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Re: [Air-L] Online Research Methods Texts
by Daren Carroll Brabham 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

I found this helpful in a recent study I did using IM interviewing. It covers other online methodological issues, too: Kazmer, M.M., & Xie, B. (2008). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method. Information, Communication & Society, 11(2), 115-136. 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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Wikipedia Bibliography
by Mark Bell 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Folks, I thought I would post my Wikipedia bibliography from my master's thesis. Hope you find it useful. http://www.storygeek.com/?page_id=83 M -- Mark Bell MA student in Ball State University's Digital Storytelling program ( http://www.bsu.edu/cim/storytelling/) http://www.storygeek.com http://www.digital-ethos.com/ "The future is here...it's just not widely distributed." - Tim O'Reilly

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Re: new media and shock
by Stephanie Kent 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi all - I generally just lurk, but I was struck by a discontinuity in discussion last Thursday and think it bears on this question of becoming inured to shock. There were 6 posts on "London...the internet accounts" interspersed with 4 on "AoIR 6.0 Chicago 2005 Registration is now open", 1 each on "iCS 8.2", "Call for proposals", and "Internet and fun/joy/pleasure". In the three days since, "London" vanished, some of the other threads continued, and new ones appeared. This is no doubt the nature of most conversations on this list, and perhaps everything that could be said about shock and bearing up and giving sympathy was expressed in the comments that were posted, and/or continuation has moved to other venues. But I had some cognitive dissonance reading the disparate threads as business-as-usual went on for many (including me) while others were wondering just how "usual" their lives were going to continue to be. I'm not familiar with any of the literature on shock, but some levels or layers of protection are evident in the acts of just getting on with things, whatever those immediate things that consume us may be. At the same time, I'm aware it would also be counterproductive (at least to purposes of peace and justice) to mine the event for all its tragedy, as this would play into political efforts to cast the attack in symbolic terms that fuel nationalisms and other hatreds. Shock, by definition, puts one in a state of non-responsiveness; the challenge may be the degree to which that lack of response gets carried over or continued into the return to the mundane, especially after the state-of-shock has worn off. best, steph http://www.reflexivity.us On Jul 10, 2005, at 3:07 PM, air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Hello all--a colleague of mine asked me if I could help him with the > following question. I'm not an authority on the Frankfurt School or > its > theorization of shock but hope that some of you out there might be. > Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Ken > > > His problem/question is as follows: > > Much ink has been spilt over shock within Frankfurt School writings. A > concept clearly taken over from Simmel and Freud, shock runs to the > heart > of Benjamin's media theory. But have Benjamin and Adorno appropriated > the > term as face value without ever considering the implications of their > assertions? Adorno's thinking would seem to intimate that at some > future > date nothing will ever shock us anymore, for the body will have > developed > such a thick protective barrier that nothing harmful will ever get > through--an idea worth resisting in itself. > > Are there any sustained studies of the question of shock particularly > within the domain of media Are there any articles within media theory > that > address the matter of shock in a postmodern, digital world?

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FYI: DERI, NUI Galway launches the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
by Uldis Bojars 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi, Please find attached information about a competition involving a large amount of online community data. Feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested in this competition. Uldis http://captsolo.net/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Breslin <john.breslin(a)deri.org> Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM Subject: DERI, NUI Galway launches the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is running a unique competition from 1st August to 30th September 2008 in conjunction with boards.ie, Ireland's largest discussion forum site. The competition is an open contest in which entrants can win over €4000 in Amazon.com vouchers by submitting an interesting creation based on an RDF data set of discussion posts from boards.ie over the past ten years: * The first prize is an Amazon voucher for $4000 (~€2500) * The second prize is a voucher for $2000 (~€1250) * The third prize is a voucher for $1000 (~€625) Read the rules and find out more information on the contest at: http://data.sioc-project.org/ The data set (approximately 9 million documents) has been represented in the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) RDF format developed by DERI, NUI Galway for expressing the information contained in social websites (forums, mailing lists, blogs, etc.). Entrants may create whatever they feel is interesting based on this data: it could be a novel web application that makes use of the data set, a report on analyses performed on the data, a tool that allows one to visualise or browse the semantic structure, or whatever else the imagination can come up with! The data reflects ten years of Irish online life, collected between 1998 and 2008 from boards.ie. boards.ie is one of Ireland's busiest websites, with over a million unique visitors a month. The most popular discussion areas are 'after hours', soccer, motors, poker, and computers. Popular topic threads include one about a virtual pub (over 4000 pages), member discussions (2800 pages), poker stories (1800 pages), Liverpool rumours (1250 pages), recruitment in the Gardaí (800 pages long), and a freebie list (250 pages). To enter the competition, go to http://data.sioc-project.org/ to access the data sets and view the guidelines. There will be three prizes for the top entries, as judged by an independent panel of three experts. The contest is open to anyone except current / former researchers with DERI and employees of boards.ie Ltd. One person may make multiple entry submissions. The closing date is the 30th September 2008. The purpose of this contest is to generate interesting applications or creations that make use of community data represented in the SIOC Semantic Web format. All rights to these creations will remain with the contest participants (not including the underlying data, whose copyright remains with the creators). Neither DERI nor boards.ie Ltd. will acquire any commercial rights to these applications or creations as submitted through this contest. Up until now, this data has been publicly viewable, but it was difficult to leverage it without any added semantics due to the fact that it was embedded in heavily-styled HTML pages. (DERI is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) established at NUI Galway in 2003 with funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). After five years of operation, DERI has become an internationally-recognised institute in Semantic Web research, education and technology transfer.) -- Dr. John Breslin DERI, NUI Galway http://www.johnbreslin.org/ john.breslin(a)deri.org

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convergence
by Sabryna Cornish 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi all--I am teaching a graduate course on media convergence. I have a good idea for readings for the course, but wanted some suggestions from list serv members about what they might require graduate students to read. I am purposely not including a description of the course to see what list serv members think about when they consider the term media convergence. I will say this is a theoretically based course. Thanks in advance for any help! Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University

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Lessons in Second Life (day and time change)
by jeremy hunsinger 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

distribute as appropriate -jh we're returning to our fall schedule. tuesdays at noonish slt, 3ish est. Every Week on Tuesday(noon-1:30pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ 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/ ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/ . _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ softwareandculture mailing list softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com _______________________________________________ softwareandculture mailing list softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.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/ _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

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New AoIR website
by Alex Halavais 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Fellow AoIR members (and non-members), If you've been by http://aoir.org recently, you may have noticed that we have a new website. We decided to scale down and simplify a bit, and are now running Wordpress rather than Drupal. I think you will find it both easy to navigate and easy on the eyes. You may notice there are still some small things that need tweaked, and these will be fixed soon. In some cases, these are noted or obvious, but If you see something awry, or have comments or ideas, please do not hesitate to contact help(a)aoir.org. One thing that is notably absent is a credits line, and so I will insert it here. Åsa Rosenberg, the graduate representative on the executive committee, designed and built the site pretty much single-handedly. Those among us who do design know how time consuming this can be, and I want to thank Åsa for her willingness to push forward on this long-awaited update to our site, and for making a contribution that benefits the Association and us all. Thanks, Åsa! Best, Alex Halavais -- -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, cyberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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stats showing time spent on social software/web 2.0 applications/sites
by smork＠itu.dk 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Dear list-members, I was wondering if any of you might have made some stats on how much time people spend daily on social software and web 2.0 applications/sites or perhaps have read any good stats on this? Best, Soeren Moerk Petersen PhD Candidate, ITU-Copenhagen

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Fwd: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
by jeremy hunsinger 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

sorry for the xposting, think it is interesting Begin forwarded message: > From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > Date: August 31, 2008 6:55:58 PM EDT > To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU > Subject: 22.186 Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 186. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu > > > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:42:38 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches > > From: Richard Price > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:46 -0700 > > Hi all, > > Im a prize fellow in philosophy at All Souls College Oxford, where I > recently finished my D.Phil on the philosophy of perception. > > Ive just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: > > > - It displays academics around the world in a tree format, > according to what university/department they are affiliated with. > > - It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic > webpage. My webpage on Academia.edu is here: > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice > > > My hope for the site is that it will list every academic Faculty > members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world, and display > where they are working. I also hope people will use the site to keep > track of what people in their field are working on. > > Im trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you > have a > minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department. > (Or > add your department/university to the tree if it is not there already; > it is easy to add a university or department by clicking on the > arrows). > > And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. > > > Many thanks, > > Richard > > > Dr. Richard Price, > Prize Fellow, > All Souls College, > Oxford, > OX1 4AL > http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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A Radical Scientific Wiki: The Time Is Here !!!
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Colleagues/ As some may be aware, I have long proposed The Wiki as The Next Scholarly Communication/Publishing Environment Gerry McKiernan. "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | Re(Use) / Re(Mix) / Re(New)." Invited keynote presentation delivered at Transforming Practice for An Authentic Future, 3rd International Conference on Plagiarism, June 23-25, 2008, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Director' Cut version self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt> (30 August 2008) "Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities," Invited presentastion delivered at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future. Module 2: Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries, Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources BV (TICER), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, August 23, 2005. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt> (30 August 2008) Thanks To Bernie Sloan, Sora Associates, Bloomington, Indiana has have learned about a wiki called Mememoir and its associated implementation in the WikiGenes project that I believe is a A Major Realization of The Disruptive Scholarship Vision "Reporting in [the September 2008 issue] Nature Genetics, scientist Robert Hoffmann develops the first Wiki where authorship really matters. Based on a powerful authorship tracking technology, this next generation wiki links every word to its corresponding author. This way readers can always know their sources and authors receive due credit. [snip] Clear authorship attribution in this next generation wiki makes it also possible that users can rate each other based on their contributions. For the first time, collaborative publishing can therefore be enhanced with the advantages of a reputation system. Hoffmann describes how a self-regulating reputation system can help to settle editing conflicts, which were an important problem in first generation wikis and used to depend on slow and refutable top-down decisions. The scientific wiki project, introduced in the September issue of Nature Genetics and released online today, is the first of its kind and a milestone in the Mememoir project. "This release is an important proof of principle, but our ambitious aim with the Mememoir project is to revolutionize publishing in all of science," says Dr. Hoffmann, "with a knowledge base that is open access, interdisciplinary and combines the altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship." Robert Hoffman / A Wiki for the Life Sciences Where Authorship Matters / Nature Genetics / volume 40 / number 9 / 1047 - 1051 /September 2008 / Published online 27 August 2008 / doi:10.1038/ng.f.217 Access to sample text from the paper as well as links to the full text of the article (for subscribers (?)) in HMTL and PDF format as well as links to the WikiGenes site and associated components (e.g., Introduction & Tutorial, Sample 'Author' Contribution Page, Sample 'Author' Contribution, etc.) are available at [ http://tinyurl.com/582jq2 ] Please share your thoughts/reactions/etc as a Comment on the entry for this posting on the Scholarship 2.0 blog BTW: Recommendations Of Any And All Other Radical Scholarly Wikis Like/UnLike Mememoir / WikiGenes Are Most Welcome. Regards, /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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