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

can't get no satisfaction
by Barry Wellman 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

I want to thank everyone for sending me sitcom suggestions for a modern family where husband and wife work, kids are relatively normal, and everyone uses ICTs and cellphones. However, I have been unable to find one that fit my specs, perhaps due to the fact that I never watch TV before 10PM. Seventh Heaven -- wife doesn't work. Beverly Hills 90210 -- mostly pre cell phone era. Doesn't really focus on parents. Big Love -- 4 Wives is not the American norm (at least at 1 time) Gossip Girl -- not intact families. Vampires not normative, except in movies & TV. I keep hoping that Carrie and Samantha will get married; Miranda will reconnect with Steve, and all 4 Sex & the City ladies will come back in 15 years. Any more help would be appreciated. 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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Addendum - Call for PhD Applications: Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi)
by Axel Bruns 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Colleagues, A quick addendum to my recent call for PhD applications in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (http://cci.edu.au/) in Brisbane, Australia - we've now added one further area for which we're especially interested in applicants: * New forms of audience engagement in public broadcasting, with partners such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (key contact person: Axel Bruns, ph. +61 7 3138 5548, email a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au) For more information and the full list of priority areas for PhD applications, please see http://snurb.info/node/1178. -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, 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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clarification
by Barry Wellman 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

I'm looking for mainstream (HBO, Showtime, USA ok) dramas/comedies where husband, wife, 1+ kids go their separate ways -- with a lot of communication via ICTs and mobile phones. Not Dexter (which someone suggested) No Secret Life of an American teen (minor channel; pregnancy of 15 year old not really mainstream). Possibly Desperate Housewives (which I rarely watch), but don't HWs mostly stay home in daytime, and don't go off to paid work. Do they use ICTs and mobile? Thanks, 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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CFP: ITNG 2010 - Web Track
by Amanda Spink 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: NEW GENERATIONS, (ITNG ’10) APRIL 12-14, 2010, LAS VEGAS – NEVADA Proceedings to be published by the Conference Publishing Services-CPS ITNG 2010 WEB TECHNOLOGIES TRACK http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/taksa/itng You are invited to submit a paper for the special session on Web Technologies, including, but not limited to the following topics: Web Algorithms and Techniques Web User Studies Web Search Engines Web Log Analysis Web Mining Multimedia Web Web Interfaces, e.g., Voice User Interfaces (speech); e.g. for handicapped or disabled people, or for mobile citizens (or workers) Web Architectures; e.g. performance, fault tolerance, design, etc. PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or to be unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit a 6-page summary of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format to the track chair. Electronic submissions in PDF or MS Word format are strongly encouraged. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Per ITNG policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two Web Technologies Track Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN. Send papers via email to the Web Technologies Track Co-Chairs: Professor Isak Taksa – Baruch College, CUNY Email: Isak.Taksa(a)baruch.cuny.edu<mailto:Isak.Taksa@baruch.cuny.edu> Professor Amanda Spink – Queensland University of Technology Email: ah.spink(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> DEADLINES: Paper Submission: October 23, 2009 Author Notification: December 4, 2009 Advance Registration January 15, 2010 Camera Ready Papers Due February 5, 2010 ***************************************** 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 Room 918 - 126 Margaret Street Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia http://www.scitech.qut.edu.au<http://www.scitech.qut.edu.au/> Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 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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TV help wanted
by Barry Wellman 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

I'm writing a big piece in which a part is familistic comparing TV shows of the 1950s-1970s (Father Knows Best > Happy Days) to more networked family shows of today, in which household members go their separate ways, but are linked by ICTs and mobiles. I can think of modern shows like Seinfeld and Sex and the City, but they have only single folks. Can anyway cite decent networked family shows. Possibly Hannah Montana, altho I'd like one with traditional mom & dad & 1 plus kid. 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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PhD Scholarships in New Media Services with Smart Services CRC
by Marcus Foth 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

PhD Scholarships in New Media Services with Smart Services CRC The Smart Services CRC is a $120 million, commercially focused collaborative research initiative, developing innovation, foresight and productivity improvements for the services sector. Services are the largest sector of the economy representing approximately 80% of Australia’s GDP and 85% of employment. Within the services industries Smart Services’ initial programs will be customer-focused with outcomes translatable across the whole services sector. Initial research outcomes and demonstrators will principally be associated with the digital media, finance and government sectors. In order to achieve these goals, Smart Services CRC will be supporting research higher degree students at PhD and Masters level through scholarships, top-ups and in-kind support for research, travel, conferences etc. As a partner in Smart Services CRC, the Queensland University of Technology is offering scholarship packages for 2009. Research higher degree students with CRC scholarships will have access to the full range of resources offered by QUT (access to equipment and facilities, Grants-in-Aid, teaching opportunities etc.), as well as the opportunity to work with leading industry partners in the media, finance and government sectors on projects of direct real-world relevance through Smart Services CRC. The New Media Services program at QUT is focused on research questions such as: · What are innovative business models for new media? Can international case studies identify new opportunities for media service industries in an era of Web 2.0 that goes beyond the mass communications model? · What new opportunities for news are enabled by digital media, including computational journalism, news visualization and citizen journalism? · What opportunities exist to “harness the hive” of social media in advertising, marketing and integrated marketing communication? · Can the development of digital communities and the nurturing of digital ecosystems be applied across the service industries? Led by the Creative Industries Faculty and the Faculty of Business, the New Media Servceis program provides the opportunity to work collaboratively with industry partners across the media and government sectors on aligning research activity with industry goals and strategies in the emergent digital media environment. The following topics are of interest to supervisors in the New Media Servcies research project team: Professor Terry Flew (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) • Innovative business models for new media; • Digital futures for news media; • Mobile and digital media content production. Associate Professor Axel Bruns (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Drivers and motivations for users to participate in social media Websites; 2. Future developments in online social media and social networking; 3. Business models for social media sites. Dr. Christy Collis (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Emerging uses and users of locative mobile media; 2. Audiences and markets for online, mobile, and cross-platform media. Dr. Christina Spurgeon (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) Dr. Edwina Luck (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Future drivers of participation within virtual social media 2. The role of ‘electronic word-of-mouth’ in product and service marketing 3. Hyper-targeting and advertising within virtual social networks Dr. Larry Neale (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Network and device convergence 2. Future entertainment business models 3. Delivering digital customer service Smart Services CRC is a research and development partnership between 12 major industry players and six Australian universities, funded by the private sector and governments under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre program. Its aim is the creation of research-enabled commercial outcomes for its partners. For more information on the Smart Services CRC, go to http://www.smartservicescrc.com.au/AboutUs.html . For more information on scholarships at QUT, go to http://www.rsc.qut.edu.au/studentsstaff/scholarships/ . Information for prospective research students in the Faculty of Business can be found at http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/. Information for prospective research students in the Creative Industries Faculty can be found at http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/research/future-student/ . -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal 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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AoIR Conferences Past
by Elizabeth A. Buchanan 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Dear Colleagues, As we are getting closer to the AoIR 10 Celebration, I would like to ask for any old photos from years past. Relive the baby stages of aoir and embarrass some colleagues while you are at it! Please send to me directly, off list. Best, Elizabeth Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Netnomusicology?
by victor.kvarnhall＠oru.se 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Hi everyone! I'm rather new on this list, and must begin with expressing my appreciation for all of the good tips and interesting, helpful and constructive discussions here! Well, I'm writing a dissertation about childrens (ages ca. 9-13) musical experiences on the net, to put it pretty simple. And since I am an ethnomusicologist I plan to do a netnography (or whatever one may call performing ethnographic fieldwork on the Internet). I've been having trouble finding children to participate though, maybe mainly because of my unwillingness to contact them in any other way than via Internet. However, this is a conscious decision. Lately I've been, for several reasons, thinking about at least start seeking for informants (or focus almost entirely) in a swedish community called Music manager. It's sort of a web-based role play, where you get the play the role of a "manager" for a rockband (or really the role of the whole band), buy instruments, getting them to practice, book shows and so forth. Whether this is a good idea or not, is one of my questions. Another questions concerns starting an open thread in the discussion forum on Music manager, asking for people who want to participate in my study. Is that a good idea? The webmaster and I have been in contact about this, and he can back me up, so that no one has any reason to doubt me being serious. Last, I'm curious if anyone knows any good literature about nethnographic studies on music and Internet (and children), in any way? There's a book called "Cybersounds" (Michael Ayers, ed.), but it's really hard to get a hold on in Sweden. Thanks, /Victor Kvarnhall Ph.D student at the School of music in Örebro, Sweden

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New New Media animated video
by Paul Levinson 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

prepared by the publisher ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWc-ZEVvw4w

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more social media readings
by Barry Wellman 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hua Wang and Barry Wellman, "Social Connectivity in America" in press for American Behavioral Scientist, but on my website. Barry Wellman, et al., "Connected Lives: The Project" In Patrick Purcell, eds., Networked Neighborhood. Springer (2006) also on my website Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite eds . 2002. The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford: Blackwells. Warning: all of these publications contain NUMBERS, altho the last 2 have much qual stuff. Warning: they're essentially email focused, but so according to latest Cdn research (Aug 09), more peeps use email than any other social media. Have a great weekend. 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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