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Re: [Air-L] Philosophy/theory of the Wikipedia
by nathaniel tkacz 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

hi laszlo, you might find the CPOV network useful. we will have a free edited book out very soon, but you can get a sense of the material by looking at the topics covered in the conferences we have held. all available at http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/ best Nate Tkacz School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/

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Re: [Air-L] Philosophy/theory of the Wikipedia
by stu＠texifter.com 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Visit: [1]http://www.jitp.net/ News Item 11/19/2010: Two articles from JITP's current issue are now available for free. Examine two approaches to researching Wikipedia 1. Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia, and 2. The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination These are very fine very free articles :-) May I also remind AIR readers that the deadline for JITP 2011 posters (abstracts) and papers (full) is now 1/30/2011: [2]http://www.umass.edu/jitp/ ~Stu -- Stuart Shulman [3]http://people.umass.edu/stu President & CEO [4]Texifter, LLC 413-230-1255 (c) Have you tried DiscoverText? [5]http://discovertext.com Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-L] Philosophy/theory of the Wikipedia From: Laszlo Ropolyi <[6]ROPOLYI(a)ludens.elte.hu> Date: Wed, January 19, 2011 11:03 am To: [7]air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Dear all, Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things? Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions). Best wishes, Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary _______________________________________________ The [8]Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [9]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [10]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [11]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://www.jitp.net/ 2. http://www.umass.edu/jitp 3. http://people.umass.edu/stu 4. http://www.texifter.com/ 5. http://discovertext.com/ 6. mailto:ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu 7. mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org 8. mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org 9. http://aoir.org/ 10. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 11. http://www.aoir.org/

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CFP: The Social of Gaming. International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming (Stuttgart, Germany)
by Jeffrey Wimmer 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

CALL FOR PAPERS The social side of gaming: International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming Thursday 21 July to Saturday 23 July 2011 University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Topic In the past decade, digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, even outside the traditional ëcore gamerí segment. In tandem with this shift into the mainstream media market, we have seen an increasing interest in ësocialí multiplayer gaming activities, from both the audience and the gaming industry. The development of social games is of great academic interest. Wide-ranging studies have been initiated to investigate the sociality of virtual worlds, massively multiplayer role playing games (MMORPGs), multiplayer shooters, e-sports, and cooperation in party-oriented console gaming, yet games research remains a relatively new field. Despite explosive growth in the field over the past decade, many aspects of social gaming still remain largely unexplored. This international conference, titled The Social Side of Gaming and hosted by the University Hohenheim (Germany), will take a closer look at the various forms of human interaction in digital games. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in social interaction in games, including (but not limited to) the fields of communication research, media studies, sociology, psychology, education studies, and economics. Papers and presentations will address one or more of the following conference topics: - Theoretical and empirical approaches to social interaction in digital games - Forms of communication in digital games - Interaction among co-located gamers - Game communities and cultures, social interaction in and around games (e.g., clans and online discussions) - Avatars, identification, and self-representation in virtual worlds - Development of interaction rules and social norms, including questions of ethics, morality, economy & justice in digital games - Entertainment through social interaction - Design and implementation of social interaction - Methodology of research on social interaction in games - Violent interactions, griefing, and sexual harassment in digital games - Excessive use and forms of addiction related to social aspects of gaming Abstracts An extended abstract of no more than 3 pages in length (7500 characters in total) should be prepared for blind review as a Word file (.doc or .docx). When submitting the abstract, please include a separate cover page including e-mail address The abstract should provide a clear outline of the status of the proposed work (for empirical studies: status of data collection and analysis) and confirm that the research will be ready for presentation at the conference. By sending an abstract, the author(s) agrees to personally present the research at the conference. The abstract should be sent to the organizing committee by email (gamescon2011(a)uni-hohenheim.de) before 28 February 2011. The double-blind review process will take place during March, with the results returned on 31 March 2011. Further information on the conference program, including keynote speakers, will soon be available on the conference Website at sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conf2011 Organization - The ERC (European Research Council) project group The Social Fabric of Virtual Life - The Sociology of Media Communication section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) Additional Information The conference language is English. The conference proceedings will be published after the conference. Papers selected for the proceedings volume should be prepared for a book publication until October 2011. For any queries please contact me All the best, Jeffrey P.S. Please excuse any cross-posting ------------ Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Wimmer Assistant Professor Institute of Media and Communication Science Ernst Abbe Zentrum (EAZ) Ilmenau University of Technology Ehrenbergstr. 29 D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany Tel: +49-(0)3677 69 4642 Email: jeffrey.wimmer(a)tu-ilmenau.de http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/en/vwdg/team/jeffrey-wimmer/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 78, Issue 16
by thelwall mike 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Dear Anders, To echo Robert Ackland's reply: It's not possible to identify the creation date of a link from the page containing the link. The only possibility to estimate this is to look at old copies of the page in the Internet Archive (or another archive) and work out when the link first appeared. You probably wouldn't want to do this for many links if you want to finish your research :) SocSciBot can export link networks to UCINET via Pajek, like VOSON. SocSciBot doesn't have anything specific for comparing results over time so this would be a manual process. Best wishes, Mike Thelwall > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:05:41 +0100 > From: Anders Koed Madsen <anderskoedmadsen(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] choice of crawler? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinzhz=jFAR0y=Ew0Sx0DskL0u1Ywt3OC7M28Hab(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear AoiR?s > > I am currently about to embark on a longitudinal hyperlink-analysis in > which the aim is to follow the links from 20 seed URLs over a > time-span of one year. My plan is to do some quantitative analysis on > the networks and I have conducted a pilot-study using Issue-crawler > (http://www.issuecrawler.net/) in combination with UCInet > (http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet/) > > Before making a final decision on which crawler to use I just wanted > to know whether anyone of you have opinions about the the > Issue-crawler in comparison to SoSciBot (http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk/) > and VOSON (http://voson.anu.edu.au/) or other crawlers. So: > > - What are the pro and cons of the different software-packages? > - Does any of them allow for detecting the timestamp of the link > (when > is it placed)? Or do you know of any crawlers that do that? > - Can the results of SoSciBot and VOSON be exported into UCI-net as > well (I haven?t been able to figure that out from the sites)? > > All the best, > > Anders Koed Madsen >

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choice of crawler?
by Anders Koed Madsen 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Dear AoiR´s I am currently about to embark on a longitudinal hyperlink-analysis in which the aim is to follow the links from 20 seed URLs over a time-span of one year. My plan is to do some quantitative analysis on the networks and I have conducted a pilot-study using Issue-crawler (http://www.issuecrawler.net/) in combination with UCInet (http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet/) Before making a final decision on which crawler to use I just wanted to know whether anyone of you have opinions about the the Issue-crawler in comparison to SoSciBot (http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk/) and VOSON (http://voson.anu.edu.au/) or other crawlers. So: - What are the pro and cons of the different software-packages? - Does any of them allow for detecting the timestamp of the link (when is it placed)? Or do you know of any crawlers that do that? - Can the results of SoSciBot and VOSON be exported into UCI-net as well (I haven´t been able to figure that out from the sites)? All the best, Anders Koed Madsen

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'Cyberbullying' call for papers (deadline 30 April 2011)
by David Sutcliffe 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hello all, Policy and Internet is calling for papers for a forthcoming special issue on "Legal and Good Practice Issues in Cyberbullying in Educational Contexts" (papers deadline: 30 April 2011) See: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/?id=469 Cyberbullying is an important phenomenon which has added a new dimension to the area of bullying, harassment and abusive relationships; particularly with the increasing penetration of networked computers, mobile phones and virtual social networks. This special issue of Policy and Internet calls for academic research-based papers which examine the policy implications of specific laws to address cyberbullying in educational contexts. Papers should be based on empirical research and analysis and help to further theoretical and/or methodological development. In all cases, authors should consider the policy implications of the research presented. Please contact the editors (policyandinternet(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) if you have any queries about how your paper might fit in the issue. Policy and Internet: http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/ Best wishes, David [Sutcliffe, Managing Ed.]

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Just a quick question
by Ehon Chan 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi guys, I am currently volunteering with Volunteering Queensland in the office and one of the things we've been getting volunteers to do is to retrieve data from emails into forms. *The story*: the old form system sends us a text email when someone fills in their details on our volunteer form. During the Queensland floods last week, we have a major influx of volunteers and our website went down so we created a new website + form system which is a lot better, obviously, to collate volunteer forms. However, this means we now have to transfer all the details we have received before this new system (transferring from text email) into the new form / system. I am wondering if there is a way program something that can scan through emails, get all the appropriate data and put it in the right column in the new form? Or even into an excel spreadsheet. Cheers, Ehon Chan

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call for papers on organizations and social network sites
by Charles Steinfield 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Dear Colleagues, For those of you interested in research on social network sites in organizational settings, please consider submitting your work to the following workshop. Please forward to colleagues working on this topic. We look forward to hearing from you! Regards, Charles Steinfield and Marleen Huysman Call for Papers A Workshop On “Organizations and Social Network Sites” International Conference on Communities and Technologies Brisbane, June 29 – July 2, 2011 http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Rationale Social network sites (SNS) are increasingly being used in organizational settings to improve relationships among employees and enhance prospects for information exchange and cooperative work. The bulk of the research on SNS, however, focuses on their use by young people and students. While this work has produced significant insights into user behaviors and impacts of SNS use, more work that takes into account the organizational context is needed. Hence, this workshop will bring together researchers examining SNS use in organizations. SNS use in organizational settings may differ in important ways from student use. For example, people using a workplace SNS may use it in more instrumental and goal oriented ways, based on organizational requirements. There may be less uninhibited humor and playful content, less self-disclosure and self-presentation, depending on the organizational cultural context, if users know that supervisors are viewing SNS interactions. Information sharing may be more difficult due to concerns about proprietary data. These differences may lead to different outcomes from SNS use in organizational settings than have been observed among students and young people. Studies of SNS use in the workplace suggest that this is an emerging and fertile area of work that is beginning to attract a community of researchers. Case studies of Facebook and LinkedIn use in the workpace reveal the tensions that are created when work and home networks collide. Among the awkward situations generated by what is coming to be known as “context collapse” are when competing clients friend the same salesperson, or when a manager asks to be friends with subordinates. The user faced with such situations may be unable to refuse the requests, and has to alter usage behavior or risk alienating important clients or reveal information that may cause his or her standing at work to be diminished. Some companies, particularly large technology companies, have created their own internal SNS software. A series of studies of IBM’s Beehive system (now known as Social Blue) reveals that such sites can attract large numbers of employees from around the world, can aid in socialization of new employees, and can enhance employees’ access to new people and sources of expertise around the company. In addition to the private and internally developed systems like Beehive, a host of competing enterprise social network site providers such as Yammer, SocialText, INgage Networks, NewsGator, Spigit, and other vendors have rushed to provide products for this emerging market. If you are investigating any aspect of the development, use, and impacts of social network sites in organizational settings, we invite you to submit a paper to this workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2011) in Brisbane, Australia on June 29, 2011. Suggested Topics We will encourage paper submissions that address the development, use, and impacts of social network software in organizational settings. Social science research is particularly welcomed. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Case studies of public and private SNS in the workplace - Tensions between work and non-work use of public SNS - Identify management in organizational SNS - Consumer behavior and SNS - Expertise sharing and SNS - Social capital at work and SNS - SNS as a tool for organizational socialization - ‘Digital natives’ entering corporate world and its effect on SNS use - Organizational learning and SNS use - Business communities and SNS - Global organizations, cross cultural issues and SNS Key Dates - April 1: Submission of an extended abstract (1500 words). Full papers are also acceptable. - April 15, acceptance notifications sent out - June 1, final papers due (7000-10,000 words) - June 29, workshop Author Guidelines Extended abstracts and/or papers should be written in English and submitted via email to the workshop organizers at steinfie(a)msu.edu and mhuysman(a)feweb.vu.nl . Extended abstracts should be approximately 1500 words, while final papers should be between 7000 and 10,000 words, including references, tables, figures, and footnotes. Manuscripts should follow APA style guidelines for citations and formatting. Publication Prospects After the workshop, several papers will be selected and invited for submission for a journal publication. Presently we are in discussions with the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication about the possibility of a special issue on this topic. If the special issue is approved, all papers will undergo a double-blind review at the journal. However, we will work with the authors of selected papers to revise their papers to increase the likelihood of acceptance at JCMC. Workshop Organizers Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University (steinfie(a)msu.edu) Marleen Huysman, VU University Amsterdam (mhuysman(a)feweb.vu.nl) -------------------------------------- Charles Steinfield Professor and Chair Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 USA email: steinfie(a)msu.edu tel: +1 517 355 8372

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COMETS 2011 - 2nd International Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation - Call for Papers
by Daniele Gianni 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2011 2nd International Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 27 - June 29, 2011, Paris (France) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/CoMetS11 ################################################################# # Papers Due: *** March 5, 2011 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices to the design of collaborative environments. These environments are continuously becoming more complex and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non–exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * workflow modelling for collaborative environments and processes * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance evaluation of collaborative networks * model-driven simulation engineering * domain specific languages for the simulation of collaborative environments * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'11 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2011 to have the paper published in the proceedings. Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers can be submitted in PDF format at the submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comets2011) which is supported by the EasyChair conference management system. Please contact the track chairs (comets2011(a)easychair.org) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 5, 2011 * Decision to paper authors: April 4, 2011 * Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 29, 2011 * Conference dates: June 27 - June 29, 2011 ++++++++++++++++++++ Organizing Committee ++++++++++++++++++++ * Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy * Daniele Gianni, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ * Santiago Balestrini, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Bieler, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Olivier Dalle, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France * Joseph Giampapa, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Ralph Huntsinger, Beijng University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China and California State University, USA * Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany * Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands * Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Corporation, USA * Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK * David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ * Alfred Park, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany * José L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Maarten Sierhuis, NASA and Palo Alto Research Center, USA * Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and McGill University, Canada * Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada * Quirien Wijnands, European Space Agency, The Netherlands * Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Daniele Gianni (track co-chair) Email: daniele.gianni(a)esa.int

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Thank you! JITP Book Reviews
by Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Dear Air-l Members, Thank you so much for your overwhelming response and eager inquiries to author JITP book reviews for the five books posted yesterday. Basically all books have been spoken for, and I will get in touch with those researchers within the next two days and have the books out in the mail by the end of the week. Please do not hesitate to ask to be placed on the reviewer list for future books, and I'll do my best to match your keywords and interests with publishers' offerings. Thank you so much for your responses. With so many inquiries, it was like throwing five wedding bouquets. :) Best regards, Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba, Japan Email: tkach(a)japan.email.ne.jp *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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