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DeadLine Extension: EURO mGOV and mSOCIETY 2008
by i k 12 May '08

12 May '08

MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS New Submission Deadline: 2 June 2008 -- mSOCIETY 2008 -- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society -- EURO mGOV 2008 -- The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government 15 -19 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey http://www.mgovernment.org/events/index.html mlife(a)mgovernment.org mLife Events Organization decided to extended the submission deadline to June 2nd, both to respond to various requests for extension and to organize the special sessions better. Electronic submissions are open and can be accessed via http://www.mgovernment.org/confadmin/ Please see the confenence brief below and more information on the conferences, program highlights, topics, organisers and supporters can be found at the http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ Cheers Kushchu, General Chair ---- Please feel free to forward MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS -- mSOCIETY 2008 -- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society -- EURO mGOV 2008 -- The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government 15 -19 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey http://www.mgovernment.org/events/index.html mlife(a)mgovernment.org SPONSORS, ORGANIZERS and SUPPORTERS: --- TURKCELL (Diamond Sponsor), TurkSat (Gold Sponsor) --- CISCO, Mobile Government Consortium International, AykeyNet, Dept. of Computer Engineering TOBB Uni. of Economics and Technology The Center for Information & Society at the University of Washington TUBITAK mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part in and shape the development of the social aspects of the mobile revolution. They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed in order to reach their goals. ----- EURO mGOV 2008 - The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government 15-16 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey ----- Mobile Government involves revolutionary approaches to eGovernment and the modernization of public sector via the utilization of networked mobile technologies in local or central government organizations. It aims to enhance public sector business by creating new opportunities to provide services to society. mGovernment is now a recognized field of practice and research, and constitutes the next evolutionary step of progress in eGovernment. The EURO mGOV 2008 aims to be a platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services in the field of mGovernment among three essential constituents: public and private sector professionals and the researchers. ------ 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] AoIR Newsletter III
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 12 May '08

12 May '08

And a very nice newsletter it is. Thanks to the creators and contributors. Included is (yet another) announcement of the inaugural ICS/AoIR special issue of papers from the 2007 conference -- recommended viewing for all! /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 02:22:04 -0400 >From: "Sandra C. Bavasso Roffo" <scbr(a)sinectis.com.ar> >Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Newsletter III >To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >Cheers! The third edition of the AoIR newsletter is now available online -with information about new publications, job openings, PhD news, and more, much more. You can find it at: > ><http://aoir.org/newsletter/> > >Thanks to to all the rest of the team that made it possible (Karine Barzilai- Nahon; Mark Bell; Andrew Cox; Eliezer Ferreira; Maciej Kos; Deanya Lattimore; Denise Rall; Pedro Oiarzabal; Jamie Switzer; Monica Whitty) and to Charles Ess that helped us when no one else would come to our rescue! > >Of course, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome... > >Regards, >Sandra > >_______________________________________________ >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 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] Viral email dissemination as a sociological research
by Katie Morrissey 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi Taryn, I did something similar for my masters thesis, but I used a mixture of internet/email outreach, rather than email alone. For promotional tools, I created several banner images for blog/web posts and a sample email for participants to use to promote my survey. This is for a masters thesis, so emphasis on the "pilot" in pilot study, but the approach was very successful for me. One thing you might consider for measuring who is/is not responding-- and you may already be doing this-- Survey Monkey allows you to create multiple unique URLs for your survey which you can track. I used those with each place I posted information about the survey. It isn't the best guide, but it does allow you to see which outreach attempts are (or are not) more successful than others. They also offer some sort of emailing service (the one using addresses you provide). This may allow you to watch the survey's movement a little more carefully, but I didn't use it so I'm not quite sure what it really entails. - Katie On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:45 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:31:08 -0700 (PDT) > From: Taryn Ferris <tarynferris(a)yahoo.com.au> > Subject: [Air-L] Viral email dissemination as a sociological research > methodology - some questions > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <364815.8422.qm(a)web51409.mail.re2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi there. > > I'm > quite new to this listserv and have never posted, but I've been quietly > imbibing posts for a couple of weeks, and I'd now like to stick my head > out and ask a few questions... > > I'm currently analysing the > results from a small (pilot) online research project I have conducted, > and to date, I have not been able to locate anyone within the field of > sociology in particular who is using similar online methodologies. I'm > wondering if there's any of you out there who can point me in the right > (or any!) direction... > > Broadly, I have utilised viral or > community email dissemination to recruit research participants, and in > doing so have tried to go some way to addressing issues of > researcher/researched power relations (in theory!) by relying on > participant-led take-up. I have created a survey via Survey Monkey and > have placed the link in an email that I have sent to all those within > my social network. I have then asked individuals to pass on the email > (viral or community marketing-style) within their social networks (and > beyond if possible). Within the survey participants are asked if they > would like to participate in a further stage of the study which > requires them to supply an image pertaining to a question posed in the > survey. Take-up of this second stage, is of course, once again, > entirely optional and participant-led. > > Forgive > me all you scholarly techies out there - I am very new to internet > research, and really no expert at all on internet technologies, so you > may find my explication below lacking in net-savvy understanding or > terminology. I am first and foremost a sociologist who is interested in > employing internet technologies as a methodology for qualitative > sociological research. > > Within this pilot early analysis shows > the methodology has been reasonably successful with around 70% of > survey take-up *not* originating from emails that I originally > disseminated. Nonetheless it definitely has its drawbacks - one major > one being that there is no way (that I'm aware of, and by reading your > posts over the last few weeks I believe it is a drawback of online > research in general - although perhaps something that many of you are > working to change) of measuring the overall success, or failure, of the > research in terms of who *does not* respond (ie who the project reaches > but does not appeal to). One is only aware of the methodological > success rate because of the impossibility of tracing unsuccessful > dissemination *beyond* one's original mail-out. > > Anyway, > I really just wanted to know if any of you were aware of studies > (published or unpublished) outside the realm of marketing where this > type of online methodology is being employed...? I'd love to find some > sociologists experimenting with this methodology, but failing that, any > research utilising viral dissemination methodologies would be of > interest! > > Many thanks for you time, > > Taryn. > > -- > > Taryn Ferris Hands Project > c/o Dr. Irene Gedalof > Course Leader, Women's Studies > Department of Humanities Arts and Languages > Room TM214 > London Metropolitan University > 166-220 Holloway Road > London N8 OAL > E: taryn.ferris.hands.project(a)googlemail.com > > -- "Dishonesty, after all, is just another word for narrative." -- Judith Halberstam

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viral sampling
by Barry Wellman 12 May '08

12 May '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:42:48 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: taryn ferris <taryn.ferris.hands.project(a)googlemail.com>, social networks list <socnet(a)lists.ufl.edu> Subject: viral sampling Taryn, What you're doing is called "snowball sampling" and has been around for about 30 years in sociology -- altho not widely used there. Some key authors to search for are Bonnie Erickson and Ove Frank. (Bonnie is "near" you for a few months in Japan, so you might want to talk with her by phone. She knows more than me.) The only online use I know of, for a different purpose, is Duncan Watts and colleagues at Columbia Sociology, who did a small-world study whose object was to trace the snowballing itself as an indicator of connectivity. Good luck, 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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Call for contributors: Workshop on Research 2.0, 18 June 2008, Manchester
by Yuwei Lin 12 May '08

12 May '08

*** Apologies for cross-posing *** 2nd CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS Workshop on Research 2.0 18 June, Manchester (To be held in conjunction with the 4th International e-Social Science conference, 18-20 June 2008, http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/) ---------- Background ---------- Participation in online, social networking activities has become highly popular in contemporary society. Commercial websites integrating with a range of Web 2.0 tools have created a new discourse, replacing the static, top-down nature of Web 1.0. Web 2.0 is also changing the way we do research. It has been envisioned that a well-designed social networking site can facilitate communications between scientists at different physical locations and in different disciplines, and can encourage them or at least make it easier for them to share their data and findings, and possibly recreate and reuse these resources. Research 2.0 is the term commonly used to describe the extension of Web 2.0 tools to support academic and other research. But do all lessons we have learnt from generic social networking sites apply to scientific social networking ones? Or are there any substantial differences between the two, given the specific needs of users working in scientific field? ---------------------- Format of the workshop ---------------------- This one-day workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the 4th International e-Social Science conference at Manchester, aims to map current territory of Research 2.0 (What Web 2.0 applications exist in research and how have they been adopted), and to identify the opportunities and challenges in the development and implementation of Research 2.0. It will consist of a number of short papers and discussion sessions identifying promising research directions and initiating interdisciplinary collaboration. ----------------------------------------- Call for paper presenters and discussants ----------------------------------------- We are looking for paper presenters and discussants. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * new Web 2.0-based technologies for facilitating scientific work * design and evaluation methodologies for Research 2.0 sites (including new research methods such as virtual ethnography) * usability and performativity issues of Research 2.0 sites * cultural, legal and social issues around Research 2.0 * case studies on scientific use of web 2.0 tools and concepts * how Research 2.0 shape the production of scientific knowledge (Do Web 2.0 applications in research make a difference to existing Internet applications like email, content management systems or newsgroups?) * good practice of engaging users and fostering a Research 2.0 community --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Participants interested in presenting a short paper or being a discussant should submit a 300-word abstract describing the paper to present or the topics to discuss to Yuwei Lin <yuwei.lin(a)ncess.ac.uk> not later than Friday 16 May, 2008. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: 16 May, 2008 Author notification: 19 May, 2008 Date of Workshop: 18 June, 2008 ---------- Organisers ---------- Yuwei Lin (University of Manchester) Rob Procter (University of Manchester) Meik Poschen (University of Manchester) Rachel Gibson (University of Manchester) David De Roure (University of Southampton) For further information please see http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/ -- Dr. Yuwei Lin ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) University of Manchester Arthur Lewis Building 2C Manchester M13 9PL UK T. +44-(0)161-2751388 F. +44-(0)161-2751390 W. (work) http://www.ncess.ac.uk W. (personal) http://www.ylin.org

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Book: The Pleasures of Computer Gaming
by Jason Wilson 11 May '08

11 May '08

(Apologies for X-posting) Hi all, The Pleasures of Computer Gaming, a collection on the aesthetics of computer games edited by Melanie Swalell and Jason Wilson, is now available for order from McFarland Scholarly Publishers. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/contents-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3595-1 Introduction Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson 1 1. Little Jesuses and *@#?-off Robots: On Cybernetics, Aesthetics, and Not Being Very Good at Lego Star Wars Seth Giddings and Helen W. Kennedy 2. Gaming/Gambling: Addiction and the Videogame Experience Joyce Goggin 3. Forbidden Pleasures: Cheating in Computer Games Julian Kücklich 4. Movement and Kinaesthetic Responsiveness: A Neglected Pleasure Melanie Swalwell 5. “Participation TV”: Videogame Archaeology and New Media Art Jason Wilson 6. The Navigator’s Experience: An Examination of the Spatial in Computer Games Bernadette Flynn 7. Wargaming and Computer Games: Fun with the Future Patrick Crogan 8. Gameplay as Thirdspace Brett Nicholls and Simon Ryan Cheers Jason Wilson Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail

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blog research
by Ms Bo McGrath 11 May '08

11 May '08

Hi, my name is Bo and I am an Honours student in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of Queensland, Australia. I am researching the experiences that blog readers have with their favorite blogger for my Honours Thesis. I am specifically looking at readers that do not blog themselves and are unknown to the blogger offline. Since this research is Australian-based, I am only looking at Australian blog readers. If this strikes your interest and you would like to assist in recruiting participants or would like to find out more, then I would like to hear from you. All inquiries are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bo McGrath School of English, Media Studies & Art History, 4th Floor, Michie Bld University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia Tel: 0404 372 989 Fax: +61 7 3365 2799 Email: s4029966(a)student.uq.edu.au

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Call for short papers from graduate students
by Daren Carroll Brabham 10 May '08

10 May '08

REMINDER! DUE JUNE 1, 2008 -------------------------------------------- Call for short papers for a forum in the graduate student journal Rocky Mountain Communication Review. **FACULTY: PLEASE spread this forum call--and news about RMCR in general--to your graduate students!** Forum: "New Media, New Relations" Rocky Mountain Communication Review Guest forum editor: Daren C. Brabham, University of Utah (daren.brabham(a)utah.edu) Rocky Mountain Communication Review (RMCR) seeks short papers (approximately 1500 words) that address the ways in which new media technologies are changing how we work, solve problems, make friends, tell stories, and make progress in our world. The focus of this forum is on the role new media play in re-structuring, re-making, and re-imagining our world. In other words, how exactly have new media changed our world? What are the implications for these changes? What are the most pressing questions and agendas for research regarding these changes? For the purposes of this forum, new media include both digital mass communication technologies (e.g., the Web) as well as personal digital media (e.g., cell phones, digital music players). Submissions can be empirical, rhetorical, or theoretical. Possible topics may include: * how new media are changing the nature of specific industries and professions (e.g., journalism, stock photography); * how social networking sites are changing the ways we make friends, fall in love, and make professional connections; * how personal digital media script our daily rituals and needs; * how new media enable democratic participation; * how new media change/challenge aspects of our identities (e.g., along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, nationality); * how new media technologies enhance, fragment, or otherwise change the way we tell stories and entertain; * how new media technologies change the ways we teach and learn; and * how new media technologies affect social movements and activism. RMCR is a peer-reviewed, online communication journal by and for graduate students, published by the University of Utah. Authors MUST be currently enrolled in a graduate program to be eligible for publication in the journal. All submissions undergo blind, peer-review by at least two graduate students. RMCR is an up-and-coming journal in its fourth volume, and the journal was recently added to the EBSCO database. For more information about the journal: http://rmcr.utah.edu <https://www.umail.utah.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://rmcr.utah.edu/> . Please send inquiries, proposals, and papers to Daren Brabham at daren.brabham(a)utah.edu by June 1, 2008. db --- Daren C. Brabham Graduate Teaching Fellow Department of Communication University of Utah 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 2400 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 phone: (801) 633-4796 daren.brabham(a)utah.edu www.darenbrabham.com <http://www.darenbrabham.com/>

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_Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _
by Gerry Mckiernan 10 May '08

10 May '08

Friends/ A Most Significant Friday PM Book Discovery: _Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _ We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's advertising agency of the year. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going on? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation in environments from open source through blogs and the Wikipedia to Second Life. He shows that what's emerging here is no longer just a new form of content production, but a new process for the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and democracy. **Brief Table of Contents** Introduction The Key Characteristics of Produsage Open Source Software Development: Probabilistic Eyeballs News Blogs and Citizen Journalism: Perpetual Collaboration in Evaluating the News Wikipedia: Representations of Knowledge Wikipedia and Beyond: The Palimpsest of Human Knowledge Folksonomies: Produsage and/of Knowledge Structures Folks and Experts: Beyond the Pro/Am Divide The Art of Produsage: Distributed Creativity Media and Creative Industries: New Opportunities or Casual Collapse? The Produsage Game: Harboring the Hive of Produsers Social Produsage: Questions of Reputation and Trust Educating Produsers, Produsing Education: Produsage and the Academy Produsing Democracy Conclusion: Production, Produsage, and the Future of Humanity Bibliography >>Links to a Full Description and Detailed Table of Contents and Introduction Available At<< [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogs-wikipedia-second-lif… ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/49b5vc ] Enjoy! /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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AoIR Newsletter III
by Sandra C. Bavasso Roffo 09 May '08

09 May '08

Cheers! The third edition of the AoIR newsletter is now available online -with information about new publications, job openings, PhD news, and more, much more. You can find it at: <http://aoir.org/newsletter/> Thanks to to all the rest of the team that made it possible (Karine Barzilai-Nahon; Mark Bell; Andrew Cox; Eliezer Ferreira; Maciej Kos; Deanya Lattimore; Denise Rall; Pedro Oiarzabal; Jamie Switzer; Monica Whitty) and to Charles Ess that helped us when no one else would come to our rescue! Of course, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome... Regards, Sandra

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