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Re: [Air-L] Annotating, coding CMC data (focus on language use)
by Tabitha Hart 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi Brook, For Mac users I recommend Matthew Weinstein's TAMS Analyzer. It's free, easy to download and install, and works well. I've posted a short how-to guide on my website which you can have. Cheers, Tabitha -- Tabitha Hart Department of Communication University of Washington http://tabithahart.net/ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:19:30 +0100 From: brook bolander <brookbolander(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Annotating, coding CMC data (focus on language use) Message-ID: <CAJYHF++C5AwkTrtr1KFUup6S7TtWiag0N6_2889dSeBAc5kPZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, This semester I will be teaching a seminar on research methodologies for the study of computer-mediated discourse. The seminar is part of an MA program on language and communication, so the focus is on language use - the students all come from linguistics departments. As part of the seminar, I want to introduce students to a free software program which enables annotation/coding of data, so we can conduct a small workshop in which they get their hands dirty annotating/coding data and so that we can subsequently discuss dis/advantages depending on the types of data they are working with, their research questions, etc. Do you know of any free programs you would recommend? I am not an expert on this matter and I am overwhelmed by all the programs (one could purchase). Further, do you have any tips on reading materials which address different types of software for the annotating/tagging of (linguistic) data, which we could read in class before working with a program? Thanks so much for your help. Kind regards, Brook Bolander (research and teaching assistant, University of Basel, Switzerland)

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CfP Deadline Approaching: Symbolic Interaction and New Social Media
by Shing-Ling (Sarina) Chen 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

CFP Deadline Approaching: Symbolic Interaction and New Social Media *Studies in Symbolic Interaction*, a research bi-annual, edited by Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), invites submissions for a special issue on symbolic interaction and new social media, to be edited by Shing-Ling Sarina Chen and Laura Terlip (University of Northern Iowa). While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, researchers from this tradition have been somewhat hesitant to engage in the study of mediated communication. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Symbolic interactionism, a powerful perspective in studying social interaction, seemingly lacks readily available conceptual tools to help researchers fully grasp the nuances of mediated communication. For instance, Mead’s works are full of conceptual tools for studying mind, self, and society yet obviously void of specific tools to study social interaction made possible by advances in communication technology and mediated communication. The prevalence of new social media, Facebook, Twitter, etc. has made it impossible for symbolic interactionists to ignore the effects of mediated communication when they study social relationships in everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. C. Wright Mills advised that we live in a second-hand world, one mediated by culture, language, and communication. Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Carl Couch argued that information technologies fundamentally changed the way we form relationships with one another. Stuart Hall further advocates that a politics of representation mediates our relationship to reality, as we no longer confront the world directly. The new social media build on and further complicate all of the issues and processes of symbolic interaction. This special issue provides an arena for researchers to build on and expand the existing symbolic interactionist perspective to include the study of social interaction made possible by the use of new social media. This special issue offers researchers an opportunity to demonstrate the interface between willful social interaction and structured technological features—how social media are defined by social interactions, as well as how social interactions are dictated by the use of social media. There is no shortage of topics that offer insights into the investigation of the relationships between social interaction and social media, such as, but not limited to: Avatars, digital bodies, and identity Gaming communities Facebook and Twitter in education Facebook and Twitter in Congress Microblogs and relationships building Online dating research Self-representation online Social media and deviance Social media and divorce Social media and elections Social media and fan communities Social media and grieving Social media and health/illness Social media and homelessness Social media and immigrants Social media and privacy Social media and religion Social media and social capital Social media and social movements Social media and the elderly Social media network analysis Social media journalism Wikileaks and secrecy Wireless and mobile media studies SUBMISSIONS Interested scholars should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words for consideration. Submissions should be e-mailed to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen(a)uni.edu by January 31, 2012. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2012 Author notification deadline: February 15, 2012 First-draft manuscript deadline: May 15, 2012 Final manuscript deadline: August 15, 2012 Issue Publication: December 1, 2012 We look forward to receiving your abstract submissions. For more information about this special issue, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen(a)uni.edu, or Laura Terlip at laura.terlip(a)uni.edu. Sincerely, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen and Laura Terlip Dept. of Communication Studies University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614 USA Tel: (319) 273-6021 Fax: (319) 273-7356

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Annotating, coding CMC data (focus on language use)
by brook bolander 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Dear all, This semester I will be teaching a seminar on research methodologies for the study of computer-mediated discourse. The seminar is part of an MA program on language and communication, so the focus is on language use - the students all come from linguistics departments. As part of the seminar, I want to introduce students to a free software program which enables annotation/coding of data, so we can conduct a small workshop in which they get their hands dirty annotating/coding data and so that we can subsequently discuss dis/advantages depending on the types of data they are working with, their research questions, etc. Do you know of any free programs you would recommend? I am not an expert on this matter and I am overwhelmed by all the programs (one could purchase). Further, do you have any tips on reading materials which address different types of software for the annotating/tagging of (linguistic) data, which we could read in class before working with a program? Thanks so much for your help. Kind regards, Brook Bolander (research and teaching assistant, University of Basel, Switzerland)

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Re: [Air-L] Looking for Journal Articles/Book Chapters on Co-Creation, Prosumerism, and Playbor
by Andrew Herman 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

And those are just the B's!!! Thanks, Darryl. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> Darryl Woodford <dp.woodford(a)qut.edu.au> 01/24/12 4:46 AM >>> Also worth a read are: Banks, J. & Humphreys, S. (2008). The labour of user co-creators: Emergent social network markets? Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 14(4), p. 401-418 Banks, J. (2002). Çhapter 8: Gamers as Co-creators: Enlisting the Virtual Audience – A Report from the Net Face’, In M.Balnaves, T. O’Regan & J. Sternberg (eds), Mobilising the Audience (pp. 188-212). Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Banks, J (2010). Co-Creative expertise: Auran Games and Fury – a case study. Media International Australia : incorporating Culture and Policy, 130 (February), 77-89. Banks, J., & Potts, J. (2010). Co-creating games: a co-evolutionary analysis. New Media & Society, 12(2), 253-270. Bruns, A. (2008). Blogs, wikipedia, second life, and beyond: From production to produsage. New York, USA: Peter Lang. Burgess, J. E. & Green, J. B. (2009). Youtube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. On 24 Jan 2012, at 17:14, John McAuley wrote: FYI: Books: The Wealth of Network by Benkler (2008) Wikinomics by Tapscott and Williams (2006) (and to a lesser extent Macrowikinomics) Governing the Commons by Ostrom (1999) The penguin and the leviathan by Benkler (2011) (much more accessible than his previous work, so more favourable for undergrads, I'd imagine) Papers: Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm by Benkler (2002) Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms by Ostrom (2000) Managing the virtual commons by kollock and smith (1994) The Hidden Order of Wikipedia by Viégas and Wattenberg (2007) Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You? by Pisano and Verganti (2008) Wikipedia and authority by o'Neill (2010) Crowds and Communities: Light and Heavyweight Models of Peer Production by Haythornthwaite (2008) Cooperation in collective action by Bandiera, Barankay and Rasul (2005) The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating technology-mediated social participation by Preece and Shneiderman (2009) Rgds, j On 23 January 2012 12:46, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: Fellow Aoiristas! For a list of recommended readings for undergraduates, what journal articles or book chapters on co-creation, prosumerism, and playbor in social media/"Web 2.0" would you suggest? Thanks in advance. All Hail Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@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/ -- John McAuley ------ Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin Ireland ------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@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/ Darryl Woodford PhD Candidate | Sessional Academic, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology E-Mail: darryl(a)dpwoodford.net<mailto:darryl@dpwoodford.net> | dp.woodford(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:dp.woodford@qut.edu.au> Mobile (AU): 0449881920 Skype: santow

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Affordances, technical agency, and the politics of technologies of cultural production
by Tarleton Gillespie 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

All, (Yikes. Trying to get scholarly work out to the right people, when it isn't going to reach you through traditional channels like journals, sure feels like untested waters. I know this mailing list is full of people who will want to read this, but saying so feels a little like spam. Anyway, we hope that us letting you know about this will feel less like promotion and more like sharing good work; we hope it is appropriate for our mailing list.) Our blog, Culture Digitally, has been up and running for a few months. One of our commitments, in addition to hosting smart, scholarly posts on a range of issues regarding digital cultural production, was to occasionally instigate theoretical back-and-forth between two or more people in our field, around a shared theoretical concern or point of interest. In these "dialogues," the participants are encouraged to grapple with theoretical questions, but to do so quite a bit faster than the glacial pace of publishing typically allows. Imagine them as the digital equivalent of the scholarly exchange of letters between pre-eminent gentlemen (sic!) scientists. The thinking is meant to be raw and provocative, a chance for the dialogue participants to prod each other beyond their own certainties. We've posted our first, and we think it will be of interest to some on this mailing list. Affordances, technical agency, and the politics of technologies of cultural production a dialogue between Gina Neff, Tim Jordan, and Joshua McVeigh-Schulz January 23, 2012 http://culturedigitally.org/2012/01/affordances-technical-agency-and-the-po… Tarleton Gillespie Hector Postigo http://culturedigitally.org/

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Looking for Journal Articles/Book Chapters on Co-Creation, Prosumerism, and Playbor
by Andrew Herman 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Fellow Aoiristas! For a list of recommended readings for undergraduates, what journal articles or book chapters on co-creation, prosumerism, and playbor in social media/"Web 2.0" would you suggest? Thanks in advance. All Hail Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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Cites on News Site comments?
by Sarah Ford 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can point me to some good overview work on news-site commenting, particularly around demographics and/or patterns of use. Thanks! Sarah *********************** Sarah Michele Ford Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts - Amherst ford(a)soc.umass.edu http://snowplow.org/sarah/

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2nd CFP: 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture at WWW2012
by Jankowski, Jacek 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012) http://events.declarative3d.org/Dec3D2012 in conjunction with WWW2012, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) 16-20 April 2012, Lyon, France http://www2012.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, you are invited to submit your papers to the 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture, co-located with the WWW2012 conference. The workshop aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both the Web and 3D graphics communities to meet and talk about an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the Web technology stack in a declarative way. === Topics === Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Declarative 3D Use-Cases and Requirements: Discussion of the use cases, where embedding 3D data in HTML using declarative approach provides significant benefit; deduction of the requirements for the D3D specification. * Declarative 3D and DOM: Discussion of integration of 3D with existing and future W3C standards, specifically: integration of high-level scene concepts; integration with client and server side rendering services, 3D REST; integration with existing security aspects for content delivery and visualization; content portability and platform independence. * Declarative 3D in current web browsers: Exploring how the incorporation of declarative 3D graphics can be done in currently popular web browsers (e.g., by using WebGL in WebKit or Gecko); what are the possible difficulties? * Semantics of 3D objects in DOM: Discussion of how descriptive 3D can be combined with semantics. This includes topics such as querying and manipulation of graphical objects, mash-up from several sources, integration of RDF technology, creation of useful APIs based on web services etc * Declarative 3D User Interface Issues: Novel interfaces and interaction methods for online 3D + HTML content; mobile 3D Web interfaces, interaction techniques; accessibility and usability of 3D Web content. === Submissions === We seek three kinds of submissions: * Full technical papers - should not exceed eight pages in length in ACM format; * Short technical papers and position papers - up to four pages in ACM format; * Demo descriptions - two-page description of the application in ACM format, ideally accompanied with a link to a demo; Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not follow a double-blind review process. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings (published online at CEUR-WS). Please submit papers via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dec3d2012 === Important Dates === * Submission deadline: 22nd February, 2012, 23:59 CET * Notification of acceptance: 6th March, 2012 * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 22nd March, 2012 * Workshop date: 17th April, 2012 === Organising Committee === * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Kristian Sons, DFKI === Programme Committee === * Rémi Arnaud, Screampoint * Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School/Web3D Consortium * Anita Havele, GlobalEdge/Web3D Consortium * Ivan Herman, W3C * Jacek Jankowski, DERI Galway * Yvonne Jung, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft * Fabio Pittarello, Ca'Foscari University * Nicholas Polys, Virginia Tech/Web3D Consortium * Sandy Ressler, NIST * Philipp Slusallek, DFKI * Kristian Sons, DFKI * Neil Trevett, Khronos/NVidia * Krzysztof Walczak, Poznań University of Economics For any further informations, please contact organizers via dec3d2012(a)easychair.org

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archiving entire blogs
by C Sosnowy 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

I would like to be able to archive an entire blog (and ideally be able to download it) for analysis. I've looked at WebCite and Zotero but neither seem to have this capability. Does anyone know of another way? Collette Sosnowy M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Environmental Psychology Program The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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reminder: JCMC special issue on social media and communication in the workplace
by Charles Steinfield 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Dear colleagues, If you are doing work related to the use of social media in organizations, please consider submitting your work to the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication's special issue on Social Media and Communication in the Workplace. The deadline for submitting papers is coming up soon - February 1, 2012. JCMC is one of the leading journals dealing with social media and other forms of computer-mediated communication. It is ISI-indexed, and makes full-text available online giving it a wide reach. It has been published continuously since 1995 and in 2010 ranked third among 67 communication journals and thirteenth among 76 information science and library science journals. Inquires can be sent to any of the special issue editors. Regards, Charles Steinfield, Marleen Huysman, and Paul Leonardi ---- JCMC Special Issue Call for Papers: Social Media and Communication in the Workplace Guest Editors Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, steinfie(a)msu.edu Marleen Huysman, VU University Amsterdam, m.h.huysman(a)vu.nl Paul Leonardi, Northwestern University, leonardi(a)northwestern.edu Social media technologies have the potential to change important communication processes within organizations. As social media proliferate, it seems likely that organizational members will use them to carry out socialization, identification, collaboration, innovation, relationship development, persuasion, learning, social capital formation, and knowledge sharing processes. The explosive growth of these technologies has not gone unnoticed by communication and information scholars, as evidenced by the equally rapid growth in articles related to the uses and impacts of social media, including a prior special issue on social network sites here in JCMC (vol. 13, no. 1, 2007). Much of this prior work has been conducted among student populations or in the context of advertising and marketing, and, as such, has not focused on social media use in organizations. Studies that do take the organization into account, generally relate to such fields as information systems marketing, and strategic management, with the aim of understanding how social media can be leveraged to enhance business performance. Less well studied, however, is the influence of social media on a range of organizational communication processes within workplace contexts. Focus of the Special Issue We invite submissions to a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication focusing on research on social media within the organizational context. Our aim is to highlight research that explores how the affordances of social media interact with organizational contexts, behaviors, and communication practices to influence processes of interest to organizational scholars. We are interested in submissions that enable us to better understand how social media affordances make a difference in workplace settings. Affordances are the result of the intertwining of capabilities provided by the technologies and the actions taken by the actors using them. Papers are especially welcome that integrate the material aspects of the technology with its use in organizational communication processes. Submissions that focus on such topics as the role of social media in attracting customers or influencing sales will be given less priority as these topics are extensively covered in other outlets. We are intentionally not providing a definition of social media in this call for papers, but ask authors to do so within their manuscripts. We encourage authors to be explicit about what it is about the media they are studying that makes them "social" and to provide definitions that are robust enough to endure over time. We encourage diverse methodological approaches, including both qualitative and quantitative studies. Conceptual papers as well as empirical studies are welcome. All papers must be theoretically motivated. Submission Process and Author Guidelines Papers will undergo an initial screening by the three special issue editors in an accelerated review process. A set of selected papers will then be invited for submission to the JCMC system and will undergo a formal review led by the special issue editors in conjunction with JCMC reviewers. Submissions should follow JCMC formatting guidelines available at the journal site (http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=1083-6101) and should be sent via email to the special issue editors by February 1, 2012. Initial screening decisions will be completed by March 15, 2012, and selected papers must be submitted to the JCMC system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc by April 15, 2012. Final acceptance decisions will be completed by July 15, 2012.

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