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IXmaps Pre-conf wksp IXmaps invite
by Paterson, Nancy (Academic) 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

IXmaps pre-conf wksp Monday, October 10, 2011 12 noon to 5 pm West Room -- special info & invite Please consider attending the Pre-conference Workshop: IXmaps – Do you know where your packets go? IXmaps [http://www.ixmaps.ca] presents a geographic visualization of paths or routes taken by URL requests over the internet – presenting information about internet data exchange points along the way demonstrating key features of internet routing and cloud computing that impact personal privacy. IXmaps displays a map of North America (Google Earth) on which is rendered the data route and information about interconnection points. Information revealed thus far includes the physical location, ownership, networks and ISPs, deep packet inspection and NSA surveillance as well as known links or alliances among the building owners, clients, and government or corporate entities. We are taking this opportunity to launch a user friendly new version of our data gathering software TRgen which we hope you might use to see where your data traffic goes - through what facilities and at the same time assist our data gathering capabilities. IXmaps debuted at ‘Securing the Cyber Commons: A Global Dialogue’, a cyber security forum, March 2011 at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. IXmaps presented at ‘CSIEL: Cyber Surveillance in Everyday Life’, May 2011 at the University of Toronto Art Centre Gallery. IXmaps is a collaborative project between Nancy Paterson, PhD, Faculty of Art, OCADU and Andrew Clement, PhD, Coordinator of the Information Policy Research Program (IPRP) at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

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Reminder: Special Issue on [location] <location> {location; } Deadline 15-11-11
by Dr David Kreps 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

+++++++++ Apologies for Cross-Posting - Please Forward to Interested Colleagues ++++++++++ Information Technology and People Special Issue on [location] <location> {location;} Call for Papers Smartphones have enjoyed phenomenal growth in the latter part of the first decade of this century. By 2012 sales of such devices are predicted to outstrip sales of PCs, and by 2015 more people will be accessing the internet with such devices than they will be with a PC. Key to the growth and popularity of such devices has been the convergence, not just of telecomms and photographic equipment, which helped drive mobile phone sales, and the addition of internet access, which defined the smartphone, but the addition, following the success of in-car satellite navigation devices, of GPS receivers into mobile internet devices. The integration of GPS technology into smartphones, coupled with the consumer-led approach of Apple’s iPhone, gave birth to a whole new class of location-based services for mobile internet devices, available in particular for the iPhone, but also for Android, and other devices. As our lives become increasingly encroached upon by the digital virtuality of our exponentially advancing information society, will this be at the cost of our humanity? Writers such as Sherry Turkle and others seem to believe this is already happening in circles of people sitting together in silence engaging with their smartphones. When our senses are surrounded by interactive exposure to telepresent realities – the faces of those we are speaking to across the world overlaid upon the world before our eyes, streams of data passing across the pavements and shopfronts as we pass, electronic voices calling our name and tantalising us with goods they know we want (famously envisaged in the movie, Minority Report) – when the worlds around us are both real and virtual, will this grant us additional scope to express our humanity, or constitute such an overload that engagement fatigue exhausts our faculties? At our off-grid holiday resorts in rugged mountainous territory or remote wilderness encampments, luxuriating in isolation-downtime, delighting in the simplicities of one-to-one, face-to-face conversation with no distractions, in natural landscape with no overlaid streams of historical and commercial data, out beyond the boundaries of location aware personal shopping avatars telling us where to get what they already know we would ‘Like’, will we savour a richer, more traditional humanity we feel the hi-tech virtuality-soaked everyday of our lives has come to miss? Or does this vision of a virtu-reality that beckons in the coming decade mistake digital virtuality for something other than simply the latest manifestation of the - very human – dreams our ingenuity and inventiveness has managed to create? In the light of smartphone and GPS convergence, this workshop aims to explore and examine the implications of digital virtual technologies on our sense of place, our relationship with location(s) both real and virtual, and welcomes papers from any related disciplinary background on topics including, but not restricted to: • The impact of GPS app(s) on social, organisational, political and other activities • Theorising location in a smart world • Down-time / going ‘off-grid’ • Emerging technologies likely to impact our sense of place • Surveillance, privacy, trust – is it a generational issue? • Locating ‘location’ – the evolution of our sense of place in the history and philosophy of technology • Local / Global – are smartphone GPS systems a chainstore takeover of our traditional highstreet localisms? Instructions for paper submission Papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or are simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English; they should be at most 6000 words in total, including references and (well-marked) appendices. Papers should be intelligible without appendices, if any. See http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id... for author guidelines. Submissions must be made via the IT and People site at Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itp Important dates Deadline for Submission of papers: October 15th 2011 Publication of Special Issue: by April 2013 Special Issue Editors - David Kreps Salford Business School, Salford University, UK - Martin Warnke and Claus Pias Computer Science & Culture, Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Deutschland. http://www.ifip95wg.org/sicfp

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Social Media and Latin America, Part II
by nativebuddha 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Cyberactivism researchers: >From Brazil: Henrique Antoun <hantoun(a)gmail.com> - researcher from UFRJ who specifically study social media as a tool for mobilization and political action. I think his approach is focused on Negri and Delleuze ideas. Sergio Amadeu <samadeu(a)gmail.com> - researcher from Sao Paulo. He not only is a researcher but is also a cyberactivist. Special Double Issue on the Internet and Community Informatics in Brazil: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/current TABLE OF CONTENTS: Internet use in Brazil: speeding up or lagging behind? Gilda Olinto, Suely Fragoso Articles Participation and Deliberation on the Internet: A Case Study of Digital Participatory Budgeting in Belo Horizonte Rafael Cardoso Sampaio, Rousiley Celi Moreira Maia, Francisco Paulo Jamil Almeida Marques Participatory Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community Participation: the Cidade de Deus Web Portal Case Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear, Michel Thiollent Mastering Of Hypermedia Resources By Virtual Learning Communities: Possibilities And Constraints For Interaction, Communication And Construction Of Network Knowledge. Carla Lopes Rodrigues, José Armando Valente Situating Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of Communities Fabio Nauras Akhras Garden of Literacies: ICDT Contributing to the Construction of New Realities for Digitally-Excluded Senior Citizens Ivan Ferrer Maia, José Armando Valente Evaluating ICT Adoption in Rural Brazil: A Quantitative Analysis of Telecenters as Agents of Social Change Paola Prado, Mauro Araújo Câmara, Marco Aurélio de Figueiredo Reports The School of the Future / USP: Twenty Years of Vanguard in Social Networks Brasilina Passarelli The Rede Brasil De Bibliotecas Comunitárias: A Space For Sharing Information And Building New Knowledge Elisa Campos Machado, Geraldo Moreira Prado, Abraão Antunes da Silva, Jailton Lira, Kleber Tadashi The Development of an Information System for the Solidarity Economy Movement Alan Freihof Tygel, Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear Researching about the uses of internet / social media and twitter in Venezuela: Maria Isabel Neuman = mneumang(a)gmail.com <mneumang(a)gmail.comForthcoming> Forthcoming <mneumang(a)gmail.comForthcoming> journal issue devoted to politics and cyber society in Latin America: http://www.nuso.org/proximoNumero.php Sexual politics: Friedman, Elisabeth J. (2007). Lesbians in (cyber)space: the politics of the internet in Latin American on- and off-line communities, Media Culture Society September 2007 vol. 29 no. 5 790-811.

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Social Media and Latin America sites, Part I
by nativebuddha 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Here's what I received concerning social media and Latin America. Thank you. -robert Social Media and Latin America Work with Brazilian indigenous people and the internet (J. Brandão): sitesindigenas.blogspot.com Political action: Rojas, H. & Puig-i-Abril, E. (2009). Mobilizers mobilized: Information, expression, mobilization and participation in the digital age. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14 (4), 902-927. Puig-i-Abril, E. & Rojas, H. (2007). Internet use as an antecedent of expressive political participation among early Internet adopters in Colombia. International Journal of Internet Science, 2, 28-44. Facebook and the young (Delarbre, Raul T.): http://lared.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/los-jovenes-latinoamericanos-se-reune… General pictures/numbers for Social Media use in Latin America: http://synthesio.com/corporate/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/synthesio-social-… http://www.closingbigger.net/2009/09/social-media-south-america-latin-ameri… Corporate use of social media-- http://www.burson-marsteller.com/Innovation_and_insights/blogs_and_podcasts… New Media Practices in Brazil: a. http://futuresoflearning.org/index.php/P33/ b. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/699/531 Horst, Heather (2011). “Free, Social, and Inclusive: Appropriation and Resistance of New Media Technologies in Brazil” International Journal of Communication, 5, pp. 437-462. ABSTRACT: This article analyzes how new media are being appropriated within the Brazilian society. Exploring a range of new media practices—from the use of social network sites, microblogging, gaming, music, video production, and digital photography to youth media programs, LAN houses, and online communities—this article examines changes in the production, consumption, and distribution of new media in Brazil. Specifically, it explores different orientations around new media technology as they emerge in relation to government policies, (new) media industries and ordinary citizens interested in social interaction, entertainment, and information-gathering through new media technologies. I further reveal how three key concepts dominate attitudes and values around new media technologies: free, inclusive, and social. Connecting these values to theories of appropriation in the Latin American region, I conclude by exploring how new media practices reflect, produce, and reproduce Brazilian cultural norms among Brazilians.

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Asst/Assoc position at MSU: Social Media/Social Computing
by Nicole Ellison 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hello all, My department (Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media) at Michigan State welcomes applications for a tenure track faculty position in the area of social media and/or social computing. The full listing is included below. I think it would be a great fit for many AOIR-ers, and being in an interdisciplinary department where everyone is passionate about technology/media has been very rewarding for me personally. I'd also like to put in a brief plug for our PhD program - http://tism.msu.edu/phd. Please consider pointing your students to explore it if they are looking for a program that focuses on technology/media/information issues. Thanks, Nicole Social Media/Social Computing Research Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media (TISM) at Michigan State University invites applications for a tenure stream faculty position in the area of social media/social computing at either the assistant or associate professor level. We seek a scholar whose research addresses social media and/or social computing practices, applications, or effects. An interest in mobile applications of social media is desirable. Teaching duties will include graduate and undergraduate courses in information and communication technologies and social media. The ability to teach courses in research methods, interactive media design, and/or human computer interaction is also desired. Successful assistant professor candidates will have peer-reviewed works to their credit and demonstrate promise of obtaining external funding to support their research. Associate professor candidates will have a track record of successful grant seeking and have averaged two peer-reviewed publications per year over several years. We encourage individuals from a diverse range of disciplinary and methodological traditions to apply. A PhD in a relevant discipline should be completed prior to the start of the appointment, expected to be August of 2012. The TISM department is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary faculty internationally renowned for their cutting-edge research on the uses and implications of information and communication technologies. Our curricula address both the theoretical and practical aspects of media use, and our alumni have achieved positions of prominence in industry, government, and academia. Projects involving cross-disciplinary teams are actively pursued and encouraged. Current research foci of the department include social media, human computer interaction, digital games, ICT for development, e-commerce, communication economics and policy, the adoption and impacts of new media, and content design. Please direct any questions to Professor Nicole Ellison, Search Committee Chair, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media at Michigan State University, at nellison(a)msu.edu. To apply, please refer to Posting 5233 and complete an electronic submission at the Michigan State University Employment Opportunities website https://jobs.msu.edu. Applicants should submit electronically the following materials: (1) a cover letter summarizing your qualifications for the position, (2) a current vita, and (3) the names and contact information for three individuals willing to serve as recommenders, who may be contacted by the search committee. The search committee will begin considering applications November 1, 2011. The search closes when a suitable candidate is hired. Duties begin on August 16, 2012. An earlier appointment is possible. MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities.

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Take me off this list
by Phoebe Moore 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

To whom it may concern, please take me off this list. Thank you, Phoebe. -- Personal email pvm.doc(a)gmail.com & Manchesterfilmcooperative(a)gmail.com Work email p.moore(a)salford.ac.uk Employment profile http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/Phoebe_Moore Manchester Film Cooperative http://www.manchesterfilm.coop/

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CityCamp Minnesota - Call to local Net researchers - Nov. 12 U of M, Humphrey School
by Steven Clift 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

We are gathering a dynamic group of participants for CityCamp Minnesota - for those doing social media, net-related research the room should be full of potential projects for field research. Check out: http://citycampmn.org Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org CityCamp Minnesota P.S. My Humphrey School grad course students are helping produce this event: http://smedac.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-L] IRB and social media
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Shelia - the listservs may be a complicated situation unless you or your students run them. You might want to ask the list moderators for permission if there aren't explicit rules about off topic discussion you can cite that apply to sharing a survey link. However, sending out a survey link via your own content streams (social networks) should be fine since they're yours. It might help grease the skids with your IRB if you point them to the Ethics Guide written by the AoIR Ethics Working Group: http://aoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/ Your IRB may just have no idea what guidelines to apply to online research if they've never done any of it. If you show them the Guide, and say "Here, these are the leading experts in the field and we're adhering to the standards they wrote" it might make the IRB feel more confident that there are rules and you're following them. Good luck! Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communications and Media Arts Bethany College Bethany, WV ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:57:17 -0500 From: Shelia Cotten <cotten(a)uab.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Cc: Shelia Cotten <cotten(a)uab.edu> Subject: [Air-L] IRB and social media Message-ID: <985AA569D0188A4E9F689A2CC20F058C0BA42230(a)UABEXMBS7.ad.uab.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi everyone. For my grad Survey Research course this semester, I'm planning to have my students do a web-based survey to be disseminated via social media. My IRB is giving us major issues with this. We had planned to use our social networks to disseminate the survey (in part this is a methodological experiment too) - so post on our Facebook walls, email people, post on listservs, and tweet it. Our IRB doesn't want us to do anything other than email people basically. This seems so archaic given the proliferation of social media. If we are to use listservs, we have to get permission from each one and provide a letter to the IRB from each one. Thoughts, suggestions, etc. for helping us deal with this issue? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! If you want to email me directly at cotten(a)uab.edu, I will be glad to post a summary of the responses. Shelia ******************************************* Shelia R. Cotten, PhD Associate Professor Department of Sociology UAB 205-934-8678 cotten(a)uab.edu This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.

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IRB and social media
by Elizabeth Buchanan 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hi, all, From the regulatory side, but perhaps useful to bring to your IRBs attention--the Office for Human Research Protections has guidance around the use of social media specifically for clinical trials recruitment at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/clinicaltrials.html I agree with Monica that asking for permissions from list owners is good practice and usually is not difficult to attain. (ANd I highly recommend Monica's article in IJIRE.) Also, having a site moderator or leader post a "sticky" or other note announcing the study on the top of a forum or on a wall, etc, is good entrance and usually IRBs are fine with that approach. Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Endowed Chair Director, Center for Applied Ethics University of Wisconsin-Stout PO Box 790 Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA buchanane(a)uwstout.edu Principal Investigator, Internet Research Ethics Commons internetresearchethics.org (NSF Project # 0924604) elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org

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cfp cultures in virtual worlds
by jeremy hunsinger 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Apologies for x-posting, distribute as appropriate -jh Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years. The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives. We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds. Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry: • How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships • VW interfaces and culture/s • Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds • Ages and VW cultures • Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds • Producing VW cultures • Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs • Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention. Submission guidelines This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@– –vt.edu and amassanari@– –luc.edu. The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as ‘Technical Notes’. Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44. Papers must be submitted via the journal’s online submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds. The special issue will be published in summer 2012. Important dates: November 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline February 10, 2012 Author notification May 5, 2012 Final copy due Summer 2012 Publication jeremy hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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