March 2011 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

twitter useless to study?
by Barry Wellman 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

As an object of study, its hard to do quant analysis of Twitter now because so much of it is spam (unless you're studying spam, that is). And even qualitative analyses will have to be careful. Our 2 Twitterology papers got into the sweet spot when Twitter was an appreciable size but before spam dominated (about 80% of my new would-be Followers) OTOH, I find Twitter useful for research leads -- such as the Atlantic article a tweep broadcast today about how the Internet almost fractured -- or Zeynep et al's (@techsoc) discussion of social media and MENA revolutions. 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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No more thank you's !
by Sue Thomas 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

A colleague has emailed to object to the stream of thank you's from me. The reason I'm sending them is that although I asked people to reply to me backchannel, lots of you replied to the list, which made me assume you wanted the conversation to be public. But I agree that, due to the high number of responses my thanks are getting very spammy, so please note that from now on I will only reply to you back-channel. Best Sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

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CFP: Workshop on Interdependent Networks at the 22nd ACM Hypertext 2011
by Claudia Muller-Birn 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

* Apologies for cross-posting * ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CFP: Workshop on Interdependent Networks: Quality, Influence and Evolution in Social and Information Networks (WIN2011) at the 22nd ACM Hypertext 2011 which will be held in Eindhoven, NL on June 6-9 2011. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ht2011win/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The emergence of new social technologies has not only changed our everyday life but also has led to new forms of collective information goods such as media collections, commentary and software. Innovative online production systems have been designed for people to share their ideas, their experiences and their knowledge enabling the collaborative production of such information goods. The nature of these collective information goods produced using online production systems ranges from pooled information (e.g., Flickr, del.icio.us, Slashdot) to structured information (e.g., Wikipedia, Factual.com) and tightly coupled information (e.g., open source software). This spectrum describes both the coupling of the components of an information good as well as to what extent certain coordination, communication and collaboration processes between participants were required to develop this good. Concretely, these information goods consist of a social dimension which comprises links between people based on their interactions and the information dimension which are links based on syntactic, semantic or logical relations within these goods. Thus, to effectively understand collective information goods, one must take a multi-dimensional approach that addresses the interdependence between social relationships and the networked information that those relationships produce. Only recently have researchers begun to study the collective information goods using multi-dimensional approaches. This workshop aims to bring together experts in network analysis, information networks, semantics and social media to further the development and exchange of knowledge around computational network analysis methods for multi-dimensional networks. We are particularly interested in work that convers the following three areas: * Quality - how do we measure quality of a collective information good using network analysis? What is the relationship between quality information and reputation? How do online production systems cater for quality? * Influence - how do we measure the influence of information networks on social networks and vice versa? Are types of networks more influential than others? * Evolution - how do information and social networks co-evolve? What techniques can be used for measuring and describing evolution? +++Topics include+++ * Models of influence in social media including Twitter, Facebook and others * Measures and techniques for assessing quality in online production systems such as reputation systems in Wikipedia * Measures and techniques for assessing influence in online production systems * Empirical studies of influence, quality and evolution in social media * Approaches towards influencing users and quality in online production systems * (Co-)evolution of social and information networks * Network visualizations of quality, influence and evolution +++Important Dates+++ April 1, 2011: Submission Date April 29, 2011: Notification Date May 10, 2011: Early conference registration deadline June 6, 2011: Workshop Date +++Contributions+++ We invite paper submissions consisting of original, unpublished research that is not under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to present their work at the workshop, and at least one author of each paper must register for the workshop. Submissions should be six (6) pages in length and should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair. All accepted papers will be included in the online workshop proceedings, which will be published via CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/) +++ Organizers+++ Paul Groth, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Palo Alto Research Center, USA +++Program Committee+++ Fabian Abel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Wouter van Atteveldt, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Pablo Castels, Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid, Spain Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Daniel Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Denis Helic, TU Graz, Austria Lichan Hong, PARC, USA George Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Sheila Kinsela, DERI NUI Galway, Ireland Christian Körner TU Graz, Austria Kristina Lerman, Information Science Institute - USC, USA Jacco van Ossebruggen, CWI, The Netherlands Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Camille Roth, CNRS, France Jérôme Kunegis, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Bongwon Suh, PARC, USA Sharoda Paul, PARC, USA Shenghui Wang, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arkaitz Zubiaga, UNED, Spain Kind regards, Paul Groth, Laura Hollink, Claudia Müller-Birn, Markus Strohmaier

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Have blogged my famous people question
by Sue Thomas 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Dear all I'm having trouble ploughing through the huge mass of info you've given me, and I'm very conscious that many people want to share it. It will take me ages to organise it into a coherent public list so for the moment I've blogged the question and invited others to contribute. I'd be delighted if you'd circulate this to offlist colleagues and invite them to add to it too. Don't want to lose all this knowledge. Famous internet people *not* from North America http://bit.ly/hp2Puz Btw if anyone wants to take up the baton and produce a better resource, feel free and just let me know so I can link to it J Thanks sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

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Re: [Air-L] [Medianthro] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
by Sue Thomas 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

So Angry Birds is from Finland? I never knew! Thanks Sue -----Original Message----- From: Steve 802 [mailto:sjc802@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2011 23:22 To: Sue Thomas Cc: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>; <medianthro(a)lists.easaonline.org>; Sue Thomas Subject: Re: [Medianthro] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America People, both singular and plural, Angry Birds, a flock from Finland Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder of chatroulette Chaos Computer Club Joi Ito Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks Tim Breners-Lee, the founder of all things w

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Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
by Carmel L. Vaisman 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hi Sue, a few Israeli net celebs come to mind: Yossi Vardi is kind of our Bill Gates, father of many startups, but the most famous of them is his son's startup, Mirabillis (ICQ). Not many ppl know today that instant messaging was invented by a few Israeli boys and then sold to AOL. they're still a myth here. Ehud Tenenbaum is our Kevin Mittnick, the hacker nicknamed the Analyzer who broke into the Pentagon, NASA computers and many more, last decade. I think he works for the people he breached now after serving his sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Tenenbaum Kutiman is a local musician and artist that became world famous for his YouTube mixing project: http://thru-you.com/#/intro/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman I dunno if meme stars count as famous internet people, but we have Tasha and Adi who started the "hey" lip-sync meme in 2005: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48 and if memes count you'll find many meme stars outside North America. "Juan Mann" from the free hugs campaign of 2006 is Australian, for instance. Good Luck! Carmel Vaisman http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter @carmelva

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famous unAmericans
by Barry Wellman 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

I can think of several famous Canadians, such as David Lyon (Queens) and Steve Mann (Toronto) A few have even heard of me. In Italy: Leopoldina Fortunati (Udine) In Israel: Gustavo Mesch, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Ilan Talmud - all at Haifa (hope this isn't a British server, or else it may boycott) In Japan, Kakuko Miyata In UK: Bill Dutton (American until 10 years ago), Bernie Hogan -- both at OII (but Bernie is a Canadian -- or even better, a Newfie) And then there is the special case of Manuel Castells, Spanish raised, became famous in France, became internet involved in US, and now cycles between US and Catalonia Apologies, if I have forgotten some of my best friends' names. 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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Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
by Sue Thomas 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Ah, Murdoch! I certainly had not thought of him but I can see why you might include him! From: Han-Teng Liao [mailto:hanteng@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2011 21:00 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; medianthro(a)lists.easaonline.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America The obvious one for i18n/L10n crowd: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (from Norway) More ambiguous and yet political senitive...(both to US and China, I guess) Second-generation Immigrants to North America (or specifically to US): Jerry Yang (Yahoo! founder): Taiwan-born American citizen Steve Chen (one of the YouTube founders): Taipei-born American citizen Kai-Fu Lee (former Google China): Taipei-born It is also difficult to describe the allegiance of Keith Rupert Murdoch On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sue Thomas <Sue.Thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk> wrote: Dear all Can anyone help me with this please? I'm looking for stories about people who have become well-known due to their involvement with the internet and who are NOT NORTH AMERICAN! I'm finding it incredibly difficult, and I don't know whether it's because I'm looking in the wrong places or whether the US and Canada really do dominate big name cyberculture. I'm looking for people outside North America who have become famous or successful in net-related R&D or business or government or law, or be influential thought-leaders, authors and critics, or are notorious for net exploitation or crime, or are fictional or gaming cyberspace characters, or online religious leaders etc etc. I have a few in mind already, of course, but my list is very short. So, who is your country's Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Tim O'Reilly? Your Howard Rheingold or Stewart Brand or Kevin Kelly? Your Steven Johnson or Henry Jenkins? (You will have noticed btw that these are also all white men, with the possible exception of Jobs, who is half-Syrian). Who are your internet criminals and what did they do? Do you know of any well-known stories or urban legends about the net which may or may not be true? Does your country use the internet in a very culturally-specific way? Apart from individuals themselves, I'm also interested in culture-specific stories such as haunted mobile phones in Malaysia or Chinese RPGs based on the Monkey tales. I'm sorry this is vague but hope you get the drift. Please send thoughts, links and ideas for reading matter to sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk Don't worry if the sources are not in English. I have access to some translation resources. NB You might be quoted in a book or paper but full attribution will be given. Many thanks Sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/> <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <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/

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Call for papers: HICSS minitrack on Open Movements
by Kevin Crowston 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Call for Papers HICSS-45 Minitrack on OPEN MOVEMENTS: FLOSS, OPEN CONTENTS, OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN COMMUNITIES Conference Site: Grand Wailea Maui Dates: January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday-Saturday) HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer and system sciences and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Additional detail about the conference may be found on the HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu MINITRACK DESCRIPTION This mini-track covers all aspects of the Open Movement phenomena, such as Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Contents (OC), Open Access Publishing (OA) and Open Communities (OComm, each with distinctive features and issues: o FLOSS is a broad term proposed for naming software released under some kind of free or open source software license. Currently, development and adoption of FLOSS projects spans a wide range of applications and critical infrastructure. o Open Content refers to published content (e.g., articles, engineering designs, pictures or any other type of multimedia) released under some form of open license, allowing the content to be modified and redistributed. Examples of Open Contents are Wikipedia and MIT’s Open Courseware. These principles have also been extended to fields such as scientific collaboratories. o Open Access Publishing means publishing of works in a way that allows access to interested users without financial or other barriers. Examples include a variety of Open Access journals as well as a variety of institutional or topical paper repositories. o Around all types of projects we often find an active and even devoted community of developers, users, leaders, authors and readers, exhibiting complex interactions with each other. Some of the aforementioned projects comprise both types of Open Communities (developing FLOSS and also open content, e.g., Wikipedia and Creative Commons). We also find other Open Communities of users in successful large projects, supporting interactions among users and also with open multimedia contents provided by users themselves, e.g., YouTube, MySpace, del.icio.us, Diggit, Twitter and Facebook. Researchers from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to the phenomenon of FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access Publishing and Open Communities, frequently presenting them as an intriguing new form of Internet-supported work and collaboration. However, open collaboration and peer production create new challenges, as team members typically work in a distributed environment, in which contributors can come from many independent organizations, many working as volunteers rather than employees. The empirical literature on software engineering, programmers and the social and technical aspects of software development suggests that such teams would face insurmountable difficulties in developing quality code or coherent information collections, yet in fact some of these teams have been remarkably successful. Study of these open projects may thus provide guidance for improving the performance of these teams and of distributed collaborations more generally. As well, open development is an important phenomenon deserving of study in its own right. Millions of users depend on systems such as Linux and the Internet relies extensively on FLOSS tools, Furthermore, there exists a clear trend in Public Administrations all over the world (with some remarkable cases like Australia, The Netherlands and Spain) towards the promotion and widespread adoption of FLOSS technologies. But many FLOSS projects fail to take off, suggesting that the necessary success factors are still not well understood. Wikipedia has quickly become an extensive and widely-used if sometimes controversial resource. Some studies suggest that, despite the apparent heterogeneity of the group of authors behind Wikipedia, the accuracy of some of its articles could rival with other traditional encyclopedic projects like Encyclopedia Britannica. However, we lack a deep understanding of the conditions of its production that lead to such outcomes. This mini-track will provide a place for research and conceptual work to address a variety of questions, such as examining the implications of open content from technical, economic and policy perspectives. As well, the mini-track welcomes studies of the deployment of FLOSS and OC studies, exploring the motivations of individuals to contribute to projects. Studies of the structure and function of open teams and communities are also in the scope of this mini-track, including analysis of the social networks created by those communities and their evolution over time. In addition to studies of specific communities, we seek papers that draw connections across different settings to pose more general questions and explanations or to explore the design and analysis of novel systems. Possible topics for this mini-track include (but are not limited to): o Ideologies behind and motivations for participation in open projects o Member satisfaction and effectiveness in open projects o Creators' roles in open projects and their evolution over time o Leadership, management and policies in open projects o Distributed project, team and group development and management for open projects o Distributed collaboration in and coordination of open projects o User involvement and user support in open projects o Knowledge management and learning in open projects o Issues in distributed software development for FLOSS o Issues in content development in open content and open communities o Open projects as Communities of Practice and problems implementing open practices o Social networks of open projects o Economics of open projects o Community development and its evolution in Open Communities o Information quality and credibility of open content o Applications, adoption and Implementation of open project products o Systems supporting open projects (e.g., FLOSS "forges", wiki platforms) and their impact on project success o Forecasting the evolution of open movements o New application areas in FLOSS o Evaluation, comparison, unification and differentiation of technical aspects of open projects o Methods for simplifying development, maintenance and multi-platform portability in FLOSS o Applications of open source software in education, government and other domains HOW TO SUBMIT To submit a paper, follow the author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/apahome45.htm o HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. o All papers will be submitted in IEEE double column publication format. o Submissions are limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. o All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, author name(s) are not to be included on the manuscript during the June 15 submission process. o Abstracts are optional, but strongly recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. o Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination and/or seek opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. o An individual may be listed as author/co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance. IMPORTANT DATES [Optional] From now until June 1: Prepare abstracts and contact minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. 15 June 2011: Authors submit full papers by this date. 15 August 2011: Acceptance notices are sent to authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper. 10 September 2011: Manuscripts that have been “conditionally accepted” (A-M Accepted with Mandatory Changes) must be re-submitted by the authors to the Peer Review Site. 15 September 2011: Authors submit final version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference. 15 October 2011: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified. MINITRACK CO-CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION: Wolfgang Bein, Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms, School of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 89154 USA. Phone: 702-895-1477. Email: bein(a)cs.unlv.edu Kevin Crowston, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 13244 USA. Phone: 315-443-1676. Email: crowston(a)syr.edu Clinton Jeffery, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho 83844 USA. Phone: 208-885-4789. Email: jeffery(a)cs.uidaho.edu CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION: Conference Chairman: Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. E-mail: sprague(a)hawaii.edu Conference Administrator: Sandra Laney. E-mail: hicss(a)hawaii.edu

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Thank you! (was Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America)
by Sue Thomas 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Over the last 24 hours I have had dozens of responses from AOIR and EASA, both on and off-list, to my question about finding famous internet people who are not from North America. I really appreciate your generosity in providing me with a wealth of suggestions and it will take me some time to go through them all so I apologise in advance if I don't reply individually for a few days. In the meantime I'd just like to say a general thank you for your overwhelming response which once again proves that lists like these, which are so global and diverse, are immeasurably important. Thanks again! Sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

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