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DiscoverText Webinar March 11 2:00 PM EST Scrape Facebook, Twitter & YouTube comments
by Stuart Shulman 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Next DiscoverText Webinar Friday March 11 - 2:00 PM EST Scrape Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more social media. Search, sort, classify, annotate, code, report and export. Free registration: http://bit.ly/e8D6vv Coming soon: A very nifty new feature for automated, trainable, customized sentiment classifiers - the projected launch date is April 1, 2011 (Side note: We have seen no change - yet - in our ability to make repeated fetches of up to 1500 Tweet items in a particular feed) -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*

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Re: [Air-L] UNSW library and ebooks (and why I request print)
by Margaret Borschke 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Steve Jones wrote: > > It would be interesting to know whether academic libraries are keen on purchasing e-books. Does anyone have any insight or data? They're certainly comfortable purchasing licenses to electronic versions of journals, but how about books? UNSW's current policy for new acquisitions is: "UNSW Library will purchase electronic versions of material in preference to print/hardcopy. UNSW Library will take the suitability of format for particular discipline areas into consideration." That said, researchers are given an option and I always request a print copy. (My ideal would be that the library purchase both.) Given the constantly changing state of licensing of ebooks, I am concerned (possibly paranoid) that licensing books rather than purchasing them might cost institutions more down the track. (See http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/08/f-vp-misener-ebooks.html) There are books I have ordered for the UNSW library that are the only library copy in all of Australia (which makes it available for inter-library lending, public browsing and 'off-screen' reading etc.) Journals are a different story.

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Re: [Air-L] book announcement (Steve Jones)
by Delia Dumitrica 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I have also raised the same issue with the editors some time ago, and I do understand their arguments. But those arguments aside, the fact remains that the price of the book is prohibitive and only feeds into a system of privileged access to information/ knowledge. While living and studying in Canada has its advantages in terms of access to academic scholarship, what about all of the universities in the rest of the world whose ability to purchase access to digital databases is limited? I can't tell you how often I am asked to search and download academic articles for my colleagues working in other parts of the world, and then send them by email. But even if we put the issue of digital divides aside, there are also professional reasons for owning your own copy of a reference book or a handbook. Maybe the next generation of scholars, more used to reading on the computer screens or on other types of devices, won't face the same problem; but when it comes to critical thinking, I still find it extremely difficult to engage with a digital copy. Just to give a trivial example, my university's library kicks you out after 5 to 10 minutes of reading a digital book. Delia Dumitrica PhD Student & Sessional Instructor Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:40:24 -0600 > From: Steve Jones <sjones(a)uic.edu> > To: Michael Gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> > Cc: 'Air list' <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcement > Message-ID: <05AAFDD2-0B87-4B45-A625-9C63B4B91DE8(a)uic.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Some - not all - publishers do provide, among other things, copyediting, > layout and design, marketing, publicity, and in some cases (particularly > journals, but sometimes also handbooks and reference books) funds that > allow us to support students. > > It would be interesting to know whether academic libraries are keen on > purchasing e-books. Does anyone have any insight or data? They're > certainly comfortable purchasing licenses to electronic versions of > journals, but how about books? > > Thanks, > > Steve

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Sustaining Scholarly Publishing
by Kathleen Fitzpatrick 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hi, all. Given the discussion about publishing models taking place on the list, it seems a good moment to announce that MediaCommons is hosting an open discussion of the Association of American University Presses report, released on Monday, "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses." This report examines the experiments currently underway in university press publishing and makes several key recommendations for the success of future innovation. Central to these recommendations is a call for greater collaboration and communication in these publishing processes. Thanks to the support of Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing at NYU NYU, the AAUP task force has not only graciously agreed to but enthusiastically supported this discussion. The report is available at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/sustaining/. I hope you'll all come by and join in the discussion -- there's an awful lot to dig into in the report. I also hope you'll spread the word to your own social networks, to get their participation as well. We've got the opportunity not just to respond to the AAUP's thoughts about the future, but to do so in a form that might get them to consider more possibilities for future innovation -- not to mention a form in we'll be able to engage directly with them; the report authors will be involved in these discussions. I'll hope to see you in the comments! -- Kathleen Fitzpatrick | Professor of Media Studies | Pomona College Co-editor, MediaCommons | machines.pomona.edu | @kfitz

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livening up the audience
by Barry Wellman 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

At the forthcoming OII-ICS Internet in the Past Decade conference this Sept in Oxford, there will be a theatre piece. I'm the Emcee but not the performer. Bev Wellman and I did dance a paper presention many years ago #knees creaked less And about a decade ago, SOcial Network conference was in NOLA right afte Mardi Gras which I attended -- and got lotsa beads -- which I threw out into the audience during my keynote address. Memories. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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My little piece for the Handbook
by Barry Wellman 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Is on my website now in really ugly HTML and PDFing of a doc. "Studying Internet Studies Through the Ages". You're welcome to download. And when the pretty printed version arrives at my door, we will scan and post to the extent feasible. (Ain't gonna rip the book up.) I caution that my piece is dated November 2008. The book was supposed to be out in 2009, but no fault of the editors, it had some troubles and got delayed. My huge thanks to Mia and Charles who have perservered. Looking forward to more discussion on this list of actual research that people are doing . One good start would be to post at the end of your post your most recent article and ongoing project. OK, I'll start: Mostly hibernating finishing Networked, with wonderful coauthor Lee Rainie. Leading NAVEL project of interdisciplinary transcontinental scholarly teams across Canada. First ppt just presneted, but need cleaning. Leasing "Closenss is a Many Splendored Thing" - on varieties of social closenss. Ibid re ppt. And so it goes... Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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spammers & tweeters (2)
by Barry Wellman 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Here's a problem with spammers on tweeters. Suppose you're doing a diffusion of info study, and you want to track RTs and even the memes over a network chain. Trouble is, some worthy folks (like someone who begins with @z) just let all Followers in, even though I betcha most are now spammers who never check Your posts (Narcissim, thy name is Twitter Spammers). So any chain of communication is going to end with them as black holes, and we're going to get quant underestimates of the extent to which memes propogate on Twitter. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] book announcement
by Jeneen Naji 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Well actually this pricing reminds me of the costing of a book from lambert academic publishing, a german publisher, who has of late sending out alot of e-mails to post grad students and academics. With Lambert the book appears on Amazon but as it is only printed when someone orders the book the price is incredibly high. Authors get very small royalty fee for each book sold but seeing as the price is so high this is unlikely as most will not buy the book. But I noted this book we are discussing is from Wiley and Blackwell, publishers we know well. Perhaps have they switched their business model to one such as this? It is the only explanation I can come to for such a high price. - Jeneen Naji -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Air-L] book announcementDate: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:40:37 -0500From: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor(a)gmail.com>To: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com>CC: Air list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Charles- The Amazon link you sent lists the book at $US 200 (well ok $199.95 and then a discount, but $200). Is that accurate? I know that's the hardcover, but if that's the price how is anyone going to buy it? Even the Kindle edition is $150. -Nat.

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the history of connecting to the Internet
by Sandra Braman 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Norway and the UK were connected to what was then called ARPANet in 1973. (The name Internet came into use just a year or so later.) Norway was the first, and the UK was linked a few minutes later. Canadians were involved in design discussions as early as 1971, but the first functional linkages were these with Norway and the UK. Importantly, it was the Canadians who, in 1971, insisted that designers incorporate the need to design a network that could connect all users across vast geographic spaces into their governing design principles. (I'm just completing work on an analysis of the internationalization of the Internet during the first decade of the design process, 1969-1979, based on study of the technical document series recording the history of that design process, the Internet Requests for Comments, or RFCs. My Telecommunications Policy Research Conference paper of last October ["The Framing Years"] presented an analysis of the policy frames that developed during the Internet design process during that decade. Other related work is underway. An overview of this very large project was published in INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, & SOCIETY in 2010 -- "The Interpenetration of Technical and Legal Decision-Making for the Internet.") Sandra Braman

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Oh Canada!
by Barry Wellman 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

I believe that Canada was connected to the then-American Internet before Norway and UK. Sorry, can't document, but as always bear embraced us (and vice-versa), and Sue Thomas and John-Willy Bakke overlooked us. Feeling neglected is so Canadian. :) Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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