright to Their Submissions with New Open Access Communication Journals Eight new open access communication journals that allow scholars to keep the copyright to their submissions are seeking high quality submissions for 2008 issues and beyond. They are Journal of Global Mass Communication, Russian Journal of Communication, Journal of Health & Mass Communication, Journal of Media Law & Ethics, American Journal of Media Psychology, Journal of Communication Studies, Journal of Media Sociology and International Journal of Media and Foreign Affairs. Several journals are publishing special issues. More information about the journals and how to submit can be found at www.marquettejournals.org In addition to being available electronically at no charge to the public, the journals will be published in hard copy form for distribution to library and individual subscribers. The hard copy subscription rates are 50% to 80% lower than comparable scholarly journals. The first issues will be published in January/February 2008. Works published in the journals will have maximum exposure to academic and public channels. The contents of each issue will be e-mailed to more than 45,000 librarians, scholars, citizens, journalists and policy makers around the world. Most major scholarly journals in the field of communication are available only through paid subscription. Almost all conventional publishers also require submitters to relinquish the copyright to their works. Publishers often earn royalties from the works, but the authors do not. In contrast, scholars who publish in Marquette Books journals keep the copyright to their articles, which means they may republish, resell or distribute their articles at will. Marquette Books LLC is one of the fastest growing independent book publishers in the United States. The company publishes textbooks and book monographs that focus mainly on communication and sociology. It also has a small line of nonfiction trade books. For more information, visit www.marquettebooks.com Marquette Books LLC 3107 E. 62nd Ave. Spokane, WA 99223 509-443-7057 (voice) 509-448-2191 (fax) books(a)marquettebooks.com www.MarquetteBooks.com

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VII World Congress of Computer Law / VII Congreso Mundial de Derecho Informatico
by Erick Iriarte Ahon 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Note: Please distribute this information and apologies cross-posting VII World Congress of Computer Law / VII Congreso Mundial de Derecho Informatico When: 3-7 December 2007 Where: San Juan, Puerto Rico Steering Committee: University of Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico Bar Association / Inter American University of Puerto Rico / Alfa-Redi Website: http://www.alfa-redi.com/viicongress/ About Congress: The Puerto Rico Bar Association, the School Of Law of University of Puerto Rico, the Inter American University of Puerto Rico and Alfa-Redi, cordially invite you to the VII World Congress on Cyber Law to be held from December 3 to December 7 in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The VII World Congress on Cyber Law is a continuation of the worldwide congresses held in the cities of Quito (Ecuador), Madrid (Spain), Havana (Cuba), Cusco (Peru), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) y Edinburgh (United Kingdom). These congresses have been the starting point of new proposals, the development of laws adopted in several countries, and laws that were welcomed as guidelines by different decision-making public and private organizations involved in the area of new technologies and the development of the information society. These international events are directed towards academic, regional and international stakeholders, government employees, and individuals representing organizations from the Civil Society involved in the processes related to Policies and Regulatory Framework of the Information Society at a regional and international level. These spaces of dialogue are evoked to promote encounter, discussion and proposal developing in diverse topics of the Information Society, as can be shown in the different Web pages of past Congresses. The subjects raised for this congress are: 1. Privacy and Personal Data Protection 2. E-Governance 3. Information and Communication Technologies in the Information Society 4. E-Commerce and Cyber-banking 5. Virtual Worlds 6. Copyrights and Intellectual Property 7. E-gaming Given the global, international and transforming nature of the thematic relationship among policies and the regulatory framework of the information society, we consider of utmost importance the participation of international experts to provide a perspective to the participants of the event who will be able to make comparisons with their own experience, emphasizing on the harmonization processes that have been promoted by diverse international organizations. This Congress will include workshops which will be imparted by international organizations interested in delivering lectures on specific subjects. These workshops will have a duration of one to two hours, being held during the first two days of the Congress, concerning issues such as Privacy and eGovernment, FTAs and Information Society, Licensing models of contents, Playing games in the net and E-commerce, realities and perspectives. If your organization is interested in delivering a lecture on any of the above mentioned subjects, please contact us. More Information: Website: http://www.alfa-redi.com/viicongress/

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FW: [ciresearchers] JoCI: Community Informatics and National ICT Policies/Programmes
by michael gurstein 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

(This invitation may be of interest here as well... MG -------------------------- I've been noticing an interesting trend recently which is the increasing inclusion of bottom up, often community or telecentre (and by inference Community Informatics (CI)) based strategies and approaches being included as part of national ICT policies. In many cases these are part of an overall inclusion of ICT for Development (ICT4D) elements in the respective national policies while in other cases they are linked to national commitments concerning e-government/e-participation or local economic development or other special thematic areas. Among the countries where such developments seem to be occurring are Brazil, India, Hungary, Jordan, New Zealand, Nepal, South Africa, and I'm sure there are many many others. In this context the Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net has received interesting papers documenting CI developments in several of these countries. My thought is that it would be very useful to have a wider collection of this information compiled in one place as for example, in a special issue of JoCI. So what I'm looking for at the moment are indications of interest in preparing papers for publication in JoCI looking at the implementation of Community Informatics or Community Informatics friendly national policies/programmes or alternatively assessments of national programs/policies from a CI perspective. As well if there are specific documents or reports that deal with these issues (hopefully not more than one or two years old) perhaps it would be possible to link to these along with commentaries from CI folks with experience in those countries. Also, critiques of national programmes/policies from a CI perspective would be useful in this context (anyone in Australia, Canada or the US want to do a paper talking about the retreat from community friendly national ICT support programmes or anyone want to do CI based critiques of any of the top down national ICT4D strategies that the "e-readiness movement" has spawned)? I'm seeing that the papers could be formally academic ones (for peer review) or structured as more practice oriented Notes from the Field or even Points of View. Since JoCI is an electronic journal there is no length or number restriction, so the more the merrier. Let me know privately off list if this is of interest to you and feel free to pass this along as well. Best, MG Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net

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Re: [Air-L] BFF
by M. Deanya Lattimore 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Well, I know that this term was being used long before computers were around. My grandmother's elementary school autograph books had at least one BFF in them that I remember. My mother remembers them writing that in her junior high years too. That and "If you get to heaven before I do, dig a hole and pull me through." :-D. Deanya Ellis Godard wrote: > There's bound to be a first reference, but I'm guessing the origin is > somewhere loose and deep in a social network of, well.. BFFs. :) > >> -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org >> [mailto:air-l- bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Baym >> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:13 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] BFF >> >> Does anyone on here know the origin of the term BFF? A scholar who >> studies friendship has asked me and I don't know. >> >> Nancy >> >> -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, >> University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, >> Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Blog: http://www.onlinefandom.com >> _______________________________________________ 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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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I blew one thing
by Barry Wellman 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

I don't know why I read Open Source re Marquette journals when it clearly reads Open Access. My apologies. And thanks to a rapid correspondent who politely and privately caught my faux pas. 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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BFF
by Nancy Baym 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Does anyone on here know the origin of the term BFF? A scholar who studies friendship has asked me and I don't know. Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Blog: http://www.onlinefandom.com

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Call for Papers: dg.o 2008 Montreal, May 18-21, 2008
by Stuart Shulman 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Call for Papers 9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008) "Partnerships for Public Innovation" Hilton Bonaventure Hotel Montreal, Canada — May 18-21, 2008 Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org General Inquiries: dgo2008(a)easychair.org The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation. The conference theme "Partnerships for Public Innovation" focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines: - Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government. - Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government. Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following: - Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning. - IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer. - Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services. - Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects. IMPORTANT DATES - November 1, 2007 – Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/dgo2008/. - December 1, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops. - February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops. - February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations. - March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions. - March 15, 2008 – All camera ready versions are due.

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Re: [Air-L] "social networks" preceded "network community"
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Thanks for the info, Barry. I certainly am aware of the older and broader sociological research and debates on 'social networks'. I was only referring to the current, mundane and fashionable use of the term, i.e. groups/communities/collectives that are being supported by 'social software'. ...and I totally agree with you. Dr. José Abdelnour Nocera Senior Lecturer Institute for Information Technology Thames Valley University Wellington Street Slough - England SL1 1YG Tel [work] +44(0)1753697887 / [home] +44(0)1908648376 Fax +44 (0)1753 697750 http://sirius.tvu.ac.uk/~abdejos/ -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: 15 September 2007 15:51 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] "social networks" preceded "network community" Jose wrote in the last digest: "I think that this comparison is similar to that of VCs and 'Networked Communities', a term that has been there long before 'social networks'." Sorry, Jose, but I think you're wrong. I. The explicit use of the term social network goes back to the 1950s, with J.A. Barnes, the Cambridge anthropologist. Wikipedia has a handy historical section on this, and for more detail, see Linton Freeman, The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science. Vancouver: Empirical Press, 2004. (I have a shorter article, as the first chapter of Wellman & Berkowitz, _Social Structures_). What's happening is that the social software mavens have been taking over "social network" as their own. There's been a lot of fuss on Wikipedia differentiating between the "social network" and the "social network service" article. II. I think I invented the term "networked comunities". Certainly I started using it much later -- in the 1970s. Dredging my vitae, it was probably used early on in: Barry Wellman, "The Network Nature of Future Communities." Society for the Study of Social Problems, Aug., 1972. New York.(if you want to consider conference papers) and in print: Paul Craven and Barry Wellman, "The Network City". Sociological Inquiry 43 (Winter, 1973): 57-88. Barry Wellman, "The Form and Function of Future Communities." Pp. 301-313 in Futures for Central Canada, edited by Larry S. Bourne, et al. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1974. Barry Wellman, "Community Transformations: Present and Future." Pp. 213-26 in Participatory Democracy in Action, edited by Dan Chekki. Sahibabad, India: Vikas, 1979. Barry Wellman, "The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers." American Journal of Sociology 84 (March, 1979): 1201-31. Barry Wellman and Barry Leighton, "Networks, Neighborhoods and Communities," Urban Affairs Quarterly 14 (March, 1979):363-90. Barry Wellman, Peter Carrington and Alan Hall "Networks as Personal Communities." Pp. 130-84 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. You could look it up as Casey used to say, as my vitae is online. Alas, these papers were written before word processing, so I don't have a handy search mechanism available. And I'd rather write new stuff that search old. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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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Call for papers: The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile communication: Developing or developed?
by Bunz, Ulla 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Call for papers: The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile communication: Developing or developed? International Communication Association Pre-conference Workshop May 21-22 2008; Montreal, Canada For information, visit the following link: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~parkyo/conference/ ****************************** Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Florida State University University Center C, Suite 3100 Tallahassee, FL 32306 Phone: 850-644-1809 ******************************

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Encyl of HCI now free online
by Barry Wellman 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Folks, it's great news that the Encyclopedia of HCI is available online. FOR FREE. As I contributed a few articles, I got a print copy, and it is very impressive. This is in theory a $200+ value Sociologist Bill Bainbridge edited it. Karen Christensen published it (see note below). These are both Good People, and my special thanks to Karen for setting up this amazing free offer. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:14:50 -0400 From: Karen Christensen <karen(a)berkshirepublishing.com> To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Your article now available online from Berkshire & Exact Editions I'm delighted to tell you that the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, which you contributed to, is now available in full-text online-and completely free, too, for a limited time. Berkshire is running this experimental launch with our friends from UK-based Exact Editions. It seems to be the first time an academic reference publisher has done such a thing, so we're getting a lot of media coverage, and we want to share the news-and the edition itself-with you. Just go to http://www.exacteditions.com/berkshirepublishing. Please do try the search system and check out the extensive linking. There's also a great Clipping Tool that allows you to select a small section from a page and paste it into your blog or a website. You can see what this looks like at the Exact Editions blog: http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2007/09/exact-editions-for-book-publisher… We've done this in large part because Berkshire is a new company and we want to let the librarians who select print and online reference titles see for themselves the titles that we're so proud of, and that have been getting such great reviews and awards. We hope you'll pass this link to your institution's or department's chief librarian, and also please feel free to use the resources with your students--who will love the search capacity and the Clipping Tool (better than Google's!). We have much more in mind, as we plan a new major project in human-computer interaction and web science, and want to share this excellent work as widely as possible, to stimulate fresh ideas about publishing in your fast-changing and important field. Cheers, Karen. Karen Christensen CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group Office +1 413 528 0206 | Skype: karen_christensen Email karen(a)berkshirepublishing.com Blog http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog

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