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

Submissions are open again!
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

OK people I'm told you can now submit those proposals so I guess I have to go back to work again! Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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do we all have asperger's?
by Barry Wellman 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

I am not making this up: "A day after the Hans Reiser murder trial drifted into the netherworld, the murder case against the Linux programmer careened Thursday into the world of psychiatry. Defense witness and psychiatrist Beverly Parr, on the stand for the second day, testified that those who use a computer regularly "possibly" might have Asperger's syndrome. Those diagnosed with this disorder have impaired social skills. "His activities were restricted to the computer more than I would expect," testified Parr, a family friend of the Reisers. "What you're saying, you found his work on the computer matched one of the diagnostic features of Asperger's?" prosecutor Paul Hora asked on cross examination. "Possibly." There's more to the story at the website: Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hans_reiser_trial/index.html#top 22Feb08 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 _______________________________________________________________________

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ASIS&T AM 08 - New submission deadline Posters Short Papers ONLY
by Richard Hill 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

The Annual Meeting planning committee has extended the deadline for POSTERS and Short Papers submissions from Feb 21, 2008 to Feb 29, 2008. NEW DEADLINE for Poser and Short Paper Proposals is Febreuary 29, 2008 All other proposal deadlines have already passed. Dick Hill _____ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Social Networking Sites Geography Visualization
by Michael Farrugia 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, I'm a research student studying Information Visualization and Social Networks at UCD in Dublin. I have recently collected some data about the popularity of social networking sites in different countries, and presented the data in a graphical format. The data identifies the most popular social networking site in each of the 116 countries for which the data was available. It also contains the ranking of the SN site in the context of all other sites accessed in that country. You can view and interact with the visualizations at this website: http://csserver.ucd.ie/~mfarrugia The aim of creating these visualizations is to generate discussion and allow people to share insights and ask questions on the popularity of social networking sites and their use in different countries. The data extracted is also freely available in the many eyes website and new visualizations of this dataset can be created in the same site. By tracking the comments and discussions around the different visualizations I'm trying to identify the most popular visualization by the number of comments it receives. Regards, Michael Farrugia School of Computer Science & Informatics University College Dublin, Ireland __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Job Posting - Researcher in webbased data collection
by Anja Göritz 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany in the project 'The effects of incentives on data quality in online panels' funded by the German Research Foundation to be filled with a Junior Research Fellow (0.5 salary scale 13 TV-L for 2 years) or Senior Research Fellow with Doctoral Degree (salary scale 13 TV-L for 1.5 years). A detailed job description can be found at: http://www.goeritz.net/vacancy.pdf Please forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested in this position. Thank you! Dr. Anja Goeritz University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Department of Organizational and Social Psychology Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg (Germany) www.goeritz.net

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IR9.0 Reviewers
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Some of you who very kindly agreed to act as reviwers for IR 9.0 may be wondering why you have not yet received anything to review. The reason is probably that you did not indicate your interests on the system so the Track Directors cannot identify you as a possible reviewer. But all is not lost! The good news is that you can edit your reviewing interests in My Profile, which appears at the top of the right-hand menu after you login. We would be ever so grateful if you could take a few minutes to do this so that we can spread the task around fairly and not burn out any particular volunteers. Thanks, Brian Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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FW: e-Research 08 in Oxford
by Eric Meyer 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

> Oxford e-Research Conference 08 > 11-13 September 2008 at the University of Oxford > > Please circulate widely > Additional details online: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/ > > This multi-disciplinary, international conference on e-Research will be > held at the University of Oxford from 11-13 September 2008. It is being > organized by a consortium of research projects in association with the > journal Information Communication and Society (iCS). > Please visit the website for additional details about conference themes, submission procedures, and other details. > Deadlines > Abstracts (or drafts) of Proposed Papers: 15 March 2008. > Workshop and panel outlines: 15 March 2008. > > Authors will be informed of the programme committee's decision by 15 April > 2008. > > Full Papers should be received by 15 August 2008 > > More information about the conference and the collaborating centres can be > found at: > > Conference Web site: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/ > >

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Panels and things for IR9.0
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi everyone, First a big thanks for the proposal submissions and a reminder that this is the last day for proposals for papers. Second can I apologise for any confusion over the panel proposals and reassure everyone that no decisions have been or will be made until we have all the proposed panels completed and in front of us for consideration. So don't PANIC! Now due to the limitations of the system we are using it is no longer possible to submit a proposal and abstracts separately (although this was not very helpful for the Brisbane conference anyway so I'm told!). So what we would like is a "600-800 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation" in a single submission. Also it is fine to include biog details in the abstract - simply put everything in one place. As I say we will not be making decisions over the next week or so until all proposers of panels are happy that we have received their definitive versions. Email me if you have any concerns but please don't get stressed. One more reminder is that we will be notifying proposers of our decision on 31 March 2008. Information on the workshop proposals will follow next week. Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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Submission problems
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Thank you for all the emails to say that you are unable to submit your proposals at the moment. I have notified the people looking after the site and they will let us know when the problem is fixed. Brian Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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Conference Panel Sumission Help
by Jay Hauben 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, I am trying to submit a panel proposal and the 6 abstracts from the panelists for AoIR-9. The deadline is Feb 22 but I have not been able to see how to submit the panel proposal and the 6 abstracts along with the 6 little biographies. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks. Jay

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