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Re: [Air-L] Change of default reply setting on air-l
by Dan Ryan 11 May '09

11 May '09

A factual question would seem to be relevant: Will "reply-all" on most email clients go to the whole list? And to follow on others' questions as to the motivation, if it is about email volume, (1) there's still the digest option, (2) anybody done a study on what volumes of email or number of members prompt changes like this or proposals to split a list? Dan Ryan I work at Mills College o 5000 MacArthur Blvd o Oakland, CA 94613 o 510-430-3242 I write at http://djjr.net/papers/index.html I blog at http://soc-of-info.blogspot.com/ I innovate at http://www.innovationexchange.com ________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 58, Issue 12
by pmgazz 11 May '09

11 May '09

I'm also going to argue in favour of leaving the setting as it was. I don't want my inbox cluttered with too many mails so this is why I digest and/or filter the various lists I'm on. I'd rather filter my own information and have access to the whole community's thoughts. Regards, Paula

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Change of default reply setting on air-l
by andrea baker 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hello, all, I think the execs will want to reconsider their decision after seeking and reading the input from those here. I think it is the responsibility of the individual to go to email. The relatively few errors over the years don't justify taking away the social nature of the list, the default option to send to all. thanks, a

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Re: [Air-L] Change of default reply setting on air-l
by Marj Kibby 11 May '09

11 May '09

"Reply all" will send two copies of the response to the sender, which could also be annoying. Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Nicole Ellison <nellison(a)msu.edu> 05/11/09 11:23 AM >>> <snip>On this same note, having messages sent to the group which aren't meant to be may be more detrimental to the community as it increases spam, which leads to people leaving the list altogether.

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Re: [Air-L] Change of default reply setting on air-l
by RBerkman＠aol.com 11 May '09

11 May '09

Ditto. Very bad idea: please pass these emails to the Executive Committee and ask them to reconsider. Robert Berkman Associate Professor Media & Film The New School I'm totally agree with Jeremy. This desicion may kill the whole idea. It's strange to see that people, studying Computer Mediated Communications don't understand how crucial such changes in settings may be to the communication and community in general. Please, change your mind and revert this setting back. Best wishes, Alexander. ************** The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222376999x1201454299/aol?redir=htt… bcd=May51009AvgfooterNO62)

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Can I link YouTube clips on my course's Blackboard site?
by reuven shlozberg 11 May '09

11 May '09

Delurking for a couple of quick questions that 'the authoroties' can't seem to to give me an authoritative answer to ... I am starting to teach my first course at the University of Toronto, where Blackboard is used. I would like to link YouTube clips relevant to my lectures (the course is on US Politics) on my Blackboard course site. Would I be in contravention of copyright laws if I did that? Does it make a difference whether the clips are news items, political speeches/news conferences, or music/movie clips? Thanks for any help, Reuven Shlozberg PhD Candidate Political Science University of Toronto -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.

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CfP: Engaging Data, Oct 12-13, 2009, MIT
by Marcus Foth 11 May '09

11 May '09

Engaging Data First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information October 12-13, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/ The Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information is the launching event of the Engaging Data Initiative, which will include a series of discussion panels and conferences at MIT. This initiative seeks to address the issues surrounding the application and management of personal electronic information by bringing together the main stakeholders from multiple disciplines, including social scientists, engineers, manufacturers, telecommunications service providers, Internet companies, credit companies and banks, privacy officers, lawyers, and watchdogs, and government officials. The goal of this forum is to explore the novel applications for electronic data and address the risks, concerns, and consumer opinions associated with the use of this data. In addition, it will include discussions on techniques and standards for both protecting and extracting value from this information from several points of view: what techniques and standards currently exist, and what are their strengths and limitations? What holistic approaches to protecting and extracting value from data would we take if we were given a blank slate? These issues and questions will be addressed through invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. The forum will serve as a platform to exchange ideas, discuss the latest developments in this field, address significant issues, and create visions for the future. The forum is seeking original contributions in the form of both position papers and technical papers. Of particular interest are papers that open new paths for research, express a creative vision for the future, and contribute to a lively debate. For questions regarding paper submissions, please contact Caitlin Zacharias: czachar(a)mit.edu Important Dates Deadline for submission of full papers: July 13, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2009 Early registration: August 31, 2009 Conference dates: October 12-13, 2009 Full call for papers: http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/call_for_papers.html -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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DMSC Governor's Challenge Call for Judges
by Bradley, Robert 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hello Potential Digital Media Judges! The DMSC's Governor's Challenge Digital Media Tournament is upon us and it's time to recruit this year's crop of judges. We'd love to have you join us as well as help spread the word to your friends and colleagues that the fun is about to start! Last year, we had a record 111 judges from six countries participating in the peer-review model judging process. We want to break that record! go to www.tnsandbox.com and follow link to register. Our sponsors include Tennessee State University, FedEx Institute at University of Memphis, Apple Inc., Zune and Microsoft, among others. The Digital Media Sandbox Consortium (DMSC) is a regional association of academic and business partnerships engaged in creating intellectual and media assets. Much in the way that a football team brings value to a college in economic terms, we believe that media and intellectual creators and their assets have value too. The tournament mentioned above is a competition where faculty- and student-created media assets are peer reviewed by the academic, business, and design community. The winning assets then become part of the growing DMSC asset database and can be featured in the winner's portfolios. Please follow the link, www.tnsandbox.com , to learn more about what we are doing and how you can become a judge. There is ample opportunity to get involved and network. If you think you've got an eye for what professional quality work looks like, and are interested in providing feedback for students and faculty so they can become better designers, we would love for you to become one of our judges. You do not have to be a designer to be a judge. Please follow the link above to learn more and forward this email to individuals and mailing lists or discussion boards where like-spirited folk may frequent. Timeline... Register judges: May 1-31, 2009 Judging period: June 1--30, 2009 It has been a good year for the Digital Media Sandbox Consortium and we are forming roots across the Southeastern, Southcentral and now Northwestern United States. Please help us foster the integration of digital media in higher education as well as celebrate its pioneers! Look forward to announcements regarding the final deadline for submissions (still welcome at ETSU's I-tunes U site!) as the deadline is being extended slightly to allow greater participation. Register as a judge early so that we can keep in touch! Also: If you are affiliated with a higher education institution, we are still accepting media for the tournament. Please e-mail rbradley(a)tnstate.edu for further information on how to join in. Best wishes and many thanks for your participation! Digital Media Sandbox Consortium Robert R. Bradley Director of Technology Integration Communication and Information Technologies Tennessee State University 3500 John Merritt Parkway Nashville, TN 37209 cell: 615.579.7446 fax: 615.963.1371 rbradley(a)tnstate.edu Think. Work. Serve. www.tnsandbox.com

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Online A Lot Of The Time...
by Ken Hillis 09 May '09

09 May '09

For those who might be interested, here are a few details about my new book, Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign. thanks, Ken H. ---------- Online a Lot of The Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign Ken Hillis Duke University Press, 2009 (May 15) 336 Pages, 10 illustrations paper, 978-0-8223-4448-3, $23.95/14.99 cloth, 978-0-8223-4434-6, $84.95/59.00 A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons hundreds of miles apart via Web-cameras. These are just a few of the ritual practices that have developed and are emerging in online settings. Such Web-based rituals depend on the merging of two modes of communication often held distinct by scholars: the use of a device or mechanism to transmit messages between people across space, and a ritual gathering of people in the same place for the performance of activities intended to generate, maintain, repair, and renew social relations In Online a Lot of the Time, I explore the stakes when rituals that would formerly have required participants together in one physical space are reformulated for the Web. In so doing, I develop a theory of how ritual, fetish, and signification translate to online environments and offer new forms of visual and spatial interaction. The online environments I examine reflect the dynamic contradictions at the core of contemporary identity making and the ways these contradictions get signified. I analyse forms of ritual and fetishism made possible through second-generation virtual environments such as Second Life and the popular practice of using webcameras to "lifecast" one's life online twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Discussing how people create and identify with their electronic avatars, I show how the customs of virtual-world chat reinforce modern consumer-based subjectivities, allowing individuals to both identify with and distance themselves from their characters. My consideration of Webcam cultures links the ritual of exposing one's life online to a politics of visibility. I argue that these new "rituals of transmission" are compelling because they provide a seemingly material trace of the actual person on the other side of the interface. >From the Back Cover "Online a Lot of the Time tackles the complex subject of telepresence more convincingly than anything else around. It suggests that the sign/body of an avatar occupies a "middle ground," analogous to the "middle voice" of free indirect discourse, in which the avatar functions as more than an image but less than an autonomous agent. Moreover, because of the psychic investments that operators project into the avatar, it also functions analogously to a fetish--or rather, a telefetish. Building on previous theorizations of the fetish, the book makes a decisive intervention by showing that these concepts can fruitfully be extended into the virtual realm. With an impressive range of references, including commodity theory, media theory, the history of the telegraph, and a host of other areas, Online a Lot of the Time is essential reading for anyone interested in virtuality and its effects." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became PostHuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics and Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. "In Online a Lot of the Time, Ken Hillis presents a new mode of describing so-called virtual phenomena such as avatars and webcam personas. He situates the 'reality' of online activity in the broader sphere of social experience and, in so doing, he neatly pulls the carpet out from under the 'real' to which the 'virtual' is usually contrasted." - Jonathan Sterne, author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. --------- Ken Hillis Associate Professor of Technology and Culture Assistant Chair Department of Communication Studies Bingham 113, CB# 3285 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285

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Tweet Your arXiv Preprints
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 09 May '09

09 May '09

Colleagues/ Two Weeks Ago, I Posted A Query On The Practice Of 'Twitter Science' : "I Am Greatly Interested In Learning Of Any / All Formal (or Informal) Initiatives That Have Incorporated Twitter (Or Similiar Mobile Features And / Or Functionality) Within Science (And / Or Technology) Projects, Publications And / Or Conferences." Well ... ... ... " ... Robert Simpson, a PhD student from Cardiff University in the UK, has created a website that ranks papers appearing on the arXiv preprint server according to their popularity on Twitter. His website searches Twitter for tweets that mention an arXiv url or posts that are tagged "#arxiv" and include the paper's unique identifier. The website retrieves and lists all the tweets and produces a table of the most popular papers, authors and arXiv categories ranked by how many tweets they have received. [arXiv on Twitter: [snip] This project aims to collect this information and use it to highlight the most interesting and talked-about papers]. The website has only been active since 16 April, but already there have been 75 tweets quoting arXiv papers. This week's top three papers include an introduction to machine learning, a 3D study of the photosphere of HD99563 and power-law distributions in empirical data. The paper ranked fourth in the table, however, as far as I could tell was an April fool's joke, which proclaimed that pi has changed since 1900 BC. So maybe think twice before taking such a ranking seriously." And Who Says I'm Crazy ... ? [:-)] A Link To The Original Twitter Science Posting And To The ArXiv On Twitter Site Are Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/qggsoz ] Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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