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Updates on AoIR 10
by Elizabeth A Buchanan 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Dear Colleagues, Just a few brief items: ** Registration will be opening shortly. You can plan for the conference fees to remain essentially the same as last year's. ** There are a number of exciting pre-conferences on Wednesday the 7 October. Here are the titles, noting that descriptions, fees, etc will be posted with registration. 1. Engaging Multidisciplinarity in Sociotechnical Internet Research: A hands-on workshop 2. Critical Issues and Perspectives in Internet Research Methods and Ethics 3. Mobile Communication In Developing Nations 4. AoIR Doctoral Colloquium 5. Innovative education online: Ideas for the future of learning and the Internet 6. Critical Internet Theory 7. Learning and Research in Second Life workshop ** There will be receptions on Thursday and Friday evenings: Thursday's sponsored by the University of Washington I-School, Center for Information and Society, and Department of Communication; Friday's sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute. ** If there is sufficient interest, there will be brewery tours on Wednesday afternoon. ** Saturday's blow-out banquet will be at the Harley-Davidson Museum, be sure to register for this, as it is NOT INCLUDED in your registration fees. ** As noted in a previous message if you need the conference rate for any surrounding dates, please let me know and I can assist you. ** There are no formal sessions planned for Sunday. Things are moving along smoothly, and the line-up of speakers is fantastic. We are looking forward to welcoming you to Milwaukee in October. Please continue to check http://ir10.aoir.org/ for updates, and of course, contact me with any questions. Best, e. Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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CfP: Community Engagement for Sustainable Urban Futures - special issue of Futures
by Marcus Foth 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Call for Papers Community Engagement for Sustainable Urban Futures Special issue of Futures http://www.elsevier.com/locate/futures Submissions close 31 July 2009 Theme This special issue of the multidisciplinary journal Futures is concerned with community engagement strategies that help to inform medium and long-term futures studies to foster sustainable cities and related urban, suburban and periurban environments. Within the nexus of people, place and technology, the issue invites research papers that report on methods and practices of futures studies investigating possible and alternative futures of urban communities, cultures and societies; urban informatics, infrastructure and computing technology; and the implications on a scale between local and global contexts. Topics Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following: Community engagement strategies, methods and approaches to create future scenarios Tools and methods to support and inform urban planning Public sphere, participation, online deliberation systems: polity of urban futures Future implications of urban informatics, ubiquitous computing and pervasive technology such as wireless internet and mobile applications The use of multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) in urban futures studies The impact of neogeography, simulations and 3D virtual environments to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems in urban futures, design and planning The role of social networking, collective and civic intelligence and crowd sourcing in urban futures Urban futures and environmental, economic and social sustainability Organisation and Submission Details Authors are requested to follow the instructions at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/futures . We invite the submission of conceptual or empirical (quantitative and/or qualitative) work on the theme of urban futures. Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 July 2009. Submissions should be electronic (.doc or .rtf format only, please avoid .docx, .pdf and .html). Acceptance notifications are sent to authors by 30 Sep 2009. Final revised papers are due by 31 Oct 2009. The special issue is scheduled for publication mid 2010. Inquiries about possible topics are welcome. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to the guest editors. Guest Editors Greg Hearn Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia g.hearn(a)qut.edu.au Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Tony Stevenson Futurist, writer, community volunteer tony-stevenson(a)bigpond.com -- 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 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8
by Axel Bruns 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

G'day ! Darren Purcell wrote: > After reviewing the policies on Facebook and intellectual property > ownership, I am concluding that to use a screen capture from Facebook in a > book chapter, I need to contact the page creators and NOT Facebook. Is there > anyone on the list that uses images from Facebook and would share how have > you handled these issues since the policy changes. This is more about using actual images from Facebook and similar sites than about using screenshots, but: the Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, has useful editorial guidelines for using materials from social networking sites in its news reports. There are no easy answers here, but their guidelines at least point out the issues - and on that basis, I'd strongly suggest contacting the page creators rather than simply Facebook itself. An excerpt: Use in news reports of pictures from social networking sites Social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace) contain pictures that are accessible to mass media organisations. Persons in the pictures may become newsworthy, for example when involved in a natural disaster, accident or crime. Social networking online is evolving, and while in some ways these online spaces are public spaces, in other ways they are private to varying degrees. In many cases users can restrict access to family or friends. Or they may assume that their obscurity protects them, never contemplating that they might come to the attention of mass media. (http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/edpols.htm) I'd be interested in hearing about similar explicit editorial policies in other news organisations, by the way. -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Skype: LexaSnurb Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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"Social Connectivity in America"
by Barry Wellman 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Subtitle: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007 New paper by Hua (Helen) Wang and Barry Wellman. Forthcoming in American Behavioral Scientist (2009 or 2010). http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/social-connectivity/soci… or just go to my website http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > Publications > Cyber Society > Other Cyber Society Research Papers Abstract: There is some panic in the United States about a possible decline in social connectivity. We use two American national surveys (from the Center for the Digital Future, World Internet Project) to analyze how changes in the number of friends are related to changes in Internet use. We find that friendships continue to be abundant among adult Americans between the ages of 25 to 74 and to have grown from 2002 to 2007. This trend is similar among Internet non-users, light users, moderate users, and heavy users and across communication contexts: offline, virtual only, and migrating from online to offline. Heavy users are particularly active, having the most friends both on- and off-line. Intracohort change consistently outweighs cohort replacement in overall growth in friendship. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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call for manuscripts > copyright> Computers and Composition special issue
by martine courant rife 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

A reminder . . . All- I've included below and provided a link to a call for manuscripts for a special issue of Computers and Composition (scheduled as volume 27 issue 3, September 2010) on Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and the Commons. https://www.msu.edu/~courantm/CFP_CC_copyright.pdf Please do feel free to send questions to or run ideas by any of the four of us guest editing the special issue. (Our contact info appears below and in the call.) Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Martine Courant Rife, Steve Westbrook, and John Logie *************************************************** CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS special issue of Computers and Composition, volume 27 issue 3, September 2010 Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and the Commons In 1998, Computers and Composition and Kairos both published special issues related to intellectual property. Much has changed in the 11 years since those special issues, including new legislation, proposed legislation, and the rise and fall of file-sharing spaces like Napster and Kazaa. Further, issues not addressed in the earlier special issue require the attention of computers and writing scholars, including global and international issues related to intellectual property, feminist and ecofeminist research in intellectual property, and issues of cultural cannibalism and intellectual commons. This special issue will attend to these—and other—issues, with a particular focus on the cultural consequences of our expanded sense of what counts as “property” in digital spaces. Questions we invite authors to consider and respond to include, but are not limited to: * Where are the significant intersections between intellectual property and computers and composition? What intersections have thus far remained invisible or buried? * What significant changes have occurred in U.S. copyright law in the past 15 years? In international copyright law, policies, and approaches? * What global, international, or cross-cultural intellectual property issues should we be attentive to? * How might our understandings of “the commons,” the concept of shared or “community-owned knowledge,” and the notion of “cultural appropriation” contribute to conversations on copyright and/or intellectual property? * What are some of the ways in which feminist/ecofeminist scholarship in intellectual property, and understandings of sustainability can inform or extend our approaches to intellectual property? * What are some of the ways in which cultural rhetorics scholarship in intellectual property can inform or extend our approaches to intellectual property? For example, is there a connection between racism and the commodification of culture via intellectual property regimes? A connection with sexism? Where are the intersections between discourses of race and/or gender and intellectual property-related discourse? * Are there better vocabularies, terms, and theories for us to drawn upon to situate and study “intellectual property?” Is it possible to recognize and/or attribute “intellectual property” in places other than formal legal regimes? * How have intellectual property issues become more immediate with regard to the continual growth of and use for digital writing spaces? New media texts? * In what ways can our long history of analyzing authorship and ownership of texts, including our discussions on issues of plagiarism and attribution, contribute to how we approach intellectual property issues? In what was does this long history perhaps submerge issues we might be discussing? * In what ways can writing instructors and researchers enter into public discussions about intellectual property? The special issue will consist of: 1) a special issue editors’ introduction, which will provide some historical, legal, and philosophical context; 2) approximately 6–7 articles addressing issues of intellectual property, focusing on those issues that have arisen since the 1998 special issues; and 3) a roundtable-style-discussion piece capturing the interactions of key figures in intellectual property scholarship within and beyond computers and writing (e.g., Jim Porter, Ty Herrington, Jessica Reyman, Jessica Litman, Kembrew McLeod, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Rebecca Moore Howard, Vandana Shiva, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, and Peter Yu). Deadline for manuscripts: September 15, 2009 (response by November 15) Deadline for final manuscripts: January 15, 2010 Please direct questions and email manuscripts to the special issue editors: Martine Courant Rife Lansing Community College martinerife(a)gmail.com Steve Westbrook California State University, Fullerton swestbrook(a)fullerton.edu Dànielle Nicole DeVoss Michigan State University devossda(a)msu.edu John Logie University of Minnesota logie(a)umn.edu -- Martine Courant Rife, JD, PhD Professor, Writing Program Lansing Community College Communication Department Arts & Sciences Building, 211G, 517/4839906 martinerife(a)gmail.com *** Editor, Intellectual Property Committee/Caucus NCTE Newsletter *** Attorney at Law, Michigan P#60947 7805 N. Gregory Rd. Fowlerville, MI 48836 517/2940895

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New book announcement: Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond
by Adi Kuntsman 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Dear all, I am pleased to announce my new book which came out this month best wishes Adi Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond Adi Kuntsman Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien. ISBN 978-3-03911-564-8 pb. http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=11564&vLang=E Violence is often seen as contradictory to belonging, as an obstacle to it, or as a background against which belonging – understood as the creation of ‘safe spaces’ – takes place. Instead, this book offers a more nuanced and critical analysis of the complex relationship between violence and belonging, by exploring the ways sexual, ethnic or national belonging can work through, rather than against, violence. Based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking, queer immigrants in Israel/Palestine, and also in cyberspace, this book is a fascinating, albeit at times disturbing, journey into the world of hate speech and fantasies of torture and sexual abuse; of tormented subjectivities and uncanny homes; of ghostly hauntings from the past and anxieties about the present and future. The author raises daring questions about the responsibilities of national homemaking, the complicity of queerness within violent regimes of colonialism and war, and the ambivalence of immigrant belonging at the intersection of marginality and privilege. Drawing from scholarship on migration, diaspora and critical race studies, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and studies on cyberculture, the book skillfully traces the interplay between the different forms of violence – physical and verbal, social and psychic, material and semiotic – and offers novel insights into the analysis of nationalism, on-line sociality and queer migranthood. Mapping multiple displacements and fraught belongings in uncharted virtual worlds, Adi Kunstman bravely and creatively opens up new paths to understanding Israeli immigrant queer subjects by figuring with and through the affective dimensions of their political and cultural lives. Utterly convincing and provocative in her assertions regarding the haunted travels, violent histories and discordant discourses of these queers, Kuntsman offers us a work that will be an exemplar for future research in the field. – Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora Deftly traversing numerous overlapping locations of belonging – Russia, Israel, the UK, and cyberspace – Adi Kuntsman has produced a compelling multi-sited ethnography of forms of violence and their constitutive and connective capacities for and between queer subjects. Her eloquent interrogation of Israeli nationalism and anti-Palestinian sentiment in relation to queerness is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on sexuality and nationalism, not to mention, urgently needed in these times. This book is not only intellectually rich but also politically inspiring. – Jasbir K. Puar, authorof Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times Working through intersections of Russian and Israeli, Palestinian and Jew, queer and homophobe, home and exile, presents and pasts, recognition and erasure, Adi Kuntsman traces the ghostly but no less wounding acts of violence that are the conditions of belonging in contemporary Israel/Palestine. Inhabiting sites both online and off she shows us the realness of virtual spaces, and the virtualities that haunt the real. Theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, this book eschews any easy reconciliations as Kuntsman insists that violence and belonging must be thought through one another. Not only will this book be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars, but it addresses as well urgent questions with respect to how we might live together in difference and more justly.– Lucy Suchman, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK Table of contents Preface Prologue: The journey to this book Introduction: Violence and Belonging PART I HAUNTED FIGURES Chapter 1 The Shadow by the Latrine Chapter 2 The Jewish Victim PART II BORDER FIGURES Chapter 3 The Soldier and the Terrorist Chapter 4 Daughter of Palestine PART III FLAMING FIGURES Chapter 5 The Club Chapter 6 The Flamer Conclusion: Belonging Through Violence Bibliography Index -- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures The University of Manchester Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com

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Call for Chapters: An edited book on electronic collaboration in healthcare
by Rakesh Biswas 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Please find the details in this web link: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=657 warm regards, rakesh http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas

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Use of Screen Captures from Facebook
by Darren Purcell 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

After reviewing the policies on Facebook and intellectual property ownership, I am concluding that to use a screen capture from Facebook in a book chapter, I need to contact the page creators and NOT Facebook. Is there anyone on the list that uses images from Facebook and would share how have you handled these issues since the policy changes. Darren -------------------------------------------------------- Darren Purcell Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor Dept. of Geography University of Oklahoma SWAAG Treasurer : http://www2.geog.okstate.edu/swaag/ Email: dpurcell(a)ou.edu (405) 325-9193 http://ags.ou.edu/~dpurcell/ http://ou.academia.edu/DarrenPurcell

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Web as Culture: Conference Announcement
by Thies Boettcher 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Web as Culture: Ethnographic, linguistic and didactic perspectives International Symposium organized by the Graduate Centre for Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Centre for Media and Interactivity (ZMI), Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany Main Building and Margarete-Bieber-Hall, Ludwigstrasse 23/34, 35390 Giessen Justus Liebig University Giessen, July 16 - 18, 2009 The World Wide Web is a cultural space in which new forms of social networking, of creating, acquiring and teaching knowledge and competencies, and of constructing personal and cultural identities have emerged. The International Symposium "Web as Culture" addresses issues that are involved in the processes of the construction and the perpetuation of social structures, cultural narratives, memories, knowledge and language in the World Wide Web. Particular emphasis is placed on sociocultural processes of transformation such as the change of social networks, the change of teaching and learning cultures and language change instigated by the World Wide Web. These sociocultural processes of transformation will be discussed from various disciplinary perspectives and at all relevant levels of analysis in three parallel sections "Networks, Ethnography, and the Web", "Learning, Teaching, and the Web" and "Language, Linguistics, and the Web". Please visit our website www.webasculture.de for detailed information on the conference program and guest registration (deadline June 15th, 2009). Program overview Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:30 - 12:30 Registration & Coffee 12:30 - 13:00 Conference Opening 13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin "Web as Culture" 14:00 - 14:30 Break 14:30 - 16:00 Session 1 16:00 - 16:30 Break 16:30 - 17:30 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer "Chatspeak: How web users adapt written language to synchronous communication" >From 18:30 Boat Tour and Dinner Friday, July 17, 2009 09:00 - 10:30 Session 2 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Panel Discussion (Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael K. Legutke) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:00 Session 3 15:00 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:30 Session 4 16:30 - 17:00 Break 17:00 - 18:00 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Manfred Faßler "Smarte Ethnien? Was und wie suchen wir in digitalen Netzwerken?" >From 19:00 Dinner Saturday, July 18, 2009 09:00 - 10:30 Session 5 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Steven Thorne, Ph.D. "Culture, technology, and mediation" 12:00 - 12:30 Final Discussion (Chair: Dr. Thomas Weber) Contact: Email: info(a)webasculture.de Website: www.webasculture.de Organisers: Joybrato Mukherjee Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen Ludwigstraße 34 35390 Giessen Marcus Burkhardt International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen Alter Steinbacher Weg 38 35394 Giessen <https://elysion.uni-giessen.de/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://cultdoc.uni…> ___________________________________ Thies W. Böttcher M.A. | PhD Fellow & Research Assistant (Website) International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Gießener Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK) Justus Liebig University Gießen Alter Steinbacher Weg 38 35394 Gießen Germany Tel.: +49.641.99 300 46 Tel.: +49.641.99 300 41 (GCSC Office) Fax: +49.641.99 300 49 thies.boettcher(a)gcsc.uni-giessen.de <mailto:thies.boettcher@gcsc.uni-giessen.de> http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/ <http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/> http://cultdoc.uni-giessen.de/ <http://cultdoc.uni-giessen.de/> www.uni-giessen.de/videoblog-gcsc <http://www.uni-giessen.de/videoblog-gcsc>

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CFP--Ethical Challenges: final reminder
by Robert Mason 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Subject: CFP: Ethical Challenges in Cyberspace Research and Design HICSS-43 January 5-8, 2010 As we undertake research and design information systems, we make implicit and explicit choices that have political and ethical implications. Papers (both empirical and conceptual) are requested for these sessions at HICSS that discuss the range of cultural behavior and decisions exhibited in an increasingly networked world. For more information about the scope and possible topics in this mini-track, see the following site or contact one of the co-chairs: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_43/minitracks/os-ecc.htm Robert M. Mason rmmason(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:rmmason@u.washington.edu> Kevin Gallagher kevin.gallagher(a)nku.edu<mailto:kevin.gallagher@nku.edu> Antonino Vaccaro vaccaro(a)andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:vaccaro@andrew.cmu.edu> Important dates: Anytime before June 15: submit abstract to mini-track chair for feedback June 15: last day to submit full manuscript for review Aug. 15: notification of acceptances (at least one author must immediately make arrangements to attend) Sept 15: submission of final papers; at least one author must register Oct. 15: paper without at least one author registered will be deleted from proceedings For more information about the entire conference, with links to other mini-track descriptions, see the HICSS 43 homepage<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_43/apahome43.htm>

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