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by Aldon Hynes 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

http://maycock66.blogsany.com/08/03/ahynes1-them-exactly-as-prescribed-.html

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Announcing 140Kit: Presenting 140Kit An Open, Extensible Research Platform for Twitter
by Alex Leavitt 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Hello fellow AoIR-ers, I'm happy to announce the release of *140Kit*: a simple, free-to-use, open research platform for pulling data from Twitter, built by some awesome members of the Web Ecology Project (known previously for studies of the Iranian election on Twitter, the Twitter reactions to Michael Jackson's death, and a recent initial examination of ChatRoulette). Our release follows. *Presenting 140Kit An Open, Extensible Research Platform for Twitter by Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, Max Darham, and Max Nanis* *http://140kit.com/* <http://140kit.com/> Hello world. It’s been awhile since the Web Ecology community last made a peep on the web. Some had been speculating that we had simply up and disappeared, but reports of our demise were greatly exaggerated, as they say. In any case, thanks to the completely amazing work of our affiliate researchers at Bennington, we’re glad today to announce the public launch of 140Kit, Web Ecology’s very own free-to-use toolkit for exploring and data mining Twitter. It’s the final product of the various provisional tools we’ve used to produce our previous reports on the social phenomena of Twitter, and of lead researcher Devin Gaffney’s own work on high throughput humanities. So what does it do? Notably: * It enables complete data pulls for a set of users or terms on Twitter, with searches running continuously. * The ability to download those data pulls in raw form to use for whatever you please. * The ability to stand on the shoulders of giants by mixing and matching existing data pulls to generate entirely new combinations of data and analysis. * And the ability to instantaneously generate basic visualizations around the data (term use, inequality of participation, etc). * Best of all, we are making this platform open and free to use for all interested users*. This includes opening up an API for queries of all sorts, an honest, open, and editable codebase, and plans already in the works to make the program extensible to allow developers to write their own analytics for the kit, on whatever sort of metrics in whatever programming language (stay tuned for details). So, get in there and play, people. And let us know if you have any questions: contact(a)webecologyproject.org You can find this release at: http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/07/presenting-140kit/ Or via this convenient bit.ly: http://bit.ly/b8ZRRo<http://bit.ly/b8ZRRo%29> Also, be awesome and retweet our Twitter announcement: http://twitter.com/WebEcology/status/17506734698 We'd love you to forward this out to any colleagues, researchers, friends, or even media outlets that you feel would be interested! Thanks for keeping the internet cool, Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Researcher Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) Microsoft New England Research & Development http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt

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Re: [Air-L] Studying online community
by Scott MacLeod 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }I added these here: http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Norms.2C_Conventions.2C… [1] (Not sure why this list garbles my emails; no other lists do). Scott Scott MacLeod World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University POB 442 86 Ridgecrest Rd. Canyon, CA 94516 415 480 4577 http://scottmacleod.com scott(a)scottmacleod.com On Sun 27/06/10 2:09 PM , Caroline Haythornthwaite haythorn(a)illinois.edu sent: Let's start you off with some recent collections from AoIR members. The 2010 American Behavioral Scientist issue in particular is on target for your interests. /Caroline Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (Eds.) (2008). Special issue of papers selected from the 2007 AoIR conference. Information, Communication and Society, 11(2), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2009). AoIR Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 12(3), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). AoIR Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 13(3), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). Internet and Community. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(8), whole issue. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:22:26 +0300 >From: Annamari Martinviita >Subject: [Air-L] Studying online community >To: > >Hello everyone, > >I'm just getting started on my PhD studies, unfunded as yet, regarding >new social technologies and online communities and would really >appreciate any hints, tips and advice members of this list may have on >good information sources, relevant publications, events and so on. > >Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how communities extend from the >online to the offline and vice versa, how participation in online >communities becomes part of every-day life, how the lines between >offline and online communication and relationship building are blurred >as access to online social tools becomes ubiquitous. More specifically, >I am looking at how new social technologies affect local communities and >what developers should take into consideration while creating new tools >with a view of fostering online community. I hope to come up with >results that offer an insight into how the concept of community is >changing for members of a hyper-connected society, and the implications >of that change for local communities. My research approach is ethnographic. > >It would be great to hear from others with similar interests, and also >perhaps to discover fellow "sufferers" at similar stages of their >academic careers, for a bit of mutual support and encouragement. :) Of >course, any advice would be hugely appreciated! > >Best regards, > >Annamari Martinviita >PhD student >University of Oulu, Finland > >_______________________________________________ >The 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/ -------------------------------------- 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 () _______________________________________________ The 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/ Links: ------ [1] http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Norms.2C_Conventions.2C…

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6th European Symposium on Gender and ICT - call for contributions
by Anna Croon Fors 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

My apologies for cross-postings First call for contributions: 6th European Symposium on Gender & ICT - Feminist Interventions in Theories and Practices Umeå University, Sweden, March 8 - 10, 2011 Information Technology is everywhere, shaping the way we experience our lives, the world and each other. Some digital transformations reveal new possibilities for improving social conditions, while others suggest that social inequality may be increasing. In a changing society, understandings of digitalization and politics become important. Also, the performative and co-constructive nature of gender-technology-work relations points to the importance of paying attention to many kinds of actors (elements) in understanding ICT. As such one of the pressing questions to contemporary gender and feminist research is: How does gender and feminist research intervene in and contribute to new directions and sustainable futures of ICT- based practices? The 6th European Gender and ICT Symposium we will take a closer look at some of the challenges emerging in contemporary society related to new configurations of bodies and technologies. The conference reflects the diversity of gender studies, incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on information and communication technologies, digital artefacts and systems. Once central focus is on the ways imagination, knowledge and politics intervene with gendered practices in contemporary societies. The theme for the symposium is Feminist Interventions in Theories and Practices seeking contributions that advance our understanding of how gender and feminist research can contribute to sustainable futures of ICT-based practices.We invite you to share your experiences! Submission of abstracts by October 1, 2010. Submission of full papers by January 15, 2011 For more details, see http://gict2011.informatik.umu.se Program chair Dr. Anna Croon Fors Conference organisation Anna Croon Fors, Karin Danielsson Öberg, Pirjo Elovaara, Maria Jansson, Annakarin Nyberg, Christina Mörtberg, Johanna Sefyrin, Eva Svedmark Ikonomidis Department of Informatics Umeå University Sweden Phone +46 90 786 61 35 Fax +46 90 786 65 50

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