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youth and online recruitment and interviews
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Erica, This is an important topic and your study could make a real contribution. But...I know that my institution's IRB would not approve the study as you have described it. If you are interviewing youth under 18, parents must consent. I am curious about why you think parents would not give consent? Personally, I think parents want to protect their kids from bullying and their perspectives might be an interesting complement to the youth interviews and add more depth to your study. A suggestion: you might want to stick with one social media site, to simplify your process. You will also need to make sure that your study does not violate the user parameters of the community-- for recruiting or for collecting data.. This site may be of interest: http://www.ncjj.org/irb/index.asp Also, you might find chapters in Cases in Online Interview Research (2012) of interest. - Chapter 3. Case: Stranger in a Strange Land: The Challenges and Benefits of Online Interviews in the Social Networking Space Allison Deegan Allison discusses issues and challenges of a study that involved interviews conducted in Facebook using chat, with young (but over age 18) participants. - Chapter 4. Case: Interviewing in Virtual Worlds: An Application of Best Practices Jonathan Cabiria Jon was able to convince his IRB to allow (adult) participants' avatars to "sign" the informed consent, in a study about LGBT experiences in virtual worlds as compared to "real" worlds. He offers his insights into finer points of protection of digital representations of human subjects. (The book is on Amazon, print or Kindle, as well as other booksellers.) I'f be happy to chat with you if you want to contact me off list. All the best, Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Core Faculty, Capella University School of Business Doctoral Program and Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time and Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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'Hello World: travels in virtuality' now on Kindle
by Sue Thomas 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Researchers interested in the history of virtual life in general and in LambdaMOO in particular might like to know that my 2004 book 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' is now available on Kindle (and very reasonably priced!). E-pub to follow in a few weeks. http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/helloworld/ Best Sue _________ Sue Thomas Research Professor of New Media IOCT/Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities Fletcher Building De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK w: http://www.technobiophilia.com<http://www.technobiophilia.com/> Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk<mailto:sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk> t: @suethomas<http://www.twitter.com/suethomas> g: +suethomas<https://plus.google.com/110733806086330324299/>

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[LAST CALL] Lisbon Summer School * STTF2013 * July 8-12 ISCTE-IUL
by Susana Nascimento 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

*** Please Disseminate Widely *** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** *SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY FUTURES:* *FROM COLLABORATIVE DESIGN TO DIGITAL FABRICATION* *STTF2013 Summer School * July 8-12 * ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon* [ sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt ] [ facebook.com/sttf2013 ] [ twitter.com/sttf2013 ] STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability. This Summer School is intended for Master and PhD students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Product and Service Design, Social Sciences and Humanities, Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Media, Environmental Studies, Economics and Management, Computer Sciences, and others. Regardless of individual experience, everyone will have the opportunity to work in sociotechnical processes of design, construction and discussion of concrete objects, through Introductory Sessions, Masterclasses and Hands On Workshops. *APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 1* > Send your CV + Letter of Motivation (1 page max) to sttf2013(a)iscte.pt *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS* > Jerry Ravetz (University of Oxford, UK) > Liz Sanders (MakeTools, US) > Tomas Diez (FabLab Barcelona, ES) > Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, FR) > Alex Schaub (FabLab Amsterdam, NL) *FIND OUT MORE* > For more information on How to Apply, Fees, Programme, Speakers, or Venue, please visit our website sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt > STTF2013 is a joint initiative of VitruviusFabLab-IUL<http://www.vitruviusfablab.iscte-iul.pt/>(Digital Fabrication Laboratory) and CIES-IUL <http://www.cies.iscte-iul.pt/en/> (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology) of ISCTE-IUL <http://www.iscte-iul.pt/en/home.aspx>(University Institute of Lisbon) Best regards, STTF2013 Scientific and Organizing Committee

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Announcing Keynote and Plenary Speakers
by Hector Postigo 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Hello Everyone It's my pleasure to announce AoIR 14’s Keynote Speaker and Plenary Panel speakers. Our Keynote Speaker this year is Gabriella Coleman. Prof. Coleman is Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Art History and Communication Studies Department at McGill University. Her first book, Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking, is available from Princeton University Press. Her second book on Anonymous is forthcoming from Verso Press. Our Plenary Panel Speakers are as follows: Our first Plenary Panel will be themed “Race, Gender and Information Communication Technologies.” Our speakers for that panel are Jenna Burrell, Lisa Nakamura and Christina Dunbar-Hester. Jenna Burrell is Assistant Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her first book, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana, is available from MIT Press. Lisa Nakamura is Professor in the Department of American Cultures and the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of a number of books on race and the internet including Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet from the University of Minnesota Press and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet from Routledge Press. Christina Dunbar-Hester is an ethnographer who studies activism in technical cultures. She is Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. Her book on low-power radio activism will be published in 2014 by MIT Press, and her current NSF-supported research centers on efforts to promote "diversity" in hacker spaces and FLOSS. Our second Plenary Panel will be themed “Political Economy of Technoculture.” Our speakers for the second panel are Tarleton Gillespie, T.L. Taylor and Gina Neff. Tarleton Gillespie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. He is the co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society from MIT Press, and is finishing his second book on the implications of the content policies of online platforms for Yale University Press. T.L. Taylor is Associate Professor in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She has authored a number of pieces on gaming and multi-user spaces, including her recent book Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming from MIT Press. Gina Neff is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Communication. She has authored research on how work, communication technologies, and organizational structures relate to one another and the commercial production of mediated culture in communication industries. Her recent book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries is available from MIT Press. My deepest gratitude to all of them for accepting my invitation to join us and to you, my fellow AoIR list readers and members, for your ongoing support of our conference. As the date approaches please visit www.ir14.aoir.org for more information on our invited speakers and their forthcoming discussion topics. All the best, Hector Postigo AoIR 14 Resistance and Appropriation Program Chair

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CFP: Learning and Performance Quarterly
by Pasquini, Laura 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Learning and Performance Quarterly (ISSN 2166-3564) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal from the Center for Knowledge Solutions at the University of North Texas. The journal takes a broad look at current developments and research that involves innovative learning, training, human resource development, and performance management across academic and professional disciplines. We are seeking manuscript submissions for the following categories: * Research Articles - Qualitative/Quantitative * Concept/Theory Papers * Case Studies * Book or Media Reviews * Invited Articles 2013 call for submissions deadlines: LPQ 2(1): March 11, 2013 at 11:59 pm CDT LPQ 2(2): May 20, 2013 at 11:59 pm CDT LPQ 2(3): August 12, 2013 at 11:59 pm CDT LPQ 2(4): October 21, 2013 at 11:59 pm CDT Laura A. Pasquini, Editor Tekeisha Zimmerman, Assistant Editor Dr. Jeff M. Allen, Managing Editor Facts * 1st student-led, peer review journal from the University of North Texas * Support the scholar-practitioner mission of the Center for Knowledge Solutions<http://cks.unt.edu/> at UNT to promote learning and performance across disciplines and professions. * Open access journal can be found online with the Open Journal Systems<http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs> and the UNT Scholarly Works Collection<http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/UNTSW/> * Invited to share LPQ articles in the EBSCOhost Online Research Database<http://www.ebscohost.com/> which are made available to college, university, public, and institutional libraries. * 60 members of the peer review board; 6 section editors; and 2 editors who work to publish the LPQ journal * Our authors, editors, and peer-reviewers are from institutions in located in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Malta, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States Did You Know in 2012? * 3 issues were published for Volume 1 of the LPQ with a total of 17 articles published * Our Acceptance Rate: * 70% accept, 30% Decline, 13% Resubmit for Review * On average, our publication process from your submission * 24 days to review and edit * 65 days from submission to publication * As an open access publication, we have had over 3829 views on our abstracts and over 4011 views on our PDF articles. Connect to the Learning and Performance Quarterly: Like us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/LPQuarterly> or https://www.facebook.com/LPQuarterly Follow us on Twitter: @LPQuarterly<https://twitter.com/lpquarterly> or https://twitter.com/lpquarterly Questions or concerns, drop us an email LPQuarterly(a)gmail.com<mailto:LPQuarterly@gmail.com>

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Seapunk query for a colleague
by Meryl Krieger 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Hi folks: I got the following request from a colleague and all I could come up with was a few posts on Google Plus. If you can think of any references for my friend's students can you please email me off-list? If there is call, I will post whatever bibliography I come up with. ---------- I have an undergraduate student who is studying Seapunk, and I'm wondering if you have any good suggestions for texts or articles addressing fringe/edge contemporary genres almost exclusively linked to social media. I'm finding a handful of sources, but quite a few of them are uneven or more dated than I'd hoped. Any pointers you might have would be welcome! ------------------------ Thanks much! Meryl -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Academic Advisor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington http://www.linkedin.com/in/merylkrieger http://indiana.academia.edu/merylkrieger

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approval of the new AOIR ethics document
by Annette Markham 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Dear Friends, ** Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0) ** It is with great pleasure we announce that the 2012 AOIR Ethics guidelines document was approved by an overwhelming majority of the general membership of the Association of Internet Researchers and is finally available online. You can find the 2012 document at http://aoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/, along with a link to the wiki, where we’re starting to build a compendium of resources that we hope will continue to grow. http://ethics.aoir.org/ This 2012 document does not replace the 2002 guidelines, but lives alongside and builds from it. We hope both documents continue to provide a useful resource for researchers, students, academic institutions, and regulatory bodies. The 2012 document reflects nearly four years of collaborative effort of the ethics working committee. As with the first document, we believe it represents the diversity of the general membership, but is by no means the final word. The ethics working committee will continue to explore and debate how new experiences, issues and insights affiliated with Internet research evoke ethical challenges and demand ethically justifiable resolutions. We want to say thanks to the many AOIR members who contributed in a variety of ways to the document, especially our fellow members of the 2002-2012 ethics working committee. Thanks to: Maria Bakardjeiva, (Canada), Andrea Baker (USA), David Brake (UK), Charles Ess (Norway) Radhika Gajjala (USA) Camilla Gronholm (Finland) Jeremy Hunsinger (Canada) Mark D. Johns (USA) Steve Jones (USA) Stine Lomborg (Denmark) Heidi McKee (USA) Jim Porter (USA) Soraj Hongladaram (Thailand) Janet Salmons (USA) Susannah Stern (USA) Eva Svedmark (Sweden) Leslie Tkach (Japan) Leslie Regan Shade (Canada) Michele White (USA) Michael Zimmer (USA) Thanks for distributing this new resource widely among your networks and colleagues. If you have any questions or want to contribute to the wiki (hint hint), please don’t hesitate to email us, Best Regards Annette Markham and Elizabeth Buchanan amarkham(a)gmail.com buchanane(a)uwstout.edu ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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Fwd: [Asis-l] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous
by jeremy hunsinger 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Begin forwarded message: > From: Matt Lease <ml(a)ischool.utexas.edu> > Subject: [Asis-l] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous > Date: March 8, 2013 7:37:22 AM EST > To: asis-l(a)asis.org > > This may be of interest to those in community using Amazon's Mechanical > Turk platform for research, as well as those more generally interested > in how online data can be linked in ways that can be surprising to > people in practice and compromise their privacy in a manner they didn't > expect. > > Several collaborators and I have just announced discovery of a > vulnerability on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, with potential > implications for IRB governance of human subjects research using AMT at > US universities. In particular, this vulnerability can be exploited to > obtain personally identifying information (PII) and other private > information of some workers, who may have shared this information online > in a way they did not recognize could be linked to their WorkerIDs. > > This may impact IRB oversight of research conducted at UT with AMT, as > well as what research is classified as human research and subject to IRB > governance. I am just starting to follow up on this now with our IRB > coordinator here at UT Austin. > > The announcement of our finding is below: > > Blog post: http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=5177 > Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2228728 > > We are now trying to get the word out to be AMT workers, as well as > researchers whose might be impacted or who may have posted WorkerIDs > online which could be compromised via this vulnerability. We would > appreciate your help with this. > > We are also specifically advocating *against* online posting of > WorkerIDs due to the risk of workers not having realized that > information they have shared could be linked with their worker accounts. > Regardless of the vulnerability, we have also found explicit requests > from workers to not post such uniquely identifying information. > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Lease > Assistant Professor > School of Information > University of Texas at Austin > Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.442 > http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml > > ________________________________________ > Asis-l mailing list > Asis-l(a)asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso

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Save the Date: JVWR Workshop ICIS 2013 (Milan, Italy, December 15, 2013) and CFP for “Virtual Worlds - Meta Analysis” issue
by Tzafnat Shpak 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

** [image: JVWR Logo]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Save the Date: JVWR workshop ICIS 2013 (Milan, Italy, December 15) and CFP for "Virtual Worlds - Meta Analysis" Issue Motivation and Scope The first thematic issue of our 7th year (next year) will focus on meta analysis of virtual worlds. The issue will connect with JVWR workshop in Milan, Italy on December 15th, 2013 (as part of AIS ICIS 2013 http://icis2013.aisnet.org/<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> ). For this issue, “meta-analysis” means a particular review of corpus of knowledge about an aspect of virtual worlds. It can be a classic literature review, or a more formal statistical meta analysis (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>). Alternatively, we are open to other forms suggested by authors. *Thus, we are looking for:* * ...*Feedback *re potential areas to analyze and summarize (will be listed in the updated CFP). * ...*Authors* that take a summative approach to a particular area of virtual worlds. * ...*Editors* who will join the Managing editor in leading this unique issue. Send email to *info AT jvwresearch DOT org*. We have initial submissions in the areas of: * Collaboration * Medicine * Learning * Art *Possible topics include, but are not limited to:* * Measuring virtual worlds * Defense related virtual worlds * Relations and virtual worlds * Virtual Worlds and mobile * Music and virtual worlds * Virtual Worlds for Sales * Virtual worlds and the web * Embedding virtual worlds * and more... Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of up to 7500 words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a two-page extended abstract by the deadline indicated below. All submissions (abstracts and papers) should be made via the JVWR publishing system (see www.jvwresearch.org > About JVWR > For Authors). All submissions will be reviewed under our double open policy http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-07-30-02-51-41/for-authors<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> . *Accepted papers will be published in Volume 7, Number 2 (2014) of the Journal (subject to changes).* The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship. JVWR welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines. The JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly research. Deadlines and Timeline - *May 19, 2013* - Authors submit proposed extended abstract or initial papers - *June 3, 2013* - Editors make decisions about proposals - *August 4, 2013* - Authors submit full paper - *September 2, 2013* - Editors return review report and initial decision - *September 29, 2013* - Authors submit revised paper - *November 3, 2013* - Editors return final comments and decision - *December 15-18, 2013* - ICIS JVWR workshop - *January 12, 2014* - Authors final submit based on comments directly to JVWR coordinator - *February 16, 2014* - Publication: Q1 2014 Thankfully, *Yesha Sivan* Managing Editor, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Professor and Head of the Management Information System Program, Tel Aviv Academic College Founder, Metaverse-Labs Ltd. [image: JVWR Workshop ICIS 2013 & Meta issue]<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> © 2013 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Interoperability issues in "Big Data"?
by Matthias Leese 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Dear list, I am a political scientist involved in security studies. Recently, I have become increasingly interested in the application of algorithmic data mining in security operations. Although, from conversations with practicioners, I get the feeling that the promise of Big Data as a powerful tool for security governance might be rather a desire than something that is actually happening. Public authorities seem to experience a number of problems in terms of data sharing, thus thwarting the creation of security-related Big Data warehouses in the first place. Since my disciplinary background does not exactly enable me to assess these issues, my question would be: could anyone provide some hints at good literature that deals with interoperability problems of databases (in a way that someone from outside the IT community can follow)? Best wishes and thanks in advance, Matthias -- Matthias Leese Research Associate International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) Section Security Ethics University of Tuebingen matthias.leese(a)izew.uni-tuebingen.de

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