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QualityCommons: Workshop on collective quality representations, Paris 28-29.01.2010
by Dario Taraborelli 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

(apologies for cross-posting) The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (University of Surrey, UK) and the Centre d'Analyse et Mathématique Sociales (EHESS/CNRS, France) would like to invite you to attend QualityCommons–an interdisciplinary workshop on collective quality representations and the social processes behind them. The aims of the workshop are to: clarify research questions about the emergence of collective quality definitions consider preliminary ideas about the topic as applied to a number of domains (e.g. science, social computing, art, etc.) promote links between participants to encourage the development and submission of research proposals on the topic plan the writing of an edited book/special journal issue with chapters partly contributed by the participants and partly solicited via an open call for papers after the workshop. QualityCommons will take place on 28–29 January 2010 at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, in Paris. It will feature presentations by invited speakers, from both academia and industry, as well as panel discussions with a selected audience of up to 50 participants. The programme will be confirmed in due time. Confirmed speakers • Petra Ahrweiler University College of Dublin • Victoria Alexander University of Surrey • Alex Bentley University of Durham • Riccardo Boero Università degli Studi di Torino • John Casti Technical University of Vienna • Ciro Cattuto ISI Foundation, Italy • Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University • David Hales Delft University of Technology • Dirk Helbing Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich • Victor Henning Mendeley • Paul Ormerod Volterra Consulting, UK • Gloria Origgi CNRS • Mario Paolucci Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Italy Practical information The workshop will start on Thursday morning and end on Friday afternoon. Participation to the workshop is free but limited to a maximum of 50 pre-registered participants. Due to the limited number of available places at the venue, we would like to ask prospective participants to fill in a pre-registration form http://bit.ly/5P89ZM with name, contact details, affiliation as well as a short motivation. We will be in touch as soon as possible to confirm the final list of participants. Organisers: Nigel Gilbert • Dario Taraborelli • Camille Roth Information: Lu Yang lu.yang(a)surrey.ac.uk QualityCommons http://bit.ly/5P89ZM -- Dario Taraborelli Research Fellow Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH United Kingdom http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk http://nitens.org/taraborelli Editor, Review of Philosophy and Psychology http://www.springer.com/13164

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Book Chapter > Instructional Uses Of Twitter
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Colleagues/ IMHO > An Important / Important Contribution To The Study Educational Tweeting ! /Gerry Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are modeled after classrooms. While they are fully capable of supporting some learning activities (e.g., information and document sharing, asynchronous and synchronous discussion, and online tests and quizzes), they are incapable of supporting others. For instance, LMSs currently cannot support the just-in-time, and sometimes playful, interactions that happen before and after class, during a break, and so forth. Out-of-the-classroom interactions like these have potential instructional value (Kuh, 1995) and can help strengthen interpersonal relationships between and among faculty and students. In the following chapter, we briefly highlight some instructional uses of Twitter-a Web 2.0, microblogging tool. Sections > Social Presence and Online Learning > Social Presence and Twitter > Twitter in Action > Other Instructional Benefits of Twitter > Possible Drawbacks > Conclusion We set out to enhance the social-presence potential of our online courses using Twitter. Overall, we found that Twitter helped us accomplish this. We have found Twitter to be a powerful tool for establishing informal, free-flowing, just-in-time communication between and among students and faculty, and with the professional community at large. > References Links To Further Chapter Excerpts / The Open Access Chapter And Entire Open Access Book / Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/ycvajl4 ] !!! Thanks To Patrick.R. Lowenthal / Academic Technology Coordinator / University of Colorado Denver / Business School / For The HeadsUp !!! EnJOY ! /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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deadline extended: CfP Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics
by Dan Mercea 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Dear all, This is to inform you that the deadline for submissions to the symposium 'Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics' has been extended to 11 January 2010. Please see our Call for Papers below for further details. Apologies for cross-posting. Best regards, Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: “Networking Democracy? New media innovations in participatory politics” A three day Symposium to be held at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania 25-27 June 2010 Website: http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/index.php?page=networking-democracy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Democratic politics worldwide are increasingly being conducted and re-configured through the domain of digital communications networks. The socio-technical developments, such as Web 2.0, facilitating these media-saturated public spheres are in little doubt. What is highly contested however is the interpretation of what these profound changes offer for democratic governance in the twenty-first century. At its heart is the recognition that these new media networks are themselves the crucial site for a historical confrontation between opposing political and/or business interests and discourses intent upon forging new forms of social relations. We will address questions such as: What new forms and relations of power are produced in the digital network society? Who are the key social actors shaping the new public sphere and what are their respective strategies, framing, and repertoires of action? What is the democratic potential of Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, blogging and twittering? What empirical evidence do we have to understand and assess these developments? How is networked democracy influencing new democratic societies? What are its consequences for human rights, social sorting, migration, e-government, community politics, surveillance, protest, participation, culture, identity, mobilization, representation, nationalism, security, citizen journalism, trust, regulation, both exogenous and self-regulation and much more? Speakers include: W. Lance Bennett <http://depts.washington.edu/bennett/about.html>, University of Washington, USA Bruce Bimber <http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bimber/>, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Donatella Della Porta <http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/PoliticalAndSocialSciences/People/P…>, European University Institute, Italy William H. Dutton <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=1>, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Brian Loader <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/about/s_load.htm>, University of York, UK Rodica Mocan <http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/141734557021/4e737db5/Rodica/Mocan>, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania We invite papers from all disciplines which have addressed these topics. The paper title, an abstract of up to 500 words, a short bio and contact details should be sent to Dan Mercea, Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, dmm505(a)york.ac.uk <mailto:dmm505@york.ac.uk> before 7 December 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 January 2010. For more details visit http://www.brisc.info/NetDem/ The event is supported by the Center for Political Analysis <http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/en/index.html>and the European Studies Department <http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/en/> (Babeş-Bolyai University), the Science and Technology Studies Unit <http://www.york.ac.uk/res/satsu/> and the Department of Sociology <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/degrees/resscitech.htm>(University of York) Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rics> IMPORTANT DATES: Extended submissions deadline: 11 January 2010 Symposium: 25-27 June 2010 -- Dan Mercea PhD Candidate Communication Studies Department of Sociology University of York E: dmm505(a)york.ac.uk T: +44(0)1904 433578

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job: qualitative study of socio-technical systems, Information Science, Cornell University
by Tarleton Gillespie 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

-All- I wanted to bring to your attention that Cornell's Information Science program is hiring this year. Members of this listserv may be very interested, particularly in the second of the two areas listed. The deadline is Jan 15, 2010. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with the search committee, or with me directly if you like, if you have any questions. -Tarleton- Tarleton Gillespie Program in Information Science Cornell University = = = Cornell’s Information Science Program is seeking to fill one or more tenure-track faculty positions. Information Science at Cornell is an interdisciplinary program within the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (www.cis.cornell.edu) It brings together those interested in studying information systems in their social, cultural, economic, historical, legal, and political contexts. We are especially interested in the areas of: • large information networks and communities with a focus on methods for their design, analysis, or visualization; • analysis of socio-technical systems with a focus on their governance or the practices that emerge within them. We will also consider candidates in other areas of Information Science. The ideal applicant will have a strong mix of both technical and social science research skills and accomplishments. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by January 15, 2010, but will be accepted until all positions are filled. Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, brief statements of research and teaching interests and arrange to have at least three letters of reference uploaded to the application Website. For assistance send questions to: fac_recruit(a)infosci.cornell.edu Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and Educator and welcomes applications from women and ethic minorities. http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/jobs/

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CFP: M/C Journal - Cohesion
by Jaz Choi 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

'cohesion' Cohesion as a term connotes attraction, unity, and commonness amongst discrete entities. Considering cohesion as a concept is timely with the recent rise of network culture, which comes with both small and radical changes in how people connect with, position themselves in relation to, and understand other constituents of society. The need to build bonds between human beings, and to bring together otherwise disparate experiences and aspirations is proving evermore crucial to a sustainable future for the world. But is the current and pervasive understanding of cohesion and its implicit promise of harmony or unity possible, or do we need to look for more nuanced and realistic ways to approach the idea of cohesion? Anheier et al. have re-imagined Bourdieu's view of the positions individuals inhabit within social spaces as a 'network, or a configuration, of objective relations among positions' (Anheier, et al., 1995). From this view the merging of individuals or groups into a cohesive whole becomes less important than the coming together, sometimes only briefly, of ideas into a dynamic and complicated matrix. This is not necessarily to question the obvious advantages of a unified society, rather we seek to ask our contributors if there are new ways of approaching cohesion, and what are the implications for the various disciplines. Similar observations can be made from the technological perspective. Embedded in everyday life, network technologies engender and accentuate multiplicities: multifaceted self-identity, multitasking, and multisensorial experience via multimedia, for example. As we fast transition from the current network era towards that of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), our social and technological systems and practices become modular-like (Choi, et al., 2009), resonating with what Stone calls 'continuous partial attention' (2006). In this environment, it is cohesion that validates a networked entity by giving it a unified form and/or voice amongst its distributed constituents. In this issue of M/C Journal, we seek a cohesive understanding of cohesion across disciplines on wide-ranging issues such as the meaning of cohesion, how we understand cohesion, and what we can do with our understanding of cohesion. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/information/authors… Details * Article deadline:22 Jan. 2010 * Release date: 24 Mar. 2010 * Editors: Donna Hancox and Jaz Choi Please submit articles through this Website. Send any enquiries to cohesion(a)journal.media-culture.org.au<mailto:cohesion@journal.media-culture.org.au>. ---- e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:h.choi@qut.edu.au> w: www.nicemustard.com<http://www.nicemustard.com/> p: +617 3138 0007 m: +61 433 167 151 ----

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Mobile Technologies at Yale University Library> A Panel Discussion
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Colleagues/ Spreading The Word To One's Peers !!! /Gerry Tuesday / December 1 2009 / 1 - 2:30 PM / Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall / Yale University Libraries This panel discussion will focus on current initiatives using mobile devices at Yale University Library and provide a broader look at the role mobile technologies can play in academic libraries. Four Yale librarians will give brief presentations on their work on the subject, followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by Barbara Rockenbach, Director of Undergraduate and Library Research Education. The speakers and their topics are as follows: > Kelly Barrick - Reference and Instruction Coordinator, Social Science Library: In the spring of 2009, Yale University Library rolled out a new text reference service called Text a Librarian to complement its existing instant messaging service (known as AskLive). Kelly will describe how this service was implemented, demonstrate how it works and share what kinds of results have been achieved. > Geoffrey Little - Library Communications Coordinator: Geoffrey will briefly discuss how mobile technologies can compliment and add value to existing library services and work to support the Yale Library's broader mission to support students and researchers > Joe Murphy - libraryfuture on Twitter - Coordinator for Instruction and Technology, Kline Science Library: Mobile Technologies & Libraries, Text Message Reference & Beyond. Joe (libraryfuture on Twitter) will suggest a strategy for meeting the future of applying library services and collections to mobile technology. "Yale Mobile" Presentation > Lisa Carlucci Thomas - lisacarlucci on Twitter - former Digital Collections Librarian: Lisa will discuss her research study on mobile access to Yale's licensed e-book collections and share her findings and recommendations for providing mobile access to e-books at Yale. "One Million Moble: A Study Of Mobile Access To eBooks at Yale" Links To Joe Murphy and Lisa Carlucci Thomass presentations / the Program Twitter Hastag / Twapper Archive Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/yl5x47s ] EnJOY! /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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Free Webinar > mLearning Goes Mainstream > Dec 15 2009 > 1-2 PM EST
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Colleagues/ Free / Free / Free / Free /Gerry Free Webinar > mLearning Goes Mainstream / Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST You are cordially invited to join us for the first in a series of one hour FREE webinars concerning the emergence of Mobile Technologies and its game-changing effects on how we learn. The first event >>> mLearning Goes Mainstream <<< will include two presentations: >>> Key Findings on Mobile Learning Products and Services <<< Mobile Learning has gone mainstream and entered the wide adoption phase. Drawing from key findings of Ambient Insight's report on Mobile Learning Products and Services: Forecast and Analysis 2008-2013, Tyson Greer CEO of Ambient Insight, will discuss market trends, catalysts, and opportunities in Mobile Learning. She will review advances in development tools and platforms, and also highlight two types of products: brain trainers and location-based learning products and services. >>> Educational Mobility <<< Mobility is defined as "the quality of being able to move freely". The combination of a sound pedagogy and an understanding of morphing "mobile" technologies and environments can help us better understand and deliver mobile learning solutions that actually work. This presentation, by Supra Manohar EVP Emantras, defines the meaning of Educational Mobility and introduces MOBL21 as a cost effective and unique mLearning platform. For more information on Emantras' mlearning solutions, or to sign up for a FREE pre-Release MOBL21 BETA ... . Webinar organizers are prohibited from soliciting confidential personal information (credit card information, social security numbers, etc.) in the registration form. This questionnaire is not intended to handle sensitive data. >>>System Requirements <<< > PC-based attendees Required: Windows(r) 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista > Macintosh(r)-based attendees Required: Mac OS(r) X 10.4 (Tiger(r)) or newer Source and Registration Link Available from [ http://tinyurl.com/ybpv9yk ] 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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Reminder - CFP: Computer Culture (SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, Feb. 10-13 2010)
by Andrew Shi-hwa Chen 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Reminder - CFP: Computer Culture (SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, Feb. 10-13 2010) This just a reminder that the Computer Culture Area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA (http://swtxpca.org/) is still accepting paper, panel, and other proposals on any aspect of computer culture. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): The Internet Social networking Mobile computing Online news sites Blogging Web commerce Politics and the Web/Politics of the Web Online sports sites Urban computing Personal home pages Web searching Virtual communities E-publishing (e-zines, et al.) Fan sites Computers and pedagogy Digital art and design Computer music and performance Cybercrime E-waste Video games and gaming For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract embedded in the body of an email. Include contact information (e.g., postal and preferred email address, phone and fax numbers, etc.) and a biographical note about your connection to the topic. For panel and other proposals: Feel free to query first. Panel and other proposals should include all of the information requested for individual paper proposals, as well as a 100-word statement of the panel’s raison d’etre and any noteworthy organizational features. As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars, including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty. Also, unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged. Please submit proposals to Andrew Chen (andrewsw(a)gmail.com) and Judd Ruggill (jruggill(a)asu.edu) by 12/15/2009.

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Google to Sponsor JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source - Call for Papers - Full paper submissions are due January 10, 2010
by Stuart Shulman 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source A two-day University of Massachusetts Amherst conference jointly sponsored by: Google Department of Political Science Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS) Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) KEYNOTE & DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS Eric von Hippel is Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. He also develops and teaches about practical methods that firms can use to improve their product and service development processes. He is the author of Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press, 2005) and The Sources of Innovation (Oxford, 1988). Clay Johnson is Director of Sunlight Labs. Prior joining Sunlight, Clay was one of the four founders of Blue State Digital, the progressive left's premier technology and online strategy firm. This firm, which was born out of the Howard Dean campaign, was also responsible for Barack Obama's Web presence. At Blue State Digital, Clay was responsible for developing the organization's brand and building its initial client roster. He also had a hand at building some of the company's early technical tools. Before joining Blue State, Johnson was the lead programmer for Dean for America in 2004, overseeing the development of grassroots tools like GetLocal, DeanLink and Project Commons. Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a technologist at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) where he helped to develop the company's Web syndication product. He also started the first Internet Knowledge Exchange, KnowPost.com, and worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a Venture Capital firm, but still claims that he learned the most from his first job -- as a waiter at Waffle House in Atlanta, Georgia. Christopher M. Kelty is an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a joint appointment in the Center for Society and Genetics and in the department of Information Studies. His research focuses on the cultural significance of information technology, especially in science and engineering. He is the author most recently of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on open source and free software, including its impact on education, nanotechnology, the life sciences, and issues of peer review and research process in the sciences and in the humanities. APPROACH Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) has made significant advances, both technically and organizationally, since its emergence in the mid-1980s. Over the last decade, it has moved from a software development approach involving mostly volunteers to a more complex ecology where firms, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and volunteers may be involved. Moreover, the production paradigm continues to expand to other areas of digital content (e.g., Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Connexions, etc.). In this conference we use the phrase “open source” to capture this broader phenomenon. The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of open source, broadly defined. "Politics" in the conference title, can have many interpretations. Political issues closely tied to the free and open source software movement(s) include: national government policies related to the adoption of open source technologies or questions related to interoperability and open standards, software patents, vendor lock-in, and copyright. These are central themes we expect may be discussed in this forum. In this context, we welcome international submissions since differences in the political perspective appear in international contexts. However, topics related to how the concept of openness has led to various interpretations, adaptations, and applications of “open source” in other domains, and political issues that surround these broader innovations, are also welcome. Specific topics might include, but are not limited to: General topics related to the politics of open source • How open source software or its principles are changing politics • Emerging transparencies in software, systems and society • Open source in the developing world and other international contexts • The political economy of open source • Digital divides and open source Open source and the public sector • Open source software and transparency in government • Government policies toward open source and open standards • Regulation and open source Open source and democracy • Open source and democratic engagement • Open source voting systems • Activism, political mobilization and open source The expansion of open source into other domains • Understanding how open source collaboration works and how it can be extended into other areas of collective action • Policy areas, such as the effects of free textbooks on education policy or the politics of "One Laptop Per Child" • The political implications of open source in other cultural domains PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a manuscript following one of the six submission formats by January 10, 2010. These formats include research papers, policy viewpoints, workbench notes, review essays, book reviews, and papers on teaching innovation. Proposals for full panel presentations will also be accepted. The goal is to produce a special issue, or double issue, of JITP with a wide variety of approaches to the broad theme of "The Politics of Open Source." Everything you need to know about how to prepare and submit a strong JITP paper is documented at http://www.jitp.net/. Papers will be put through an expedited blind peer review process by the Program Committee, and authors will be notified about a decision by March 10, 2010. A small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be invited to present a poster during the Friday evening reception. All posters must include a "YouTube" version of their research findings. BEST PAPER AND POSTER CASH PRIZES The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a single $1,000 prize. The creator (or creators) of the best poster/research presentation will also receive a single prize of $1,000. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts Amherst Paul M.A. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology Deborah Bryant, Oregon State University Open Source Lab Andrea Calderaro, European University Institute Mark Cassell, Kent State University Edward Cherlin, Earth Treasury Gabriella Coleman, New York University Doug Downham, University of Massachusetts Amherst Robert English, Daystar Computing & University of Massachusetts Amherst Joseph Feller, University College Cork Jelena Karanovic, Rutgers University Dave Karpf, University of Pennsylvania/Miller Center for Public Affairs Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech Jose Marichal, California Lutheran University Jens Hardings Perl, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair Megan Squire, Elon University Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Research Information System For Developing Nations Louis Suarez-Potts, Sun Microsystems, Inc. & OpenOffice.org Anas Tawileh, Cardiff University & Meedan.net

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Looking for scholars in the humanities who work on social media
by Burcu Bakioglu 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Folks, Does anyone out there know of anyone in the humanities who's a critic of social media? Running this query for a colleague... Thanks a bunch! -- Thanks,</burcu> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. http://www.palefirer.com http://palefirer.com/blog/ Skype: PaleFireR AIM: PaleFireR -- "Congratulations! You're the first human to fail the Turing test."

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