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pop culture references needed
by Barry Wellman 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

For the Mobile chapter of our Networked book, we're looking for 2 kinds of pop culture examples from before the age of Mobile Comm/Info A "smart mob" example - i.e. one where a group of people could have solved a problem or prevented a disaster if they had only been able to coordinate a group solution -- using mobile phones or WiFi An "if only I had known' example where there is a bad outcome that could have been avoided with just-in-time information? Need it by Monday. Having fun with this before/after section -- already have other types of Before Mobile examples: North by Northwest Halloween (or is another slasher series better)? Rocky Horror Picture Show Ferris Buehler's Day Off Tony Hillerman novels (could use a more explicit detail from one here) Thanks, 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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2nd CFP: AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010)
by Sam Gosling 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media http://www.icwsm.org May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged. The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington D.C. In addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, ICWSM 2010 will include a session of invited talks from prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of talks from leaders of government projects who are experimenting with social media platforms for various purposes, e.g. to increase transparency and better engage the citizenry. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission: January 8, 2010 - Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010 - Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010 - Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010 - Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010 SPEAKERS Keynote Speakers: - Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty, "Designing Online Communities from Theory" - Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks" Speakers in Special Sessions: - Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State Univ. - James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin - S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin - Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia - Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director - Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media Tutorial Speakers will include: - Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research, "Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop" - Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas, "Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media" TECHNICAL AREAS More specifically, ICWSM welcomes submissions from researchers in a number of disciplines: - Computational Linguistics/NLP - Text Mining/Data Mining/Machine Learning - Psychology - Sociology (including Social Network Analysis) - Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies - Visualization - HCI - Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models Submissions are welcome that study a broad array of types social data, including: - Weblogs, including comments - Social Networking Sites - Microblogs - Wikis (wikipedia) - Forums, usenet - Community media sites: youtube, flickr Technical topics of interest include: - Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media - Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media - Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media - Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors - Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs - Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering - Trust; reputation; recommendation systems - Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization - Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction - Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification - Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media - New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Author registration: Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) The software will assign a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to register as soon as possible, and well in advance of the January 8, 2010 submission deadline. Abstract and paper submission: Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10 paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or (preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax. Papers must be in high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers should be at most 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages (poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase. Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later than January 15, 2010. Submissions to other conferences or journals: ICWSM-10 will *not* accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience. Registration: All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. The registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person. PUBLICATION All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated up to 8 (eight) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI. DATA CHALLENGE ICWSM-10 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset (mentions, coreference, meronymy and sentiment targeting) from J.D. Power and Associates described by Kessler and Nicolov at ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml. Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format). ORGANIZERS General Chair: Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information Program Chairs: William Cohen, CMU Computer Science Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology Data challenge chairs: Ian Soboroff, NIST Akshay Java, Microsoft Tutorials Chair: Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Publicity Chair: Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates/McGraw-Hill Sponsorship Chair: Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Senior Program Committee Members: - Lada Adamic, Univ. of Michigan - Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ. - danah boyd, Microsoft Research - Claire Cardie, Cornell Univ. - Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Cindy Chung, Univ. of Texas at Austin - Scott Counts, Microsoft Research - Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs - Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University - Tim Finin, UMBC - Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research - Lise Getoor, Univ. of Maryland - Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC - Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research - Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs - Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation - Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research - Marc Smith, Telligent Systems CONTACT For more info: icwsm10(a)aaai.org --- www.snoopology.com

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Mobile and Handheld Technology Accessibility Forum On LinkedIn
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

Mobile and Handheld Technology Accessibility Forum On LinkedIn With the ongoing focus on exploiting mobile and other handheld technologies, this forum seeks to bring together mobile software developers, researchers and others involved or interested in making these devices and the applications that run on them accessible and usable by persons with different disabilities. End-users with visible and non-visible disabilities who use mainstream and adapted mobile and handheld devices and associated applications are likewise encouraged to contribute to the dialogue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) sharing best practice, guidelines, and first-hand experience developing applications on mobile/handheld platforms that are made to be accessible to users with different disabilities; issues related to mobile learning accessibility; information on the latest innovations in mainstream and adaptive mobile/handheld hardware accessibility (e.g., cell phones, smartphones, GPS devices, iPods); along with evaluation and feedback from end-users with disabilities who are attempting to use these technologies. As this area of accessibility evolves, it is expected conversations will as well. As with any other public forum, members are reminded to exercise good judgment and conduct when contributing, in terms of respecting both workplace confidentiality that many are bound by, and the diversity of opinions that will naturally be expressed here. This is an off-shoot of the Web 2.0 Accessibility Forum group here on LinkedIn Owner: Jennison Asuncion !!! Thanks To Jennison Mark Asuncion / Co-Director, Adaptech Research Networ / For The HeadsUp !!! Links To source And To Join And To Related > Mobile Libraries Facebook Global Group And Mobile Libraries Google Group Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yarloal ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs 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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Online Deliberation book site back up
by Todd Davies 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Sorry, the Online Deliberation book site was down last night. The database crashed after postings of the book announcement to several email lists. It's up again today at http://odbook.stanford.edu. Todd Davies > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:41:56 +0100 > From: Ismael Pe?a-L?pez <ictlogist(a)ictlogy.net> > To: Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa(a)gmail.com> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9 > Message-ID: > <ce1fa8230912120141n7318df45qc4d982d051b6d87d(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Fouad, > > I'm having the same error. > > Check google cache > http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:DwJYbw2y9kAJ:odbook.stanford.edu/+Onli… > > or just access the PDF directly: > > http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/10/ODBook.Full.11.3.…

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Fwd: EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31.12.2009, The Fifth International Symposium on Politeness
by jeremy hunsinger 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

> EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31.12.2009 > Call for papers > The Fifth International Symposium on Politeness > > > Theme: > “Politeness and impoliteness, on- and off-line” > > Date: > 30th of June to 2nd of July 2010. > > Plenary speakers: > Derek Bousfield (confirmed) > Alexandra Georgakopoulou (confirmed) > Michael Haugh (confirmed) > Richard J. Watts (confirmed) > > Location: > University of Basel, Switzerland > > Scope: > The special focus of this three-day conference is on issues of face-enhancing, face-maintaining and face-aggravating language communication in computer-mediated communication of all types. While the theme of the conference explicitly invites a discussion of computer-mediated communication, submissions from across the field of politeness and impoliteness research are invited and welcome. > > Submission of paper proposals: > 31 December 2009: 500 words (via website) > > Organizers: > Miriam Locher and the Basel English linguistics team > > Conference website: > www.sympol.unibas.ch > > Questions: > Please address any questions concerning the conference to sympol(a)unibas.ch. > > *************************************************** > Prof. Miriam Locher > Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar > Nadelberg 6, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9
by Fouad Bajwa 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Hi Stuart, >> Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice* >> * >> http://odbook.stanford.edu Thank you for sharing this useful information. I have been trying to access the link provide but am continuously getting the following error: OerationalError at /viewing/htmldocument/75 could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? Message: 3 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:39:15 -0500 From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Free book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice Message-ID: <23baba200912090339h1f55346ge52bad2bd69640b9(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice* * http://odbook.stanford.edu Hard copy: $25 PDF: Free This book is fully accessible online and modestly priced in hard copy. It is a very nice collection including work by scholars like Fishkin, Price & Lupia. http://odbook.stanford.edu/viewing/htmldocument/75 (Table of Contents) ------------------------------ Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Advisor & Researcher ICT4D & Internet Governance Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA

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Anabel tenured
by Barry Wellman 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Nice news that Anabel Quan-Haase has received tenure at U Western Ontario. Her apptmt is in Soc & Info Sci. 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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Language and the development of self?
by Charles Ess 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

While I'm asking for help ... Good / canonical references for close analyses showing the correlation between language and variable sense of selfhood / identity? Beyond Sapir-Whorf, I think - parallel with Foucault's understanding of how writing becomes a "technology of the self" - but, ideally, with a close and detailed look at how different languages / grammars / syntax (plural?) etc. Seem to correlate with prevailing understandings of the individual vis-à-vis the larger world around, beginning with the human community but extending into the larger natural / supernatural world. For example, Ames and Rosemont, in a terrific essay on classical Chinese, including its use in the Analects, make clear connections between Western languages as substantive languages that they then tie into especially modern conceptions of the self as a substance, in contrast with the more process- and relationally-oriented character of classical Chinese, which they argue is correlated with the relational sense of self in ancient China (Ames, Roger, and Rosemont, Henry. 1998. ³Metaphysics, with Reference to Language,² The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation, pp. 20-37.) One of the best essays I've seen in more than 20 years - but looking for additional work along these lines. Again, tips, tricks, and suggestions - if only for keywords and main journals / databases in which to search - will be gratefully received. Cheers, - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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FW: Full-time Professor Needed at Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan, South Korea
by Jean Burgess 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Dear colleagues, FYI: ------ Forwarded Message From: "Han Woo PARK (Asso. Prof.)" <hanpark2020(a)gmail.com> Please circulate this call! Thanks in advance. Han Full-time Professor Needed at Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan, South Korea Job Opening Yeungnam University is now accepting applications for a full-time foreign-instructor (a native English speaker preferred) to be available March 1, 2010. Located on 900 scenic acres in Gyeongsan, 6 miles southeast of Daegu, Yeungnam University is a private university with a student enrollment of over 35,000. 1. Job Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, depending on career specialty 2. Teaching Subjects - Mass Communication & Society, Research Method, Communication Theory, etc. 3. Period of Contract - March 1, 2010 to February 30, 2010 with the possibility of renewal 4. Teaching Loads & Semesters - 9 credits per semester (Spring & Fall, 15-week semesters) - All classes should be taught in English 5. Requirements & Qualifications - Ph.D. preferred in Media & Communication - The applicant with a Master's degree should at least one-year of teaching experience at a university l Preferred qualifications: - An English-language teaching certificate (TESOL/TEFL/CELTA or equivalent) from a recognized provider. - A resourceful, innovative and dedicated professional who truly enjoys teaching. - An energetic, self-motivated team player with strong collaborative and communication skills. 6. Salary & Benefits - An annual salary of 31,161,000 to 40,341,000 Won (or more) for twelve months, commensurate with qualifications and experience. - Overtime pay: Overtime pay for teaching will be paid according to the University's standard rates in effect during the contract term of employment. - The Professor's health insurance will be covered by Yeungnam University's Medical Insurance Policy at the standard rate in effect during the contract term of employment - Pension Insurance Fees(Insurance Fund) will be paid by the professor according to the Pension Law(Act) Korea. - The University will allow the Professor to have maximum 8 weeks of vacation during the summer and winter vacation period. - All applicable taxes are to be paid by the professor according to the Korean Tax Law. - Housing: A university owned furnished apartment is provided. If no vacancies are available, you will be provided with a housing allowance of 450,000 KRW per month. - The University will provide one research office. * Application & Deadline - Documents Required Before the Interview Date: 1) A cover letter that outlines your teaching experience and range of teaching interests 2) A statement of interest in and qualifications for teaching specific courses 3) Two copies of detailed resume with photo (Please indicate month and year for your work experience and education.) 4) A copy of passport photo page 5) Two letters of recommendation 6) The alien registration ID(It can be submitted later) 7) Three passport sized photos 8) Two evidences of career development 9) Two copies of diploma (Bachelor, Master, and PhD). 10) The two copies of certificate of grades(GPA on bachelor, master, PhD) - Deadline: Dec. 30, 2009 - E-mail: feel0932(a)hanmail.net (You can apply by E-mail.) - Mailing Address: Miss Kyeong-Ha Nam A secretary to the Chair of Department of Media & Communication YeungNam University, 214-1, Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea Zip Code 712-749

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Update on Ting-Toomey?
by Charles Ess 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hi all, I'm looking into literature in CMC and HCI - inspired by CATaC colleagues and 2008 presentations by José Abdelnour-Nocera, Lorna Heaton, Leah Macfadyen, and Marie-Christine Deyrich & Nada Matas-Runquist on the manifold limitations of older models for cultural analysis (read: Hall and Hofstede) and suggestions for new directions. Jose and his colleagues - along with many others, including Charlotte Gunawardena and her colleagues (also in a 2008 CATaC paper, A Cross-cultural study of identity and face negotiation in visually anonymous online chat, in F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec and C. Ess (eds). Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology 2008, Murdoch University, Australia, 525-539) - refer to the 1998 article, Ting-Toomey, Stella and Kurogi, Atsuko, Facework Competence in Intercultural Conflict: an Updated Face-Negotiation Theory. Intercultural Relations, Vol. 11, No. 1: pp. 76-114. All of which is terrific and incredibly useful - in part as Gunawardena et al further take up a notion of idioculture that seems to more accurately describe online 'cultures' while not entirely abandoning whatever more general claims might be made about 'culture' in a broader, especially national-linguistic sense. My question: is there more recent work on face and face negotiation - perhaps by Ting-Toomy and/or those following in her (criticizing her?) footsteps - that seems especially pertinent / applicable to the various venues of CMC? Thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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