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

Open data access - Chinese weibo
by KW Fu 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Dear AOIRers, We are delighted to make open access our Chinese weibo data collected in 2012 (over 226 million Chinese microblogs). The dataset consists of a large amount of deleted and censored posts that are no longer available in the public domain. For ethical reason, all data are anonymized, i.e. real user and message id are replaced by pseudo ID. http://147.8.142.179/datazip/ "Weiboscope" is our project name and is a social media data collection, visualization, and analysis project developed by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). The project is funded by the HKU's Seed Funding Program for Basic Research. Please cite the below paper when using the data. King-wa Fu, CH Chan, Michael Chau. Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in China: Discriminatory Keyword Analysis and Impact Evaluation of the 'Real Name Registration' Policy. Internet Computing. IEEE. 2013; 17(3): 42-50. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2013.28 or http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2265271 (open access) I am glad to give more details about the open access in the forthcoming Chinese Internet Research Conference on June 15, 2013 at the Oxford Internet Institute. Conference site: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/china-niw/ Regards, King-wa Fu, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3917-1643 Fax: (852) 2858-8736

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What is a Roundtable, Anyway?
by Terri Senft 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Dear Huatong, First, I want to say THANK YOU for writing your earler email, and sending it to the AoIR List. It takes one sort of courage to show one's rejection notice to a group. It takes courage of an entirely different order to say, "Yeah, that I wrote that rejection," to that same group, especially when the rejection is under dispute. This is the AoIR I know and love: not just intellectually badass, but so kind and decent we make other professional organizations look like Slytherin House. I thought about ending my note here, but I am going to say more, for one reason only: so that this reviewer-reviewed exchange be available as a case study of sorts when AoIR drafts its next set of submission guidelines, and trains the next round of reviewers. I think, for me, the big question here is: What precisely do we mean by "roundtable"? A few times now, I've heard people talk about the fact that they don't want to see presentations that amount to mere description of phenomena, especially stuff that is "hot." I can understand this when it comes to evaluating panel proposals, and I agree that on a panel, individual presenters should be reasonably expected to make their critical lenses and methodological framings explicit. Although there are disagreements in our group regarding the "findings and conclusions" mandates, I think we all agree that to evaluate a panel, one needs to get a sense of what thought traditions the presenter is pulling from, and how they went about getting the information they are going to be analyzing/assessing/commenting on/playing with, etc. However-- I've always thought the chief question driving assessment of ROUNDTABLES shouldn't be, "Are the theories and methods clear?" but rather, "Is this conversation being proposed one our organization needs to be having right now? To me, what makes a roundtable different from a panel is the explicit tabling of certain formal elements like method (and to some extent theoretical framing)for a bit, until discussion is had. This *is not* because we can't cook up theory/methods rhetoric to support our inquiry, but because we FIRST want to sit in a room and listen to one another. >From my perspective, last year's Other Ethics roundtable was very successful precisely because it took this format last year. Respondents spoke from experience about their struggles negotiating "border cases" that ranged from self-injury, to sexual advances, to IRB fails, to open access publishing--the list went on. The common thread that connected us was that we *didn't* have clear answers. Many of the people who participated in that roundtable were on the AoIR Ethics Committee, but (from an organizational standpont) what was most exciting about that roundtable was that it inspired audience response to the point where the Committee got a bunch of new, amazing, committee members. To me, this is a successful roundtable. In your note, you state, "I reviewed many cross-cultural studies that picked up their sites randomly without justification." As someone who has read perhaps one trillion student papers in global media studies, I very much feel you on this, and I'm so glad you raised this with my proposal. In the case of our group, many of my participants, especially those living in India, and the one respondent who is Iranian-American living in England, were interested in addressing their own experiences--using themselves as 'case studies' if you will. I suppose in terms of method, they'd be analyzing their phenomenological and somatic responses to different deployments of the term 'slut' within cross-cultural internet exchanges. >From a theoretical position, we'd be talking standpoint theory, and theories of affect. Some of the sex workers (particularly those from Thailand) would also be speaking from experience, albeit in places narrated through the voice of a well-known American sex work activist/ethnographer with whom they have close working relationships.There, we'd be dealing with theories of epistemology, as well. But in the case of a ROUNDTABLE, all this seems red-herringish.Here, it seems to me the question is not, "How did you pick your sites/case studies/respondents/sample," but rather, "what uniquely qualifies the individuals you've named to sit at this roundtable?" Said differently, "How will this combination of voices make the conversation qualitatively different than some folks who read about this phenomenon last week and want to talk it over because it's hot?" In my descriptions, I thought I made the credentials of my participants clear but perhaps not. I could definitely have done more in that direction. In fact, an ancillary question worth asking a roundtable proposal might be, "Has the proposer demonstrated that the people participating in this roundtable have the expertise and/or experience (not the same thing) necessary to discuss this phenomena in a compelling light? Writing of your own past experiences with marginalization, you explain how challenges from those outside your discipline " taught me how to negotiate in a milieu of diverse perspectives, learn to be open-minded, and not to be offended by the face value of the words; of course it helped me improve my project eventually." Frankly, I think that's more an astonishing testament to you as a person, than to the system as it is currently set up. Of course learning can happen in set-up you describe, but for most people, *especially* those beyond the PhD, there is just too much face-saving going on in formal panel presentations for real out-of-discipline learning to transpire. In your note to me, you wonder, "Isn’t one part of the joys of attending this kind of interdisciplinary conferences is to have our ideas challenged by people who share research interests in similar topics but employ different research methodologies? I give an emphatic YES, here, but want to suggest something that might seem counter-intuitive to many: I know there are benefits to having one's rigor called to question in formal panel settings, but I think MORE real learning happens in roundtable moments when we willfully enter a discussion arena admitting we are at a crossroads in our thinking. When I deliver my formally constructed, tightly argued premise to those in and outside my discipline, the same old same old happens. HOWEVER, when I tell colleagues I am soliciting new ways to approach a phenomenon with which we find myself in struggle, amazing things happen. This is why I submit my work to panels (knowledge contribution) and actually attend roundtables (learning in action.) Okay, I think this is more than enough on my end. One last thing, though: You and I are *definitely* going to be having drinks at some point in Denver. Everyone is all welcome to join us! I think I'm going to wear a fancy dress. Fondly, Terri -- <http://goog_689013053/> <http://goog_689013053/> -- <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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Call for Conference Locations
by Kendall, Lori 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Please share widely... Call for Proposals to Host the Internet Research (IR) conferences in 2015 and 2016. The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking statements of interest for hosting the annual meeting of the Association in October of 2015 and 2016. The Internet Research conference draws an international group of researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work at the cutting edge in understanding the social and cultural aspects of the internet. Organizations or consortia who may be interested in hosting the conference should contact Lori Kendall at vp (at) aoir.org. We will provide a guide to a full proposal for those invited to apply. At this stage, we seek an indication of interest and intent. We are most likely to entertain applications for North American locations for 2015 and elsewhere for 2016, but all strong proposals are welcome. Hosting AoIR provides visibility to your institution and city from researchers from around the world, drawing a group of well-known scholars to your city during the period of the conference and providing lasting connections. Geography still matters in an internet age, and hosting Internet Research represents one way of locating important centers of innovation in social computing. The most recent conference was held in Salford, UK and the upcoming conferences will be held in Denver, USA and Bangkok, Thailand. (See the full list of locations at http://aoir.org/conferences/past/.) We generally seek hosting cities that are reasonably accessible by international visitors, and provide a range of lodging, dining, entertainment and cultural attractions within reasonable proximity of the venue. The venue should provide a central hall and breakout meeting rooms for a minimum of 400 attendees, as well as the necessary infrastructure for presentations and high-speed wireless internet access. There are generally 7-8 concurrent presentation rooms over a period of 3 days, plus a day of 3-6 preconferences. The conference generally provides some form of onsite refreshments during the day (snacks, coffee, and in many cases lunch), as well as a banquet and receptions. The Association generally handles registration, and will (with the aid of a program chair) provide assistance with the infrastructure for the peer review and the publication of selected papers. Officers of AoIR serve on the organizing committee and are involved closely with the planning and execution of the conference. The local hosts are responsible for coordinating all on-site arrangements, contracts, transportation, arrangements with local hotels or other lodging, technology, supporting staff for the event. The hosts should be willing and able to mobilize local support for the conference, including volunteers, fund-raising, and cost-sharing. At this time, we are seeking brief letters of interest. For those sites the Executive Committee feels are suitable for the upcoming conference, we will provide organizers with instructions for a full proposal, and are happy to work with them to provide a strong proposal. At this time, please provide some indication of what you could offer in terms of hosting. In particular: 1. Who makes up your group, who the proposed local chair would be, and your connection to internet research and AoIR. 2. Information about the venue, including recent conferences held there. We have, in the past, held AoIR in hotels and conference centers, as well as university and research campuses. Please give some indication of the layout of the facility and its proximity to lodging and dining (including less expensive options), as well as to its suitability for a conference like Internet Research. 3. Proposed dates. IR is generally held in early October, and usually over a Thursday-Saturday, with pre-conferences on a Wednesday, though there is some flexibility. It is helpful if we are able to avoid conflicts with other major conferences of interest to attendees. 4. What makes your city and venue particularly attractive to the Internet Research community? The committee will review letters of interest as they are submitted, through the end of July 2013. Best, Lori Kendall (AoIR Vice President)

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HICSS 47 deadline June 15
by Haythornthwaite, Caroline 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Rapidly approaching -- 2 minitracks for your papers -- as well as the sun, surf and intellectual entertainment of Hawaii in January! Social Networking and Communities http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Communities.pdf Social Media and Learning http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Learning.pdf Looking forward to receiving your papers -- NB. all submissions go to the HICSS system, and the deadline is firm. http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/dsm.html /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite SLAIS, The iSchool@UBC c.haythorn(a)ubc.ca

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Final Programme Available: Where Do Neoliberals Go After The Market? Calculation, Computation, Crisis
by nathaniel tkacz 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Speakers include: Prof Philip Mirowski (Closing keynote), University of Notre Dame - ‘How Neoliberalism Triumphs in the Face of Crises: global warming and economic crisis as examples’ Prof Shirin Rai, University of Warwick - 'Unpaid work and depletion in neoliberal times' Dr Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster - 'The Californian Ideology Revisited' Dr Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research - 'The Infrastructure of Neo-liberalism? Cybernetics, Design, and Urbanism circa 1970' Dr David Berry, Swansea University - 'Coding Neoliberalism: Algorithms, Markets and Computational Imaginaries' Dr Johan Soderberg, Université Paris-Est/Écoles des Ponts - 'Automating Amateurs: the cunning of instrumental reason' Dr Will Davies, University of Warwick - 'The Revenge of the Social: Neoliberalism between "socialist calculation" and "social analytics"' Dr Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick - 'The Data Signal' The final programme is available here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/news/afterthemarketprogramme.pdf Note: The event is free but please register for catering purposes. Nathaniel Tkacz Assistant Professor Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__

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New paper
by Sally Quinn 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hi all, I just wanted to share my latest publication on the mobile use of social networking sites and feelings of connectedness among early adolescents: http://mmc.sagepub.com/content/1/2/237.full.pdf+html Many thanks Sally Quinn PhD Researcher Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD UK

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Coders Needed
by Stuart Shulman 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

I am looking to add 8-10 new coders (a.k.a. annotators, labelers, taggers) to join the pool who work on DiscoverText training custom machine classifiers. I have a particular need for coders who can work today. To join the team you must sign a non-disclosure agreement and complete a W9 or W8. In return, you get gratis access to DiscoverText for every month that you complete at least one coding assignment and Texifter will pay you $13/hour at the end of every month for accumulated hours. With you free DiscoverText access, you can collect, filter, search, code, and machine classify large quantities of social data (Facebook, Twitter, and more) for your own research purposes. Grad students: there is a free software/free data/free beer thing going on here, just without the beer. Please send me a CV that includes your postal address (for payments) and phone number (for the bank bill pay). ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Editor Emeritus, JITP jitp.net <http://www.jitp.net> Director, QDAP-UMass umass.edu/qdap <http://www.umass.edu/qdap> Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com <http://www.texifter.com> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899> Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman<http://twitter.com/#%21/StuartWShulman>

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Re: [Air-L] Interest in AoIR-sponsored webinars
by William Bain 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Very possibly people are already acquainted with the Barcelona (Spain) based organization Cibersociedad. While I haven't seen any recent cfp's from them, they have done a series of online conferences or webinars. The link I have is : http://www.cibersociedad.net/ Best wishes, wb

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DiGRA 2013 Registration Now Open
by Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech) 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Registration has opened for DiGRA 2013, to be held August 26-29 in Atlanta, Georgia, and hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. For more, visit: http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/digra2013/prices/

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CFP> HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories
by Noriko Hara 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Apologies for cross-posting HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii, USA Track: Digital and social media We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Crowdsourcing mini-track for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014. In line with the track emphasis on promoting digital and social-media-related research, this minitrack aims to expand the scope of research in HICSS and bring to the conference researchers interested in cutting edge topics involving socio-technical issues of mass knowledge production and crowdsourcing online knowledge repositories. As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo!Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as: . The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites . Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites . Conflict and cooperation in content production sites . Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites . Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities . Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities . Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites . Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors . Challenges and opportunities of digital curation . Standards and quality of digital content online Detailed information about the conference can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm Information for potential authors can be found here http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013 Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman Informatics West #301 901 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47408 812 856 1587 Noriko Hara 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 1490 Howard Rosenbaum 1320 East 10th Street SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 812 855 3250 -- _________________________________________ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Science SLIS Indiana University, Bloomington Tel: 812-855-1490 Fax: 812-855-6166 http://norikohara.org

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