August 2012 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-L] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay
by Martin Zeilinger 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hi Biella, Let me point you to the M.A. major research project of Lisa Dobbin at York University, Toronto, which focuses on the pirate parties. The project is nearing conclusion and includes a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. I don't think she's on this list, so I'm forwarding this msg to her and imagine she'll be in touch soon. Best, Martin P.S.: Do you read German? This collection just came out: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts2071/ts2071.php On 2012-08-12, at 12:00 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:36:25 -0400 > From: Gabriella Coleman <gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca> > To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay > Message-ID: <50258CE9.4070604(a)mcgill.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > Can folks recommend articles on the Pirate Party and the Pirate Bay) > they find compelling or provocative? > > Thanks, > Biella > -- > > > >

1 0

Re: [Air-L] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay
by Liam Pomfret 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hi Biella, You might want to also check out a book called "No Safe Harbor". It's a collection of essays that was published by the United States branch of the Pirate Party to introduce people to their platform, and to clear up the common misconception that they're a single issue party based around file sharing. You can find the book available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license at http://www.nosafeharbor.com/ Cheers, Liam *** Liam Pomfret PhD Student UQ Business School University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA E: l.pomfret(a)business.uq.edu.au

3 2

tools to extract data from Facebook public pages and open groups
by Hale, Timothy M. 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Hi everyone, I am looking for a tool that will extract content from Facebook public Pages and open Groups. I am not interested in collecting user profile data or conducting any type of network analysis - although tools that can collect additional data that fits my needs might work. Ideally, I am looking for a tool that can collect from specified Pages/Groups the entire set of comments and posts to the Page/Group, and if possible, "Likes" and other forms of user activity. I am considering a research project analyzing content of Pages and Groups and would like an alternative to creating PDFs and manually entering data. Thanks for your help! Tim The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

7 6

Re: [Air-L] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay
by Mathieu ONeil 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi Biella Check this out: Jonas Andersson, The origins and impacts of Swedish filesharing: a case study, JoPP. http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-0/peer-reviewed-papers/the-origins-a… Another Swedish guy called Martin Fredriksson is also working on this. cheers Mathieu On 08/11/12, Gabriella Coleman <gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can folks recommend articles on the Pirate Party and the Pirate Bay) > they find compelling or provocative? > > Thanks, > Biella > -- > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers 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/ > > -- **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php

1 0

Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay
by Gabriella Coleman 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi all, Can folks recommend articles on the Pirate Party and the Pirate Bay) they find compelling or provocative? Thanks, Biella --

1 0

Weibo Data Analysis
by Gilad Lotan 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Over the summer I've been working with a summer intern to sample and analyze data from Weibo. We've been collecting Weibo posts over the past couple months, sampling the public stream every few seconds, using multiple API keys coming from various IP addresses (yup, they heavily rate limit API access). Some interesting facts about Weibo's API: - The way we're currently sampling, we're seeing around 4000 posts per minute - Weibo doesn't easily provide the friendship/follower graph like Twitter. It only reveals the last 5k followers for any public account. - Weibo uses an explicit sentiment/emoticons mechanism which is very popular. They link an emoticon to an emotion (spelled out). When a user chooses an icon, it embeds the word that the icon represents, within the user's post. Its possible to start mining this sentiment by looking at Weibo posts (emotions are placed within square brackets). - The API has an up-and-coming feature (according to their docs) which will give us the ability to know how many of the account's followers are online at any given time (VERY COOL). We just published a first analysis from this data, looking at people's reaction to Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang's epic fail. http://blog.socialflow.com/post/7120245585/weibo-chinas-twitter-equivalent-… The post shows some of the ways in which we can use Weibo data. We have this growing corpus of Weibo data. I'd love to collaborate with other folks (or their students!) who want to explore the data and help us figure out how we can use it to learn about public sentiment in China. I'm not ready to make a public call yet, as I don't want Weibo to ban us (or our IP addresses) from hitting their servers. Let me know if this sounds interesting, or if there's someone I should talk to! -- Gilad | @gilgul thoughts: http://giladlotan.com/blog activism: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/gilad-lotan/

2 1

Interviewing TaskRabbit users
by Gabriel Mugar 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hello Everyone- First time posting. I am a PhD student at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. I am working on a pilot study that looks at how users of local market websites like TaskRabbit.com<http://TaskRabbit.com> employ the site's features during a transaction. If anyone here uses TaskRabbit.com<http://TaskRabbit.com> (as a task poster or a Taskrabbit) I would like to interview you. The interview will take a maximum of 20 minutes. Thanks, Gabriel --- Gabriel Mugar Doctoral Student, Syracuse University Information Science and Technology www.buildingthecommons.org<http://www.buildingthecommons.org> @gmugar

1 0

What kind of data do you content analyze?
by Kevin G Crowston 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

My research group is working on a tool to apply natural language processing technology to content analyze large volumes of text. Our initial use case is looking for evidence of various group processes reflected in email messages of online groups (e.g., showing appreciation). However, we want to the tool to be generally useful and so are planning to extend the tool to handle other kinds of texts. We spent some time discussing what a reasonable next target would be (e.g., generic text files, web-based discussion groups, tweets), but I thought I should solicit opinions from other researchers. Hence the question: what kind of data are you content analyzing? Kevin Crowston Syracuse University Phone: +1 (315) 443-1676 School of Information Studies Fax: +1 (815) 550-2155 348 Hinds Hall Web: http://crowston.syr.edu/ Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA

3 2

Research Scientist Position
by Derek Hansen 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

AIR-Lers, I've been working with Jenny Preece, David Jacobs, and colleagues at the Encyclopedia of Life on this fascinating project and we're hoping to bring in someone else with some experience and interest in citizen science (see details below). Regards, Derek Hansen Brigham Young University --------------------------------------------- Research Scientist: Melding humans and technology in citizen science We seek a highly qualified research scientist to work on NSF-funded research projects. We conduct research on how technology design and humans’ social behavior impacts citizens’ contributions, curation and use of digital data (photos, comments, GPS, sounds, ratings). We research how and why citizens do what they do, what encourages and what discourages their participation. Our research is multi-method and includes: how algorithms in machine learning and computer vision can be developed and integrated with human input, surveys, interviews, case studies, network analysis, data logging and experimental interventions. We use combinations of machine vision, serious games, grounded theory, research through design and cross cultural analysis. Our design activities focus on smart phone apps and Microsoft surfaces (table-top displays) in the field and in the lab. This is a full-time, 12-month appointment. The salary will range from $40,000-$48,000depending on qualifications, and includes full benefits. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to increase his/her salary through grant income. A half-time position is also a possible. The position may be renewable for a second year if satisfactory progress is made during the first year. The research scientist will work with faculty members, doctoral, masters and undergraduate students from the iSchool and Computer Science Dept. at the University of Maryland where the position will be located, as well as with researchers from Brigham Young University, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and University of Colorado, Boulder. The position does not have a formal teaching requirement. The start date is flexible but fall 2012 is preferred. The ideal appointee will have skills and interests in the general area of technology and social behavior. Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Communication, Cognitive Science, Information Science, Computational Biology or a related field. We are especially interested in applicants with an interest in data curation that involves mixed data and big data, search, machine vision, machine learning, and crowdsourcing. Applicants should have experience conducting independent research, a record of communicating research results via publications and presentations, and be willing to participate in collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Applicants shouldhave excellent communication skills and be prepared to take a leadership role in grant writing and management, and be willing to help in coordinating research activities. Direct experience of research in citizen science is not essential but willingness to become fully engaged in this topic is. Interested candidates should submit: (1) a cover letter stating background, experience, interest in the position, and career objectives, (2) a CV, (3) the names and contact information for two referees, and (4) a sample of published or submitted work to Dr. Jennifer Preece and Dr. David Jacobs (preece(a)umd.edu, djacobs(a)cs.umd.edu) with the subject line “research scientist application 2012”. Review of applications will begin immediately until the position is filled.

1 0

IR 13 Pre-conference workshop deadline extended
by Attwood, Feona 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

The deadline for this pre-conference workshop, led by Holly Kruse and Sabryna Cornish, is now August 20th. The Internet, Mobile Media, and Journalism: Technologies of News in the 21st Century Over the past several years, journalism has undergone profound changes as people seeking information increasingly turned to the internet and mobile apps for news and commentary. Some traditional news outlets, like the New York Times and the Times of London, have instituted paywalls to recoup lost sales revenue. Others, like the Christian Science Monitor, stopped publishing print editions altogether and now exist only online. Many journalists working in print media lost their jobs, while reporting done by “citizen journalists” using platforms like blogs, YouTube, and Twitter, became increasingly central to the dissemination of news. A recent poll of prominent U.S. journalists who work for traditional national news media conducted by the Atlantic and the National Journal found that a majority of these journalists believe that journalism has been hurt more than helped by Internet. Is this in fact the case? What is the state of reporting in the digital age, an age in which, for instance, bloggers writing from embattled neighborhoods in Syria give information that is picked up by mainstream news outlets whose reporters can’t reach these locations? Or, conversely, what is the state of reporting when bloggers from less “newsworthy” locations, like inner city neighborhoods, write about experiences that don’t fit traditional news narratives but now have an opportunity to at least try to broadcast their stories via the web? Questions that participants in this pre-conference seminar might address in their papers and papers-in-progress include: * How have traditional news media responded to new media – for instance, by offering news on a “third screen” or entering into ventures with new media companies – and how effective have these forays been? * What constitutes a citizen journalist, and what effects are citizen journalists having as sources of information for the public and for more established media outlets? How has the internet affected reporting and its practices? * What is the role of the online news audience in the creation and dissemination of news when compared to the audience of print news? * What effect have the internet and mobile media had on reporting on breaking news and on crisis communication? * How has in-depth investigative reporting been affected by the emergence of the internet and mobile media as crucial sources of news? * What opportunities has the internet afforded writers, including those in marginalized social and economic groups, that they wouldn’t have had in traditional media? * How have print and broadcast media covered the development of digital news media? * Has the content of news changed as digital and mobile media as sources of news grown more popular? * Who are the gatekeepers in the new news environment, and what role do online gatekeepers play? * What are the social and cultural implications – locally, regionally, nationally, and globally – for the declining popularity of print news media and the growth of digital news media? Participants in this pre-conference seminar are invited to investigate these questions and interrogate mainstream understandings of the nature of digital and print news sources and their audiences, and the relations between and among them. This pre-conference will be a half-day seminar and workshop in which each participant will present his/her current research on a relevant topic, and each presentation will be followed by discussion. If you are interested in participating, please submit a working paper or paper proposal of approximately 200-500 words to Holly Kruse at hkruse(a)rsu.edu by August 20th. Submissions will be reviewed, and those accepted to the seminar will be notified by August 27th.

1 0