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New Sample Available Datasets on PCAT - Coding Comments From YouTube or other Web 2.0 Platforms
by Stuart Shulman 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

We have posted a variety of new sample datasets on PCAT ( http://pcat.qdap.net) for researchers who want to experiment with comment analysis. The datasets were compiled using the "InfoExtractor" tool built by Chirag Shah. PCAT is a free text analysis platform that allows you or your team to search, sort, filter & classify the items in a dataset. Further, PCAT has on-board tools for the measurement of inter-coder reliability and validity, generating tag-clouds, and lots of other nifty stuff. If you decise the techniques are useful, using InfoExtractor ( http://www.infoextractor.org) you can go into YouTube, news sites, or blogs to scrape off the comments that you want to study in an XML format that uploads easily into PCAT. These new samples are already posted under "Sample Datasets" when you create a new account: - Climate Change - Climate Change (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=8> - HOME (English with subtitles) (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=9> - How It All Ends (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=10> - Global Warming 101 (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=11> - Global Warming (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=12> - Gulf Oil Spill - Gulf Coast Oil Spill In-Situ Burn (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=13> - Ocean currents likely to carry oil spill to Atlantic (841 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=14> - BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=15> - NASA | Satellites View Growing Gulf Oil Spil (999 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=16> - New Underwater footage of BP oil leak at the source (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=17> - Immigration - President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=18> - Shakira Speaks Out Against Arizona Immigration Law (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=19> - Gabriella Speaks City Council Meeting April 27, 2010 (847 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=20> - Response to President Calderon (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=21> - Illegals Threaten To Murder Americans With Axes and Shovels (1000 items) <https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=22> - Job Market - Video Essay: Jobless in America (50 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=23> - Veterans Jobless Rate Doubles Civilians (97 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=24> - First Person: Being Unemployed Is 'Devastating' (142 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=25> - The Truth About the Economy: Total Collapse (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=26> To try it out, set up a free account at http://pcat.qdap.net. There is a 9 minute PCAT overview video online at: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZDczNmE3Mz -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Siyuan Yin via LinkedIn 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

LinkedIn ------------Siyuan Yin requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: ------------------------------------------ Cristina, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Siyuan Accept invitation from Siyuan Yin http://www.linkedin.com/e/-xdbcsw-gdzh578b-1p/YtWwTimNwHQ3MlNSWtgG6tiAwDFl0… View invitation from Siyuan Yin http://www.linkedin.com/e/-xdbcsw-gdzh578b-1p/YtWwTimNwHQ3MlNSWtgG6tiAwDFl0… -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corporation

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A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (release date)
by johnny ryan 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Dear Colleagues, This is a message to announce the Release Date of 'A History of the Internet and the Digital Future' ... Release in the UK and Ireland by Reaktion Books on 20 October 2010, and in the United States by the University of Chicago Press on 15 November 2010. I am delighted to report that Marc Benioff (Chairman and founder of Salesforce.com) Prof Tim Wu (Columbia Law School), and Prof Jonathan Zittrain (Berkman Centre, Harvard Law School) have endorsed the book. Other endorsements come from Suzanne Dirks (Leader, Global Centre for Economic Development, IBM Institute for Business Value) and Phil Madsen (online politics pioneer and manager of the Jesse Ventura campaign '98). Read their endorsements at the pre-order link on AMAZON.COM http://t.co/P9sxD1x This book relies on primary material and first hand interviews and may be of interest to AIR readers. Here is a little of what to expect in the book (summary blurb): A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. In the coming years, platforms such as the iPhone and Android rise or fall depending on their treading the line between proprietary control and open innovation. The trends of the past may hold out hope for the record and newspaper industry. From the government-controlled systems of the ColdWar to today's move towards cloud computing, user-driven content and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future. Johnny Ryan -- A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (my next book) http://johnnyryan.wordpress.com/books/net-history-2010/ London: Reaktion, 20 September 2010 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 20 November 2010 Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1

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CFP: Workshop on IS and Environmentally Sustainable Development
by Catherine Dwyer 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Call for participation: Workshop on Information Systems and Environmentally Sustainable Development http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/SIGGreen/default.htm Activities: Virtual Online Workshop: November 12, 2010 (Web site TBA) Pre-ICIS Workshop, Saint Louis, MO December 11, 2010 ICIS (http://icis2010.aisnet.org/) is the premier international conference for Information Systems. Theme: In the March 2010 issue of MISQ, Watson, Boudreau and Chenpresent a call to arms for information systems to address environmental sustainability. “Specifically, as IS researchers, educators, journal editors, and association leaders, we need to demonstrate how the transformative power of IS can be leveraged to create an ecologically sustainable society,” (p. 23). Inspiration for this program comes from the growing body of work published in this area by IS scholars, but particularly the Watson et al. paper is recommended reading for those intending to participate.The objective of this program of activities is to use the Watson et al. paper as a manifesto to generate directions and goals for the newly formed AIS special interest group SIGGreen (http://siggreen.wikispaces.com/) Participants in this workshop are encouraged to employ this paper as a guide for writing opinion pieces, critical overviews, calls for action, taxonomies, frameworks etc, for one or more of the various IS roles described in the paper (i.e., researcher, educator etc). We call for abstract (300-500 words) on any aspects of the Theme as indicated above. Note these should not be reports on specific research projects. Acceptance of abstracts will be determined by the chairs in consultation with an editorial panel and based on quality and relevance to the Theme and the aims of SIGGreen. Abstracts due: October 8, 2010, sent via email to SIGGreenWorkshop AT gmail [dot] com Workshop Chairs: Cathy Dwyer (cdwyer(a)pace.edu) and Helen Hasan (hasan(a)uow.edu.au) Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer http://twitter.com/ProfCDwyer Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #225 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728

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FW: FW: [JoCI] New Issue: Special Double Issue: Gender in Community Informatics
by Michael Gurstein 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Sorry for any duplication but this originally went out during the summer when a lot of those who might have an interest had more important things to be doing than checking their emails ;-) Best, Mike Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. This is a special issue of the Journal on Community Informatics and Gender edited by Anita Gurumurthy. The numbering for this should be Vol. 5 No. 3 and Vol. 6 No. 1. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. You are invited to subscribe to the Community Informatics elist by sending an email to: sympa(a)vcn.bc.ca message: subscribe ciresearchers Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver CANADA gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Community Informatics & Gender (Special Double Issue) Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/26 Editorial -------- Editorial: Community Informatics and Gender Michael Gurstein Gender in Community Informatics : Guest Editorial for the special issue on Gender and Community Informatics Anita Gurumurthy Articles -------- 89.1 FM: The Place for Development: Power shifts and participatory spaces in ICTD Revi Sterling, Sophia Huyer Gender digital equality in ICT interventions in health: Evidence from IDRC supported projects in developing countries Kathleen Flynn-Dapaah, Ahmed Tareq Rashid Women Forge Ahead in India: Internet and the Public Forum Kavita Karan, Dr. Rohit Raj Mathur Technicians, Tacticians and Tattlers: Women as Innovators and Change Agents in Community Technology Projects Helen McQuillan Economic and Social Empowerment of Women Through ICT: A Case Study of Palestine Khalid Said Rabayah Women at Work and Home: New Technologies and Labor among Minority Women in Seelampur Sreela Sarkar Gender and GIS: Mapping the Links between Spatial Exclusion, Transport Access, and the Millennium Development Goals in Lesotho, Ethiopia, and Ghana Wendy M Walker, Shalini P Vajjhala Village Phone Program, Commodification Of Mobile Phone Set And Empowerment Of Women Quamrul Alam, Mohammad Abu Yusuf, Ken Coghill The Digital Divide and Gender: A Survey of Environmental Community Organizations in Perth, Western Australia Subas Prasad Dhakal Case Studies -------- Cultivating the Women on Farms Gathering Community: A Digital Approach Natalie Lee-San Pang Internet, power and politics: gender & ICTs in the movement against CAFTA Margarita Salas Rural e-governance: Exploring the gender gaps and its impact on women(A case study of e-gram suraj scheme of Chhattisgarh State of India) Anupama Saxena Notes from the field -------- Creating Community, Rejecting Community: Migrant Women in Beijing Elisa Oreglia Notes and cases from the field (practitioners) -------- Gender Experiences in IT@School, an ICT enabled education project of Kerala, India P R Raji, Arun M Reports -------- Engendering ICTs: Scope for Empowering women, with special reference to India Dilip Dumar Ghosh, ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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UW-Milwaukee IMLS-Funding Opportunity for New PhD Students
by Daniel Rude 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has recently been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21 st Century Librarian Program grant to enhance library and information science education and to help develop library leaders. The SOIS grant program, entitled “Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A): Educating the Next Generation of Library and Information Science Leaders,” addresses the need for new PhDs in SOIS’ three key areas of doctoral study: information organization , information policy and information retrieval . SOIS is currently seeking applications for six funded full-time doctoral positions under this grant program for fall 2011. Participants in the B2A program will receive three or four years of funding to cover tuition, a generous annual stipend/scholarship, research and teaching opportunities, resources to support their research and travel, and mentoring from SOIS faculty members during their studies. For more information about the B2A program, please see the program website: http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/programs/phd/b2a.cfm . For more information on SOIS and UWM, please see our new website: http://www.sois.uwm.edu . -- Daniel Rude Communications Assistant School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414.229.3206

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Tenure Track Asst Professor position
by Reynolds, Jan 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION The University of Tulsa The University of Tulsa's Faculty of Communication invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor. We seek candidates with scholarly expertise in one or more of the following areas: new media use within organizations; critical and/or historical approaches to new media forms; rhetorical approaches to the study of new media. Candidates should have completed PhD requirements by August 10, 2011. Review of applications will begin October 18, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. Please send curriculum vita, at least three letters of reference, evidence of teaching effectiveness, description of research and teaching agenda, writing sample, graduate transcript, and cover letter to: Dr. Joli Jensen, Search Committee Chair, Faculty of Communication, The University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189. The University of Tulsa is an EEO/AA Employer.

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International Literacy Day (8 September): from UNESCO
by Monica Murero 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Dear Friends and AoIR Colleagues, FYI: UNESCO launches today the new Knowledge and Innovations Network for Literacy (KINL) that offers access to best practices and projects aimed at improving literacy that in many cases are based on ICT solutions in developing countries (mainly but not limited to) . Researchers and pratictioner can link up and share information. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/international_… Best, Monica Murero -------------------- AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009 Director E-Life International Institute Associate Professor in Politics of e-government and in Sociology of New Technology, Unina, Italy

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FW: Blogpost: Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone?
by Michael Gurstein 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

This may be of interest in the context of the discussion on e-Gov/Gov. 2.0 etc. It has been quite widely tweeted/blogged over the last couple of days. Mike Efforts to extend access to "data" will perhaps inevitably create a "data divide" parallel to the oft-discussed "digital divide" between those who have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and those who don't. Associated with this will one can assume, be many of the same background conditions which have been identified as likely reasons for the digital divide-that is differences in income, education, literacy and so on. However, just as with the "digital divide", these divisions don't simply stop or be resolved with the provision of digital (or data) "access". What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided are in a position to actually make use of the now available access (to the Internet or to data) in ways that are meaningful and beneficial for them. http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowered- or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/ Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Director: Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (CCIRDT) Vancouver, CANADA http://www.communityinformatics.net Cape Town, SA (in conjunction with Izandla Zethu SA) http://www.izandlazethu.co.za/ Now blogging at http://gurstein.wordpress.com/

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CFP – Zombies in the Academy book anthology
by Chris Moore 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Call for papers: book chapters for the interdisciplinary anthology “Zombies in the Academy: living death in higher education” Editors: Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker This book takes up the momentum provided by the recent resurgence of interest in zombie culture to explore the relevance of the zombie trope to discussions of scholarly practice itself. The zombie is an extraordinarily rich and evocative popular cultural form, and zombidity, zombification and necromancy can function as compelling elements in a conceptual repertoire for both explaining and critically ‘enlivening’ the debates around a broad variety of cultural and institutional phenomena evident in the contemporary university. We propose to canvas a range of critical accounts of the contemporary university as a living dead culture. We are therefore seeking interdisciplinary proposals for papers that investigate the political, cultural, organisational, and pedagogical state of the university, through applying the metaphor of zombiedom to both the form and content of professional academic work. We invite submissions from a range of scholars - notably in cultural and communication studies, but also popular culture, anthropology, sociology, film, game and literary studies, political science, philosophy and education - who would be prepared to submit chapters that examine the zombie trope and its relation to higher education from a variety of perspectives. The editors of “Zombies in the Academy” have an agreement for publication with Intellect Press UK for 2012. The anthology will be structured in three sections around the broad general topics of: 1. corporatisation, bureaucratisation, and zombification of higher education; 2. technology, digital media and moribund content distribution infecting the university; 3. zombie literacies and living dead pedagogies. Paper proposals that would fit into these sections would include essays that might: • investigate the current conditions of the academy under pressure from the ‘zombie processes’ variously described as ‘audit culture’ or the ‘McDonaldisation’ of higher education; • explore the uncanny value of the figure of the zombie as a component in critical pedagogical accounts (zombie concepts, undead labour in Marxist theory etc.), including in such accounts as they are applied to the university itself; • analyse the theme of zombies and the academic gaze through the narratives and mechanics of particular films, games, texts or graphic novels; • name the attenuated conditions of work in the sector with reference to its various forms of ‘zombidity’; • evaluate the perceived decomposition of academic standards; • discuss the zombie contagion model as an explanatory device for the circulation of content across multiple media platforms, including into and out of the classroom; • explore pedagogical activities that use or reflect zombie content; • critically investigate the rise of ‘zombie literacies’ - as an epidemic circulated by an unthinking student horde, and/or the undead ivory tower itself; • address the corpse like inertia and atavism of academic distinction and social closure (journal rankings, peer review, tenure etc.) in the face of the apparently ‘lifelike’ models of research production beyond the walls of the academy; • reassess the metaphor of zombiedom, considering how it can be construed not only as a negative critique, but also as a possibly desirable, advantageous or alternative adaptive strategy in academic contexts. Abstracts for proposed book chapters should be 1000 words. Authors are asked to include brief biographical details along with their proposals, including name, academic affiliation and previous publications. Deadline for submissions is 15th December 2010. Please select the most appropriate book section theme for your paper, and submit proposals as an emailed .doc attachment to the following editors: For papers on the corporatisation and zombification of higher education: - Andrew Whelan, PhD. Department of Sociology, Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong. Email: awhelan(a)uow.edu.au For papers on technology, digital media and contagion: - Chris Moore, PhD. Centre for Memory, Imagination & Invention, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University. Email: moorenet(a)gmail.com For papers on zombie literacies and pedagogies: - Ruth Walker, PhD. Learning Development, University of Wollongong. Email: rwalker(a)uow.edu.au Anticipated timeline: - proposals due December 15th 2010 (1000 words) - contributors notified January 15th 2011 - chapters due July 1st 2011 (6,000 - 9,000 words) - edited full manuscript to publishers December 2011 - book publication 2012 -- Dr Christopher Moore Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway Burwood VIC 3125 Australia c.moore(a)deakin.edu.au moorenet(a)gmail.com 03 9244 6438 Twitter: CL_Moore Scribd: Moorenet

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