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OZCHI 2008 - Second Call for Papers
by Marcus Foth 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Please forward to any interested party (apologies for multiple postings). ===== OZCHI SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ===== OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitat & Habitus 8 - 12 December 2008 Cairns (Tropical North Queensland) Australia http://www.ozchi.org/ IMPORTANT DATES 27th June 2008: Long Papers/Tutorials/Workshops 1st September 2008: Short Papers/Demos/Doc Consortium OZCHI is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Human- Computer Interaction and CHISIG's (www.chisig.org) annual non-profit conference. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference will be from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2008, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December 2008. The conference is located at James Cook University's Cairns campus in the tropics of North Queensland, Australia, with accommodation at the Palm Cove resort. The long and short papers accepted in the conference will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Conference Chair: Nic Bidwell Email: conf.chair at ozchi.org Find out more at: http://www.ozchi.org/ We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in the Australian tropics. Regards Frank Vetere, Christine Satchell, Connor Graham OZCHI 2008 Technical Program Chairs -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Dimensions & Questions on Sustainable Development
by Luis Gutierrez 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

FYI .... The following have been posted this year: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N1 January 2008 Theme: The Religious Dimension of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n01.html Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N2 February 2008 Theme: The Spiritual Dimension of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n02.html Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N3 March 2008 Theme: The Human Dimension of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n03.html Just posted: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N4 April 2008 Theme: The Gender Dimension of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n04.html In preparation: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N5 May 2008 Theme: The Nuptial Dimension of Sustainable Development http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n05.html Questions: CAN YOU SUGGEST OTHER DIMENSIONS? CAN YOU SUGGEST QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS? Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, SSNV Research Newsletter http://pelicanweb.org/solisust.html

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Gender swapping in SL
by Adam Davis 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Apologies for cross-posting... I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL. My focus is on identity in online environments, and I haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for in database searches. Many thanks, Adam Davis PhD Student Mass Communication and Media Arts Southern Illinois University SL: Forthwith Sideways --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

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Announcement: workshop on art, new media & the hybrid spaces new media provoke
by Niels Hendriks 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Workshop on art, new media & the hybrid spaces new media provokes 06 + 07 May 2008 / @Z33, Hasselt, Belgium / Free, register at http://www.spacecowboys.be Our feeling of space and place changes and refreshes constantly through the interaction and communication possibilities of new media. Locations and environments may be altered from public to a private and from concrete to virtual through for example mobile online instant messaging tools, virtual worlds or online social networks. These hybrid spaces create emotional and aesthetic possibilities for artists to experiment with. How do artists work with hybrid space and how do they make us aware of the social and cultural implications? During two workshop days (06 + 07 May) we will think, talk and work around four thematic issues: local/global, private/public, narrative/creative visible/invisible. This workshop will be moderated by John Hopkins. Speakers & guests: Armin Medosh, Anne Nigten, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Eric Kluitenberg, Kurt Vanhoutte, Peter Westenberg, Maja Kuzmanovic and Pieter van Bogaert. Via their work, presentations, controversial proposition, they will trigger the conversation on the four workshop themes. In our workshop we will use The Cowboy methodology. This method asks for an active engagement of each participant starting from his/her own background and using a medium of choice. Keywords for the methodology are: openness, individual empowerment, transdisciplinarity, passion and engagement. The findings, conclusions, new questions and other output of this workshop will be brought together on the website www.spacecowboys.be and in a printed publication. Register at http://www.spacecowboys.be Questions? info(a)spacecowboys.be (or rosanne(a)spacecowboys.be - niels(a)spacecowboys.be) Regards, Niels Hendriks __________________________________________ niels.hendriks(a)mda.khlim.be docent, onderzoeks- & projectmedewerker Communication & multimediadesign http://c-md.khlim.be (mob) 0032 476 24 29 45 (skype) nielshendriks Favourites: http://del.icio.us/nielshendriks Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nielshendriks LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nielshendriks __________________________________________ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.7/1361 - Release Date: 5/04/2008 7:53

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Re: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

They are all books, and not available online. Only JALN is online. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:55:18 +0100 >From: "sultan ." <sarifi(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life >To: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> >Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Caroline > Thank you so much for these valuable references. > Are they all available online in the Journal of > Asynchronous Learning Networks? > > > Sultan > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Caroline > Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> wrote: > > A few references not directly associated with > Second Life, but with the migration > from ftf to online education: > > Research > Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). > Handbook of E-Learning > Research. London: Sage. > -- includes chapter on CSCL, and on second > language learning > > Design > Barab, S. A., Kling, R. & Gray, J. H. (Eds.) > (2004). Designing for virtual > communities in the service of learning. NY: > Cambridge University Press. > > CSCL > Koschmann, T. (Ed.)(1996) CSCL: Theory and > Practice of an Emerging Paradigm. > Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. > > Other > Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M.M. (Eds.) (2004). > Learning, Culture and > Community in Online Education: Research and > Practice. NY: Peter Lang. > > Steeples, Christine & Jones, Chris (2002). > Networked Learning: Perspectives and > Issues. London: Springer. > > Also look at the Journal of Asynchronous Learning > Networks (you only need to > register to see that articles) > http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp > > /Caroline > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:58:26 +0100 > >From: "sultan ." <sarifi(a)gmail.com> > >Subject: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life > >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > >Hello all > > > >As a postgraduate student who is very interested > in SL applications in > >education, I am pleased to be part of this group > as I am learning from you > >new and innovative ideas every day. However, this > is my first post and I > >hope I can get your help in two issues: > > > >1- I am going to write a research literature > to answer the following > >question: > > > >Can "first life" educators add to their practice > by migrating some of it to > >Second Life? > > > >I would like to seek out relevant research on > design and practice in this > >theme and provide a review of educational > potential that would be useful to > >an interested practitioner. > > > >So, what are your recommendations? And could you > please guide me to some > >places and references in this field? > > > > > > > >2- I am planning to do my MA thesis in one > of the following topics: > > > >A- Collaborative learning in SL based on > meetings between some students > >in world. > > > >B- The potential of second life in learning > English as a second language > >based on my observations to some sites and > islands and practice as I speak > >English as a second language. > > > >Which topic do you recommend me more? And could > you please guide me to > some > >references for both topics. > > > > Bear in mind that my bachelor degree is in > English and I am now doing my > MA > >in ICT in Education not in English. > > > >Please do not hesitate to write me your feedback > and suggestions. > > > >I need your help. > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Sultan > > sarifi(a)gmail.com > >_______________________________________________ > >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >is provided by the Association of Internet > Researchers http://aoir.org > >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >http://www.aoir.org/ > > ---------------------------------------- > Caroline Haythornthwaite > Associate Professor > Graduate School of Library and Information > Science, University of Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign > 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Re: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

A few references not directly associated with Second Life, but with the migration from ftf to online education: Research Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of E-Learning Research. London: Sage. -- includes chapter on CSCL, and on second language learning Design Barab, S. A., Kling, R. & Gray, J. H. (Eds.) (2004). Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning. NY: Cambridge University Press. CSCL Koschmann, T. (Ed.)(1996) CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Other Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M.M. (Eds.) (2004). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang. Steeples, Christine & Jones, Chris (2002). Networked Learning: Perspectives and Issues. London: Springer. Also look at the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (you only need to register to see that articles) http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:58:26 +0100 >From: "sultan ." <sarifi(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Hello all > >As a postgraduate student who is very interested in SL applications in >education, I am pleased to be part of this group as I am learning from you >new and innovative ideas every day. However, this is my first post and I >hope I can get your help in two issues: > >1- I am going to write a research literature to answer the following >question: > >Can "first life" educators add to their practice by migrating some of it to >Second Life? > >I would like to seek out relevant research on design and practice in this >theme and provide a review of educational potential that would be useful to >an interested practitioner. > >So, what are your recommendations? And could you please guide me to some >places and references in this field? > > > >2- I am planning to do my MA thesis in one of the following topics: > >A- Collaborative learning in SL based on meetings between some students >in world. > >B- The potential of second life in learning English as a second language >based on my observations to some sites and islands and practice as I speak >English as a second language. > >Which topic do you recommend me more? And could you please guide me to some >references for both topics. > > Bear in mind that my bachelor degree is in English and I am now doing my MA >in ICT in Education not in English. > >Please do not hesitate to write me your feedback and suggestions. > >I need your help. > > Thanks a lot > > Sultan > sarifi(a)gmail.com >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Gender swapping in SL
by William Bain 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Adam Davis wrote : "I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL." Of possible *ancillary* interest: an article in *The Independent* on the lucrativeness of "porn-lit". The article mentions the Net as being "largely to thank for the rise of erotic literature", a perhaps questionable perception........ Anyway, as I say, of possible interest in a general way, it's titled "Dirty sexy money: The writer Rupert Smith on his lucrative porn-lit sideline" -- at the long url : http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/dirty-sexy-m… Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

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Re: [Air-L] Gender swapping in SL
by Joshua Raclaw 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Are you familiar with these two articles? The Hussain and Griffiths article is probably most relevant to what you're interested in, though the Sundén may also be worth looking at. Hussain, Z. and M. Griffiths. (2008). "Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study." Cyberpsychology and Behavior 11(1). http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cpb.2007.0020?cookieSet=1 Sundén, J. (2002). “I’m still not sure she’s a she”: Textual talk and typed bodies in online interaction. In P. McIlvenny (Ed.). Talking gender and sexuality (pp. 289-312). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice Women and Gender Studies University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:09:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: Adam Davis <adavis45(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: [Air-L] Gender swapping in SL >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Apologies for cross-posting... > > >I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL. My focus is on identity in online environments, and I haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for in database searches. > > >Many thanks, > >Adam Davis >PhD Student >Mass Communication and Media Arts >Southern Illinois University >SL: Forthwith Sideways > > > >--------------------------------- >You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/

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Some Results from the Survey: Libraries & the Mega Internet Sites
by primarydat＠aol.com 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Primary Research Group has published Libraries & the Mega-Internet Sites ( A Survey of how Libraries Use and Relate to Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBAY, Amazon, Facebook, YouTUBE & Other Mega-Internet Sites), ISBN 1-57440-096-7. This report presents data from more than 120 academic, special and public libraries from the US, UK, Canada and other countries about how they use and relate to the mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, and others. In many ways the mega-sites have transformed library management, fostering change in information literacy education, library marketing and public relations, cataloging, digitization, collection management and other aspects of librarianship. The report provides hard data on exactly how libraries are dealing with the emerging internet giants, how they are adopting, negotiating, repelling, and embracing them. Just a few of the reports conclusions are reproduced below: • 31.1% of the libraries in the sample had ever purchased an e-book from Amazon. Non-U.S libraries were more likely than U.S. libraries to purchase an e-book from Amazon. Indeed, more than 45% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample have purchased an e-book from Amazon, while only 29.63% of the U.S. libraries in the sample have made such a purchase. College and university libraries were the most likely to ever have purchased an e-book from Amazon; 35.62% of the academic libraries in the sample had made such a purchase. The tendency to purchase e-books from Amazon correlated positively with library budget size; 44.44% of the libraries in the sample with a budget exceeding $4.5 million have purchased an e-book from Amazon, while only 24.14% of those with budgets of less than one-half million dollars have made such a purchase. • More than 32% of the librarians responding to the survey considered Wikipedia an “unreliable information source and don’t recommend its use,” while another 65.3% considered it “generally reliable but to use with some caution”, and only 2.48% considered it “as reliable as print encyclopedias”. • Just over half of the libraries in the sample reported that their library staff and patrons did not really use Google Scholar much. Three in 10 participants answered that they used it “reasonably often,” while just over 8% reported using it “extensively.” Fully 9% of the libraries in the sample were completely unaware of Google Scholar. • Awareness and use of Google Scholar generally increased as library budgets increased. No library with a budget below $500,000 reported using Google Scholar extensively. • Over 28% of participants reported that they were currently working with a search engine organization to digitize and make available online elements of their collection. Larger libraries were far more likely than smaller libraries, in terms of budget size, to be working with a search engine to digitize elements of the collection. More than half of the libraries in the sample with an annual overall budget of greater than $4.5 million are working with a search engine to digitize parts of their collection, while only about 11% of libraries with annual budgets of less than $1.5 million are working with a search engine for this purpose. • Overall, 23.14% of the libraries in the sample had offered workshops that included instruction in use of the Yahoo search engine. Nearly half of all public libraries in the sample had offered instruction in use of the Yahoo search engine. • 11.67% of the libraries in the sample have ever offered a course to their patrons on how to use eBay. More than 41% of the public libraries in the sample have offered such a course, as have 29.63% of libraries with budgets of greater than $4.5 million. • 17.36% of the libraries in the sample had a presence on the social networking site Facebook. Interestingly, 25% of non-U.S. libraries in the sample had Facebook pages, far more than the 16.51% of U.S. libraries in the sample. As might be expected of a social networking site that got its start exclusively focused on academia, academic libraries were much more likely than other types of libraries to have a Facebook page. 22.67% of the higher education libraries in the sample have a Facebook presence. • Only seven libraries in our sample have digitized and sold digital print on demand copies of out of copyright works or other works for which they have copyright permission, and then have sold these items through online retailers. Of those that have done this, 16.67% sold through Amazon, another 16.67% did this through Google, and 66.67% through some other online bookseller. • 9.24% of the libraries in the sample have one or more YouTube accounts for the library. 16.67% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample have at least one YouTube account while only 8.41% of the U.S. libraries in the sample had a YouTube account. • 24% of the libraries in the sample use Yahoo Groups. Non-U.S. libraries were far more likely to use Yahoo Groups than the U.S. libraries in the sample; 58.33% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample use Yahoo Groups, while only 20.2% of U.S. libraries did so. • 20.66% of the libraries in the sample have staff who use Google Docs special productivity tools, including Google spreadsheets, word processing capabilities and other features. • 10.74% of the libraries in the sample not currently using Google Blogger plan to do so in the near future. A quarter of non-U.S. libraries the sample had such plans, as did 9.17% of the U.S. libraries. The 100 page report presents more than 300 tables of data defining the relationship between libraries and the megasites. For further information visit our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com

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SNS publications
by danah boyd 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

As folks write and publish work on social network sites, please send me the full citation information and the URL to the article. I'm still trying to keep my online biblio of SNS articles up-to-date since folks are always asking about what research is out there. The page also has lots of Google love so I know that there are a lot of folks interested. (If you can't put the article online, please tell me what email I should use to send folks to you.) Research on Social Network Sites http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html Thanks! danah

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