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Information: Interactions and Impact (i³) - Submission Deadline Extension to 22 February 2009
by Kate Friday 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

***Apologies for Cross-posting*** Information: Interactions and Impact (i³) Conference The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 22-25 June 2009 ***Extension of submission deadline to 22 February 2009*** The organisers would like to thank all those authors, in more than 10 countries, who have already submitted proposals for papers at this year's i3 conference. We have had a number of requests for a short extension to the deadline. We also know that the weather conditions in the UK have disrupted normal working patterns for many people over the last week. We will be pleased therefore to accept submissions up to 22 February. Full details of the conference themes and how to submit proposals for full papers, short papers and round tables are available on the i3 website http://www.i3conference2009.org.uk Dorothy Williams, i³ Conference Director On behalf of the i³ Conference Organising Committee Kate Friday Research Student Department of Information Management Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University http://www.i3conference2009.org.uk

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#ir10 is proposed as tag for upcoming confernece
by jeremy hunsinger 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

SInce many of us are already using it and since it follows from previous conferences, we should as well just set it now. #ir10 on twitter, blogs, etc. etc unless there is reasoned dissent? Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles

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In Search of Wiki References
by Mauricio Vasquez 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Greetings members of Air-L, I am currently researching Wiki technology adoption and am interested in collecting meaningful studies about Wikis regardless of the field in which they have been published. I have already collected some bibliography, but I suspect I may be missing some important publications. I would very much appreciate any references you can share with me. Shortly after, I will post a summary of all your generous contributions. Thank you, Mauricio Vasquez

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SAW 2009 new deadline: Feb 17 (3rd Ws. on Social Aspects of the Web)
by Dominik Flejter 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland April 28, 2009 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=34&ws=saw2009 =========================================================================== Deadline extended to: February 17, 2009 =========================================================================== In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel, extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share, and use knowledge in a social way. This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects, as well as ways of working and doing business. The change also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so, and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions. Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. TOPICS OF INTEREST * People on the social Web * Individuals on the Web (identity, privacy, incentives, activity models, trust and reputation, ...) * Communities on the Web (roles, leadership, social norms and conflicts, types of communities, ...) * Collaboration on the Web (content and data development and maintenance, decision taking ...) * On-line and off-line life (mixed interaction models, on-line vs. off-line communities, ... ) * Business activities in the social Web (sales, exchanges, word-of-mouth, recruiting, marketing, ...) * Data and content on the social Web * Social content organization (tagging, classification, recommendations, collaborative filtering, ...) * Content dynamics (content flow and evolution, mashups, comments, collaborative creation, ...) * Semantic social Web (standards, annotation of social content/data, ontology learning, ...) * Data and social network portability (standards, policies, technologies, licenses, ...) * Social software and services * Specific types of social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, resources sharing, ...) * Development (architectures, technologies, platforms, infrastructures, ...) * Adoption (critical mass problem, socio-technical gap, data and social network migration, ...) * Alternative user interaction models (games, mobile, mixed reality, ...) * Social software in the enterprise (knowledge management, CRM, collaborative software, ...) * Business models of social services (pricing, cost models, customer relation, content acquisition, ...) * Mining the social Web * Mining user-generated content (opinion, comments, rankings, forums, ...) * Mining the social graph (collaborative filtering, social network analysis, ...) * Mining activity patterns (access, used features, participation, interactions, ...) * Entity-centric content integration (on people, experts, objects, companies, locations, ...) * Social Web mining in business (for marketing, products design, customer support, ...) SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saw2009. Papers approved for presentation at SAW 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * February 17, 2009 - submission deadline for papers (extended) * March 9, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection (new date) * March 22, 2009 - submission of final papers (new date) * April 28, 2009 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Dominik Flejter * Tomasz Kaczmarek * Marek Kowalkiewicz PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany * Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan * Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia * Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China * Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany =========================================================================== -- Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ > Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ > SAW 2009 Co-chair

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Re: [Air-L] Impact of Texting and Micro-blogging Upon Writing
by Agnieszka Knas 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Have you tried David Crystal's new book: Crystal, D. (2008). Txtng: the gr8 db8. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. It gives you also some useful further references. Regards, Agnieszka Knas Queen Mary, University of London ----------- Greetings all! Are any of you aware of key research/resources related to the impact of texting and micro-blogging upon writing style and the formation of young writers? I am working with a student who wants to do a senior seminar in that area, and I'd like to get up to speed with the literature myself. Regards, Bernard Dr. Bernard Bull Assistant Professor of Education Instructional Design Center, Director M.S. in Education - Educational Technology, Director Concordia University Wisconsin Phone: 262-243-4595 Fax: 262-243-3595

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Re: [Air-L] Impact of Texting and Micro-blogging Upon Writing
by Sandra Harrison 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Dr Clare Wood of Coventry University UK has been working on the influence of texting and other new technologies on reading and language development in children. See http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/reading/a/1882 Sandra Dr Sandra Harrison Academic Co-ordinator Coventry University School of Art and Design Email s.harrison(a)coventry.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:02:39 -0600 From: "Bull, Bernard" <Bernard.Bull(a)cuw.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Impact of Texting and Micro-blogging Upon Writing To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <3F6B53A7CD1448489EB7C2BC7B174D810707575A(a)scione.cuw.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings all! Are any of you aware of key research/resources related to the impact of texting and micro-blogging upon writing style and the formation of young writers? I am working with a student who wants to do a senior seminar in that area, and I'd like to get up to speed with the literature myself. Regards, Bernard Dr. Bernard Bull Assistant Professor of Education Instructional Design Center, Director M.S. in Education - Educational Technology, Director Concordia University Wisconsin Phone: 262-243-4595 Fax: 262-243-3595 -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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Re: [Air-L] virtual ethnography and online fieldwork
by John Postill 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

My own experience of doing ethnographic fieldwork on internet and residential politics in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) chimes with Don Slater's account of the open-ended and muddling through nature of ethnographic research. Early during field research I was queried by a Swedish political scientist about what exactly I meant by 'local governance', since that seemed to be a key element of my research strategy. To his frustration, my reply will be familiar to other ethnographers - that it was still early days and I would have to see what local activists, residents, politicians, etc, made of this notion, if anything, and see where the research led me before even deciding whether this notion was even applicable to the actualities on the ground. As it happened, my findings led me in other directions. This muddling through can also reveal unexpected parallels in internet-related practices across vast geographical stretches, sometimes cutting across the North-South divide mentioned by Don Slater. For example, I didn't set out to study suburbia but it turns out that the internet uses by local activists in suburban Kuala Lumpur are not that dissimilar to those in other suburbs (e.g. of Toronto, Melbourne and Tel Aviv) - they are all shaped by the imperative to build and sustain an environment conducive to the reproduction of middle-class nuclear families. This is all very different from the kind of young urban transnational activism described by Juris (2008) in his recent monograph Networked Futures, based on ethnographic research among Barcelona-based antiglobalisation activists. John Dr John Postill Senior Lecturer in Media Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield S11 8UZ United Kingdom j.postill(a)shu.ac.uk http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/

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Apple Mac qualitative data analysis
by Dr. David Berry 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Hi I recommend TAMS for Mac OS X for qualitative analysis. It doesn't have the most advanced features of the proprietary versions such as NVivo but it is free - and it is free software. It handles Text files really well and can produce stats that can be outputted to Excel etc for tables and graphs. http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/ There is also a Linux version. Best David > Hi all, does anyone have any experience with qualitative data analysis > packages (think NVivo or Atlas.ti) for Mac? Everything I know of > seems to be > for PC only... any suggestions would be appreciated. :) > > Thanks! > Andrea > > > > : Andrea Forte > : PhD Candidate, Human-Centered Computing > : Georgia Institute of Technology > : http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ --- Dr. David M. Berry Room 412 Media and Communications Department School of Arts University of Wales Swansea Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Tel: x2633 Email: d.m.berry(a)swansea.ac.uk Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/

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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2009)
by Mia Consalvo 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 27 March 2009 -- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2009) Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 19 June 2009 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems(MCCSIS 2009) Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 23 June 2009 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Gary Hayes, Director of Laboratory for Advanced Media Production (LAMP) and Head of Virtual Worlds, Australia * Conference background and goals As game and entertainment technologies become increasingly more pervasive we are continually challenged in our work, learning and personal life by increased access to virtual spaces and communities that offer opportunities for everyday needs and aesthetic experiences. The 'Creative Industries' require design and development structures, techniques and methodologies that enrich, enhance and encourage new interaction modes, metaphors and in-depth co-creation. This conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line). * Best Papers Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Types of submissions Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. * Topics related to Game and Entertainment Technologies are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following topics: - Development methodologies - Design issues - Controversial issues - we welcome debate and dissension, for example; games as art, entertainment as purely for monetary returns etc - Special Effects - Animation - Mobile and ubiquitous games and entertainment - Serious Games and entertainment -applications, critiques - Philosophical issues - Prototypes - Social and cultural uses of/for Play - Tools and technologies - Skills, strategy, rules and chance - Genre - Immersiveness and engagement - Research methodologies in creative practice - Usability and playability - User/player centered design - Psychological, social, and cultural differences in perception and participation - Communities, networks, social interaction and social capital - Cross-cultural and intercultural approaches - Assessment of exploratory learning approaches - Emerging practices * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (extension): 27 March 2009 - Notification to Authors (extension): 24 April 2009 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (extension): Until 15 May 2009 - Late Registration (extension): After 15 May 2009 - Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 19 June 2009 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES 2009 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: secretariat(a)gaming-conf.org Web site: http://www.gaming-conf.org/ * Program Committee Game and Entertainment Technologies 2009 Conference Program Chair: Katherine Blashki, University of Sydney, Australia General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs: Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Committee Members: * * for committee list please refer to http://www.gaming-conf.org/committees.asp -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. School of Media Arts & Studies (formerly the School of Telecommunications) Ohio University 9 South College Street Athens, Ohio 45701 USA 740.597.1521

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Re: [Air-L] Virtual Ethnography and CyberAnthropology
by Pearse Stokes 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Hi Everyone, Good to see the discussion is still ongoing! Mathias, you say: "I have however problems with the notion of "performed purely in the virtual arena". There are so few purely virtual arenas, almost everything seems to be augmented virtuality, mixed realities or augmented reality as Philippe Kerremans and others call it. Where would you look for pure virtuality?" You're 100% correct! In fact, I don't think there are ANY purely virtual spaces. As such, I don't 'do' virtual ethnography or even consider it a viable option for valid research. That's why I consider what I do 'cyber anthropology' but even that is problematic as Laetitia illuminates; "Does the cyber anthroppology assumes a "network" of interactions? Because cybernetic models (issued from WW2 and Coldwar) are based on the figure of networks. If it assumes such organisation, then cyber-anthropology fails to reevalute the distinction between virtual and real: The virtual as a field *born on this metaphor*...I thought on the contrary( according to the title) that cyber antropology would me much more emphasizing the distinction virtual/real before reading your mail!" Well I disagree with your notion of cybernetic systems. From "Soft Machines: Ana and the Internet" "Norbert Wiener's book, /Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine/. (Wiener 1965) introduces the term 'Cybernetics'. It is the science or study of control or regulation mechanisms in human/machine systems, the interface between human and technological artefacts. If we take the cyborg to represent the meshing of human with technological, then technologies, however rudimentary (the bicycle, the ball point pen, the bow and arrow) perfectly and elegantly make us cyborgs. We must conclude; that language, as a technology, as that key component of /being/ a human being, places us all inside the cyber, regardless of how wired in we are, how far off line or however long ago we existed. These symbolic worlds where humanity exists reduces, or produces us to cyber." (this of course raised further problematics like "what isn't cyber anthropology!?") What this whole discussion should illustrate is that we all operate on assumptions about what we are researching, we may have assumed a 'virtual space', assumed a 'boundary' to our 'virtually' ethnographic field site, assumed what 'cybernetic' means (based on Terminator films or other popular culture conceptions). All in all, the point of this whole discussion, and any discussion regarding methods of research should be that the methods should be reflexive and reflect the needs of the research site, problem or goal. The problem with 'virtual ethnography' as a recent phenomena is that often the starting point is the method, rather than the research. I'm really enjoying hearing what people have to say!! Pearse

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