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Re: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions
by Stacy Blasiola 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Just thought I'd chime in that this thread has been particularly helpful to me, too. So thank you to all who contributed. Stacy Blasiola Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thank you very, very much, people!! Now I have a lot of information This list rocks!!! Alejandro. 2010/10/7 Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> > There were some rebellions in Second Life too. Wagner James Au tells some > of > these stories in "The Making of Second Life" Collins 2008. > > Peter Timusk > at571(a)ncf.ca > ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca > web: www.crystalcomputing.net > blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini > Sent: October-07-10 10:56 AM > To: List Aoir > Subject: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions > > Dear AoIR-lers: > > I need some help. I was invited to participate in a conference for games > developers and multimedia artist, and I?m thinking to talk about user?s > rebellions in online games and virtual worlds. Reading the Celia Pearce?s > book "Communities of play" (excellent reading) I found a mention of a WoW > rebellion, in 2004. > Can you suggest me some other readings about this kind of grass-root > protest > movements? Also any pictures? > Thank you very much =) > > Alejandro Tortolini > Science and technology journalist - Teacher > > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Contact Me [image: LinkedIn] > <http://ar.linkedin.com/in/alejandrotortolini> [image: > Twitter] <http://twitter.com/aletorto> > Chat [image: Skype/] aletor2 > Signature powered by > < > http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai > l&utm_campaign=footer<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai…> > > > WiseStamp< > http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_me > dium=email&utm_campaign=footer<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_me%0Adium=e…> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/

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Travel Tip!
by Ted Coopman 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

All, I have just discovered something that had changed since the last time I had traveled overseas. I assume this applies to most nationalities since banking is so global. Before you travel, you need to call the 800 number (in the US) on the back of any bank, debit, or charge card and let them know when and where you plan to be traveling. Otherwise, when you use the card for the first time in a country they do not expect you to be in, they will freeze the account. As you might imagine, this would be inconvenient. -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Radio, Television, and Film Program San Jose State University http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ted.coopman/

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Position announcement: Global/East Asian Media (NYU)
by Michael Zimmer 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

[Posting this on behalf of Helen Nissenbaum @ NYU - mz] Position Announcement: Global/East Asian Media Department of Media, Culture, and Communication Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2011. We are seeking a scholar of global media and communication technologies with a special emphasis on East Asia, including China, South Korea, and Japan. Scholars with focuses in one or more of the following are of particular interest: East Asian media institutions, alternative media practices, and contemporary forms of public culture within the region. Preferred candidates will have a demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary scholarship and current theoretical and methodological debates in global and comparative media studies. The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is home to 28 full-time faculty and serves approximately 750 undergraduate majors, 120 MA students, and 35 PhD students. NYU’s dynamic Global Network University includes NYU Abu Dhabi and international programs and academic centers around the world. The department is active in the NYU Global Network University, with a particular emphasis on sites in Paris, Prague, Buenos Aires, and Shanghai. NYU Steinhardt faculty may be afforded the opportunity to work at these global study and research sites. For more information see:http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/ Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. and an active agenda of research, publication, and teaching. Responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising; and department and University service. Applications: Please apply online with a cover letter, CV, names and contact information for three references, and a brief sample of work to: www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50689 Further information about the position can be obtained from: Ted Magder, Search Committee Chair Department of Media, Culture, and Communication Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University 239 Greene Street, 7th floor New York, NY 10003 ted.magder(a)nyu.edu Applications are due no later than November 15, 2010. New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, BS in Information Science & Technology Program Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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General Online Research 11, March 14-16, 2011, Duesseldorf Germany
by Martin Welker 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all I would like to invite you to next years GOR: General Online Research 11, March 14-16, 2011 Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany In coop. with AG social media. CfP: http://www.gor.de/gor11/CALL_FOR_PAPERS_GOR11.pdf Abstract submission for presentations: November 15, 2010 Please redistribute! Best, Martin =============================================== Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Martin Welker Journalistik Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft Universität Leipzig Büro Burgstr. 21, D-04109 Leipzig Post PF 100920, D-04009 Leipzig E-Mail: welker(a)uni-leipzig.de ----------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Martin Welker Journalistik Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation (MHMK) Büro Bayerstr. 85, D-80335 München Post Gollierstr. 4, D-80339 München E-Mail m.welker(a)macromedia.de ----------------------------------------------- DGOF e.V., Vorsitzender des Vorstandes Büro Hans-Böckler-Str. 163, D-50354 Hürth E-Mail m.welker(a)dgof.de ----------------------------------------------- privat http://www.martin-welker.de E-Mail mail(a)martin-welker.de ==============================================

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Special Issue of Cultural Science - Deadline Extended
by Axel Bruns 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

G'day ! Forwarding this: > ***Deadline for submissions extended: 31 October 2010*** > > Special Issue Cultural Science: > Internet Research Methods as Moments of Evolution > > Editor: Thomas Petzold, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and > Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia > > Call for Papers > > This special issue of Cultural Science explores Internet research methods at > the intersection of socio-cultural and evolutionary research. It invites > contributions that combine innovative research design on the Internet with an > evolutionary treatment of socio-cultural change to reconsider the dynamics of > institutions, identities, and socio-cultural relations. By doing so this > special issue seeks to identify and further develop discussions of specific > methods as well as wider considerations of underlying propositions that deal > with evolutionary approaches to culture. > > Methods as moments of evolution relates to phenomena Internet researchers > seek to unravel by using specific approaches and techniques as well as to the > more general idea that Internet research methods must be understood as part > of an evolutionary process of scientific working and thinking. > > For this special issue, contributions are welcome that take methods and > concepts from disciplines previously unrelated or but marginally related to > cultural research and the humanities and apply, adapt and adjust these to > Internet related research into structural and dynamic changes. Such an > approach, it is expected, shares methods with other emerging disciplines and > fields such as computational social sciences (Lazer et al 2009), digital > humanities (Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth 2004), and web science (Berners- > Lee, Hall, and Hendler 2006). > > This special issue welcomes case studies as well as broader methodological > analyses of: > > * Internet research methods and instruments exploring evolutionary processes > of > Internet related issues in general, > > * the dynamics and structural change of culture and language on the Internet > in > particular, > > * the challenges and limits of both visualising large data sets and/or small > nuances of micro-case studies, and asks > > * what it means for Internet researchers to consider methods as moments of > evolution. > > Prospective authors are asked to submit contributions (full papers, essays, > visualisations, think pieces, in PDF or Word format, with references in > Harvard style) of up to 8000 words to Thomas Petzold (t.petzold(a)qut.edu.au) > Henry Li (s1.li(a)qut.edu.au) and Woitek Konzal (woitek.konzal(a)qut.edu.au) by > 31 October 2010. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Early-career > researchers and doctoral students are encouraged to contribute to this > special edition. Accepted papers will be published in December 2010. > > > Special Issue of Cultural Science: http://cultural-science.org/journal/ > > Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2010 > Publication: December 2010 > > ----- > References > > Berners-Lee, T., W. Hall and J.A. Hendler. 2006. A Framework for Web Science. > Now Publishers Inc. > Lazer, D. et al. 2009. Computational Social Science. Science 323: 721-3. > Schreibman, S., R. Siemens and J. Unsworth. 2004. A Companion to Digital > Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell. -- 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 Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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LiveJournal, online communities, and rebellions
by Christine Moellenberndt 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Howdy list folks, Lurking MA student here, but a few things have crossed my radar that i feel the need to poke at a bit: 1) re: Alexander and the search for articles: This research piqued my interest, since LJ is my fieldsite for my MA thesis. Alexander, i'm not sure you're on the right track here, but granted i'm not fully following your hypothesis, and i don't read Russian :) But you're basing off two "huge scandals" in Russian sociology weren't discussed in the sociolog community. i'm not sure that's enough to base on. Communities wax and wane in popularity and use, (i see that this community is about seven years old) and it could be that as these scandals happen, people don't immediately think to turn to LJ for discussion anymore. i think people join the communities in the hopes of having discussions or at least learning something new, but so many communities start to lose popularity and traffic that nothing happens and we just never un-join them. i have several communities i'm a member of and never post to, mainly because there's just no traffic so i doubt i'd get any responses, and have been too lazy to unjoin. There's also the "lurk factor" in these communities which is similar to us lurkers on mailing lists. Now Facebook groups OTOH... THOSE i totally agree with where you're going :) Just my 2cents as a longtime LJ user and shorttime LJ budding-scholar :) i'd be interested in your research however as the Russian side of LJ is becoming very fascinating for me (especially in wake of the FaceBook/Twitter integration scandal/rebellion/unpleasantness of just a few weeks ago) 2) re: Grassroots online rebellions. Oh my. There have been so MANY, though i'm not sure they've all be documented :) They aren't just happening in "virtual worlds" though; in my archival LJ research i'm deep in the thick of currently, i have been documenting several rebellions of users on LJ when LJ's parent company made changes the users weren't too satisfied with. i'd be happy to go into detail with the OP offlist if warranted, though as i said none of this is published but observed. Anyways, just my 2 cents in whatever currency you choose... now i go back under my lurkrock :) -Christine MA student (soon-to-be candidate as soon as the paperwork clears) San Jose State University

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Social Science PhD Internships at Microsoft Research New England (Spring & Summer 2011)
by danah boyd 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the social media collective for Spring and Summer 2011. For these positions, we are looking primarily for social science PhD students (including communications, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, etc.). The social media collective is a collection of scholars at MSRNE who focus on socio-technical questions, primarily from a social science perspective. We are not an applied program; rather, we work on critical research questions that we believe are important to the future of social science scholarship. MSRNE internships are 12-week paid internships in Cambridge, Massachusetts. PhD interns at MSRNE are expected to devise and execute a research project during their internships. The expected outcome of an internship at MSRNE is a publishable scholarly paper for an academic journal or conference of the intern's choosing. The goal of the internship is to help the intern advance their own career; interns are strongly encouraged to work towards a publication outcome that will help them on the job market. Interns are also expected to collaborate with full-time researchers and visitors, give short presentations, and contribute to the life of the community. Topics that are currently of interest to the social media collective include: privacy & publicity, online safety (from sexting to bullying to gang activities), transparency & surveillance, conspicuous consumption & brand culture, news & information flow, and locative media. That said, we are open to other interesting topics, particularly those that may have significant societal impact. While most of the researchers in the collective are ethnographers, we welcome social scientists of all methodological persuasions. Applicants should have advanced to candidacy in their PhD program or be close to advancing to candidacy. (Unfortunately, there are no opportunities for Master's students at this time.) While this internship opportunity is not strictly limited to social scientists, preference will be given to social scientists and humanists making socio-technical inquiries. (Note: While other branches of Microsoft Research focus primarily on traditional computer science research, this collective does no development-driven research and is not looking for people who are focused on building systems at this time.) Preference will be given to intern candidates who work to make public and/or policy interventions with their research. Interns will benefit most from this opportunity if there are natural opportunities for collaboration with other researchers or visitors currently at MSRNE. PEOPLE AT MSRNE SOCIAL MEDIA COLLECTIVE The collective is organized by danah boyd (http://www.danah.org) and includes postdocs Alice Marwick (http://www.tiara.org/) and Mike Ananny (http://www.stanford.edu/~mja/) Full-time spring faculty visitors will include Nicole Ellison of MSU (https://www.msu.edu/~nellison/) and Mary Gray of Indiana University (http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral/) Summer full-time faculty visitors are TBD. Previous interns in the collective have included Amelia Abreu (UWashington information), Scott Golder (Cornell sociology), Alice Marwick (NYU media studies), Omar Wasow (Harvard African-American studies), Sarita Yardi (GeorgiaTech HCI). Previous and current faculty MSR visitors to the collective include: Beth Coleman, Bernie Hogan, Christian Sandvig, Eszter Hargittai, Helen Nissenbaum, James Grimmelmann, Judith Donath, Jeff Hancock, Kate Crawford, Karrie Karahalios, Lisa Nakamura, Nalini Kotamraju, Nancy Baym, and Tarleton Gillespie. If you are curious to know more about MSRNE, I suspect that many of these people would be happy to tell you about their experiences here. Previous interns are especially knowledgeable about how this process works. If you are going to AOIR in Gothenburg, danah, Alice, and Mike will all be attending and happy to answer questions about the internship. APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply for a PhD internship with the social media collective: 1. Fill out the online application form: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/jobs/intern.aspx Make sure to indicate that you prefer Microsoft Research New England. 2. Send an email to dmb(a)microsoft.com with the subject "PhD Intern Application" that includes the following four things: a. A brief description of your dissertation project. b. An academic article you have written (published or unpublished) that shows your writing skills. c. A pointer to your website or other online presence (if available). d. A short description of 1-3 projects that you might imagine doing as an intern at MSRNE. We will begin considering internship applications on November 15 and consider applications until all social media internship positions are filled.

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Re: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions
by Alejandro Tortolini 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Thank you very, very much, people!! Now I have a lot of information This list rocks!!! Alejandro. 2010/10/7 Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> > There were some rebellions in Second Life too. Wagner James Au tells some > of > these stories in "The Making of Second Life" Collins 2008. > > Peter Timusk > at571(a)ncf.ca > ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca > web: www.crystalcomputing.net > blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini > Sent: October-07-10 10:56 AM > To: List Aoir > Subject: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions > > Dear AoIR-lers: > > I need some help. I was invited to participate in a conference for games > developers and multimedia artist, and I´m thinking to talk about user´s > rebellions in online games and virtual worlds. Reading the Celia Pearce´s > book "Communities of play" (excellent reading) I found a mention of a WoW > rebellion, in 2004. > Can you suggest me some other readings about this kind of grass-root > protest > movements? Also any pictures? > Thank you very much =) > > Alejandro Tortolini > Science and technology journalist - Teacher > > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Contact Me [image: LinkedIn] > <http://ar.linkedin.com/in/alejandrotortolini> [image: > Twitter] <http://twitter.com/aletorto> > Chat [image: Skype/] aletor2 > Signature powered by > < > http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai > l&utm_campaign=footer<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=emai…> > > > WiseStamp< > http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_me > dium=email&utm_campaign=footer<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_me%0Adium=e…> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >

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Re: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions
by James Hinton 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Alejandro, Ed Castronova's book "Synthetic Worlds" refers to several such rebellions in several different virtual worlds. The book is his examination of the economics of Virtual Worlds, and he devotes some time to rebellions as a means by which players can force the game companies to change the game. I recommend it highly. Edward Castronova. Synthetic Worlds, University of Chicago Press (2005). ISBN 0-226-09626-2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0226096262> -James M. Hinton, Boise State University

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community defined by interaction
by Barry Wellman 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Alexander and Uwe, Sorry to be an olde fogie, but Barry Leighton and I wrote in 1979 that communities are best defined by interaction. See "Networks, Neighborhoods and Communities," Urban Affairs QUarterly (or my website.) ANd even earlier, George Hillery wrote a paper that every urban sociologist had to memorize on the many (80?) ways that community has been defined. In shrot, YMMV 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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