March 2010 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Fwd: Facebook data destruction
by Christophe Prieur 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi there, Remember the guy that announced a forecoming release to the research community of a huge dataset of publicly available facebook data? Remember many of you guys have disapproved of this idea for ethical reasons? Well, no big surprise, he was asked by facebook to destroy his dataset. But this genuine experiment yields an interesting question: <quoting Pete Warden> In an ideal world, we might not want any of this data to be public at all. At the moment it's easily available to commercial firms, but not to researchers, which seems like a bad deal all round. </quoting> http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/03/facebook-data-destructi… _ Christophe Prieur, prieur(a)liafa.jussieu.fr Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot http://liafa.jussieu.fr/~prieur/ [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph algorithms]

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uk's institute for web science
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (National) The Government today announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science. It is designed to make the UK the hub of international research into the next generation of web and internet technologies and their commercialisation, and was announced by the Prime Minister alongside plans for a radical opening up of information and data to put more power in people’s hands. The Institute will conduct research, collaborate with businesses, identify opportunities for social and economic benefit, assist in commercialising research and help Government stimulate demand through procurement. The web was originally a place where people published documents that users could search and pick up. Web 2.0 has enabled users to contribute and create web content more easily. Web 3.0 will take the web to a whole new level by publishing data in a linkable format so that users and developers can see and exploit the relationships between different sets of information. The development of these technologies will create significant new opportunities for business and the public sector. The impact of these technologies is likely to be as important as the creation of the original web, and could generate large-scale economic benefits for the UK in the global market for web and internet technologies. The role of the Institute will be to undertake research and development, and act as a bridge between research and business, helping commercialise these new technologies. It will also advise Government on how semantic technologies can be used in the public sector, and how public procurement can be used to speed their adoption. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that £30 million would be set aside to create the Institute for Web Science. It will be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, and leading Web Science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt. http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=412457&Sub… Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso

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NYT journalist request for youtube expert
by jose marichal 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I thought this might be of interest to some of you. Cheers. Jose ----[forwarded from free webservice Help-a-Reporter-Out]---- Summary: need new media expert to give analysis of a youtube celebrity Name: austin considine (The New York Times) Category: Entertainment and Media Email: query-6ke(a)helpareporter.com Media Outlet: The New York Times Deadline: 11:00 PM EST - 23 March Query: I'm looking for an independent media critic -- preferably based in New York or Los Angeles -- to comment on the rise of Shane Dawson as one of YouTube's biggest celebrities. A university-based PhD would be perfect. Ideally, I need a source who has some sense of how the YouTube community has evolved over the years, and who has at least a passing familiarity with its "Partners" program, how it works, and (if possible) what kinds of ad revenues it's been known to generate for individual contributors. -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | assistant professor | political science department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 josemarichal.synthasite.com | blog: contexts.org/thickculture | twitter.com/marichal | 805-493-3328

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Leigh Star
by Barry Wellman 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I have sad news below, via UIUC Info Sci that Susan Leigh Star has died unexpectedly. I Do NOT know anything more. (http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/people/star.php) My memory of Leigh goes back 25 years when Bev/I were sabbaticalling in Berkeley/SFO. I got to know Leigh then as one of Anselm Strauss' last students. (possibly The Last.) Like Anselm she was both grounded and bubbly. I remember how excited she was as an early adopter of the IBM PC Jr -- despite its hard-to-use chiclet keyboard. Always willing to take risks. (Altho we laughed at the chiclet then, people seem to be happy Berrying and iPhoning.) After her PhD at Cal-SFO, Leigh went on to UIUC (where she met Geoff Bowker), UCSD, Santa Clara U, and finally at the Pitt iSchool. Happy Hugs, Leigh. 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: Virtual Worlds as Information Systems
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

distribute as appropriate: Information Systems Journal (ISJ) Virtual Worlds as Information Systems A Special Issue of ISJ on Virtual World Technology and Information Systems Special Issue Guest Editors: Ross Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Andrew Hardin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA David Kreps, University of Salford, UK Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Virtual worlds have garnered unprecedented profile in both the media and academic research. Many IS Managers in their thirties have gained experience with 3D environments via gaming, and the appearance of game ready commodity hardware means that virtual worlds are now feasible as an Enterprise-wide Information System rollout. 3D virtual world interfaces are now increasingly used across a company as complementary information spaces, to web-based and other system services. This strong momentum in IS practice, however, has not yet been matched by an intense academic focus. In particular, what is lacking is an in depth analysis of these worlds as potential business information systems interfaces, and their relevant design and use consequences. The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum to present and discuss the emerging role of virtual world technology in the information systems community. The special issue explicitly advocates multi-disciplinary approaches that expand and integrate the current isolated research efforts in this exciting new area of IS research. The special issue specifically aims at reporting on and discussing empirical and theoretical research in the use of Virtual World technology in Information Systems. In particular, we hope to provide a picture of the present state of international research with regards to how virtual worlds can shape the design, analysis, use, or management of information systems in organizations. We encourage submissions that report on the use of research methods including experiments, surveys, case studies, focus groups and/or other empirical methods for the discovery of insights in the deployment, uptake, use, success or failure of Virtual World technologies in enterprises. Research contributed may range through various aspects of virtual world information systems, from development and integration, to impact studies on users. We especially would like to encourage submissions on atypical usage of such worlds for Information System domains, in order that new and novel research may be brought to the attention of the international IS research community. In addition, we welcome papers that present, introduce or discuss novel approaches to emerging virtual world research, as this new domain will inspire different investigative approaches. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to: - Social networking and communication in virtual worlds - Virtual teams, collective cognition, and group performance, in virtual worlds - Entrepreneurship in virtual worlds - Virtual World technology and Interactive Systems Design - System demonstrations and simulations - In-world Information System modeling - Human Computer Interaction - Interfacing and integration of virtual world technology with other Information Systems - Representations of Information Systems as virtual services - Virtual world technology in IS education and training - Adoption of Virtual World technologies and systems in corporate practice - Diffusion of Virtual World technologies in social networking systems - Virtual World technologies and co-creation of IT value Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should not normally exceed 7000 words and should be submitted online athttp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isj. Authors will have to select Special Issue Submission as the manuscript type. Author guidelines are available at ‘author guidelines’ at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/isj/. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the double-blind review process of ISJ. The objective is to apply very high standards of acceptance while ensuring fair, timely and efficient review cycles. Timeline Full initial paper submission deadline: 30 August 2010 First Review deadline: 30 November 2010 Revised paper submission deadline: (if required) 30 January 2011 Second Review deadline: 15 March 2011 Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 30 April 2011 Publication of special issue: mid-2011 Guest Editors: Dr Ross Brown Information Systems Discipline Queensland University of Technology Office 508 / 126 Margaret Street Tel: +61 7 3138 9481 Fax: +61 7 3138 9390 Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia Email r.brown(a)qut.edu.au Webpage http://www.bpmve.org Dr Andrew Hardin College of Business Department of Management Information Systems 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 456034 Tel: (702) 895-0447 Fax: (702) 895-0802 Las Vegas, NV 89154-6034 Email andrew.hardin(a)unlv.edu <mailto:andrew.hardin@unlv.edu> Webpage http://faculty.unlv.edu/ahardin/ <http://faculty.unlv.edu/ahardin/> Dr David Kreps Salford Business School University of Salford 43 The Crescent Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 5884 Fax: +44 (0) 161 295 5999 Manchester, M5 4WT, United Kingdom Email D.G.Kreps(a)salford.ac.uk Webpage http://www.business.salford.ac.uk/staff/davidkreps Dr Jan Recker Information Systems Discipline Queensland University of Technology Office 510 / 126 Margaret Street Tel: +61 7 3138 9479 Fax: +61 7 3138 9390 Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia Email j.recker(a)qut.edu.au <mailto:j.recker@qut.edu.au> Webpage http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~recker/ Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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Readings on the Google Book case
by Kris M. Markman 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Dear colleagues, I'm looking for suggestions for readings summarizing/analyzing the Google Books case and the settlement. In particular, I'm looking for readings that would be accessible to an upper-division (juniors & seniors) undergraduate audience. Bonus points for any readings that touch on the ethics of Google Books. Thanks in advance, Kris Markman Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Memphis Email: krism(a)alumni.utexas.net

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Seeking e-learning case examples
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I'm sure many of you are teaching online and learning for classes and/or more generally through online means. I'm currently writing a book (with Richard Andrews) on e-learning, a label my colleague and I use broadly to address learning in the digital age with a focus on adults and higher education learning with and through new media. The title of the book is "E-learning: Theory and Practice", to be published by Sage, and to be out in 2011. I'm looking for cases of e-learning practice to add real-life examples to the book that otherwise might have too much of a theoretical emphasis. I'm hoping I can find at least a few of you to share these for the book. If you have a successful practice, particularly if you had a particular 'problem' that was addressed by social and/or technical design and implementation, I'd like to hear about it. I'm also interested in failures, so it doesn't have to have worked if there is some understanding of why it didn't work. Topics can range from in-class practices to outreach; use of traditional media to the latest in social media; learning for degrees to learning for personal interest; getting to know others to building online learning communities; individual teaching to administrative policies. I want to include a number of 1/2 to 1 page cases into the book that will appear set off from the main text. I imagine these describing a particular issue or goal re the e-learning, the practice that was initiated, and how it turned out. If you give me the raw text, I will edit so these all conform to the same kind of structure. Although I am asking for these to be freely given to the book, you can be named or not as you like with these cases. If I can't use the example as a highlighted case, I may be able to use as examples within the text and will attribute to you as an email or personal communication. And, if you have a published reference for the work I can include that. Please ask me if you have questions, and probably best to send cases just to me rather than the list. Thanks in advance. /Caroline -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10) Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 (haythorn(a)illinois.edu)

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conceptions of anonymity and follow up on chat roulette
by Seda Guerses 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

has anybody been working on the difference between feeling anonymous and technical understandings of anonymity and re-identification, and how to relate these two things? i know sherry turkle wrote about anonymity on the internet long time ago and inspired much (critical) work, but i do not know of any recent works outside of the security/ privacy studies which often pose users as being naive/uncaring and identity as something fixed. i had to come back to the question today after colleagues posted information about a site which automatically maps ip addresses of the chatrouletters to approximate locations on a google map together with a screenshot of the chatterer. http://www.chatroulettemap.com/ more information can be found here: http://www.geekosystem.com/chatroulette-map-anonymity/. a more general article on ubiquitous video streaming is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/19/streaming-video-online-pri… any tips or thoughts on this matter are much appreciated. cheers, s. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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Re: [Air-L] DVDs for teaching internet/new media studies
by Quinn, Kelly 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi Holly - Two suggestions: Copyright Criminals - a recent PBS Independent Lens broadcast on sampling and how copyright has shaped the hiphop culture produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. See http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=3975315 for purchase details. An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube - actually available on YouTube.com at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU - Mike Wesch's speech to the Library of Congress from June 2008 on how his classes study YouTube. I've used both in the classroom--and they are excellent. Kind regards, Kelly Quinn Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor, Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1153 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St., MC 132Chicago, IL 60607-7137 (312) 996-3187 Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:45:29 -0500 From: "Kruse, Holly" <holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] DVDs for teaching internet/new media studies Message-ID: <5E0BB54BEC5EBA44B373175A080E640115125F2C(a)ophelia.ad.utulsa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Does anyone have any suggestions for recent DVDs that could be used in teaching internet studies or new media studies classes? There are a few that I use ("IRL," "Virtual Worlds: Inside Online Games," aka "Avatars Online"... I think that's right) that are getting a bit dated, although are still great. I am coming up with a list of more recent ones for my university's library to order. Thanks in advance! 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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Re: [Air-L] DVDs for teaching internet/new media studies
by Rybas, Natalia 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Great question, thanks for asking! I have these PBS documentaries on my list. They can be watched from the PBS web site. For example: Digital Nation: http://video.pbs.org/video/1402987791/ Growing Up Online: http://video.pbs.org/video/1082076027/ There are others if you click on Topics menu and choose Technology. Best, Natalia Rybas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication Studies School of Humanities & Social Sciences Indiana University East Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:45:29 -0500 From: "Kruse, Holly" <holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] DVDs for teaching internet/new media studies Message-ID: <5E0BB54BEC5EBA44B373175A080E640115125F2C(a)ophelia.ad.utulsa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Does anyone have any suggestions for recent DVDs that could be used in teaching internet studies or new media studies classes? There are a few that I use ("IRL," "Virtual Worlds: Inside Online Games," aka "Avatars Online"... I think that's right) that are getting a bit dated, although are still great. I am coming up with a list of more recent ones for my university's library to order. Thanks in advance! 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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