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Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by William Bain 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Antoine, Cite-U-Like has quite a lot on this, in case you haven't yet checked there. Best wishes, William

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Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by Unger, Johann 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Antoine, You may be interested in Georgina Voss's work on the industry, e.g. http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/15/3-4/391.abstract Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:57, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear IRs, I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at available studies made out of them. I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution of the object itself. Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) Thanks for your help, All best, Antoine http://mazier.es/

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ASIS&T Changes Its Name, Enhances Its Global Mission
by Richard Hill 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

{Apologies for duplication] ASIS&T Changes Its Name, Enhances Its Global Mission With nearly 90% of all ballots cast voting in favor of a name change, the American Society for Information Science and Technology has become the Association for Information Science and Technology. While the ASIS&T acronym stays the same, the name change recognizes the growing influence of ASIS&T in the international arena. The opportunities and challenges with respect to the science and technology of information are increasingly international in focus and scope. ASIS&T supports members around the globe in addressing these opportunities and challenges. When 2012 ASIS&T president Diane H. Sonnenwald, in collaboration with 2011 president Linda C. Smith, 2013 president Andrew Dillon, and 2014 president Harry Bruce, called for a membership vote on the name change issue, she said, �The word American in our name often makes it difficult for individuals outside the United States to receive recognition for belonging to and participating in ASIS&T. It also fails to recognize the important contributions members outside the United States make to our association and to our discipline.� In addition, Sonnenwald noted that increasing international participation in ASIS&T will provide additional opportunities for all members to learn from and share expertise and knowledge with colleagues who have different expertise and knowledge. Currently 18% of ASIS&T members reside outside the United States in 52 different countries. At the recent 75th Anniversary ASIS&T Annual Meeting, attendees came from 25 countries, with 22% coming from countries other than the United States. In addition, ASIS&T runs successful international conferences, notably the annual European Information Architecture Summit, and will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada. The new name reflects the commitment of our members to international cooperation and global efforts to increase the influence of information science in education, research and applications to ensure the best access, management and use of information in an increasingly interconnected world. All contact points, including web address, e-mail, phone, address, etc. will remain the same. Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Big Data for undergrads
by Mark D. Johns 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

A number of people asked me to share the results of my request, from a few days ago, for recommended readings on Big Data suitable for undergraduate students. My thanks to all who were willing to share. The results are compiled below. Any errors in classification or details are mine alone. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain *Readings in “Big Data” appropriate for advanced undergraduates (2013-MAR-01) Bibliographies Weigel, M. (2012, Sept. 20). What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list. Journalist’s Resource. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/business/what-big-data-res… Introductory Articles Anderson, J. & Rainie, L. (2012, July) Pew Internet & American Life Projectreport: “The Future of Big Data.” http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_Big_D… Bollier, D. (2010). “The Promise and Peril of Big Data.” (excerpt) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/The_Pro… boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878>Information, Communication & Society, 15:5, 662-679. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878 Critical Articles Anderson, Chris (2008). “The End of Theory, Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete?” Edge. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/anderson08_index.html Berry, David M. (2011). The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities. Culture Machine, 12. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/440/470 Latour, Bruno (2009). “Tarde’s idea of quantification.” The Social After Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments. Ed. Mattei Candea. Routledge, London, pp. 145-162. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/116-TARDE-CANDEA.pdf Manovich, Lev. "Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data." Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. The University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2012. http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manovich_trending_paper.pdf Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Digitization. Stanford University, 2011. http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=123 Shirky, Clay (2005). “Ontology is Overrated.” http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Analysis Lee, A. M., Lewis, S. C., & Powers, M. J. (2012, Nov. 20). Audience clicks and news placement: A study of time-lagged influence in online journalism. Communication Research. DOI: 10.1177/0093650212467031. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/QbSXS7 Books Cukier, K. & Mayer-Schonberger, V. (2013). Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (256 pages) Rogers, Richard (2013). Digital Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (280 pages) Stanton, J. (2013). Introduction to Data Science. http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/ Textbooks Marz, N. & Warren, J. (2012). Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems. Westampton, NJ: Manning e-book available at http://manning.com/marz/ Softbound print in Fall 2013 (425 pages). Wikileaks Issues Lynch, Lisa (2010). “A Toxic Archive of Digital Sunshine: Wikileaks and the Archiving of Secrets.” Paper presented at the MIT6 conference, Cambridge, MA. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Lynch.pdf Lovink, Geert and Patrice Riemens (2010). “Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks,” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-12-07-lovinkriemens-en.html Stalder, Felix (2010). “Contain this! Leaks, whistle−blowers and the networked news ecology.” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-11-29-stalder-en.html Sterling, Bruce (2010), “The Blast Shack,” Webstock. http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ Žižek, Slavoj (2011). “Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks,” The London Review of Books, 33:2, 9-10. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-ageof-wikilea… Video Castells, M. (2011), “From WikiLeaks to Wiki-revolutions,” SONIC Media, Technology and Society Speaker Series, Lecture on 8 March 2011 at Northwestern University, Video Registration available at: http://lecture.soc.northwestern.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=4e192796ace943fa… *

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TtW NYC, today and tomorrow, and streaming
by Baker, Andrea 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, everyone, Just in case you forgot and are in the area, please stop by the Theorizing the Web conference at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, March 1 and 2. See this link for the program and presenter info: theorizingtheweb.org See this link for streaming video: theorizingtheweb.org/2013/videostream You can also contribute questions via Twitter. I think that's right. Feel free to make corrections or additions. cheers, andee

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New MA in Social Media at University of Westminster, London
by Graham Meikle 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi all Some colleagues may be interested in our new MA in Social Media – or may have graduates who might be interested: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communica… https://www.facebook.com/MASocialMedia If you'd like further details, please email either me or my fellow Course Leader, Professor Christian Fuchs (c.fuchs(a)westminster.ac.uk) Best regards, gm ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 4755 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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Big Data texts
by Mark D. Johns 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

I've been assigned to teach an advanced research methods course on "big data" next fall to upper-level undergrads. As I'm more of a qualitative guy, this is a bit outside my comfort zone. I'm seeking recommendations of books, journal articles, or other readings that would be accessible to undergraduate juniors and seniors on analytics and related topics. Please respond off list, and if there is interest, I'll post a summary later. Thanks in advance. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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Cyberspace as a new space for social policy?
by Tomasz Drabowicz 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Dear all, I was wondering whether anyone on the list is aware of the literature (theoretical or empirical) discussing cyberspace as a potentially new space for social policy, especially in the context of the current economic crisis - when using e-solutions in the area of social policy might be considered one of the ways of restructuring existing welfare states? Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thank you very much for your consideration. Best regards, tomasz Tomasz Drabowicz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of General Sociology Faculty of Economics and Sociology University of Lodz Rewolucji 1905r. 41 90-214 Lodz, Poland Room A-113 e-mail: tomasz.drabowicz(a)uni.lodz.pl Phone: +4842 635-54-50 "A group of letters after one’s name does not necessarily denote wisdom or judgement and the lack of these does not necessarily denote stupidity."

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Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
by Richard Forno 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Biella does great work.....ergo I'm looking forward to adding this to my must-read pile.....which right now is more like a "scholastic endtable" which is one year away from becoming am "academic-style room divider." ;) --rick Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/ When you’re starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the locals and learning their ways. That’s what Gabriella Coleman did. She went to San Francisco and lived with the hackers. Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University, spent three years living in the Bay Area, studying the community that builds the Debian Linux open source operating system and other hackers — i.e., people who pride themselves on finding new ways to reinvent software. More recently, she’s been peeling away the onion that is the Anonymous movement, a group that hacks as a means of protest — and mischief. When she moved to San Francisco, she volunteered with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — she believed, correctly, that having an eff.org address would make people more willing to talk to her — and started making the scene. She talked free software over Chinese food at the Bay Area Linux User Group’s monthly meetings upstairs at San Francisco’s Four Seas Restaurant. She marched with geeks demanding the release of Adobe eBooks hacker Dmitry Sklyarov. She learned the culture inside-out. Now, she’s written a book on her experiences: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. It’s a scholarly work of anthropology that examines the question: What does it mean to be a hacker? Earlier this month, she dropped by Wired’s offices to talk about the book. Here’s an edited transcript of the conversation: < -- > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/ --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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Call for Papers: UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013
by Matt Crain 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Call for Papers: The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action: UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013. We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco, where we have found affordable accommodations for your stay. Submission deadline is June 1, 2013. With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%. We need rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and propaganda. We need grounded ideas for democratizing media in all formats and genres. We need media justice. To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming up for our 2013 conference. UDC, which held its first conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace. Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day censorship. Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist projects. We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media activism. Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome. We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013(a)gmail.com by June 1, 2013: 1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call. 2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students. The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract. 3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call. 4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels. Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel. For more information: http://www.democraticcommunications.net/conference/udc-2013 Best regards, Matthew Crain Ph.D. Candidate Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign matthewcrain.info

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