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UNESCO - Africa-wide forum for Science, Technology and Innovation launched
by Monica Murero 12 May '11

12 May '11

Africa-wide forum for Science, Technology and Innovation launched Africa is the least advanced continent in ST&I. An Africa-wide forum which aims to give science, technology and innovation (ST&I) a more central role in the policy-making process was launched. The forum is a result of collaboration between UNESCO, UNECA, the African Union, ISESCO and other partners. All national African parliaments, the Pan-African Parliament and all regional parliamentary assemblies will be members. http://www.scidev.net/en/middle-east-and-north-africa/pan-african-parliamen… Monica ------------ Monica Murero , Ph.D. AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009 AoIR Honorific Lifetime Member Director E-Life International Institute Associate Professor in Politics of e-Government and in Sociology of New Technology University Federico II, Italy Consultant, World Health Organization LinkedIN: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/monica-murero-ph-d/16/52/606 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/monica_murero or @monica_murero Inviato da iPad

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1st Int'l Workshop on Values in Design - Building Bridges between RE, HCI & Ethics
by Michael Zimmer 12 May '11

12 May '11

==============================CALL FOR PAPERS================================ 1st International Workshop on Values in Design - Building Bridges between RE, HCI & Ethics held in conjunction with INTERACT 2011, 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 6th of September, Lisbon, Portugal Submissions are due 10 June 2011 Workshop website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/ ORGANIZERS ========== Christian Detweiler - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Alina Pommeranz - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Jeroen van den Hoven - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Helen Nissenbaum - New York University, NYC, USA AIMS AND SCOPE ============== In working with stakeholder requirements or user needs in design, various design methods in requirements engineering and human computer interaction, in specific user-centred and value sensitive design, are finding ways to deal with “soft issues”, “social issues”, “people issues” or values. At the same time, applied ethics has begun to pay attention to design. We believe that many of the approaches could complement each other in useful ways. The aim of this workshop is to bring together people from different disciplines to share knowledge and insights about how to account for values in technology design, and to work towards integrating approaches. The main theme is the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge, experiences and new ideas on values in technology design. The following list reflects (but is not limited to these) possible topics: - Designing for specific values (e.g. privacy, sustainability, trust, responsibility,...) - Experiences from value-oriented projects - Value Sensitive Design (VSD) - Value considerations in industry projects or product development - Understanding and relating different notions of values - Integrating value-oriented methods with software engineering/ design methods - Accounting for values in experience oriented designs, e.g. “fun” as a value - Values used in evaluations of User Experience (UX) - Dealing with soft issues, social issues, and people issues in requirements engineering - Value-based requirements engineering - Value elicitation & value tensions: dealing with a variety of stakeholder values - Value elicitation: methods from different research fields - (Digital) Tools for value elicitation - Personal Informatics and values - Capturing and reusing value knowledge (scenarios, design patterns, etc.) - Values in Persuasive Technology and/or Ambient Intelligence - Values in specific domains (health care, military, crisis management) - Values in Intelligent Systems (e.g. for decision support or automated systems) FORMAT ======= This is a one-day workshop divided into two parts. In the first half we will have four consecutive panel sessions: the values turn in design - “soft issues” in RE and UCD; the design turn in applied ethics; values across disciplines; and values in industry. Panels will be led by representatives in the respective field. Each panel will be initiated by short presentations by authors of accepted papers followed by a discussion with all workshop participants. In the second part, we will create groups of 4-5 participants with different backgrounds (RE, HCI and Ethics). Each group will be given a design case to work on using tools and methods proposed by the participants. The aim will be to create an overview of people issues, values, soft issues and (long term) social aspects emerging from each design case. In a debriefing session we will share experiences (regarding the cases and tools used) from the group work with all participants. Participants who wish to present their work as posters or demos will be given the opportunity to do so during the breaks. PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================= We invite technologists, designers, and ethicists working on topics related to values in technology design to submit original papers of the following kinds: - research papers describing recent results, user studies, study methods or ongoing work - statements of interests or position papers describing novel ideas or perspectives - papers describing novel systems, design cases or case studies from industry or academia All papers should represent original and previously unpublished work currently not under review in any conference or journal. Papers will be peer-reviewed and will be selected by relevance and likelihood of stimulating and contributing to a discussion related to the workshop theme. All submissions must follow the Springer Lecture Notes template for Microsoft Word (.doc files only). The maximum paper length is 8 pages, but shorter position papers are also welcome. Submit your paper electronically in PDF format to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vind11. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. In agreement with the authors papers can be presented as short presentations during panel sessions, or as posters or demos whichever suits the content of the paper most. Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. A selection of accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Ethics and Information Technology Journal. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================== Catholijn Jonker, Man-Machine Interaction, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands David Keyson, Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Cees Midden, Human Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands Barbara Paech, Software Engineering, University of Heidelberg, Germany Jens Riegelsberger, User Experience Team, Google, UK Alistair Sutcliffe, Centre for HCI Design, University of Manchester, UK Michael Zimmer, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA IMPORTANT DATES: =============== 10 June 2011: Paper Submissions Due 1 July 2011: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection 15 July 2011: End of early bird registration 6 September 2011: Workshop at Interact 5-9 September 2011: Interact conference INFORMATION =========== For further information please contact: c.a.detweiler(a)tudelft.nl or a.pommeranz(a)tudelft.nl

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Telecommunications law question
by Thomas Jones 11 May '11

11 May '11

Friends, If any of you are voice telephony professionals proficient in telco PBX networks and VoIP, could you please contact me offline? I have a question regarding "slamming" and what was (or is still?) known as toll skipping (never heard of it before today). Thomas Jones @othertomjones http://theothertomjones.com One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. -- Albert Einstein, On Education --

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Conference "Global Media Worlds and China": Uppsala University October 6-7, 2011
by Christian Fuchs 11 May '11

11 May '11

http://www.im.uu.se/MLeague2011/?languageId=3&siteNodeId=36303&contentId=-1 http://www.im.uu.se/digitalAssets/56/56848_MLeauge2011ver2.pdf http://www.im.uu.se/digitalAssets/56/56531_RegistrationForm-MLIS2011.doc Global Media Worlds and China 2011 MLeague International Symposium October 6th-7th 2011, Uppsala, Sweden Contribution abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2011 Organized by: International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication (MLeague) Communication University of China (CUC) Uppsala University (UU) Keynote speakers - Susan Brownell, University of Missouri, USA - Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK - Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, Canada The International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication, MLeague, Communication University of China (CUC) and Uppsala University (UU) invites you to attend the annual international academic symposium of MLeague organized by MLeague, CUC and Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, October 6-7 2011. The symposium is hosted by Department of Informatics and Media and Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. The theme of the symposium is “Global Media Worlds and China” and it is divided in three parts: - Global Media worlds entering China: global and international media in China - Media worlds of China: the transforming media landscape of China - China entering global media worlds: Chinese media going international and global Participants are free to address any relevant issues inside of these broad frames (for example cultural industries, innovation, media economy, digital media, media convergence, governance, digital media cultures, social media, new media ethics, immaterial rights, privacy, etc.). -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.at Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010)

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List of AoIR Executive Committee Nominees
by Mia Consalvo 11 May '11

11 May '11

Greetings, It is my pleasure to announce the list of nominees for AoIR's next Executive Committee (2011-2013). We will be posting candidate's statements on the Association's website once we receive all of them, and will notify you when they are ready to view. Ballots will be sent to all current AoIR members on May 24, 2011 with voting details enclosed. *Vice President* Ted Coopman Lori Kendall Monica Murero *Student Representative* Anthony Hoffman Trent Kays Kelly Quinn *Treasurer* Michael Zimmer (acclaimed) *Secretary* Catherine Middleton (acclaimed) *Open Seats* Andrea Baker Jillana Enteen Andrew Herman Soraj Hongladarom Mark Johns Gene Loeb Christopher Paul Ulf-Dietrich Reips Cristian Berrio Zapata Thanks to all for their interest, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-226 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA consalvo(a)mit.edu 617.324.1868

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a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research
by Niels Brügger 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi all, Just a short comment about robots.txt. Whether robots.txt should be respected or not by web archives is not as unequivocal as put by Jeremy below - there are national differences. The national Danish web archive Netarkivet.dk is based on the "Act no. 1439 of December 22, 2004 on Legal Deposit of Published Material", and here it is stated that the archive is not obliged to respect robots.txt. The rationale for this is that once it's out there it's out there, and as long as it's accessible to everyone it's 'public' - thus it's part of the cultural heritage, thus it should be archived. This also applies for password protected material IF everyone could get a password, no matter if s/he had to pay for it. And if you don't want it to be public, then don't put it out there - robots.txt does not prevent people to see it, then it's public and will be archived. In the Danish legislation ignoring robots.txt is being considered necessary to collect all relevant material. However, the acces to the web archive is very restricted: there's only acces for scholars, and you have to apply for acces. If interested, the Danish web archive has made a short fact sheet: http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/Fact%20sheet%20Webarchiving%20in%20Denma… And a FAQ: http://netarkivet.dk/faq/index-en.php - and about robots.txt: http://netarkivet.dk/faq/index-en.php#faq_robots Best, Niels Brügger ----------- Message: 9 Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 11:18:04 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research Message-ID: <B7115BE4-D7AA-4B72-8C70-CF029ADF6AEE(a)vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think the tendency is to muddy the waters immensely here, but I also don't think we need to muddy the waters in regards to the Document vs Research Subject distinction. If you were allowed to research facebook, then you could do it either way or both ways, having subjects and documents, having just documents, or having just subjects. But once we are dealing with documents, then the only question we have is whether those are published documents or not. I think that instead of muddying the waters and continuing to say it is not simple, as we are inclined to do as academics, is going to continue to cause us grief and possibly prevent perfectly reasonable research, and thus i think we should embark on the other strategy that says: 'We can make this simple'. If it is published, it is public and open to research, you determine if it is published using these guidelines. If it is not published, then what is it, is it a private diary? is it a private letter? who has rights to the material and how can it be released for research. If you are dealing with research subjects, in what way are you doing that? if you are just reading their postings... you are not interacting with them and not creating research subjects, if you are doing an ethnography or participatory or action research then yes you are interacting with them and you are creating human subjects, in short, a matrix of methods in relation to their objects would great ly clarify the document vs subject distinction. In terms of public private on the web, my position is more or less that if you put it on the web and you do not protect in in some manner via legal device, technical system, or otherwise, then you are producing a public document and that's the end of it. People I would argue that it does not matter if that was not your intent or that you wanted it to be private, what matters is that you committed something to the public record, and while you can withdraw it, once it is distributed, you might find that very difficult, and withdrawing likely doesn't change it's public status, it just changes the ease of access to that data. Robots.txt should not be ignored. it is one of the technical means that people use to secure their property on the web. If there is a robots txt and it prevents you from making a copy of something, then i'd guess that the owners of the material do not want you to use it for research, and you'd need to get permission. ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS February 2011 "Web Archiving — Between Past, Present, and Future", The Handbook of Internet Studies (eds. M. Consalvo, & C. Ess), Wiley-Blackwell 2011, pp. 24-42 Read more on the publishers website: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405185880.html April 2010 Web History (ed.), Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2010 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310468&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 January 2010 Website Analysis, Papers from The Centre for Internet Research, 12, The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus 2010, [ get an electronic copy at: http://cfi.au.dk/en/publications/paper/#a12 ] NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Research Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org

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considering how to think about facebook re: research ethics and maybe privacy
by jeremy hunsinger 11 May '11

11 May '11

Michael brought up the example of what the understanding of privacy might mean in a group marked private on facebook and what that would mean for a researcher. I responded comparing facebook to a privately owned shopping mall with publicly accessible stores and publicly accessible common areas, with all areas covered by video cameras and other surveillance technologies. That is still my perspective on facebook, but I wonder how much work can a group do on facebook to maintain any real sense of privacy beyond the request. By requested privacy I mean it is parallel to the signs that teenagers put on their doors in their parents home, it is a recognizable request for distance and separation that in most practical matters is respected 'day to day' but is summarily ignored once anything of import happens and sometimes even otherwise ignored. I'm thinking that much of what happens in regards to stated privacy on the web fits under something like either a requested privacy or really false privacy, with only 'real' privacy existing on the web (or the internet in general) when there really is no way to obtain the information provided without agreeing to the terms of privacy. Also there might be a difference between actually having a sense of 'privacy' in such public arenas and requesting anonymity, which is really the sort of value one might expect in a shopping mall, 'just another anonymous individual' thoughts? Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Political Science Virginia Tech Everything you can imagine is real. --Pablo Picasso

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Transcription services
by Burcu Bakioglu 11 May '11

11 May '11

Greetings AoiR members, The transcription service that I had been using over the past years is going out of business. Can anyone recommend me another transcription service? I need audio files to be transcribed on a regular basis (interviews and such). Any input is much appreciated. Thanks! -- Thanks,</burcu> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. http://www.palefirer.com http://palefirer.com/blog/ Skype: PaleFireR AIM: PaleFireR -- "It is not what the vision is. It is what it does."

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Study: Even in the Digital Era, Canadians have Confidence in Mainstream News Media
by Alfred Hermida 11 May '11

11 May '11

Dear colleagues Today, the Canadian Media Research Consortium (CMRC) releases its latest report showing that, even with the growing importance of social media, the mainstream media have retained the confidence of most Canadians. The fourth in the CMRC’s series of reports on Canadian news habits, Even in the Digital Era, Canadians Have Confidence in Mainstream News Media, shows that nine out of ten Canadians consider the traditional news media to be reliable and trustworthy. Social media and other information websites are now used by many Canadians for news alerts and alternative perspectives but established news brands continue to be the gold standard for verification. These findings are good news for traditional journalism but the established media also face significant challenges as news consumption habits change, new sources of information proliferate and novel forms of journalist-citizen collaboration emerge. Public confidence in traditional journalism is an important resource in this process of adaptation to new audience expectations and demands. To report more of the CMRC report, click on the attachment or visit http://mediaresearch.ca/en/projects/trust_report.htm For further information, contact my colleague Prof Fred Fletcher at fred_fletcher(a)sympatico.ca Regards, Alfred Alfred Hermida: Assistant Professor The School of Journalism | University of British Columbia 6388 Crescent Road | Vancouver | BC | V6T 1Z2 Contact: alfred.hermida(a)ubc.ca | (+1) 604 827 3540 Web: http://www.journalism.ubc.ca | Blog: http://www.reportr.net

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do we need an aoir data archive
by jeremy hunsinger 11 May '11

11 May '11

I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations. However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out. so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not? Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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