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Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
by Michael Zimmer 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

We're pleased to announce the publication of Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Information Science and Knowledge Management series by Springer. Contents include contributions approaching Web search engines from philosophical, cultural, critical, legal, economic, historical, political, and information scientific perspectives. The table of contents is pasted below. More information can be found at these links: Springer: <http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrie… > Amazon: <http://www.amazon.com/Web-Search-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-Information… > WorldCat: <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174131546> Our thanks to all the contributors! Michael Zimmer Amanda Spink Editors Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Part I: Introduction o Introduction (Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer) Part II: Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Perspectives o Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design (Alejandro Diaz) o Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet (Aaron Hess) o Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches (Rosa Mikeal Martey) o Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge (Lawrence Hinman) o The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an Infrastructure of Dataveillance (Michael Zimmer) Part III: Political, Legal, and Economic Perspectives o Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement (Brian Fitzgerald, Damien O’Brien, and Anne Fitzgerald) o Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine (Eric Goldman) o The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On Chance Exposures and Organizational Hubs (Azi Lev-On) o ‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines? (Paul Reilly) o The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic (Elizabeth Van Couvering) Part IV: Information Behavior Perspectives o Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model (Shirlee Ann Knight and Amanda Spink) o Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations and Connections to Health Related Outcomes (Mohan Dutta and Graham. Bodie) o Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues: Well-defined Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness? (Jenny Fry, Shefali Virkar, and Ralph Schroeder) o Conceptual Models for Search (David Hendry and Efthimis Efthimiadis) o Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective (Dirk Lewandowski and Nadine Höchstötter) Part V: Conclusion o Conclusions and Further Research (Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer) ----- Michael Zimmer, PhD Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School e: michael.zimmer(a)yale.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org

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Re: [Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan
by Julian Hopkins 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Conor, good point and you could well be right. Actually, the reason why that struck me in particular is because it struck a chord with some events that occurred in Malaysia (where I'm based) that highlighted the government/the police's lack of knowledge of how the internet functions. But I suppose that's the situation in many places, with the authorities lagging behind the private sector and individuals in terms of technology use. As for Fouad, apparently he was tracked to his home via the ISP. This is an example of something similar (tracking via ISP) in Malaysia: http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2007/07/anonymous_onlin.php . It also highlights the potential for online harassment (a woman was sent abusive and threatening emails). It seems to me that three years is very harsh - he did not try to benefit from it in any way or defame the Prince apparently. But it is most definitely a different cultural context, the other example that springs to mind is the King of Thailand and YouTube affair. Anyway, I hope they release the poor guy. Regards, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:57:15 +0100 From: Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <47C169AB.1040705(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I don't at all speak French, but couldn't the quote you use to demonstrate the authorities' ignorance be simply a nomenclature issue? In English all the time I find people mixing up "site" and "page." I don't think this indicates such extreme ignorance that the authorities are incapable of assessing Fouad's actions. More likely to me is that they understood roughly what he did, and are just motivated by politics which most of us on this list might be driven to call a bit extreme. Julian Hopkins wrote: > This might interest some people. > > Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan > > A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for > setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7258950.stm > > > There's also a website set up with a petition and more information about the > case: http://www.helpfouad.com/ > > There are some mitigating factors stated, one of which is interesting: > "La police marocaine ne comprend absolument rien ? Internet. Il est demand? > ? Fouad dans un des paragraphes pour quelle raison avait-il cr?? le site > Facebook ?" > (Translation: "The Moroccan police understands absolutely nothing about the > internet. It is asked of Fouad in one of the paragraphs [of the charge > sheet] for what reason had he created the Facebook site?") > > Cheers, > > Julian > > >

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The view from NYC, 2008 style
by Barry Wellman 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Surpasses the New Yorker cartoon Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:26:45 +0000 From: martin dodge Subject: New York Talk Exchange project hi, I just came across details on a new exhibition in New York, organised by Carlo Ratti and colleages http://senseable.mit.edu/nyte/index.html Described as follows: New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world." cheers martin End of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 19 Oct 2007 to 24 Feb 2008 (#2008-1)

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Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan
by Julian Hopkins 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

This might interest some people. Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7258950.stm There's also a website set up with a petition and more information about the case: http://www.helpfouad.com/ There are some mitigating factors stated, one of which is interesting: "La police marocaine ne comprend absolument rien à Internet. Il est demandé à Fouad dans un des paragraphes pour quelle raison avait-il créé le site Facebook ?" (Translation: "The Moroccan police understands absolutely nothing about the internet. It is asked of Fouad in one of the paragraphs [of the charge sheet] for what reason had he created the Facebook site?") Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com

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[Comtech] Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:06:21 +0000 From: Chris Kimble <kimble(a)cs.york.ac.uk> To: comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de Subject: [Comtech] Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators Dear all, It is with great relief that I can finally announce that both volumes of the book Paul Hildreth and I have been working on for so long - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators - has finally been published. There were a few problems with the ISBN numbers for the individual volumes, which have now been solved. The full details of both volumes of the book, *with new ISBN numbers*, are available from: http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/index.html This site includes the full text of the introductory chapters to both volumes + abstracts and author biographies for the remaining chapters. The links to the ISBN numbers at the top of each page go to Amazon.co.uk and take you to either the individual volumes or the two-volume set; the link to the publisher's web site however only gives the option of buying a two volume set). -- Chris Kimble Chair of Board of Studies Department of Computer Science, University of York,York, YO10 5DD, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 433380 fax: +44 (0)1904 432767 Home: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble MIS group: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mis/

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Financial Psychology of Worry and Women
by Ricciardi, Victor 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

I thought this group would enjoy reading my new working paper on negative emotion and money management since it provides an interdisciplinary perspective. The paper is entitled The Financial Psychology of Worry and Women. The abstract of the paper is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1093351 Also, if you scroll down the webpage you can download a PDF file of the paper. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. All the best, Vic Ricciardi Contact information: Victor Ricciardi Assistant Professor of Finance Kentucky State University SSRN Coordinator: Behavioral & Experimental Research The Social Science Research Network at www.ssrn.com Work# (502) 597-6284 victor.ricciardi(a)kysu.edu Electronic copies of my papers are available from my author page at the SSRN Electronic Library at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=262799 _________________________ Editor, SSRN Behavioral & Experimental Finance Journal: http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fen_behav-exper-fin.html _________________________ Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP) See our web pages at: Home Page: http://www.ssrn.com Electronic Library: http://papers.ssrn.com Browse SSRN Electronic Library: http://ssrn.com/browse SSRN User Headquarters: http://hq.ssrn.com

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Re: [Air-L] IR 9.09.0 Submission
by Marj Kibby 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

This reminds me of the first assignment deadline for a freshman class - I want to give my speech about leaving things to the last moment and not ensuring early that you understand what is required :-) Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> <bl506(a)york.ac.uk> 02/24/08 4:10 AM >>> Can we deal with individual submissions off list please as I can only assume it's a bit of a pain for list members. Mail problems to me and Charlie and we will get them sorted in time. Brian

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IR 9.09.0 Submission
by Philipp Budka 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi List and Conference Organizers, I was wondering when submitting a single presentation/paper to the IR 9.0 conference, I also have to add the abstract as PDF file somehow? Or is it fine to copy-paste the abstract in the form only? Thanks and all the best, Philipp P.S. Apologies, if this already has been clarified somewhere else. -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Dreyhausenstraße 18/7 A-1140 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/?mc=sv_ext_mf@gmx

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t-shirts and stuff
by Jeremy Hunsinger 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

just a small reminder of http://www.cafepress.com/aoir Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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Re: [Air-L] do we all have asperger's?
by RTMahon＠aol.com 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Seems there are at least two primary issues at work here. First, is the use of Asperger's in a clinical setting. The expert witness in the case cited below was not talking about individuals who use computers being prone to AS, or computer use constituting AS. Let's not get into ecological fallacy, right? In my reading she was talking about computer use being a possible manifestation of AS. This requires matching the individual to his or her context and specific behaviors. When is the computer used, how long and for what purpose? I have worked with individuals in clinical settings who have Asperger's and the diagnosis in my experience is a useful tool for critically examining and changing behavior. The use of a computer to play a single game and only a single game or to look at one or two websites only might be useful information when making a diagnosis or assessment. The social isolation that results from computer use, meaning a lack of face to face interaction with other individuals, may exacerbate or sustain difficulties connecting with other people or expressing empathy. Again, that depends on the individual, and does not mean that all individuals who use computers have or may have Asperger's syndrome. Secondly, its seems like folks are touching on normative behavior on a number of levels. Asperger's is sometimes characterized by unusual use of language, inability to 'filter' social unacceptable language, or is considered a form of Autism. Each of these characterizations incorporate ideas about normative behavior. Interestingly, Pervasive Developmental Disorders like Autism have become so common in some settings that the 'disorder' itself has become normative. This raises a whole host of issues about the validity and utility of these diagnoses, but does not really relate in any way to general statements about computer use as normative. It sounds like some of this may be a defensive emotional reaction to feelings or insecurities about daily computer use. Where is the context? Where is the self-critique? Ryan Mahon **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-du… 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

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