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

Input on the state of Pakistan's ICT
by Fouad Bajwa 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

>From Codeweek Pakistan (http://www.codeweek.pk) about the challenges and solutions of IT, ICTs and the Internet: HARD TALK with FOUAD BAJWA – What IT, what ICT? Part II http://www.codeweek.pk/2010/04/hard-talk-with-fouad-bajwa-%E2%80%93-what-it… HARD TALK with FOUAD BAJWA – What IT, what ICT? Part I http://www.codeweek.pk/2010/04/hard-talk-with-fouad-bajwa-what-it-what-ict/ -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA

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Do you research "locals online"?
by Steven Clift 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

If you do, you might enjoy sharing your insights and lessons ... This is the call for those who host local online groups to connect. There are ten of thousands of these "micro" hosts out there and most are doing this work in complete isolation. Steven Clift ... please join us and sign the draft invite letter. http://e-democracy.org/locals The draft letter: This is an invitation to join us on Locals Online. Do you host a ... * neighborhood e-mail list? ... * highly interactive placeblog? ... * local social network on Ning? ... * a private Facebook group for nearest neighbors? ... * a neighborhood parents network online? ... * a local online community of any kind? Then join community builders like you on this new peer-to-peer online group for local online hosts from: http://e-democracy.org/locals Signed, List of charter members for Locals Online * Steven Clift, Minneapolis Standish Ericsson Neighbors Forum * Add your name here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/index.php?title=Locals_Online&action=edit&sect… (Please do NOT add your name unless you actually help host something locally-oriented in this space.)

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IR 11.0 REVIEWERS - DEADLINE today
by Torill Mortensen 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Please log in at http://conftool.net/aoir-ir11/ and finish your assignments! The only way to keep the number of reviews at a reasonable level, is for all to do their part. Luckily we have a large, wonderful base of volunteers this year, so once you get started you'll see it's quickly done. Thank you all for helping out! Torill Mortensen

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PhD scholarships in Information Systems, University of Agder
by Marius Johannessen 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

This is perhaps outside of most internet researchers' area of interest, but there are ways to twist the research areas towards more media and information-related topics, so I am posting this here since I would really like to have a colleague with a less IT-heavy background. We also have some other PhD students doing media and information related theses in social media and virtual worlds. More information and application form is found online: http://uia.easycruit.com/vacancy/404071/35073?iso=gb The University of Agder invites applications for a full-time fixed-term appointment as PhD Research Fellow in information systems for a period of three years, alternatively four years with 25% of the time assigned to tasks at the faculty’s discretion. The position is affiliated with the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The position is located in Kristiansand, Norway. The position is remunerated within the State salary scale, salary plan 17.515, code 1017, salary grade 45 (NOK 355.600). A 2 % compulsory pension contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund is deducted from the pay according to current statutory provisions. The topic of the dissertation project should fall within one of the following three areas: 1) IT-support for global projects 2) Process modelling and business development 3) Systems development practice regards, Marius Johannessen Research Fellow Institute of Information Systems University of Agder

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Tumblr Networks
by Alex Leavitt 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Has there been research on networked users across the Tumblr blogging platform? Resources appreciated! Thanks, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt

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[CFP] Radical Teacher Special Issue: Teaching With Technology
by Sarah Roberts 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Radical Teacher Special Issue: Teaching With Technology Teaching today, from K-12 through graduate school, is ubiquitously tied to digital technology. From K-12 through graduate school, today's classroom is increasingly digital, and the call to make it more so grows. Institutional resources are increasingly directed toward classroom digital initiatives, libraries are merged with academic computing departments, and the instructional technologist has begun to occupy a central role on many campuses. New degree programs are popping up, and digital humanities is a newly, yet nebulously, defined discipline. As economic crisis continues to hold the country in its grip for a second year (at least), teachers and students are subjected to additional pressure to make themselves "competitive" as workers in a narrowly defined marketplace that demands technological skills as an end rather than a means to education. Much has already been published about the use of technology in the classroom, including a 2002 cluster of articles in Radical Teacher. It is unlikely that we will see any real decoupling of technology from teaching and learning in our future or lifetime, any more so than it is likely that we see it in any other aspect of our society. or culture at large. Given the fact that ignoring or rejecting technology wholesale is not a viable or palatable option for most of us, we must therefore continue to actively think about use the its use, of it, insist on approaching it with a critical eye, and ask questions at every turn about whose interests are being served, who benefits from our implementation of technology, and why when we choose to engage with technology in teaching and learning. Radical Teacher, the independent magazine for educational workers at all levels and in every kind of institution focusing on critical teaching practice, the political economy of education, and institutional struggles, solicits articles for an upcoming special issue devoted to teaching and technology. We welcome articles that focus centrally on critiques of teaching and technology, problematizations of technology, both in the classroom and at a macro, institutional level, and articles that contribute to an increasing understanding of how to use technology for radical political change and resistance in a range of settings. We are especially interested in discussions of ways such work, when addressed in educational contexts, deepens students' understanding of the social realities that affect their lives and shapes their willed ability to intervene in these realities. Focused on teaching and anchored in concrete examples, articles may concern an entire course, a unit within a course, or a project that takes place outside the traditional classroom. We especially invite submissions from contingent faculty, graduate students, librarians, and academic technologists who are often particularly marshaled in support of digital teaching initiatives. Possible topics might include: • Classroom deployments of digital tools such as blogs and microblogs (e.g., Twitter), wikis, video, and other digital and new media technologies to enhance or encourage radical teaching. • The implications of changing forms of digital labor in the academic environment, including demands to build technology skills, learn software packages, contribute intellectual material to university-owned and/or commercial databases, creating and populating online learning environments, etc. • How to harness technologies for their empowering potential, including supporting and training students to be active users of technology. • Commodification of intellectual material, including the modularization and "just in time" delivery of teaching material via commercial courseware on university-owned servers. • The surveillance and control of teachers and students when learning takes place in digital environments. • The ethical implications of the underlying political and ethical logics we teach when we use technology in our instruction and research. • Limitations on material and other types of access; or when "One Laptop Per Child" is simply not enough. • Demands on instructors to provide vocational training for careers to students; training them to use commercial software packages and delivering a labor force that skilled in technology, as opposed to having support, space and resources for the teaching of academic material. • The lopsided funding of technology projects over all else in academic institutions over the past decade and a half, and the collusion of academic institutions with high-tech business on joint ventures and for-profit activities. • The relationship between contingent labor and on-line teaching. • The relationship between technology and assessment. • Classroom and institutional use of open source and noncommercial softwares (e.g., Drupal) as alternatives to privatized and for-profit technologies. Inquiries, proposals, and drafts should be sent to Emily Drabinski, J. Elizabeth Clark and Sarah Roberts, editors, at emily.drabinski(a)liu.edu. Completed submissions are due September 15, 2010. Essays for Radical Teacher should be approximately 4,000 to 5,000 words and written in accessible prose. For more information, see "Submission Guidelines," http://www.radicalteacher.org/submit.asp. Radical Teacher is published by the University of Illinois Press. CFP available here: http://www.radicalteacher.org/calls.asp Please circulate widely. --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Doctoral Student and Fellow, Information in Society Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/infosociety/

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Reminder: Final Call for Paying Attention - 6-10 September, 2010
by Nick Triggs 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

‘Paying Attention’ – 6-10 September, Linköping, Sweden The Digital Cultures Research Centre (University of the West of England) invites final submissions for this exciting conference by May 1st. Paying Attention is concerned with the politics of search and its power to shape the digital media cultures of the web-native generation. Keynote presentations will be given by leading commentators in debates around “playbour,” the attention economy, critical media arts practice and peer-to-peer. This significant and timely trans-disciplinary intervention is convened as part of the European Science Foundations Humanities and Social Sciences conference program for 2010. The conference web application is at www.esf.org/conferences/10316<http://www.esf.org/conferences/10316>. The conference fee of €730 includes registration, accommodation, full board and conference reception, dinner and excursion. Please also note that the conference has substantial funds available to support part or all of these costs of attending. Professor Jonathan Dovey, Director and Patrick Crogan Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol

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Pre-Registration MEA Convention Maine June 10-13, 2010
by Janet Sternberg 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Pre-registration Announcement for the Media Ecology Association 2010 Annual Convention June 10-13, 2010 University of Maine Orono, Maine Theme: Media Ecology and Natural Environments Pre-registration for the 2010 MEA Convention is now officially open! We have a terrific line-up that you won’t want to miss. Our plenary speakers include Don Ihde, Mary Catheron Bateson, Chet Bowers, Urusla Hiese, and Andrea Polli. To take advantage of the early registration fee (for MEA members only), go to the MEA website (http://www.media-ecology.org/) and click on the convention link on the left side of the screen. You’ll find the link to the pre-registration form on the top right of the convention page. Please fill out the entire form, making sure to indicate if you would like to participate in the Saturday evening excursion to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park (the cost for the tour is $25, which we’ll collect prior to the excursion; dinner’s at your own cost). Please sign up early, so we can make sure we have enough buses to accommodate everyone. We’d appreciate if you would also select your meal preference for the Friday night banquet (cost is included in your convention fees). Unless you are a sustaining member, you should use the Electronic Payment link to pay your convention registration fee online. If you decide to stay on-campus (the Edith Patch Hall is a comfortable suite-style residence just a few minutes walk from the convention venues), please also make sure to click on the Campus Housing Registration Form link. You should complete and mail or fax the form directly to the University of Maine’s Conference Services no later than June 1 (Fax: 207-581-4097). Off-campus housing is available at the University Inn Academic Suites (http://www.universityinnorono.com/) about one mile away, where a block of rooms has been reserved until May 15, and the Best Western Black Bear Inn (http://www.blackbearinnorono.com/) about 2.5 miles away. Note: for those of you wanting to make arrangements for travel and accommodations, the convention is scheduled to begin at 9 am on Thursday, June 10 and to end at 2:30 on Sunday, June 13. A detailed program will be available on the convention webpage page by May 1. For any other questions or information, please contact convention co-coordinators Paul Grosswiler (paulg(a)maine.edu) or Ellen Rose (erose(a)unb.ca) http://www.media-ecology.org

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videos of wikipedia research conference now available online
by geert lovink 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

SESSION 1 http://vimeo.com/10605801 Ramon Reichert (AT) Rethinking Wikipedia: Power, Knowledge and the Technologies of the Self http://vimeo.com/10606220 Jeanette Hofmann (DE) Wikipedia between Emancipation and Self-Regulation http://vimeo.com/10606547 Mathieu O’Neil (FR/AU) The Critique of Law in Free Online Projects http://vimeo.com/10696489 Gerard Wormser(FR) The Knowledge Bar SESSION 2 http://vimeo.com/10607993 Joseph Reagle (USA) Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Anxiety http://vimeo.com/10608291 Charles van den Heuvel (NL) Authoritative Annotations, Encyclopedia Universalis Mundaneum, Wikipedia and the Stanford Encycloped http://vimeo.com/10697853 Dan O’Sullivan (UK) An Encyclopedia for the Times: Thoughts on Wikipedia from a His- torical Perspective http://vimeo.com/10699949 Alan Shapiro (USA/DE) Gustave Flaubert Laughs at Wikipedia http://www.vimeo.com/10607690 Discussion session 2 Encyclopedia Histories Moderaror: Nathaniel Tkacz Speakers: Joseph Reagle, Charles van den Heuvel, Dan O'Sullivan, Alan Shapiro SESSION 3 http://www.vimeo.com/10701587 Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL) Wiki Loves Art http://www.vimeo.com/10702729 Scott Kildall (USA) Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act http://vimeo.com/10741921 Patrick Lichty (USA) Social Media, Cultural Scaffolds, and Molecular Hegemonies. Musings on Anarchic Media, WIKIs, and De-territorialized Art http://www.vimeo.com/10607690 Discussion session 3 Wiki Art Moderator: Rachel Somers Miles Speakers: Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Scott Kildall, Patrick Lichty SESSION 4 http://vimeo.com/10747211 Felipe Ortega (ES) New Trends in the Evolution of Wikipedia http://vimeo.com/10748335 Stuart Geiger (USA) Bot Politics: The Domination, Subversion, and Negotiation of Code in Wikipedia http://vimeo.com/10748727 Hans Varghese Mathews (IN) Clustering the Contributors to a Wikipedia Page http://vimeo.com/10748888 Esther Weltevrede (NL) and Erik Borra (BE/NL) Controversy Analysis with Wikipedia http://www.vimeo.com/10749027 Discussion session 4 Wiki Analytics Moderator: NIshant Shah Speakers: Felipe Ortega, Stuart Geiger, Hans Varghese Mathews, Esther Weltevrede & Erik Borra SESSION 5 http://vimeo.com/10750350 Lawrence Liang (IN) Wikipedia and the authority of knowledge http://vimeo.com/10750495 Teemu Mikkonen (FI) Kosovo War on Wikipedia, Tracing the Conflict and Concensus on the Wikipedia Talk pages http://vimeo.com/10799887 Andrew Famiglietti (USA) Negotiating the Neutral Point of View: Politics and the Moral Economy of Wikipedia http://vimeo.com/10772241 Florian Cramer(DE/NL) The German WikiWars and the limits of objectivism http://www.vimeo.com/10799600 Discussion session 5 Designing Debate Moderator: Caroline Nevejan Speakers: Lawrence Liang, Teemu Mikkonen, Andrew Famiglietti, Florian Cramer SESSION 6 http://vimeo.com/10772313 Mayo Fuster Morell (IT) Wikimedia Governance: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization http://vimeo.com/10800562 Athina Karatzogianni (UK) Wikipedia’s Impact on the Global Power-Knowledge Hierarchies http://vimeo.com/10800100 Maja van der Velden (NL/NO) When Knowledges Meet: Database Design and the Performance of Knowledge http://vimeo.com/10800206 Amit Basole (IN) Knowledge Satyagraha: Towards a People’s Knowledge Movement http://www.vimeo.com/10800354 Discussion session 6 Global Issues and Outlooks Moderator: Johanna Niesyto Speakers: Mayo Fuster Morell, Athina Karatzogianni, Maja van der Velden, Amit Basole

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Cases of police as friends on facebook.
by Peter Timusk 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Does any one in legal studies or others, of course, know of law cases where facebook was involved for gathering law enforcement intelligence and or evidence? Not news stories I am looking for cases before a court with written judgements. I do not have access to a case law search service these days as I am no longer studying law. A number of protest students ( this is what I will call them) were just friended by three persons they don't know. Of course, some of these students added the person as a friend because they seemed to have so many mutual friends. The power of social networks eh? I would be interested in what judges have thought of this. The law tends to be behind on tech. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.

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