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Social Network for Baby Boomer Demographic
by bcrowley＠snabbo.com 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hello all, I am the owner and founder of an online social network for Baby Boomers www.snabbo.com . As the new academic year begins, I am once again offering the use of my website for research involving this demographic. Possible areas of investigation may include Boomers online behavior with social networking, health and well-being surveys, benefits of online engagement by older adults. The website was "hand-built" by my programmer (Jake Carlson-Dragon Eye Design) and he is onboard to assist in any way. Please feel free to contact me with questions or discussion. Best regards, Barbara Crowley bcrowley(a)snabbo.com Dallas, Texas 972.333.5528 Twitter: @snabbo

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New Social Media, New Social Science project
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hello everyone, I would like to draw your attention to a new collaborative project involving Sage, the Oxford Internet Institute and the UK National Centre for Social Research: "New Social Media, New Social Science." The year-long project will focus on issues for both qualitative and quantitative e-researchers, methods instructors, review boards and the field. See the blog at http://bit.ly/RFSEQO and www.Methodspace.com. I will also collect information on my website, www.vision2lead.com <http://www.vision2lead.com> . One way to participate is through tweetchats at #NSMNSS. Our next chat will be held on Wednesday 29th August: 5-6:00 PM BST 9:00:00 AM PDT 10:00:00 AM MDT 12:00:00 Noon EDT Log in to Twitter #NSMNSS to ask questions, share ideas or links. I will be there as #einterview. There will also be a series of Knowledge Exchange Seminars In Oxford and London, with opportunities to participate from a distance. See you online! Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Technology and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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citing a tweet - blind review issues?
by Nikki Usher 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Hi all: I find myself citing tweets more and more often: for instance, I had a question about an article I was working on and went to twitter, where the head of the web analytics company I had a question about wrote back to me directly, for instance, and the company provided me with a useful infographic and quote to illustrate their point. I want to cite the Tweet, and will, but for anyone super curious, the Tweet and link are obvs. public and anyone can figure out it's me. Do I care? What should we do? Is there an easy answer to this? -- Nikki Usher, PhD Assistant Professor George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs (o) 202-994-3841 (m) 213-220-7824 www.nikkiusher.com

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Capturing Convention Tweets
by Shulman, Stuart 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Want to get every tweet about the GOP convention? http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2012/08/25/election-special-gnip-power-t… At Texifter, we are cutting the cost of Power Track access to the full Twitter fire hose for the next 36 hours. In addition to the full fire hose access, you can deploy powerful filtering rules: http://support.gnip.com/customer/portal/articles/600544-twitter-powertrack-… I am currently collecting every tweet with the name Romney or Obama in the Twitter users' bio. Fascinating stuff! Who knew Twitter bios could be such intense sites of vitriol? ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com

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Check out my books
by Nancy White 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Hi airl, Check out the books I added on Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY1MTYzNTc6MzE4&e=air-l@listse… &utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite - Nancy (nancy.white(a)gmail.com) Goodreads is a community for book lovers. It's a great way to get book recommendations from your friends and others. You can keep a list of books to read, join book clubs, and even take the never-ending book trivia quiz. _____________________________ To opt-out of future invites to Goodreads please follow this link: /user/block_email?inviter_id=582573&utm_content=A&utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite This email was sent by request to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org.

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Social Networking in Cyberspace (SNIC 2013) conference, Wolverhampton UK, July 15th-16th
by Fullwood, Chris 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce the 2nd Social Networking in Cyberspace conference, which will be held in Wolverhampton, UK on July 15th-16th next year. Confirmed keynote speakers at the event include Professor Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University) and Dr Karen Douglas (University of Kent). Further keynotes to be announced. For information on call for papers, topics of interest, fees and the abstract submission deadline, please visit our website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/snic2013 Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Hope to see you there Best wishes Chris Fullwood Psychology department School of Applied Sciences University of Wolverhampton Research Group CRUW c.fullwood(a)wlv.ac.uk -- Scanned by iCritical.

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<CFP> Youth 2.0 - deadline: 30 Nov 2012 - date: 20-22 March 2013 - venue: Antwerp, Belgium
by Walrave Michel 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

Dear colleague, I am pleased to inform you about our upcoming conference Youth 2.0. More information about the topics and our call for papers/panel sessions, can be found hereafter and on http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Please feel free to contact me, should you need more information. Best regards, Michel University of Antwerp Department of Communication Studies Research group MIOS assoc. prof. dr. Michel Walrave michel.walrave(a)ua.ac.be ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ YOUTH 2.0: CONNECTING, SHARING AND EMPOWERING? Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media March 20th – 22nd 2013, Antwerp, Belgium UCSIA & MIOS, University of Antwerp, are pleased to announce the organisation of an international, multidisciplinary workshop on young people’s uses of social media in general and social network sites in particular. Contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and from diverse scientific fields are welcomed. Next to individual paper submissions, proposals for organized panel sessions will be taken into consideration. This international event will address a number of relevant questions related to the use of social media by children, adolescents and young adults. Keynote presentations and parallel sessions center around four main topics: 1. identity construction (e.g. self-disclosure, impression management, privacy), 2. social relations (e.g. social capital, social engagement, cyberbullying), 3. interests at stake (e.g. social media marketing, advergames, viral marketing), 4. supporting and empowering (e.g. media/digital literacy, online counseling, parental mediation). For a more detailed overview of questions and issues that will be covered, check our website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Confirmed keynote speakers are: Nicole Ellison, PhD, assoc. professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. Ola Erstad, PhD, full professor at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo. Mariann Hardey, PhD, assoc. director of the Centre for Communication Science, Durham Business School. Jochen Peter, PhD, full professor at ASCoR, Center for research on Children, Adolescents and the Media, University of Amsterdam. Sabine Trepte, PhD, professor at the Hamburg Media School, University of Hamburg. Submission: The submission deadline (abstract) is November 30th 2012. Paper abstracts or panel sessions can be submitted at: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Selected papers will be presented in panel sessions. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed book volume, published by an international renowned publisher. Practical information: Venue: University of Antwerp, City Campus, Hof van Liere, Antwerp, Belgium Participation fee: 100 euro (documentation, meals and conference dinner included). Contact: Barbara Segaert (UCSIA, barbara.segaert(a)ua.ac.be) & Michel Walrave (MIOS, michel.walrave(a)ua.ac.be) Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0 Facebook: join our Youth 2.0 page for updates

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Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: Media in Transition 8: public media, private media (May 3-5, 2013 at MIT)
by Alexander Halavais 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Sorry if this already went out :). The MiT conferences I've been to (a couple of them) have been great...\ - Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Seawell <seawell(a)mit.edu> Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:45 AM Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Media in Transition 8: public media, private media (May 3-5, 2013 at MIT) To: seawell(a)mit.edu Sorry if you receive this more than once – Media in Transition 8: public media, private media International Conference Conference dates: May 3-5, 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Conference website: web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8 (watch for updates). CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. The distinction between public and private – where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted, the ways that it is embraced or contested – says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable, define and police the shifting line between the two, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity, enabling new notions of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of our Kindles, iPhones, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these long established categories, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public, the private and the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity, the civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property. Reality television and confessional journalism have done much to invert the relations between private and public. But the borders have long been malleable. Historically, we know that camera-armed Kodakers and telephone party lines threatened the status quo of the private; that the media were complicit in keeping from the public FDR’s disability and the foibles of the ruling elite; and that paparazzi and celebrities are strategically intertwined in the game of publicity. How have the various media played these roles (and represented them), and how is the issue changing at a moment when most of our mediated transactions leave data traces that not only redefine the borders of the private, but that serve as commodities in their own right? The public, too, is a contested space. Edmund Burke’s late 18th century invocation of the fourth estate linked information flow and political order, anticipating aspects of Habermas’s public sphere. >From this perspective, trends such as a siege on public service broadcasting, a press in decline, and media fragmentation on the rise, all ring alarm bells. Yet WikiLeaks and innovative civic uses of media suggest a sharp countertrend. What are the fault lines in this struggle? How have they been represented in media texts, enacted through participants and given form in media policy? And what are we to make of the fate of a public culture in a world whose media representations are increasingly on-demand, personalized and algorithmically-designed to please? Finally, MiT8 is also concerned with the private-public rift that appears most frequently in struggles over intellectual property (IP). Ever-longer terms of IP protection combined with a shift from media artifacts (like paper books) to services (like e-journals) threaten long-standing practices such as book lending (libraries) and raise thorny questions about cultural access. Social media sites, powered by users, often remain the private property of corporations, akin to the public square’s replacement by the mall, and once-public media texts, like certain photographic and film collections, have been re-privatized by an array of institutions. These undulations in the private and public have implications for our texts (remix culture), our access to them, and our activities as audiences; but they also have a rich history of contestation, evidenced in the copybook and scrapbook, compilation film, popular song and the open source and creative commons movement. MiT8 encourages a broad approach to these issues, with specific attention to textual practice, users, policy and cultural implications. As usual, we encourage work from across media forms and across historical periods and cultural regions. Possible topics include: Media traces: cookies, GPS data, TiVo and Kindle tracking The paradoxes of celebrity and the public persona Representing the anxieties of the private in film, television, literature MMORPGs / identities / virtual publics The spatial turn in media: private consumption in public places Historical media panics regarding the private-public divide When cookies shape content, what happens to the public? Creative commons and the new public sphere Big data and privacy Party lines and two-way radio: amplifying the private The fate of public libraries in the era of digital services Methodologies of internet and privacy studies Creative commons, free software, and the new public sphere Public and civic WiFi access to the internet Surveillance, monitoring and their (dis)contents Submit an Abstract and Short Bio Short abstracts for papers should be about 250 words in a PDF or Word format and should be sent as email attachments to mit8(a)mit.edu no later than Friday, March 1, 2013. Please include a short (75 words or fewer) biographical statement. We will be evaluating submissions on a rolling basis beginning in November and will respond to every proposal. Include a Short Bibliography For this year’s conference, we recommend that you include a brief bibliography of no more than one page in length with your abstract and bio. Proposals for Full Panels Proposals for full panels of three or four speakers should include a panel title and separate abstracts and bios for each speaker. Anyone proposing a full panel should recruit a moderator. Submit a Full Paper In order to be considered for inclusion in a conference anthology, you must submit a full version of your paper prior to the beginning of the conference. If you have any questions about the eighth Media in Transition conference, please contact Brad Seawell at seawell(a)mit.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator MIT Communications Forum 617.253.3521 -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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CFA: Ender's Game and Philosophy
by Dylan Wittkower 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

I know this won't be relevant to many on the list, but given the blogging/Internet-related storyline about Locke and Demosthenes, I thought someone might be interested. I think it would be really valuable to have a chapter about that aspect of the novels in relation to the political possibilities (and reality) of ICT. Best, Dylan Wittkower Call for Abstracts Ender’s Game and Philosophy D.E. Wittkower ed. Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Orson Scott Card’s *Ender’s Game* is a much-beloved science-fiction classic, winner of Nebula and Hugo Awards, and finally being produced as a film scheduled for release in November of 2013. The book has been controversial as well as popular, with concerns about the morally troubling depiction of militaries and of children, and the book has been used in training programs by the U.S. Marine Corps. We invite abstracts on philosophical aspects of *Ender’s Game* and *Ender’s Shadow*, which Card has indicated was also used for the screenplay of *Ender’s Game*. We welcome submissions from any philosophical tradition, and from interdisciplinary writers working on philosophically relevant topics. The volume is intended for a general audience, and chapters should be accessible to readers with little or no formal background in philosophy. We are primarily interested in writing that explores the philosophical issues already present in and being worked through by these novels, rather than chapters that use elements of the novels merely as an opening to discuss philosophical concerns. While there are a great variety of topics of potential value and interest, some ideas may include: * Space, the phenomenology of perception, and the challenges of the Battle Room * Discipline and surveillance * Networks of power ranging from bullying, to state power, to military force * The military-educational complex of the International Fleet, and its relation to late capitalism’s corporate-educational complex * Leadership, friendship, and Ender’s jeesh * Just war theory and use of overwhelming retaliatory force * Just war theory and xenocide * Dr. Device and the morality and politics of WMD * Sacrifice of lives for humanity; of freedom for security * Personhood of non-humans and what it’s like to be another species * Eugenics, Ender as “third,” and Bean and Anton’s Key. * The Noble Lie * Sport ethics and Ender’s games: when to break rules * Military drones/UAVs and the moral impact of warfare at a distance * Child soldiers and children’s violence * Locke and Demosthenes, blogging, and world-political argumentation * Girls, authority, and authorship in Ender’s Game * Philosophy of psychology in the Mind Fantasy Game * Orson Scott Card’s Mormonism in the Ender saga * Religion and Ender’s gospel as speaker for the dead * Compassion in the Wiggin children * Bureaucracy, knowledge, and moral responsibility Please send a 200-300 word abstract to d.e.wittkower(a)gmail.com prior to September 24th, 2012. Finished chapters, approx. 3000–4000 words, will be required by January 10th, 2013, with rewrites shortly thereafter. Feel free to contact me with any questions. D.E. Wittkower Department of Philosophy Old Dominion University d.e.wittkower(a)gmail.com

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Invitation for the SPION Technical Workshop on September 12
by Seda Guerses 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

dear irs, we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming spion workshop. the details you find below. best, s. First Spion Technical Workshop ========================================= It is our pleasure to invite you to the first SPION technical workshop, where we will present and demo some of our results and software prototypes for privacy and security in Online Social Networks. The workshop programme is available at: http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~frank.piessens/TechnicalWorkshop.html The workshop is organized in collaboration with OWASP and is co-located with an OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Attendance to the workshop (including the pizza buffet) is free, but we kindly ask you to register using the link provided in the programme, as we need a good estimate of the number of attendants. Looking forward to seeing many of you at the workshop! On behalf of the SPION team, Prof. Frank Piessens IBBT-DistriNet Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven

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