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[announce] Articles of the special issue "Identity and the social web" of IDIS Journal are now available online (Open Access) Sorry, it did go on!
by andrea baker 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

T, the announcement went on the list, thanks, after I saw it at first! -- --a

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CFP: The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication
by Eugene Gorny 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Conference CALL FOR PAPERS: POST-SOVIET INTERNET With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for the weekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, in New York City. The focus of the conference will be the development of the internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia, though comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus is also of interest. We anticipate panels on such questions as: emergence and evolution of social networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of social contagion in online communications; political clustering in the blogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities; doublethink, cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinion leaders in the blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet; forms and degrees of censorship, online activism/social movements on the internet; dissenters and political activism; democracy to autocracy in the Russian internet. We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to nmc.conference(a)gmail.com by February 1, 2010. Yours truly, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Alan Timberlake and Guobin Yang (Project Leaders) Eugene Gorny and Florian Toepfl (Project Coordinators)

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CfP IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology section Braga 2010
by Jo Pierson 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

CALL FOR PAPERS COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CP&T) Section International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 28th Annual Conference, July 18-22, 2010, Braga (Portugal) Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as well as on the Section sub-theme: ‘Citizen Participation through Technology, Access and Policy’. The media and technology landscape as well as relevant communication policies are changing fundamentally, with a shift from mass media and personal media to media for mass self-communication. The technological facilities for mediated communication are proliferating and becoming increasingly fragmented as a result of convergence and the emergence and rapid spread of new media and internet technologies like interactive digital broadcasting, mobile technologies, social computing, internet-of-things and - more recently - cloud computing. Within this transitional digital media ecosystem researchers increasingly aim to understand how participation by people and communities can (still) take a central position and to what end. How can citizens and/or consumers be empowered in participation through ICT design, usages and policy? Or what are the threats and constraints for people to become disempowered in a convergence culture? Three main areas of user (dis)empowerment are being identified as themes of special interest for CP&T section: (1) market and state ‘feudalisation’, (2) privacy and surveillance, and (3) inclusion and media literacies. The first area of concern relates to the ever increasing ‘feudalisation’ of ICT applications and services by market forces and interests. Besides this, some states are also very active in controlling, monitoring and censoring the internet. This all has serious consequences for the opportunities and potentialities of ICT enabled participation and empowerment. In this regard the debate on net neutrality and its consequences for freedom of speech, access to information, etc. is highly relevant, but also issues of copyright in relation to ownership of user generated content or the posting of copyright protected material on blogs and web 2.0 sites, the share culture, etc. The second focus area of privacy and surveillance is of course to some extent linked to the previous one. This refers to enhanced profiling and data mining practices by private and public organisations (e.g. behavioural advertising, digital footprint, deep-packet inspection technology, etc.), combined with the blurring of boundaries between public and private sphere in the co-creation and ‘produsage’ practices by different types of users (e.g. lead users, citizen journalists,...). A third area of focus deals with inclusion and multiple media literacies. This perspective links in with notions of digital participation that go beyond access. In the changing media environment, new affordances of communication tools require a reconfiguration of digital exclusion-inclusion. We need to look at different levels of capabilities, but also how inclusion is (not) built into specific media and technologies from a human-centred design perspective. At the same time this also means increasing the reach, breadth and depth of digital media and technologies across all domains of society through multiliteracies. The question remains however to what extent inclusion is always empowering, or can inclusion also lead to disempowerment. Empirical, theoretical and analytical work on these three and other related issues will form the central thrust of presentations in the CP&T section at the 2010 Braga conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The CP&T section welcomes abstracts (300 - 500 words) from scholars of any academic discipline bearing on aforementioned and related issues. Abstracts should state the title as well as the methods or approaches used and introduce the empirical and theoretical material on which the paper is based. Besides the abstract title and text, each submission includes author name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email address of (all) author(s). The abstracts can only be submitted via the official conference abstracts and registration site: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ocs/index.php/iamcr/2010portugal/schedConf/cfp The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 31, 2010. The papers will be assessed and provisionally accepted on the basis of the abstracts. You will be informed whether or not your abstract is accepted by March 15, 2010. The full papers (max. 7500 words) are due April 30, 2010, in order to ensure that the authors’ names and papers’ titles are included in the final conference program. Key submission guidelines: - Deadline abstracts: January 31, 2010 - Announcement of acceptances: March 15, 2010 - Deadline full papers: April 30, 2010 - IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However, it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in English - Individual abstracts may only be submitted to a single section/ working group. Please do not submit the same abstract to two or more different IAMCR sections/working groups. Additional questions (e.g. on panels) may be addressed to Maria Michalis (m.michalis[AT]westminster.ac.uk) or Jo Pierson (jo.pierson[AT]vub.ac.be). Chairs: Jo Pierson and Hopeton S. Dunn (on leave, serving as acting Secretary General, IAMCR) Vice-chairs: Maria Michalis and Bart Cammaerts

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A wonderful Udine experience
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I want to publicly thank Leopoldina Fortunati for inviting me to lecture to her fascinating media group at the dynamic University of Udine, in northeastern Italy -- near the Slovenian and Austrian borders. Lots of smart people and good discussion, and Polda is the ultimate host. Udine itself is fascinating: both old and new. Got a cashmere sweater there for one-third the Milan price. In this year's fashionable lavender-purple colour. 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] Textbook on the social web?
by RBerkman＠aol.com 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

This is a great list Linda...as soon as I finish a major research project this week, I will start up a group, perhaps on Ning, FB, or a Yahoo Group (any recommendations?) where all who have expressed interest in pulling this together in a more formal manner can talk about it together, and then perhaps we can post it on the AIR-L Wiki and find other uses for Internet research related professors and disciplines. Bob Berkman Associate Professor Media Studies The New School

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IRGO unConference 1.0: NZ Digital Futures <= almost here!
by Andrew Long 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi AoIR - Erika Pearson and I are very excited (and busy) getting ready for the IRGO (Internet Research Group of Otago) unConference starting on Monday. The event itself is designed to be highly interactive, participatory and hopefully engaging. We are trying to bring the discussion back by encouraging the free flowing exchange of ideas, views, thoughts, positions in relation to a collection of loosely defined topics (submitted by delegates). The programme is here for the curious: http://irgo.otago.ac.nz/programme.html We plan to document happenings any which way we can using a crack team of volunteers with devices, ears, eyes, and Twitter. Any tools, approaches, feeds, etc. that we use will be documented on this page: http://irgo.otago.ac.nz/centre.html If you are not attending in person and are keen to either particpate or track discussions, we would love to hear how you would like us to facilitate your lurking and/or contributions. Kind regards Andrew _________________________________________________________________ http://andrew-long.name | Department of Information Science | School of Business University of Otago | NZ | +64 3 479 8319 | mailto:andrew.long@otago.ac.nz

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Library In A Pocket: Some Prefer To Read (Some) eBooks On SmartPhones
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

NYTimes / November 18, 2009 / Library in a Pocket By MOTOKO RICH and BRAD STONE With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that's not small enough. Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets - bringing a whole new meaning to "phone book." [snip] [snip] Over the last eight months, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a range of smaller companies have released book-reading software for the iPhone and other mobile devices. One out of every five new applications introduced for the iPhone last month was a book, according to Flurry, a research firm that studies mobile trends. All of that activity raises a question: Does the future of book reading lie in dedicated devices like the Kindle, or in more versatile gadgets like mobile phones? [snip] But there are already 84 million smartphones that can run applications in the United States alone, according to IDC, a research firm. Apple has sold more than 50 million iPhones and iPod Touches, which both run e-book software. Apple itself doesn't see the iPhone as the ultimate reading device. Next year, it is likely to further stir up the e-book market if, as expected, it introduces a tablet computer - a device bigger than a phone that will most likely run e-reader software along with other programs intended for the iPhone. People once scoffed at the idea of reading a book on a 3.5-inch mobile screen. For many readers, though, sheer convenience trumps everything else. [more] Access To An Excerpted Version Of The Article And The Original Full Text Is Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/y8t8qy3 ] 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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Article-Level Metrics And The Evolution Of Scientific Impact / Plus +
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Colleagues/ An Important Article, But ... Not As Radical As I Would Suggest ... [:-) See The Bottom Of This Posting For My View(s) / Links /Gerry Neylon C, Wu S (2009) Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact. PLoS Biol 7(11): e1000242. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242 / Published: November 17, 2009 [snip] "'Other Indicators of Impact' include ratings and comments, which, like page views, are immediate but may offer more insight because users are more likely to have read the article and found it compelling enough to respond. Additional other indicators are bookmarks, used by some people to keep track of articles of interest to them, and blog posts and trackbacks, which indicate where else on the Web the article has been mentioned and can be useful for linking to a broader discussion. It is clear that all of the types of data provide different dimensions, which together can give a clearer picture of an article's impact. [snip] As recently shown ... , scientific impact is not a simple concept that can be described by a single number. The key point is that journal impact factor is a very poor measure of article impact. And, obviously, the fact that an article is highly influential by any measure does not necessarily mean it should be. Many researchers will continue to rely on journals as filters, but the more you can incorporate effective filtering tools into your research process, the more you will stay up-to-date with advancing knowledge. The question is not whether you should take article-level metrics seriously but how you can use them most effectively to assist your own research endeavours. We need sophisticated metrics to ask sophisticated questions about different aspects of scientific impact and we need further research into both the most effective measurement techniques and the most effective uses of these in policy and decision making. For this reason we strongly support efforts to collect and present diverse types of article-level metrics without any initial presumptions as to which metric is most valuable. [snip] As Clay Shirky famously said ... , you can complain about information overload but the only way to deal with it is to build and use better filters. It is no longer sufficient to depend on journals as your only filter; instead, it is time to start evaluating papers on their own merits. Our only options are to publish less or to filter more effectively, and any response that favours publishing less doesn't make sense, either logistically, financially, or ethically. The issue is not how to stop people from publishing, it is how to build better filters, both systematically and individually. At the same time, we can use available tools, networks, and tools built on networks to help with this task. So in the spirit of science, let's keep learning and experimenting, and keep the practice and dissemination of science evolving for the times." >>> While These Insights and Suggestions Are An Important Contribution To The Conversation , In Many Ways The Views And Recommendations Are Far >From Radical [:-)] <<< See My Presentation Delivered At the _Workshop On Peer Review_, Trieste, Italy, May 23-24 2003 "Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship" >>> See In Particular > 'Seize The E!' Section >>> "Embrace the potential of the digital environment to facilitate access, retrieval, use, _and_ navigation of electronic scholarship" >>It's A Large PPT (200+ Slides) But IMHO ... Well Worth The Experience [:-)]<< AND The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases To ReQuote T.S. Elloit > "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?"/ T.S. Eliot / The Rock (1934) pt.1 To Quote Me > "It's Not About Publication, It's About Ideas" >> We Now Have The Computational Power To Make Real-Time Conceptual Navigation An EveryDay Occurrence <<< Full Text Of Article / PPT / and Website Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yzoeqg9 ] !! Let Us Use It To Navigate Ideas !!! Indeed Let Us Continue "... experimenting, and keep the practice and dissemination of science evolving for the times." 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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CFP - IFKAD TRACK ON KNOWLEDGE-BASED MODELS FOR POLICY-MAKING
by ettore bolisani 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS IFKAD - INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON KNOWLEDGE ASSET DYNAMICS Matera, Italy, 24-25 June 2010 SPECIAL MINI-TRACK ON "KNOWLEDGE-BASED MODELS FOR POLICY-MAKING" DESCRIPTION AND TOPICS To boost the economic development and help businesses and territories to face the challenges of the new economic climate, there is the need to develop analytical and prescriptive models of intellectual capital and knowledge management for their application to policy-making in the public administration. This track aims to collect contributions that shed light onto these issues. Both theoretical contributions and empirical analyses are welcome. Studies that clarify the possible links between the IC and KM literature and other relevant fields of study (e.g.: growth and development studies, regional studies, innovation management, policy-making, use of ICT in public administrations) are also appreciated. DEADLINE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION: 30 January 2010 DETAILS AT: http://www.knowledgeasset.org/IFKAD/Tracks/tp06.asp CONTACTS: Ettore Bolisani ettore.bolisani(a)unipd.it Enrico Scarso enrico.scarso(a)unipd.it University of Padua, Italy

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CFP • Web Studies 2010. Toluca, Mexico
by Ever Reyes 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Dear all, the call for short-papers is still open for Web Studies 2010, until Nov. 27: http://webstudies.info Some updates: the net art exhibition will be held with partnership with KURATOR; papers can be considered to be published in the Journal of Mobile Multimedia; and, we have got scholarships for all authors, i.e. the conference is fee-free. Best wishes, Everardo REYES

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