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Pedagogy -- Grad program class size, online and trad'l
by Batchelor, Bob 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello listmates, I am doing research regarding class sizes in graduate programs, both online and traditional. While I have read quite a bit of anecdotal stuff and talked with many colleagues who have a gut feeling about class sizes in grad programs, I am not finding as much as I would like. If you do research in this area or are interested in it, would you mind sharing resources? I want to put some meat behind the notion that the smaller the class, the better the class or the opposite, if the research supports it. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Bob Batchelor Kent State University http://new.jmc.kent.edu/about/faculty/directory/batchelor.aspx

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CFP for 4S Panel: From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture
by Laura Forlano 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Apologies for x-posting. 4S Meeting in San Diego, Oct 9-12, 2013. From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture Current Participants: Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Silvia Lindtner, Thomas Lodato Hacker/maker culture is often associated with a DIY (do it yourself) ethos and Internet counterculture — in distinction from professionalized fields such as design, scientific research, or engineering. However, in recent years, hacker cultures and professionalized fields have been brought together through the efforts such as hackerspaces, which function as collocated laboratories for citizen science engagements, new product development, or batch-manufacturing. Events such as hackathons, start-up weekends, and accelerators allow DIY makers to move beyond a hobbyist activity and transform ideas into tangible products by exploiting an existing infrastructure of venture capital funding, corporate support and manufacturing labor. In addition to corporations, state organizations such as DARPA and governments in Asia have begun participate in these transformations in order to provide financial support for maker and DIY efforts with the goal of triggering new forms of innovation for their nations. The purpose of this panel is to bring together research that examines the conditions and issues of the transformation of hacker/maker culture from DIY endeavors to increasingly professionalized and purportedly economically-viable activities, and engages with the culture and politics of such professionalization process of the hobbyist Maker movement. We will examine how DIY maker production appropriates and remakes dominant narratives of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to render and for what purposes. We ask questions such as: Who is excluded and how do local manifestations of the broader movement vary? How can analytical and methodological tools from STS inform the study of interdisciplinary maker worlds that aspire to bring together science, technology and society in new ways? What digital and other material artifacts are produced along the way, where and how do they travel, and which populations are implicated in their production? We envision this panel will contribute to ongoing concerns in Digital STS and innovation studies. We are soliciting participation in this panel (or possibly, a series of panels). If you are interested in contributing please send an email with a brief paper description to cdisalvo(a)gatech.edu by March 1st. Laura Forlano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology Visiting Scholar Program in Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology (646) 245-5388 (c) http://lauraforlano.org http://designingorganizations.org

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Re: [Air-L] Call for Applications, 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
by bury417＠yahoo.ca 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

I realize that the exclamation mark is part of the trademark but I must confess it is rather jarring to see an academic position with this punctuation in the title. Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University rbury(a)athabascau.ca Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone

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Historical Origins of the Cloud
by Trevor Croker 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, I am currently trying to track down the historical origin of the term "cloud computing." So far, I have only come across speculation that the cloud imagery was used in computer textbooks and slowly adopted into the computing lexicon. Any suggested resources or guidance would be very much appreciated. Best, Trevor Croker PhD Candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Program at Virginia Tech

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Call for Applications, 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
by Francesca Musiani 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the position of 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence. The fellowship is supported by the Yahoo! International Values, Communications Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund, which was established in 2007-08 at the School of Foreign Services (SFS) at Georgetown University with the help of a $1 million gift from Yahoo! Inc. Every year, the fund supports one fellow attached to the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) and two junior fellows from the MSFS graduate program at SFS to do research on how international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies. Additional information can be found on the Institute's website using the following links: http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/ http://isd.georgetown.edu/files/Yahoo_Announcement.pdf Kind regards, Francesca -- Francesca Musiani, PhD 2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence<http://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/yahoofellow/> Institute for the Study of Diplomacy <http://isd.georgetown.edu/> Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service <http://sfs.georgetown.edu/> Georgetown University 1316 36th Street NW Washington, DC 20057-1025 CSI, MINES ParisTech <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> | ANR ADAM project<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Berkman Center for Internet and Society @ Harvard Law<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/> ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Gloviczki Poetry Book Publication
by Peter Gloviczki 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Dear AOIR Friends and Colleagues, I'm really pleased to share that my first full-length collection of poetry, Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry, 2013) is now available. Though the poems are mostly fictional, I write about the media in certain poems and media in everyday life is a theme that runs through the collection. If you're interested, I encourage you to take a look. I'm glad to Skype with any media studies, creative nonfiction or literary arts classes (or others) that would like to discuss the book. Thanks, Peter For a copy, visit: <http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=288&a=235>. About this Book “Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s short lyrics and prose poems speak to the contemporary reader, in tender, precise language, about love, the spirit, and the body, and while his poems may be short and concise, the scope of his work is without limit.” William Reichard “And what will the ricochet / of my right ankle be worth” asks the speaker in the opening lines of Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s first full- length collection, Kicking Gravity. This book finds the speaker traveling around the world and returning home with a newfound appreciation for life, love, the possibilities of the body and the landscapes that connect us. The speaker is a romantic and an explorer. >From Budapest to London and New Orleans to the American Midwest, these poems listen with a journalist’s ear. Kicking Gravity is a passionate and fully formed debut. Author Biography Peter Joseph Gloviczki is a teacher, a communication researcher and a poet. His poems have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, 32 Poems and elsewhere. Kicking Gravity is his first full-length collection of poems. He has reviewed poetry collections for Mid-American Review and his poems have been widely anthologized, including in Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011). A Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of a senryu prize from Modern Haiku, he grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where he graduated from Mayo High School. He earned his B.A. at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His research examines the implications of emerging technologies for journalism and mass communication. He lives and writes in Minneapolis.

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March 18-21, 2013: GPU Technology Conference (GTC) - San Jose Conference Center, CA
by Tzafnat Shpak 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

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Call for Book Chapters - Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement
by Barry Wellman 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Hurry, deadline is March 1 Contact Wenhong Chen, not me. wenhong chen <wenhong_chen(a)mail.utexas.edu> Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ ********************* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS********************* Networked China Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement Call for Book Chapters for the New Agendas in Communication Series Co-editors Wenhong Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-TV-Film Stephen D. Reese, Professor, School of Journalism College of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin Aim and Scope The Internet and digital media have become conduits and locales where millions of Chinese share information and engage in creative expression and social participation. The Arab Spring and the relative lack of comparable social upheaval in China highlight once again the importance of understanding the implications of digital media and technologies for civic life in the social and historical context. Yet, compared to their growing prevalence and significance, research on the contingent, non-linear, and sometimes paradoxical impacts of digital media and technologies in Chinese societies remain theoretically underdeveloped and empirically understudied. Departing from previous studies centered on censorship or online activism, the proposed volume aims to cast a wider net and explores how people navigate, negotiate, and transform social landscapes rooted in the Chinese context, revealing both the power and limitations of the Internet and other new communication technologies. Chapter authors are encouraged to update prevailing theoretical frameworks and revisit the prosumption of digital media and their implications for globalization, transnational networks and public life. In calling for theory-driven empirical research with scholarly and policy relevance, we welcome chapters engaging with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, especially interdisciplinary and comparative research. Chapters will be organized around three interrelated themes: digital media access and use, transnational/global networks, and civic engagement. 1. Mapping the Terrain / Digital Media Practices: What are the patterns of digital media access and use in China? What are the impacts of persistent censorship and aggressive marketization? 2. Exploring Glocalized Transnational Networks: What are the patterns of glocalized, transnational networks straddling boundaries of geography, identities, and issues? How do digital technologies and media allow local actors to form these networks in the cloud and on the ground? How does access to and memberships in such networks vary by class, gender, generation, urban-rural location, as well as differential digital media skills and literacy? How does this restructuring work to subvert and transcend traditional social and official hierarchies? 3. Understanding Civic Engagement Online and Offline: How do digital mediated communication and interactions contribute to an informed, connected, and engaged public in China? To what extent do digital media and technologies facilitate transparency and enhance the visibility of oppressed groups, particularly compared with print and broadcast media under tighter government control? To what extent do glocalized transnational networks affect access to and mobilization of resources for social development and changes? Conference The New Agendas in Communication Series is a conference and publication initiative of the College of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin. It aims to call attention to important emerging new areas of study, stimulate needed forms of intellectual inquiry, accelerate the research careers of the conference participants, build community across disciplinary divides for an important young cohort, and produce edited volumes appealing to a broad audience. Contributors should be junior scholars, including recently tenured associate professors, assistant professors, and advanced doctoral students. Single-authored work is preferable, but co-authorship is acceptable as long as all are junior scholars. Selected authors will be invited to participate in the Networked China: New Agendas conference at the University of Texas at Austin to present and help strengthen each others work for publication. As such, a full draft chapter submission is required from participants prior to the conference. Travel and lodging expenses will be supported. Logistics and timeline The book will be published in the New Agendas in Communication Series (Routledge) in 2014, 250-300 pages, with 8-12 chapters. A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to wenchen2006(a)gmail.com by March 1, 2013. Initial screening decisions will be made by April 1, 2013. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to submit a full chapter two weeks prior to the conference, to be held in Austin in the third week of October 2013. Wenhong Chen Assistant Professor Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communication 1 University Station A0800, CMA 6.136 University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067 T: 512-471-4952 F: 512-471-4077 wenhong.chen(a)austin.utexas.edu

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Call for Papers: 1st International IFIP Working Conference on Value-Driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo)
by John Breslin 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

1st International IFIP Working Conference on Value-Driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo) on May 1, 2013 at ACM Web Science 2013 co-located with Hypertext 2013, CHI 2013, ECRC 2013 https://sites.google.com/site/ifipvasco2013/ Chairs * Pieter De Leenheer, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Collibra NV, Belgium (IFIP WG 12.7 chair) * John Breslin, DERI, National University of Galway, Ireland (IFIP WG 12.7 co-chair) * Harith Alani, The Open University, UK * Ricard Ruiz de Querol, Arquetip Lab, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain * Karolin Kappler, Department of Sociology II / Diagnosis of the Present, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Keynote * Wolfgang Nejdl (tentative) Goals and Motivation The IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Semantics and Collective Intelligence introduces this workshop to reach out to the broader scientific community. The key goal of this workshop is to establish a multidisciplinary forum that searches for and studies the theoretical foundations, new paradigms, methodologies, technologies, and practical applications that will bring us to a more explicit and meaningful understanding of collective intelligence and social (networking) semantics on the largely tacit Value Web. In other words: how do knowledge- and social-connectivity on the Web contribute to (social/business) value co-creation and the other way around; and how can we use this knowledge to discover new ways of value co-creation? Secondly, it aims to investigate and promote the applications of such systems in science, industry, and society at large, including opportunities for standardization. Why the topic is of particular interest at this time This workshop narrows the study of Web Science down by focusing on the role of Web relationships as a catalyst for innovation, i.e., a Value Web. This brings us to the central problem statement of this workshop: How can organisations or people (transform so they can) harness the Web to collectively produce value? The search for the answer starts from a number of commonly accepted phenomena: 1. It was not through careful top-down planning, but rather through the evolution of a set of elementary Internet technologies designed for decentralised use, that the ³Socio-Semantic² Web emerged with such a dramatic level of complexity and scale, in less than two decades (see Zittrain¹s generativity principle). 2. Services are becoming the dominant unit of value-creation strategy, management, and operation: > 1. From a marketing logic point of view, this brings along a shift from > transaction-based to relationship-based customer interaction featuring rich > service-in-use sentiment and valuation. > 2. From a business innovation and management strategy perspective, enterprises > seek a network-centric strategy that focus on collective innovation of > services and platforms. > 3. From an IT perspective, service-orientation is a promising paradigm to > functionally decompose inward-oriented organisational processes into > outward-oriented business service components. 3. The evolution of Web Relationships exhibit non-linear patterns as proposed. Understanding the collective intelligence and social semantics of the ³Value Web² start from these three premises because they are the product of the Socio-Semantic Web, Service Science, and Web Science so far. The goal and premises of the workshop will be studied from different perspectives, including computer science, marketing, innovation management and strategy, social sciences. Topics of interest Topics include, but are not limited to: * theory, formal models, e.g. ontologies, and emerging new paradigms of organized and informal value-creating communities and their collaborative processes * semantics of data and knowledge about value objects - inherent to Web relationships - that would lead them to gravitate towards unanticipated value propositions on the Value Web. * auto-emergence of social semantics; harvesting and mining collective intelligence from community interactions; * social network effects and collective intelligence * emergent establishment of relationships to collectively produce value propositions such as products or services, common sense knowledge, or socio-political fora * to make explicit the engineering and prototyping of supporting knowledge-based systems for collective intelligence; * collective intelligence in linked data; evolution and quality assurance of such linked data; * the interaction of formal semantics with informal social semantics; social web interoperability issues; modeling of situational awareness; hybrid socio-technical systems; * identity and authentication of entities and services on the Value Web; related issues of trust, privacy and security; * implementation and exploitation of social semantics as web services; self-organizing services tailored to communities; methodologies for adoption of such services; * scalability issues for web-sized collective intelligence; * ³paid² crowds as a type of community where reciprocity is based on money; * Decision support to reason about value and relationships in value networks * Profiling social hackers * Collective intelligence as viewed from the social sciences perspective * Social innovation for the development of collective intelligence Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2013 * Acceptance Notification: April 1, 2013 * Camera Ready Due: April 7, 2013 * Author Registration Due: April 3, 2013 * Workshop: May 1, 2013 Submission Guidelines Submission URL is: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipvasco2013 Contact Email is ifipvasco2013(a)easychair.org Papers submitted to VASCO'13 must not have been accepted for publication or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the PC. All submissions must be in English. We solicit short papers describing (i) new ideas (5-8 pages) and (ii) longer papers presenting more tangible results (max. 18 pages). Accepted papers will be published in printed IFIP/Springer AICT series: http://www.springer.com/series/6102, and on the IFIP digital library:http://dl.ifip.org/ Programme Committee Harith Alani John Breslin Paul Buitelaar Jorge Cardoso Edward Curry Maciej Dabrowski Victor de Boer Pieter De Leenheer Christophe Debruyne Anna Fensel Maria Ganzha Karolin Kappler Robert Meersman Tope Omitola Hemant Purohit Bahareh Heravi Matthew Rowe Ricard Ruiz De Querol Owen Sacco Jodi Schneider Valerie Shalin Umair Ul Hassan George Vouros

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how users discover videos on youtube?
by Dominic Yeo 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Dear all, My intuition tells me that a significant number of views to popular YouTube videos are generated via click throughs from social network sites like Facebook rather than from the homepage of YouTube itself. But I have not been able to locate empirical studies or web analytics to back this up. Can anyone point me to any empirical study or report on how users discover videos on YouTube? Thanks in advance! Dominic Yeo Research Assistant Professor Dept of Communication Studies Hong Kong Baptist University

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