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looking for feature article-like readings about twitter and yelp
by David M Silver 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

hello! this spring i'm teaching a class called digital media production. it's a production class which means students will be required to learn about and to learn to use various digital media tools. throughout the semester, we'll cover facebook, flickr, blogs, twitter, google maps, online video, yelp, zotero, google docs, and wikipedia. the course readings come more from popular magazines than academic articles or books. for example, to better understand facebook and flickr, we are reading clive thompson's "brave new world of digital intimacy" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html ) from new york times magazine. to learn about blogs, we'll read emily gould's "exposed" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?_r=1 ) from new york times magazine and andrew sullivan's "why i blog" ( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog ) from the atlantic. to help us understand wikipedia, we'll be reading stacy schiff's "know it all: can wikipedia conquer expertise?" ( http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact ) from the new yorker and marshall poe's "the hive" ( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia ) from the atlantic. question: can anyone suggest any other feature articles from similar sources that explore twitter or yelp? david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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CfP: "e-Politics:the role of the Internet in designing political practices", ECPR General Conference - Potsdam 09
by Andrea Calderaro 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hello all, Apologies for cross posting, but it might interest some of you. 8< ----------------------------------- 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam 10 - 12 September, 2009 Detailed info: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/ Call for paper for Panel “E-Politics: the role of the Internet in designing political practices” Section: Internet and Politics Link to the panel: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp? panelID=253 PANEL CHAIR Name: Andrea Calderaro Institution: European University Institute Email: andrea.calderaro AT eui.eu PANEL DISCUSSANT Name: W. Lance Bennett Institution: University of Washington ABSTRACT So far, the Internet has been hailed as an instrument useful for facilitating political participation. A classic question arises: is this confirmed today? and if it is, how does this occur? This panel aims to address these questions, reflecting upon how the Internet is used to practice politics. The panel will propose empirical examples to investigate how the Internet both facilitates existing forms of political engagement and how it promotes new forms. HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/howtosubmit.asp Paper proposal should include: Title /Abstract (max 300 words) / Keywords (select 3) Author: name / institution / email DEADLINE 1 February 2009 _________________________________ Andrea Calderaro PhD Candidate Departmentof Social and Political Sciences European University Institute Via dei Roccettini, 9 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- PERSONAL PAGE: http://www.calderaro.caltech.edu P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

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Re: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media
by T. Kennedy 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

danah boyd! Perhaps not what you're looking for but resources that might lead you in the right direction Tracy Holloway, Sarah L. & Gill Valentine (2003). Cyberkids: children in the information age. New York: Routledge Falmer. Sharon R. Mazzarella (ed) (2005). Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. Peter Lang. Dan Verton (2002). The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers. California: McGraw-Hill. Valentine, G. and Holloway, S.L. (2002) 'Cyberkids? Exploring children's identities and social networks in on-line and off-line worlds' Annals, Association of American Geographers, 92, 302-319. Guy Merchant (2001). Teenagers in Cyberspace: an investigation of language use and language change in internet chatrooms. Journal of Research in Reading, 24 (3), pp 293-306. Rebecca Grinter & Leysia Palen (2002). Instant Messaging in Teen Life. CSCW Conference Paper Ronald Davie et al (2004). Mobile phone ownership and usage among pre-adolescents. Telematics and Informatics, 21, pp 359-373. Mizuko Ito - "Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth and the Re-Placement of Social Contact" Crispin Thurlow (2003) Generation Txt? The sociolinguistics of young people's text-messaging. Discourse Analysis Online. http://www.shu.ac.uk/daol/articles/v1/n1/a3/thurlow2002003-paper.html David A. Huffaker Sandra L. Calvert - Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html David Huffaker (2004). Spinning Yarns around the Digital Fire: Storytelling and Dialogue among Youth on the Internet. Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, pp 63-75. M.D. Griffiths, Mark N.O. Davies & Darren Chappell (2004).Online computer gaming: a comparison of adolescent and adult gamers. Journal of Adolescence, 27, pp 87-96. Lalita K. Suzuki & Jerel P. Calzob (2004). The search for peer advice in cyberspace: An examination of online teen bulletin boards about health and sexuality. Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol 25, pp 685-698. Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Patricia M. Greenfield & Brendesha Tynes (2004). Constructing sexuality and identity in an online teen chat room. Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol 25, pp 651-666. Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor, Janis Wolak (2003). The Exposure of Youth To Unwanted Sexual Material on The Internet A National Survey Of Risk, Impact, And Prevention. Youth & Society, 34 (3), pp 330-358. Brian Wilson & Michael Atkinson (2005). Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures Youth & Society, Vol. 36 No. 3, March, pp 276-311. Kathryn Montgomery (2000). Youth and Digital Media: A Policy Research Agenda. Journal of Adolescent Health, 27, pp 61-68. ..|::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. |::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology University of Toronto Course Instructor Dept of Communications, Popular Culture & Film Brock University Research Coordinator NetLab University of Toronto Second Life: Professor Tracy ..|::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. |::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800 From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn(a)uci.edu> Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media To: "AIR Listserve" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <D68ECA477F944ACF8713C3B1968C9629@tinalaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, video production, etc.) amongst youth. I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media. Thank you for your time, Tina Matuchniak Graduate Student Department of Education University of California, Irvine

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IR 10.0 keynotes announced!
by Susanna Paasonen 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Dear all, I'm extremely happy to announce that the keynotes for Internet Research 10.0 - Internet:Critical have been confirmed. The general themes for the three plenary sessions are: - "Critical technologies" (Thursday, 8 October) with Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia) as keynote and Ken Hillis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) as discussant - "Critical theories" (Friday, 9 October ) with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University) as keynote and Jenny Sundén (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) as discussant - "Critical practices" (Saturday, 10 October) with Megan M. Boler (University of Toronto) as keynote and David Silver (University of San Francisco) as discussant More info on the speakers is available on the conference web site: http://ir10.aoir.org/?page_id=99#top As organizers, we are very excited about our group of speakers and the way things are shaping up. Our paper and abstract submission system is not quite up and running yet but will be shortly. Will keep you posted! with all best, Susanna Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Program chair / IR 10.0

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Guestbooks
by Sigurjón B Hafsteinsson 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear list, Does anyone on this list know about papers/articles that deal with online guestbooks? Any leads much appreciated. All the best, Sigurjon.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 54, Issue 8
by Shelia Cotten 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi Tina. My colleagues and I conducted a study of 1722 middle school students in Maryland. We have a manuscript forthcoming at New Media & Society looking at gender differences in mobile phone usage among middle school students and several others that are in process at the moment (some focusing on gender and some on race - most looking at a variety of types of technology usage). I'm also in the process of conducting a study of over 1,000 4th and 5th graders in Birmingham, Alabama before they receive their XO laptops and then following up approximately 6 months later. Students are over 90% African American in the sample. No manuscripts yet, but we have great data on all kinds of technology use! Someone at Michigan State has also done a study with youth, looking at racial and perhaps gender differences in technology usage. Can't recall the name at this time. Can you tell me more about your project? Good luck. Shelia ******************************** Shelia R. Cotten, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Sociology UAB Birmingham, AL 205-934-8678 cotten(a)uab.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800 From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn(a)uci.edu> Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media To: "AIR Listserve" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <D68ECA477F944ACF8713C3B1968C9629@tinalaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, video production, etc.) amongst youth. I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media. Thank you for your time, Tina Matuchniak Graduate Student Department of Education University of California, Irvine

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New Book: Online Social Networking on Campus
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Colleagues/ A Must-Buy New Book: _Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture_ [snip] "Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture is a professional guide for Higher Education faculty and Student Affairs administrators, which rigorously examines college students' use of online social networking sites and how they use these to develop relationships both on and off campus. Most importantly, Online Social Networking on Campus investigates how college students use online sites to explore and makes sense of their identities. Providing information taken from interviews, surveys and focus group data, the book presents an ethnographic view of social networking that will help Student Affairs administrators, Information Technology administrators, and faculty better understand and provide guidance to the "neomillennials" on their campuses." Full Table of Contents and Links to Publisher Pages And News Coverage Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/a3yyp8 ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu> There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 <http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ <http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/> ]

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American Youth's Differential Use of New Media
by Tina Matuchniak ＠UCI 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hello, I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, video production, etc.) amongst youth. I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media. Thank you for your time, Tina Matuchniak Graduate Student Department of Education University of California, Irvine

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Re: [Air-L] Invitation to a research survey on the adoption of knowledge management systems
by David Rodríguez Gómez 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Dear Andrew, Your topic is very interesting. I am conducting a research (multiple cases study) about organizational enablers and barriers of KMS in educational context. One of the methods used for gathering data is an online survey. I use limesurvey (www.limesurvey.org/) as a survey tool. It is not a perfect tool, but its enough Where could I found your conference paper with a literature review in KM adoption? Thanks, David _______________________________________ David Rodríguez Gómez Dpt. de Pedagogia Aplicada Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Edifici G6 - Despatx 243 Tfon: + 34 93 581 3191 Fax: + 34 93 581 3052 Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès Barcelona (Spain) <http://dewey.uab.cat/drodriguezg/> http://dewey.uab.cat/drodriguezg/ _______________________________________

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Call for Papers - Deadline Extended - "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States"
by Stuart Shulman 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Call for Papers - Deadline Extended "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" April 16 & 17, 2009 - Amherst, Massachusetts http://youtube08election.crowdvine.com/ A two-day University of Massachusetts Amherst workshop jointly hosted by the: Departments of Political Science, Computer Science, and Communication Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Public Policy and Administration College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) Submission Deadline Extended: January 21, 2009 Submission Website: http://www.criticalmath.com/method/p.php?org_id=12789&l=submitpaper Conference Home Page: http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/ Approach The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches rooted in political science, media studies, and communication scholarship. The JITP Editor strongly endorses new and experimental approaches involving collaboration with information and computer science scholars. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to: - citizen initiated campaign videos, - candidates' use of YouTube, - bloggers use of YouTube to influence the primaries or election, - the impact of YouTube on traditional or new media coverage of the election cycle, - the effect of YouTube on citizen interest, knowledge, engagement, or voting behavior, - social network analysis of YouTube and related election-oriented sites, - political theory or communication theory and YouTube in the context of the 2008 election, - new metrics that support the study of the "YouTube Effect" on elections, - archives for saving and tools for mapping the full landscape of YouTube election content, - use of YouTube in the classroom as a way to teach American electoral politics, or - reviews of existing scholarship about YouTube. Keynote Speakers Day 1: Richard Rogers, Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Director of govcom.org. Dr. Rogers is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from other media. Rogers concentrates on the research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet. His research involves studying and building info-tools. He studies and makes use of the adjudicative or 'recommender' cultures of the Web that help to determine the reputation of information as well as organizations. The most well-known tool Rogers has developed with his colleagues is the Issue Crawler, a server-side Web crawler, co-link machine and graph visualizer. Day 2: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Paper Submissions Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a manuscript following one of the six submission formats by January 21, 2009. These formats include research papers, policy viewpoints, workbench notes, review essays, book reviews, and papers on teaching innovation. The goal is to produce a special issue, or double issue, of JITP with a wide variety of approaches to the broad theme of "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States." How to Submit Everything you need to know about how to prepare and submit a strong JITP paper via the JITP web site is documented at http://www.jitp.net/. Papers will be put through an expedited blind peer review process by the Program Committee and authors will be notified about a decision by February 15, 2009. A small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be invited to present a poster during the Friday evening reception. All posters must include a "YouTube" version of their research findings. Travel Support We anticipate having the ability to support the travel expenses of the presenting author of accepted papers. Should the number of accepted papers exceed our ability to provide travel support, funds will go first to graduate students and then on an as-needed basis for other authors. Best Paper and Poster Cash Prizes The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a single $1,000 prize. The creator (or creators) of the best YouTube poster/research presentation will also receive a single prize of $1,000. Conference Co-Chairs Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst (mailto:stu@.edu) Michael Xenos, Louisiana State University (mailto:xenos@lsu.edu) Program Committee Sam Abrams, Harvard University Micah Altman, Harvard University Karine Barzilai-Nahon, University of Washington Lance Bennett, University of Washington Ryan Biava, University of Wisconsin Bob Boynton, University of Iowa John Brigham, University of Massachusetts Amherst Tom Carlson, Åbo Akademi University Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway University of London Greg Elmer, Ryerson University Kirsten Foot, University of Washington Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeff Guliati, Bentley College Mike Hais, Co-author, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics Matthew Hale, Seton Hall University Justin Holmes, University of Minnesota Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute Mike Margolis, University of Cincinnati Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst John McNutt, University of Delaware Ines Mergel, Syracuse University Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California-Information Sciences Institute Antoinette Pole, Montclair State University Stephen Purpura, Cornell University Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project Ken Rogerson, Duke University Jeffrey Seifert, Congressional Research Service Mack Shelley, Iowa State University Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chirag Shah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Wilkerson, University of Washington Christine Williams, Bentley College Morley Winograd, University of Southern California Quan Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Stout Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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