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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 2
by Tony 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Sent from my tracking device. air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: >Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography (Unger, Johann) > 2. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography (David Nemer) > 3. Quantitative analysis of online pornography (William Bain) > 4. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography > (Ulf-Dietrich Reips) > 5. Re: Quantitative analysis of online pornography (live) > 6. Re: Big Data texts (Jason Rhody) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:51:59 +0000 >From: "Unger, Johann" <j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk> >To: "<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography >Message-ID: <B7A22579-EFBC-4A82-B1F9-4BEFC58258A0(a)lancaster.ac.uk> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Antoine, > >You may be interested in Georgina Voss's work on the industry, e.g. >http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/15/3-4/391.abstract > >Johnny. > >Dr J W Unger >Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes >Department of Linguistics and English Language >Lancaster University >LA1 4YL > >e-mail: j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> >tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> >Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> > >On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:57, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: >Dear IRs, > >I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at >available studies made out of them. > >I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of >pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution >of the object itself. > >Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? > >(If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, >I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) > >Thanks for your help, >All best, >Antoine >http://mazier.es/ > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:55:23 -0500 >From: David Nemer <dnemer(a)indiana.edu> >Cc: "<air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography >Message-ID: > <CA+Zj46pwBuRg_zb8BBN24hRYz0vR09ni478sWoLL9rzazYhObw(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Hi Antoine, > >I know that Prof Bryant Paul, here at Indiana University, he researches >pornography and the effects of sexual messages in the media. You'd probably >want to look him up. > >Here's the link to his website: >http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/paul.shtml > > >On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Unger, Johann <j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk>wrote: > >> Antoine, >> >> You may be interested in Georgina Voss's work on the industry, e.g. >> http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/15/3-4/391.abstract >> >> Johnny. >> >> Dr J W Unger >> Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes >> Department of Linguistics and English Language >> Lancaster University >> LA1 4YL >> >> e-mail: j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> >> tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> >> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> >> >> On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:57, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto: >> air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto: >> air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: >> Dear IRs, >> >> I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at >> available studies made out of them. >> >> I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of >> pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution >> of the object itself. >> >> Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? >> >> (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, >> I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) >> >> Thanks for your help, >> All best, >> Antoine >> http://mazier.es/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > > > >-- >*David Nemer* >PhD Candidate in Social Informatics >School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University >Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com >http://www.dnemer.com dnemer(a)indiana.edu > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:05:58 -0800 (PST) >From: William Bain <willronb(a)yahoo.com> >To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography >Message-ID: > <1362161158.41137.YahooMailNeo(a)web122105.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Antoine, > >Cite-U-Like has quite a lot on this, in >case you haven't yet checked there. > >Best wishes, William > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:17:58 +0100 >From: Ulf-Dietrich Reips <u.reips(a)ikerbasque.org> >To: Antoine Mazieres <antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com>, > "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography >Message-ID: <p06240823cd56a9512db1(a)[192.168.1.129]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" > >Hi Antoine: >here is a reference to a study that analyzed the >complete Web traffic at a German university >during the early days of the Web and found porn >to be the most frequently type of content >accessed (ca. 25% of Web traffic). > >Berker, T. 2002. World Wide Web use at a German >university - computers, sex, and imported names: >results of a log file analysis. In B. Batinic, >U.-D. Reips, and M. Bosnjak (eds.), Online Social >Sciences (pp. 365-382). G?ttingen, Germany: >Hogrefe. > >Hope it helps. > >Best --u > >At 16:16 Uhr +0100 1.3.2013, Antoine Mazieres wrote: >>Dear IRs, >> >>I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at >>available studies made out of them. >> >>I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of >>pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution >>of the object itself. >> >>Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? >> >>(If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, >>I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) >> >>Thanks for your help, >>All best, >>Antoine >>http://mazier.es/ >>_______________________________________________ >>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/ > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 5 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:17:51 -0800 >From: live <human.factor.one(a)gmail.com> >To: Antoine Mazieres <antoine.mazieres(a)gmail.com> >Cc: AoIR-L Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography >Message-ID: <B17B3A32-CD07-43F8-8704-5A8700175662(a)gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Hello Antoine - > >I know a Brazilian Anthropologist, Carolina Parreiras Silva, was looking at sexualities online and has recently focused on porn from an ethnographic perspective. >She's on Twitter as @carolmineira . >You might find some intersection between the qual and the quant. > >Cheers, >Sharon Greenfield >@SharonG > >On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:16 AM, Antoine Mazieres wrote: > >> Dear IRs, >> >> I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at >> available studies made out of them. >> >> I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of >> pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution >> of the object itself. >> >> Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? >> >> (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, >> I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) >> >> Thanks for your help, >> All best, >> Antoine >> http://mazier.es/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:37:12 -0500 >From: Jason Rhody <jasonrhody(a)gmail.com> >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Big Data texts >Message-ID: > <CAPKpyY2TqWLBcDF84MV4Rsstyb5HcoHR9aO1uGdfGHSCNzUxaA(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Dear Mark, >You might find the website for the "Digging into Data Challenge" ( >www.diggingintodata.org) a useful resource. The Digging into Data >Challenge is an international grant competition created by the National >Endowment for the Humanities that involves ten research funders >representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United >States (the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and >Library Services are the other two US funders). > >We are currently soliciting applications for round 3 of this competition, >but for your purposes, you might find a lot of useful material based on the >first round of funding, including a report from the Council on Library and >Information Resources (CLIR): "One Culture. Computationally Intensive >Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the Experiences >of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge" ( >http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151) > >Since the projects require diverse collaborative teams from a variety >of disciplinary backgrounds and nationalities, you get a nice mix of >qualitative and quantitative methodologies against the backdrop of some >interesting research material (such as data mining historical crime using >nearly 200,000 trials across nearly 250 years in the Old Bailey archives - >http://criminalintent.org/) Furthermore, many projects have robust >project websites and blogs. > >The Digging website also has a healthy list of available data repositories: >http://www.diggingintodata.org/Home/Repositories/tabid/167/Default.aspx > >Hope you and your students find these resources useful. > >(And, as an aside, anyone interested in applying for a Digging into Data >grant should also visit diggingintodata.org for the submission guidelines >-- the deadline is May 15, 2013). > >With kind regards, >Jason > >-- >Jason Rhody, Ph.D. >Senior Program Officer >National Endowment for the Humanities >Office of Digital Humanities >www.neh.gov >http://misc.wordherders.net/?page_id=2 > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > >> >> Today's Topics: >> 4. Big Data texts (Mark D. Johns) >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:47:22 -0600 >> From: "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns(a)luther.edu> >> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> >> Subject: [Air-L] Big Data texts >> Message-ID: >> <CAHKCqnCN_xtL4vV-t8BziupXum3vDXMUJXUzC= >> X_UqvCCHSsoQ(a)mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> I've been assigned to teach an advanced research methods course on >> "big data" next fall to upper-level undergrads. As I'm more of a >> qualitative guy, this is a bit outside my comfort zone. >> >> I'm seeking recommendations of books, journal articles, or other >> readings that would be accessible to undergraduate juniors and seniors >> on analytics and related topics. >> >> Please respond off list, and if there is interest, I'll post a summary >> later. Thanks in advance. >> -- >> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor, Communication Studies >> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA >> ----------------------------------------------- >> "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." >> ---Mark Twain >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >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/ > >End of Air-L Digest, Vol 104, Issue 2 >*************************************

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Re: [Air-L] Big Data texts
by Jason Rhody 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Dear Mark, You might find the website for the "Digging into Data Challenge" ( www.diggingintodata.org) a useful resource. The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition created by the National Endowment for the Humanities that involves ten research funders representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services are the other two US funders). We are currently soliciting applications for round 3 of this competition, but for your purposes, you might find a lot of useful material based on the first round of funding, including a report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): "One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge" ( http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151) Since the projects require diverse collaborative teams from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and nationalities, you get a nice mix of qualitative and quantitative methodologies against the backdrop of some interesting research material (such as data mining historical crime using nearly 200,000 trials across nearly 250 years in the Old Bailey archives - http://criminalintent.org/) Furthermore, many projects have robust project websites and blogs. The Digging website also has a healthy list of available data repositories: http://www.diggingintodata.org/Home/Repositories/tabid/167/Default.aspx Hope you and your students find these resources useful. (And, as an aside, anyone interested in applying for a Digging into Data grant should also visit diggingintodata.org for the submission guidelines -- the deadline is May 15, 2013). With kind regards, Jason -- Jason Rhody, Ph.D. Senior Program Officer National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities www.neh.gov http://misc.wordherders.net/?page_id=2 On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > Today's Topics: > 4. Big Data texts (Mark D. Johns) > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:47:22 -0600 > From: "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns(a)luther.edu> > To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Big Data texts > Message-ID: > <CAHKCqnCN_xtL4vV-t8BziupXum3vDXMUJXUzC= > X_UqvCCHSsoQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I've been assigned to teach an advanced research methods course on > "big data" next fall to upper-level undergrads. As I'm more of a > qualitative guy, this is a bit outside my comfort zone. > > I'm seeking recommendations of books, journal articles, or other > readings that would be accessible to undergraduate juniors and seniors > on analytics and related topics. > > Please respond off list, and if there is interest, I'll post a summary > later. Thanks in advance. > -- > Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. > Associate Professor, Communication Studies > Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA > ----------------------------------------------- > "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." > ---Mark Twain > > > ------------------------------ > >

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Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by William Bain 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Antoine, Cite-U-Like has quite a lot on this, in case you haven't yet checked there. Best wishes, William

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Re: [Air-L] Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by Unger, Johann 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Antoine, You may be interested in Georgina Voss's work on the industry, e.g. http://sexualities.sagepub.com/content/15/3-4/391.abstract Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:57, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: Dear IRs, I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at available studies made out of them. I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution of the object itself. Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) Thanks for your help, All best, Antoine http://mazier.es/

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ASIS&T Changes Its Name, Enhances Its Global Mission
by Richard Hill 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

{Apologies for duplication] ASIS&T Changes Its Name, Enhances Its Global Mission With nearly 90% of all ballots cast voting in favor of a name change, the American Society for Information Science and Technology has become the Association for Information Science and Technology. While the ASIS&T acronym stays the same, the name change recognizes the growing influence of ASIS&T in the international arena. The opportunities and challenges with respect to the science and technology of information are increasingly international in focus and scope. ASIS&T supports members around the globe in addressing these opportunities and challenges. When 2012 ASIS&T president Diane H. Sonnenwald, in collaboration with 2011 president Linda C. Smith, 2013 president Andrew Dillon, and 2014 president Harry Bruce, called for a membership vote on the name change issue, she said, �The word American in our name often makes it difficult for individuals outside the United States to receive recognition for belonging to and participating in ASIS&T. It also fails to recognize the important contributions members outside the United States make to our association and to our discipline.� In addition, Sonnenwald noted that increasing international participation in ASIS&T will provide additional opportunities for all members to learn from and share expertise and knowledge with colleagues who have different expertise and knowledge. Currently 18% of ASIS&T members reside outside the United States in 52 different countries. At the recent 75th Anniversary ASIS&T Annual Meeting, attendees came from 25 countries, with 22% coming from countries other than the United States. In addition, ASIS&T runs successful international conferences, notably the annual European Information Architecture Summit, and will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada. The new name reflects the commitment of our members to international cooperation and global efforts to increase the influence of information science in education, research and applications to ensure the best access, management and use of information in an increasingly interconnected world. All contact points, including web address, e-mail, phone, address, etc. will remain the same. Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Big Data for undergrads
by Mark D. Johns 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

A number of people asked me to share the results of my request, from a few days ago, for recommended readings on Big Data suitable for undergraduate students. My thanks to all who were willing to share. The results are compiled below. Any errors in classification or details are mine alone. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain *Readings in “Big Data” appropriate for advanced undergraduates (2013-MAR-01) Bibliographies Weigel, M. (2012, Sept. 20). What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list. Journalist’s Resource. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/business/what-big-data-res… Introductory Articles Anderson, J. & Rainie, L. (2012, July) Pew Internet & American Life Projectreport: “The Future of Big Data.” http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_Big_D… Bollier, D. (2010). “The Promise and Peril of Big Data.” (excerpt) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/The_Pro… boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878>Information, Communication & Society, 15:5, 662-679. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878 Critical Articles Anderson, Chris (2008). “The End of Theory, Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete?” Edge. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/anderson08_index.html Berry, David M. (2011). The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities. Culture Machine, 12. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/440/470 Latour, Bruno (2009). “Tarde’s idea of quantification.” The Social After Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments. Ed. Mattei Candea. Routledge, London, pp. 145-162. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/116-TARDE-CANDEA.pdf Manovich, Lev. "Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data." Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. The University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2012. http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manovich_trending_paper.pdf Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Digitization. Stanford University, 2011. http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=123 Shirky, Clay (2005). “Ontology is Overrated.” http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Analysis Lee, A. M., Lewis, S. C., & Powers, M. J. (2012, Nov. 20). Audience clicks and news placement: A study of time-lagged influence in online journalism. Communication Research. DOI: 10.1177/0093650212467031. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/QbSXS7 Books Cukier, K. & Mayer-Schonberger, V. (2013). Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (256 pages) Rogers, Richard (2013). Digital Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (280 pages) Stanton, J. (2013). Introduction to Data Science. http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/ Textbooks Marz, N. & Warren, J. (2012). Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems. Westampton, NJ: Manning e-book available at http://manning.com/marz/ Softbound print in Fall 2013 (425 pages). Wikileaks Issues Lynch, Lisa (2010). “A Toxic Archive of Digital Sunshine: Wikileaks and the Archiving of Secrets.” Paper presented at the MIT6 conference, Cambridge, MA. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Lynch.pdf Lovink, Geert and Patrice Riemens (2010). “Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks,” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-12-07-lovinkriemens-en.html Stalder, Felix (2010). “Contain this! Leaks, whistle−blowers and the networked news ecology.” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-11-29-stalder-en.html Sterling, Bruce (2010), “The Blast Shack,” Webstock. http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ Žižek, Slavoj (2011). “Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks,” The London Review of Books, 33:2, 9-10. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-ageof-wikilea… Video Castells, M. (2011), “From WikiLeaks to Wiki-revolutions,” SONIC Media, Technology and Society Speaker Series, Lecture on 8 March 2011 at Northwestern University, Video Registration available at: http://lecture.soc.northwestern.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=4e192796ace943fa… *

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TtW NYC, today and tomorrow, and streaming
by Baker, Andrea 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, everyone, Just in case you forgot and are in the area, please stop by the Theorizing the Web conference at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, March 1 and 2. See this link for the program and presenter info: theorizingtheweb.org See this link for streaming video: theorizingtheweb.org/2013/videostream You can also contribute questions via Twitter. I think that's right. Feel free to make corrections or additions. cheers, andee

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New MA in Social Media at University of Westminster, London
by Graham Meikle 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi all Some colleagues may be interested in our new MA in Social Media – or may have graduates who might be interested: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communica… https://www.facebook.com/MASocialMedia If you'd like further details, please email either me or my fellow Course Leader, Professor Christian Fuchs (c.fuchs(a)westminster.ac.uk) Best regards, gm ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 4755 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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Big Data texts
by Mark D. Johns 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

I've been assigned to teach an advanced research methods course on "big data" next fall to upper-level undergrads. As I'm more of a qualitative guy, this is a bit outside my comfort zone. I'm seeking recommendations of books, journal articles, or other readings that would be accessible to undergraduate juniors and seniors on analytics and related topics. Please respond off list, and if there is interest, I'll post a summary later. Thanks in advance. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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Cyberspace as a new space for social policy?
by Tomasz Drabowicz 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Dear all, I was wondering whether anyone on the list is aware of the literature (theoretical or empirical) discussing cyberspace as a potentially new space for social policy, especially in the context of the current economic crisis - when using e-solutions in the area of social policy might be considered one of the ways of restructuring existing welfare states? Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thank you very much for your consideration. Best regards, tomasz Tomasz Drabowicz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of General Sociology Faculty of Economics and Sociology University of Lodz Rewolucji 1905r. 41 90-214 Lodz, Poland Room A-113 e-mail: tomasz.drabowicz(a)uni.lodz.pl Phone: +4842 635-54-50 "A group of letters after one’s name does not necessarily denote wisdom or judgement and the lack of these does not necessarily denote stupidity."

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