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new reviews in cyberculture studies (february 2008)
by David M Silver 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies (RCCS) publishes a set of book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for february 2008 include: Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Publisher: MIT Press, 2006 Review 1: Jentery Sayers Author Response: Wendy Chun >From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Author: Fred Turner Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Review 1: Lonny J Avi Brooks Review 2: William Bryant Review 3: Merav Katz-Kimchi Review 4: Linda Levitt Review 5: Alan Razee Author Response: Fred Turner La Comunicazione del Terzo Settore nel Mezzogiorno Author: Stefano Martelli Publisher: Franco Angeli, 2006 Review 1: Gaetano Gucciardo (Italiano) Review 2: Gaetano Gucciardo (English) Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions Author: Ned Rossiter Publisher: NAi Publishers, 2006 Review 1: Daren C. Brabham Author Response: Ned Rossiter Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society Editors: Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson, Geert Lovink Publisher: Routledge, 2006 Review 1: Athina Karatzogianni The Internet Imaginaire Author: Patrice Flichy Publisher: MIT Press, 2007 Review 1: M. Beatrice Bittarello Author Response: Patrice Flichy The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting Author: Darren Wershler-Henry Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2007 Review 1: Adam Tourek Author Response: Darren Wershler-Henry The Politics of Cyberconflict Author: Athina Karatzogianni Publisher: Routledge, 2006 Review 1: Andrew Robinson Author Response: Athina Karatzogianni Uses of Blogs Editors: Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs Publisher: Peter Lang, 2006 Review 1: Tricia Farwell Review 2: Tama Leaver Review 3: Damien Pfister Review 4: Daniel C. Smith Author Response: Axel Bruns & Joanne Jacobs enjoy. there's more where that came from. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Re: [Air-L] Longitudinal qualitative analysis of CMC
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

See the longitudinal study I did with colleagues on an online learning environment (2000, in JCMC). We used as a base much of the literature on group processes, including group development over time. A bit more of a review on that literature is also in a JALN piece from 2006. Michelle Kazmer's work looks specifically at the group ending process -- the 'disengagement' from online groups. See her dissertation work or the paper in NMS (2007). /Caroline Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M.M., Robins, J. & Shoemaker, S. (2000). Community development among distance learners: Temporal and technological dimensions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html Haythornthwaite, C. (February, 2006). Facilitating collaboration in online learning. Journal of Asynchronous Learning, 10(1). http://www.sloan- c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Beyond C U L8R: Disengaging from online social worlds. New Media and Society, 9, 111-138. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:38:41 +0100 >From: "Ulrike Pfeil" <UlrikePfeil(a)gmx.net> >Subject: [Air-L] Longitudinal qualitative analysis of CMC >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Hello everybody, >I am interested in doing longitudinal qualitative analysis of asynchronous online communities in order to analyse the development of the online community over time (e.g. looking at how people develop a sense of community, how communication and interaction patterns change over time, how people take on or abandon certain roles within the community etc.). > >However, I am having a hard time finding methodological guidance on how to go about it (the longitudinal part). Does anybody have experience with longitudinal qualitative analysis of CMC or can recommend literature that might help me? Any help would be greatly appreciated! > >Kind regards, > >Uli >-- >Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? >Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Take a Pew Internet survey on the future of the internet (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Interesting opportunity to forecast the future. 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: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:35:33 -0500 From: Cornelia Carter-Sykes <ccarter-sykes(a)pewinternet.org> To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Take a Pew Internet survey on the future of the internet Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:01:14 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: pewinternet(a)mail-list.com The Pew Internet Project and Elon University are conducting an ongoing survey of stakeholders about the future of the internet, and we would like to include your views in our research. This web-based survey about international concerns and the internet follows two previous surveys of thousands of internet stakeholders that measured the expected impact of the internet over the next decade (to see the results, please go to www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/default.xhtml <https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.elon.ed u/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/default.xhtml> ). We hope you'll take 10 to 15 minutes to fill out our survey (to participate, you must use Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari as your browser). You will find the survey at: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/WSGateway?surveyid=195410 <https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://websurveyor .net/wsb.dll/WSGateway?surveyid=195410> The survey asks you to assess several potential scenarios tied to the future of the internet and to contribute your own thoughts about what you believe should or will happen by the year 2020. This is a confidential survey, however, we encourage you to take credit for your thoughts. After each question, you are invited to explain or expand on your views. Each elaboration you provide will remain anonymous unless you put your name at the start of it. When you begin the survey, please use this personal identification number (PIN): 1001 The Pew Internet Project will issue a report based on this survey in the spring; we expect the results to be useful to policy makers, scholars and those in the information technology industry. Material from this survey will be added to the Elon University/Pew Internet website, Imagining the Internet (www.imaginingtheinternet.org <https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.imagini ngtheinternet.org/> ). We will not use your name or email address for any purpose other than this research project, and we will not share your information with outside solicitors. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at lrainie(a)psra.org. Thank you, Lee Rainie Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project 1615 L Street NW Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 http://www.pewinternet.org <https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.pewinte rnet.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a blank message to pewinternet-on(a)mail-list.com To unsubscribe, send a blank message to pewinternet-off(a)mail-list.com To change your email address, send a message to pewinternet-change(a)mail-list.com with your old address in the Subject: line To contact the list owner, send your message to pewinternet-list-owner(a)mail-list.com http://www.pewinternet.org To unsubscribe, or change your email address, click here. http://cgi.mail-list.com/u?ln=pewinternet&nm=wellman@chass.utoronto.ca This message was launched into cyberspace to wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca

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4th International Conference on e-Social Science - further deadline extension
by Yuwei Lin 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Apologies for Cross-posting ++++++++++++++++++++++ 4th International Conference on e-Social Science Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008 Call for Submissions (further deadline extension - 11th February 2008) The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond. We invite contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research. Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, demos, workshops, tutorials and panels. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods to substantive social science problems * Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-)Social Science research practices, including benefits and challenges of collaboration (both small and large scale) across disciplinary and geographical boundaries * Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social * Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments Infrastructure and services for e-Social Science, including data collection, discovery, sharing and integration, standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation * Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data * The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their future (co-evolution) * Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research, including usability challenges for the design of research tools and middleware, factors influencing the wider adoption and sustainability of e-Infrastructure Submission Guidelines To submit a paper, workshop, panel or demo, you must first register at the submission website (http://www.conftool.net/ncess2008/) and then follow the instructions. Please indicate the category of your submission: full paper, short paper, poster, workshop, panel or demo and include the contact details of the main author on a separate sheet. Demo submissions should include a statement of technical requirements. Authors of papers (full and short) and posters are requested to submit an abstract of approximately 1000-1500 words. Workshop, demo, tutorial and panel organisers are requested to submit a one page outline of the topic, format, likely audience, special requirements. Submissions will be subject to independent review and a final decision will be made by the conference programme committee. Authors of submissions not accepted as full papers may be invited to submit a short paper or poster instead. Paper authors will be informed of the programme committees decision during the week commencing 17th March, 2008. Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Templates for the camera-ready copies of full and short papers are available from the conference website (http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/) Workshop, panel, poster and demo authors will be informed of the programme committee's decision on 4th April 2008. Guidelines for posters and demos will be available in due course. Submission Deadlines Paper abstracts: February 11th, 2008. Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008. Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008. Final versions of full and short papers: 16th May 2008

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Online Social Networks As Crystals?
by Gerry Mckiernan 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ It has occurred to me that Online Social Networking [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] may be envisioned as Crystals [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystals ] Your Thoughts || Reactions / Related Research || Projects ? Are We In An Era of Social Crystallization? Thanks for Thinking ! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Online social networks for scientists
by David Brake 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I know this comes a little late but in reference to a press release posted here earlier... > BioMedExperts (http://www.biomedexperts.com) -- the first > online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among > researchers and therefore advance medical science. I think that Nature's network http://network.nature.com/ probably has a better claim to this title (cheeky since I am sure the people behind biomedexperts knew about it). It tends to be hard science dominated (as you might expect) but might be worth a look for some of us either to use it or to study it. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunicat… > Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) 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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who wants to form a panel on linking e-recruiting & social networks - career communities?
by e.ettinger＠utwente.nl 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I am working on a paper linking e-recruiting & social networks, it's about transforming "classical exchange-based job boards" into "career communities" based on niche e-recruiting, shared social identity of a group of users so as to keep users in the long run instead of a quick job search. Our data is based on 60 qual interviews with users of an Austrian e-recruiting platform for engineers www.htl-absolventen.at that tries to get users signed up in the applicant pool right when they graduate from school, when users still have active offline ties It would be great to form a panel if anyone is doing something similar? thanks for the info, Elfi -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: e.ettinger(a)utwente.nl [mailto:e.ettinger@utwente.nl <mailto:e.ettinger@utwente.nl> ] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Jänner 2008 20:28 An: elfi(a)ettinger.com Betreff: WG: [Air-L] looking to contribute ------------------------------------------- Von: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org im Auftrag von Rhiannon Bury[SMTP:BURYRC@ROGERS.COM] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 20:26:31 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: Re: [Air-L] looking to contribute Diese Nachricht wurde automatisch von einer Regel weitergeleitet. Hey Paul: Inspired by Matt Allen's wonderful paper at AoIR in Vancouver, I'm thinking about doing something around Web 2. I"ll email you privately . You can also try me at rbury(a)athabascau.ca. Anyone else? Rhiannon Bury Paul Emerson Teusner wrote: >Hi gang, > > > >Is there any panel on Web 2.0 being formed for the AoIR conference >that's looking for more members? I have an idea for a paper abstract >but would rather join a panel than submit a sole presentation. It's on >religious authority and the power of Google/Technorati. > > > >paul emerson teusner > >fishers, surfers and casters - <http://teusner.org/ <http://teusner.org/> > >http://teusner.org/ <http://teusner.org/> > >bio - <http://paulteusner.org/ <http://paulteusner.org/> > http://paulteusner.org/ <http://paulteusner.org/> > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association >of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or >unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org <http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ <http://www.aoir.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org <http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ <http://www.aoir.org/>

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looking to contribute
by Paul Emerson Teusner 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi gang, Is there any panel on Web 2.0 being formed for the AoIR conference that's looking for more members? I have an idea for a paper abstract but would rather join a panel than submit a sole presentation. It's on religious authority and the power of Google/Technorati. paul emerson teusner fishers, surfers and casters - <http://teusner.org/> http://teusner.org/ bio - <http://paulteusner.org/> http://paulteusner.org/

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Three weeks left to apply for OII's Web Science Summer Doctoral Programme
by Victoria Nash 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, As February approaches there are just three weeks left for PhD students to apply for a place on this year's Oxford Internet Summer Doctoral Programme. The 2008 Programme will run from 13th-26th July and will focus on the theme of Web Science in collaboration with partners at the Web Science Research Initiative established by Sir Tim Berners Lee at the University of Southampton and MIT. We are also very grateful for the continued support of friends and colleagues at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Annenberg Schools at USC and University of Pennsylvania who will provide faculty and/or fund some students. We are particularly keen to attract excellent PhD students who are already embracing the challenges of undertaking multi- or cross-disciplinary work on issues relating to the Internet or Web. Up to 25 students will have the opportunity to advance their theses as well as participating in classes and seminars led by high-profile faculty from across the social sciences, computing sciences and engineering. Further details can be found on the OII website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/Y2008.cfm Please do pass this information on to your colleagues, all best wishes Dr Victoria Nash Director of Graduate Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1, St Giles OX1 3JS 01865 287231 www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Asian identities - postcolonial perspectives...
by Radhika Gajjala 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

looking for participants in a panel for aoir - on asian (south asian) identities (crowdsourcing from South Asia works - asian/south asian identities in games and/or sl also works...) we currently have two participants - and are looking for two more. please email me off list if you are interested. Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog

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