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Re: [Air-L] [JoCI] New Special Issue: Community Informatics and Co-Creation of Innovation
by michael gurstein 02 May '13

02 May '13

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 <mailto:gurstein@gmail.com> gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 9, No 3 (2013): Special Issue: CI and the Co-Creation of Innovation Table of Contents http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/47 Editorial Introduction <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/953> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/953/1029> Susana Finquelievich, Mariana Salgado Community Innovation and Community Informatics <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1038> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1038/1022> Michael Gurstein Articles The Emergence and Development of a Regional Living Lab: The Case of San Luis, Argentina <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/744> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/744/1025> Susana Finquelievich The ecology of linking technologies: toward a non-instrumental look at new technological repertoires <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/716> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/716/1024> Rocío Gómez Facilitating community innovation: The Outils-Réseaux Way <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/711> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/711/1019> Lorna Heaton, Florence Millerand, Serge Proulx Are the Users Driving, and How Open is Open? Experiences from Living Lab and User Driven Innovation projects <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/746> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/746/1026> Kari-Hans Kommonen, Andrea Botero Communities, Crowds and Focal Sites: Fine-Tuning the Theoretical Grounding of Collaboration Online <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/712> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/712/1020> Azi Lev-On The Emergence of Converging Communities via Twitter <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/705> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/705/1023> Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin, Tim Butcher Collaborative Knowledge Creation in Development Networks: Lessons Learned from a Transnational Programme <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/710> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/710/1018> Fabio Nascimbeni RLABS: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY INFORMATICS <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/782> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/782/1027> Marlon Parker, Julia Wills, Gary Brian Wills Museums as Living Labs Challenge, Fad or Opportunity? <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/806> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/806/1028> Mariana Salgado Reviews Digital Habitats – stewarding technology for communities <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/956> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/956/1030> Joanna Saad Sulonen Case Studies Appropriation of ICTs by informal communities in metropolitan cities. The case of the “La Salada” market in the Latin American context <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/715> HTML <http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/715/1021> Ester Schiavo, Sergio Rodríguez, Paula Vera

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Workshop on Backchannels and Live participation tools @ ECSCW 2013
by Matti Nelimarkka 02 May '13

02 May '13

Call for Participation: Workshop on Backchannels and Live participation tools, including: * Examples and demos of prototypes, experiments and system descriptions of and for backchanneling and other forms of audience participation * Research methods for analysis * Case studies and empirical findings * Exploration of new ideas Part of ECSCW 2013 (Sep 21st - Sep 25th @ Paphos, Cyprus) Workshop date: Sep 21st Submission deadline: June 28th Teaser: Backhannels and live participation tools are used e.g. in education, conferences and TV shows to increase the interactivity and participation of learners, participants and viewers. Research-wise the domain is scattered across different fields, such as HCI, CSCW and education. This workshop aims to draw together researchers, developers and practitioners in this area to consider (1) how to conduct high quality research and (2) how to make research with impact on the larger society. More details: http://lead.aalto.fi/activities/ecscw-2013-workshop/

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never, ever
by Barry Wellman 02 May '13

02 May '13

colleagues, judge research by the media account read the original article and make a judgement. over and out ps; funny example - a close friend heard on TV today that everyone should buy Chrome laptops. really over and out Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor FRSC NetLab Director Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 105, Issue 32
by Kim Witten 01 May '13

01 May '13

Articles like this make me cringe. People engaging in social activity with their friends feel less inhibited and enjoy cookies more than granola bars at that time? Why is this so surprising? To me, it goes back to that technological determinism/digital dualist argument that SNSs and the like are Doing Things To Our Brains. Danger point! Seriously though, the framing of this Wired story suggests something of the deterministic sort, even though the published article title ("“Are Close Friends the Enemy?...) and a statement by the author (1) say otherwise. Still, the Wired article title ("Does Facebook Praise Kill Self-Control?") and other statements (2,3) frame it differently. 1. "Wilcox cautions that those findings do not necessarily mean that spending time on social networks causes any of those things." 2. "the “likes” prompted by your status updates and photo posts might also have a negative impact, especially on your waistline and pocketbook." ("likes" being the cause here, not the content of the update, the social engagement or the people participating in it.) 3. "those people who reported higher self-esteem and lower self control *from* browsing Facebook happen to have a higher body mass index and more credit card debt." (emphasis mine) Also, people are fat, have debt, read CNN, or like/dislike granola bars for various reasons. The latter two are not good controls. Thoughts? -Kim > ----------------- > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:16:19 -0400 > From: nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com> > To: Deanya Lattimore <deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com> > Cc: "air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org" > <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook, cookies and self-control? > Message-ID: > <CAF-xTaak-_FaqNmSUQttYRUSExe4mGhwt3wXb0OoLwFFY9Q72A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > that was my impression as well. > > -robert > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Deanya Lattimore <deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com >> wrote: > >> Here'e the study itself, downloadable - >> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2155864 >> >> It's hard to say anything about a study that doesn't say anything. >> The researchers do everything that researchers do these days who want >> their studies to become public and picked up by the media; in this way, the >> media draws its own conclusions that the researchers themselves are too >> cautious to draw. >> >> I think this one deserves to be put up for an Ig Nobel. >> :-) >> Deanya >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:20 PM, nativebuddha <nativebuddha(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Wondered what others thought about the validity of these findings: >>> >>> http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/self-control-and-facebook/ >>> >>> -Robert >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>> http://www.aoir.org/

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CfP Critical Visual Theory - Deadline June 15
by Christian Fuchs 01 May '13

01 May '13

Call for Papers for a special issue of tripleC (http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/index) Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society on the general topic of Critical Visual Theory Detailed Information/CfP: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CfP_VisualCommunication.pdf Edited by Peter Ludes, Mass Communication, Jacobs University Bremen, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Media Studies, Hamburg University, and Winfried Nöth, Cognitive Semiotics, São Paulo Catholic University. The overall task of this special issue is to combine critical insights into current economic, technical, political, cultural, and ecological dimensions of transnational and global visual communication. The papers to be included in this issue should make use of critical theories to advance a better understanding of visual information technologies in general and of strategies of veiling financial, military, economic, religious interests in particular. A special focus will be on current forms of surveillance of public and private life. The editors invite contributions to topics such as: * Visual humanities and social sciences: concepts, methods, and theories * Visual data and semiotics: networks and analyses * Visual hegemonies: image- and profit-making * Veiling: Key Invisibles * Visual culture zones: Africa, Arab countries, China, Europe, India, Japan, Latin and North America Preliminary time schedule June 15, 2013: Abstract submission, via email to p.ludes(a)jacobs-university.de, kathrin.fahlenbrach(a)uni-hamburg.de, and noeth(a)uni-kassel.de . July 15, 2013: Feedback to authors about acceptance or rejection of abstract September 15, 2013: Submission of full papers to the editors via http://www.triple-c.at via the electronic submission system: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions . Guidelines for formatting and style: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/tripleC_2013.dot tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society is a journal that is specialising in publishing articles that focus on critical studies of media, communication and digital media in the context of the information society. It is indexed in Scopus and Communication & Mass Media Complete.

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Social media and Political Horizons: Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and Beyond
by Adi Kuntsman 01 May '13

01 May '13

Social media and Political Horizons: Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and Beyond 14 June 2013 1-5pm Venue TBC Organised by: Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester and Rebecca L. Stein, Duke University At the core of this workshop is a rethinking of the so-called ‘digital democracy’ proposition – that is, an argument about the ways that digital technologies, chiefly social media, can advance pro-democracy politics. In the last few years, this popular proposition has come under increasing criticism from scholars who have reminded us of the flexible nature of digital technologies, including the ways they have been employed by dictators and police states as public relations platforms, tools for tracking and monitoring political dissidents, and means of counter-insurgency more generally. What has emerged in the scholarly literature is something of a dichotomy – digital democracy posited against digital dictatorship. The event takes a more complex approach to the politics of digital technology, through a discussion of the ways that social media can be employed on both sides of this political divide. More specifically, the discussion will approach social media both as tools of warfare, military occupation, and authoritarian rule, and as means to subvert and resist such political regimes. Contra most of the literature on digital democracy and digital dictatorship alike, our discussion will focus on questions of everyday culture and language as they emerge where politics and social media meet. Programme 9.30 -10.00 Registration 10.00-12.00 Roundtable discussion Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan University Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester and Rebecca L. Stein, Duke U Miriyam Aouragh, Oxford University Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary Farida Vis, Sheffield University 12.00-1.00 Lunch 1.00-2.30 Public lecture Theresa Senft, NYU ‘My Body Belongs to Me? On Global Spheres, Networked Nudity and Feminist Activism’ Attendance is free but registration is required. Please email naveeda.raoufi(a)student.manchester.ac.uk to register Registration deadline: 1 June 2013 --- Dr Adi Kuntsman https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/

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Internet Studies: Perspectives on a Developing Field - new publication
by Charles Ess 01 May '13

01 May '13

Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the co-editors and the authors whose work is gathered in this special issue of new media and society, I'm very happy to call your attention to the recent online publication of the Introduction: Internet Studies: Perspectives on a rapidly developing field Charles Ess, William Dutton doi: 10.1177/1461444812462845 New Media & Society, April 29, 2013 <http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/04/24/1461444812462845.full> To quote from the introduction - which is available as a free download - We have organized the contributions to this issue such that they flow across four general areas. The first focuses on the field as a whole, and is filled by our lead article, by Tai-Quan Peng, Lun Zhang, Zhijin Zhong and Jonathan JH Zhu, Mapping the landscape of Internet Studies: Text mining of social science journal articles 20002009¹. We then shift focus to specific Perspectives from Different Arenas, beginning with Jingyan (Elaine) Yuan¹s A culturalist critique of ³online community² in new media studies¹, followed by Heidi Campbell¹s Religion and the Internet as a microcosm for studying trends and implications within Internet Studies¹, then an article by Jessie Daniels, Race and racism in Internet Studies¹, and Michel van Eeten and Milton Mueller¹s Where is the governance in Internet governance?¹. The next set of articles focus more on Methodological Perspectives, beginning with Juliette De Maeyer¹s Towards a hyperlinked society: A critical review of link studies¹, followed by Niels Brügger¹s Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives¹. The two final articles are both tied to Critical Perspectives on User Empowerment, a cross-cutting theme of Internet research across various research arenas. Anja Bechmann and Stine Lomborg¹s article is entitled Mapping actor roles in social media: Different perspectives on value creation in theories of user participation¹, and this is followed by Christian Fuchs and Nick Dyer-Witheford¹s challenge to Internet Studies, entitled Karl Marx @ Internet Studies¹. We conclude with a more general account of what we have learned about this evolving field from this special issue in light of work on our respective handbooks. Several of the articles are already published online; the print version of the complete issue will appear later this year. We would also like to express our gratitude to numerous reviewers and to editors Steve Jones and Nickolas Jankowski for their constant support and assistance in developing and bringing this special issue to fruition. Enjoy! - c. 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: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Interdisciplinary PhD workshop - Researching the relational/sociable self - Nov. 27-28, 2013 - University of Oslo
by Charles Ess 01 May '13

01 May '13

Dear AoIRists: Please distribute to potentially interested PhD students. We invite doctoral students from a range of disciplines including media and communication studies, information science, sociology, philosophy, and political science to participate in this interdisciplinary PhD course. Researching the relational/sociable self: Methods, Privacy, Ethics 27. Nov. 2013 09:15 - 28. Nov. 2013 17:00, Room 418, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Co-organizers: Charles Ess <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/charlees/index.html> (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Stine Lomborg <http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/presentation/?id=293359&f=3> (Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen) Additional lecturers / mentors: Hallvard Fossheim, Director, (Norwegian) National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH) Annette Markham, Visiting Professor, School of Commmunication, Loyola University / Guest Professor, Informatics, Umeå University Espen Ytreberg, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Background Especially over the last decade or so, both social science and humanistic research have recognized the emergence of ³the relational self,² as fostered by Internet-facilitated modes and venues of communication most especially social media. Understanding how far our conceptions of selfhood may be changing in Western societies broadly, from more individual to more relational, and, perhaps, from more rational to more emotive is critical, especially as these changes seem further tied to * changing circumstances of socialization and togetherness in everyday life, and interweaving of different networks of affiliation that is associated with networked media for personal communication (cf. Rainie & Wellman, 2012); * changing methodologies and approaches to research designed to better tease out and explore the multiple dimensions of relationality; * changing sensibilities and expectations regarding privacy and notions of privatlivet and the (proper) boundaries of our intimsfære (intimate sphere), and thereby * possible coherencies and/or conflicts with current research ethics codes and law, e.g., expected changes in EU data privacy protection law that increases individual privacy protections, but may remain silent regarding privacy and other protections for close relationships such as are already encoded, for example in the NESH 2006 guidelines (Norway) as already more relationally oriented. The workshop addresses theories of relational selfhood; research methodologies as retuned to such selfhood; and new research ethics questions evoked by changing senses of selfhood and thus privacy expectations. For more details, including available ECTs and registration procedures, please see the workshop website: <http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/methods-privacy-ethics.html> Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess 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: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Trust in online environments - interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo
by Charles Ess 01 May '13

01 May '13

Dear AoIRists, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate: Faculty workshop PhD workshop Public Debate Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies. September 26-27, 2013: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Lecturers / mentors: Dag Elgesem, University of Bergen James Moor, Dartmouth College Judith Simon,University of Vienna &, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Warwick Herman Tavani, Rivier University, New Hampshire John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Background / description: James Moor¹s seminal paper, ³What is Computer Ethics?² (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges. These challenges are often quite novel and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on. Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions: Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²? And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives? Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions. For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website. <http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/whom-to-trust.html> Best regards, Charles Ess 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: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Re: [Air-L] Please explain your criticism
by Barry Wellman 01 May '13

01 May '13

Ms Lattimore thanks for the followup and your thoughts. I've mostly given up trying to figure out why people do the research they do, and I've seen a lot worse papers in 45 years of refereeing. We agree that the media almost always oversimplify, and don't know the difference between causation and correlation -- nor such things as biased samples. (I note the sample was not really described.) Back to doing research Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor FRSC NetLab Director Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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