Scholarly Publishing in Transition: Issues, Challenges & Initiatives
Panel discussion at AoIR IR 9.0, Copenhagen
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, 3:15pm - 5:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=28753618322
Traditional venues for scholarly publishing are rapidly changing:
established journals are moving online, online-only open access
journals are proliferating, alternatives to ISI Impact Factor metrics
are emerging, titles are experimenting with multimedia components, pre-
print archives are being developed, and data repositories are
achieving the status of publications. These and other issues are much
in flux, but the rate and degree of change varies considerably between
disciplines and scholarly cultures.
This panel of journal editors will reflect on these changes: the
issues and challenges involved, and the relevance of these
developments for new media scholarship.
Towards the end, the panel will open up a plenary session to discuss
the implications of these developments on AoIR and its members. This
discussion may include considering ways to facilitate a set of regular
AoIR-themed special issues of journals.
Panel members:
Elizabeth A. Buchanan, co-editor of the International Journal of
Internet Research Ethics
Andrea Drugan, acquisitions editor, Polity Press
Nick Jankowski, co-editor of New Media & Society
Steve Jones, co-editor of New Media & Society
Brian Loader, co-editor of Information, Communication & Society
Mark Lorenzen, executive editor of Industry and Innovation
Susana Tosca, co-editor of Game Studies
Initiated by Nick Jankowski and Steve Jones, this event is hosted by
the AoIR IR 9.0 Writing and Publications Workshop. The workshop itself
(until 3pm) is only open to registered workshop participants. However,
this panel discussion is open to all.
Workshop organisers:
Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Mia Consalvo, Ohio University, USA
Greg Hearn, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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Dr Marcus Foth
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511
m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/
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I don't think this has been posted here: the first wave of a Facebook
dataset from a university cohort has been released. Details below
(And both Fred Stutzman and myself have commented on possible privacy
concerns that still remain despite the researchers' best efforts.
Links at the very bottom of this message - anyone else react to this?)
-mz
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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org
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Tastes, Ties, and Time: Facebook data release
September 25, 2008
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4682
In collaboration with Harvard sociology graduate students Kevin Lewis
and Marco Gonzalez, and with UCLA professor Andreas Wimmer and Harvard
professor Nicholas Christakis, Berkman Fellow Jason Kaufman has made
available a first wave of Facebook.com data through the Dataverse
Network Project.
The dataset comprises machine-readable files of virtually all the
information posted on approximately 1,700 FB profiles by an entire
cohort of students at an anonymous, northeastern American university.
Profiles were sampled at one-year intervals, beginning in 2006. This
first wave covers first-year profiles, and three additional waves of
data will be added over time, one for each year of the cohort's
college career.
Though friendships outside the cohort are not part of the data, this
snapshot of an entire class over its four years in college, including
supplementary information about where students lived on campus, makes
it possible to pose diverse questions about the relationships between
social networks, online and offline.
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* Stutzman's reaction: <http://fstutzman.com/2008/09/29/facebook-datasets-and-private-chrome/#comme…
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* Zimmer's reaction: <http://michaelzimmer.org/2008/09/30/on-the-anonymity-of-the-facebook-datase…
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