May 2009 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-L] AoIR in Second Life - Scholar vs. researcher
by Denise N. Rall 26 May '09

26 May '09

Thanks Marj. Interesting take on the stubject from your Uni. The way I put it was quite the other way around, that one could easily be an internet researcher without undertaking scholastic duties. Further, scholasticism involves three prongs: teaching, research and service to the Academy. See Clark (1980; 1987, and further Clark, B. R. (1995). Places of inquiry: Research and advanced education in modern universities. Berkeley, University of California Press. Tony Becher would also disagree with your Uni's definition of scholar as not doing research: Becher, T. and P. R. Trowler (2001). Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines. Buckingham, UK, SRHE and Open University Press. But I did have in the thesis a definition for internet studies that actually combines scholarship and research into one package: Here is my definition for internet studies: Internet studies and research, as it develops within programs of study or research projects at universities, research centers or institutes, is elaborated by scholars who work across disciplines and take the internet, its use and users as their locus/focus of study and research (Rall, 2003/2004). Ok, enough about scholasticism which is at the best of times a dry and boring subject! Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Join the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Internet Research 10.0, October 7-11, Milwaukee, WI, USA Need a Holiday? Win a $10,000 Holiday of your choice. Enter now.http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTJxN2x2ZmNpBF9zAzIwMjM2MTY2MTMEdG1fZG…

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Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin Second Life Performance
by Charles Baldwin 25 May '09

25 May '09

A Life History Performance Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin Performing in Barcelona and Second Life, 1630 hours Eastern Time, May 26 SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/114/185/801 Witness the carapace of appearances, the wildlife exhibit, the shell and script of avatar bildungsroman. Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin emanate with extra-ordinary langauges, disorderly conducts, and shamanistic bodies. Performance as part of E-Poetry 2009, in the Bar-Cockteelaria Milano in Barcelona, Spain, and in Second Life at the the following SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/114/185/801 (This may or may not work - if not, just look for Alan Dojoji and ask for teleport. Time slightly variable.) Note: the performance will state at approximately 1630 hours New York City time and conclude at approximately 1730 hours.

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PhD studentships in Usability and Internationalisation
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 25 May '09

25 May '09

The Centre for Internationalisation and Usability at Thames Valley University (TVU) is pleased to announce The Vice-Chancellor's full-time research Studentships. TVU is among just three London universities to climb 17 places or more in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008. To celebrate TVU's performance in the RAE2008 and strengthen our research student base, the Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter John is pleased to announce up to fifteen full-time research scholarships throughout the university. A proportion of these will be in the field of usability and internationalisation. Rooted in the discipline of human-computer interaction (HCI) the Centre for Internationalisation and Usability supports software developers in building systems that meet all the needs of end users. There are two challenges underpinning our work. Computer science and interdisciplinary challenges that need to be solved to provide tools, techniques and methods that can be used by software developers internationally to build usable systems. Two separate strands have been identified in HCI for global commercial software development and HCI for international economic and social development. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/computing/research/comp_ciu.jsp Possible topic areas for the studentships include: - Cross-cultural HCI - Internationalisation of products and systems - Interaction Design for Social/International Development - Sociotechnical Interaction-Design - Usability and healthcare - Empirical Studies of Software Development - Agile Methods and User Centred Design Informal enquiries about our research can be directed to Dr. José Abdelnour Nocera, jose.abdelnour-nocera(a)tvu.ac.uk Applications are invited from suitably qualified students to commence study in September 2009. You should hold or expect to be awarded a 2 (i) Hons degree or above. A Master's degree in an appropriate subject area is desirable. Those candidates whose first language is not English must demonstrate evidence of appropriate English language proficiency, normally defined as a minimum IELTS score of 7. In addition to their PhD studies, duties will include up to 6 hours per week (during term time) assisting with teaching on appropriate modules. Informal academic enquiries may be directed to Professor Sibel Roller, Head of Graduate School, sibel.roller(a)tvu.ac.uk. To apply, send your full Curriculum Vitae and a covering letter indicating your area of interest and including a supporting statement of no more than 500 words describing your reasons for wishing to undertake a research degree to Maria Pennells, Graduate School, Thames Valley University, St Mary's Road, London W5 5RF (researchdegrees(a)tvu.ac.uk) If applicable, evidence of English language proficiency should also be included. Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 12 June 2009. If short-listed for one of these awards, you should be prepared to attend an interview at TVU in London in June/July 2009.

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Job announcement for IT University of Copenhagen
by richard.ling＠telenor.com 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hello all, I am posting a job announcement for the IT University of Copenhagen. We are interested in recruiting Associate / Assistant Professors in Digital Media and Design. The specific announcement can be found at the link below http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/… Rich Ling

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Re: [Air-L] Introduction
by Maeva Veerapen 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for your comments. I will look into redzone. Regards, Maeva Ninoo Nansen (in-world) Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hello Maeva > > I have attend the band redzone's concerts in SL. > > Reading your points you will find some evidence at redzone concerts. > > I am not a formal theatre or music academic but have worked in theatre > as a stage hand and play music but neither in second life. > > I perform 3 d design in second life on an unknown scale. > > I have attended conferences in SL and given papers via in game chats > with powerpoint like slide shows. > > Peter Krogstad in Second LIfe > > > Peter Timusk, > B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University > Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. > just trying to stay linear. > Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. > Kiitos Paljon, Merci, and thank you > > > On 20-May-09, at 10:39 PM, Maeva Veerapen wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am conducting my PhD research in Second Life on the subject of >> performance cultures in this new environment. The main research >> questions >> guiding my research are: >> 1) Do performances in ‘Second Life’ differ from the established >> forms of >> ‘First Life’ ones and if so, how? >> 2) What does this new medium, ‘Second Life’, offer that creates the >> possibility of making performances that would otherwise be >> impossible to >> produce in ‘First Life’? >> 3) Are performances produced within the ‘bleedthrough’ and if so how >> does >> dynamic support the work? >> 4) How is each individual performance within ‘Second Life’ >> influenced by >> the broader socio-political economical context within which it is >> produced? >> 5) How is Second Life a new performance genre and/ or new medium for >> performance? >> >> I have just started a bit more than two months ago. I am using >> ethnography as my research method and doing participant observation, >> surveys and interviews. >> >> I am also looking into the possibilities of running a component of a >> conference within SL and would appreciate any experiences other people >> have had doing similar projects. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Maeva VEERAPEN BPA (Hons) >> >> PhD Student >> Centre of Drama and Theatre Studies >> School of English, Communications and Performance Studies >> Arts Faculty >> Monash University >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > . -- Maeva VEERAPEN PhD Student Centre of Drama and Theatre Studies School of English, Communications and Performance Studies Arts Faculty Monash University

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CfP: Education and Research in SL workshop, IR 10, Milwaukee
by jeremy hunsinger 25 May '09

25 May '09

> > Call for Abstracts/Participation > > > Please join us in a workshop on Learning and Research in Second Life > on October 7, 2009 in Milwaukee at Internet Research 10.0 (http://ir10.aoir.org/ > ). > > ** Abstract Deadline August 7th. ** > > Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab, > which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from > around the world from a variety of disciplines. > > This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a > Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers and > professionals together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse > topics related to research and learning in Second Life. The workshop > will be a full day workshop, from 9am to 5pm. > > Layout of the workshop > > We’ll start the workshop with “speed networking”, after which we’ll > work on the two main topics of the workshop: learning and research > in Second Life. We’ll try to answer questions like: How can we > better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable > research? What kind of features do we need from virtual environments > for our work? What can we do to help develop virtual environments > even further? The goal of this workshop is to create a roadmap of > future use of virtual environments for research and teaching. > > As a highlight, John Lester (Pathfinder Linden) from Linden Labs > will give a keynote at the workshop. The talk will be broadcast to > Second Life. > > The workshop is a live exercise of learning and working > simultaneously in RL and Second Life . This workshop will be > simultaneously organized in Second Life and the two workshops will > meet at key points during the day. In order to facilitate > interaction between the RL and Second Life groups, all participants > of the live workshop in Milwaukee are encouraged to take a WiFi- > enabled Second Life capable laptop with them. All participants are > asked to update the Second Life profiles, as these are printed and > used as “calling cards” at the workshop. > > After the workshop participants are invited to collaborate in > writing an article Roadmap for Next Generation of Virtual > Environments for Research and Teaching, which will be based on the > outcomes of the workshop. > > Submissions > > We encourage researchers to submit abstracts and short biography > which will be distributed amongst participants before the workshop. > First invitations will be offered to those who provide abstracts or > full papers for consideration. > > Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research/teaching > statement and biography. If you are interested in participating, > please send an email containing your abstract/paper and biography > (pdf, doc, rtf, odf) to isto.huvila(a)abm.uu.se. Indicate in your > mail also whether you are applying to participate the workshop in RL > in Milwaukee or in Second Life. > > Decisions will be made by September 1st, barring incident. There is > a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will > be simulcast into Second Life. > > We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to > participate. > > This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab creators of Second Life and > is organized by Kim Holmberg (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), Isto > Huvila (Uppsala University, Sweden and Åbo Akademi University, > Finland) and Terry Beaubois (Montana State University, USA). > Questions may be sent to secondlifeworkshop(at)library2pointoh.fi. > > _______________________________________________ > Slrl mailing list > Slrl(a)list.academ-x.com > http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com

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Social Science Internet Studies @ ANU
by Robert Ackland 25 May '09

25 May '09

Social Science Internet Studies @ The Australian National University The World Wide Web is only around 20 years old, but it has transformed the way we work, collaborate, engage in commerce, participate in politics and interact socially. The Australian National University's Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet) was launched in 2008 and focuses on: · the fundamental changes to society, politics and the economy brought about by the web · social science concepts and methods for understanding life in the Internet Age · online research methods for collecting and analysing Internet data. The emphasis on social science (economics, political science and sociology) and quantitative research methods is what distinguishes the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet); Internet studies elsewhere typically have a media or cultural studies perspective, or else focus on the governance of the Internet. The Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet) can be completed in one year of full-time study (part-time studies and non-award enrolment in individual courses are also possible). Two of the compulsory courses (Social Science of the Internet, Online Research Methods) are available as online courses. Enrolments for Semester 2 2009 close on 30th June. For more information contact Dr Robert Ackland, Fellow and Masters Coordinator E: Robert.Ackland(a)anu.edu.au T: 02 6125 0312 CRICOS # 001200C http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/ssi.php ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Five postdoctoral fellowships available at Umeå University
by Patrik Svensson 25 May '09

25 May '09

Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2009 or January 15, 2010. The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of "religion and the digital", "digital journalism", "architecture and the digital", "next generation digital humanities tools" and/or "visualization in the digital humanities". HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. Much of the work takes place in a 5,300 square feet studio space at the center of the university and in different kinds of digital and hybrid environments. A new part of the lab was inaugurated on May 14, 2009. This video shows the new space the day before the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oUm3p-yJk. For archived seminars (which use the other part of the lab) please see http://stream.humlab.umu.se/. By the end of 2011, a new HUMlab-X on the Creative Campus (a 10-minute walk from the main campus) will be in place. HUMlab is based on a double (or triple) affiliation model where much of the work is done in close collaboration with the humanities (or other) departments. HUMlab offers an open, friendly, creative and intellectually rich milieu for doing work in the humanities and information technology. The fellowships are for one year. Another year may be possible based on a review as well as the availability of funding. Collaboration is a central part of the ethos of HUMlab and among our strategic partners are Kulturverket (local award-winning culture organization), Lund University (the Humanities Laboratory), King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) and the University of California (UC Humanities Research Institute). Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline. In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. Applications should include a description of an envisioned postdoctoral year-long project. Please see http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs for more information. Applications should be submitted electronically by June 18, 2009. We look forward to receiving your application. Patrik Svensson Director, HUMlab Umeå University

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New E-Government EndNote Library (version 5.0) Available for Downlaoding
by Hans J. Scholl 24 May '09

24 May '09

SEATTLE, WA, May 23, 2009 Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Digital Government Society of North America I am making available to members and non-members version 5.0 (May 2009) of the E-Government Master Library in EndNote TM (Version X2) XML format or a Package Version in ZIP format. An alphabetically sorted (by first author names) PDF printout of all references is also included in the downloadable ZIP file. The library currently contains 3,090 references of predominantly English language, peer-reviewed work. The library has been cleaned, and some 300 references were removed, since they did not meet the inclusion criteria or were undetected duplicates. The library now contains 3,090 entries, a net increase of 21.79 % over version 3.2 (July 2008). We continued detecting older work, which has been added. Also, 345 entries (11.16 %) published in 2008 were included. In future versions of this library we hope to be able to also provide a BibTex and a Zotero version of the reference library. Any help regarding information on effective EndNote to BibTex and EndNote to Zotero (www.zotero.org) converters is highly welcome. In order to download the library, please register yourself and accept the GPL license agreement. I am providing the reference lib in EndNote XML or as a zipped Package Lib, so that they can be imported by various EndNote versions. For the XML version, please use the EndNote IMPORT function (select EndNote XML document). Thank you! Finally, please check your own publications for inclusion and correctness--thanks! Feedback and corrections highly appreciated. The link can be found under http://tinyurl.com/p5w8vv Or, if you wish to preview the Tiny URL first, please visit http://preview.tinyurl.com/p5w8vv Best wishes, Dr. Hans J (Jochen) Scholl, MBA Associate Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Suite 310C Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Skype: jochenscholl Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl

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Post-doctoral opportunities - "Investigating Internet-based Politics with e-Research Tools"
by Lee Yenn 24 May '09

24 May '09

Apologies for cross-posting. ********** YeungNam University in South Korea is currently recruiting 2 post-doctoral researchers for an immediate start. (http://www.yu.ac.kr/_english/main/index.php) As part of the World Class Universities (WCU) project, we have recently been awarded a 3-year competitive grant, running from September 2009 to June 2012, by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. (For further details: http://www.kosef.re.kr/english_new/programs/programs_06_02.html) Successful applicants will join the team led by Prof. Han Woo Park of YeungNam University, Prof. Greg Elmer of the Infoscape Research Lab (Canada, http://www.infoscapelab.ca) and Prof. Maurice Vergeer of Radboud University (the Netherlands) and carry out a project entitled "Investigating Internet-based Politics with e-Research Tools". Monthly salary will be in the region of 3 million Korean Won and conference travel funds will also be available. Successful applicants should have English communication skills and the ability to work in a team. Experience in computer programming, statistical modelling, network analysis, information science, or Internet politics is desirable but not a must. For further information or to be considered for the post, please send your CV, a personal statement, and a list of two referees to Dr Han Woo Park at <hanpark(a)ynu.ac.kr>. The application process will be closed as soon as suitable candidates are identified. Dr. Han Woo PARK (Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo) Dept of Media & Communication, YeungNam University, 214-1, Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, Zip Code 712-749 http://yu.ac.kr/~hanpark/HanWooParkVita.PDF http://www.hanpark.net Visiting research fellow at Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/visitors.cfm?id-150 Co-editor Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia http://contempary.eastasia.at

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