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

AoIR Election Results
by Mia Consalvo 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hello all, It's my pleasure to announce the results of the election for the 2011-2013 AoIR Executive Committee: President: Alex Halavais (via prior election) Vice President: Lori Kendall Secretary: Catherine Middleton (uncontested) Treasurer: Michael Zimmer (uncontested) Graduate Student Representative: Kelly Quinn Open Seat 1: Andrea Baker Open Seat 2: Andrew Herman Open Seat 3: Soraj Hongladarom I'd like to thank all those who ran for office, and offered their time and suggestions for improving the organization. We're a volunteer run unit, and it's always great to see so many people willing to help out and make AoIR stronger. The new executive committee will take office this October, at the Association's General Meeting held during IR 12.0 in Seattle. all the best to everyone, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, President, AoIR 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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Re: [Air-L] AoIR Election Results
by Marj Kibby 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hi all, As one of the vote counters I'd like to thank everyone who went to an effort to make their choices easy to determine, and especially thank those who added a little greeting or message ... they were great to read! Regards, Marj Associate Professor Marjorie Kibby Discipline Convenor: Film, Media and Cultural Studies School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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Re: [Air-L] PhD dissertation format
by Glen Farrelly 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

I also considered the multipaper dissertation format as well as the "PhD by publication". There has been some published discussion on the issue, but not much. I examined some dissertations using the multipaper format and found that many lacked overall coherence, a sustained in-depth argument, and a sufficient degree of originality (particularly when the included papers are jointly authored). Still, as one person said other than a will a dissertation is the only document genre that one will only ever use only once, so what is the point in mastering the genre? Not to mention that the number of people who will ever read one's dissertation is tiny, compared to journal articles, which are also invaluable for graduating students to have on their CVs. I wrote a paper on this and shortened it for my blog, which cover these concerns in more detail: http://glenfarrelly.blogspot.com/search/label/dissertation I agree with other poster that noted that it ultimately comes down to one's field and support from their advisors. Glen Farrelly PhD Student, Faculty of Information University of Toronto

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Advice on Social Media Activism Related conferences with CFP
by Suheil Dahdal 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hi all, I’m a PHD student at University of technology Sydney, my research topic is “the Role of Social Media in Participatory Political Activism” I’ve just written an 8000 words paper about “Social Media & the Arab Spring” and I would love to present it in a conference, I’ve been Googling for a suitable conference with no luck, anyone on the list can help me in suggesting a good conference/journal? Any help would be great, Suheil. Suheil Dahdal Suheil.dahdal(a)uts.edu.au Communication Department University of Technology, Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia - call for participation
by Dario Taraborelli 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

We are proud to announce the second data challenge co-organized by the Wikimedia Foundation this summer. WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation are jointly launching WikiViz 2011 – a call for data/information visualization experts, computational journalists, data artists and data scientists to create the most insightful visualization of Wikipedia’s impact. The goal of the competition is to use open datasets to help improve our understanding of how Wikipedia is affecting the world beyond the scope of its own community. The award: The WikiViz 2011 Awarding Ceremony will take place on October 4, at the WikiSym 2011 venue, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley campus (Mountain View, California). The ceremony will be introduced by a keynote by Jeff Heer (Stanford University), on the impact of emerging visualization techniques to understand open collaboration today. Three finalist teams (1 winner, 2 runners-up) will be invited to present their work at WikiSym 2011. Travel expenses and registration fees will be covered for a delegate per team. The works from these three teams will be showcased at the WikiSym 2011 exhibit, presented during the WikiViz awards ceremony and featured by our Knowledge and Media Partners: El Mundo.es, the largest digital newspaper in Spanish by readership worldwide, as well as four among the leading outlets and organizations in data visualization: FlowingData, Information Aesthetics, Visualizing.org and Periscopic). Unidad Editorial will also run a dedicated “Public's choice” track among the top 10 submissions received. The winner will be featured on the digital edition of El Mundo. The jury: The finalists will be selected by a jury composed by world-class experts in data visualization and social computing • Moritz Stefaner, Well Formed Data • Kim Rees, Periscopic) • Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven and Information Aesthetics • Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Foundation • Gregorio Convertino, Xerox PARC and WikiSym The official announcement: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/05/wikiviz-2011-visualizing-the-impact-o… The call for participation: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:cfp Contacts, news and updates: For any questions, comments or interest in supporting or collaborating with this challenge, please contact the co-organizers at: wikiviz2011 [at] easychair [dot] org • Felipe Ortega, WikiSym • Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation You can also follow us on Twitter: @WikiViz (tag your tweets with #wikiviz11)

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Next Generation Learning Conference 2012
by Stefan Hrastinski 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Dalarna University in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites you to submit session proposals for the Next Generation Learning (NGL) conference, a conference on the implications for learning and education of the digital revolution. The conference is aimed at development and research projects on NGL in both educational and professional settings. Call for papers: http://bit.ly/mCEc1m Stefan Hrastinski, associate professor Media Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Lindstedtsv. 3 SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Office: +46 8 790 65 68 Mobile: +46 739 75 17 47 stefanhr(a)kth.se http://hrastinski.posterous.com

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Sampling size for content analysis of comments on weblogs
by John McAuley 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hey all, I am conducting a content analysis of comments on a weblog but am unsure of how to determine sample size? Has anyone run into similar issues and, if so, could they point me to a suitable paper or two? Cheers, John -- John McAuley ------ Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin Ireland ------

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Why students choose online courses
by Michelle Everson 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi Everyone, Is anyone aware of any published research about just why students might choose an online format for a course when they have the choice of either online or face-to-face? Thank you! Sincerely, Michelle Everson University of Minnesota gaddy001(a)umn.edu -- Michelle Everson, Ph.D. Quantitative Methods in Education Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota gaddy001(a)umn.edu 612-624-0691 http://www.tc.umn.edu/~delma001/CATALST/

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Fwd: [OERu-EduMOOC] George Siemens: Researching open online courses
by gene loeb 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

This should be very interesting and usefui to many internet researchers. Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Link <alink.ge(a)googlemail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM Subject: [OERu-EduMOOC] George Siemens: Researching open online courses To: oeru-edumooc(a)lists.wikieducator.org http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2011/07/04/researching-open-online-courses/ Andreas _______________________________________________ OERu-EduMOOC mailing list OERu-EduMOOC(a)lists.wikieducator.org http://lists.wikieducator.org/mailman/listinfo/oeru-edumooc -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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FW: [New post] Are the Open Data Warriors Fighting for Robin Hood or the Sheriff?: Some Reflections on OKCon 2011 and the Emerging Data Divide
by michael gurstein 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

<http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/> Are <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/are-the-open-data-warriors-fightin g-for-robin-hood-or-the-sheriff-some-reflections-on-okcon-2011-and-the-emerg ing-data-divide/> the Open Data Warriors Fighting for Robin Hood or the Sheriff?: Some Reflections on OKCon 2011 and the Emerging Data Divide Michael <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/> Gurstein | July 3, 2011 at 17:05 | Tags: Canada <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?tag=canada-digital-policy> digital policy, Data Divide <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?tag=data-divide> , Open Access <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?tag=open-access> , open data <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?tag=open-data> | Categories: Community Informatics <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?cat=31328235> Policy, Community Informatics <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/?cat=31328012> Research | URL: http://wp.me/pJQl5-79 I spent the last couple of days at a fascinating (and frightening) event in Berlin-OKCon <http://www.okcon.org> -a convention for the (in this case mostly European) uber-geeks who are in the process of recreating governments and potentially governance itself in Western Europe (and beyond). <http://bit.ly/kSy1PT> http://bit.ly/kSy1PT <http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurstein.wordpress.com&blog=10925955& post=443&subd=gurstein&ref=&email=1> WordPress <http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/logo-grey/grey-m.png> WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage <http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=febe6d99e32fac0d96ccbcf844f30684&email= mgurst%40vcn.bc.ca> Subscriptions | Unsubscribe <http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=febe6d99e32fac0d96ccbcf844f30684&email= mgurst%40vcn.bc.ca&b=LSg%2BSX%7E%25HFnlpptlmzb4KsAnpP4GhG9Z9anmtcR%2BLJTitYv aD> | Express yourself. Start a <http://wordpress.com/signup/?ref=email> blog. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://subscribe.wordpress.com !DSPAM:2676,4e1103f340302050166598!

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