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Social Networking in everyday life
by Greg Wise 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi folks, I've got a grad student looking for resources on the ways social network sites like Facebook get integrated into people's everyday practices and routines. She's looked to the usual sources (such as danah boyd's work and online bibliography, PEW studies, etc.) but isn't finding much beyond that. There's tons of stuff about what people do on these sites (identity construction, relationships, etc.), and broader social and cultural implications (community, democracy), but few teasing out the everyday practice. Does that make sense? Any ideas? Cheers, Greg Dr. J. Macgregor Wise Professor Communication Studies Arizona State University 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 (602) 543 6646; (602) 543 6004 (fax) Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Author of Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide (2008, Blackwell)

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The Fallacy of Facebook's "See Friendship" 'Feature'
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Lisa Selin Davis did a story about this in TIME, Nov 18, 2010": "The Trouble with Facebook's New 'See Friendship' Feature" My key quote: "We all live in segmented, diversified worlds. We might be juggling girlfriends, jobs or different groups of friends. But [Facebook thinks] we're in one integrated community." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032030,00.html#comments In short, despite Facebook's name, they don't really understand the Social Network Revolution. 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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New FREE JITP Articles - Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia
by stu＠texifter.com 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Big thumbs up for Piotr's recent publication: "Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia," Piotr Konieczny - One of two "FREE" articles about Wikipedia in the latest JITP: [1]http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g928469563 -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC [2]http://discovertext.com Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs References 1. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g928469563 2. http://discovertext.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Social Networking in everyday life
by Judy Rice 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Greg, I enjoyed Naomi Baron's Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. She has intriguing research/discussion on the effects new technologies are having on our communications and relationships. Judy Cossel Rice Retired UX Engineer FamilySearch ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:20:35 -0700 From: Greg Wise <Greg.Wise(a)asu.edu> To: "Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Social Networking in everyday life Message-ID: <C3060363A9BF0544ACDA97FBC9AD7B3B5F83523E0F(a)EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Hi folks, I've got a grad student looking for resources on the ways social network sites like Facebook get integrated into people's everyday practices and routines. She's looked to the usual sources (such as danah boyd's work and online bibliography, PEW studies, etc.) but isn't finding much beyond that. There's tons of stuff about what people do on these sites (identity construction, relationships, etc.), and broader social and cultural implications (community, democracy), but few teasing out the everyday practice. Does that make sense? Any ideas? Cheers, Greg Dr. J. Macgregor Wise Professor Communication Studies Arizona State University 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 (602) 543 6646; (602) 543 6004 (fax) Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Author of Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide (2008, Blackwell) NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Project Based PhD Scholarship - Australia
by Adrian Miles 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

(readvertised) CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST CLOSING DATE THURSDAY DEC 2ND, 2010 PhD Scholarship (Media and Communication) – Practice-based, 3 years, to commence first quarter 2011, tax-free stipend of AUD26,533 per annum. THE PROJECT: The Circus Oz Living Archive: developing a model of online digital engagement for the performing arts The successful applicant will have demonstrated capacity in any or all of new media, networked media, online video, interaction design or participatory and social media. In addition you will be excited by the prospect of sinking your teeth into a media practice-based research project in a ‘real-world’ context, helping to develop innovative approaches to social media in the context of online video and performing arts audiences. As a PhD candidate on this ARC funded project commencing in early 2011 you will be supervised by Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan and co-supervised by Dr. David Carlin and Adrian Miles. This digital media candidate will receive training in practice based research methodologies, with a particular orientation towards user centred design and interaction design. In addition you will undertake qualitative research into new media, Web 2.0, social media, and online video to inform the development and critical appraisal of all prototypes. You will be expected to develop an understanding of contemporary issues and practices in terms of the digital humanities with a specific emphasis on video within Web 2.0 systems and the development of innovative narrative and documentary possibilities through the utilisation of existing archival material online. As this position is situated within the Circus Oz, Living Archive research project, the successful application will collaborate with a computer science PhD candidate as we work towards the creation of the Living Archive. As such the computer science candidate will compliment your area of expertise in the project and focus on building a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system using public domain image retrieval software, and investigating how the content based image retrieval may supplement the social media video archive as a search mechanism. This PhD scholarship provides a tax-free stipend of AUD26,533 per annum for three years. There are also limited funds to support the candidate is disseminating their research outcomes throughout their study program in conjunction with the other project researchers. The position is full time, and is based at RMIT’s city campus, in Melbourne, Australia. Potential applicants are invited to contact the project leader, Dr David Carlin [david.carlin(a)rmit.edu.au, or phone 03 99253934], for more information, and/or to view the project blog at http://www.circusarchive.net/blog/ To apply, please send an Expression of Interest by email to Dr David Carlin. Your Expression of Interest (two pages) should include the following information: 1. Why you are interested in the position. 2. Academic Qualifications (include years of enrolment, date completed or expected to complete, name of institution, Hons and/or Masters level of award if applicable) 3. Professional Experience - provide details (including duration) of any professional experience, previous and current, relevant to your application. You can also include relevant professional development such as workshops and conferences. 4. Publication Details and/or Folio - if you have authored, exhibited or produced works relevant to your application please provide full details of the publication or exhibition including level of authorship, extent of involvement and whether the work was refereed, assessed or judged. Attach the front page for text publications, and the relevant page of an exhibition catalogue or programme. Please also attach links to authored or produced works accessible for viewing online. 5. Research Experience - please provide details of any research experience relevant to your application. Research experience can include involvement in other forms of original work, authorship and creativity. If any of the qualifications you listed in (2) above involved research please provide specific details. an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au

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Re: [Air-L] Social Networking in Everyday life
by Jacqueline Vickery 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Craig Watkins and Erin Lee at the University of Texas just published an Executive Summary about the everyday social uses of Facebook. You can access it from Watkins' blog (with link to the summary at the end of the post). The sample consists of 900 facebook users and over 100 questions, could provide some useful data for you. Here's the link: http://www.theyoungandthedigital.com/social-networking-sites/got-facebook-a… . Best, - jacqueline ---------------------------------------------------- Jacqueline Vickery Assistant Instructor PhD Candidate Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas at Austin ----------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] Social Networking in everyday life
by Stephen J Cavrak Jr 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

> but few teasing out the everyday practice. Does that make sense? Any ideas? By ordinary things do you mean like - - listing what you had for breakfast - letting people know you are at starbucks - busy grading papers - looking for someone to go party with - taking a picture to show that "le beaujolais nouveau est arive" ... - opps, partyed too much and threw up all over the place, here's another picture ;) ??? Maybe this is more like a Twitter than a Facebook thing ???

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Re: [Air-L] Social Networking in everyday life
by Jeff McCarthy 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi Greg Not sure if your student has browsed around Danah Boyd's blog but this list of research on Twitter may be useful. There are certainly a number of articles that may help. http://www.danah.org/researchBibs/twitter.php Thanks Jeff Jeff McCarthy BSc (Hons) | PGDipM | FCIM | FIDM | Chartered Marketer | CIM & IDM CPD Awards Senior Lecturer - Digital Marketing Marketing & Retail The Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Campus Manchester UK M1 3GH Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6751 Email: jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk Please sponsor my 4x Lakeland Trail runs (61k) in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care... http://www.justgiving.com/jeffmccarthylakelandtrails2010 Staff Profile: http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/staff/staffdetails.php?uref=391 Academia: http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jeffmclfc Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer >>> Dan Perkel 18/11/10 8:59 PM >>> Hi Greg, Can explain, by example, the kinds of things that you are looking for but are not finding? Regards, Dan ------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Wise wrote: > Hi folks, > I've got a grad student looking for resources on the ways social network > sites like Facebook get integrated into people's everyday practices and > routines. She's looked to the usual sources (such as danah boyd's work and > online bibliography, PEW studies, etc.) but isn't finding much beyond that. > There's tons of stuff about what people do on these sites (identity > construction, relationships, etc.), and broader social and cultural > implications (community, democracy), but few teasing out the everyday > practice. Does that make sense? Any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Greg > > Dr. J. Macgregor Wise > Professor > Communication Studies > Arizona State University > 4701 West Thunderbird Road > Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 > (602) 543 6646; (602) 543 6004 (fax) > > Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies > > Author of Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide (2008, Blackwell) > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Digital Diasporas conference, University of Cambridge, January 13-14 2011
by Mirca Madianou 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

The Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism January 13 -14 2011 Convener: Mirca Madianou (Department of Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge) New developments in digital media combined with a collapse in the cost of international communication are together transforming the experience of migration with implications for family life, sociality and intimacy, identity and political involvement. Through a series of panels and presentations, this interdisciplinary conference will assess the impact of digital media on the following aspects of migration: representation, visibility and participation; culture and identities; family separation; social life; patterns of migration and policy implications. The conference will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the digital and what is new about new media. The conference is co-funded by CRASSH and the ESRC as part of the research grant on Migration, ICTs and Transnational families. Confirmed speakers include: · Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS); · Miyase Christensen (Karlstad) * Dana Diminescu (Telecom Paris Tech and FSHM, Paris) * Marie Gillespie (Open University) * Myria Georgiou (LSE) * Radha Hegde (NYU) * Andreas Hepp (IMKI, University of Bremen) * Heather Horst (University of California, Irvine) * Jonathan Ong (University of Cambridge) * Mirca Madianou (University of Cambridge) * Daniel Miller (UCL) * Deirdre McKay (Keele) * Jonathan Ong (Cambridge) * Adela Ros Hijar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) * Eugenia Siapera (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) * Roza Tsagarousianou (CAMRI, University of Westminster) For the full programme and information regarding registration please see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1328/ There will be a small registration fee (£30 for faculty and £15 for students) which covers lunch and refreshments on both days. Advanced registration is strongly advised as places are limited. If you have any administrative queries about the event, please contact the conference manager, Helga Brandt, hb380(a)cam.ac.uk Location: CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK

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query: topics that don't get talked about (enough) in academia?
by Nancy Van House 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Spring semester I'm teaching our on-going seminar for doctoral students that addresses various topics related to being a researcher and, to a lesser degree, teaching. My spring theme: topics that don't get talked about, or not enough, or not frankly enough. SUGGESTIONS WANTED! Some examples: -conflicts over co-authorship -- who's included, how names are ordered -conflicts among collaborators/co-authors -dealing with colleagues who are bullies -reviewing, and responding to reviewers -various problems with students, in class and out. The ordinary ones; and the extraordinary (e.g., stalking) **What were YOU not sufficiently prepared to face when you first finished your PhD?** Or, as a PhD student, what would you want such a seminar to cover? -- -- *********************************************************************************** Nancy Van House Professor, School of Information 102 South Hall #4600 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 voice 510.642.0855 fax 510.642.5814 http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse --------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 307A South Hall ***********************************************************************************

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