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

new reviews in cyberculture studies (may 2008)
by David M Silver 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

aoir folks, each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies (RCCS) publishes a set of book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for may 2008 include: Electronic Literature Collection (Volume 1) Editors: N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland Publisher: Electronic Literature Organization, 2006 Review 1: Kimberly De Vries Author Response: N. Katherine Hayles Author Response: Scott Rettberg Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production Author: Axel Bruns Publisher: Peter Lang Publishers, 2005 Review 1: J. Richards Stevens Author Response: Axel Bruns Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture Author: Tarleton Gillespie Publisher: MIT Press, 2007 Review 1: Benjamin J. Bates Review 2: Troy K. Schneider Author Response: Tarleton Gillespie enjoy. there's more where that came from. coming soon: a very large list of new and exciting books waiting to be reviewed, perhaps by you. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Canadian PSA
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Greetings all - I was wondering if anyone else has seen that PSA airing on the CBC warning kids about Internet safety? The video follows a young barely-adolescent girl (Sarah? I think) who in the course of her day keeps getting accosted by various older and skeevy-looking men who ask intimate questions based on her blog posts. It's a rather chilling ad, and therefore rather effective. I was wondering if anyone else has seen it and had any thoughts about the efficacy of this kind of use of fear of exposure? Also is the PSA online anywhere? Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New
by Gerry Mckiernan 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Friends/ I am pleased to announce the publication of my abstract for my planned presentation at the forthcoming 3rd International Plagiarism Conference / " Transforming Practice for an Authentic Future" / 23 - 25 June 2008 / City Campus East / Northumbria University / Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK. /Gerry Day 2 / Wednesday / 25th June 2008 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm Keynote 4 Gerry McKiernan Iowa State University, US. _Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New_ Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of modern-day England. ... [It was] 117 kilometres long, ... [I]ts width and height [were] dependent on the construction materials [that] ... were available nearby. ... [T]he wall in the east follow[ed] the outcrop of a hard, resistant igneous diabase rock escarpment. ... Local limestone was used in the construction, except for ... section[s] in the west ... where turf was used instead ... . The Broad Wall was initially built with a clay-bonded rubble core and mortared dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to have made it vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core was sometimes necessary.... [I]n time ... [Hadrian's] Wall was abandoned and fell into ruin. Over the centuries and even into the twentieth century a large proportion of the stone was reused in other local buildings. Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide variety of other structures. For countless generations, artists, composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements from local and distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual forms. In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, and others, would characterize as emblematic of a 'Remix ' or 'Read/Write' culture. Indeed, from his point of view, *the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.* In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices that are expected to significantly impact educational organizations are profiled: Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups, Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the 21st century. Access To The Full Programme Of Excellent Presentation Topic Abstracts (With Links To Keynote And Guest Speaker Bios ) AND Links Within My Abstract Is Available At: [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/04/disruptive-scholarship-idea-whose… ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/47gwc9 ] I would appreciate Any/All Feedback on the theme of my presentation (as you will read, it's is open to wide interpretation) and/or relevant cites/sites. ***Please Make Recommendations As Comments on The Blog Entry*** Thanks A Million! /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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E-Government @ HICSS42 Second Call for Papers
by Jochen Scholl 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Second Call for Papers (Apologies for double postings) Electronic Government Track at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 5 to 8, 2009 Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Submissions must not have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere; all submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process. Important Deadlines >From now to June 1 [Optional] : Prepare Abstracts. Then, contact MINITRACK CHAIRS for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June15 - August15). August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper. The Electronic Government Track comprises ten minitracks: * Development Methods for Electronic Government * Emerging Topics in e-Government * E-Government Foundations and Methods * E-Government Information Security * E-Government Infrastructure and Interoperability * E-Government Organization & Management * E-Government Service and Information * E-Policy, Law, and Governance * E-Participation and E-Citizenship * Privacy, Transparency, and Trustworthy E-Government Systems For details please see http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/42tracks.htm#EGOV http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/42callforpapers.htm For the third time, the conference hosts a symposium of the "Global Electronic Government Research and Practice Community." For details, please see http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/42swt.htm Jochen Scholl HICSS42 Electronic Government Track

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Re: [Air-L] digital literacy takes a field trip to a farm
by David M Silver 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

when i began teaching undergrads about the internet in 1994, i had to coax and convince them that they should use it. "you'll find email useful," i'd say, or, "be the first person in your dorm to have your very own home page on the world wide web!" later, of course, we - students and profs - flocked to the web but not to all sites. in the late 1990s, i had to coax and convince my students to try out lambdaMOO and other more esoteric sites that our class readings described in detail. with web 2.0, the things we used to theorize - virtual communities and online identities - are now, through yelp or lastfm or facebook or flickr or blogs or wikipedia - are everyday destinations with our students. coming full circle, i no longer have to coax and convince my students to log on. these days, i have to coax and convince my students to log off. thanks to list members for sharing their own attempts/struggles with logging off and thanks to nicole ellison for sharing her media-use diary assignment. for another assignment on logging off, see my USF colleague andrew goodwin's blog post: http://professorofpop.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-kill-time-when-you-can-kill.… finally, i want to echo something kim de vries said in a post to the list: my students and i did not go low tech nor no tech. in some ways we went high tech in that we used more technologies than we normally use in a day. we used saws, axes, shovels, FIRE, wood stoves, gas stoves, and pens, paper, and books. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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eSubmissions to Mobile Life Conferences: The EURO mGOV and mSOCIETY 2008
by i k 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Dear all The deadline for submissions of practice talks and research papers for the mLIfe events is fast approaching - 9 May 2008. This year mLIfe Events - International Conferences on Mobile Government and the Mobile Society - is receiving a great attention from all around the world. We are expecting an increasing number participation from the Public Sector, NGOs, Mobile Industry and researchers. We extended invitations to more 1200 companies in the international mobile industry value chain, a number of high-level public sector representatives, policy and decision makers from governments of primarily EU countries and hundreds of researchers and practitioners in the fields of, for example, eGovernment, mobile government, Mobile Business, impacts of mobile technologies on economic development, indivuduals and the society. More information on the conferences, topics, organisers and supporters can be found at the http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ If you are intending to submit a practice talk or a research paper, electronic submissions are open and can be accessed via http://www.mgovernment.org/confadmin/ Looking forward to your submissions and participations Cheers Kushchu ------ IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 == please visit mLife events www.mgovernment.org/events/

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Re: [Air-L] digital literacy takes a field trip to a farm
by David M Silver 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

aoir folk, late last week, i posted a message to air-l (msg title: "digital literacy takes a field trip to a farm") in which i suggested that barry wellman may have a "hissy fit" about the contents of the message. as barry notes in his reply to the list ("msg title: "hissy fit?") my tone was uncalled for and for that i apologize. i've been subscribed to air-l from the start, back in 2001, and for the most part the list has been interesting and engaging and useful. from time to time, flamewars develop, which are usually a drag, and i hope my post doesn't contribute to such an outcome. for the record, in his reply, barry mentions one of my blog posts (msg title: "barry wellman, that ain't right"; http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2007/10/barry-wellman-that-aint-right.html ), in which i question barry's attempt to stop a conversation on air-l about race. i strongly believe this field - as well as all academic fields, but *especially* this field since it is so new and young and can, conceivably, develop in directions we decide to take it - benefits greatly from conversations about cultural difference (race, gender, sexuality, age, disability, and class) and thought it was wrong of barry to thwart such a conversation. i not apologize for the blog post - and encourage all of us to work hard to make our list and conferences exciting, vital places for discussion, research, and teaching about cultural difference and digital media. my real mistake, however, was to direct attention towards barry wellman and away from what my post was about - about teaching internet studies and digital literacy, about encouraging students (and ourselves) to log off for extended periods of time, about sharing some learning experiences my students and i had while on a magical organic farm, and about asking others to share their teaching/learning experiences. so, with that in mind, i express my apologies to barry and to the list and extend an invitation for folks to post and share more about teaching internet studies in general and introducing logging off activities in particular. thanks, david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:38:00 -0400 > From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: [Air-L] hissy fit? > To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org>, David Silver <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu> > Message-ID: > > > 1. Despite David Silver's astonishing assertion, I have no > recollection of > objecting to teaching-oriented posts to this list. I, too, teach (and > Internet-Society to boot, and I welcome learning more about > teaching the > subject. > > 2. I do object to gratuitous personal attacks on the AoIR list, > such as > David Silver saying I will have a "hissy fit". I don't know where > it has > come from, as David Silver and I have not had any contact for many > months.And the last time was when David launched another gratuitous > personalattack on me -- on his blog. > > 3. I don't know where Dr Silver's animus stems from. For the > record, I > have not had anything do with any administrative or scholarly matter > involving him. > > 4. I wouldn't have thought it was necessary, but I ask AoIR leaders to > remind list members to avoid personal attacks on each other. > > 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 > Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days > **** PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND FAX NUMBER ****

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CFP - Doctoral Colloquium 2008, pre-Internet Research 9.0 conference
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

**************************************************::: 2nd Call for Participation Doctoral Colloquium Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R) Annual Conference 2008 Internet Research 9.0 Copenhagen, Denmark =================== The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday,October 15, 2008 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a two page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Faculty mentors include: Axel Bruns, Australia Sue Fragoso, Brazil Alex Halavais, USA Caroline Haythornthwaite, USA Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Japan We hope to announce additional mentors shortly. SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION Please submit the two page application by Friday, May 23, 2008 to: Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2008. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an eight page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 15, 2008. For further details, please visit the doctoral colloquium webpage at http://conferences.aoir.org or contact the organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium, Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism. _______________________________________ 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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Job opportunity: media practice
by Kathleen O'Riordan 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Dear colleagues, You may be interested in the following job opportunity at the University of Sussex (UK): Senior Lecturer in Media Practice Permanent, full time Salary range: £42,791 - £49,606 Expected start date 1 September 2008 The Department of Media and Film is seeking candidates for a key appointment in Media Practice. We offer a stimulating, research-focused environment with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standard of teaching and learning. Candidates must be able to demonstrate an ability to provide leadership in critically informed Media Practice, within the overall context of the Department of Media and Film, the ability to maintain a practice-as-research profile of the highest level of excellence within the postholder's specialist field, and the ability to develop partnerships with outside bodies. Applications from any area of Media Practice will be welcomed, but we are particularly interested in applicants with an understanding of emerging formats in media practice such as online or mobile film and television. Candidates with additional strengths in dramatic/fiction film, digital/interactive media, radio and/or photography will be especially welcomed. Closing date for applications: 12 May 2008 For full details and how to apply see www.sussex.ac.uk/jobs All the best Kate 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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Re: [Air-L] digital literacy takes a field trip to a farm
by denisecarter＠denisecarter.net 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Kim said<<<Let's also remember that looms, pens, and even language itself are technologies, so when we say logging off, what exactly do we mean? Not sitting at a desk? Not using ICT? --I know this may seem nit-picky, but I just want to be sure I'm thinking f the same thing as others in the discussion when we talk about logging off, or about technology.>>> How fascinating dont you think, that in this web2.0 wired, converged and connected world that we are now beginning to understand (maybe), that the phenomena of logging off from ICTnow seems out of the ordinary and worth studying!! Well I for one am relieved, I can now reveal my secret vices: -I love that end of the working day when I switch off my computer, pour a glass of wine and speak/logon to my husband. -I hate students who email me on a Sunday afternoon and expect me to reply asap even though I only work part-time! -I like spending time alone in my greenhouse, and recently planted cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers (I didnt speak to them and they didnt speak to me but give it time) - sometimes I give myself an email-free day -I take it personally when someone doesnt text me back or answer their mobile, especially when they always reply to messages received when I am with them -I log off most nights for about 7 hours sleep Denise Dr Denise M. Carter, Lecturer in Sociology, Dept. of Social Sciences University of Hull. http://www.denisecarter.net

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