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Broadband Diversity Workshop CFP Deadline Approaching
by Richard Taylor 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Colleagues, A reminder of the upcoming Jan. 31 due date. With apologies for cross postings: Call for Paper Proposals Digital Diversity: Serving the Public Interest in the Age of Broadband A by-invitation experts' workshop to be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus May 3-5, 2011 As the delivery of mediated content experiences an historic transformation with the transition to delivery over broadband networks, some policy goals of media regulation remain the same. Central among them is the public interest goal of ensuring diversity. Promoting diversity in broadcasting has been a pillar of media regulation, but online there is no "spectrum scarcity," the foundation of broadcast regulation, no licensing and arguably no "mass media" at all. As a result, the customary tools for promotion of diversity must be reinvented. Broadband is a radically different environment in which the provision of unregulated content may have far more impact than traditionally-regulated television and radio. New theoretical constructs and mechanisms are needed to address issues such as "voice," economic equity, and serving un-served and underserved communities. Minorities are creatively exploring new online tools for community building, communications, and business opportunities. How can the public interest standard be applied to support them in this new context? The Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University are pleased to announce this call for paper proposals in which diversity enhancement in broadband networks serves as the main theme. Authors of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a three day by-invitation-only experts workshop de-signed to bring together up to a dozen American and international experts and to be held at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University in New York City. This workshop is part of a series of events focused on "Making Policy Research Accessible," organized by the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation. Invited topics include, but are not limited to: * Changing concepts of diversity in the 21st century * Comparative notions of diversity and changing demographics * Defining and measuring the scope and desired outcomes of broadband diversity policy * Diversity, new media, social media, and opportunities on the Internet * Diversity and Internet entrepreneurship * Diversity and network neutrality * Diversity and community websites and media (e.g., community online newspapers) * Minorities embedded in major media enterprises in content creation and as performers * Cultural/linguistic/racial/gender/religious diversity - are they all being served? * The marketplace of ideas and diversity Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be submitted to pennstateiip(a)psu.edu by January 31, 2011. Please write IIPDMCWS: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 1, 2011. Richard Taylor Palmer Chair of Telecommunication Studies and Law Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy The Pennsylvania State University

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Personalization of Google results (incl. little pilot study)
by Anders Koed Madsen 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Dear AoIR, I am currently doing a study on the kind of information that Google.com makes visible in relation to the controversy about synthetic biology. In relation to that I need to think about how I will handle the issue of personalized seraches and I therefore have a couple of questions and a little pilot-analysis that I was hoping you could help me out with: a) Can you reccomend any recent studies concerning personalization of serach in Google or about the algorithms of the Google rankings in general? b) I have read that adding “&pws=0” after the URL will de-personalize the search but I am not sure in which way. Do you know what it does and do you know whether I can do anything to keep my IP address and geographical location from influencing the results? c) In order to study to what extent personalization actually effects the rankings I am conducting a little pilot-experiment. If you have 2 minutes to help me with the data-gathering I would be grateful if you would like to follow the instructions below (and perhaps forward it to your contacts). All the best, Anders Koed Madsen --PILOT STUDY-- Dear friends and colleagues, I am currently doing pilot study on the extent to which Google personalizes your search results on the basis of your previous search, your gmail-account, your IP address, your geographical location etc. I therefore want to ask you if you can help me with a little experiment by taking 2 minutes to do the following: a) Open Google.com in your browser & go into ´search settings´ and set your preferences to 20 results pr. page (click off Google instant) b) Search for the exact phrase “synthetic biology” on Google.com - Remember the “” around the words - Do not use other versions of Google such as Google.dk or Google.co.uk c) Drag your marker across the screen and copy the results without the ads to the left and to the right of the results. When you drag your marker across the results it will automatically leave those out. d) Paste the results in a word-document together with the following information - When was the search initiated? (date and time) - In which country, region and city was the search initiated? - Where was the computer located? (e.g at home, library, university etc.) e) Mail the word-document to akm.ioa(a)cbs.dk Thank you very much for your time. All the best, Anders Koed Madsen PhD stipend, Copenhagen Business School http://uk.cbs.dk/research/departments_centres/institutter/ioa/menu/staff/me… P.S Please forward this mail to your contacts (in as many countries as possible) if you feel like it

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Check out my books
by Carrielynn Reinhard 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi AOIR, Check out the books I added on Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDI0MTQ2NDU6Mzcz&e=air-l@listserv.a… - Carrielynn (ijedi7(a)yahoo.com) Goodreads is a community for book lovers. It's a great way to get book recommendations from your friends and others. You can keep a list of books to read, join book clubs, and even take the never-ending book trivia quiz. _____________________________ To opt-out of future invites to Goodreads please follow this link: http://www.goodreads.com/user/block_email?inviter_id=4689181 This email was sent by request to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org.

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Re: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'?
by Michael Gurstein 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

You might also want to take a look at Sylvie R. Albert, Defining the Networked Community Movement, Vol 4, No 3 <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/23> (2008) The Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/397/425> http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/397/425 Mike Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: The Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net/> http://ci-journal.net Youtube : What is Community Informatics <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpFiebFRDI> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpFiebFRDI Now blogging on community informatics at <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/> http://gurstein.wordpress.com/ Most recent blogpost: <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/tunisia-they-have-the-tools-now-wh at-do-they-do-with-them-thinking-about-what-happens-next/> http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/tunisia-they-have-the-tools-now-wha t-do-they-do-with-them-thinking-about-what-happens-next/

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Press Release - Funds for West Africa to Boost ICT Communication
by nativebuddha 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

fyi ICT funding from World Bank in West Africa: *WASHINGTON DC, 21**st** January 2011* – The World Bank board yesterday approved three projects totaling US$71.5million to boost ICT infrastructure and access to better services in three African countries. The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe received a grant of US$ 14.9 million for its component of the Central African Backbone Program. The projects in Republic of Sierra Leone and the Republic of Liberia received credits of US$31.0 million and US$25.6 million respectively as part of a US$300 million West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (WARCIP). Click here to read more: http://www.sierraleonedailymail.com/archives/2281

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Final CfP: 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
by Markus Bylund 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

[ Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students ] NOTE -- the deadline for Workshop submissions is only a week from today! ################# MobileHCI2011 || Call for Papers ################# 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011), August 30th - September 2nd, 2011, Stockholm Sweden www.mobilehci2011.org/ www.facebook.com/mobilehci2011 www.twitter.com/mobilehci2011 MobileHCI 2011 will be held between the 30th of August and the 2nd September, 2011, in Stockholm Sweden, Doctoral Consortium Day, Workshops and Tutorials on August 30th, 2011. MobileHCI 2011 is organised by the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre (Stockholm University, Interactive Institute and SICS) in collaboration with Ericsson, Nokia, Kista Science City, the City of Stockholm, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. *Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Full and Short Paper submission: 18th February, 2011 - Workshop submission (organisers): 28th January, 2011 - Tutorials submission: 18th February, 2011 - Posters submission: 8th April, 2011 - Demos and Experiences submission: 8th April, 2011 - Industrial Case Studies submission: 8th April, 2011 - Design Competition: 22nd April, 2011 - Doctoral Colloquium: 8th April, 2011 - Panels: 8th April, 2011 - Conference Dates: August 30th - September 2nd, 2011 Conference Scope and Description ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Mobile HCI conference is at the centre of the most expanding area of computing, i.e. the astonishing emergence of a mobile application market and the expansion of internet services to wide and mobile user groups. It is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI is now on its 12th Edition with some of the previous events taking place in Lisbon (2010, Bonn (2009), Amsterdam (2008), Singapore (2007), Espoo (2006), Salzburg (2005), Glasgow (2004), Udine (2003), Pisa (2002), Lille (2001), Edinburgh (1999), Glasgow (1998). Suggested topics ---------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere focusing on the following topics (but not limited to): - Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques - Mobile social networks - Context-aware systems - Multimodal interaction (including audio and speech) - User centred design tools and methods for mobile systems - Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology - Group interaction and mobility - Mobile social networks - Interfaces for mobile communities - Services for mobile devices - The design of location based services for mobile devices - The design; evaluation and case studies-of-use of application development environments - Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors - Mobile entertainment, storytelling and location based gaming - Aesthetic interaction and experience design - Affective Computing and mobile embodied interaction - Perception and modelling of the environment - Personal assistance with mobile devices - Mobile art - Mobility and work environments - Evaluation and usability of mobile devices and services - Mobile accessibility - Model-based design of interactive mobile systems - Visualization techniques for the mobile context (including 3D graphics on mobile devices) - Safety issues e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments - Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------- - General: Markus Bylund, SICS, Sweden - Local: Maria Holm Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden - Program: Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden and Ylva Fernaeus Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden - Papers and notes chairs: Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research, USA and Albrecht Schmidt, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Doctoral consortium: Kristina Höök, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University and SICS, Sweden and Jofish Kaye, Nokia Research, USA - Demonstrations: Paul Coulton, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and Jakob Eg Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Workshop: Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute of Technology, Finland and Sara Ljungblad, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden - Design competition: Mauro Cherubini, Telefonica Research, Spain and Younghee Jung, Nokia Research, India - Industrial design case: Virpi Roto, Helsinki Institute of Technology, Finland and Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA - Poster: Henriette Cramer, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University and SICS, Sweden and rank Bentley, Motorola Research, USA - Tutorial: Cristian Norlin, Ericsson Research, Sweden and Johan Bornebusch, School of Communication, Media and IT, Södertörn University, Sweden - E-publication: Jarmo Laaksolahti, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden - Student volunteers: Zeynep Ahmet, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University and SICS, Sweden and Pedro Sanches, SICS, Sweden - Social buzz: Alexandra Weilenmann, Mobile Life Centre, Gothenburg University, Sweden and Mattias Rost, Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Sweden - Industrial exhibit: Tomas Bennich, Kista Mobile Showcase, Sweden - Web: Pedro Ferreira, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University and SICS Keynote Speakers ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Jeanna Kimbré, Manager, Colours & Materials, Creative Design Centre, Sony Ericsson Sweden - Professor Adrian Cheok, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submissions should be at most 10 pages in ACM MobileHCI format. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer-reviewers, selected by meta-reviewers. Additional guidelines can be found on the conference's website. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library.

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ASIS&T Webinar - Leveraging your Taxonomy
by Richard Hill 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

[Apologies for multiple postings.] Leveraging Your Taxonomy Webinar Series Hosted By ASIS&T and Access Innovations, Inc. To register please got to the website http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/taxonomy_uses.html Cost: Free to ASIS&T Members $49 per session for non ASIS&T Members The traditional use of a Taxonomy is still valid and tremendously significant � enabling precise and complete search returns. But with the evolution of web and search technologies there are an increasing number of relevant connections that help users discover additional resources, facilitate effective collaboration, and better use the mounds of information available to them. Carefully built taxonomies and intelligent indexing provide the foundation for many of these semantic enhancements. Inspired information architects have built them into portals and web sites that engage users and provide them with new ways to connect. Publishers and others who sell content find these linkages good for business, making it easier for their visitors to identify content valuable to them, and turning them into return visitors. The series is comprised of four sessions, spaced a week apart. They will examine ways that taxonomies are used to enhance search, involve users, and increase the value of information assets Semantic integration Leveraging the taxonomy Jan. 27, 11:30am-12:30pm Taxonomies in search Feb. 3, 11:30am-12:30pm Setting up the store - Taxonomies in e-commerce Feb. 10, 11:30am-12:30pm People directories and author networks based on taxonomies Feb. 17, 11:30am-12:30pm To register please got to the website http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/taxonomy_uses.html Cost: Free for ASIS&T Members, $49 per session for non ASIS&T Members, Sign up for all 4 and receive a 20% discount, or become a member today and register at no cost! Dick Hill Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Re: [Air-L] Personalization of Google results (incl. little pilot study) (Anders Koed Madsen)
by Seda Guerses 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

hey anders, you might want to get in touch with martin feuz who looked into this question. i could not find his website perspectoma.com anymore, which was a lot of fun. but, here is a description of what he did as described by rosa menkman: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/2009/11/17/martin-feuz-ch-google-pers… "Feuz starts his presentation by posing four main questions he wanted to deal with while creating Perspectoma. • how soon (after how many queries) will Google Personal search play a roll in the Google search returns? • how do these personal returns develop in terms of frequency and intensity? • what underlying patterns can we identify? • how will grouping of profiles influence the search terms? To find answers to these questions, Feuz describes the research he did according to the 3 ghost accounts based on the characters Kant, Foucault and Nietzsche. He trained all of the accounts equally in training sessions with the help of software that did different search queries. To do this, he had to find a way to make an artificial profile relational for subjective inspection of personalized search results. To tackle this problem, he used specific books for the different theorists. He also had to find a way to get plenty search terms to create profiles." do let us know how the pilot study goes. best, s. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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CFH: examples of 'digital city'?
by Patrícia Dias da Silva 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Hi, In Portugal, in early 2000s there were a lot of projects under the "digital cities" umbrella. But they were quite different in nature, and some more ambitious than consequential. The goals ranged from promoting basic Internet connection to online marketing strategies for tourism and local products. Here's the portal of digital cities and regions (at some point, they moved towards wider territorial units): http://www.cidadesdigitais.pt/ The information is only in Portuguese, but you may get the general idea... Best of luck, Patrícia Dias da Silva Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa On 20/1/11 02:59, "jin shang" <j.shang.ebox(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Can anybody give me any specific examples of 'digital city' in your > countries. It'd be good if there are websites as well. Here I've got one, > 'digital Birmingham' (http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/) Thanks for the > help! > > Best regards, > Jin Shang > > ------------------------------ > PhD, Academic Project Manager > Department of Media and Communication > University of Leicester, UK > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)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/

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Re: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'?
by John Postill 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

See also study of Cyberjaya (Malaysia) by Norhafezah Yusof http://shortlinks.co.uk/30b5 John Postill Dr John Postill j.postill(a)shu.ac.uk http://twitter.com/JohnPostill ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:00:27 AM GMT From: jin shang <j.shang.ebox(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'? > Thanks Richard and Alejandro for sharing this. It's terrific! > > Best, > Jin > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Richard Taylor <rdt4(a)psu.edu> > Date: 21 January 2011 12:42 > Subject: RE: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'? > To: jin shang <j.shang.ebox(a)gmail.com> > > > Just joining the thread. If no one has yet mentioned it, you might look at > the website of the Intelligent Community Forum > (http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/) which just named its top seven > intelligent communities in the world for 2011. > > Richard Taylor > Institute for Information Policy > Penn State University > > > On 21 January 2011 11:59, Catherine Middleton > <lists(a)catherinemiddleton.ca>wrote: > Telematics and Informatics has a special issue on Digital Cities coming out > soon. The papers are available from the T&I Elsevier site in the Articles in > Press section. > > The Intelligent Communities Forum (http://www.intelligentcommunity.org) > promotes 21 'intelligent communities' each year. Profiles of these > communities are available on their website. > > Catherine Middleton > Ryerson University > catherine.middleton(a)ryerson.ca > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:59:06 +0800 > > From: jin shang <j.shang.ebox(a)gmail.com> > > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Subject: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'? > > Message-ID: > > <AANLkTimWS21stk6F__sgMLqLb8ferbv0CnJqvF1oQObk(a)mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of jin shang > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:55 PM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Cc: jks21(a)le.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [Air-L] CFH: examples of 'digital city'? > > Thanks everybody for your kindly help! Your messages are all very useful. > I'm currently doing a research on the 'ecological system' of 'digital city'. > If any of you're interested let's keep in touch. Thanks. > > Regards, > Jin > > > -------------------------------------- > Hi, Jin. > In Argentina, you can visit the "San Luis Digital" project site: > http://www.sanluisdigital.edu.ar/sldasp/index.asp (english version) > > Bests, > > Alejandro Tortolini > Science & Tech Journalist - Teacher > > > -------------------------------------- > On 20 January 2011 23:00, Jeremy hunsinger <jeremy(a)tmttlt.com> wrote: > > > also not quite what you are looking for... but we have the famed > > Electronic Village... www.bev.net of which there has been many pages > > of ink spilled. > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)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/ > > > > -------------------------------------- > Hi Jin, > > The Portuguese digital cities program was extremely interesting and a little > bit different from the rest of the digital cities projects. You can check my > article "Are digital cities intelligent? The Portuguese case", > *International > Journal of Innovation and Regional Development * (IJIRD), Vol. 1, Nº 4, pp. > 443-463, where you find examples and other bibliography on the subject. > > Take care, > > Bárbara Barbosa Neves > Research Fellow > Centre for Public Administration & Policies > CAPP-ISCSP, Technical University of Lisbon > Rua Professor Almerindo Lessa, > 1300-663 Lisboa > Portugal > > Visiting Scholar, > NetLab, University of Toronto > IMK, University of Oslo > > www.bbneves.com > > -------------------------------------- > Some I'd come across > > New to me, on Teeside, is One NorthEast's Digital City > > http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/page/environment/digitalcity.cfm > > Long established is (originally a project of Virginia Tech) Blacksburg > (Virginia) Electronic Village - Jeremy Hunsinger has had a lot and long term > involvement ... > > http://www.designnine.com/news/content/blacksburg-electronic-village-most-wi > red-town-america<http://www.designnine.com/news/content/blacksburg-electronic-village-most-w…> > http://www.bev.net/index.php > > I see Paris has claimed to be a digital city > http://www.items-int.com/spip.php?rubrique75 > > Sophia Antipolis http://www.sophia-antipolis.org/GB/index3.htm possibly, > though arguably largely a technology / business park > > Hope that helps > > Dominic > > Having successfully completed Walk Like a Pirate with a few piractical > companions http://tinyurl.com/22uaypo you can see progress on the > construction of the Pirates' new fully accessible broadbeam boat at > http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=251686&id=715896645&l=10824e28bd > > There's still time to help see at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/zorro > > > -------------------------------------- > > http://www.virtualhelsinki.net/english/index.html > http://www.wdc2012helsinki.fi/en/digital-helsinki > > Not sure if these are what you're looking for. > > Regards, > Yefeng > > > > 2011/1/19, jin shang <j.shang.ebox(a)gmail.com>: > > > Dear all, > > > > Can anybody give me any specific examples of 'digital city' in your > > countries. It'd be good if there are websites as well. Here I've got one, > > 'digital Birmingham' (http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/) Thanks for the > > help! > > > > Best regards, > > Jin Shang > > > > ------------------------------ > > PhD, Academic Project Manager > > Department of Media and Communication > > University of Leicester, UK > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)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/

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