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Re: [Air-L] New media and public vs. private space
by Keith Hampton 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Holly, I have a paper forthcoming in JoC (early 2010) that explores the relationship between privatism and public spaces. Title and abstract below, you can download a draft copy here: http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/downloads/wifipublic-knh33-dist.pdf Title: The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm Authors: Keith N Hampton, Oren Livio, Lauren F. Sessions Abstract: In recent years, changes to the structure of people's social networks, the mass media, and urban public spaces may represent a confluence of social trends that constrain exposure to diverse issues, ideas, and opinions in the public sphere. Technological change that influences how we maintain social networks, access information, and use public spaces may advance or hinder this existing trend. This study examines one such technological change: the impact of wireless Internet use (wi-fi) on urban public spaces, wi-fi users, and others who inhabit these spaces. Through extensive observations of seven parks, plazas, and markets in four North American cities, and surveys of laptop users in those sites, we explore how this new technology is related to processes of social interaction, privatism, and democratic participation. Findings reveal that wi-fi use within urban spaces affords interactions with existing acquaintances that are more diverse than those associated with mobile phone use. However, the level of social diversity to which wi-fi users are exposed is less than that of most users of these spaces. Although urban public spaces are not a public realm for wi-fi users, the activities in which they engage do contribute to broader participation in the public sphere. Best, -Keith ---------------------------------------- Keith N. Hampton Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 F: 215.898.2024 www.mysocialnetwork.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:21:38 -0500 From: Holly Kruse <holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu> Subject: [Air-L] New media and public vs. private space To: "air-l(a)aoir.org" <air-l(a)aoir.org> Message-ID: <C6656012.46FD%holly-kruse(a)ad.utulsa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" A query on my own behalf... The last chapter of the book that I'm writing (I'm currently revising this chapter of the manuscript) deals with issues of private vs. public space and new media technologies. I want to make sure that I'm not missing any key texts or insights. Is there anything that I really must read? I am focusing on fairly particularly on the notion of space. TIA ? Holly ----- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 800 S. Tucker Drive Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu or holly.kruse(a)gmail.com http://personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse

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CFP: Future Internet Speical Issue on Web Information Retrieval
by Amanda Spink 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE ON WEB INFORMATION BEHAVIOR The journal Future Internet (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet) (ISSN 1999-5903) is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal on Internet technologies and the information society. Future Internet is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). Special Issue Editor: Professor Amanda Spink Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology, Australia http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/index.htm Email: ah.spink(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/information-behav… This special issue of the journal Future Internet seeks papers reporting high quality theoretical or empirical studies of Web information behavior. Web technologies seek to support people’s information behavior. Web information behavior is an important topic area for the future internet, the Web search engine companies and the information research community. The future internet will be shaped by people’s information behavior and the technologies developed to support those information behaviors. Web information behavior research includes a diverse range of theoretical and empirical approaches, including individual or collaborative models, information seeking, information foraging, information sense-making, information organising, information using and Web search (including interactive/cognitive information retrieval). Modeling people's Web information behavior is a major multidisciplinary research challenge, including fields such as computer science, library and information science, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, communication studies, information systems, etc. High quality research papers are sought on any aspect of modeling or technologically supporting individual or collaborative Web information behavior, including information seeking, information foraging, information sense-making, information organising, information using and Web search approaches. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Potential contributors are invited to submit a paper via email to the Special Issue Editor by 1 October 2009. Authors will be notified by 1 November 2009 as to the status of their paper. Final revised manuscripts should be not more than 25 pages single-spaced in length and are due on 1 December 2009. INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to: Professor Amanda Spink – ah.spink(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> ***************************************** Amanda Spink Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Science Vice-President - Queensland Academy of Arts & Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia http://www.fit.qut.edu.au<http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/> Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703 Email: ah.spink(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> Homepage: http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/index.htm ******************************************

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lectureship in new media at university of leeds
by Helen Kennedy 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Lectureship in New Media (Job reference: 317127) Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications Institute of Communications Studies The institute of Communication Studies seeks to appoint a Lecturer in New Media from 2 September 2009 or as soon afterwards as is mutually convenient. You will deliver teaching and research primarily in areas related to New Media at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, but may also be asked to teach more generally in other areas of media and communications. Essential teaching requirements are ‘Design for New Media’ and ‘New Media, Planning and Gaming’. You will also be required to take responsibility for student project work. You will be expected to play a leading role in the continued development of the programme in New Media and undertake supervision of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD projects and dissertations. You will possess a PhD, or have such an award pending and be able to demonstrate a developing research profile with a clear indication of future plans and potential commensurate with aspirations to an 'international' standard of excellence. See http://ics.leeds.ac.uk for more information on the Institute of Communications Studies or http://hr.leeds.ac.uk/jobs/ViewJob.aspx?CId=3&JId=416 for more details about the post. University Grade 7 (£32,458 – £35,469 p.a.) Salary: Lecturer Grade 7 (£32,458 - £35,469) Apply using: Application form, CV and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form Download an application form: (pdf version) | (Word version) Informal enquiries: to Dr Stephen Sobol, New Media Programme Head, email s.c.sobol(a)leeds.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)113 343 6247 or Professor Gary Rawnsley, Director of the ICS, email g.d.rawnsley(a)leeds.ac.uk , tel +44 (0)113 343 6906. Send completed applications to: email vpaempl(a)leeds.ac.uk, or by post to: VPAEMPL, PVAC, Faculty Office, Man-Made Fibres Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Closing date: 17 July 2009

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PTS For "The Future Of Research And Scholarship: Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile" | Ireland | June 2009 | Presentations
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Colleagues I am pleased to announce the availability of my presentations that were recently given in Ireland earlier this month: The Paradigms They Are A-Changin' > The Future Of Research And Scholarship: Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile There are four major themes that are and will become the context and framework of research and scholarship in the 21st Century: Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile: Open > Open Access / Open Data / Open Peer Review / Open Research Semantic > Audio / Interactivity / Supplemental Content / Video Social > Science Blogging / Social Bookmarking / Social Networking / Social Software Mobile > Mobile Access / Mobile Content / Mobile Data / Mobile Research In scheduled presentation(s), we will briefly profile select developments related to these major themes and speculate on their potential evolution and impact on research and scholarship in the coming decade(s). I would like to publicly thank the following individuals/organizations for their support, generosity, and hospitality during our Magical Visit To Ireland National Library Of Ireland, Dublin Joanna Finegan / Assistant Keeper / Education & Outreach / National Library of Ireland, Dublin Sarah Shiel / Executive Education Assistant / Education & Outreach / National Library of Ireland, Dublin National University of Ireland, Galway John Cox / Acting Librarian / James Hardiman Library /National University of Ireland, Galway Niall McSweeney / Head of Information / James Hardiman Library / National University of Ireland, Galway University College Cork, Cork Crónán Ó Doibhlin /Sub-Librarian / Special Collections, Archives & Repository Services / George Boole Library / University College Cork Stephen Yearl / Library Digital Projects Officer / George Boole Library / University College Cork Ionad Bairre / University College Cork University of Limerick, Limerick Mícheál Ó hAodha / Librarian, Science & Engineering (CSIS, ECE, MAE, MOE) / Lewis L. Glucksman Library / University of Limerick Brian Fitzgerald / Vice-President Research / Frederick A Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business & Technology/ University of Limerick Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society / University of Limerick Iowa State University Library Travel and Research Funds Committee All Presentation Are Accessible From [ http://tinyurl.com/pwp8nf ] Happy Monday ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Old Irish Saying

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position announcement - Bethany College
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Everyone - This listing can also be found on HigherEdjobs.com. There's a possibility we will be hiring for a tenure track position next year so the person who gets this job would be in a good position to apply. Fulltime-Nontenure Track- One-Year Appointment Bethany College seeks an experienced teacher/scholar/practitioner to join its Communication Department. Bethany College is a national liberal arts college located on a beautiful historic 1,300 acre mountaintop campus in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, 39 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. The state's oldest private college, Bethany offers a wide array of B.A. and B.S. programs in more than 30 fields of study. Teaching excellence and close student/faculty relationships are hallmarks of the Bethany Experience. Instructor/Assistant Professor of Communication (Nontenure Track)--The Communication Department seeks a generalist with professional media experience in journalism, public relations, and/or new (converged) media (including areas such as Web or graphic design). The doctorate degree in the discipline is preferred, a master's degree is required. Bethany College is committed to undergraduate education, thus additional responsibilities include supervising senior projects, and possible campus media or club advising, and participation in the life of the College. The ideal candidate for this position will have excellent teaching and advising skills, and possess a positive and professional attitude. Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae as well as the names and contact information for three professional references. Send to Susan Stimpson, Director of Human Resources, Cramblet Hall, Bethany College, Bethany WV 26032. Electronic submissions encouraged at sstimpson(a)bethanywv.edu Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged. Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.

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FW: New Research Papers on Children and Technological Environments
by Gregory Donovan 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Apologies for cross-posting - I thought this may be of interest to some of you. Cheers, Gregory Donovan : : www.gregorydonovan.org Ph.D. Candidate | Environmental Psychology | CUNY Graduate Center > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Children, Youth and Environments" <CYE(a)colorado.edu> >> Date: May 30, 2009 11:46:53 AM EDT >> To: Children Youth and Environments Readers <cye(a)colorado.edu> >> Subject: NEW RESEARCH PAPERS ON CHILDREN AND TECHNOLOGICAL >> ENVIRONMENTS >> >> Children, Youth and Environments has just published a special issue >> on "Children and Technological Environments." It features a >> substantive introduction by the guest editors, Nathan G. Freier and >> Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and 14 high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on >> such topics as interactive humanoid robots, digital libraries, >> virtual natural environments, video and online games, hacking, >> assistive technologies for children with learning disabilities, and >> learning by doing with shareable interfaces (see below). The >> authors include leading researchers from the U.S., Britain and Japan. >> >> The issue is available online at >> >> http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/19_1/index.htm >> >> To recommend a library subscription, download the form on: >> >> http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/cye_journal/JournalRF.pdf >> >> >> The Editors >> >> Children, Youth and Environments >> University of Colorado, CB 314 >> Boulder, CO 80309-0314 USA >> >> Phone: 303-735-5199 >> Fax: 303-492-6163 >> URL: www.colorado.edu/journals/cye >> >> ISSN: 1546-2250

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OLPC vision versus reality
by Katy E. Pearce 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

Via Metafilter, One Laptop Per Child Vision Versus Reality http://www.metafilter.com/82630/One-Laptop-Per-Child-Vision-vs-Reality The Metafilter discussion, as usual, is really great. >From the study itself: A UC Irvine study finds that "the vision is being overwhelmed by the reality of business, political, logistics, and competing interests worldwide." "...the OLPC organization (www.olpc.com/) struggles with key staff defections, budget cuts, and ideological disillusionment, as it appears to some that the educational mission has given way to just getting laptops out the door. In addition, low-cost commercial netbooks from Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, and other PC vendors have been launched with great early success." This study attempts to "...review and analyze the OLPC experience, focusing on the two most important issues: the successes and failures of OLPC in understanding and adapting to the developing-country environment and the unexpectedly aggressive reaction by the PC industry, including superpowers Intel and Microsoft, to defeat or co-opt the OLPC effort." And, an interesting comment from a MeFite, allen.spaulding,: "When Negroponte announced the OLPC, I remember conversations where a number of people who'd spent years in the ICT for Development community rolled their eyes. Absolutely nobody at the time thought the problem was a lack of cheap hardware. Hell, anyone who'd spent any time in the field knew that there was no way that the project could work exactly as designed - created a magically intuitive and self-explanatory project that would let the children of the developing world explore on their own, etc. All of the hard questions of ICT4D were buried here, with a naive belief that good design could fix everything. The project's relative lack of focus on delivery, training, distribution, etc, was immediately apparent from the start. And then it turned out that having glossed over these extremely hard questions, the research team itself largely ignored them to focus on the things mentioned in the article above. If the project was half as good at its mission as Negroponte was at self-promotion, then maybe we'd have a massive success on our hands. Instead, this was always an ill-conceived boondoggle that misallocated resources and attention away from lesser-heralded ICT4D projects currently underway. Any gains it has made need to be seen relative to the missed opportunities that could have been accomplished had these resources gone to others at MIT, or to the ongoing projects at Cal, CMU, Stanford, and elsewhere."

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Fwd: CfP "Academia 2.0 and beyond - How Social Software changes research and education in academia" EXTENDED DEADLINE
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

Begin forwarded message: > From: Isa Jahnke <isa.jahnke(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> > Date: June 21, 2009 11:11:23 AM EDT > To: SOCIOTECH(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: CfP "Academia 2.0 and beyond - How Social Software changes > research and education in academia" EXTENDED DEADLINE > Reply-To: Isa Jahnke <isa.jahnke(a)TU-DORTMUND.DE> > > CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS "Academia 2.0 and beyond - How Social > Software changes research and education in academia" > > WORKSHOP at E-CSCW, http://www.ecscw09.org, Vienna, September 7-11, > 2009 > > Organizers: > Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, michael.koch(a)unibw.de > Isa Jahnke, University of Technology Dortmund, http://www.isa- > jahnke.de > > NEW: Extended Deadline for submissions: June 28th, 2009. > > The Web 2.0 and Social Software is often attributed with a high > potential for addressing today's challenges in knowledge management > and > distributed collaboration. This development has already reached > industry. Using the term Enterprise 2.0, different possibilities to > use > Social Software in enterprises are researched. But also in academia, > cooperation to generate new knowledge, and to add it to the scientific > discourse may radically change under open Web 2.0 conditions. In > addition, teaching and learning scenarios might be moved towards > technology enhanced lifelong learning communities. The aim of this > workshop is to discuss the application of Social Software in academia > (research as well as teaching and learning) - and how these new kinds > of software might change the whole setting - make new ways of doing > research or teaching and learning possible or at least easier to do. > More: http://wiki.cscwlab.de/Main/Ecscw2009Ws > > > >

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PhD position Utrecht, the Netherlands Persuasive rhetoric in game design (GATE)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear list-members, Please see below for a PhD opportunity in Utrecht on rhetoric in game design. Kind regards, Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 | Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Raessens, dr. J. (Joost) Verzonden: vr 19-6-2009 16:36 Aan: MCW (Groep) Onderwerp: PhD position Persuasive rhetoric in game design (GATE) Dear Colleagues, please spread around to possible interested candidates the announcement for a PhD position within the GATE research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds. PhD project: Persuasive rhetoric in game design This project investigates how the medium-specificity of computer games make them suitable for persuasive purposes and to what extent and in what ways persuasive rhetorical strategies can be designed to convince serious-game players of the veracity of a certain point of view - as in games for change - or the necessity of a behavioral change - as in health games. Although a project description <http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/GATEWP42DEFJR-2009-06.pdf> exists, candidates are also given the opportunity to develop a PhD proposal of their own. This project should fit into the research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds. For more information check: http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/phd_researcher_GATE2.htm. GATE website: http://gate.gameresearch.nl <http://gate.gameresearch.nl/> . Project description: http://gate.gameresearch.nl/index.php?pageID=53. Candidates have to apply before 9 August 2009. Thanks, Joost Raessens Prof. dr. Joost Raessens | Professor of Media Theory | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Faculty of Humanities | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2A | Room 1.06 | NL-3512 EV Utrecht | T +31 30 253 6270 / +31 611 340 241 | F +31 30 253 6167 | J.Raessens(a)uu.nl <mailto:J.Raessens@uu.nl> | www.raessens.nl <http://www.raessens.nl/> |

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question on how to identify email threads on listserv
by Dhanaraj Thakur 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

hey all, part of the research I am doing requires that I identify threads on a listserv for analysis. Threads consist of emails that are a series of responses to an initial email. of course the easiest way to do this is to sort emails by subject line. however as you might know this is not complete as, for example, some participants will change the subject for a variety of reasons while still remaining in the same thread. Thus one could analyze info in the email header to identify threads, but in my case this data is not always available. Alternatively, one could manually scan though the text of the emails - which is very time consuming when using a large email corpus. Therefore, what I need is a method (preferably automated) that can identify email threads by looking at the texts of the emails. I can imagine some software that does this and can create clusters of emails based on semantic similarities that I could equate to threads - but I haven't been able to identify any just yet... the units of analysis that I have described are fairly common and, I imagine, so is my problem. Thus perhaps people on this list can point me to existing methods/software/papers that have already addressed this issue? thanks Dhanaraj Dhanaraj Thakur Ph.D. Candidate School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology

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