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

FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
by Peter Timusk 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Some thoughts from me a disabled person. From: ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca To: philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz Subject: RE: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:18:01 -0400 I would say for mental health issues you might look at poverty as a factor. Also hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities in Ontario my home province in Canada and I know many, many more in the USA live with government income support. Which means not enough money to live on properly. You can't look at disability in the west without looking at poverty. What really is accessibility on the web given this massive poverty factor. Also I remember a homeless person telling me at a protest that homeless people have e-mail address when discussing how to campaign. > From: philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:09:52 +0000 > Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities > > Dear AOIR members, > > I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment. > > I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful. > > Kind regards > > Philippa > > Philippa K Smith, PhD > Research Manager > Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication > AUT University > Auckland > NEW ZEALAND > _______________________________________________ > 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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Web impact excluding link farms and other black SEO practices
by Isidro F. Aguillo 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

The second 2013 edition of the *Ranking Web (Webometrics) of Universities*, including more than 21000 higher education Institutions has been published: *http://www.webometrics.info/* The rank is based on a composite indicator that combines webometric and bibliometric variables, the first ones collected from the Web during the last July while the second one is the updated Excellence indicator (the 10% most cited papers in 21 disciplines) for the years 2007-2011 (SIR). Major innovation is a new method for calculating web visibility or impact, the most important variable (50%) for the composite indicator used for building the Ranking. The former method consists of combining the number of domains originating the inlinks to the university webdomain (backdomains) and the square root of the total number of those inlinks: sqr(backlinks). In this way it was possible to grant proper recognition not only to most popular web contents or most prestigious institutions but also to the diversity and strength of the impact sources. Unfortunately a few webmasters choose the easy way to obtain additional link visibility contracting external services of link farms or creating their own ones by forcing scholars and students to overlink to the university webdomain from external blogs or similar social tools. In the current edition the top 10, an arbitrary number that is open to future modifications, sources (domains) of links and all the involved links are excluded from the impact indicator. For most of the universities this action exclude student blogs, sports teams pages, non-academic forums, alternative domains and mostly local sources of links, so true global impact is left as main component. Obviously bad practices are strongly penalized with the new system. In a few cases hacked websites due to poor management of the webmasters are being overlinked for more than ten domains, including nasty sources like pornographic, fake-products selling or hate pages. We are identifying these individual cases for exclusion. On the positive side, we expect this change will promote internationalization of the contents. Webometrics is not only ranking websites but the overall performance of the universities. In that sense, it has a clear advantage on other similar rankings where results are obtained only after long-term efforts. A strong and well directed web policy involving not only ICT departments but everybody else in the university is going to have a huge impact in the Ranking. Current leaders by region are: *North America*: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley *Latin America*: Sao Paulo, UNAM, Campinas, Buenos Aires *Europe:* Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, ETH Zurich *Eastern & Central Europe:* Lomonosov Moscow State University *Asia:* National Singapore, Tsinghua, Tokyo, National Taiwan *Africa: *Kwazulu Natal, Cape Town, Stellenbosch *Oceania:* Australian National University, Monash, Melbourne, UNSW *Middle East:* Tel Aviv *Arab World:* King Saud *South Asia:* IIT Bombay -- ****************************** Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC Grupo Scimago Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo(a)csic.es ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter: @isidroaguillo Rankings Web: webometrics.info ******************************

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Reminder: Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from 2013 ASA Meeting‎
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Dear Colleagues, ‎ For the seventh year, the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS, published by Routledge) ‎will publish a special issue in cooperation with the ASA section on Communication ‎and Information Technologies (CITASA). The special issue will be comprised of papers ‎presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, New York that focus on issues of social media, technology, communication, information, or other related topics. Jennifer Earl (University of Arizona) and Katrina Kimport (University of California, San Francisco) will be the ‎editors. ‎ We invite you to submit a paper that was presented at the ASA 2013 meetings for consideration in this special ‎issue. Please submit manuscripts for consideration through ScholarOne, available at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Also, be sure to check the box for “Special Issue” and indicate “CITASA” in it, so that it will be routed appropriately. ‎Submitted manuscripts should be a maximum of 6,000 words and should conform to the ‎journal's submission guidelines; see http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rics20&page=…. Deadlines: Full papers due: September 30, 2013 Refereeing completed: November 29, 2013 Final version of accepted papers due: January 10, 2014 Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2014 ‎ Please contact us with any questions. We hope to hear from you. Sincerely, Jennifer Earl jenniferearl(a)email.arizona.edu School of Sociology University of Arizona Chair, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association and Katrina Kimport kimportk(a)obgyn.ucsf.edu Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) University of California, San Francisco Secretary/Treasurer, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************

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Announcement Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference
by Jeffrey Keefer 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Announcement: Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference We are pleased to announce our third Hot Seat series where researchers and practitioners meet online to share about timely issues under the guidance of leading experts in the area of Networked Learning. Each Hot Seat will be open for the duration of one week. We have scheduled 7 interesting topics during the period between September – March. Full details may be found below: http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/ This season’s Hot Seat series will begin September 29 with Nancy White and John Smith addressing “Blind spots, black holes and the heaven and hell of tightly bounded communities.” Please feel free join this open dialogue; it is free and all are welcome. The Hot Seats are an initiative in collaboration with the Networked Learning Conference, which this year will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 2014. Submission deadline for papers is October 4th. The site is now open for submissions. Check the conference website for further details: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ We hope to welcome you online in the Hot Seats and join the lively conversation, Jeffrey Keefer & Maarten de Laat ----- Jeffrey Keefer, Ph.D. jk904(a)nyu.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffreyKeefer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreykeefer Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

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Feedback opportunity - draft online civic engagement survey
by Steven Clift 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Would you like to help shape a major participant survey for our BeNeighbors.org effort? If yes, drop me a note and I will invite you into our private group review via a Google Doc experiment. It should be both fun and important. **Please Reply to: clift(a)e-democracy.org In subject write: Survey Review More info: http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/2130 Thanks, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org <http://e-democracy.org/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition
by Estee N Beck 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 You may view the video and full version of the text-based CFP at this link: http://itineration.org/node/45 The special edition, *Privacy and Datveillance* Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to: * Foucault’s metaphor of the panopticon and its relationship to questions concerning dataveillance * The rhetorical means companies use to promote dataveillance tracking * The concept of anonymity within social networks, social applications, or other data gathering endeavours (such as medical and financial fields) * Means, implications, and consequences of subverting and resisting data-mining online * Emergent needs of identity protection online from tracking technologies * Public rhetorics concerning security and privacy * The political and social implications of increased observational structures (online or not) and the resulting decrease in privacy * Issues of legal and educational advocacy for greater privacy protection * Technical communication regarding how terms of service and end user agreements discuss tracking technologies along with privacy and anonymity * How data mining and advertising customization leads to assumptions about the attitudes and beliefs in geographical areas * The roles of embodiment and disembodiment connected with gender and identity/privacy and anonymity * The relationship between decreased privacy and anonymity online and boutique and big data practices Interested parties are invited to submit multimedia projects of varying style, form, and content. We are especially interested in projects that push the boundaries in their composition and presentation. In short, please experiment. Play. Learn a new trick. To that end, please note that Itineration no longer publishes text-based articles (“traditional” essay format). Please send any questions concerning project design, format, technical specifications, etc. to Senior Editor and Technical Specialist, Gerald Jackson, at geraldsjackson at gmail dot com. Submissions should be emailed directly to Special Edition editor, Estee Beck, at esteenbeck at gmail dot com. Deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2014. Submission accepted for publication will be published on a rolling basis upon completing the editorial process.

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Publication of the second issue of connexions • international professional communication journal
by connexions journal 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

I am delighted to announce that issue 1(2) of connexions journal on "International engineering communication" and guest edited by Julie Ford and Marie Paretti is available athttp://connexionsjournal.org/ journal-issues/1-2/ We hope you enjoy the issue! Rosário Rosário Durão Editor *www.connexionsjournal.org **connexions •** international professi****onal communication journal *(ISSN 2325-6044) *Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences<http://infohost.nmt.edu/~class/> * *New Mexico Tech <http://www.nmt.edu>** ***

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Immersive Education K12 Summit Call for Submissions Extended #iEDk12
by L Eaton 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Submission deadlines for the Immersive Education (iED) K12 Summit have been extended. Details are available on the official iED K12 Summit website at http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org/K12 Building on the success of the previous 7 years of Immersive Education conferences, the world's leading experts in immersion convene in Boulder Colorado this October 24-26 for the 1st Annual K12 Summit. The 3 day event is organized specifically for K12 educators and researchers, and businesses specializing in K12 education. The iED K12 Summit will provide attendees with: an in-depth overview of immersive teaching and learning technologies; an exploration of the range of student learning activities using virtual worlds, learning games, augmented reality and other immersive technologies; teacher professional development (PD) and learning; hands-on collaboration and co-creation using immersive platforms; an understanding of the potential for Immersive Education to transform educational opportunities and learning outcomes. The iED K12 Summit is open to the global academic and business communities and experts in immersion, simulation, learning games, virtual reality, and augmented/mixed reality. See http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org/K12 for details. Call for Submissions are due September 15 (Call for Outlier submissions are due October 1). Check out the call, here: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/submitters.html#body For those just interested in attending the event, registration is now open: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/registration.html#body For additional information about the conference, the Immersive Education Initiative, our publications and projects,s check out: iED K12 Summit 2013, October 24-26: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/K12/index.html -- Good tidings, Lance Lance Eaton @leaton http://byanyothernerd.blogspot.com/ _______________________________ I wish I had all the answers; better yet, I wish I knew all the questions to ask.

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CFP: Social Media / Protest panel - ISA congress of sociology, Japan, July 2014
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Dear All, At the International Sociological Association (ISA) Congress of Sociology in Yokohama Japan, July 13-19 2014, I am organising a session titled ‘Social Media and Collective Identities in the new Activism’ which could be of interest for some people on this list. The session will host papers looking at activist use of social media as means of identity-building, organisation and mobilisation in recent protest movements (Arab Spring, indignados, Occupy Wall Street, protests in Brazil and Turkey). You find the abstract of the session below. The deadline is September 30th 2013. To submit an abstract for the conference, please use this link https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi. You will find the Social Media session by clicking on ‘Research Committees’ and scrolling down in the following page to RC47 where the session is listed. Please contact me if you need further information on the session. Best, Paolo Gerbaudo Social Media and Collective Identities in the 'New Activism' This session will look at the use of social media by social movement activists with a particular focus on the new forms of identification that develop in the use of these forms of communication. It invites papers looking at the way in which Facebook pages and groups, and Twitter accounts and feeds become a platform for the construction of the collective identity of new actors, by putting forward common names, common images, common slogans, and common imaginaries. It will question what is the nature of the new forms of identity that are developed on social media, what is their degree of coherence, permanence, and how they reflect the existential challenges of a phase of economic crisis, political transition and technological innovation. Session Organizer Paolo GERBAUDO, King`s College London, United Kingdom, paolo.gerbaudo(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:paolo.gerbaudo@kcl.ac.uk> Paolo Gerbaudo Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London paolo.gerbaudo(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:paolo.gerbaudo@kcl.ac.uk> Room 217a Norfolk Building Strand +44 020 7848 1576

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2nd CFP: Workshop Ethics of Cyber Conflict
by Mariarosaria Taddeo 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Please find below a CFP on a 'Workshop on the Ethics of Cyber Conflict', which I am organising in collaboration with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. With kind regards, Mariarosaria Taddeo -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html *************************************** * * *Ethics of Cyber Conflict* *Time:* November 2013 *Place:* Rome, Italy *Participation fee:* none In the age of the so-called information revolution, the ability to control, disrupt or manipulate the enemy’s information infrastructure has become as decisive as weapon superiority with respect to determining the outcome of conflicts. So much so that Pentagon’s definition of cyberspace as a new domain in which war is waged, alongside land, sea, air and space, comes as no surprise. The deployment of cyber conflicts as part of a state’s defensive or offensive strategy is a fast growing phenomenon, which is rapidly changing the dynamics of combat as well as the role that warfare plays in political negotiations and the life of civil societies. Such changes are not the exclusive concern of the military, for they also have a bearing on ethicists and policymakers, since existing ethical theories of war, together with national and international regulations, struggle to address the novelties of this phenomenon. The issue could not be more pressing and there is a much felt and fast escalating need to share information and coordinate ethical theorising about cyber conflicts. Contributions to the workshop will address issues concerning the way ICTs are affecting our ethical views of conflicts and warfare, as well as the analysis of just-war principles in the light of the dissemination of cyber conflicts; humanitarian military interventions based on ICTs; whether preventive acts of cyber war may satisfy jus-ad-bellum criteria; challenges of upholding jus-in-bello standards in cyber warfare, especially in asymmetric conflicts; attribution and proportionality of the response to cyber attacks; moral permissibility of automated responses and ethical deployment of military robotic weapons. More details can be found on the workshop website http://ccdcoe.org/428.html . The workshop will be a *two-day event* organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and chaired by *Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo*, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. The event will gather ethicists, experts in military studies, policymakers and experts in cyber security to discuss the ethical problems caused by cyber conflicts. *Submission of Papers:* Authors are required to submit an extended abstract of the planned paper which should describe the topic and set out the main aspects and structure of the research (up to 1000 words). Following a preliminary review and acceptance of the abstract, the authors will be requested to submit the full paper that meets high academic quality, which will be considered for a publication in an international peer-reviewed journal. Speakers will be offered travel, transfer from,and to the airport, accommodation for the duration of the event. Submission details, author guidance and other practical information will be made available on the Centre’s website latest by August 2013. *Important Dates *Extended abstracts (1000 words): 9 September 2013 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2013 Full paper: 07 November 2013 *Registration* is required for this event, please contact events -at- ccdcoe.org *For enquiries about the workshop*, please contact Lt Ludovica Glorioso (ludovica.glorioso -at- ccdcoe.org) or Anna-Maria Talihärm (anna-maria.taliharm -at- ccdcoe.org)

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