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Re: [Air-L] Facebook and people in their thirties
by Jessica Vitak 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi Feona, Myself and some fellow researchers at Michigan State ( https://www.msu.edu/~nellison/TOIL) have conducted two studies of adult Facebook users over the last year and a half. Last year we did a qualitative (interview) study of adult users ages 25-55 and had three papers come out of it, one which is currently being reworked for a journal and two which have been published in proceedings. We also just wrapped up a second study of university staff users (so mainly adults in the same age range) that included a survey and lab session. We've recently submitted our first paper to a conference and are working on others. As we've done research with adults, we've done a fair amount of searching for other researchers using adult populations and not found much. Pew Internet makes their datasets publicly available so you could always do a reanalysis of one of their many datasets (or simply read their reports). Also, Moira Burke has done some solid research using surveys and server-level data of adult Facebook users (not limited to 30-somethings). Cites for our papers: - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2011). Coordinating the ordinary: Social information uses of Facebook by adults. In *Proceedings of the 6th Annual iConference*. New York: ACM. - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Ellison, N., Wash, R., & Vitak, J*.* (2011). The “S” in social network games: Initiating, maintaining, and enhancing relationships. In *Proceedings of the 44th **Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* (CD-ROM). Computer Society Press. - Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2010, November). “There's a network out there you might as well tap”: Social support and information-sharing on Facebook by adult users. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, San Francisco. (This one is being redone for a journal.) Jessica ___________________________________ Jessica Vitak Doctoral Student Media and Information Studies 409 Communication Arts & Sciences Bldg. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:13:25 +0100 > From: "Attwood, Fiona" <F.Attwood(a)shu.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and people in their thirties > Message-ID: > < > FAD335EC811439459B44CA8EEFFFFB9F03B43821E2(a)HOLLYHOCK.hallam.shu.ac.uk> > > > Can anyone suggest any studies that have been done of the way that people > in their thirties engage with Facebook, and specifically how this has > impacted on the way they think about and manage their personal > relationships? > I am particularly interested in the ways in which people?s views of > intimacy, community and communication might have shifted since their use > of Facebook and how they compare their pre-Facebook and post-Facebookexperiences. > Thanks, Feona > > > > > ....... > Feona Attwood > http://feonaattwood.com/ > http://onscenity.org/ > > ------------------------------ >

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need help with website
by gene loeb 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

I am redoing my website on "Center for Technology and Mental Health of Elderly" trying to use ning, or blogspot. I am not good at this so could use help. I do a lot with this topic and am a recognized authority but can't do websites. I live in the united states. -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

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Interested in online interview research? Join a focus group?
by Janet Salmons 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hello everyone, I am new to this list ;-) Last year I wrote a book called Online Interviews in Real Time, available from Sage (See: http://tinyurl.com/einterview) This book focuses on synchronous interviews conducted with or in text, videoconferencing, virtual worlds or meeting spaces. I've edited a companion that is coming out next fall: Cases in Online Interview Research. (See: http://tinyurl.com/e-interview2) The new book contains 10 multi-disciplinary cases of research with data collected from mostly synchronous interviews. Each case is followed by two commentaries-- one by another book contributor and one from me, using an "E-Interview Research Framework" as the basis for my analysis. The "E-Interview Research Framework" is a collection of models and key questions; I created this framework to further develop and organize materials introduced in Online Interviews in Real Time. My purpose is to offer some guiding principles for people who are designing research with online interviews or who are reviewing proposals for or completed studies that include online interviews. In mid-April I want to convene 2-3 online focus groups with people who either a) teach research methods (qualitative), b) serve on doctoral committees or c) are on IRB or other review boards. I want to see what others think about this "Framework" and the key questions I've identified so far and learn about additional questions or concerns they would have about a research proposal or study that uses online interviews for data collection. I am looking for a diverse group of maybe 20 people altogether. Once I see who is participating I will schedule based on time zones. The focus groups will be held in Adobe Connect. If you are interested please contact me off-list: jsalmons-at-vision2lead.com. Thanks! Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Core Faculty, Capella University School of Business and Technology & Founder/Principal Consultant, Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at /einterview PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943

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deadline approaching: moral economies of creative labour conference
by Helen Kennedy 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

The final deadline for receipt of papers for Moral Economies of Creative Labour, a two day conference on Thursday 7th & Friday 8th July 2011 at the University of Leeds, UK, is approaching. Please email abstracts (150 words max for a 20 minute paper) to ics-conferences(a)leeds.ac.uk by the close of play on Thursday 31st March 2011. More information is available at: http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/ --- In analyses of the cultural, media and creative industries, considerable attention has been paid to the negative, unethical or amoral aspects of the labour process – such as the exploitation of ‘precarious’ workers, the self-exploitation that results from internalizing mechanisms of control, or the damaging aspects of inequality and individuation at work. While it remains vital to theorise these aspects, a number of scholars have sought to offer contrasting accounts that point to the diverse array of moral and ethical practices evident in cultural/creative labour, with workers appearing to routinely invest their work with social and non-instrumental values, ethics and politics – however ‘commercialised’, ‘networked’ and ‘immaterial’ their workplaces may appear to be. Such scholars draw their energies from accounts of the cultural or moral aspects of economic life (Sayer), the limits of market thinking in the cultural sphere (O’Neill, Keat), autonomist and post-Marxist approaches (Lazzarato, Hardt and Negri) and varied attempts to move beyond the ethical impasse of post-structuralist critique. Yet whether it is possible to identify any substantively ‘moral’, ‘ethical’ or critical features of this sector remains contentious. This conference therefore asks: what are the moral or ethical dimensions of creative work? What are the political outcomes of efforts to infuse creative labour with ethical intent or content? How might an ethical politics of creative labour be theorized and organized? Or, given the propensity of capital to absorb or exploit normative critique, should the prospect of ‘ethical’ cultural work be regarded as illusory and damaging? Confirmed keynote speakers include: Russell Keat, Andrew Sayer & Susan Christopherson. Other speakers include: David Hesmondhalgh, Helen Kennedy, Mark Banks, Jason Toynbee, Vicki Mayer, David Lee. Papers are invited on the following (or similar) topics: creativity, cultural work and ethics; media work and ethics; ethics and aesthetics; creative/cultural policy, politics and organizing; ethics and exploitation; ‘good’ and ‘bad’ work; ethics of caring; emotions and affective creative labour; practices and virtues; the commodification of ethics; the limits of workplace ethics. Conference fee: £75 (waged) £30 (Postgraduates/unwaged), includes some meals and refreshments.

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Re: [Air-L] Facebook and people in their thirties
by Carmel L. Vaisman 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

I think this is exactly what you're looking for: Gershon, I. (2010). The Break-Up 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media. Cornell University Press. Carmel Vaisman http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter @carmelva

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Global Fusion CFP
by Jan Fernback 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Apologies for x-posts ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Morris nancy.morris(a)temple.edu Call for Papers Global Fusion A Global Media and Communication Conference Hosted by the School of Communications and Theater Temple University Philadelphia, PA October 14-16, 2011 The purpose of the Global Fusion Conference series, which began in 2000, is to promote academic excellence in global media and international communication studies. Call for papers: We invite submission on any aspect of global media and communication. Paper or panel submissions that reflect the conference theme of power, resistance, and the media are particularly welcome. These might involve considerations of institutional, governmental, corporate, popular, citizen, community, or audience power and resistance as either or both of these intersect media. The Global Fusion conference also offers a graduate student paper competition. Submission deadline: May 16, 2011. Detailed instructions at: http://sct.temple.edu/web/globalfusion/

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DEADLINE EXTENSION :: 17th April 2011 - SAME 2011 – 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience :: in conjunct 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies :: Brisbane, Australia
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Position Papers SAME 2011 ? 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) 29th June-2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60, http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media --> extended deadline for position papers: 17th April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The medium is the message! And the message was transmitted via a single distinguishable media such as television, the Web, the radio, or books. In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information goes through a distributed interlinked network of devices, the question ?what is content in the age of ambient media?? becomes more and more of importance. Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer ? in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant example services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information ? a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, media embedded in the natural environment of the user and even the World Wide Web. The user actively participates and co-designs media experience with his location and context based input. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. Thus, the workshop aims to answer to the challenges how to select, compose, and generate ambient content; how to interpret content for the ambient presentation; how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences; what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology; and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling and art. And finally, how do ambient media create business and value? How can ambient media be integrated into business processes and strategies? In addition, Semantics plays a crucial role in the generation of ambient media content. It can be seen as the glue between the raw data and the ambient media. Therefore we are interested to see innovative ideas how data can be (semi-)automatically be interpreted and translated into media presentations. Workshop Challenges ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? What is ?content? and how can it be presented in the age of ?ubiquitous? and ?pervasive?? ? How to select, compose and generate ambient content? ? How to interpret content for an ambient presentation? ? How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)? ? What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? ? How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? ? How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? ? How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media? ? How can ambient media be applied in business processes? ? How do ambient media create value and business? ? Business opportunities and strategic issues of ambient media? ? Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? ? What means Quality of Experience (QoE) in the context of ambient media? More information on the previous International Workshops on Semantic Ambient Media Experience: * 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1461912&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF… 753168&CFTOKEN=49706448 * 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-09, http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/55 * 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences held in conjunction with AmI-10, http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/56 Topics of Interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: * Supply chain management with ubiquitous computation * eCommerce & ubiquitous commerce * Business processes, value-creation, and opportunities of ambient media * Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects * The World Wide Web in the context of ambient media * Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques * Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content * Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management * Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products * Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) * Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms * Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media * Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation * Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts * Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising * Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access * Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design * Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and ?x?-commerce of semantic ambient media * Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) * Management of information, knowledge and sapience in the context of semantic ambient media * Methods for context awareness, sensor networks, and sensor data mining * Semantic data mining and text mining for pervasive media * Semantic models, semantic interpretation for ambient media presentation; * Personalization and methods for locative media The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the "ambient media form" for entertainment services, such as: * case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) * oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas * artistic installations and running system prototypes * user-experience studies and evaluations * technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions Target Audience ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall participate rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, business, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the paper format of C&T available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform * Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/Conferences/2011same/openconf.php * Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions * Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * paper submission: 15th March 2011 - extended deadline: 17th April 2011 * notification of acceptance: 8th May 2011 * final papers due: 29th May 2011 * workshop day: 29th June 2011 * special issue articles due: 30th August 2011 Workshop Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND * Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY * Bjorn Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY * Juha Kaario, Varaani Works Oy, FINLAND * Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA * Estefania Serral Asensio, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, SPAIN Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel, SWITZERLAND * Pablo Caesar, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, THE NETHERLANDS * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA * Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, FRANCE * Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, GREECE * Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA * Mark Billinghurst, Canterbury University, NEW ZEALAND * Carsten Magerkurth, SAP, GERMANY * Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, AUSTRIA

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Using Social Media class
by Holly Kruse 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Another curricular question... I'm proposing a 2-hour, winter intersession undergraduate course on Using Social Media. This will in some way be an expanded version of a course I'll be teaching the following semester on digital communication (a revision of a seminar I've taught before), and it will have an applied element. I need to come up with a tentative syllabus by the end of the week. Any suggestions, syllabi, or other resources would be most appreciated! Thanks, Holly ---- Holly Kruse Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, OK 74017 918-343-7879 hkruse(a)rsu.edu http://hollykruse.com or http://www.rsu.edu/academics/comm/kruse.asp

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Palfrey to Speak in Jones Lecture Series in 2011 ICA Convention
by Sarina Chen 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

John Palfrey to Speak in 2011 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture John Palfrey is the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, vice dean for library and information resources, as well as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives” (Basic Books, 2008) and “Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering” (MIT Press, 2008). Palfrey will speak in the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2011 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 4:30 – 5:45 pm, in Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Palfrey’s lecture is entitled, “Internet Research and a Future for Libraries.” Palfrey will address the striking fear of many academics about the future for libraries. In an era of Google and Amazon, Palfrey will make the case for a bright future for libraries and for research in an Internet age. Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series is sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.com) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org ). The lecture series is designed to bring leading Internet thinkers to the ICA Convention to promote Internet research to foster collaborations with communication researchers. For questions and comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen(a)uni.edu .

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Facebook and people in their thirties
by Attwood, Fiona 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Can anyone suggest any studies that have been done of the way that people in their thirties engage with Facebook, and specifically how this has impacted on the way they think about and manage their personal relationships? I am particularly interested in the ways in which people’s views of intimacy, community and communication might have shifted since their use of Facebook and how they compare their pre-Facebook and post-Facebook experiences. Thanks, Feona ....... Feona Attwood http://feonaattwood.com/ http://onscenity.org/

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