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my breakfast news, terminated
by Barry Wellman 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

FIVE peeps have asked me to repeatedly post my breakfast daily. It's boring. I eat the same thing every day. My life is so complex, that in my semi-conscious state, I treat breakfast as a constant (a healthy one to be sure, thanks to Bev), but not as a variable. I'm astounded. I know that outgo has been studied, just Google "coprology". But outside of Truman Capote & WK Kellogg, who studies intake? 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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kiwanja.net >Mobile Applications Database
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Colleagues/ A Most Excellent Initiative ! /Gerry Since 2003, kiwanja.net has been helping empower local, national and international non-profit organisations to make better use of information and communications technology in their work. Specialising in the application of mobile technology, it provides a wide range of ICT-related services drawing on over 22 years experience of its founder, Ken Banks. Non-profits in over forty countries have so far benefited from a range of kiwanja initiatives, ... . kiwanja also regularly gives talks at international workshops, conferences and events on a wide range of mobile-related topics including grassroots mobile innovation, the use of mobile phones in international conservation and development efforts, FrontlineSMS, and the role of anthropology in the social mobile space Its Mobile [Applications] Database is one of the most comprehensive sources of mobile-related articles, projects and reports on the web, dedicated to documenting the social and environmental impact of mobile phones in developing countries. .... The Mobile Applications Database contains details of projects from around the world which make social and environmental use of mobile technology in fields such as human health, economic empowerment, conservation, education, human rights and poverty alleviation. !!! Thanks To / Ilene Frank / For The HeadsUp !!! Links To Main Page And Search And Browse Database Page Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/ygrot7s ] Do Explore ! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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Re: [Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Suzanne Aurilio 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

"Why is it that, when we go online, we want to optimize for the brilliant conversations only? Why do we want to reduce our connections down to only one facet? Is this because of the asynchronicity? Is it because of our self-involvement? Or something else? For me it's not so much about optimizing or reductions but about being aware of my need to calibrate my attention based on my mood, energy level and interest. I've started playing with Twitter lists to see what effect that has on my experience. I also have a need for privacy, in both directions and I equate degrees of privacy with degrees of intimacy and ultimately vulnerability, all the same experiences we have in f2f contexts. I think I've become less tolerant of the quirkiness of humanity because I can feel so utterly inundated with humanity online. I should probably add that I don't own a television nor consume American media anywhere near the average, which is to me another form and node of involvement or in my case the lack there of. Cheers, Suzanne ~~ Suzanne Aurilio Assistant Director pICT -People, Information and Communication Technologies San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-1623 619-594-2953 Office AD220C pict.sdsu.edu cdi.sdsu.edu sdsu-aztlan.wikispaces.com SL Aurilio Oh Twitter saurili Delicious saurilio

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BookTV > Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Colleagues/ Social Network Analysis Goes Public ... /Gerry BookTV > Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives / Nicholas Christakis; James Fowler About the Program > A social scientist argues that almost every choice we make has something to do with the social networks we belong to. Using studies and statistics, Dr. Fowler discusses how all behaviors are contagious, including overeating, suicide and choice of romantic partner. The event is in San Diego. About the Authors > -Nicholas Christakis > Dr. Christakis is a Harvard University professor in the departments of health care policy and sociology. In 2009, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. - James Fowler > Dr. Fowler is an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems. A/V Now Available AND Future Airings > Saturday, November 7th at 11:15pm (ET) / Sunday, November 8th at 1pm (ET) Links Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yhvaxva ] Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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Re: [Air-L] Interviewing via MSN
by Becker, C. (Carmen) 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Dear all, thanks again for all your helpful responses. As promised you find below a list of the literature recommendations on interviewing using IM. Best, Carmen General literature on interviewing: Holstein, James A., and Jaber F. Gubrium. 2003. Inside interviewing: new lenses, new concerns. Thousand Oaks/ London: Sage Publications. Spradley, James P. 1979. The ethnographic interview. Wadsworth Inc. Literature on IM interviewing: Ardèvol, Elisenda; Bertrán, Marta; Callén, Blanca; Pérez, Carmen (2003), ‘Etnografía virtualizada: la observación participante y la entrevista semiestructurada en línea’. Athenea Digital 3, pp 72-92 (primavera 2003) Ayling, R., & Mewse, A. J. (2009). Evaluating Internet interviews with gay men. Qualitative Health Research, 19(4), 566-576. Chen, P. and Hinton, S.M. (1999) 'Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web', Sociological Research Online, vol. 4, no. 3. De Koster, Willem and Dick Houtman (2008), 'Stormfront is Like a Second Home to Me": On Virtual Community Formation by Right-Wing Extremists.' /Information, Communication and Society/ 11(8), 1153-1175. Dunkels, E., & Enochsson, A. (2007). Interviews with young people using online chat. In M. Quigley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of information ethics and security (pp. 403-410). Hersley: Idea Group Reference. van Eeden-Moorefield, B., Proulx, C. M., & Pasley, K. (2008). A comparison of Internet and face-to-face (ftf) qualitative methods in studying the relationships of gay men. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 4(2), 181-204. Gilbert, N. (2008).Researching Social Life (3rd edition). chapter 16, London: Sage Publications. Kivitis, Joelle. 2005. Online Interviewing and the Research Relationship. In Virtual Methods. Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Berg Publisher. Kazmer, M.M. and Xie, B. (2008) ' Qualitative interviewing in internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 251-278. Malta, S. (2009) Qualitative Interviewing of Older Adults: Offline versus Online Methods. Proceedings 8th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing. A New Era for Ageing Research: What's in Your Toolkit? pp. 133-137. www.med.monash.edu/sphc/haru/conference09 Markham, Annette. 1998. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Alta Mira Press. O'Connor, H. (2006) Online Interviews, <http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/interviews/intcontents.htm> Al-Saggaf, Y., & Williamson, K. (2004). Online communities in Saudi Arabia: Evaluating the impact on culture through online semi-structured interviews. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 5(3). Voida, A., Mynatt, E. D., Erickson, T., & Kellogg, W. A. (2004, April 24–29). Interviewing over instant messaging. Paper presented at the CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria. see http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986060 Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands

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call for panelists: Discourses of Legitimation in Knowledge, Cultural and Information Policy
by jeremy hunsinger 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Distribute as appropriate: I'm putting a panel for Interpretive Policy Analysis: Politic, Legitimacy and Power in Grenoble France July 23-25 2010 http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr/ Keynotes this year are: Bruno Latour, Frank Fischer, Bruno Jobert, Patrick Le Galés and Vivien Schmidt. I need 200-300 word proposals from the panelists. I need the proposals by 18 November 2009. The topic of the panel will will be: Discourses of Legitimation in Knowledge and Cultural Policy. I am looking for at least 3 more participants for the panel. The idea is that in using interpretive methods, we find certain discourses that aim to legitimize certain policies related to knowledge and cultural policy in our society. The papers should describe these discourses so that in the panel we can present them and discuss the similarities and differences. For my perspective, I tend to be most closely allied with Habermasian and Lyotardian issues of legitimation and the issues of justification described by Boltanski and Thévenot in On Justification. However, any model of a discourse that legitimizes, justifies a policy will be considered for the panel. I'd like to see papers for the panel of around 20-30 pages eventually, but the panel will minimally need to have presentations of 15-20 minutes. If I get the papers, I'll try to get them placed in a journal special issue or similar project. Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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Re: [Air-L] [Spam:5.3 SpamScore] Air-L Digest, Vol 63, Issue 29
by David Jones 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Interesting discussions so far. We use Twitter as a primary communications stream among some of our professors and PhD students at Old Dominion, and it works wonderfully well for the most part. It's flexible in a way I don't think FB statuses can be. Sure, you can use to it update people about relatively mundane, everyday parts of your life. But, given its ties to other services, I think it has so much potential to be a powerful communications stream. It has an inherent ability to quickly network different media, services, and people on an ad hoc basis (a la the Iran elections situation). For me and my fellow doctoral students at ODU, it's allowed us to network with people who have similar research interests outside of ODU. The real power behind Twitter comes when you work through a third-party client that allows users to quickly access some of the other services that network into Twitter, like Twitpic. Tweetdeck is a pretty popular app amongst me and my fellow students. It's quick, flexible, and it has a drag-and-drop feature for images and links that often comes in pretty handy. We've taken to using hashtags to organize tweets into class and organization-specific streams. We track conversations about reading material, research interests, etc. And we use it as a way to disseminate links to information and longer conversations that might happen in other spaces. As someone said earlier, the one annoyance I've found is the overwhelming number of bots and spam. Dave Jones Old Dominion University djone111(a)odu.edu

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IHAC reports Canada - digital copies?
by dddumitr＠ucalgary.ca 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I am looking for digital copies of the two IHAC reports (Connection, Community, Content, 1994 and Preparing Canada for a Digital World, 1997) for a content analysis. If anyone has digital copies and would be willing to share, please contact me off line at <dddumitr(a)ucalgary.ca> Thank you. Delia Dumitrica PhD Candidate Faculty of Communication and Culture University of Calgary

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Twitter / norms
by Barry Wellman 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Interesting watching the discussion and differentiation of norms on Tw & FB. Reminds me of mobile phone use here in Toronto, which went from shouting (Spadina bus was very noisy) to current murmuring and (mostly) texting. YMMV 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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New Tool Useful for Government & Researchers
by Stuart Shulman 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

{Apologies for cross posting, but I would like to see this very widely cross posted, blogged and utilized. If you can help, your assistance is very deeply appreciated} The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net) makes searching, sorting and reviewing Federal Docket Management System bulk downloads of public comments easier and more amenable to team work. The BETA version is operating and new users can find sample data and codes on the site once they create a new account. http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=launch_press_release [Public Comment Analysis Toolkit Press Release] http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php [PCAT Help Wiki] http://www.screencast.com/t/WvGzlZX2JU5z [Flash video Introduction to the free, Web-based PCAT system] http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=why_would_i_use_this_system [Why would I use this system?] Thanks! ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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