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NYT article of interest
by Nicole Ellison 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Hi AOIRers Some of you may be interested in this piece in the NYT about the "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy": http://tinyurl.com/55zqzm Enjoy, N. * * * Nicole Ellison, PhD nellison(a)msu.edu

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CfP EuroITV 2009 'Networked Television'
by Jo Pierson 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

EuroITV2009 - “Networked Television” 7th European Interactive TV Conference June 3rd to 5th 2009 Leuven, Belgium http://www.euroitv2009.org/ 1st Call for Papers The EuroITV conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original, high quality papers addressing the special theme and topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. The main conference proceedings will be published by ACM. The special theme is "Networked Television", which will be addressed from a technological as well as a user point of view, including economical and business aspects. Important Dates: Tutorials and Workshop Proposals November 7th, 2008 Full Paper Submissions December 19th, 2008 Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos January 30th, 2009 More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented work, will follow soon. More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2009.org/submissions.html This year's conference consists of three tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work. Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction (Chair: Lyn Pemberton) Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies (Chair: Jo Pierson) Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies (Chair: Cristian Hesselman) Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: • Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV • Ambient intelligence, ambient media environments • Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience • Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema • Asset management, metadata and content enrichment • Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows • Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems • Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies • New advertising and revenue models for television • Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction • Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t- learning • Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content • Communication services, video conferencing, messaging • Content management, digital rights management • Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising • Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation • Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) • Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures (ubiquitous and mobile) • Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) • Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology • Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces • Ethical, regulatory and policy issues • Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children • Digital divide and e-inclusion issues • Methods for digital television research and design Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library ( http://portal.acm.org/ ). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. Conference Organizing Committee: General Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Grooff (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Program Chairs: David Geerts (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands) Tutorials Chair: Regina Bernhaupt (University of Salzburg, Austria) Doctoral Consortium Chair: George Lekakos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Demonstration Chairs: Erika Reponen (Nokia, Finland) and Hendrik Knoche (University College London, UK) Short Papers & Posters Chairs: Christof van Nimwegen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, UK) Workshop Chairs: Gunnar Harboe (Motorola Labs, USA) and Marianna Obrist (University of Salzburg, Austria) Business Cases Chairs: Karin Slegers (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Arts Chair: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) Track Chairs: Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton, UK), Jo Pierson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Cristian Hesselman (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands) Program Committee: To be announced Contact: For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2009.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info(a)euroitv2009.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2009 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by sending a mail tolistserv(a)listserv.cc.kuleuven.be with the words “subscribe euroitv2009” (without quotes) in the body of the mail, or use this link: mailto:listserv@listserv.cc.kuleuven.be?body=subscribe%20euroitv2009 Host: Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), IBBT / K.U.Leuven ( http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/ ) Jo Pierson, Ph.D. Senior Researcher IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication Vrije Universiteit Brussel Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor B - 1050 Brussels Belgium NEW Tel: +32 2 629 16 27 NEW Fax: +32 2 629 17 00 E-mail: jo.pierson(a)vub.ac.be http://smit.vub.ac.be

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR on LinkedIn
by Marj Kibby 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Dear Peter, At least Marcus' post had a salutation and a signature - good manners don't require a great effort. Regards, Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> 09/06/08 1:56 AM >>> you need to proof read the text that was obviously copied and pasted from another source. It takes great effort to produce good internet content just like scholarship. On 5-Sep-08, at 2:45 AM, Marcus Foth wrote: > Dear Colleagues > > following a recommendation by Sarah Otner of Harvard University > (thank you!), the AoIR executive committee has approved a LinkedIn > group for the association, and it has now been set up. If you are > on LinkedIn, please join the group and proudly display the new AoIR > logo on your profile. > > We're open for business at: > > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=787167 > > :-) > > cheers, marcus > > -- > 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/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/

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LiveScience: Era of Scientific Secrecy Near End
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Colleagues/ A Must Read For A Friday Afternoon ... /Gerry Era of Scientific Secrecy Near End By Robin Lloyd, LiveScience Senior Editor posted: 02 September 2008 11:30 am ET <http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=cu…> Secrecy and competition to achieve breakthroughs have been part of scientific culture for centuries, but the latest Internet advances are forcing a tortured openness throughout the halls of science and raising questions about how research will be done in the future. The openness at the technological and cultural heart of the Internet is fast becoming an irreplaceable tool for many scientists, especially biologists, chemists and physicists - allowing them to forgo the long wait to publish in a print journal and instead to blog about early findings and even post their data and lab notes online. The result: Science is moving way faster and more people are part of the dialogue. [snip] Open science The open science approach forces researchers to grapple with the question of whether they can still get sufficient credit for their ideas, said physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, co-organizer of a conference on the topic set to begin Sept. 8 at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. [BTW: I Will Be Attending This Unique Conference Science in the 21st Century: Science, Society, and Information Technology <http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/07/science-in-21st-century-science-s…> [ http://tinyurl.com/6ll8fb <http://tinyurl.com/6ll8fb> ] / Look For Conference-Related Postings on My Scholarship 2.0 blog [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/ <http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/> ] within the next two weeks] [snip] Open science is a shorthand for technological tools, many of which are Web-based, that help scientists communicate about their findings. At its most radical, the ethos could be described as "no insider information." Information available to researchers, as far as possible, is made available to absolutely everyone. Beyond email, teleconferencing and search engines, there are many examples: blogs where scientists can correspond casually about their work long before it is published in a journal; social networks that are scientist friendly such as Laboratree and Ologeez; GoogleDocs and wikis which make it easy for people to collaborate via the Web on single documents; a site called Connotea that allows scientists to share bookmarks for research papers; sites like Arxiv, where physicists post their "pre-print" research papers before they are published in a print journal; OpenWetWare which allows scientists to post and share new innovations in lab techniques; the Journal of Visualized Experiments, an open-access site where you can see videos of how research teams do their work; GenBank, an online searchable database for DNA sequences; Science Commons, a non-profit project at MIT to make research more efficient via the Web, such as enabling easy online ordering of lab materials referenced in journal articles; virtual conferences; online open-access (and free) journals like Public Library of Science (PLoS); and open-source software that can often be downloaded free off Web sites. The upshot: Science is no longer under lock and key, trickling out as it used to at the discretion of laconic professors and tense PR offices. For some scientists, secrets no longer serve them. But not everyone agrees. [ MUCH MORE ] SECTIONS Networked Cyborgs Is It A Good Thing? [snip] Open science also has the potential to prevent discrimination in access to information. Arxiv, the site for posting pre-print physics papers, was started in 1991 by Cornell physicist Paul Ginsparg, then at Los Alamos National Laboratory, to help provide equal access to prepublication information to graduate students, postdocs and researchers in developing countries. [BTW: Paul Ginsparg will be of of several Major Players presenting at The Conference] Drawbacks of Open Science Fear Of Losing Peer Review For The Good Of Truth, Humanity, Economies? Access To An Expanded Excerpted Version of The Article And A Link To The Full Article Itself Is Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/6f366g ] Thanks to Sabine Hossenfelder For The HeadsUp ! /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 <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blogger.c…> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://alternativeen…> ]

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AoIR on LinkedIn
by Marcus Foth 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Dear Colleagues following a recommendation by Sarah Otner of Harvard University (thank you!), the AoIR executive committee has approved a LinkedIn group for the association, and it has now been set up. If you are on LinkedIn, please join the group and proudly display the new AoIR logo on your profile. We're open for business at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=787167 :-) cheers, marcus -- 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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Appel à publication "Société de l'information ?"
by Éric GEORGE 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Société de l'information ? Appel à publication, tic&société, vol. 2, no 2 http://www.ticetsociete.org L'expression de « société de l'information » est devenue courante dans un vaste ensemble de discours scientifiques, politiques, économiques et journalistiques depuis plus d'un quart de siècle. Dès les années soixante-dix, il a été question d'une société qui serait de plus en plus caractérisée par l'information, la communication, le savoir, la connaissance ainsi que - et peut-être surtout - par les dispositifs techniques susceptibles de les véhiculer. Selon les moments, les termes mis en avant - « village global », « société câblée », « informatisation de la société », « société de la connaissance », « société du savoir » et « société de l'information » - ont changé mais ont toujours dépeint une société reposant sur la multiplication des échanges d'informations dans un contexte de développement accéléré des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC). Plus récemment, ce syntagme a connu de nouveaux développements autour de technologies réseautiques comme Internet et la téléphonie mobile. Il a même donné son titre à deux rencontres organisées par l'Union internationale des télécommunications (UIT) sous les auspices des Nations-Unies, en 2003 à Genève et à Tunis en 2005. Si l'on en croit les promoteurs de ce projet, la société de l'information correspondrait à une phase de « révolution numérique » dans le secteur des TIC qui entraînerait la libre circulation des informations, des idées et des connaissances dans le monde entier et dans tous les secteurs. Parmi les universitaires, celui qui a formulé la plus complète des thèses sur la société de l'information est Manuel Castells avec sa trilogie sur la société en réseaux. Une analyse à laquelle a répondu de façon systématique Nicholas Garnham qui, s'il reconnaît que les TIC ont pris une place croissante dans nos sociétés au fil des décennies, refuse de considérer pour autant que l'information, la communication et les technologies afférentes sont les nouveaux moteurs de nos économies, voire de nos sociétés. Il nous apparaît important d'aller au-delà de ces oppositions en proposant des réflexions qui reposent sur des analyses de terrain, que celles-ci fassent appel à des méthodologies quantitatives ou qualitatives, micro ou macro. Les propositions d'articles pourront porter sur la société entendue d'un point de vue global à partir d'approches historiques, sociologiques, économiques, géopolitiques ou encore sur un aspect de la vie sociale en particulier : la famille, le travail, la politique, le militantisme, les loisirs, la santé, la science, l'éducation, la culture, les relations interculturelles, etc. Les contenus retenus doivent adopter soit un point de vue historique - par exemple reposant sur une méthodologie longitudinale - soit être ancrés dans le quotidien et sur le court terme, mais auquel cas, il est nécessaire de replacer l'analyse dans une perspective à plus long terme. Nous privilégions les travaux qui mettent l'accent sur les mutations à l'¦uvre au cours de ces dernières décennies dans les différentes composantes de la société ou qui remettent en cause de prétendues transformations. Il est également possible d'envoyer des textes hors thème. Nous nous garderons toutefois le droit, soit de les diffuser dans la rubrique « Varia », soit de les garder pour un prochain numéro thématique. L'ensemble des manuscrits sont jugés par deux évaluateurs, évaluatrices selon la procédure de lecture à l'aveugle caractéristique des revues à évaluation par les pairs. Les textes doivent faire environ 40.000 caractères espaces compris. Toutefois, nous acceptons qu'ils fassent entre 35.000 et 45.000 caractères espaces compris. Les auteurs doivent par ailleurs respecter les consignes concernant la forme des manuscrits à envoyer pour évaluation. Ceux-ci doivent être envoyés au plus tard le 1er octobre 2008 à l'adresse suivante, à l'attention d'Éric George, coordinateur du numéro « Société de l'information » : george.eric(a)uqam.ca Éric George, Professeur, École des médias, Faculté de communication, UQAM Coresponsable, comité éditorial, tic&société, http://www.ticetsociete.org

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Revised IR 9.0 Program
by bl506＠york.ac.uk 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Last chance folks to get those minor amendments to me for the IR 9.0 Conference Program. The modified version went on the conference site last night and I would be grateful if you could check the details. So if I got your name wrong, left you off the program and you think you should be there, or you have to withdraw your presentation then please contact me off-list in the next few days. The final program will be available early next week so don't delay! Brian -- Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506(a)york.ac.uk

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odd query?
by Charles Ess 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hi all, a colleague who is responsible for sustainability initiatives on our campus has asked me if I knew anything about the following: a careful, quantitatively oriented analysis of the comparative costs - both direct (e.g., consumption of electricity, toner, etc.) and indirect (costs of manufacturing and distributing paper, computers, monitors, etc.) - of a) paper-based techniques in teaching and learning - e.g., 5-page lab reports in a composition book turned in weekly, to be read, hand-marked by the instructor, and then returned to the students, vis-à-vis b) comparable (at least roughly) paperless techniques - e.g., written work produced and turned in electronically, graded and commented electronically, and then returned to the students electronically? I know that the advent of the paperless office has been heralded for at least three, going on four decades, coupled with the proclamation of the imminent death of the book, etc. - and that for many good reasons (besides, in my case, sheer curmudgeonly Ludditism), paper and books retain their unique places and roles in learning (and elsewhere). So I, for one, would argue strenuously for the ongoing importance of what Naomi Baron so nicely encapsulates in her recent book _Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World_ (Oxford U.P.) under the heading of written culture (thanks, Naomi!), even if paper and books might be comparatively more expensive from a material and environmental standpoint. But however one views these matters pedagogically, etc. - the question is a good one: does anyone know what the comparative costs really are? Many thanks in advance for any pointers listmembers can provide! - charles ess PS: I'm using ch. 9, "Gresham's Ghost: Challenges to a Written Culture" in my Freshman class to introduce them to my arcane insistence on their developing their own commonplace book - and thereby as an introit to further work in Plato's Phaedrus as a way of helping us develop a framework for thinking through the relationships between our technologies of communication and our conceptions of our selves, our relationships to larger communities, etc. I recommend the chapter - and the book at large - heartily! - c.

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FW: Job Opportunities at the University of Wollongong, Australia
by Axel Bruns 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

G'day ! Forwarding this on behalf of my colleague David Marshall at the University of Wollongong (south of Sydney, Australia). Salary details are in Australian Dollars (1 AUD ~ 0.85 USD). For further information, please contact David directly via email (davidm(a)uow.edu.au) or on the phone number listed below. lecturer - level b - digital communication and new media School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication * Continuing appointment lecturer positions Faculty of Arts The Faculty of Arts at UOW is experiencing an exciting phase of growth and transformation. All its major reaching areas (disciplinary and interdisciplinary) have been or are being reviewed. This is to ensure the most up-to-date curriculum and close articulation with the Faculty's innovative research strengths. The Faculty's existing strength in Asian Studies, including its undergraduate interdisciplinary major and its postgraduate coursework and research programs as well as its ARC Key Centre of Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), will be enhanced with new Asian languages (Indonesian and Mandarin), a range of new academic appointments in a variety of disciplines and a revised undergraduate program. The Faculty's other research priority areas include Innovation in Cultural Research, Citizens, States and Power; and Literature, Identity and Culture. The Faculty is medium-sized but dynamic with a focus on high quality teaching programs, high impact interdisciplinary research and national and international leadership in all its activities. The School is introducing an exciting and innovative teaching and research initiative in new media, new media culture and digital communication. We are seeking a high quality academic to contribute to the development and growth of this new area at undergraduate level, undertake honours and postgraduate supervision and co-ordinate subjects. To be successful you will have a strong research capability in new media and digital communication and a sound publication record. For further information about this role please contact Professor David Marshall on (02) 4221 4063. You must address the criteria specified in the Position Description, which is available from our website. Quote Ref No: 21912 Base Salary range (Full-time equivalent): $66,548.00 (min) - $79,026.00 (max) Contact: Professor David Marshall Phone: + 61 2 4221 4063 lecturer - level b - sociology School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication * Continuing appointments * Up to two positions lecturer positions Faculty of Arts The Faculty of Arts at UOW is experiencing an exciting phase of growth and transformation. All its major reaching areas (disciplinary and interdisciplinary) have been or are being reviewed. This is to ensure the most up-to-date curriculum and close articulation with the Faculty's innovative research strengths. The Faculty's existing strength in Asian Studies, including its undergraduate interdisciplinary major and its postgraduate coursework and research programs as well as its ARC Key Centre of Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), will be enhanced with new Asian languages (Indonesian and Mandarin), a range of new academic appointments in a variety of disciplines and a revised undergraduate program. The Faculty's other research priority areas include Innovation in Cultural Research, Citizens, States and Power; and Literature, Identity and Culture. The Faculty is medium-sized but dynamic with a focus on high quality teaching programs, high impact interdisciplinary research and national and international leadership in all its activities. The Sociology program is committed to the renewal of its teaching curriculum and to better align its research focus within the Faculty's research strengths. The successful applicant(s) will have demonstrated research outcomes in at least one of the areas of, the sociology of labour/work in the knowledge economy, gender/masculinity studies and Asian studies. You will be able to teach Sociology across all undergraduate and postgraduate levels, undertake Honours and Postgraduate supervision, co-ordinate subjects and contribute to the Program's teaching and its intersection with the School's other programs in media, communication and cultural studies. For further information about this role please contact Professor David Marshall on (02) 4221 4063. You must address the criteria specified in the Position Description, which is available from our website. Quote Ref No: 23135 Base Salary range (Full-time equivalent): $68,544.00 (min) - $81,396.00 (max) Contact: Professor David Marshall -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Skype: LexaSnurb Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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survey on podcasting in higher education
by Kris M. Markman 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hello AoIRs, A colleague of mine in the Journalism department at the University of Memphis, Dr. Jin Yang, is doing research on podcasting use in higher education. And professors interested in participating in her survey (it requires an access code) please send an email to jinyang(a)memphis.edu. Thanks! -Kris ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis https://umdrive.memphis.edu/kmmrkman/www/index.html

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