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Re: [Air-L] Looking for scholars in the humanities who work on social media
by Burcu Bakioglu 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Thank you guys... I was initially running the inquiry for a friend. Now, I am kinda glad I did. The results look very interesting :) b. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mirko Tobias Schaefer <M.T.Schaefer(a)uu.nl>wrote: > you might be interested in our latest publication, formulating a more > 'materialist' approach to new media: > > Digital Material. Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology. > University of Amsterdam Press. 2009. > You can download it from http://mtschaefer.net/entry/digital-material/ > (for a critique of Web 2.0 you might want to have a look at my contribution > to the book: "Participation Inside? User Activities between Design and > Appropriation" > > I have written more on that in my dissertation: Bastard Culture! User > Participation and the Extension of Cultural Industries. Utrecht University > 2008. (it will be published at Amsterdam University Press next year). > http://mtschaefer.net/entry/bastard-culture-2/ > > Another critical account is José van Dijck: Users like you? Theorizing > Agency in User-generated Content. > http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/31/1/41 > > best wishes > mirko tobias > > > > Burcu Bakioglu wrote: > >> 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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Beth Noveck, Deputy CTO of the United States: Open Government Lecture at UMass Amherst
by Stuart Shulman 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

*Beth Noveck, Deputy CTO of the United States: Open Government Lecture at UMass Amherst* A very nice talk with video and slides http://youtubeandthe2008election.hosted.panopto.com/CourseCast/Viewer/Defau… or http://s7y.us/1gt0Sound improves after the first 45 seconds. ~SWS -- 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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Web 2.0 and Social Systems Theory
by Evgeniya Boklage 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Dear all! Currently I'm working on my PhD thesis and would be really grateful if you could advise me some studies of Web 2.0 which use social systems theory. Most of what I found is in German and the sources in English are extremely limited. Thanks, Evgeniya Boklage

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CfP (deadline extended): From Face to Facebook: performing (im)politeness in social media environments (SymPol 2010, Basel)
by Cornelius Puschmann 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross-posting. Please allow me to inform you that the deadline for the session outlined below has been extended to *December 15th*. * ### *From Face to Facebook: performing (im)politeness in social media environments Panel session at the 5th International Symposium on Politeness, 30 June - 2 July 2010, Basel, Switzerland (http://www.sympol.unibas.ch/) Theresa Heyd (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Cornelius Puschmann (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany) In its earliest days, politeness theory set out to identify “universals in language use” (Brown and Levinson 1978). Such claims to universality were later contested, in particular with regard to cultural variation (e.g. Wierzbicka 1991): norms of appropriateness, concepts of face and other sociopragmatic aspects are nowadays accepted to be (somewhat) culture-specific. In the light of such 'variationist' tendencies, it may be asked whether politeness and self-presentation are also medium- and technology-specific. Are there new politeness paradigms in online communication, especially in its most recent forms? Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are “technologies of the self” (Foucault) where people do things with words in a very literal sense. Constructing a digital self via video, images and still most prominently language ("meforming"; Naaman et al. 2009) and negotiating it in exchanges with other users are central activities in social media formats. While facework could previously be classified unambiguously in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic actions, the digitally constructed self also "acts" via language when symbolically engaging in interpersonal activities such as liking, poking, friending, following, banning and muting. These linguistic quasi-actions replace the means which are available offline to indicate stance and manage impressions and therefore fulfill an important function. In a larger sense, it appears that the concept of “face” itself has taken on a new meaning in digital social media that is simultaneously more encompassing and more important: establishing and negotiating an online identity has become one of the central activities of Internet users. We particularly invite contributions on the following issues: * Constructing and maintaining face in social media * Performative and metacommunicative acts in social media * Consequences and implications of online self exposure: identity management, identity safety, privacy vs. exposure * Performing face in social media vs. Web 1.0 and pre-digital settings * The mitigation of face in online/offline interactions. This panel focuses on the related aspects of self-presentation and symbolic actions as components of digital face management. We welcome contributions addressing all forms of online communication; studies regarding more recent social media are especially welcome. Both theory-building and data-driven contributions are of interest. Abstracts (500 words max.) should be submitted by *December 15, 2009*. Please feel free to contact the panel organizers for more information: heyd(a)ldc.upenn.edu cornelius.puschmann(a)uni-duesseldorf.de References Brown, Penelope and Stephen C. Levinson. 1978. Politeness. Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: CUP. Foucault, Michel. 1988. “Technologies of the self.” In Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman and Patrick Hutton (eds) Technologies of the Self. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 16–49. Naaman, Mor, Jeffrey Boase and Chi-Hui Lai. 2009. “Is it really about me? Message content in social awareness streams.” CSCW 2010, February 6–10, 2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Available at http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~mor/publications/NaamanCSCW2010.pdf<http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/%7Emor/publications/NaamanCSCW2010.pdf> Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction. Berlin: de Gruyter. ### -- Dr. des. Cornelius Puschmann, M.A. Department of English Language and Linguistics / University of Düsseldorf, Germany University Library Center (hbz), Cologne, Germany +49 211 811 5927 (office) +49 176 811 78067 (mobile) +49 211 139 566 84 (home) www.ynada.com www.elanguage.net

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Seeking advise on appropriate theory
by Shrwan Khanal 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Dear members, Could you please advise me the appropriate theory(s) or concepts for studying "Gender Differences in Internet Use Pattern". I am doing the case study of "Male and female students at the university of Zambia". I would like to concentrate on three specific aspects such as "Frequency of Internet Use" "Internet Use Experience in terms of length" and "Location of Internet Access- home, cybercafe, library". Thanking you in advance! Shrwan Khanal University of Jyväskylä Finland

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Vacancy cyberbullying researcher University of Antwerp
by Van Cleemput Katrien 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Dear all, Please forward this to anyone who might be interested. Kind regards, Katrien Van Cleemput The University of Antwerp (Belgium) is seeking to fill the following full time vacancy (m/f) at the Department of Communication studies (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences): Researcher/Phd student(100%) for a project of the Research Foundation in Flanders: "The contextual development of cyber bullying behavior in early adolescence: a longitudinal and social network analysis" Job description: * You prepare a doctoral dissertation on cyber bullying among early adolescents from a longitudinal and social network approach (review of literature, design of measurement instrument, data collection and statistical analysis, publication of findings in international, peer reviewed scientific journal) * The project is supervised by: H. Vandebosch and M. Walrave (University of Antwerp) and S. Eggermont (Catholic University of Leuven) Profile: * You have a master's degree in communication studies, sociology, psychology or another relevant master's degree. * You obtained outstanding academic results * You have an interest in teens' use of ICT * You have experience with quantitative research (and social network analysis or longitudinal analysis in particular), and/or you are prepared to attend further training * You have an eloquent writing style in English * You are a team player, but can also work on assignments independently We offer * A two-year contract (renewable with a two-year contract after positive evaluation) in a young and dynamic research unit. * The possibility to attend international summer courses (in social science data analysis) * Affiliation with an international academic network on cyber bullying * Starting date is February 1st 2010 Interested? * provide your resume (with scores for all attended courses) and motivation letter by December 15th 2009, the latest (E-mail: Heidi.Vandebosch(a)ua.ac.be, or: Heidi Vandebosch, Dept. Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium) * For more information contact Prof. Dr. Heidi Vandebosch, tel. +3232655682 , heidi.vandebosch(a)ua.ac.be.

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Environmental Twitter
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Colleagues/ !!! A Most Excellent Article / A Model For Other Subject Twitter Articles !!! /Gerry Bytes of Note - Environmental Twitter / George E. Clark / Environment / September-October / 2009 Twitter, the microblogging Web site that enables users to post unlimited messages of 140 characters or less, became the fastest-growing Internet communication tool earlier this year, according to Nielsen Online. [snip] As with any general broadcast communication tool, Twitter can provide a helpful service to those with an interest in environmental and sustainability issues. [snip] Any individual or organization representative can sign up for a free account. However, no account is needed to search all public Twitter streams ... A search can provide realtime insight into a mixture of both public opinion and public relations spin on environmental issues. The advanced search features of these sites can be used to search specific Twitter fields, such as location, bio, and names mentioned. The usefulness of analyzing real-time data of this kind may be hard to imagine for those new to Twitter and may not yet be realized for environment-specific uses. [snip] [snip] While few Twitter searchers may be interested in conducting sophisticated analyses of tweets, many will want to see what specific individuals or organizations are saying. [snip] When starting out as an active Twitter user, or when beginning to decipher tweets as a passive Twitter searcher or follower, it helps to develop a basic Twitter vocabulary. Writer and social media consultant Greg Pincus presents a simple and useful list ... . [snip] Besides the EPA, environment- and sustainability-related U.S. agencies on Twitter include the National Park Service (@NatlParkService), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (@CDCemergency), and FEMA (@femainfocus). The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration uses Twitter for a number of applications, including educating students about oceans (@oceanexplorer). Govtwit.com is a directory of government and related Twitter users. Internationally, the United Nations Environmental Programme has begun an active Twitter program, @UNEPandYou, as has the World Health Organization, @whonews. Environmental nongovernmental organizations using Twitter include the International Union for Conservation of Nature (@IUCN), Earthwatch (@tweettheheat), Greenpeace (@greenpeaceusa), The Nature Conservancy (@nature_org), the World Resources Institute (@worldresources), and the World Wildlife Fund (@WWFUS). Twitter also provides a forum for practitioners in particular academic and policy fields and news organizations covering specialized topics. In climate, for example, Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and lead author of the U.S. Global Change Research Program report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, tweets as @KatharineHayhoe. Richard Klein, a climate policy analyst for the Stockholm Environment Institute and a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has begun tweeting as @rjtklein. Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a news service on multilateral environmental negotiations, used Twitter to post news from the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Bonn, Germany, as @enbclimate. [snip] Twitter is but one of a number of emerging social media, many of which already affect environmental work. Terri Willard (@taikod) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development has written a briefing paper, "Social Networking and Governance for Sustainable Development" that places Twitter inside a much larger context. Willard posits three key technologies that enable the "social web" and make it a potential force for sustainability: the prevalence of handheld computing and communication devices; the ease with which individuals can post, find, and comment on each other's videos, images, words, and other content; and the potential of social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. Environmental subject librarians are a good starting point for new resources to explore on the Web, in Twitter, and in the evolving social information setting more broadly. Some use Twitter to connect with a broad constituency. Anne Less, a librarian with the U.S. Green Building Council, tweets using the handle @alessismore. Lenora A. Oftedahl, a librarian with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, tweets as @StreamNetLib. Anne Moser is head librarian and head Tweeter at Wisconsin's Water Library (@WiscWaterLib). Link To Full Article Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yhjsg2f ] !!! Thanks To George E. Clark / Environmental Research Librarian / Harvard College Library For The HeadsUp !!! 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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Internet research ethics controlled vocabulary: CIPR-UWM
by hviz0002＠umn.edu 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dearest esteemed colleagues, Hello from Milwaukee! Do you all miss us already? Hopefully you all recovered nicely... Thanks again for an awesome conference, and were looking forward to seeing all of you next year! And now, the real purpose of this message. Here at the Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), we are constructing an Internet research ethics digital library that will include, amongst other things, several (hundred?) articles related to the topic of you guessed it Internet research ethics. We would like to create a controlled vocabulary for use in our metadata, and as I began this project, that little critical mindset crept in and I started to wonder what exactly gave me the authority to decide how all of you would be searching for information. Therefore: Im putting the call out to you. Im not looking for specific terms or words (that will be the next phase!), but Id like to get an idea of how people search for information regarding Internet research and more specifically Internet research ethics. What are some issues/concerns you have had when searching for this type of literature? What approaches might you suggest in a controlled vocabulary of this subject? And so on and so on If you could email me at ehvizdak(a)uwm.edu sometime in the next two weeks, I would really appreciate it! Thanks so much for your contribution to this project! Erin Hvizdak -- Erin Hvizdak, MLIS Candidate School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Assistant, Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) Project Assistant, UWM Graduate School

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NEW PAPER FROM THE CENTRE FOR INTERNET RESEARCH
by Brügger Niels 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Website Analysis. Elements of a conceptual architecture by Niels Brügger, 56 pages, The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus Abstract "On the basis of an introductory discussion of interactivity, hypertextuality and multimediality, this text sets out, on the one hand, to ask what a website is as an object of study, and, on the other, to propose some elements of a conceptual architecture which may enable us to approach this question and to grasp the website analytically. It is argued that website analysis may address the following three analytical objects: the media environment (Internet and web), the textual environment (desktop, windows, web browser, and ancillary software), and finally, the textuality, which is to say, the textual elements which in a strict sense constitute the website as a textual phenomenon. The main focus is on the textual elements, their characteristics and their interrelations, and special attention is drawn to the forms and the functions of the website’s paratexts, i.e. the small texts located at the boundaries of the main text (e.g. headings, lists, breadcrumb paths, drop-down menus, and search terms entered into a search field)." The Papers from The Centre for Internet Research are free of charge, and as long as in print, copies of the paper may be obtained by contacting cfi(a)imv.au.dk. Please specify complete address. An electronic version of the paper can be found on http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/publications/paper (for the purpose of citation please note that the printed and electronic versions are identical). ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS November 2009 Dræber dr.dk dagbladene?, www.kommunikationsforum.dk, 25. november, København 2009, 4 sider [ in Danish ] [ http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler/draeber-dr-dot-dk-dagbladene ] March 2009 Website history and the website as an object of study, New Media & Society, 11/1-2, Sage, London 2009, 115-132 [ get an electronic copy at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1-2/115?etoc ] INTERESTED IN WEB HISTORY? You may want to join the mailing list webhistory(a)imv.au.dk at http://mail.imv.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/webhistory INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF DR.DK? You may want to join the Facebook group "dr.dk's historie" [in Danish] at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61000607153 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.imv.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk

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Call for Nominees: Donald McGannon Award
by PHILIP M NAPOLI 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University announces its 2009 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research. Nominees should be book-length research published in 2009 that addresses or informs issues of communications policy. Authors of the winning book will be awarded $2,000. Nominations should consist of a cover letter briefly summarizing the book's research focus and findings, along with four copies of the book. Self-nominations are welcome. Edited volumes are not eligible for consideration. Deadline for consideration is January 15 ^th , 2010. Send nominations to: McGannon Book Award Donald McGannon Communication Research Center Faculty Memorial Hall, 4 ^th Floor Fordham University Bronx , NY 10458 For questions or further information, please contact Professor Jim Capo at capo(a)fordham.edu.

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