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FREE Webcast > Individual and Scholarly Networks > A Two-Part Seminar on Building Networks and Evaluating Network Relationships > January 22 2013
by gerrymck 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

*** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ Collaborative platforms and social networking websites are becoming popular with scientists and researchers around the world: scholars can connect between institutions, countries and disciplines easily, faster and better than ever before. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks" will explore two aspects of this phenomenon; firstly, how the connections are forming, and how attitudes may change to adapt to the new environment, and, secondly, how connections can be evaluated, nuanced and measured. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 and will be webcast live from New York, Amsterdam and Oxford. It will be split into two segments: Part 1: Building Networks | 8:00-10:00 EST / 13:00-15:00 GMT This session will focus on the ways in which these relationships are formed and maintained, and how they are changing the nature of scholarly relationships. Part 2: Evaluating Network Relationships | 10:30-12:30 EST / 15:30-17:30 GMT Altmetrics is one of the most explosive areas of interest in bibliometric analysis and is increasing in importance. This session will explore the related areas of altmetrics, contributorship and the culture of reference. SPEAKERS - Dr William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley - Professor Jeremy Frey, Head of Physical Chemistry, Southampton University - Dr Heather Piwowar, Postdoc at Duke University, ImpactStory - Gregg Gordon, President and CEO, Social Science Research Network - Dr Gudmundur Thorisson, Research Associate, University of Leicester - Kelli Barr, Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas *SEATS ARE LIMITED > REGISTRATION REQUIRED* Link to Registration Available At http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2013/01/free-webcast-individual-and-schol…<https://exchange.iastate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=SHcE8O6CakWvUwwscTp5XTbiI4iVv…> Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 152 Parks Library Ames IA 50011 http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/<https://exchange.iastate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=SHcE8O6CakWvUwwscTp5XTbiI4iVv…>

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9-13 yr olds & Social Networking
by Sally Quinn 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi all, I just wanted to let you all know about my latest publication which shows a relationship between SNS use and feelings of belonging to the friendship group for 9-13 yr old boys. Please have a read! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12007/pdf Many thanks Sally Quinn PhD Researcher Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD

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[JVWR] Managerial and Commercial Applications: A New Issue is published
by Tzafnat Shpak 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Trouble viewing this email? Click here<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=6dc38cd878…> to view it online. [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research]<http://jvwresearch.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Annou…> Dear subscribers, We are happy to announce the new publication of The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: *Volume 5, Number 3: Managerial & Commercial Applications* The editorial team for this issue: - *Shu Schiller*, Wright State University, USA - *Brian Mennecke*, Iowa State University, USA - *Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah*, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Scholars and practitioners are confronted with an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, the business case for virtual worlds appears to offer great promise; while on the other hand, the observed returns and demonstrable successes are often absent or negligible. This special issue on *“managerial and commercial applications”* of virtual worlds aims to highlight research that makes a significant and novel contribution in theory and practice about virtual worlds in the business domain. In this last issue of 2012 you will find three papers on the topic, two “Assembled” papers and one “Think Piece.” Managing Editor Corner - From Orlando to Milan: Virtual Worlds Business Disillusionment<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7031?utm_source=Jo…> Yesha Y. Sivan Research Papers - Time for a Post-Mortem?: Business Professionals’ Perspectives on the Disillusionment of Virtual Worlds<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6324?utm_source=Jo…> Patrick J. Bateman, Jacqueline C. Pike, Nicholas Berente, Sean Hansen - Training Evaluation in Virtual Worlds: Development of a Model<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6335?utm_source=Jo…> Richard N. Landers, Rachel C. Callan - Avatar Identification on a 3D Commercial Website: Gender Issues<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6321?utm_source=Jo…> Ingrid Poncin, Marion Garnier Assembled (Rush to Press Papers) - Does Loving an Avatar Threaten Real Life Marriage?<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6296?utm_source=Jo…> Richard A Kolotkin, Maggie M Williams, Casey Lloyd, Earnest W Hallford - The Cowl Makes the Monk: How Avatar Appearance and Role Labels Affect Cognition in Virtual Worlds<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6280?utm_source=Jo…> Jorge Peña, Matthew S McGlone, Joseph Sanchez “Think Pieces” - A Cross-Case Analysis of Possible Facial Emotion Extraction Methods that Could Be Used in Second Life - Pre Experimental Work<http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6270?utm_source=Jo…> Shahnaz Kamberi We are also happy to let you know of the following: - Our next issue *Assembled (2013) * will be led by JVWR Managing Editor Prof. Yesha Sivan, Metaverse Labs & Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel - We just came back from *Orlando Augmented Reality workshop* and are already planning our next major JVWR event – in Milan, Italy. So mark your calendars around December 16-18, 2013 (http://icis2013.aisnet.org/<http://icis2013.aisnet.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+A…> ). - Check our web site's special page on* events<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-06-12-18-46-09?utm_source=Journal+of+…> * in our field for updates. - Review* past issues<http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/past-issues/all-issues?utm_source=Journal+…> *on our website's special *all issues cover view* page. - We welcome you to join our Facebook page 'theJVWR<https://www.facebook.com/TheJVWR?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Resea…> ' - Follow us* @theJVWR<https://twitter.com/TheJVWR?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+A…> * on Twitter - And/or subscribe to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwreserach.org<http://www.jvwreserach.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+A…> ). It is in the spirit of these holidays that we would like to say thank you and best wishes for 2013! May peace, prosperity, and happiness be yours throughout RL and VWs alike. *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Managing Editor TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://jvwresearch.org<http://jvwresearch.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Annou…> [image: Managerial and Commercial Applications Vol. 5 No. 3 Cover]<http://jvwresearch.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Annou…> © 2012 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. -- =========== *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor *The Journal of Virtual World Research* tzafnat.shpak(a)jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org

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Thank you!
by Cagla Taskin 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Thank you everyone who has contributed. I honestly did not imagine I would get more than a few replies, you all surprised me in a very nice way. Wish you all the best, CT

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 101, Issue 25
by Cassian Vian 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

That's an interesting example Annika. I thought I'd chip in my own anecdote as I've never formally looked into the subject but would like to read some work on it. A cousin of mine plays World of Warcraft and has made a few friends through it - some of whom he has met offline. A couple of years ago he logged on to find that a woman he had known for three years had died in a car crash. Her husband was one of the people he had met in person and he had spoken to her over voice chat. My cousin was pretty upset as you can imagine. His feelings became more confused when it transpired through a series of emails that the dead woman he was mourning never existed! The man claiming to be her husband had invented her. Going as far as to modify his voice over software whilst pretending to be his fictional wife. It's possible there are still people online who think of her as a real person who died. I found the blurring of the lines between fiction and reality, even with a subject (death) which is supposedly the ultimate in real fascinating. I'm not sure my cousin shared my academic interest though. Cassian -----Original Message----- From: annika coughlin Sent: 30 Dec 2012 22:04:49 GMT To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 101, Issue 25 Hi CT I don't have any literature recommendations, but I think it is an interesting topic. I have always wondered if any one has researched how online community members, who only know each other online, deal with the death of an online community member who they never met in the flesh. My father was an online poet from the UK, but quite popular in Australia and when we had to tell people of his death, it was quite interesting contacting the various message boards he was a member of. Also - he used to play the Wii and have a Wii character as well as a character in Animal Crossing. When we play the Wii now, his character is still on there and it is funny when he appears in games as his Wii character. In Animal Crossing, we built a memorial in the game with flowers etc near his house. It would be interesting if someone has researched anything to do with this sort of thing. Annika >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:35:20 +0200 >From: Cagla Taskin <ctasquin(a)yahoo.com> >To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-L] Literature on online grieving and bereavement >Message-ID: <E7681324-1D51-4053-97A8-3C1966AD2B6F(a)yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Dear list members, > >I am currently writing my Master's thesis on practices of grieving and bereavement online, with a focus on a suicide survivors forum case study. Any literature recommendations would be highly appreciated. > >Thank you in advance, >CT > > > _______________________________________________ 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/

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Feedback requested: The Ethics of Social Honeypots
by Dave Dittrich 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi all, For those who did not attended our panel on "Other Ethics" at AoIR in Manchester, my contribution was to mention a DHS-supported effort to develop principles and applications for ethical evaluation of ICT research and how it can help in studying computer crime in ICT settings. If you are not familiar with the Menlo Report and want to learn more, see: Michael Bailey, David Dittrich, Erin Kenneally, and Douglas Maughan. The Menlo Report. Security & Privacy, IEEE, 10(2):71–75, March/April 2012. http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/papers/menlo_report/menlo_report.pdf Two of my Menlo colleagues and I recently taught a didactic course at the PRIM&R IRB conference in San Diego. The course primarily described the Menlo Report process, but concluded with a mock IRB committee review of a fictional proposed research project in which researchers develop countermeasures to malicious botnets in social network platforms like Facebook using a combination of deception to build a social network of over 1 million users and to then use "good bots" that infiltrate the "bad bots". I would be very interested in hearing any feedback from researchers on this list who study social networks and have had experience with their own IRBs as to whether this paper is helpful and in what ways, or how it could be modified to be more helpful. You can find the paper here: David Dittrich. The Ethics of Social Honeypots. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184997, 2012. P.S. Stuart Schecter already pointed out to me that Facebook provides a back-end service to researchers that would obviate the need to use deception in order to get the same information necessary to detect malicious botnets. I was not aware of it and possibly many others are not as well. Regardless, the discussion of how to address the issues of deception in ICT research studies is still important to consider. -- Dave Dittrich dittrich(a)apl.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079 -- Dave Dittrich dittrich(a)apl.washington.edu http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich PGP key: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint: 097B 4DCB BF16 E1D8 A06C 7512 A751 C80A D15E E079

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Literature on online grieving and bereavement
by Cagla Taskin 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Dear list members, I am currently writing my Master's thesis on practices of grieving and bereavement online, with a focus on a suicide survivors forum case study. Any literature recommendations would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance, CT

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