November 2009 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-L] Food updates
by Shobha Vadrevu 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Identity does possibly become redefined on Twitter and Facebook, but I think another thing that is increasing in complexity is audience recognition of the multiple selves that posters express. This is why choice is such an integral part of these media. When we choose to read a post or respond to it, we are accepting the relevance to us of that part of the self that the poster has expressed. When we choose to skim over a post, we have made the decision that that part of the poster's self has no relevance for us. So it is a two-way street, with complementary assumptions regarding identities and content relevance. Of course when the assumptions don't match, we get threads like this one! It might be a case of the exception proving the rule. Shobha Vadrevu Masters Student Institute of Education

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seeking co-presenters for NCA panel
by Tabitha Hart 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

My colleagues and I are looking for people interested in participating in our NCA panel in Chicago this month. We have space for a couple more paper presentations. We are presenting papers on how people negotiate identity (including gender and class) in technology mediated spaces. The panel will take place on Sunday, Nov. 15th at 8:00 am. If you have something that you'd like to present with us, please contact me as soon as possible. Cheers, Tabitha Hart tabhart(a)uw.edu -- Tabitha Hart, PhC Department of Communication University of Washington

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Research with social media: looking for solutions
by Marco Bardus 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Dear AoIR-ists, I am writing here to seek some inspiration and suggestions about using social media tools for research purposes, in particular for data management and assessment. In my PhD studies I deal with health behaviour change interventions using new media and social web sites. At the moment I am involved in an SMS and e-mail worskite physical activity programme and I have to manage and look after multiple and distinct databases in different formats and for different purposes as follows: 1) web-based e-mail marketing application and 2) SMS-provider application, for delivering content, 3) contact relationship log file (database), 4) survey assessment tool, 5) regular communication database with Outlook. Needless to say that the situation gets complicated especially due to the amount of time needed to manage all these components. Therefore, I am now looking for simpler, easier to manage possibly interoperable open source solutions that would help me effectively assist in all the intervention phases: content development and delivery, recruitment of participants, online behavior tracking, assessment and evaluation. What applications (preferably open-source, integrateable and inter-operable) would you recommend for doing the following activities? - Communication and content management - Contact relationship management - Online behavior tracking - Qualitative web content analysis (for tracking and analyzing conversations) - Web-based assessment (survey tools) Any suggestion would be most welcome! Thank you, Marco -- Marco Bardus, MA Research Assistant / PhD Student Institute of Communication and Health Faculty of Communication Sciences Università della Svizzera italiana via G. Buffi, 13 CH-6900 Lugano (e) marco.bardus(a)usi.ch (skype) markusthebardus (w) http://www.ich.com.unisi.ch/ (w) http://www.marcobardus.com (t) +41 58 666 42 94 (m) +41 76 269 09 70

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status updates
by T. Kennedy 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Interesting 'discussion' & statements made about Twitter/Facebook status updates. A couple points I want to make: -not every technology is for everyone: we can't make the assumption that everyone will join Facebook or twitter - some will have no use (or no time or motivation) - leading to next point. -people use technology in different ways and for different reasons: we can't make the assumption that people will use Facebook and twitter in the same way or for the same reasons; ie: some will use twitter to circulate/share info (academic/industry) to their tweeps, while others will provide more personal insight into their day (what they had for breakfast) - leading to next point. -we must be careful not assert/propose ways that you're 'supposed' to use status updates. If you don't like what your network members are posting/updating, don't read it or skip over it - don't follow them/friend them. Creating a hierarchy of knowledge sharing or legitimizing certain types of status updates (professional vs personal) is problematic. Most of us filter our info daily anyway - spam, list-servs, forwards from friends and relatives. Don't assume that you want to read & consume is the same as everybody else. Having said that, in the last year I found that I started self-police/regulate my twitter updates because of this notion of 'legitimate knowledge sharing'. In fact, I've split my online identity & have three twitter accounts - it's challenging to say the least, but in my mind - my audience(s) shape my online identity performance, and seemingly fragments it.... Tracy |...|...|...|...|...|...|...| Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology University of Toronto Course Instructor Dept of Communications, Popular Culture & Film Brock University Second Life: Professor Tracy Xbox Live: pistolvixen Twitter: netwoman |...|...|...|...|...|...|...|

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FW: PhD fellowship new media in the Middle East and/or Asia
by pangcuiming 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Dear all, Here is the announcement for the PhD-position in new media (Asia/ME) at University of Oslo. Please inform friends, colleagues and potential applicants near and far about the announcement: http://www.admin.uio.no/opa/ledige-stillinger/2009/vitenskapelige/doctoralr… Deadline for applications is: December 15, 2009 Best regards, Rune Rune Svarverud Professor, Chinese/East Asia Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) University of Oslo P.O. box 1010 Blindern N-0315 Oslo, Norway Tel: (47) 22856982 _________________________________________________________________ “游日本，拿现金”MClub白领股神大赛火热报名中 http://club.msn.cn/pr/?a=emoney

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Re: [Air-L] my breakfast
by Julio Meneses 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

err.., sorry but i had to say it also. speaking about twitter appropriation, please, do it there :-) if not, convince us to speak about eating and list servers (something i'm not specially interested, though...) cheers, On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Meryl Krieger <meryl.krieger(a)gmail.com> wrote: > sorry Barry - you took advantage of not having a 140 character limit - too > much verbage! :) LOL > > this is a fun and fascinating thread. I'm afraid I'm just a lurker on this > one, but I'm reading every post, if that's incentive to anyone to continue > it! > > Best regards and happy November, > > Meryl Krieger > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Christophe Prieur < > christophe.prieur(a)liafa.jussieu.fr> wrote: > >> >> Well, AoIR-ists, I will cater to your tastes: >>> >>> [...] >>> >> >> >> Mmmh, 140 characters please ;) >> >> -- Christophe. >> >> >> >> Le 2 nov. 09 à 21:13, Barry Wellman a écrit : >> >> >> Well, AoIR-ists, I will cater to your tastes: >>> >>> I had a glass of fresh organic orange juice first (don't know which type >>> of orange, alas). >>> >>> Followed by 3 teaspoons of organic maple-tinged sheep yogurt (Ewenty >>> Farms, Ontario -- don't know which type of sheep), topped with fresh >>> organic blackberries and raspberries >>> >>> Followed by one of Sharon Wohl's delicious non-sugar muffins for diabetes >>> >>> While sipping Prince of Darkness coffee from Ideal Coffee Co in Toronto, >>> roasted last week, but freshly ground this AM. >>> >>> This tells you a lot about me, but I am not going to repeat everyday. (In >>> any event, it would basically be Ibid, except the days I travel or have >>> Whole-Os). >>> >>> BTW, the person who started me off thinking about this theme was a guy. >>> Sorry, Caroline -- you did have a 50% accuracy probability. >>> >>> Barry Wellman >>> _______________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director >>> Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 >>> University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman >>> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 >>> Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php >>> _______________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ >> > > > > -- > J. Meryl Krieger > Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology > Associate Instructor, Indiana University > Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- Julio Meneses Assistant professor of Statistics & Research Methods Education on the Network Society research group Dept. Psychology and Educational Sciences The Open University of Catalonia _____________________________________________ blog: http://www.zanadoria.com fem recerca: http://tinyurl.com/femrecerca _____________________________________________

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facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Barry Wellman 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

1. Nancy, I think it is more complex. What if there are really interesting people whose posts are often filled with gems, but at the same posts some self-infatuated or status update stuff ("going for breakfast") ("sitting in my garden") stuff which is not interesting to almost all. 2. Christophe, I don't understand why you have included my name. I don't think we ever met, and you certainly don't know me. I had nothing to do with the CNN story. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Twittering
by Alex Randall 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

5.25's aren't toooo hard. There are services that will transfer files. Lawyers from eBay wanted to see some of my work from 1983 and we had to get the original model for the Boston Computer Exchange off of old 5.25 disks that I had in storage. Our demo we showed at Comdex in 1983 and 1984. All stored on 5.25 disks. All part of a law suit over who created the earliest system for buying on-line. While we had no trouble getting a service to copy the data to modern media, it is only from 26 years ago... Imagine trying to get data off a really OLD computer, C/PM or pre-PC era computers. All of my writing from the 80's is inaccessible to me now. Those of word processors made files in ASCII, but the programs no longer work under Windows. So it is effectively gone. Even if it was well stored, backed up and archived, there is no way to get that data back into use. I notice that pretty much everything from that era is NOT on the Internet. It is hard to find news items from minor journals from before 2000. Lots of articles about what we were doing in the 80's and 90's has not been brought up to the Internet, so there is a sense that "history" has a bump in the road. Google is not able to find stuff that never got brought into the current media. I really wonder if the children of today will have any sense of their personal history or if it will all disappear. We talk as if facebook is forever, we warn people not to leave a digital footprint that will embarrass them later - - but all it takes is a glitch or a bankruptcy and all the data will be gone. If you have ever had a hard drive fail and you lost everything, you understand how ephemeral our data is. As a consequence, I am back to writing an old fashioned book - on paper.... Alex Randall > > Alex that is a very profound way of stating this problem. One boss of > mine who had been computing in research since the 1960's kept an old Mac > in his office. I have managed to copy a few 5.25 floppies for my family > to newer media. > > I wonder if anyone here studies archiving. I do no really but have been > an archiving clerk archiving the Canadian census off paper to microfilm. > It took about 300 clerks 1 year to archive two years of our census. > > BTW older computers can be found for free in my city to allow you to > update media. 5.25 drives still work in some of my machines. > > > > > > Peter Timusk, > B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University > Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. > just trying to stay linear. > Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. > kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading. >

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Re: [Air-L] Facebook, Twitter and annoyances
by Shobha Vadrevu 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

I am really enjoying this discussion, because of the way it merges personal reflection with theoretical knowledge (a convergence that Twitter and Facebook provide precisely because the same people post such widely varying comments- from food-related ones to academia-related ones). I wonder how much of what is posted on Twitter and Facebook is a response to the way in which the updates are elicited. On Twitter, the question above the comment box asks: what are you doing? Naturally people respond accordingly. On Facebook, the question is: what's on your mind? With regard to food, both sites get posts about culinary experiences, but perhaps they are presented differently partly because of the way the information is framed by the question. Selected audience also might be a factor, as some have expressed so well on this list. When I make a post about food, I address a part of my total potential audience base. When I post about movies, it might be another part. Posts about my kids go out to yet another part. The point is that people can choose to read or to ignore. That is the beauty of social media- active choice. I have to say my pet peeve with regard to Twitter so far is that when people try to squash all their ideas into 140 characters, sometimes I can't figure out what they are actually trying to say! Shobha Vadrevu Masters Student Institute of Education

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Re: [Air-L] Food updates
by Jacqueline Vickery 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

As many others have noted, often food updates receive the most comments on FB statuses (my simple status: "Parmesan makes everything better" is definitely one of my most commented updates on my FB). I just thought I'd point out the obvious though, that this very thread discussing food on AoIR has generated more replies than any other topics the past few days. This is certainly not considered a banal or trivial space, and yet here we are discussing food. And just as the conversation from "Facebook annoyances" has evolved to address all these different food-related remarks, a similar thing often happens in response to food updates on Twitter/FB. Food is simultaneously embedded within many cultural and personal implications, but on the surface is also a rather benign topic. Thus it seems to have the potential to lead to so many different conversations that aren't really about food at all. Food updates often function as some sort of back door approach to discussing personal memories, routines, tastes, habits, relationships, etc. perhaps because food is simultaneously so personal and yet seemingly so trivial. Just my two cents on why food updates generate so many comments (on FB and apparently on the listserv!) Best, - jacqueline -- Jacqueline Vickery Senior Editor, FlowTV.org Doctoral Student University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film http://www.jvickery.com/

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