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CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

apologies for x-posting, distribute as appropriate -jh CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities Special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry (http://www.springerlink.com/content/120592/ ) Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger Papers Due: May 15th 2009 Please contact the editor to discuss topics at jhuns.((a))vt.edu (remove brackets) In the last 20 years, the learning infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems, and tools. In this issue, we are looking for contributions from social informatics, humanistic informatics, cultural informatics, digital humanities, internet studies, design research, media studies, and related fields dealing with the learning infrastructures. I am seeking papers that deal empirically, analytically and/or critically with the learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. Cyberinfrastructures, physical infrastructures and organizational infrastructures have been transformed through the politics, economics, and technologies surrounding our learning infrastructures. Learning infrastructures are part of professors and students scholarly experiences everyday. These infrastructures are part of how students begin their engagement with the social sciences and humanities and perhaps become part of how they maintain that engagement throughout their lives. Beyond our professors, departments, centers and institutes, our learning infrastructures are mediating our disciplinarity and interdisciplinarities to our students. In short, learning infrastructures are a part of how students learn to be scholars in various disciplines and citizens in the world-at-large. Part of the debate surrounding learning infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities is the over/under-definition and over/ underdetermination of terms such as learning and infrastructure in disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. In this CFP, I want to encourage papers that help to define and critically engages those terms. Possible topics: • Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures • New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to learning infrastructures • New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures • Political economics of learning infrastructures • Ethics, norms, and politics surrounding learning infrastructures • Openness and/or closedness in learning infrastructures • Social/Cultural/Informatics informatics and learning infrastructures • New directions for learning infrastructures based on social sciences and humanities • Cultural environmentalism and learning infrastructures • Knowledge/Design ecologies and learning infrastructures Review process will be double blind peer review following editorial selection. We expect to place fewer than 8 papers in this special issue. We would prefer papers between 4000-16000 words. Papers should be submitted tohttp://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/ Please contact the editor to discuss your paper and/or when you submit your paper.

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Int'l Comm Assoc Award
by Barry Wellman 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

The ICA has an interesting award. Not to brag too much, I won it last year, and one of you might this year. But move quickly with your nominations: Jan 31, 09 deadline. Note that the nominators must be ICA members, but the winner doesn't have to be. As the notice says below, the award is for researchers outside of the field of communication. Sociologists, historians, etc. in sociology, history, etc. departments are eligible. And sociologists, historians etc. who happen to be in a communication dept can be nominated, as long as they function as sociologists, historians, etc. I'm a committee member this year. I can answer general Qs to some extent, (the kind of answers I could post to this list) but not specific ones and Do note that it is about Communication RESEARCH -- I can think of some wonderful non-researchers, but they wouldn't make it thru. And please don't ask me to define Research now: that may make for lively committee discussion. There are no more criteria now than what is in this posting. There may be much talmudic committee discussion. The committee obviously chose last year's winner (me) on the basis of good looks. Here's the official announcement from the ICA website: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AS AN OPEN FIELD The CROF prize of $500 is awarded to researchers who have made important contributions to the field of communications from outside the discipline of communications. It rewards and supports dialogue with other fields and institutional locations in which vital new understandings of the communications environment and the public sphere are being produced. Nomination Procedures Nominations should contain: 1. Letter(s) of nomination, not to exceed two pages apiece, speaking directly to each of the award criteria from the description 2. Publication(s) relevant to the award, If the publication is a book, arrangements should be made with the publisher to ship 5 copies to Michael Haley at ICA, 1500 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA), 3. CV(s) of the nominee(s) 4. All nomination materials should be submitted electronically by January 31 of each year, 11:00 pm EST at www.icahdq.org/cfp. 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 _______________________________________________________________________

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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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Announcement & CFP: EU Kids Online
by D.R.Brake＠lse.ac.uk 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Registration now open. Deadline for abstracts approaching CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS EU Kids Online: European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet An international one-day conference for researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government to address the policy issues and research findings about children and the internet. When and where Thursday June 11th 2009, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Conference theme Are all children benefiting from the internet and if not, why not? What new literacies are they developing? How strong is the evidence for the risks to children of going online? Why do risks differ from country to country? How can parents and policy makers better balance the online opportunities and risks for children? And what do children themselves want from the internet? The conference will report final results and recommendations from three year's work by EU Kids Online network of 60 researchers in 21 countries funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme. It will also showcase the latest current research in Europe and worldwide: Keynote speakers * David Finkelhor (University of New Hampshire) * Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University, Australia) * Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics) * Charo Sádaba (University of Navarra, Spain) Call for papers Researchers are invited to submit empirical papers about children's experience of the internet on these topics: * Social networks, online identities and e-participation * Learning, creativity and media literacy * Mobility, computer games and other emerging platforms * Parental and peer mediation * Risks, victims and perpetrators * Regulation, empowerment and protection Registration and submission details Registration now open at http://www.eukidsonline.net <http://www.eukidsonline.net/> . No conference fee; lunch and evening reception provided. To submit a paper, please send an abstract (300-500 words) to media.eukidsconference(a)lse.ac.uk by 15th February. We look forward to welcoming you to LSE to celebrate the end of our project and to debate the future agenda for research and for evidence-based policy. Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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So-called Digital Natives - interesting newspaper article
by Robert Ackland 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

The following article in The Australian newspaper may be of interest to members of this list: "The natives aren't quite so restless" by Christoper Scanlon http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24939539-25192,00.html An interesting look at the existence of so-called "digital natives", and implications for teaching technology at universities. An excerpt from the article: "Despite the hype about digital natives' technological skills, the reality is that most students don't come to class with technological knowledge pre-installed. The question is, why is there such a divergence between claims about digital natives and the realities of the classroom? The answer is partly a matter of class, commercial interest and confusion." -- ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Fellow and Masters Coordinator Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University e-mail: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au ph./fax: +61 2 6125 0312/+61 2 6125 2992 mail: Coombs Building, 9 Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php -------------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] So-called Digital Natives - interesting newspaper article
by Julian Hopkins 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

The 'digital campus' podcast (which I would recommend to anyone on this list) covered the same issue last September, if anyone is interested - http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/09/24/episode-32-going-native/ I also find that many students are not as familiar with software as one would expect, given all the hype (or hardware for that matter, one student bought an iPod because she thought that she needed one to be able to listen to *pod*casts). It seems to me that there are some people who are always more curious about how software works, or who want to explore its different possibilities, and those are the ones who become more proficient in tweaking and (eventually) hacking programmes. Most people will use the basic functions of what is presented to them, and not go much further than that; for example, it's always surprised me how little many office workers know of how to use Office Word or Excel. I guess where the 'digital native' aspect may come in is that, where the 'immigrant' is probably more likely to want to stick with the programme they know, the 'native' is more willing to try out new software/gadgets. This is probably not because of an innate knowledge of the inner workings of software or different logic, but because they are used to seeing new things come out regularly. However, a corollary to that perhaps is that new software and gadgets are likely to conform as much as possible to previous interfaces and thus the need for the 'natives' to adapt to something new is minimised. Overall, it will always be a minority who are willing to take risks, innovate, etc. Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:27:08 +1100 From: Robert Ackland <robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au> Subject: [Air-L] So-called Digital Natives - interesting newspaper article To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <497679EC.4020809(a)anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The following article in The Australian newspaper may be of interest to members of this list: "The natives aren't quite so restless" by Christoper Scanlon http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24939539-25192,00.html An interesting look at the existence of so-called "digital natives", and implications for teaching technology at universities. An excerpt from the article: "Despite the hype about digital natives' technological skills, the reality is that most students don't come to class with technological knowledge pre-installed. The question is, why is there such a divergence between claims about digital natives and the realities of the classroom? The answer is partly a matter of class, commercial interest and confusion." -- ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Fellow and Masters Coordinator Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University e-mail: robert.ackland(a)anu.edu.au homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au ph./fax: +61 2 6125 0312/+61 2 6125 2992 mail: Coombs Building, 9 Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php -------------------------------------

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Center for Information Policy Research, UWM--AoIR 10 Grad Student Research Grant
by Elizabeth A Buchanan 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues, Things are quite chilly here in Milwaukee, but the excitement of a new President...and AoIR 10 are keeping us going! We are pleased to announce the following opportunity: The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) will sponsor one (1) graduate student for the IR.10 conference. Registration and 3 nights hotel fees (standard room at the conference hotel) will be covered. The student's research must focus on some aspect of information ethics or information policy, and internet studies, broadly conceived. To qualify, the recipient must submit a full paper for acceptance to IR.10 in accordance with the call for papers. Once accepted to the conference, the following should be submitted to Elizabeth Buchanan at cipr(a)uwm.edu by 1 May 2009: * Accepted paper notification * CV * Brief statement of how the paper will make an impact on the fields of information ethics, policy, and internet studies. Recipient will be notified by 1 June 2009. Please direct any questions to me. All the best, e. -- Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee www.cipr.uwm.edu 414.229.3973

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ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowships call open
by Yuwei Lin 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowships call open This scheme provides funds up to £5,000 for scholars from the Americas (North, Central, South and the Caribbean) to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the Americas, between 1 June 2009 and 31 August 2010. Approximately 18 research fellowships will be awarded. Funds may be used to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses. Details at http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/internationa… Deadline 12 noon on 20 March 2009. The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) has had three successes under this scheme in the past and you are strongly encouraged to consider an application. NCeSS applicants must be endorsed by Peter Halfpenny, the Executive Director of NCeSS. If you are interested in the Fellowship in either direction (from the Americas to the UK or vice versa) please let Peter <peter.halfpenny(a)manchester.ac.uk> know immediately. -- Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org http://www.ylin.org

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new version of the software coffee released
by Luca Tateo 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Dear colleagues, it is a pleasure to announce the new release of CoFFEE software (4.1 version): "The CoFFEE After". It is downloadable at the http://www.coffee-soft.org/ Web site starting from Jan, 22th, and at the Sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffee-soft/ now! What's new in version 4.1? 1) New tools Two more tools have been added: - Internet Explorer Tool: allows each student to navigate the World Wide Web through a standard browser. It offers the standard functionalities of a (private) browser, but also the opportunity for the teacher to provide a "follow-me" mechanism. - Document Browser Tool: the Document Browser tool is an HTTP server that allows the teacher to share documents with the classroom; students can open the documents and browse the links that are eventually present in them. 2) Activity indicators The teacher can now monitor the activity level of the students in real time. Close to the name of each student there is an icon indicating the level of partecipation to the discussion (red = low, green = medium, blue = high), based on the number of messages sent in his/her group in the current step. By selecting a student, the teacher can see in details the number of messages sent in each tool and the percentage of messages sent in the group. 3) "Fully anonymous" behaviour In the Chat Tool and the Threaded Discussion Tool the teacher can activate a "fully anonymous" behaviour: in this case teacher cannot see the names of the students and the report (PDF/RTF/HTML) does not bring information about the names of the contributors. The identity is, however, still present in the traces/logs. 4) Hebrew nationalization CoFFEE has been (partially) nationalized in Hebrew language, and (partial) support for right-to-left widgets has been added. Try and enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luca Tateo Project LEAD - Department of Education Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy) via Rufoli, 23 Ogliara I-84135 Salerno mobile +39.392.5178418, +39.347.5423594 office +39.089.962106 ltateo(a)unisa.it, network.salerno(a)tiscali.it Skype ID: luca.tateo lucatateo.blog.tiscali.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Air-L] New study: studiVZ, Facebook, MySpace: Social networking sites and the surveillance society
by Jeff McCarthy 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Christian thank you for your paper. I'm studying SNS currently and have recently read Boyd and Ellison in addition to Beer's response. Your paper is very useful too. Best regards Jeff Jeff McCarthy Marketing & Retail The Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Campus Manchester UK M1 3GH Tel: +44 (0)7900 808230 Email: jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk Academia: http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer >>> Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)sbg.ac.at> 01/19/09 5:11 PM >>> Fuchs, Christian. 2009. Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2. Study: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdf Background Information: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_E.html -- --------------- Christian Fuchs Associate Professor eTheory Research Group ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs(a)sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at Blog: http://christianfuchs.wordpress.com Co-Editor of tripleC - open access online journal on cognition, communication and cooperation for a global sustainable information society: http://triple-c.at New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 408 Pages. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html _______________________________________________ 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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