November 2008 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

research papers written by googlers
by jeremy hunsinger 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Carl Couch Internet Research Award
by Mark D. Johns 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Please pass this along to your students! CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2009 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch’s theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2009 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $500 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 7-11, 2009 in Milwaukee. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is April 30, 2009. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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hyperlinks in web news
by Bella Minw 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear ?ystein Pedersen Dahlen: This might be very helpful to you - it is an experimental study of 149 college students and the use of in-text hyperlinks... Eveland, W. P., Marton, K., Seo, M. (2004). Moving beyond “just the facts”: The influence of online news on the content and structure of public affairs knowledge. Communication Research, 31(1), 82-108. Bellarmine Ezumah Howard University Washington, DC

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Research on collaborative filtering?
by Jason Mittell 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi all - inspired by the excellent Clive Thompson article in today's NYT on Netflix & collaborative filtering (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html ), I want to bring a research project off the backburner about collaborative filtering and taste cultures. Does anyone know of any research from a more cultural/social perspective on CF? The research that's I've found via searches is all about algorithms - since I don't want to build a system, but rather study their use & significance, those articles are less than useful (and utterly incomprehensible to my humanistic mind). I'd appreciate any references about recommendation systems and collectivized taste that you know of. And on a related note, if other people are interested in the topic, might we want to put together a panel for IR 10.0? If so, contact me off-list. Thanks, -Jason -- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 52, Issue 24
by Adrian Miles 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

On 24/11/2008, at 10:00 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in > web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks? > More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a > better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked > texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader > more > knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks. Anders Fagerjord, Uni of Olso, phd very much in this area, see <URL: http://fagerjord.no / > and <URL: http://fagerjord.no/research/pub.html /> cheers Adrian Miles adrian.miles(a)rmit.edu.au bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au

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JRuby -- what an awful name
by Barry Wellman 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President JFK. As you may recall, Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot JFK, and Jack Ruby shot LHO 2 days later. I'd find the name JRuby loathsome on any day, but yesterday I came across a programming language with that name. "JRuby is an 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language." http://jruby.codehaus.org/ The Codehaus Foundation is an open-source group. I do suppose that those who did this knew the connotations. Ah, coder youth. But didn't somebody tell them? I still grieve 45 years later, but now I have hope. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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MP3 Now Available for ACS Presentation "Swiss Army Information Tools"
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Colleagues/ I am pleased to inform you that the MP3 for a presentation I gave at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2008 meeting in New Orleans (April 6 2008) - "Online Social Networks: Swiss Army Information Tools" - is now available. The original posting about the presentation as well as the associated PPT (with links) (and now the MP3) are located at [ http://tinyurl.com/2g6xmh ] While much has happened in The World of Social Networks since this presentation, I believe/hope many will find the MPG of value . The symposium at which the presentation was given - Transformation of Library Services in the Digital Age - was co-sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Information (CHINF) and the ACS Division of Chemical Education (CHED). Enjoy! /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://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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CFP: Openness and Higher Ed
by Gavin Baker 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

(apologies for cross-posting) http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/663 Call for Papers - Openness and the Future of Higher Education This Call for Papers is for a theme issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning <www.irrodl.org> entitled: Openness and the Future of Higher Education. The projected publication date is October 2009. The Guest Editors are Dr. David Wiley and John Hilton. The aim of this Special Issue is to further our understanding of the manner in which the open source, open access, and open education movements are now and will impact higher education organizations, learners, and other stakeholders in the future. Our intent is to stimulate critical debate, encourage collection and analyses of relevant data, and add to the theoretical foundations used in policy and planning discussions related to openness within institutions of higher education. Special consideration will be given to articles that present analyses and interpretations of empirical data, but rigorous theoretical submissions will also be considered. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Those submissions accepted for publication will be published under Creative Commons license in www.irrodl.org. DEADLINES: * Submission Proposals: January 15, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: February 15 * Papers Due: May 1 * Peer Reviews Returned: June 30 * Finalized Papers Due: August 1 * Publication Date: October 15 SUBMISSION PROPOSALS Individual or multiple authors must first submit an abstract-length proposal of approximately 500-750 words to IRRODL's Managing Editor at irrodl(a)athabascau.ca. Those who have had their abstracts accepted will be formally invited by the Guest Editors to submit a full-length paper of approximately 5000 words. For IRRODL's submission guidelines, visit: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/about/submissions All full-length papers submitted to IRRODL will be subject to multiple blind peer review. All blind peer reviews will be shared with the authors. While influenced by the outcome of the blind peer reviews, the Guest Editors reserve the right to make final publication decisions. TOPICS MAY INCLUDE: * Critical perspectives on open education * Effect of openness on access to educational opportunity * Evaluation of open educational resources and services * Issues of affordability and openness * Issues of quality and localization of open educational resources * Openness and accreditation * Openness and future course management systems / personal learning environments * Open models for awarding credit or degrees * Open / peer tutoring and advising models * Open source, open access, or open education policy in higher education * Open teaching / massively open online courses ("MOOC") * Open textbooks * Social implications of open education * Structures and patterns of reuse of open educational resources * Sustainable models of creating and sharing open educational resources * Unique impact of openness on institutions in developing countries -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ gavin(a)gavinbaker.com As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. Benjamin Franklin

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New Dates for "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" Workshop: April 16-17, 2009 (Amherst, Massachusetts)
by Stuart Shulman 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

We have settled on a new set of dates for the YouTube workshop: April 16 & 17, 2009. http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/ This both removes the conflict with the Midwest Political Science Association meeting and allows us to get into better meeting rooms. So, I hope this is good news for all. If you are interested in this topic, please join our conference Crowdvine to stay in the loop: http://youtube08election.crowdvine.com/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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AoIR NCA meetup
by Steve Jones 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

The AoIR meetup at the NCA convention will take place on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 4pm at the Brickyard Coffee Shop, 675 W G St, San Diego (on G Street just east of Kettner Blvd.). I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it there, Sj

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