March 2013 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Fwd: New from NYU Press: Cached
by stephanie schulte 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hello, I thought my new book might interest some listserv members. Best wishes, Steph *Cached <http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=8212>*: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2013) In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time—shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted—and often struggled—to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. Schulte maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the internet, but the development of the technology itself. *Cached* focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. Schulte illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology. *Stephanie Ricker Schulte* is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. "This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte's elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

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Re: [Air-L] Looking for best practices re privacy education (Terri Senft)
by Seda Guerses 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

dear terri, i think tactical tech has done some great work in how activists/advocates/everyday citizens can look out for their privacy (given that this is even possible). what i really like about their work is that they pay as much attention to their content as to their form/media. there material/courses are accessible and appealing to a general audience. while we are at it, i will also advertise their upcoming summer camp (sorry for cross-posting): Tactical Tech has been busy preparing for this year's Info Activism Camp titled 'Evidence and Influence'. Applications for the Camp are now open and we would really like to see someone from your organisation applying to attend. More details here: https://camp2013.tacticaltech.org/content/important-information Please do pass this around and share it. The first deadline is April 2nd but only for those who need Schengen visas - so please apply soon ! best, s. On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Looking for best practices re privacy education (Terri Senft) > 2. Submission Extension to 5 April - CFP: Social, Casual, > Mobile: Changing Games ANZCA Pre-Conference (2 July 2013) > (Tama Leaver) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:18:05 -0400 > From: Terri Senft <tsenft(a)gmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Looking for best practices re privacy education > Message-ID: > <CAMsrFiGc+gu96esPAzut9TRxVpjBP889ACtz0hK0oDS-3QqvEA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi All, > > Another question that I know some of you are total experts on: > > I'm looking for examples of best practices (ideally case studies) of > education efforts re internet user privacy. > > These could be grassroots, government efforts, corporate efforts, activist > efforts. Could be for kids, seniors, university students, consumers, > whatever. Could be about parsing terms of service agreements, negotiating > option bottons, etc. As long as people have praised them as being useful in > some way, I'd be interested in seeing them. > > > I seem to recall Canada being big in this area. Am I wrong about that? > > Thanks in advance, pals. > > Terri > > -- > <http://goog_689013053> > > <http://goog_689013053> > > Dr. Theresa M. Senft > Global Liberal Studies Program > School of Arts & Sciences > New York University > 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 > > home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>** * > facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft > twitter: @terrisenft >

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online etiquette
by Woodstock, Louise 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Dear List, Please send citations for recent articles addressing online etiquette. Thanks in advance! Louise Woodstock Associate Professor of Media & Communication Studies Ursinus College

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canada/privacy
by Barry Wellman 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Both the Federal and the Ontario Privacy Commissioners have done good work in this area. With good websites. Lots more needs to be done. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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Submission Extension to 5 April - CFP: Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games ANZCA Pre-Conference (2 July 2013)
by Tama Leaver 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games, ANZCA 2013 PreConference, 2 July 2013, Perth, Western Australia. Extension: Abstract submissions will now remain open until Friday, 5 April 2013. Keynote Speaker: Mia Consalvo, Concordia University in Montreal http://about.me/miaconsalvo Plenary Speaker: John Banks, Queensland University of Technology http://www.playification.com/ Social, casual and mobile games – primarily experienced on smartphones and online social networks – are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and in the process, changing the ways in which games are designed, understood and, most importantly, played. This free one-day preconference held on 2 July at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, will explore this rapidly changing gaming landscape and discuss the ludic, methodological, theoretical, economic, social and cultural challenges that these changes invoke. Importantly, social, casual and mobile games do not exist in a vacuum, so the challenges, changes and continuities in relation to previous digital and physical games and gaming practices are also open for analysis. Topics might include, but are by no means limited to: • Design and industry shifts from traditional games to mobile and networked games • New user demographics • Virtual currencies, in-game purchases, the .99c price-point and other economic issues • Games as surveillance and the exchange of user information for game progress • Zynga: The Rise and (partial) Fall of Facebook’s Biggest Gaming Friend • Mobile Franchises: Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, and so on. • South-East Asian and other non-Western gaming cultures • Gaming communities • Gamification - the good, the bad, and the scoreboard • Convergence and social, casual and mobile games • Edutainment • The sociality or otherwise of social games • Shifting landscape from PC and console games to social, casual and mobile games • Locative games: place and mobility Abstracts of no more than 500 words (or full papers of no more than 5000 words if preferred) including a brief biographic statement, using APA 6th referencing style, are now due Friday, 5 April 2013 emailed to socialcasualmobile(a)gmail.com. Accepted papers and abstract-only presentations will be notified by 15 April 2013. Pre-conference papers and abstracts will not appear in the ANZCA proceedings; rather they will automatically be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on the topic Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games being organised concurrently with the preconference. If you do NOT want your paper or abstract considered for inclusion in this collection, please note this when emailing your submission. For more details please visit http://socialcasualmobile.blogspot.com -- Dr Tama Leaver Lecturer in Internet Studies Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Phone: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)

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(no subject)
by Kristi Scott 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

http://www.modity.es/txs/gcmvsfdn.html

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Anyone studying big data and investing in China?
by Terri Senft 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi Everyone, I have a super smart student here who is looking for a bit of help from our China specialists. Here is his query: As someone studying global economics, I’ve become increasingly interested in learning how individual Chinese investors manage to stay abreast of financial news given how cut off the average Chinese citizen appears to be from social media flows on sites like Twitter. In the U.S., American investors are increasingly making financial decisions based on activities on social media sites (known colloquially as “investing through big data research.”) How do Chinese investors use big data? Do Chinese investors use big data? _________ Any thoughts? I think this is worth discussing on-list, but you can also email him privately if you wish at jfr308(a)nyu.edu Huge thanks in advance! Terri -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>** *(needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 26
by Cintia Boll 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Prof Massimo Canevacci na UNISINOS Quem puder, vá assisti-lo. O prof fez parte de minha banca no Doutorado e é uma pessoa extremamente entusiasmada com a Cultura Digital. Seus conceitos balançam nossas ideias trazendo a mobilidade necessária para esse mundo da cultura juvenil. Verdade: não percam. Quem puder, vá vê-lo. Tenho certeza de que ficarão felizes de o terem conhecido. Mais informações no link: http://tecnoculturaaudiovisual.com.br/?p=12914 Profa Dra Cintia Ines Boll Faculdade de Educação-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul-UFRGS 2013/3/24 <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Possible adopters, Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition? > (Charles Ess) > 2. CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI > research: Beginnings, middles and endings (John Vines) > 3. Help recruiting and enrolling participants in Twitter study > (Benjamin Gleason) > 4. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography (Antoine Mazieres) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:46:29 +0100 > From: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > To: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Possible adopters, Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition? > Message-ID: <CD745FD5.5C0DC%charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Dear AoIR friends and colleagues, > > (with apologies in advance to any of you who experience this as a form of > unwanted spam. My reason for sending this to the AoIR list is that the > book > and its revisions are so deeply indebted to AoIR colleagues, the work of > the > ethics committee, and conference presentations and discussions that AoIR > seems to me the book's first and most natural home.) > > The second (substantially revised and thoroughly updated) edition of my > book, Digital Media Ethics (Polity Press) will come out later this year, > I'm > very happy to say. I've appended the blurb at the end of this note. > > In the meantime, however, Polity would like me to develop a list of > possible > adopters of the book: the possible adopters will then be sent an inspection > copy of the book for review. > > So: if you would like to be included in the list, please send me your > indication of interest along with exact contact details - name, address, > email address, and phone number - so that Polity can contact you as needed. > > (You can send these to either my gmail account or UiO account: > <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no>) > > Along these lines, if anyone has recommendations for journals that would be > interested in reviewing the new book, I would very much appreciate that > information as well. > > Thanks in advance, and best in the meantime, > -charles > > Associate Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > > Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations > <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> > > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no > > The blurb: > The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was > the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global > perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. This > second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current research and > scholarship, and recent developments and technological changes, > particularly > the dominance of Internet access via mobile devices. The new edition also > benefits from extensively updated case-studies and pedagogical material, > incorporating more recent scholarship as well as examples of ?watershed? > events and developments, including privacy policy changes on Facebook, > Google+, and others, in relation to on-going changes in privacy law in the > U.S., the E.U., and Asia. > New for the second edition are sections on friendship online, > democratization, and ?citizen journalism? and its implications for > traditional journalistic ethics. With a significantly updated section on > the > ?ethical toolkit?, this book will also introduce students to prevailing > ethical theories and illustrate how they are applied to central issues in > digital media ethics. Topics covered include privacy, copyright, > pornography > and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. > Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and > theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions > that foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of these > issues and their possible resolutions. Each chapter includes additional > resources and suggestions for further research and writing. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:48:47 +0000 > From: John Vines <john.vines(a)newcastle.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on > participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings > Message-ID: <CD748A89.1B53A%john.vines(a)ncl.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Apologies for cross-posting > > ************************** > Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Human-Computer > Studies > > Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings > > http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/ > > ************************** > Scope > ************************** > Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI > community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized > approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in > the design process. This may vary from researchers inviting specific users > or stakeholders to participate in design workshops, through to long term > engagements with communities to define research questions and study > deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field, > however, there are multiple understandings of what participation in > research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science, > participatory and performance arts, international development, and action > research. Beyond these influences, there is also increased pressure from > funding bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the > public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has drawn > attention to the potential benefits and challenges > , both theoretical and practical of involving users and the public in HCI > research. > > While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design processes can > offer great insight into the applicability of technological interventions > in certain contexts, the HCI community would benefit from critically > reflecting on how participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The > mundane yet still significant details of how participatory HCI research is > performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community. The coming > together of multiple perspectives from different disciplines ? some of > which have existing frameworks, some debate the very notion of > participation ? provides an opportunity for HCI researchers to reflect > critically on how people are involved in design processes. Specifically, we > call attention to the following three phases of performing participatory > HCI research: > > How we begin: > How do researchers establish relationships with communities, participants, > or users and stakeholders prior to commencing participatory research? Who > here determines the research context and the setting it takes place in, or > what research questions are formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and > assumptions do researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are > certain participants selected or invited to take part over others? > > How we reflex and reflect: > How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated processes of > participation and engagement while working with groups or communities? How > are researchers and participants given space to document and reflect upon > the activities they perform and how does this inform the research or design > process throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it > and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on practice > as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to document participatory > work along the way without skewing the process itself? > > How we end: > How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions should > be sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and what are the > practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a participatory project? Is > sustainability or legacy always positive outcome of participatory research, > and are there ways of empirically understanding transformations within a > context beyond the uptake or success of a specific technology or > intervention? > > ************************** > Topics > ************************** > This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought > provoking, original research articles that address one or more of these > stages through topics including, but not limited to: > -- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in > the design or evaluation of new technologies. > -- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations or > communities, such as older people, young people, activist groups, > charities, rural communities, among others. > -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions and > related problems of participation as a process. > -- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of > participation in HCI. > -- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both > researchers and participants engaged in research. > -- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications of > designing technologies with communities of users and stakeholders. > -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research. > -- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on or > sustaining participatory HCI research. > > It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage of > participatory research/design processes in use, as described above, and > that accepted papers will comprise examples from each phase. Papers > addressing theoretical issues will only be considered where the > contribution is exceptional. > > ************************** > Paper submission > ************************** > Authors are requested to contact the guest editors (email: > participation.di(a)gmail.com<mailto:participation.di@gmail.com>) prior to > making a submission by July 31st 2013 to inform them of their plans to > submit to the special issue. All submissions should be made to the IJHCS > submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs selecting "SI: > participatory HCI" as the Article Type. Full manuscripts should be > submitted according to the IJHCS Guide for authors and will be blind > refereed. > > Articles must be based on original research, although extended versions of > published conference papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 50% > new material. All manuscripts should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide > for authors and online submission is available at > http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs. > > ************************** > Key dates > ************************** > Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013 > Paper due date: 31st August 2013 > Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st > review) > Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014 > Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review) > Final Version due: 7th April 2014 > > ************************** > Guest Editors > ************************** > John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) > Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) > Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom) > Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:41:37 -0400 > From: Benjamin Gleason <horns2k(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Help recruiting and enrolling participants in Twitter > study > Message-ID: > <CAN16u+v-X0t7Dv7D1HRn0vVmPmyGEg3hAG= > Sv6JXX8aehztJmg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi there. My name is Benjamin Gleason and I'm a 2nd year PhD student at > Michigan State University. I'm currently doing a study that explores the > digital literacy practices and identity performances of high school aged > Twitter users. The study design is composed of two stages-- the first will > be a discourse analysis of tweets and the second will be semi-structured > interview about their Twitter practices. I've received IRB approval for my > study and am ready to recruit and enroll participants, who I've been > following on Twitter for the past 4-6 weeks or so. > > Anecdotally, I've seen a lot of interesting identity-work happening and > would like to get the young people I've been following to participate in > the study. I invited a few of the participants to join the study, but the > response has been limited. > > I was hoping to find participants through Twitter who may be interested in > participating, but that doesn't seem to be happening. > > I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to recruit participants > (aged 15-18) to join my study. The requirements of the study *seem* pretty > minimal-- only one (or maybe two) interviews about their Twitter use. But > I'm having a hard time getting young people to participate. Your help is > appreciated. > > Thanks and have a great day :) > > -- > p: 415-516-6240 > > https://sites.google.com/site/bwgleason (research) > http://www.progroup.us <http://www.prospectusgroup.us> (consulting) > > "For every single idea of a judicious and reasonable nature which offers > itself to us, what hosts of frivilous, bizarre, and absurd ideas cross our > mind." > [Paul Soriau, Theory of Invention, 1881] > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:45:03 +0100 > From: Antoine Mazieres <antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography > Message-ID: > < > CAH+6s9dKuMpMsojfGo0jbKr9JLcJqtCFzF2qaibotEZ5U+AgGw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search > > Very nice data ! never saw it before... > the presence of "rape" in the top ten (india for instance) is quite > frightening... > > This data is bound to server-side information (pornhub - #3 in the world). > > Best, > Antoine > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Antoine Mazieres < > antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Thank you very much for all your answers. I'll get back to you as soon as > > I went through all this references. > > Also, I will let you know about the dataset I have in mind. > > > > Thanks again, > > Antoine > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Antoine Mazieres < > > antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> 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/ > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 26 > ************************************** >

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3rd MANIAC Challenge
by Joly MacFie 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Perhaps a bit technical but I thought I'd throw it out there. j ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eggert, Lars <lars(a)netapp.com> Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:50 AM Subject: [IRTF-Announce] IRTF-cosponsored event: 3rd MANIAC Challenge To: "irtf-announce(a)irtf.org" <irtf-announce(a)irtf.org> Hi, the IRTF is a co-sponsor of the 3rd MANIAC Challenge on the Saturday before IETF-87 in Berlin. Lars -- ** Call for Short Papers for the 3rd MANIAC Challenge ** Co-located with the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, Germany July 27 - August 2, 2013 http://2013.maniacchallenge.org Sponsored by: Google, ISOC, IETF, IRTF, ANR, and BMBF The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad hoc networks. Competing teams students/researchers come together to form a wireless ad hoc network, while simultaneously connected to a backbone of access points. The organizers will generate traffic coming from the backbone, destined to somewhere in the network. A hop-by-hop bidding contest decides the path of each data packet towards its destination. Each team usually consists of two to three people. Teams will be judged based on how much of the traffic they relay gets to its destination. To get their traffic across the network, each team must rely on other teams willingness to forward traffic for them. We have developed software and an API over Android to allow teams to program their nodes, in particular override forwarding decisions made by the routing protocol and participate in the hop-by-hop bidding contest. ------------------------------------------------ Topic of 3rd MANIAC Challenge: Mobile Offloading ------------------------------------------------ The specific focus of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 is on developing and comparatively evaluating strategies to offload infrastructure access points via customer ad hoc forwarding using handhelds (e.g., smartphones, tablets). The incentive for customers is discounted monthly fees, and the incentive for operators is decreased infrastructure costs. The idea is to demonstrate scenarios/strategies that do not degrade user experience while offering significant mobile offloading on the infrastructure. Details about the scenario and competition rules are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/rules-setup. ---------- Submission ---------- We solicit the submission of short papers (max. 2 pages IEEE double-column format) describing strategies for mobile offloading. After being peer-reviewed, authors of selected submissions will be invited to participate in the MANIAC Challenge and to attend the IETF meeting. We highly encourage authors to continue the development of the offloading strategy during the review time. Please, submit your short paper via email to maniac2013(a)lists.fu-berlin.de. ------------- Participation ------------- Author participation will consist in attending the MANIAC Challenge in Berlin, Germany, July 27 - 28, 2013. Authors are also invited to attend the IETF/IRTF meeting July 28 - August 2, 2013. Participation in the MANIAC Challenge is free of charge. Registration costs (at full-time student rate) for the IETF/IRTF meeting are sponsored by ISOC. Authors bring an implementation of the strategy described in the paper submitted by the author, running on the common API and the common hardware used for the event: the Nexus 7 tablet. The MANIAC API and software will be released with the notification of acceptance. Hardware will be provided by the organizers if necessary. Each participant will then concurrently run its strategy during the contest, taking place on July 27th at the Freie Universität Berlin. The following day, a workshop will take place at the IETF venue, where we will summarize and discuss the results of the contest. The winners of the MANIAC Challenge 2013 will be announced during the IRTF Open Meeting, which is part of the IETF/IRTF week with high visibility. The IRTF Open Meeting usually will be attended by more than 100 experts from industry and academia working on Internet Engineering. Winners will take home some prizes to be determined with sponsors. Competing teams will be provided complimentary IETF registration enabling them to attend the 87th IETF meeting in Berlin, July 28 - August 2nd. Details about the submission and participation are available at http://2013.maniacchallenge.org/participation/ ------------ Mailing List ------------ If you are interested in the MANIAC Challenge 2013, please subscribe to the mailing list maniac2013-info(a)lists.fu-berlin.de. We will inform you about updates. https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/maniac2013-info#subscribe --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Deadline for short paper submission: May 5, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2013 - Release of API and software: May 12, 2013 - MANIAC challenge dates: July 27 - 28, 2013 - IETF/IRTF meeting: July 28 - August 2, 2013 ---------------- MANIAC Co-Chairs ---------------- - Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA) - Oliver Hahm (INRIA) - Felix Juraschek (Freie Universität Berlin) - Thomas Schmidt (HAW Hamburg) - Heiko Will (Freie Universität Berlin) - Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universität Berlin) ------- Contact ------- For questions, please contact maniac2013(a)lists.fu-berlin.de -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] Using social media to reduce stigma
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi The See Me Scotland Campaign uses social media (as well as offline methods like adverts on buses) http://www.facebook.com/seemescotland https://twitter.com/seemescotland -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University is one of Scotland's top universities for graduate employability. 93.6% of graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. The Telegraph newspaper named us as one of the "top ten UK universities for getting a job" in 2012. This university is also proud winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009, awarded for innovative housing construction for environmental benefit and quality of life. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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