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

Data visualization software
by Jeff McCarthy 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi Aoirs Can anyone recommend a user-friendly and preferably cloud-based data visualization software? As part of my PhD I'm capturing data mapping the social media terrain (so timeline, volume & the path this takes). From my own online searches, cloud-based appears the best way forward. Am willing to pay a license if open source is not as good. Many thanks Jeff Jeff McCarthy MRes | PGDipM | BSc (Hons) | FCIM | FIDM | Chartered Marketer | CIM & IDM CPD Awards Senior Lecturer - Digital Marketing Marketing & Retail Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Campus Manchester UK M1 3GH Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6751 Email: jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk<mailto:jeff.mccarthy@mmu.ac.uk> Staff profile: http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/staff/staffdetails.php?uref=391 Academia: http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jeffmclfc LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ao8f5j "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "

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Open Commission Life Online
by Woolley Tom 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi Aoirs, The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, has just announced a new open commission for the upcoming Life Online gallery and I thought you might be interested: --- National Media Museum Open Commission: Call for Entries The National Media Museum in partnership with FutureEverything has announced a £10,000 open commission for a new, groundbreaking artwork to premiere at the launch of Life Online, the world's first gallery to explore the social, technological, and cultural impact of the internet and the web. Life Online opens in the National Media Museum in March 2012. This commission will produce one of the inaugural exhibits in a programme of special exhibitions focusing on the key issues surrounding the internet and web, and their impact on our everyday lives. The first exhibition is titled [Open Source]. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 27th July and interviews will be held in Bradford on Wednesday 24th August. The Life Online exhibition [open source] will open in a brand new custom-built gallery on the Museum's 7th floor. The content will explore the open source culture of sharing and collaboration on the internet and web, while exploring threats to net neutrality that could signify the end of the internet as we currently know it. http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/lifeonlinecommission <http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/lifeonlinecommission> --- We'd love to hear from you if you're interested in applying - and if not please share the link with anyone you know who may be. Many thanks for your help, Tom Tom Woolley Curator of New Media National Media Museum, Bradford, UK Tel: 01274 203 349 www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediamuseumevents/> Twitter <http://twitter.com/mediamuseum> Blog <http://nationalmediamuseum.blogspot.com/> YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/nationalmediamuseum> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bradford-United-Kingdom/National-Media-Museum…> We aim to be the best museum in the world for inspiring people to learn about, engage with and create media. This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the National Museum of Science & Industry. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System.

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SocInfo 2011 -- Request for Reviewers
by Stuart Shulman 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

*SocInfo 2011 -- Request for Reviewers* The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2011 - Singapore, October 6-8, 2011) is looking for some extra reviewers who can complete 1-3 short paper reviews by July 1, 2011. http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011/index.html Due to the larger than expected submission pool, we find ourselves with an impressive list of papers that still need a few more sets of eyes for a thorough peer review process to be completed. We are in particular need of reviewers who can effectively manage multidisciplinary social and information/computer science papers. If you are willing to join the Program Committee, please drop me a line ( stu(a)polsci.umass.edu) and we'll get you onto the EasyChair reviewing system. Thanks, The Program Co-Chairs Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Asking help about Facebook censorship criteria
by Alejandro Tortolini 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Dear listers: I´m looking for information about the criteria that Facebook uses to take down some "incorrect" pictures, photos, images. I know something simple as the "niple rule" -not images allowed showing women niples- wich generated reaction from women feeding their babies... Can you help me? Greetings from Argentina! Alejandro Tortolini Scitech journalist - Teacher Buenos Aires - Argentina

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The politics is real 3 examples from Ottawa Canada RE: CFP: Expanding the frontiers of hacking
by Peter Timusk 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Here in Canada the white hat Linux hacker community is political in a real sense. Three examples: They have successfully gotten the Green Party of Canada to adopt open source and free software as a policy platform. One local hacker/open source business person, Russell McOrmund has spent about two years now attending Canada's copyright reform hearings in Parliament and given testimony. Here is Russell's LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6112318 Our Chief Technology Officer in the public service promotes and investigates using Linux and other GNU open source free softwares. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org

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Industries créatives avec ou sans TIC ?
by Éric GEORGE 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Lancement du dernier numéro de la revue tic&société (http://ticetsociete.revues.org/) Industries créatives avec ou sans TIC ? tic&société, vol. 4, n° 2 | 2010 La revue électronique tic&societe constitue, depuis quatre ans, un lieu d'échanges multidisciplinaire, international et francophone. Son nouveau numéro a pour titre : « Industries créatives avec ou sans TIC ? » Coordonné conjointement par Philippe Bouquillion et Yolande Combès, ce numéro présente des réflexions sur une notion qui fait débat, les industries créatives. Fidèle à sa ligne éditoriale, tic&société, en concertation avec les deux coordonnateurs, a retenu des contributions qui interrogent cette notion et sa relation avec les TIC, dans une perspective critique et distanciée sous différents angles d'attaque (usages, politiques publiques, stratégies des acteurs économiques). Au sommaire du vol. 4, n° 2 | 2010 (http://ticetsociete.revues.org/) : Yolande Combès et Philippe Bouquillion Introduction Philippe Bouquillion Industries créatives, économie créative et technologies d'information et de communication Thomas Paris Des industries culturelles aux industries créatives : un changement de paradigme salutaire ? Aziz Mouline Les industries créatives à l'heure de la numérisation : une approche par les alliances en R&D dans les industries du multimédia Françoise Paquienséguy La notion d'usage est-elle stratégique pour les industries créatives ? Manuel Dupuy-Salle L'intégration des fans dans les stratégies de valorisation de contenus contribue-t-elle au développement des « industries créatives » ? Depuis janvier 2011, tic&société a rejoint le Directory Of Open Acces Journals. Elle est hébergée sur le portail de revues (environ 300) en sciences humaines et sociales, Revues.org (http://www.revues.org/)

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Re: [Air-L] CFP: Expanding the frontiers of hacking
by Marchese, Prof. Francis T. 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Perhaps it would be better to label the topic as "Artisanal" invention or development. It would then remove the negative connotation that the term hacker engenders. It would also play into the concept that such developments come from non-corporate or non-industrial settings, where individuals (outsiders?) or loosely structured groups exploit contemporary technologies to create new and (perhaps) useful applications. For example, the Apple iPod/iPad SDK makes it easy for non-computer scientists to create apps. And web technologies can be easily enabled to create rich Internet experiences by non-technologists. Such a label links into the history of invention - Edison, Hewlett-Packard, Wozniak-Jobs, the latter two pairs worked in garages. Perhaps we should not forget ancient alchemists, who developed "algorithms" for creating new substances by "hacking" matter. Finally, such a label links into a vast literature (e.g. Mary Shelley's Frankestein) and the SciFi genre where lone (evil?) scientists develop remarkable technologies. From this perspective, it might not only be easier to look at the good, bad, and ugly of "hacking" but also map out its meaning. Dr. Francis T. Marchese Professor Dept. of Computer Science Pace University 163 William Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10038 http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese<http://csis.pace.edu/%7Emarchese> email: fmarchese(a)pace.edu<mailto:fmarchese@pace.edu> phone: 212 346-1803 Co-director Pace Digital Gallery http://www.pace.edu/DigitalGallery Director Pace Center for Advanced Media ________________________________

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Some quantitative research on Hackerspaces
by Antoine Mazières 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Hi Aoirs, I've found interesting figures on hackerspaces members. http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/2010/07/19/hackerspaces-members-and-involveme… Does anyone know any other quantitative research done on hackerspaces or fablabs ? All best, Antoine Mazieres http://ant1.cc/

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CFP: Expanding the frontiers of hacking
by Gabriella Coleman 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

David, A lot of folks have answered, I think well, to some of your queries so I don't have much to add but here are a few additional thoughts: Free software does belong to a lineage of people who thought/think of themselves as hackers and Richard Stallman was motivated to write free software to save the ethics of hacking, using that very language. I know you know this, so I am still puzzled by the resistance, if nothing else, to acknowledge that hacker/hacking are terms used by thousands upon thousands of free software developers to conceptualize their craft and their ethics. Whether Free software had brought a radical political transformation in the world is easy to answer: "no." It has shifted and I would say in some important ways, the politics of IP law (among some other arenas). That has been one of its most important contributions and many developers--outside of the radical techie free software developer community--would not claim to be doing anything but writing free software. Many others have tagged a more Utopian language/understanding onto them (perhaps because they give a powerful glimpse into the importance of unalienated labor and more problematically because of the problematic idea that computers will save the world). But many of these hackers are just into their craft, have built some extremely interesting social institutions to produce software, and I am not sure why we need to be primarily or only judging them for being (or not) radical political activists out to save the world. I understand that one might want to and should pop the Utopian hype enveloping dominant understanding of computers, but not at the expense of misrepresenting some of these worlds and criticizing every last shred/byte of computer-related activity. As someone who has spent way too much time on/with Anonymous: there are clearly hackers and sys admins involved but there are a great many who are geeky types with enough digital literacies to get involved in these worlds and yet who neither self-identify as such nor have the requisite skills. Again I don't see why you are so keen in sticking them Anonymous in such limited box. As per a special issue on Stuxtnet, I think the problem is not a lack of desire but those worlds are incredibly, almost impossibly hard to study for anyone and even harder for academics. Imagine trying to get IRB approval for studying the Russian Business Network or the Stuxtnet writers? We will have to rely on journalists and there is some good work being done (King Pin by Poulsen, a hacker or at least ex-hacker himself). There has also been very good work done on cyberconflict by Athina Karatzogianni (http://works.bepress.com/athina_karatzogianni/4/) and finally some empirical work being done on nationalistic hacking, such as this book on Chinese hackers (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-dark-visitor-%28paperback%29/1778…) Biella -- Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor NYU, Department of Media, Culture, & Communication On Leave 2010-2011, The Institute for Advanced Study http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman

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ICWSM, Late Registration Deadline is today
by danah boyd 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

I hope to see many of you at ICWSM next month. The deadline for late registration is today. See you in Barcelona! *********************************** ICWSM 2011 Late Registration Deadline: June 17 *********************************** Dear ICWSM Community, Please note that the ICWSM 2011 late registration deadline is today, June 17. After today, onsite rates will be in effect. The program is now complete, so take a moment to review it at http://www.icwsm.org/2011/schedule.php. Invited presentations include keynote addresses by Sinan Aral of the NYU Stern School of Business and Affiliated Faculty at MIT, and Manuel Castells, Director of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain. Jimmy Lin will present an industrial keynote address on Twitter and Data Science. Additionally, three invited talks will be given by Foster Provost (New York University), Joel Seligstein (Facebook), and Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research). Finally, a special invited panel entitled "Is Social Media Making News Generation and Consumption Better?" moderated by Sihem Amer-Yahia (Principal Research Scientist, QCRI), and featuring Marcus Mabry (The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times), Catherine Quayle (Editor-in-Chief, Need to Know, PBS), Krishna Gummadi, (Networking Professor, MPI), Mor Naaman, (Social Media Professor, Rutgers University), Jimmy Lin (Twitter), and Gilad Lotan (VP Research & Development, SocialFlow), will be presented. Three tutorials will be presented on July 17: * SA1: How to use Mechanical Turk for Behavioral Research (Winter Mason and Siddharth Suri) * SA2: Text Mining from User Generated Content (Lyle Ungar and Ronen Feldman) * SP1: Exploratory Network Analysis with Gephi (Sebastien Heymann and Julian Bilcke) The Workshop Program has been expanded this year to include the following workshops, which will follow the main conference on Thursday, July 21: Social Mobile Web Workshop (SMW-11) http://thesocialmobileweb.org/ The Future of the Social Web (FOSW-11) http://www.icwsm.org/2011/fosw Social Innovation and Social Media (SISOM-11) http://www.sites.google.com/site/sisom2011 Annual Data Challenge Workshop http://icwsm.org/2011/challenge.php For more information about the conference and to register, please visit the conference website at http://www.icwsm.org or the online registration form at http://www.aaai.org/Forms/icwsm-registration-form.php. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona in July! Regards,

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