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WebSciences Master Degree in Paris
by Antoine Mazières 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello AIOR's members, A little anoucement to let you know that a Master degree dedicated to WebSciences has openned in Paris (Université Paris V Descartes), and application are open, as an open invitation to join for the opening days, 29th of October 2010 at 18H. The main purpose of this cursus is to allow students from the fields of sciences, design, humanities to perform interdisciplinary studies/researches on the Web and Internet, from academics, public and private contexts. http://masterwebscience.wordpress.com/ (in french) I would be very grateful if you diffuse this oportunity to any students, non-student, teacher, researcher that could be interested in participating to this program. All best, Antoine Mazières http://ant1.cc/

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Final Call: Mobile Life Conferences 2010 in Brighton
by Prof. I. Kushchu 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES 2010 27-28-29 October 2010, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK, (visit http://www.m4life.org for more) MobileMonday London Joins mLife events, pls see updated program: http://www.m4life.org/conferences/?page_id=258 Highlights: -- MobileMonday London at the mLife Events -- 10 Plenary talks, 2 Plenary sessions -- A Tutorial on Mobile `government, Mobile Life conferences feature three main streams: -- The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (The EURO mGOV 2010) -- The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010) -- The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDevelopment 2010) The conference program is updated with a tutorial on Mobile Government and more than 10 plenary sessions - some of distinguished PLENARY SPEAKERS are: --- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Former Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation --- Tony Fish, AMF Ventures --- Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org) Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts) --- William H. Dutton, Professor and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College --- Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT --- Ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK --- Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia --- Mark Selby, Vice President Multimedia Nokia Corporation --- Mike Short, Vice President, Telefonica Europe and Former Chairman - GSM Association --- Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria. --- Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D and Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London Please contact conference organisation at http://www.m4life.org or conf(a)m4life.org for more on participation and other opportunities.------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 327876 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Georgia Gaden via LinkedIn 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

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Updated schedules
by Mathias Klang 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, We have updated the schedules for IR11 in Göteborg. The overview is here http://techrisk.se/wp-content/uploads/aoir/Full_overview.pdf & the full program is here http://techrisk.se/wp-content/uploads/aoir/Fullprogram.pdf Welcome to Göteborg cheers Mathias -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, LL.M., Ph.D. University of Göteborg Phone: +46 (0) 31 786 55 63 Mobile: +46 705 43 22 13 http://twitter.com/klang67 http://digital-rights.net http://techrisk.se http://creativecommons.se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Air-L] early early gathering in Gothenburg?
by Andrew Herman 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Awesome! I was going to ask if people wanted to get together. See you then! Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> Annette Markham <amarkham(a)gmail.com> 10/18/10 11:20 AM >>> Hi All, If anyone's in Göteborg already and interested, Elizabeth Buchanan and I are meeting tonight at the fabulous bar on the 23rd floor of the Gothia Towers Hotel. Around 8 pm. Join us if you like, Cheers, annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, Internet Research Ethics Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amarkham(a)gmail.com http://www.cipr.uwm.edu/ http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.ijire.net _______________________________________________ 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] How does Facebook find friends?
by David Boardman 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello All, I recall few weeks ago somebody in AIR-L mailing list asking for details on how facebook aggregates personal and social network data in order to suggest friends to be added. Here goes an article that discloses through "reverse engineering" 10 aspects related to the news feed that facebook streams on each user page. Accordingly, there are also some valuable hints on how facebook find friends... http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-18/the-facebook-news… Best, David On Sep 26, 2010, at 12:00 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: How does Facebook find friends? (Marco Toledo Bastos) > 2. Re: How does Facebook find friends? (Stacy Blasiola) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:42:21 -0300 > From: "Marco Toledo Bastos" <herrcafe(a)gmail.com> > To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] How does Facebook find friends? > Message-ID: <001201cb5c6c$0c899e40$259cdac0$@com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Anders, > > This also got me thinking. It all started a few years ago when my > hairdresser, who I went to once, and who has sent me a few emails, turned up > as a > FB suggestion. We didn't have any friends in common and I most certainly > have NOT allowed FB to go thru my Gmail contacts (or any other account). > This all had happened once before when FB suggested another person with whom > I sure shared no friends whatsoever. > > Since I'm dead sure I haven't given Facebook permission to contact my Gmail > account and FB sure isn't allowed to mine my cache, I was ready to go > paranoid (seemed like Facebook was stealing my Gmail contacts). But after a > few emails to friends and nerds of all stripes, we came up with the > conclusion that it was the hairdresser who allowed FB to collect *her* > contact info. That's how FB knew we had been in contact in a given moment. > > Bottom line: there are only two ways FB could have gotten that info from me. > Either by mining my Chrome cache, and I refuse to consider this possibility, > or breaking into Googles's office in Mountain View, since Gmail was the only > place where I had that info stored. So getting back to your question, the > kid might not know his uncle's e-mail, but my two cent is that the uncle's > contact list sure includes the kid's name and/or his e-mail. > > Either way, this is not good. But it is the future, and the future is here. > > []s > MTB > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:14:11 -0500 (CDT) > From: Stacy Blasiola <blasiol2(a)uwm.edu> > To: Marco Toledo Bastos <herrcafe(a)gmail.com>, air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] How does Facebook find friends? > Message-ID: <t2bfkdsrsoj9l7xcfn4nb4ks.1285395247389(a)email.android.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I believe this is akin to the way in which gmail scans emails for keywords. I may not use gmail, but if I email a friend who does, then Gmail can scan the email I've written. > > Comparatively, if I don't allow Facebook to access my email list, but I have a friend who does and I'm on theirs, then Facebook will make the connection. > > In both cases, only one user has agreed to the terms. This seems problematic. I believe, particularly in the Facebook example, that it gives other people rights over our information that I'm not so sure they should have. > > -Stacy Blasiola > > UW-Milwaukee > Graduate Student > Media Studies > > > > > Marco Toledo Bastos <herrcafe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Anders, > > This also got me thinking. It all started a few years ago when my > hairdresser, who I went to once, and who has sent me a few emails, turned up > as a > FB suggestion. We didn't have any friends in common and I most certainly > have NOT allowed FB to go thru my Gmail contacts (or any other account). > This all had happened once before when FB suggested another person with whom > I sure shared no friends whatsoever. > > Since I'm dead sure I haven't given Facebook permission to contact my Gmail > account and FB sure isn't allowed to mine my cache, I was ready to go > paranoid (seemed like Facebook was stealing my Gmail contacts). But after a > few emails to friends and nerds of all stripes, we came up with the > conclusion that it was the hairdresser who allowed FB to collect *her* > contact info. That's how FB knew we had been in contact in a given moment. > > Bottom line: there are only two ways FB could have gotten that info from me. > Either by mining my Chrome cache, and I refuse to consider this possibility, > or breaking into Googles's office in Mountain View, since Gmail was the only > place where I had that info stored. So getting back to your question, the > kid might not know his uncle's e-mail, but my two cent is that the uncle's > contact list sure includes the kid's name and/or his e-mail. > > Either way, this is not good. But it is the future, and the future is here. > > []s > MTB > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 74, Issue 29 > *************************************

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early early gathering in Gothenburg?
by Annette Markham 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi All, If anyone's in Göteborg already and interested, Elizabeth Buchanan and I are meeting tonight at the fabulous bar on the 23rd floor of the Gothia Towers Hotel. Around 8 pm. Join us if you like, Cheers, annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, Internet Research Ethics Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amarkham(a)gmail.com http://www.cipr.uwm.edu/ http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.ijire.net

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IRBs and Blogs
by Elizabeth Buchanan 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, all, Sorry to be late to the conversation. According to the strictest US definition from CFR, blogs are not "human persons." and typically are outside the scope of IRB review. I have seen boards ask for anonymization or pseudynomization of names, sites, etc, but this might not be appropriate according to your methodology. Here is a blurb form a forthcoming paper I have: From a research ethics perspective, in the United States, research conducted using a blog as a data source would not be reviewable by an IRB. For instance, if a researcher used only text from a blog, as part of an analysis, and did not interact with the blog author through, e.g., interviews or surveys, no IRB review or approval would be needed, as it is not considered "human subjects" under the federal definition (45cfr46.102f): “Human subject means a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains(1) Data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) Identifiable private information.” “Identifiable private information” is “information about behavior that occurs in a context in which an individual can reasonably expect that no observation or recording is taking place, and information which has been provided for specific purposes by an individual and which the individual can reasonably expect will not be made public (for example, a medical record).” Therefore, if a researcher is getting data from a blog that is public, then it would not meet the criteria for review as set forth in the US regulatory documents. Best, e. Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Director Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414.229.3973 Principal Investigator, Internet Research Ethics Commons internetresearchethics.org (NSF Project # 0924604) elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org On Oct 17, 2010, at 5:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org

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IRB and blogs
by André Brock 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Just to complicate the matter even further: The discussions of pseudonomizing [sic] bloggers and commenters has an added piquancy for me, considering that on many of the racial and ethnic blogs i examine, the author's choice of pseudonym often reflects a cultural or personal identity. I came to this conclusion before the rise of the social networks, where many people employ the same username across multiple platforms as populations migrate to keep up with their old friends or to establish a consistent online presence/brand. (or maybe they're like me, where i use the same name across multiple platforms because i'm lazy LOL) Changing their chosen pseudonym, which unlike their given name or patronym is actually a self-made identity, seems kind of arrogant. Is it the case that the mainstream online communities you study don't have any personal connection to their pseudonyms? Are the names just nonsense syllables chosen to satisfy arbitrary registration for membership in a given community? I'm curious; do those of you who change names to protect privacy consider your change to be equally reflective of the OP's discursive identity choice? Sorry for the disjointed logic...i'm still trying to recover from a workout.

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Re: [Air-L] IRB and music blogs
by Margaret Borschke 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

I conducted a small qualitative study of mp3 blogs a few years ago as a part of my (nearly finished!) thesis. (I presented some of this work at AoIR 9.0 in Copenhagen.) This study included telephone interviews with the bloggers as well as textual and structural analysis. The terms of my ethics approval allowed me to name the blogs but not the real names of the bloggers. I'm also a journalist, so my initial reaction was concern that it might render my work unverifiable. (Journalists like everyone to speak on the record!) Given the public nature of their blogs, the requirement struck me as a little silly. But as my interest in mp3 blogs is primarily about the use of sound recordings in networks and the poetics of distribution via multiplication, I came to decide that the names of the blogs themselves were not relevant to my analysis and discussion. And there is a big fat ethical elephant in the room when we talk about music bloggers: I argue that sound recordings remain at the heart of mp3 blogs and we know that many bloggers do what they do without permission from copyright holders. Yes, they do this in public. Yes, most will happily remove tracks when asked, and yes, some artists and labels actively send material to blogs for review, but all of this still occurs in an atmosphere of hostility and uncertainty when it comes to media use online. So while music bloggers might be hiding in plain sight, and many use their blogs to make a name for themselves in their music community of interest, I still think academic kid gloves might be warranted. Margie Borschke Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW

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