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Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
by Carmel L. Vaisman 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hi Sue, a few Israeli net celebs come to mind: Yossi Vardi is kind of our Bill Gates, father of many startups, but the most famous of them is his son's startup, Mirabillis (ICQ). Not many ppl know today that instant messaging was invented by a few Israeli boys and then sold to AOL. they're still a myth here. Ehud Tenenbaum is our Kevin Mittnick, the hacker nicknamed the Analyzer who broke into the Pentagon, NASA computers and many more, last decade. I think he works for the people he breached now after serving his sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Tenenbaum Kutiman is a local musician and artist that became world famous for his YouTube mixing project: http://thru-you.com/#/intro/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman I dunno if meme stars count as famous internet people, but we have Tasha and Adi who started the "hey" lip-sync meme in 2005: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48 and if memes count you'll find many meme stars outside North America. "Juan Mann" from the free hugs campaign of 2006 is Australian, for instance. Good Luck! Carmel Vaisman http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter @carmelva

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famous unAmericans
by Barry Wellman 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

I can think of several famous Canadians, such as David Lyon (Queens) and Steve Mann (Toronto) A few have even heard of me. In Italy: Leopoldina Fortunati (Udine) In Israel: Gustavo Mesch, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Ilan Talmud - all at Haifa (hope this isn't a British server, or else it may boycott) In Japan, Kakuko Miyata In UK: Bill Dutton (American until 10 years ago), Bernie Hogan -- both at OII (but Bernie is a Canadian -- or even better, a Newfie) And then there is the special case of Manuel Castells, Spanish raised, became famous in France, became internet involved in US, and now cycles between US and Catalonia Apologies, if I have forgotten some of my best friends' names. 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] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America
by Sue Thomas 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Ah, Murdoch! I certainly had not thought of him but I can see why you might include him! From: Han-Teng Liao [mailto:hanteng@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2011 21:00 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; medianthro(a)lists.easaonline.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America The obvious one for i18n/L10n crowd: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (from Norway) More ambiguous and yet political senitive...(both to US and China, I guess) Second-generation Immigrants to North America (or specifically to US): Jerry Yang (Yahoo! founder): Taiwan-born American citizen Steve Chen (one of the YouTube founders): Taipei-born American citizen Kai-Fu Lee (former Google China): Taipei-born It is also difficult to describe the allegiance of Keith Rupert Murdoch On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sue Thomas <Sue.Thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk> wrote: Dear all Can anyone help me with this please? I'm looking for stories about people who have become well-known due to their involvement with the internet and who are NOT NORTH AMERICAN! I'm finding it incredibly difficult, and I don't know whether it's because I'm looking in the wrong places or whether the US and Canada really do dominate big name cyberculture. I'm looking for people outside North America who have become famous or successful in net-related R&D or business or government or law, or be influential thought-leaders, authors and critics, or are notorious for net exploitation or crime, or are fictional or gaming cyberspace characters, or online religious leaders etc etc. I have a few in mind already, of course, but my list is very short. So, who is your country's Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Tim O'Reilly? Your Howard Rheingold or Stewart Brand or Kevin Kelly? Your Steven Johnson or Henry Jenkins? (You will have noticed btw that these are also all white men, with the possible exception of Jobs, who is half-Syrian). Who are your internet criminals and what did they do? Do you know of any well-known stories or urban legends about the net which may or may not be true? Does your country use the internet in a very culturally-specific way? Apart from individuals themselves, I'm also interested in culture-specific stories such as haunted mobile phones in Malaysia or Chinese RPGs based on the Monkey tales. I'm sorry this is vague but hope you get the drift. Please send thoughts, links and ideas for reading matter to sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk Don't worry if the sources are not in English. I have access to some translation resources. NB You might be quoted in a book or paper but full attribution will be given. Many thanks Sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/> <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <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/

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Call for papers: HICSS minitrack on Open Movements
by Kevin Crowston 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Call for Papers HICSS-45 Minitrack on OPEN MOVEMENTS: FLOSS, OPEN CONTENTS, OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN COMMUNITIES Conference Site: Grand Wailea Maui Dates: January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday-Saturday) HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer and system sciences and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Additional detail about the conference may be found on the HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu MINITRACK DESCRIPTION This mini-track covers all aspects of the Open Movement phenomena, such as Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Contents (OC), Open Access Publishing (OA) and Open Communities (OComm, each with distinctive features and issues: o FLOSS is a broad term proposed for naming software released under some kind of free or open source software license. Currently, development and adoption of FLOSS projects spans a wide range of applications and critical infrastructure. o Open Content refers to published content (e.g., articles, engineering designs, pictures or any other type of multimedia) released under some form of open license, allowing the content to be modified and redistributed. Examples of Open Contents are Wikipedia and MIT’s Open Courseware. These principles have also been extended to fields such as scientific collaboratories. o Open Access Publishing means publishing of works in a way that allows access to interested users without financial or other barriers. Examples include a variety of Open Access journals as well as a variety of institutional or topical paper repositories. o Around all types of projects we often find an active and even devoted community of developers, users, leaders, authors and readers, exhibiting complex interactions with each other. Some of the aforementioned projects comprise both types of Open Communities (developing FLOSS and also open content, e.g., Wikipedia and Creative Commons). We also find other Open Communities of users in successful large projects, supporting interactions among users and also with open multimedia contents provided by users themselves, e.g., YouTube, MySpace, del.icio.us, Diggit, Twitter and Facebook. Researchers from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to the phenomenon of FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access Publishing and Open Communities, frequently presenting them as an intriguing new form of Internet-supported work and collaboration. However, open collaboration and peer production create new challenges, as team members typically work in a distributed environment, in which contributors can come from many independent organizations, many working as volunteers rather than employees. The empirical literature on software engineering, programmers and the social and technical aspects of software development suggests that such teams would face insurmountable difficulties in developing quality code or coherent information collections, yet in fact some of these teams have been remarkably successful. Study of these open projects may thus provide guidance for improving the performance of these teams and of distributed collaborations more generally. As well, open development is an important phenomenon deserving of study in its own right. Millions of users depend on systems such as Linux and the Internet relies extensively on FLOSS tools, Furthermore, there exists a clear trend in Public Administrations all over the world (with some remarkable cases like Australia, The Netherlands and Spain) towards the promotion and widespread adoption of FLOSS technologies. But many FLOSS projects fail to take off, suggesting that the necessary success factors are still not well understood. Wikipedia has quickly become an extensive and widely-used if sometimes controversial resource. Some studies suggest that, despite the apparent heterogeneity of the group of authors behind Wikipedia, the accuracy of some of its articles could rival with other traditional encyclopedic projects like Encyclopedia Britannica. However, we lack a deep understanding of the conditions of its production that lead to such outcomes. This mini-track will provide a place for research and conceptual work to address a variety of questions, such as examining the implications of open content from technical, economic and policy perspectives. As well, the mini-track welcomes studies of the deployment of FLOSS and OC studies, exploring the motivations of individuals to contribute to projects. Studies of the structure and function of open teams and communities are also in the scope of this mini-track, including analysis of the social networks created by those communities and their evolution over time. In addition to studies of specific communities, we seek papers that draw connections across different settings to pose more general questions and explanations or to explore the design and analysis of novel systems. Possible topics for this mini-track include (but are not limited to): o Ideologies behind and motivations for participation in open projects o Member satisfaction and effectiveness in open projects o Creators' roles in open projects and their evolution over time o Leadership, management and policies in open projects o Distributed project, team and group development and management for open projects o Distributed collaboration in and coordination of open projects o User involvement and user support in open projects o Knowledge management and learning in open projects o Issues in distributed software development for FLOSS o Issues in content development in open content and open communities o Open projects as Communities of Practice and problems implementing open practices o Social networks of open projects o Economics of open projects o Community development and its evolution in Open Communities o Information quality and credibility of open content o Applications, adoption and Implementation of open project products o Systems supporting open projects (e.g., FLOSS "forges", wiki platforms) and their impact on project success o Forecasting the evolution of open movements o New application areas in FLOSS o Evaluation, comparison, unification and differentiation of technical aspects of open projects o Methods for simplifying development, maintenance and multi-platform portability in FLOSS o Applications of open source software in education, government and other domains HOW TO SUBMIT To submit a paper, follow the author Instructions posted on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/apahome45.htm o HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. o All papers will be submitted in IEEE double column publication format. o Submissions are limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. o All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, author name(s) are not to be included on the manuscript during the June 15 submission process. o Abstracts are optional, but strongly recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. o Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination and/or seek opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. o An individual may be listed as author/co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance. IMPORTANT DATES [Optional] From now until June 1: Prepare abstracts and contact minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. 15 June 2011: Authors submit full papers by this date. 15 August 2011: Acceptance notices are sent to authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper. 10 September 2011: Manuscripts that have been “conditionally accepted” (A-M Accepted with Mandatory Changes) must be re-submitted by the authors to the Peer Review Site. 15 September 2011: Authors submit final version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference. 15 October 2011: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified. MINITRACK CO-CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION: Wolfgang Bein, Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms, School of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 89154 USA. Phone: 702-895-1477. Email: bein(a)cs.unlv.edu Kevin Crowston, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 13244 USA. Phone: 315-443-1676. Email: crowston(a)syr.edu Clinton Jeffery, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho 83844 USA. Phone: 208-885-4789. Email: jeffery(a)cs.uidaho.edu CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION: Conference Chairman: Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. E-mail: sprague(a)hawaii.edu Conference Administrator: Sandra Laney. E-mail: hicss(a)hawaii.edu

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Thank you! (was Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America)
by Sue Thomas 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Over the last 24 hours I have had dozens of responses from AOIR and EASA, both on and off-list, to my question about finding famous internet people who are not from North America. I really appreciate your generosity in providing me with a wealth of suggestions and it will take me some time to go through them all so I apologise in advance if I don't reply individually for a few days. In the meantime I'd just like to say a general thank you for your overwhelming response which once again proves that lists like these, which are so global and diverse, are immeasurably important. Thanks again! Sue _________________ Professor Sue Thomas Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas(a)dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

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CfP: social media and knowledge management
by Robert Mason 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Call for submissions Now that the deadline for IR12 has passed and you've been thinking about research papers (!), consider submitting (and/or serving as a reviewer) for this mini-track at HICSS. Contact the chairs at any time for feedback on ideas-this is a first time mini-track, so we're interpreting the scope pretty broadly. HICSS 45<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> January 4-7, 2012: Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii Mini-track on Knowledge Management and Social Media Knowledge Management and Social Media: the Challenge Papers solicited for this mini-track cover issues, challenges, ideas, and solutions for two aspects of knowledge management (KM) and social media (SM). On the one hand, SM offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing information and knowledge both among colleagues closely bound by shared interests but also among those representing the "strength of weak ties" (Granovetter, 1973). On the other hand, SM, because of the ease with which information can be disseminated, threatens organizational control of information and increases the risk of the loss of intellectual property and proprietary knowledge. For this track, we encourage authors from academia, industry, governments, and non-profits, especially collaborations among these groups to address the tension between both these aspects of KM and SM. We solicit early stage concepts, case studies, works-in-progress, and collaborative action research among academics, executives, and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches and solutions. We especially seek papers that offer conceptual models combined with empirical evidence. Co-Chairs Robert M. Mason The Information School, University of Washington rmmason(a)uw.edu<mailto:rmmason@uw.edu> Dianne P. Ford Faculty of Business Administration Memorial University of Newfoundland dpford(a)mun.ca<mailto:dpford@mun.ca> Key Dates: Abstracts to co-chairs for feedback: any time Papers due: June 15, 2011

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best intro level org comm book?
by Nancy Baym 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

I've been asked this question: "Specifically, I am interested to understand better how e-mail affects corporate communications. For example, if i e-mail my boss, my boss's boss, all the way up the ladder, then how does that change the chain of command. Isn't there some element of information protection in a chain of command? I realize we can sit down for quite some time and speak about the implications, but my main question for you is can you direct me to a book or academic publication that can point me in the right direction?" Could those with expertise in this area point me to a solid readable introduction for an interested non-specialist? Thanks Nancy

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Cyber crime
by Bella Minw 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

I am writing a book chapter on Cyber crime in Africa focusing on four countries - Egypt, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. The focus is on various cybercrimes and activities relating to Africa, various means by which individual and corporate African organizations protect themselves from various crimes that have been perpetrated through the internet, African legislative regulations with the aim of determining their effectiveness in curbing cybercrimes over the years, definition of privacy in Africa and how various government interventions have violated the issue of personal and corporate privacy in Africa, just to mention a few. Any suggestion will be appreciated. ~Bella Ezumah, PhD

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CfP: Game Love- call for chapters
by Jessica Enevold 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Call for Chapters Game Love - an anthology Editors: Jessica Enevold & Esther MacCallum-Stewart The editors seek to assemble an edited collection of papers on the subject of Love and Games. Whilst much has been written on violence and sex in games, the representation, creation and expression of love in and for games has hitherto been sparse, but is now gathering increased attention and interest. The authors have wished to assemble this collection for some time, and feel that Games Studies has reached a point of maturity during which such a study will help further some of the complex debates emerging in this area. Digital romances are reportedly complicated to tell in game form–whether it be story articulation or graphical rendition–still, attempts have been made both to convey stories of love and to engage the player emotionally in games. But how, and to what effect? What are the limitations and affordances of the game format when it comes to love? Moreover, love frequently evolves digitally among gamers–both for the game and for each other, but their stories seldom get told other than in forums or occasional journalistic sprees disclosing the behind the scenes of gaming. What are the specific qualities of games, gamers and gaming to bring such digitally inspired love about? Lastly, celebratory invocations of games and declarations of affection for individual avatars or favorite game characters abound, in fan, media and academic texts. If looked at more closely, what do they tell us about games and players, today and historically? The collection Game Love attempts to address some of the key debates in current Games Studies. We invite papers that draw from the topics listed below as a starting point from which to direct your investigations. The framework drawn up is based on earlier studies into the definition of love in and for games begun here into the definition of love in and for games begun here: http://gamingmoms.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/enevold-j-2008-2010-game-love…. 1. The Game itself: Semiotics–representation, narrative, cinematographic elements such as cut scenes or mono/duologues, asides or intertextuality; Mechanics–interface options, verbs, changes in game state related to love; Design– technique, design structure and theory, avatar and emotional design. 2. Player-generated love, paraludic action or interaction among players. Performative aspects of gaming– roleplay, fan fiction, machinima, webzines.Fan cultures and production.Gaming as romance.Sociological, autoethnographic or other studies of love in games.Love for or of specific foci, such as avatar, place or specific title 3. Game Discourse Critical and Media Debates surrounding the issue of love in/and for games, Gaming history, Socio-cultural understandings of love and its relation to games and gaming.Critical approaches to love and games– for example gendered readings or other critical standpoints. Critical fan discussion on games, the language of reviewers etc. Media responses to love in games. 4. Love for Games Ludophobia, ludophilia, ludomania, which may be interpreted in a number of ways; Excess and moral panics; Addiction – strongly connected to the theme of love – other perspectives will be tested for relevance We welcome challenges and alternative perspectives to this framework, as well as lively debate within the collection as to the nature and manifestation of love in and for games. You can also read the complete abstract here: http://gamingmoms.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/call-for-chapters-anthology-on-g… Timelines are as follows: 30th April 2011 - Deadline for abstracts 30th May - contributors informed of selection 1st December 2011 - first draft due in July 2012 - Estimated date of publication Please send abstracts to both Esther MacCallum-Stewart (Neveah(a)gmail.com) and Jessica Enevold (Jessica.enevold(a)kultur.lu.se) Dr Jessica Enevold Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences Lund University, Sweden www.kultur.lu.se Mg. Editor Game Studies - www.gamestudies.org Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart Vice President, Digital Games and Research Association Lecturer in Games, New Media and Online Communities The University of Chichester, UK. SMARTlab, UK

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Childhood Studies Grad Student Forum
by Patrick Cox 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden are pleased to invite you to a conversation about Childhood Studies. The Grad Student Forum of the The Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives Conference (MC/MP) <http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/> http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/ will bring together new and emerging scholars engaged in the study of children and childhood who wish to connect across disciplinary boundaries, share experiences, discuss their research, learn where the field of Childhood Studies is going, and meet the diverse range of fellow scholars around the world who will be taking it there! The majority of the conference will consist of traditional papers, panels, keynotes, and posters, so the Forum will be composed of roundtable discussions amongst the participants. Each discussion will be on one of the topics described below. The topics stem from the conference theme and are, we believe, core to the field of Childhood Studies but applicable for anyone studying children and childhood from any disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective. The Forum discussions will address the following themes: --Doing multidisciplinary studies--how, why, perils, pitfalls and rewards. --Interrogating “the child” -- who is a child? when is a child? age, development, society, culture? --Exploring Childhood Studies--an ongoing discussion, what is this new field, where does it come from, what does it entail now, and where are we as emerging scholars going to take it. --other topics you care to propose related to the overall theme of Multiple Childhoods/ Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Interrogating Normativity in Childhood Studies To join the conversation, please send a 1-2 page written statement on one of the above topics. Statements will be circulated amongst participants in advance of the Forum and will serve as springboards for the roundtables. This statement is neither a formal paper nor an abstract for a paper presentation. It should provide other participants a preliminary glimpse into what you would like to discuss with fellow researchers: what particular aspects of the above topics interests you most; how do you approach or even begin to address some of the questions or related issues; what are some of your own experiences of, and questions about, the topic you’d like to have a conversation about. Roundtables will be moderated by a graduate student who will (hopefully!) ensure fruitful debate, conversation, and discussion emerging from the thoughts in the statements. To participate, please submit a 1-2 page statement on any one of the above topics by March 26, 2011 to Martin Woodside: mlwoodside(a)gmail.com, with the subject line “Charting the Course.” The Forum will take place at the MC/MP Conference at The Hotel Palomar, Philadelphia, on May 19th, and will be followed by a less formal gathering of all graduate students attending MC/MP during happy hour at the Palomar Bar! And this will be immediately followed by the Conference opening reception, also at the Hotel Palomar. For any further questions please contact Anandini Dar ( anandini(a)camden.rutgers.edu) or Patrick Cox (ptcox(a)camden.rutgers.edu) We look forward to your interest! Graduate Student Forum Committee. -- Patrick Cox PhD Student 2010-2011 David K. Sengstack Fellow Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ 2010 ChLA Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Award Recipient https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies <https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies> http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/ "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." --Albert Camus "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." --Colonel Henry Rutgers "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." --Foucault, of course

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