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

Q: Twitter text logs?
by Friedman Doron 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

Hi, Can anyone point us to authentic data from twitter that can be used for research purposes? We are looking for sub-networks of followers, and a set of texts generated by users that belong to the network. Alternatively status messages from Facebook with the corresponding friendship graphs can be useful as well. of course, the actual usernames can be encrypted for privacy. Of course we will give full credit to whoever has been able to harvest such data and make it available to the research community. Thanks! - doron ==================== Dr. Doron Friedman Lecturer, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel) & Honorary Lecturer, University College London Mobile: +972-54-4461807 Office: +972-9-9527654 http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl

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Fwd: Please complete survey on cataloging/describing of archival sound recordings
by Meryl Krieger 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Passing this on as some of you might fall into either the archivist/librarian or researcher groups - consider filling out this survey with thanks! -------------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-postings. The DACS for Archival Sound Recordings Subcommittee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is exploring current standards and guidelines used in the description of archival sound recordings with the ultimate goal of generating a new set of guidelines that will specifically address the challenges and issues faced by archivists and librarians responsible for cataloging or otherwise describing these materials. The subcommittee is conducting a survey of the problems and uncertainties currently encountered while applying existing standards and guidelines. Your participation in the survey will help the subcommittee determine the best way of shaping the new guidelines in a manner that fully addresses user needs without duplicating previous efforts by other organizations. Two surveys are available: one for providers of descriptive information about archival sound recordings (such as archivists and librarians) and the other for researchers who study, collect, and otherwise use sound recordings. Please complete one of the surveys (or both, if your activities cover both areas). Your knowledge, experience, and opinions are important. The survey should take 10-15 minutes to complete, depending on how much detail you wish to provide in your answers. Please complete the survey by May 12, 2010. Although surveys will be accepted after this date, the committee will be discussing the preliminary results during the annual ARSC meeting (May 19-22). Questions and comments about the surveys may be emailed to: rlsewald(a)gmail.com. To take a survey, click on one (or both) of the links below: For archivists, librarians, etc.: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C5YQHVC For researchers: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JKLMCD2 Thank you very much. DACS for Archival Sound Recordings Subcommittee (ARSC Cataloging Committee) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mediated Sound Group" group. To post to this group, send email to MSG-IU(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to MSG-IU+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <MSG-IU%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/MSG-IU?hl=en. -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Lab Consultant, Teaching and Learning Technology Center, Indiana University Bloomington Adjunct Instructor, Communications and Life Skills, Ivy Tech Community College Adjunct Faculty, Sociology, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Piano/Clarinet Teacher, Stafford Music Academy, Bloomington, IN http://www.linkedin.com/in/merylkrieger http://indiana.academia.edu/merylkrieger

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American Behavioral Scientist Table of Contents for 1 May 2010; Vol. 53, No. 9 (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

The May 2010 issue of the American Behavioral Scientist (53,9), "The Internet in Rural North American Life" edited by Michael J. Stern, Jessica Collins, and Barry Wellman, is now available online. (http://abs.sagepub.com/current.dtl) and will be in print in May. The papers address substantive and methodological issues of the place of the internet in daily life, in general, with a specific focus on rural places and their unique qualities. The articles focus on topics such as geographic isolation, community cohesion, social networks, technological diffusion, and challenges for survey research are addressed." 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 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:13:06 -0700 From: sage_contents_alert(a)alerts.stanford.edu To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: American Behavioral Scientist Table of Contents for 1 May 2010; Vol. 53 , No. 9 American Behavioral Scientist Online Table of Contents Alert A new issue of American Behavioral Scientist is available online: 1 May 2010; Vol. 53, No. 9 The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue9/?etoc ______________________________________________________________________________ Articles ______________________________________________________________________________ Rural and Urban Differences in the Internet Society-Real and Relatively Important Michael J. Stern and Barry Wellman American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1251-1256 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/53/9/1251 The Consequences of Personal Networks for Internet Use in Rural Areas Jeffrey Boase American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1257-1267 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1257 Community Cohesion and Canadian Rural E-Mail Behavior Derek Wilkinson American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1268-1282 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1268 The Diffusion of Internet Technologies to Rural Communities: A Portrait of Broadband Supply and Demand Brian E. Whitacre American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1283-1303 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1283 Rural-Urban Differences in General and Health-Related Internet Use Timothy M. Hale, Shelia R. Cotten, Patricia Drentea, and Melinda Goldner American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1304-1325 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1304 Internet Service Provision in the U.S. Counties: Is Spatial Pattern a Function of Demand? Lila K. Khatiwada and Kenneth E. Pigg American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1326-1343 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1326 Small Town in the Internet Society: Chapleau Is No Longer an Island Jessica L. Collins and Barry Wellman American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1344-1366 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1344 The Network in the Garden: Designing Social Media for Rural Life Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, and Christian Sandvig American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1367-1388 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1367 Do Rural Residents Really Use the Internet to Build Social Capital? An Empirical Investigation Michael J. Stern and Alison E. Adams American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1389-1422 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1389 Using the Internet to Survey Small Towns and Communities: Limitations and Possibilities in the Early 21st Century Jolene D. Smyth, Don A. Dillman, Leah Melani Christian, and Allison C. O'Neill American Behavioral Scientist 2010;53 1423-1448 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/9/1423 ______________________________________________________________________________ This message was sent to wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca. ______________________________________________________________________________ Your SAGE Journals Online login username is: wellman SAGE Contents Alert is available to anyone free of charge. Please let your colleagues know that they may sign up for this service at http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts. Don't forget to sign up for SAGE Product Alerts to receive information on new journals, books and other products of interest. 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Information Interaction in Context Doctoral Consortium
by Fred Stutzman 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Please pass along! Thanks, Fred --------------- Information Interaction in Context 2010 Doctoral Consortium http://www.iiix2010.org/ http://www.iiix2010.org/doctoral-consortium [Submissions to Doctoral Consortium are due **** April 30 , 2010 *****] [Conference August 18-22, 2010] The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect information retrieval and information seeking, how these contexts impact information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and behaviors improves the design of interactive information systems. The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to information access by bringing together members of the research communities in information seeking behavior (Behavior Track), interactive information retrieval (Interaction Track), and information retrieval system design (System Track). A list of topics of interest can be found at the conference website. A Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the main conference provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising students regarding current critical issues in their research, and 2) making students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as viewed from different perspectives. Submissions should include a short thesis description of 1,200-1,500 words and a statement of support from the applicant’s thesis advisor. Additional details (including information about how to submit) can be found at: http://www.iiix2010.org/doctoral-consortium. Submissions are due on April 30, 2010. --------------- -- Fred Stutzman Ph.D. Student and Teaching Fellow School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill fred(a)fredstutzman.com | (919) 260-8508 | http://fredstutzman.com/

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creating a unique hashtag to track a specific event
by Stephanie Jo Kent 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hi all, I have been a quasi-lurker for @6 years. I have interacted with a few of you (thanks!). Some day I imagine I'll have something substantive to contribute; to date my attempts have been diverted into other directions. Next week, a colleague and I will conduct an action research project at a conference, "The Science of Team Science." We will invite conference participants to tweet thoughts, observations, commentary, jokes, etc during the conference, in order to build a supplementary database for the authorized task of our poster session. Any suggestions on how to set this up so that the stream remains relatively 'clean'? There is probably a technical term, but what I mean is boundaried - as much as possible - to the participants of the conference. I created the hashtag #socialSTS as a test. At the moment, it does not come up in search, not even advanced search....and it is close to 'socialist' which might be a problem(?). I am supposing that if/when the number of relevant tweets increases then the twitter search engine will find them, am I correct? Or, is the scale so small (<200 people, with who knows what percentage actually participating) that I need to set up some actual architecture? (I'll be thrilled if even a few percent contribute, since this is so experimental.) Maybe bringthesocial is a better hashtag, and closer to the name of our poster/project. I've kept my own tweets private until today (I've hardly been a user at all). I thought I ought to make them public for this project? If the idea catches on, for instance, there may be people who wished they could attend the conference but couldn't.... and who might want to participate vicariously...? (Yes, call me a dreamer, grin.) I'm sure there is a range of implications I've yet to consider. If anyone knows of similar projects, or has ideas about implementing this one, I'll be grateful for the opportunity to hash this through. (Pun intended - which is not usually my style!) thanks very much, steph -- Stephanie Jo Kent Weblog: http://www.reflexivity.us email: stephanie.kent(a)fulbrightmail.org mobile: 1 (413) 824-9663 Fulbright Fellow to the European Institutions, 2008-2009 Doctoral Candidate, Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst USA Master of Education, Social Justice Education Certified American Sign Language/English Interpreter

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Couch Award DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Mark D. Johns 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2010 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15, 2010 The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch's theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, University of Indiana, Bloomington Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2010 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $500 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 20-23, 2010 in Gothenburg. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns at luther.edu Application deadline has been extended to May 15, 2010. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns at luther.edu

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Call for Guest Editor/s: Policy and Internet Special Issue (2011)
by David Sutcliffe 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Dear all, The Editorial Board of Policy and Internet is pleased to announce a call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal, to be published in spring / summer 2011. Call for Guest Editor: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=415 The journal was established in 2009 as the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy. It is edited by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The Editors are Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon and David Sutcliffe (University of Oxford). There are four issues a year, published by Berkeley Electronic Press. Proposals should be send to the editors at: mailto:policyandinternet@oii.ox.ac.uk by 1 May 2010 (see below for requirements). Proposals will be evaluated for their relevance to the Policy and Internet readership, their timeliness and their academic quality. We look forward to receiving proposals! Best wishes, David Sutcliffe Managing Editor Policy and Internet http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/ Email: policyandinternet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk ** About the Special Issue Policy and Internet aims to be the premier venue for scholars and researchers to set the public policy agenda in the digital era. The journal is multidisciplinary: perspectives from any academic discipline are welcomed, particularly political science, economics, law, sociology, information science, communications, philosophy, computer science, psychology, management, geography and medicine. Possible topics for a special issue might include (for example): 1. Cybercrime 2. Collective action and public participation in policy-making 3. Government 2.0 and beyond: peer production in government 4. Online challenges to the nation state 5. e-Health 6. Policy networks 7. Open government ** Guest Editor Responsibilities The Guest Editor/s will work in close collaboration with the editors of Policy and Internet. Duties of the Guest Editor/s will include: 1. Writing a Special Call for Papers and ensuring a wide (and targeted) release 2. Selecting and allocating reviewers for submitted and invited papers in collaboration with the journal editors 3. Selecting papers for the issue on the basis of the peer review. Guest editors are in charge of acceptance / rejection / revision and resubmission decisions and liaise closely with the editors on each of these decisions 4. Writing an Editorial to the special issue 5. Assisting the editors in preparing the issue manuscripts, in accordance with the published guidelines, so as to facilitate the publisher's work and to ensure that the issue is published to schedule 6. Ensuring that the issue is coherent, relevant and important for the discipline, and of an excellent academic standard 7. Extra assistance with the above duties can be provided, if requested. Guest Editors will not be expected to be involved in any production work. ** Special Issue Schedule 1. Special Issue proposal deadline: 1 May 2010 2. Decision: 14 May 2010 3. Special Call for Papers Issued: 1 June 2010 4. Submission Deadline: November 2010 or March 2011 5. Issue reviewed and accepted: February 2011 or May 2011 6. Issue published: April 2011 (Issue 2) or July 2011 (Issue 3) ** How to Submit a Special Issue Proposal Proposals for Special Issues must be submitted to the editors (email: policyandinternet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) by 1 May 2010, including: 1. Proposed title 2. An outline of the chosen theme, state of research in that area, timeliness and impact of special issue in academic and / or policy communities, a strategy for attracting top-quality papers, and target readership (500 words) 3. A draft Call for Papers (no more than 300 words) 4. Names, affiliations, contact details, short biographical information about the proposed Guest Editor/s, and Curriculum Vitae 5. Please contact the editors if you have any enquiries about the call or the journal. [Call Issued: 30 March 2010] Policy and Internet Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/ Email: mailto:policyandinternet@oii.ox.ac.uk

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Library of Congress Acquires Entire (Public) Twitter Archive
by Michael Zimmer 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

For those who haven't already seen the news, the Library of Congress announced today that they are acquiring the entire archive of public Twitter activity since March 2006: Library of Congress Announcement: How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Twitter Announcement: Tweet Preservation http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html And my initial probe of various open concerns: Open Questions about Library of Congress Archiving Twitter Streams http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/04/14/open-questions-about-library-of-congres… -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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New Media Theory conference on Twitter
by Johnson, T 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

The Convergence Media Center, in conjunction with the Comm Tech Division of AEJMC, is co-sponsoring the New Media Theory conference in Lubbock tomorrow. If you can't make it to Lubbock, you can follow us through Twitter at #techconverge10

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LOC Twitter Archive, Deja all over again?
by Jay Hauben 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, Richard Forno's comment reminded me that when Google bought the Deja Usenet archive the same issues were raised. All the voluntary, often spontaneous 'my-2-cents' comments suddenly became a profile for each user even though by the Berne Convention these were copyright by the poster and required permission for commercial (ie Google) use. For anyone interested in this history, it is told at there URLs: 1. Ronda Hauben, "Culture Clash:The Google Purchase of the 1995-2001 Usenet Archive And the Online Community", Telepolis, February 21, 2001. http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/7013/1.html 2.Ronda Hauben,"Commodifying Usenet and the Usenet Archive or Continuing the Online Cooperative Usenet Culture?", Science Studies 15:(2002), p.61-68. http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/usenetstts.pdf 3. Google Obscures Decision Making Processes http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=386… 4. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Take care. Jay ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:15:19 -0400 > From: Richard Forno <rforno(a)infowarrior.org> > To: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> > Cc: Aoir AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Library of Congress Acquires Entire (Public) > Twitter Archive > Message-ID: <99336861-1D25-4726-B1EC-26D14523E18D(a)infowarrior.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Donning my privacy hat for a minute .... > > I'm not exactly enthused by this idea, especially w/o Twitter/LOC giving folks the option to purge their tweets or clean up their streams that will appear under (in many cases) their real names for all posterity. Granted, that would undermine the purpose of collecting the entire "Twitterspace" for the LOC's stated purposes, but how many non-geekish Twitterati will be upset/incensed/enraged that their stuff is now a matter of permanent public record at the world's largest library? (Obviously, the whole "you-were-warned-and-should-have-known-what-you-were-getting-into-and/or-doing" rationale can apply in many cases.) > > Yes, there's "social networking" as a general concept, and I'll endorse it completely. But I'll also suggest there's derivatives to that concept called "public" social networking (ie, anyone can read/post, the owner doesn't care) and "private" social networking (ie, the owner uses and restricts their activities on a given SNS within their private social circles.) Certainly, Twitter can facilitate online interaction --- but bravo to those savvy enough to make their Twitter streams private/friends-only at the time they set up their accounts. > > Would the LOC do the same thing witih IRC chat logs? IRC is pretty much Twitter-esque. Or is that too daunting a task because *anyone* can throw up and run an IRC server, but Twitter is a centralised repository and thus an easy thing to try and archive? > > Doffing privacy hat now. > > -rf >

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