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Re: [Air-L] Open access and academia.edu
by Scott MacLeod 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi Natalie and All, Thanks for this article ... Sample, Ian. 2013. [ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science… Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals: Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process]. Monday 9. Manchester, England: The Guardian. ... which I added to the following wiki subjects at World University and School, as an example of open access and academia.edu (also added you in academia.edu with my academia.edu URL below) ... Academic Journals at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS#World_Unive… ... Intellectual Property - IP Law - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_-_IP_Law#World_… - Open Access Resources - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources#World_Universit… - Science - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science#World_University_and_School_L… - I just enjoyed revisiting another article from Ian Sample in a similar vein from last year in the Academic Journals at WUaS ... Sample, Ian. 2012. [ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-p… Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices: University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls]. April 24. Manchester, UK: The Guardian. Thanks again. Cheers, Scott http://scottmacleod.com/ https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod On Tue 10/12/13 1:29 AM , Natalie Sappleton N.Sappleton(a)mmu.ac.uk sent: > Dear all > > A timely contribution in todays Guardian: > > Randy Schekman, who receives the Nobel prize on Tuesday, explains why he's > eschewing the 'luxury' journals in favour of Open Access. > http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boy > cott-science-journals > Natalie > > On 9 Dec 2013, at 22:59, "Scott MacLeod" > <scott(a)scottmacleod.com<scott@ > scottmacleod.com>> wrote: > Hi Mathieu and AoIR, > > As part of the free, open, Academic Journals' 'ecosystem,' here's startup, > C.C. World University and School's Academic Journal's wiki, Subject page > -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS > #World_University_and_School_Links . World University and School > (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW and planning online, C.C. > MIT-centric, universitydegrees in many languages) is also planning to develop academic journals in > large languages to begin. For example, at present anyone can go to any > subject on the main, WUAS, wiki, Subjects page -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - in > English only (at this time), and find > Academia.edu<http://Academia.edu> near the top, and potentially add > the article they've written to that subject. > Here's an example of a Subject page ... 'Open_Access_Resources' at WUaS - > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources - and as a C.C. wiki, anyone can start a Subject page in an area > they're interestedin, using this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - or similar, which currently includes > Academia.edu<http://Academia.edu>, since it's free and open, and > makes it possible for academics to self-publish. > > Have AoIR-ers seen Harvard computer science Professor Stuart Shieber's > recent blog entry " Thoughts on founding open-access journals," > which I've added to this WUaS Open Access Resources' subject using a > version ofthe AAA citation approach: > > Shieber, Stuart. 2013. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-fo > unding-open-access-journals/ Thoughts on founding open-access > journals<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-fo > unding-open-access-journals/%20Thoughts%20on%20founding%20open-a > ccess%20journals>]. November 21. Brookline, MA:blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-acce… > journals/<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-fo > unding-open-access-journals/>. > Stuart Shieber is one of the leading, tenured academic voices for open > access journals, and writing very sensibly. > As startup World University and School develops and begins to accredit for > university degrees, WUaS's approaches to online journals will move beyond > Academia.edu<http://Academia.edu>'s approach, particularly > with respect to the editorialBoard per Stuart Shieber's article. > > (A huge project, wiki WUaS seeks to begin the MIT / Harvard of the internet > and in all 7,105 languages and 242 countries, and Wikipedia, by way of > comparison, is in 287 languages and just developed and deployed a CCdatabase, Wikidata. And WUaS plans to become a significant employer > eventually, first hiring graduate students from greatest universities, if > possible, as journal editors, and instructors in G+ Hangouts for example, > to MITfaculty in MIT OCW in video). > > I think Elsevier and Academia.edu<http://Academia.edu> will continue to pursue > their publishing strategies, but make questions of Copyright and Creative > Commons' licensing (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law#Worl > d_University_and_School_Links ) more significant. > > Best, > Scott > > > > > > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President > - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not > endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April > 2010. > > > > On Mon 09/12/13 1:49 PM , Mathieu ONeil mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au<math > ieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> sent:Hi Ivan > > Thanks for explaining! ;-) Well yes, pretty much everything you do > onlinecan be tracked, measured and sold (if that's what you mean by > "control"). Nothing mysterious about that. Facebook and > academia.edu<http://academia.edu> have the same model (they > even look the same): you providecontent, we network it. It's a trade-off. If anyone can set up a > non-commercial alternative that offers the same functionalities, I'll > jumpin right away (@Rob: I'm looking at you!). > Re. open-access, at the risk of repetition: if you just have volunteers > (asmost open access journals do) then you will have inconsistent > proof-readingand hence mistakes and errors (not all researchers can copy-edit or > proofread well, particularly when English is not their first language). > Maybe a slip in text quality is the price to pay? So yes, pools of > university-run journals could pay proofreaders... in the current > climatenot sure many will go down that path. > cheers > > Mathieu > > ________________________________________ > From: Iván [ivan.cha > ar(a)gmail.com<ar(a)gmail.com > >]Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:26To: Mathieu ONeil > Cc: Jonathan Sterne, Dr.; <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org>>Subject: Re: [Air-L] > Open access and academia.edu<http://academia.edu> > Dear colleagues, > > I have been following this thread with interest and I would like to > thankyou all for the discussion. > Mathieu, I think the walled garden Jonathan is suggeting goes beyond > notions of ease of access. After all, new media devices and social > mediaare usually designed for easy use. However, this ease is tied to > obfuscatory operations whereby control, data collection and other > procedures are 'hidden' from 'plainview.' I think it is our task to > interrogate these obfuscations. > Though I use academia.edu<http://academia.edu>, this conversation has > pushed me to reconsiderhow I present my research while contributing to free and open access. > Also, thank you for posting the titles of good open access journals. > > Best, > Iván Chaar-López > PhD Student > Department of American Culture > University of Michigan > @multitudenred > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Mathieu ONeil <math > ieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au<ieu.onei > l(a)anu.edu.au>> wrote:>Hi Jonathan > > You probably should stop changing the title of > the messages: breaks the thread :-)> The garden wall does not seem > unscaleable,anyone can create an account on academia...> > cheers > Mathieu > > > > ________________________________________> From: > air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> > [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org>] on behalf of Jonathan Sterne, > Dr.[jon > athan.sterne(a)mcgill.ca<athan. > sterne(a)mcgill.ca>]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:07To: <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org>>> > Subject: [Air-L] Open access andacademia.edu<http://academia.edu>>Just to be clear for Matthieu, my point wasn't > about services and whether people like academia.edu<http://academia.edu> or not. Many of mycolleagues love it. My concern is profit models and ethical and social > obligations, especially differences between theirs and mine. The > walledgarden is reason enough for me not to opt in. I have managed to > continuediscovering good new work without it.> > On the services front, just a big +1 to the > points from Daren and Rex.> > Also: if you want open access journals to have > higher impact factors, don't just submit to them, read the and cite > them.> > And one more thing: those of us who write tenure > reviews also need to take time in our letters to argue for the > significanceof new publishing models when junior scholars take advantage of > them.> > Jonathan > > PS -- Still, I also believe there is a place for > university and independent presses: they do a lot of useful work for > authors and for readers. Even the most committed digital humanists are > still writing books, as are many social scientists who want to reach > wideraudiences. And funding for good open access journals remains an > issue.> -- > http://sterneworks.org> (apologies for iPad > typos.) > On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:38, Matthieu > "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org>" > <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:>>iefly: not sure about comparing the enormous > fees charged by Elsevier etc to a free service like Academia. Now, > grantedthat Academia.edu<http://Academia.edu> may be profiting off users, > but - apart from its socialnetworking functions - it does provide services since it tells you > (amongstother things) (1) when people search for your work, what search terms > theyuse, where they come from; (2) how many times subscribers have > downloadedspecific items; (3) when people upload content that you are interested > in.If it did not do those things people would not use it> > _______________________________________________> The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org> mailing list> is > provided by the Association of InternetResearchers 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/> > > _______________________________________________> The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org> mailing list> is > provided by the Association of InternetResearchers 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org> mailing listis provided > by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org> mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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/"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 "_______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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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Adding AIR-L to Gmane?
by Braun, Josh 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi All, I was curious as to whether folks might be amenable to adding the AIR-L mailing list to Gmane.org (http://gmane.org/faq.php) which—if you're not already familiar with it—is a really great open/non-profit service for indexing and accessing mailing list archives. The development mailing lists for pretty much all the major open source software projects are archived there, as are lots of other interesting listservs. Adding the AIR-L list would be free, and since the archives of AIR-L are already public on the web it wouldn't be exposing private information. Meanwhile, the benefits are quite nice. Gmane makes the list contents accessible via RSS, allowing folks to peruse them in their favorite feed reader. It also makes list messages available via Usenet's NNTP protocol, allowing those of use who use Gnus or other reading tools with Usenet capability to peruse messages in a threaded newsgroup format. Meanwhile on the web, Gmane organizes mailing list archives in a very nice threaded display (e.g., http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel) or it can display them in a format reminiscent of a blog (http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel) both these web formats are convenient to search and to navigate. These additional methods of viewing the list contents would allow everyone to view the latest messages in the environment of their choice—on the web in a threaded or blog view, via a feed reader, or via a Usenet client. This might satisfy some recent queries by folks who wished for a form of access to AIR-L aside from email, while still maintaining its integrity as a mailing list. It would also make it even simpler to access and search through the back catalogue of messages for things like literature suggestions, CFPs, or shared syllabi that you may have seen some months back and only now have found a need for. It is true, of course, that adding the list to Gmane may increase the visibility of the list contents to non-subscribers, making it easier for folks to stumble upon and peruse. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is up for discussion. But as I mention above, the contents of the list are already technically public on the web. And I somewhat doubt that this increased visibility would amount to much. I've never seen the contents of a Gmane list in the top page of a Google search unless I was explicitly searching a phrase from an archived message. And there are over 14,000 of other mailing lists in the Gmane index, amongst which AIR-L would be a relatively minor footnote. I'd love to access AIR-L in Gnus and in my RSS reader, and I think Gmane would provide a great benefit in this regard. But I'm curious as to what other folks think. All the Best, Josh Braun

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New Special Issue of Sexualities on the Fifty Shades Phenomenon
by bethanvjones 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

(With apologies for cross posting) Dear all, The latest issue of Sexualities journal is out today, which is a special issue on Fifty Shades co-edited by myself, Sarah Harman and Ruth Deller. The issue is open access until March and is available at http://sex.sagepub.com/content/current Obligatory blurb from Sage’s website: Since their release in paperback in the spring of 2012, the Fifty Shades trilogy by British author E.L. James have generated enormous interest both in terms of sales and public debate. The novels blend a somewhat conventional romantic narrative with sexual passages that have a BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism, Masochism) flavour. They quickly became bestsellers, topping the New York Times bestsellers list on eBook sales alone. Their success led to a range of similar titles being marketed in their wake. It is suggested this heralded a ‘revolution’ of women downloading erotic eBooks. The interest in the books as a phenomenon arose from the backgrounds of the authors of this issue as academics with an interest in studying media, sexual cultures, gender, literature and audiences. The articles presented in this special issue (http://sex.sagepub.com/content/16/8.toc) represent a range of responses to the series. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, literature, law, religious studies, geography, media and cultural studies. The contributions explore three significant areas of study: the texts themselves; the responses of different reader communities to these books; and the series’ relationship to wider debates about sexuality within culture. We hope you enjoy! Bethan, Sarah and Ruth _____ Bethan Jones PhD Candidate, Aberystwyth University Board Member, Fan Studies Network http://fanstudies.wordpress.com http://aber.academia.edu/BethanJones http://bethanvjones.wordpress.com

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Call for papers Convergence Journal // Special Issue on Expertise
by Edgar Gómez Cruz 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Apologies for cross-posting *Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies* *Special Issue on Expertise and Engagement with/in Digital Media* Vo1 21, no. 3 (August 2015) Editors: Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex; Edgar Gómez Cruz, University of Leeds; Helen Thornham, University of Leeds In an digitally saturated environment digital media users of all kinds, engaged in diverse areas of activity, are increasingly categorized in terms of their ability to use - they are regarded as natives, non-users, experts, literates, for instance. In these contexts the question (1) of how various forms of digital expertise develop, and (2) of how understandings of expertise come into being and come to operate, become increasingly important. Digital expertise might appear to be simply descriptive (of a particular capacity to use), or unproblematically normative (indicating an elevated level of engagement that may be viewed as desirable), however there are multiple understandings of what digital expertise ‘is’ (what kind of skilled engagement with digital materials it delineates/demands/entails), and multiple ways in which it is judged and valued. Our contention is that these conceptions of expertise are contextually produced; they intersect with various social categories and discourses, and they come to operate in social contexts with some force. Our starting point is that digital expertise is at once material and a social construction. The focus of the special issue is motivated by conceptual and critical questions around the values and qualities and activities increasingly claimed and collated with ‘expertise’: the recourse to authoritative voices as embodying particular forms of knowledge, the claims made around data and information, the valuing of particular modes of expression, mediation or participation over others: all of these locate and conceptualise expertise – and consequently, knowledge, literacy, mediation, participation – in particular ways. Who – or what – is a digital expert and what is evidenced in the name of expertise, and who can be an expert and who cannot; these issues signal new power relations that are emerging around use, and for instance gender, knowledge, data and materials. As expertise becomes increasingly conflated with experience, literacy or knowledge; as expertise is seemingly evidenced in online co-created or curated content; and as statements and mined data are used and claimed in new ways as expert, what we mean by ‘expertise’ clearly needs investigation. This special issue of Convergence seeks to bring together innovative theoretical and methodological frameworks that explore the conception, practice and creation of expertise in relation to digital technologies. We invite contributions that engage with expertise addressing themes including (but not confined to): · What is expertise in a digital environment and what does it look like? · What new modes and practices of expertise are emerging, and what kinds of cultural products result? · What are the implications of these new forms of cultural products for communities and cultures? · How do cultures and communities become better enabled to engage with, use, make sense of and even make digital media? · What is the relationship between expertise, experience, literacy and knowledge? · How do digital transformations reconfigure expertise and what are the implications of this for knowledge, literacy, use and experience? · Where is expertise located – i.e. is it bound up in the conception of the user, or created and claimed alongside new data configurations– and to what extent do such locations matter? We are accepting abstracts for research articles of between 6000-9000 words and for positional papers of between 1500-2000 words in length. Abstracts should be of 500-750 words in length. Email abstracts to Edgar Gomez Cruz e.gomez(a)leeds.ac.uk. The deadline for abstracts is January 17th 2014, and the deadline for full submissions is 25th July 2014. Submissions should follow the formatting guide of the journal Convergence (see http://www.uk.sagepub.com/msg/conv.htm#MANUSCRIPTSTYLE) All research articles will be peer reviewed. *Submission* *d**etails:* Abstract Deadline: 17th January 2014 e.gomez(a)leeds.ac.uk Decision on Abstracts: 7th February 2014 Article Submission deadline: 25th July 2014 e.gomez(a)leeds.ac.uk Final submission deadline/review process complete: December 2014 For publication in August 2015

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food pics on Facebook/Flickr/Instagram
by mariza georgalou 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi everyone. I'm doing research on identity construction on Facebook. I'm particularly interested in why users post photos of food (either on Facebook, Flickr or via instagram) and how this can be related to place identities. If anyone has any relevant papers to suggest, I would be most grateful. Thank you. Mariza Georgalou -- *Mariza Georgalou* *PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University, UK **Visiting Doctoral Researcher (2013-2014), Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland* http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/mariza-georgalou https://lancaster.academia.edu/MarizaGeorgalou http://mariza-georgalou.tumblr.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Open access and academia.edu
by Scott MacLeod 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi Mathieu and AoIR, As part of the free, open, Academic Journals' 'ecosystem,' here's startup, C.C. World University and School's Academic Journal's wiki, Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS#World_Unive… . World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW and planning online, C.C. MIT-centric, university degrees in many languages) is also planning to develop academic journals in large languages to begin. For example, at present anyone can go to any subject on the main, WUAS, wiki, Subjects page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - in English only (at this time), and find Academia.edu near the top, and potentially add the article they've written to that subject. Here's an example of a Subject page ... 'Open_Access_Resources' at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources - and as a C.C. wiki, anyone can start a Subject page in an area they're interested in, using this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - or similar, which currently includes Academia.edu, since it's free and open, and makes it possible for academics to self- publish. Have AoIR-ers seen Harvard computer science Professor Stuart Shieber's recent blog entry " Thoughts on founding open-access journals," which I've added to this WUaS Open Access Resources' subject using a version of the AAA citation approach: Shieber, Stuart. 2013. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-… Thoughts on founding open-access journals]. November 21. Brookline, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-…. Stuart Shieber is one of the leading, tenured academic voices for open access journals, and writing very sensibly. As startup World University and School develops and begins to accredit for university degrees, WUaS's approaches to online journals will move beyond Academia.edu's approach, particularly with respect to the editorial Board per Stuart Shieber's article. (A huge project, wiki WUaS seeks to begin the MIT / Harvard of the internet and in all 7,105 languages and 242 countries, and Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 287 languages and just developed and deployed a CC database, Wikidata. And WUaS plans to become a significant employer eventually, first hiring graduate students from greatest universities, if possible, as journal editors, and instructors in G+ Hangouts for example, to MIT faculty in MIT OCW in video). I think Elsevier and Academia.edu will continue to pursue their publishing strategies, but make questions of Copyright and Creative Commons' licensing ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law#World_University… ) more significant. Best, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Mon 09/12/13 1:49 PM , Mathieu ONeil mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au sent: > Hi Ivan > > Thanks for explaining! ;-) Well yes, pretty much everything you do online > can be tracked, measured and sold (if that's what you mean by > "control"). Nothing mysterious about that. Facebook and > academia.edu have the same model (they even look the same): you provide > content, we network it. It's a trade-off. If anyone can set up a > non-commercial alternative that offers the same functionalities, I'll jump > in right away (@Rob: I'm looking at you!). > Re. open-access, at the risk of repetition: if you just have volunteers (as > most open access journals do) then you will have inconsistent proof-reading > and hence mistakes and errors (not all researchers can copy-edit or > proofread well, particularly when English is not their first language). > Maybe a slip in text quality is the price to pay? So yes, pools of > university-run journals could pay proofreaders... in the current climate > not sure many will go down that path. > cheers > > Mathieu > > ________________________________________ > From: Iván [ivan.cha > ar(a)gmail.com]Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:26 > To: Mathieu ONeil > Cc: Jonathan Sterne, Dr.; <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Open access and academia.edu > > Dear colleagues, > > I have been following this thread with interest and I would like to thank > you all for the discussion. > Mathieu, I think the walled garden Jonathan is suggeting goes beyond > notions of ease of access. After all, new media devices and social media > are usually designed for easy use. However, this ease is tied to > obfuscatory operations whereby control, data collection and other > procedures are 'hidden' from 'plainview.' I think it is our task to > interrogate these obfuscations. > Though I use academia.edu, this conversation has pushed me to reconsider > how I present my research while contributing to free and open access. > Also, thank you for posting the titles of good open access journals. > > Best, > Iván Chaar-López > PhD Student > Department of American Culture > University of Michigan > @multitudenred > > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Mathieu ONeil <math > ieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> wrote:> > > Hi Jonathan > > > > You probably should stop changing the title of > the messages: breaks the thread :-)> The garden wall does not seem unscaleable, > anyone can create an account on academia...> > > cheers > > Mathieu > > > > > > > ________________________________________> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Jonathan Sterne, Dr. > [jon > athan.sterne(a)mcgill.ca]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:07 > > To: <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: [Air-L] Open access and > academia.edu> > > Just to be clear for Matthieu, my point wasn't > about services and whether people like academia.edu or not. Many of my > colleagues love it. My concern is profit models and ethical and social > obligations, especially differences between theirs and mine. The walled > garden is reason enough for me not to opt in. I have managed to continue > discovering good new work without it.> > > On the services front, just a big +1 to the > points from Daren and Rex.> > > Also: if you want open access journals to have > higher impact factors, don't just submit to them, read the and cite > them.> > > And one more thing: those of us who write tenure > reviews also need to take time in our letters to argue for the significance > of new publishing models when junior scholars take advantage of > them.> > > Jonathan > > > > PS -- Still, I also believe there is a place for > university and independent presses: they do a lot of useful work for > authors and for readers. Even the most committed digital humanists are > still writing books, as are many social scientists who want to reach wider > audiences. And funding for good open access journals remains an > issue.> -- > > http://sterneworks.org> (apologies for iPad typos.) > > > >> On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:38, Matthieu "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote:>> > >> iefly: not sure about comparing the enormous > fees charged by Elsevier etc to a free service like Academia. Now, granted > that Academia.edu may be profiting off users, but - apart from its social > networking functions - it does provide services since it tells you (amongst > other things) (1) when people search for your work, what search terms they > use, where they come from; (2) how many times subscribers have downloaded > specific items; (3) when people upload content that you are interested in. > If it did not do those things people would not use it> > _______________________________________________> The Air-L > @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/> > > > > > _______________________________________________> The Air-L > @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/ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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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Reminder CFP Connexions
by Pam Brewer 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues- As you finish your semesters and move toward the holidays, I wanted to remind you that proposals for the special issue of Connexions entitled Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Teams are due January 15. These proposals are short, and I have copied the text of the call (with the production schedule) below for your convenience. The issue will be published in Dec. 2014. Please consider submitting. Contact me or Kirk if you would like to discuss an idea. Best wishes, Pam Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Technical Communication Mercer University brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:brewer_pe@mercer.edu> 478.301.4146 Associate Fellow, STC Academic SIG Manager, STC Call for Proposals EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS Preparing the workforce of the future Special Issue Guest editors Pam Estes Brewer Mercer University (email: brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu) Kirk St.Amant East Carolina University (email: stamantk(a)ecu.edu) Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) allow individuals located in different nations to collaborate almost as easily as if they were located in the same physical office. As a result, globally distributed virtual teams now support the work of organizations across the spectrum of products and services. Such teams are used by a range of for-profit and non-profit organizations including businesses, government organizations, military, and educational institutions. These organizations are increasingly employing individuals located in different nations to engage in various types of collaborative work via ICTs. As a result of such factors, much of the modern workforce is now migrating toward a virtual model of work, and forces associated with globalization are changing the nature of competitiveness in the new economy. Individuals, in turn, must often adapt rapidly to virtual environments and do so with little or no formal preparation in the types of professional communication practices essential to success in such contexts. As a result, individuals working in internationally distributed teams must generally learn from their mistakes, an effective but often costly approach. Moreover, individuals must also often adapt to working in an environment in which they are regularly paired with new colleagues and clients from different nations, cultures, and language groups. Thus, the modern distributed workplace requires employees to account for and address three central factors-technology, culture, and language-in order to succeed in most work-related tasks. An all-important question arising from this situation is, "How can we better prepare these individuals for this international, online context?" A 2012 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication special issue on global training reveals, however, that very little information on training-particularly global virtual communication training-has been published in the major professional communication journals in the last ten years. Such a gap needs to be closed if educators and trainers alike wish to prepare adult learners to be successful participants in current (and future) business practices and processes. This special issue on education and training for globally distributed virtual teams seeks to address this topic through articles on how best to prepare individuals to succeed in this new workplace. In particular, the editors are interested in articles that answer questions such as: * What types of education and training are most desired by managers and participants of global virtual teams? * How can organizations best prepare virtual team members for working across boundaries of language? What issues affect translation and terminology? What do team members most need to know about World Englishes, English as a Second Language, or English for Specific Purposes? * How can organizations better prepare employees to collaborate and cooperate online and across cultural boundaries? * How can social media be used to prepare individuals for working in intercultural online contexts? * What legal issues can affect or should be included in global virtual team training? What should participants in global virtual teams know about proprietary information and privacy? In addition, the editors of this special issue welcome articles such as: * Industry commentaries (refer to "types of articles" below). * Critical analyses of the many published task/technology models that support global virtual teams. * Critical analyses of virtual team studies in areas such as technical training, adult education, human resources development, educational technology, human performance technology, technical communication, and user experience design. The guest editors are also interested in discussing other prospective topics with potential contributors. Types of articles connexions publishes four types of articles: * Original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words in length * Review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length * Focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words in length * Teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words in length Submission Guidelines Interested individuals should send a 150-200 word proposal to connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com Proposals should be sent as a .docx, .doc, or .rtf file attached to an email message with the subject line: "Proposal for Special Issue on Globally Distributed Virtual Teams." All proposals should include the submitter's name, affiliation, and email address as well as a working title for the proposed article. Production Schedule The schedule for the special issue is as follows: * 15 Jan. 2014 -Proposals due * 15 Feb. 2014 - Decisions on proposals sent to proposal submitters * 15 June 2014 - Manuscripts due * 15 Aug. 2014 - Reviewer comments to authors * 15 Oct. 2014 - Final manuscripts due to editors * Dec. 2014 - Publication of special issue Contact Information Completed proposals or questions about either proposal topics or this special issue should be sent to Pam Estes Brewer and Kirk St.Amant at connexionsspecialissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:connexionsspecialissue@gmail.com> connexions * international professional communication journal (ISSN 2325-6044)

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and academia.edu
by Matt Crain 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

This is a great discussion. I’d like to echo Daren’s comments and add Surveillance Studies<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/edit…>to the list of high quality open access journals. Tenured faculty support of open access seems to be critical moving forward. I might argue that “support” is not enough and that tenured faculty should begin to think seriously about alternative models to Big Publishing and consider completely withdrawing their labor, expertise, and credibility from a system that clearly undermines non-profit academic institutions through exploitative labor practices. Yes, exploitative. With the ongoing rise of contingent faculty, it the model whereby academic publishing labor is “built in” to faculty salaries is disappearing. I’m not tenured, but I suspect that this has been ongoing for some time. With all due respect, if there are any arguments for why tenured faculty should continue to edit, review, and publish in the commercial conglomerate press system, I would like to hear them. Matt -- Matthew Crain, Ph.D. Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign matthewcrain.info

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Open access and academia.edu
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Just to be clear for Matthieu, my point wasn't about services and whether people like academia.edu or not. Many of my colleagues love it. My concern is profit models and ethical and social obligations, especially differences between theirs and mine. The walled garden is reason enough for me not to opt in. I have managed to continue discovering good new work without it. On the services front, just a big +1 to the points from Daren and Rex. Also: if you want open access journals to have higher impact factors, don't just submit to them, read the and cite them. And one more thing: those of us who write tenure reviews also need to take time in our letters to argue for the significance of new publishing models when junior scholars take advantage of them. Jonathan PS -- Still, I also believe there is a place for university and independent presses: they do a lot of useful work for authors and for readers. Even the most committed digital humanists are still writing books, as are many social scientists who want to reach wider audiences. And funding for good open access journals remains an issue. -- http://sterneworks.org (apologies for iPad typos.) > On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:38, Matthieu "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > iefly: not sure about comparing the enormous fees charged by Elsevier etc to a free service like Academia. Now, granted that Academia.edu may be profiting off users, but - apart from its social networking functions - it does provide services since it tells you (amongst other things) (1) when people search for your work, what search terms they use, where they come from; (2) how many times subscribers have downloaded specific items; (3) when people upload content that you are interested in. If it did not do those things people would not use it

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Mobile Devices in Education: An E-Waste Survey
by Shawn Apostel 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Tablets and other mobile devices are increasingly being used to facilitate student learning; however, each day these devices get one step closer to becoming outdated and contributing to the ever expanding e-waste stream. Kristi Apostel and I are collecting information to see what plans schools and universities have in place for outdated mobile devices. We will be presenting our findings in the session "Futures for Composition and Communication: Opening Research and Teaching to Issues of E-Waste and E-Justice" at the Conference of College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, in March. Please fill out this quick survey if you have past, current, or future experiences with mobile devices in education: http://tinyurl.com/mobile-ewaste-survey Thank you, Shawn -- Shawn Apostel, Ph.D -- Instructional Technology Specialist Bellarmine University -- @apostels shawn.apostel(a)gmail.com

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