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Human Communication & Technology Division - NCA
by Kris M. Markman 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

**Apologies for cross-posting** For those AoIRers attending NCA in San Diego, the schedule of presentations in the Human Communication & Technology Division is available in our convention newsletter: http://www.hctd.net/newsletters/November2008/index.shtml We would also like to invite you to our business meeting, Friday 11/21 from 3:30-4:45. We are seeking nominations for Vice Chair-Elect and Student Representative. More information on these positions can be found in the newsletter. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego. Kris Markman & John Howard Co-Vice Chairs, Publicity ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis https://umdrive.memphis.edu/kmmrkman/www/index.html

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Ph.D. fellowships - U of Copenhagen
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

13 Ph.D. Fellowships at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities’ Graduate School at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for 13 PhD fellowships starting September 1, 2009 for a period of up to three years. Application deadline is February 9, 2009. For the complete announcement, please consult http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/ One subject area is 'IT and Communication': The research group concerning Digital Communication and Aesthetics focuses on new forms of communication and aesthetic expression in the digital media, for example: - The remediation of 'old' media, e.g., the interrelations between television programs and the websites associated with them, digital production and distribution of film, and marketing via the internet; - The distinctive features of 'new' media, e.g., computer games and social network sites; - The potential of 'emerging' media, e.g., mobile services, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent environments. For more information, please contact Head of Department Jan Riis Flor, flor(a)hum.ku.dk, phone: + 45 35 23 88 53. Website: http:// english.mef.ku.dk/ _______________________________________ Klaus Bruhn Jensen Professor, dr.phil. Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication Film and Media Studies Section University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj(a)hum.ku.dk www.media.ku.dk ________________________________________

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[Fwd: post-doc position]
by Gabriella Coleman 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: post-doc position Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:50:50 -0500 From: Helen Nissenbaum <hfn1(a)nyu.edu> Dear Colleagues: Could you circulate this new post-doc position? It is to work within the rubric of a couple NSF funded projects on privacy, security and values in design. I think there would be opportunities here for a wide range of disciplinary expertise, as listed below. Feel free to post on suitable blogs, discussion boards, etc. Thanks, Helen RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Areas of focus: Multidisciplinary study of privacy, security, social dimensions of digital networks, values in computing and information system design The NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is pleased to announce a Research Fellowship/Scientist opportunity in the philosophy and politics of computing, digital media, and information systems, with a special focus on NSF funded research in privacy, security, and social dimensions of networking. This one-year postdoctoral position is renewable for a second year and carries a teaching load of one course per year, or possibly two, as preferred. The Fellow will be expected to pursue collaborative and individual research in the advertised areas but the position is open to applicants with diverse disciplinary training. In addition to research, the fellow will assist in project-related administration and events. We encourage applicants with Ph.D., or equivalent, degrees in any of the following: media studies, information science, science and technology studies, computer science and engineering, law, or traditional humanities and social sciences with demonstrated expertise in relevant areas. Interested candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a statement of research interests, a writing sample or representative publication, and request three letters of recommendation be sent to: Professor Helen Nissenbaum Department of Media, Culture and Communication New York University 239 Greene Street, 7th floor New York, NY 10003 Inquiries: Helen.nissenbaum(a)nyu.edu <mailto:Helen.nissenbaum@nyu.edu> Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2009 ** NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ** Helen Nissenbaum, professor media, culture & communication, NYU + http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum protect the privacy of your web searches + http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/ 2008: visitor, School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study -- _______________________________________________ Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture, & Communication New York University 239 Greene St, 7th floor NY NY 10003 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/

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Hi
by Pearse Stokes 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Another possible submission is this article I wrote: http://cyberanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/consumo-production/ I hope people would find it useful and give me feedback. I have a sneaking suspicion people completely disagree with my position and I'd love to hear about it! Thanks Pearse

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Webology: Volume 5, Number 3, 2008
by Alireza Noruzi 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 5, No. 3 of Webology journal is published and available ONLINE now. The Guest Editor of this special issue was Dr. Louise Spiteri from the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Canada. ------------------ Webology: Volume 5, Number 3, 2008 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Folksonomies, the Web and Search Engines -- Louise Spiteri -- Keywords: Folksonomy, Social tagging, Search engines -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/editorial17.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Tag Gardening for Folksonomy Enrichment and Maintenance -- Isabella Peters & Katrin Weller -- Keywords: Social tagging; Folksonomy; Tag gardening; Emergent semantics; Power tags; Tagcare; Knowledge organization system; Knowledge representation; Personomy -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a58.html - Descriptor and Folksonomy Concurrence in Education Related Scholarly Research -- Robert Bruce -- Keywords: Collaborative tagging; Social tagging; Social classification; Knowledge organization; Taxonomies; Folksonomies; Controlled vocabulary; Descriptors -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a59.html - Organising Development Knowledge: Towards Situated Classification Work on the Web -- Maja van der Velden -- Keywords: Categories; Classification; Design; Folksonomy; Mapping; Social inclusion; Tags; Web directories; Portal -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a60.html - A Personalized Word of Mouth Recommender Model -- Chihli Hung -- Keywords: Consumer generated media; Buzz; Text mining; Sentiment analysis; Recommending agent; Self-organizing map -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n3/a61.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing.~

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Pirate philosophy/Gary Hall research seminar at Sussex
by Kathleen O'Riordan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

University of Sussex: Centre for Material Digital Culture/ Department of Media and Film <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/> Research Seminar 'Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media' Speaker: Professor Gary Hall Co-Founding, Editor of Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net/) And of Open Humanities Press (OHP), an open access publishing house dedicated to critical and cultural theory Arts D110 at 5.00 Wednesday Nov 19 All Welcome Dr Kate O'Riordan Department of Media and Film EDB University of Sussex Falmer Brighton UK BN1 9RG Tel: 00 44 (0) 1273 876730 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile30746.html

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in defense of wiki vandalism....
by Margie Borschke 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

It strikes me as almost appropriate that students who are required to edit a Wikipedia entry as part of a class, ended up vandalizing pages. I think you could argue that it is a valid response to being forced into public participation, particularly in the context of a self-organising community where all the other participants are self selected. If you'd not edited Wikipedia before, wouldn't boundaries be the first thing you'd want to test? What would Cartman do? I assure you he's not going to try the sandbox first. I think a lot of students would also 'get' that in addition to being a knowledge resource, wikipedia is also a kind of game, something former Wikipedia editor Brion Vibber pointed out in Nicholson Baker's NY Review of Books article, The Charms of Wikipedia. While there are clearly good pedagogical uses of Wikipedia, required editing makes me uneasy. It's not so great for students to have to learn in public and not so great for the people participating to have a group of students descend upon them either. --Margie Borschke

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assigning students their college/university wikipedia page
by David M Silver 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

aoir people, has anyone had any experience with assigning students the task of altering, improving, and tweaking their university page on wikipedia? in other words, has anyone assigned their college/university wikipedia page as a site of construction for a class? if so, i'm curious to hear any anecdotes, experiences, best-practices, relevant readings, and anything else you wish to share. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Invitation to NCA internet research lecture, and aoir-meetup
by Steve Jones 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

I hope that those of you on air-l who are going to the National Communication Association meeting in San Diego next week can come to the Internet research lecture on Saturday, Nov. 22, 12:30pm - 1:45pm at the Manchester Grand Hyatt/Parlor Room 606. (Those of you familiar with ongoing events surrounding this year's NCA meeting might appreciate that attempts to have the talk elsewhere, outside the hotel, including at UCSD, were unsuccessful due to cost.) I've pasted below a blurb about the lecture. We should also have an AoIR meet-up. Friday night (Nov. 21) seems to be "reception" night, so perhaps Saturday, Nov. 22? Happy hour? If you're going to NCA email me off-list and I'll put together a list of those interested in getting together so we can make arrangements. Thanks, Sj > ******************************************* > > DEFANTI TO SPEAK IN STEVE JONES INTERNET RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES > Thomas DeFanti (University of California, San Diego) will speak in > the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2008 > annual convention of the National Communication Association (NCA), > November 21-24, 2008, San Diego, California. DeFanti's lecture is > entitled "The Roadmap to Networked Digital Cinema, Telepresence, and > Immersive Virtual Reality as Good as You Can See and Hear." > > Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.org) > established Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series in the > annual NCA Convention. The lecture series is designed to bring > leading Internet researchers to the NCA Convention to promote > Internet research and to foster collaborations with communication > researchers. For questions and comments about this event, please > contact Shing-Ling Chen at sarina.chen(a)uni.edu.

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Job: Philosophy, Science and Technology
by Hans Klein 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology 685 Cherry Street Atlanta GA 30332-0345 USA FACULTY POSITIONS IN THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY START AUGUST 2009 The Georgia Institute of Technology. The program in Philosophy, Science and Technology (PST) in the School of Public Policy seeks applications for one or more full-time, tenure track positions in philosophy beginning in August 2009 at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are especially interested in philosophy of technology or in ethics of science and technology. We are also open to a variety of specializations such as sustainability or emerging technologies like nanotechnology, digital communication, and bio-medical development. For one of these positions, the competence and willingness to teach modern philosophy is strongly desired. We are also interested in strengthening Georgia Techs Center for Ethics and Technology. Both positions will involve working within a highly interdisciplinary and globally oriented research community with abundant opportunities for collaboration within the Institute and across major research universities in Atlanta, Georgia. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae; a statement of research and teaching interests with clear evidence of demonstrated teaching success and the potential for a successful research program; electronic copies of one or more papers; and three reference letters. Please send application by email to <mailto:facsearch@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>facsearch(a)pubpolicy.gatech.edu with philosophy in the subject line. If that is not possible, send to Karen Halsted, Search Secretary, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA. Review of applications will begin November 10, 2008, and will continue until positions are filled. The availability of the positions is contingent on funding. The Georgia Institute of Technology is located in the heart of Atlanta, a dynamic city with a tradition of civic pride and diversity. Founded in 1885, Georgia Tech consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century. AN EQUAL EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION.

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