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Public Lecture, National Library of Australia: Working with the Crowd
by Mathieu.O'Neil 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

The News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), University of Canberra, presents a Public Lecture: WORKING WITH THE CROWD: ENGAGING PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE CROWDS AND COMMUNITIES Ferguson Room, National Library of Australia Tuesday August 26, 5.30PM-7PM The lecture will be delivered by the N&MRC's Visiting International Scholar Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite About the Speaker Caroline Haythornthwaite is the Director and Professor of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Her research areas explore the way interaction, via computer media, supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction, primarily from a social-network-analysis perspective. Lecture Abstract The organization of work is changing. The change began with the first move to online communication and has accelerated with each new innovation in social media and social networking. The latest challenge entails harnessing the crowd - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowd creativity, and more - to address work needs. This focus promises the contributory power of many without the obligation to plan for long-term maintenance of the workforce. The turn to the crowd represents a marked change from earlier attention to communities. What have we gained and lost in focusing on the crowd over the community? What do we know about each form of organizing that can help in matching tasks and goals to crowd and community options? How can we harness the power of crowds as well as the commitment of communities? This presentation outlines two models for design and analysis of contributory practice: a lightweight model that draws on a crowd perspective to address tasks and rewards from discrete contributors, and a heavyweight model that draws on a community perspective to address contributions from connected contributors. The future of crowdsourcing entails multiple models of contributory practice, some of which entail full commitment to the goals of the work, trust in the use of contributions, and payoffs - however near or far - for society, the environment, and the next generation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Ratio FTP servers?
by Nicholas John 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

Hello all, I had some helpful responses to my recent query about early private BitTorrent trackers - thanks to all those who wrote to me. I’ve now got a follow-up question: does anyone here know anything about ratio FTP servers? I feel like I’m getting into some fairly obscure corners and would certainly love it if someone could help shed some light in them. Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john

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by ilg1953＠gmail.com 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

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2nd CfP and scholarship announcement
by Unsworth,Kristene 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

In addition to posting the 2nd CfP for ASIS&T SIG-IFP/SIG-III workshop; I want to announce three scholarship opportunities. We are pleased to offer 2 workshop fee waivers to current students working in the areas of information policy, information ethics, legal issues of information, surveillance studies etc. We will also offer 1 workshop fee waiver to a professional in the field. This individual should be working outside of the university. These awards will be based on reviews of submitted extended abstracts or position papers by the workshop planning committee: due September 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ASIS&T SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: ● How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? ● How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? ● Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? ● When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? ● What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? ● How does policy design build/undermine trust? ● What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens’s to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Fees Early-bird: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $190, Members $200, Non-members $220 Regular: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $210, Members $220, Non-members $240 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth(a)drexel.edu<mailto:unsworth@drexel.edu>) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell(a)uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uw.edu>). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci<http://cci.drexel.edu/>

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2014 AoIR Dissertation Award Announcement
by Michael Zimmer 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China” by Dr. Elisa Argil Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her dissertation is an ethnographic case study of the diffusion and appropriation of information & communication technologies, such as mobile phones and computers, among rural Chinese residents and migrant workers. The abstract is provided below. There were also two honorable mentions: "A Multi-method Examination of Race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Motivations for Participation in the YouTube-based “It Gets Better Project”” by Dr. Laurie Phillips (UNC-Chapel Hill) "YouTube Shakespeares: Encountering Ethical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges in Researching Online Performance” by Dr. Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) As chair of the Dissertation Award committee, I would also like to extend my deep appreciation to the committee members: Kath Albury, Ben Light, Alice Marwick, and Katrin Weller. We received twenty-six submissions to review, and were quite impressed with the high quality and great variety of the dissertations that is indicative of the strength (and the future) of Internet studies. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Oreglia, Phillips and Fazel! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China” by Dr. Elisa Oreglia http://gradworks.umi.com/36/16/3616383.html In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ‘informatize’ the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ‘less,’ compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China’s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ‘invent’ themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization.

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CfP: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age
by Dr. Stephan Humer 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Call for Papers 2nd Symposium and 15th Workshop of the Terrorism Research Network (Netzwerk Terrorismusforschung e.V.) Main topic: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age Place and time: Our 2nd Symposium and our 15th Workshop is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and will take place in Wesseling near Cologne, Germany on October 15 – 17, 2014 We are looking for scientific Workshop presentations on October 16 and 17! The main topic: Terrorism is neither a new nor a static phenomenon. Terrorism and Extremism are in constant, sometimes rapid change, which does not always make definitions and boundaries very easy. Are definitions of the current state and foreseeable development fair and suitable? What role, for example, play organized crime and war crimes? Are there symbioses with other phenomena? Are there special cases of terrorism, beyond the existing definitions and boundaries? And what does all this mean for science, authorities and organizations with security tasks in a more and more digitized world? The Symposium and the Workshop offer the possibility to explore the changes of Terrorism and its links with other crime phenomena in the Digital Age on an usual level. To emphasize and deepen transdisciplinarity this event is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Traditionally a large part of our workshop (October 17) is not limited to the main topic. It should also provide space for other terrorism-related lectures and discussions. In particular, we especially invite PhD candidates to present their projects! Abstracts and Deadline: Please send abstracts for a lecture of about 30 minutes. There will be room for discussions after every single presentation (30 mins). Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and can be send to stephan.humer(a)netzwerk-terrorismusforschung.org The deadline for abstracts/presentations - in German language is August 31, 2014 - in English language is September 7, 2014 Please remember that we are not able to pay for travel costs, but for the entrance fee and an overnight stay (if applicable). You can of course attend the Symposium and the Workshop without a presentation, but not for free. Please check our website for updates on this issue. -- Dr. Stephan G. Humer Research Director and Founder, Internet Sociology Department; Principal Investigator, Digital Security Research Digital Class, Berlin University of the Arts Phone: +49 (0) 176 6719 3413 Phone: +49 (0) 30 3185 1284 Mail: humer(a)udk-berlin.de Website: www.humer.de Twitter: @netsociology

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AoIR Statement of Inclusivity
by Kendall, Lori 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

I am pleased to announce that the AoIR Executive Committee has adopted a new Statement of Inclusivity for the organization. You can find it on our website here: http://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/ We have also updated our Statement of Principles to conform it to the new Inclusivity Statement. I would like to particularly thank Anna Lauren Hoffmann, the AoIR student representative, for spearheading and shepherding this initiative. Also assisting in formulating the statement were Jenny Korn, Anne Pasek, Pip Shea, as well as several members of AoIR who provided feedback on a draft of the Statement. Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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IR15: Hotel Registrations
by Kendall, Lori 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hey folks! I had hoped that we would have our hotel registration system up by now but it is taking longer than expected. I do want to reassure you that we have reserved blocks of rooms at each the four hotels previously described (see here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=247, here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=274, and here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=311 for more information about these hotels). In addition, we now have about 20 rooms reserved at The Grand Hotel Daegu as well. The Grand Daegu Hotel is just a few blocks from the conference venue, the Saint Western Hotel Beomeo. We do hope to have news shortly about how to place your hotel reservations, and there will still be plenty of available rooms once we do. Thank you for your patience, Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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IR15 Best Student Paper Award
by Kendall, Lori 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

The IR15 Conference Committee is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Student Paper award goes to Rodrigo Davies from MIT for his paper “Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding.” Davies' paper takes a thoughtful approach to considering crowdfunding strategies and their implications for civic and political participation. The reviewers appreciated the way the paper advances our ways of understanding crowdfunding rather than merely rehashing old debates. We had many high quality student submissions this year. Congratulations to Davies and all our student authors. We look forward to seeing your paper presentations in Korea in October. Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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Online reputation and information share
by Ilona GRZYWINSKA 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hello everyone, I am conducting a research on active public within convergent media ecosystem and wanted to ask you if you came across any empirical studies on how the care of online reputation affects the type of content that users share in social media including the possibility that some content is not passed at all cause would affect the personal image a person wants to create for themselves. I would appreciate any hints on that. Thank you so much in advance:-) -- Best Regards Ilona Grzywińska PhD Candidate University of Warsaw Tel: +48 501 985 516 Twitter: @igrzywinska Skype: ilona.grzywinska Web: www.webkomunikacja.pl http://about.me/ilona.grzywinska

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