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Data Brokering
by Marc Hébert 06 May '13

06 May '13

Hello Peter, Could you give us more details about your new role as a "data broker?" What are the expectations of your manager in this position? Are you being asked to look for patterns in the data to inform policy implementation? If so, then will you also be tasked to think about how these statistical data integrate/could be informed by more qualitative data? Let me know if these sorts of reports<http://www.emc.com/resource-library/resource-library.esp?source=link&findRe…> overlap with your new position/responsibilities. Kind regards, Marc --------------------- Marc Hebert, Ph.D. UX/Ethnographic Researcher 2013 Code for America Fellow Collaborating with the City & County of San Francisco On May 4, 2013, at 3:00 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. Readings on Data Brokers (Peter Timusk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 13:55:41 -0400 > From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> > To: "aoir list" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Readings on Data Brokers > Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP37FB40CA4AE1889650418FDCBF0(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I am being asked to become a "Data Broker" in government. This seems an old > mid 1990's term yet I see nothing in the list archive around this concept or > role. While I know service behaviour I am looking to read something in the > nature of a business book or deeper study with a social science or technical > foundation that can help me move along to get into this role. The boss > asking this is also a former Internet Studies scholar so he may be lifting > this term "Data Broker" from the 1990's. I work in a national statistics > agency where sometimes I write about internet use statistics but this is > only a sometime job that I am allowed because I have read the work of many A > o IR scholars. My real in demand skills are statistical programming not my > knowledge of the Internet. > > > > > > So do you have any references to studies talking about "Data Brokers"? > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 106, Issue 4 > *************************************

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Internet studies news from Curtin University
by Matthew Allen 06 May '13

06 May '13

Dear all While I am now Head of School and Professor of Internet Studies, School of communication and creative arts, Deakin University, I remain in touch with my former colleagues at Curtin University in the Department of Internet Studies. The information on this website about the future of the department's course might be of interest to AOIR members ... http://savenetstudies.net Thanks Matthew Allen -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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Keeping and Cataloging Online and Multi-Media Material
by Stephanie Betz 05 May '13

05 May '13

Good morning everyone, I'm hoping to draw from the brains trust of internet researchers some tips for keeping and cataloging vast quantities of online multi-media materials. I'm doing a project that involves looking at Tumblr content, and am having difficulties coming up with an efficient and useful method for storing and retrieving material for later content analysis. Does anyone have any tried and true methods for content storage and retrieval? High or low-tech, I'm open to both - just some way to make sure I'm across this material, and will be able to retrieve it when I desperately need an example during my writing phase. Thanks all, Stephanie Betz. --- Stephanie Betz PhD Candidate, Anthropology School of Archaeology & Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University A.D. Hope Building #14 Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA

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Readings on Data Brokers
by Peter Timusk 04 May '13

04 May '13

I am being asked to become a "Data Broker" in government. This seems an old mid 1990's term yet I see nothing in the list archive around this concept or role. While I know service behaviour I am looking to read something in the nature of a business book or deeper study with a social science or technical foundation that can help me move along to get into this role. The boss asking this is also a former Internet Studies scholar so he may be lifting this term "Data Broker" from the 1990's. I work in a national statistics agency where sometimes I write about internet use statistics but this is only a sometime job that I am allowed because I have read the work of many A o IR scholars. My real in demand skills are statistical programming not my knowledge of the Internet. So do you have any references to studies talking about "Data Brokers"?

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submission deadline extension: IR14 doctoral colloquium
by Annette Markham 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi All, Apparently we had some contradictory information on the AOIR website for the submission deadline for the doctoral colloquium. So we've decided to extend the deadline to *May 31, 2013.* Sorry for any confusion, annette * * * Announcing the Doctoral Colloquium at the IR14.0 conference in Denver, October 23, 2013 *Submission deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013 ** * * In keeping with its commitment to students’ scholarship in the Association of Internet Researchers, the IR14.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on October 23, 2013. For many years, this pre-conference event has provided students with the opportunity to spend some hours with senior scholars talking about their research projects, addressing methodological and theoretical challenges, and getting informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation. This year, Annette Markham will coordinate the Doctoral Colloquium and will be joined by colleagues including: Tom Boellstorf, University of California, Irvine Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago Mia Consalvo, Concordia University Charles Ess, University of Oslo Alice Marwick, Fordham University Michele Jackson, University of Colorado, Boulder Adrienne Russell, University of Denver Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ....Others to be announced later. Details forthcoming on the IR14 conference website: http://ir14.aoir.org/ SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION If you're an interested student, you should prepare a brief application including: a) a two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues; and b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in this doctoral colloquium and what you’d like to get out of it. Submission format: Single PDF document Submission address: amarkham(a)gmail.com *Submission deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013 * Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2013. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare a four-page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 31, 2013. Feel free to contact me with questions, annette ****************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Guest and Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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Website of the EU COST Action Dynamics of Virtual Work
by Christian Fuchs 03 May '13

03 May '13

We are proud to announce the launch the website of the EU COST Action "Dynamics of Virtual Work": http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/ The network is funded by COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology and led by the University of Hertfordshire. With 28 European countries and two non-European ones already signed up, this COST Action is already marking out and consolidating an important new field of research on the dynamics of virtual work, bringing together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. Over the next four years, we will be holding a series of conferences and workshops http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/events/ addressed by leading international experts. Training workshops will be held for PhD students and new researchers who can apply for funding to attend. New researchers can also apply for grants to visit institutions in other signed-up COST countries: http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/new-researchers/ We will also be organising workshops and briefings for policymakers: http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/policy/ News of forthcoming events: http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/events/ News on new publications: http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/documents/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/costis1202 -- Christian Fuchs Professor of Social Media University of Westminster Communication and Media Research Institute c.fuchs(a)westminster.ac.uk Tel +44 (0) 20 7911 5000-extension 67380 http://fuchs.uti.at

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Two post-doctoral Fellowships in Digital Humanities at Edinburgh University
by Sian Bayne 03 May '13

03 May '13

Applications are invited for two postdoctoral fellowships in digital humanities to be held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh from 1 September 2013 to 30 April 2014. The fellowships are being funded by the College of Humanities and Social Science and are to be focused on any aspect of Digital Humanities research. Applicants should be scholars at an early stage of their career who have completed their doctorate within the last three years. A bursary of £10k will be offered to each Fellow and office accommodation will be provided within the Institute. The fellows will be expected to make contact with others in the College working in this area, and to arrange at least one seminar or workshop during the fellowship. They will also contribute to the planning and organisation of a digital humanities conference for the College in Spring 2014. We warmly welcome applications from both within and beyond the University of Edinburgh. Closing date for applications is 3 June 2013. http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/dighums.html -- Dr Sian Bayne Associate Dean (digital scholarship) College of Humanities and Social Science The University of Edinburgh sian.bayne(a)ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 6337 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Summer schools in quantitative Internet research?
by dem 03 May '13

03 May '13

Dear AOIRists, I am looking to apply to a summer research program for 2013 in Internet research, my background is in media studies (I have graduated with an MA in New Media in 2012) and Computer Science (currently studying towards a Bsc) and my main research interests are: online social networks, studying online politics with online data, network science, machine learning, data mining and data analysis. If you know of any summer schools (or research projects/groups at universities) that are currently accepting applications in these areas, then please let me know! Thank you! Best, Demet Dagdelen

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PhD / Research programs - linguistics and social media
by Prof. I. Kushchu 02 May '13

02 May '13

Dear Colleagues A bright student, (a linguist by training and currently completing a Masters thesis about socio-linguistics approaches to the use of language on Facebook), asked me for research and PhD programs for further studies -Not very much related to my expertise, unfortunately. Any suggestions for such programs in the intersection of linguistics and social media? Bests wishes Kushchu ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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Fantomton release [FT006] Radarstation 2
by wallace 02 May '13

02 May '13

Out now!!: the new Fantomton release [FT006] Radarstation 2 Download here for free: http://fantomton.de/ft006-radarstation-2/ The abandoned listening station on the Teufelsberg Berlin has a magical atmosphere. The industrial area with its rusty metal surfaces, broken glass and the unique acoustic in the domes provide a rich repertoire of fascinating sounds which reflect the areas ambience. We could not resist the attraction of the place and visited it in 2009, equipped with microphones and recording devices. Subsequently the recordings were given to some musicians in order to get different interpretations of the sound material. The goal was to translate the impressions of the place into music. Recently more artists decided to work with our sound material to produce new tracks for this second Radarstation album, thus creating more versatile perspectives of that soundscape.

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