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Suggestions for visual material for Internet Governance & HR teaching
by zalnieriute . 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Dear All, I would like to ask for some advice on visual teaching materials. I am soon to teach ma research stream on 'Internet Governance & Human Rights' for final year JD students at Melbourne Law School. Since I was free to design the course and materials, I thought it would be nice to include some visuals - short videos, interviews, exciting prezis - anything else that would be stimulating and of importance to such course. Anything suggestions either generally on Internet Governance, or digital rights, or Internet & Democracy would be highly appreciated! Best wishes, Monika -- Kind regards, Dr. Monika Zalnieriute Post-Doctoral Fellow @ Melbourne Law School | The University of Melbourne I law.unimelb.edu.au I 185 Pelham St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia I Visiting Fellow @ Center for Media, Data and Society I Central European University I cmds.ceu.edu I Representative @ Executive Committee I Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group I ICANN I icann.org I

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CFP HICSS Minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
by Fichman, Pnina 22 May '17

22 May '17

CFP HICSS Minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) January 4-7, 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, USA Kauai, Hawaii, USA http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2016 This minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. In line with the track recognition that the Internet has transformed the way we work, learn, and play, our minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * The impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) on ICT design, adoption, and use. * The impact of cultural values on policies and practices of big data collection and use (e.g., * Cross cultural studies of quantification of self at work, by individuals or organizations * Cross-cultural comparisons of big data collection and use * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies *Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider(a)wu.ac.at<mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at> Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel(a)american.edu<mailto:carmel@american.edu> About HICSS conferences: Now in its 50th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: • A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. • Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. • A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. • A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). • Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. • Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. • A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. • Best Paper Awards<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm> in each track which recognize superior research performance. • HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. Aug 16: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. September 15: Submission final papers. Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will  be removed from the Proceedings. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Re: [Air-L] seasonal apps
by Brant, Clare 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Dear all Just a thought, but diary apps might show a seasonal surge ? Possibly without the second smaller spike which shows up in sales for academic year paper diaries? Yes it's always summer somewhere! But also a new year synchronised to January 1 on the Gregorian calendar? Thanks for all the interesting thinking and generous exchanges on this list Clare On 30 Mar 2017 3:19 am, MC Cambre <mcambre(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: Touché for neuroplasticity! On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Ravindra Mohabeer <mohabeerlists(a)gmail.com > wrote: > That notion of censorship brings up another curious possibility. > > Is it possible that the lack of temporal change (a-seasonality?) is > indicative of the 'echo chamber' effect where we are not externally > prompted by 'natural' cycles of change in the way that we used to be so we > are less apt to expect or embrace change as a regular occurrence that we > must confront regularly? > > Again, not a matter of cause and effect so much as a dispositional shift > through ordinary behavioural fixedness rather than start-stop-restart > rhythms. > > --------------------------- > Ravindra N. Mohabeer > > > On Mar 29, 2017, at 5:50 PM, MC Cambre <mcambre(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: > > Following the thread with great interest, and compelled to add the aspect > of platform curation, i.e. censorship of apps that permits (or decides) > when they may be in or out of season, is it a flavor of the month thing? > Not sure. But it does complicate the notion of consumer behavior. > > Case in point, the app that was rejected 12 times by Apple, only to be > allowed, and then rejected again: > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheinter… > apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes/ > > Kindly, > cc > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Diana Ascher <dianaascher(a)ucla.edu> > wrote: > > > > I would think you could peg app genre to the industry SIC or NAICS codes > > used in the consumer behavior literature, and pick out some similarities > > and differences there. > > > > > > Diana L. Ascher, MBA > > Doctoral Candidate > > Department of Information Studies > > University of California, Los Angeles > > 290 Charles E. Young Drive North > > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > dianaascher(a)ucla.edu <mailto:dianaascher@ucla.edu> > > @dianaascher <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> > > > > This message is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise > > protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you have > > received it by mistake, please let me know by email reply and delete it > > from your system; you may not copy this message or disclose its contents > to > > anyone. The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed > on > > the Internet. > > > >> On Mar 29, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > > wrote: > >> > >> This is probably too obvious, but I betcha travel apps are used more in > > North America in the summer: Google Maps, hotel.com, iExit, > trip-advisor. > > Because there is more leisure travel by people who don't know their way > >> > >> Barry Wellman > >> > >> A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head > >> Step by step, link by link, putting it together > >> Streisand/Sondheim > >> _______________________________________________________________________ > >> NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder > >> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fwww.chass.u… twitter: @barrywellman > >> NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman > >> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2… > >> _______________________________________________________________________ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&… > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.… > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.… > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&… > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.… > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.… > > > > > > -- > -- > > > > *Dr. Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montréal > Co-chair IVSA 2017: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.IVSA2017.com&data=… <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.IVSA2…>* > <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloom…> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.… > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.… > -- -- *Dr. Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montréal Co-chair IVSA 2017: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.IVSA2017.com&data=… <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.IVSA2…>* <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloom…> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&… Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.… Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.…

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seasonal apps
by Barry Wellman 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

This is probably too obvious, but I betcha travel apps are used more in North America in the summer: Google Maps, hotel.com, iExit, trip-advisor. Because there is more leisure travel by people who don't know their way Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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Postdoc Opportunity in Data Ethics - UC Berkeley
by Anna Lauren Hoffmann 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Do you know of anyone working on data/info/tech ethics that's also looking for a postdoc opportunity? The School of Information at UC Berkeley is definitely looking to bring in someone who can contribute in this area. These postdocs come with a small-ish teaching commitment (25%-33% of your time, the rest is yours for research/relevant work). Plus, if you're in the ethics/policy area, you get to work with a really rad bunch of folks! And you also get access to the rest of UC Berkeley. I've occupied one of these postdocs for the last two years and I can't say enough good things about the opportunities this position has afforded. As I'm leaving, I would love to see those same opportunities passed on to an exciting and deserving early-career scholar! For explicit application info: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/ischooljobs/datascipostdoc. Also, I'm happy to answer any questions if folks have them - just direct them to annalauren(a)berkeley.edu. -Anna --- Anna Lauren Hoffmann Postdoctoral Scholar & Instructor School of Information University of California, Berkeley

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Re: [Air-L] Question: Do 'apps' have 'seasons'?
by Jill Walker Rettberg 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

I would imagine the global nature of the internet makes seasons less important for apps - and even for memes, Snapchat filters, the types of stories you see on BuzzFeed or Reddit. Seasons and rituals are so different around the globe. You do certainly see seasons in Snapchat filters, Facebook prompts etc, and usually US-centric seasons often with little cultural awareness of the seasons not being global. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, American Mothers/Fathers day, College graduation weekend, spring break, Memorial Day are all examples of holidays not celebrated globally or even in Europe, which in many ways is culturally close to the US (and in the northern hemisphere so seasonally aligned). The silliest example of failed seasonal globalist I've seen was Snapchat sending out a Happy Fathers Day message to Norwegian users - on Norwegian MOTHERS day. Ha. You're probably thinking more of which apps are marketed, though? Is there a way to download data from the App Stores over time to test this? You may be able to generate graphs from https://www.appannie.com/ as well. Jill Sent from my phone On 28 Mar 2017, at 20:45, Ravindra Mohabeer <mohabeerlists(a)gmail.com<mailto:mohabeerlists@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello All, I find myself with a rather crudely formed idea through which I am questioning whether day-to-day ‘apps’ (or ‘Internet experiences’) taken in a broad interpretation exist in a temporal sense that can be described as ‘having seasons’? If retailers have seasons (artificial or ‘real’) that reflect/create behavioural patterns - e.g. people tend to renovate in the Spring, buy certain things around certain holidays, etc. - do ‘apps' follow similar seasonal patterns? Or, coming from a media studies perspective I have noted an (admittedly anecdotal but) immense shift in how media seasons are defined, I wonder if any potential a-seaonality of the 'app world’ has upset temporal expectations of the seasonality of mediated experiences. I mean seasons in both a climatic (i.e. spring, summer, fall, winter) and social sense (blockbuster, holiday, shopping, election, ‘back to school,’ new release, etc.) - and as an interplay of the climatic and social dimensions concurrently within the separate backdrop of ‘innovation cycles,’ release dates, and updates. Obviously there are time-limited ‘apps' (like contest apps or event-based apps), but I wonder whether there are ebbs and flows of general ‘app' use, particularly platform apps of the social media ilk, or of the organization/productivity type for example, that can be temporally described as seasonal? I realize that my terms of reference are rather imperfectly formed (app, season, etc.) but I did that on purpose since I am rather more interested in your interpretation/application to whatever related construct as it explores the changing nature of the concept of seasonality/temporality and [new] mediated experiences. Just curious. Any thoughts? Ravi --------------------------------------- Ravindra N. Mohabeer, PhD Vancouver Island University Nanaimo, BC CANADA

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my new book on hiring in corporate America
by Ilana Gershon 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

I am so happy to announce that my new book on hiring and new media is now an object: Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (Or Don't Find) Work Today University of Chicago Press has published it, and will give people a 20% discount if you use the promotional code: UCPANT http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo25799564.html But I do think it is still cheaper on Amazon. Best, Ilana

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Tools for archiving and analysing Reddit posts
by Tim Squirrell 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Hi all, I'm currently about to embark on an ethnography of a Reddit community as part of my doctoral research into the construction and negotiation of authority and expertise in online fitness and nutrition communities. I was wondering whether anyone might have any experience of documenting and analysing Reddit threads and subreddits. I've tried using Zotero, but it makes analysis quite slow and clunky; with NVivo I've had limited success using nodes and trying to capture both posts and comment sections with the NCapture tool. One of the problems I'm encountering is that content is often linked and spread across multiple different sites of different kinds, and documentation methods that work in one place are less useful in another. I essentially want to be able to take a snapshot such that I can preserve the data as it was when I encountered it, as well as being able to perform a discourse analysis on the contents of a given thread. It might just be that I'm inexperienced in using NVivo and that there are ways of dealing with the issues I'm having, in which case any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Tim Squirrell PhD Candidate & Postgraduate Tutor Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies University of Edinburgh

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Question: Do 'apps' have 'seasons'?
by Ravindra Mohabeer 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Hello All, I find myself with a rather crudely formed idea through which I am questioning whether day-to-day ‘apps’ (or ‘Internet experiences’) taken in a broad interpretation exist in a temporal sense that can be described as ‘having seasons’? If retailers have seasons (artificial or ‘real’) that reflect/create behavioural patterns - e.g. people tend to renovate in the Spring, buy certain things around certain holidays, etc. - do ‘apps' follow similar seasonal patterns? Or, coming from a media studies perspective I have noted an (admittedly anecdotal but) immense shift in how media seasons are defined, I wonder if any potential a-seaonality of the 'app world’ has upset temporal expectations of the seasonality of mediated experiences. I mean seasons in both a climatic (i.e. spring, summer, fall, winter) and social sense (blockbuster, holiday, shopping, election, ‘back to school,’ new release, etc.) - and as an interplay of the climatic and social dimensions concurrently within the separate backdrop of ‘innovation cycles,’ release dates, and updates. Obviously there are time-limited ‘apps' (like contest apps or event-based apps), but I wonder whether there are ebbs and flows of general ‘app' use, particularly platform apps of the social media ilk, or of the organization/productivity type for example, that can be temporally described as seasonal? I realize that my terms of reference are rather imperfectly formed (app, season, etc.) but I did that on purpose since I am rather more interested in your interpretation/application to whatever related construct as it explores the changing nature of the concept of seasonality/temporality and [new] mediated experiences. Just curious. Any thoughts? Ravi --------------------------------------- Ravindra N. Mohabeer, PhD Vancouver Island University Nanaimo, BC CANADA

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WEBCAST TUE-THU – Afghanistan Internet Governance Forum #IGFA2017
by Joly MacFie 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

This is already about halfway through its 3 day run. Impressive event. joly posted: "The first annual Internet Governance Forum Afghanistan (IGFA) is taking place on March 29 and March 30, 2017 in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is in fact a 3 day event as Tuesday March 28 "Day 0" includes additional educational workshops. Organized by the ISOC Af" [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfa2017>The first annual *Internet Governance Forum Afghanistan <http://igf.af/>* (IGFA) is taking place on *March 29 and March 30, 2017* in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is in fact a 3 day event as Tuesday March 28 "Day 0" includes additional educational workshops. Organized by the ISOC Afghanistan Chapter, the conference is mostly in English, and is being webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfa2017/>*. Kabul is UTC+4.5, so 8.5 hours ahead of NYC. *What: Internet Governance Forum Afghanistan 2017 <http://igf.af/> Where: Kabul Afghanistan When: Tuesday March 28 - Thursday Mar 30 2017 Agenda: http://isoc-ny.org/igfa2017/IGFA2017-Agenda.pdf <http://isoc-ny.org/igfa2017/IGFA2017-Agenda.pdf> Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfa2017 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfa2017> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/igfa2017 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/igfa2017> Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IGFA2017 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/IGFA2017>* *\* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9093#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9093#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9093 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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