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community defined by interaction
by Barry Wellman 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Alexander and Uwe, Sorry to be an olde fogie, but Barry Leighton and I wrote in 1979 that communities are best defined by interaction. See "Networks, Neighborhoods and Communities," Urban Affairs QUarterly (or my website.) ANd even earlier, George Hillery wrote a paper that every urban sociologist had to memorize on the many (80?) ways that community has been defined. In shrot, YMMV 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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(enjoy) Online Communities map - 2010
by Monica Murero 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear AoIR Friends and Colleagues, Enjoy an uncommon map of online communities (2010) (not sure where AoIR is located, but hopefully we are on a warm, productive, and sunny island! ) http://xkcd.com/ All the best! Monica -------------------- Monica Murero , Ph.D. AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009 AoIR Lifetime Member Director E-Life International Institute Associate Professor in Politics of e-Government and in Sociology of New Technology University Federico II, Italy Consultant, World Health Organization. http://it.linkedin.com/pub/monica-murero-ph-d/16/52/606

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Call for Papers and Participation: HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces: Multitouch and Gestural Interactions
by Aaron Tan 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear AoIR-lers, Please spread the word about this workshop happening in Melbourne, Australia on June 28 & 29. Thanks, Aaron. -----Original Message----- Call for Papers and Participation: HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces: Multitouch and Gestural Interactions What is the next major evolution in user interaction? HCSNet is offering a workshop that brings together people from different disciplines interested in Natural User Interfaces (NUI). This workshop will discuss the role NUI can play, themes of interest as well as future work that NUI enables. Do gestures completely replace typical mouse pointers or simply augment it for some functionality? Do all applications work with gestures or only a select few? The goal of this workshop is to make a first step in identifying challenges and characterising NUI design obstacles. Possible themes of interest include: * Multimodal interfaces * Robust spoken-language interaction * Intelligent user interfaces * Social interaction strategies * Gesture and embodied interaction * Conversational agents * Task and activity modelling * Environment-specific issues * Tangible and mobile devices We are pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Daniel Wigdor. Daniel is the User Experience Architect on the Microsoft Surface project, where he leads a team developing fundamentals of touch and gestural interaction. Before joining Microsoft, he conducted research in advanced user interfaces and devices at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, at the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard University, and at the University of Toronto where he completed an MSc and a PhD in computer science, specializing in multi-surface direct-touch environments. Learn more about Daniel Wigdor. Our second international speaker is Jamie Zigelbaum. Jamie is now working at Oblong Industries in Los Angeles. He was a PhD student in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab where he built and studied next generation computer interfaces. He specializes in gestural and tangible interfaces and works to create new interactions between humans and machines that enable the full use of our evolutionarily developed skills, expressive capabilities, and nuanced social behaviors. Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment. Find out more about Oblong Industries. This workshop examines the NUI field as a base for future work within a multidisciplinary environment. The hope of this workshop is to develop a series of themes and design practices which have the potential to act as a base for future collaboration. We encourage those interested to participate in this workshop. Participants are required submit a short abstract discussing their thoughts on this field, and how it can fit within their existing work. HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants of up to $500 to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. For more information please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2010/nui10

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Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily
by Uwe Matzat 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear Alexander, Caroline, and others, I have a paper that runs through these definitions and argues that (some type of) online communities should be defined by common interest. You, Alexander, may want to shoot at it for your purpose: Matzat, U. (2004). "Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for theoretical-empirical Internet Research" in: Analyse & Kritik, 26, 1: 63-90. (pre-print at my website) To be honest, I can't follow your argument. Maybe this is just a misunderstanding? But why does this type of definition imply a high degree of homophily? If you look at a "classical" online community, for instance a discussion fora about cancer, then there is a common interest (discussion about cancer). But there does not have to be a high degree of homophily. Members can have different educational, ethnic, and social backgrounds. Could you clarify? --------> So, my arguement is that community should be defined by interaction, not by some declarative features like interests, profiles, communities, etc. --------> I agree that for some other types of online communities ("social online communities") other criteria should be taken into account as well. See the article. Uwe ---------> ---------> Semenov Alexander semenoffalex at googlemail.com Wed Oct 6 01:46:52 PDT 2010 Previous message: [Air-L] Annette Markham guest professor in Aarhus Next message: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal-FOAF- Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng ======================================= Uwe Matzat Sociology School of Innovation Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands --------------- phone: + 31 40 247-8392 email: umatzat /"at"/ gmail.com http://umatzat.net =======================================

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CFP: The Mobile Media Reader
by noah.arceneaux＠sdsu.edu 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Call For Submissions: The Mobile Media Reader Editors: Noah Arceneaux (San Diego State University) and Anandam Kavoori (University of Georgia) Peter Lang Publishing We are currently seeking contributions for The Mobile Media Reader, an anthology to be published by Peter Lang in 2012. This project began as an update of The Cell Phone Reader, a 2006 anthology of critical studies of various aspects of mobile communication. Given the dramatic and ongoing technological changes associated with mobile devices, we have now decided to compile an entirely new set of essays. The hype and hyperbole associated with mobile media recall the utopian hopes described by Carey and Quirk in their classic essay “The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution.” Portable, hand-held devices, originally designed for voice communication, are now promoted as the latest technological device necessary to live a complete, 21st century, middle-class life. Meanwhile, all of the established media industries, including television, film, music, and print, seek to reach consumers through mobile devices, altering their products and economic models in order to do so. In light of these developments, this anthology seeks historical studies and culturally informed critiques of different forms of mobile media. We are especially interested in essays that reveal earlier precedents for this current phenomenon, or works that reveal how business models and theories developed in the past should be re-evaluated for mobile audiences. The following list indicates the range of potential topics. - Location-based advertising - Privacy and surveillance concerns related to mobile devices - Government efforts to restrict mobile communication - New forms of television, designed for mobile devices - Ringtones as a new musical genre - History of hand-held video games - Cultural reception of the Walkman - Politics of spectrum allocation - Innovative uses of mobile communication by ethnic/racial/cultural groups Those interested in contributing should send an abstract (500 word max.) to Noah Arceneaux by October 22, 2010: noah.arceneaux(a)sdsu.edu Provisional Timeline: Abstracts accepted until October 22, 2010. Contributors notified by November 26, 2010. First drafts (6,500 words, Chicago Style) due May 16, 2011. Noah Arceneaux Assistant Professor of Media Studies San Diego State University Noah Arceneaux Assistant Professor of Media Studies San Diego State University

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Tenure-Track Position at Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
by Naomi Susan Baron 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Georgetown University Language, Technology and Politics The Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) M.A. program at Georgetown University focuses on the relationship between new computational technologies of communication and areas such as science, scholarship, culture, government, media, business, journalism and the arts. The program seeks to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor working on the relationship between language and technologies of communication and associated political issues. Candidates whose research emphasizes technology, internet linguistics, language and politics, intercultural communication, or language and sex/gender, race, class or national identity will be given priority. They should be current in the history, theory, and methodologies of their field. Applicants who demonstrate classroom experience using new media/digital teaching approaches, such as student-developed Web sites, blogs, digital stories, documentary film, and digital portfolios, are especially encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have scholarly publications and teaching experience at the graduate level (or comparable), and be prepared to advise and to mentor M.A. thesis projects. Faculty are expected to contribute broadly to the interdisciplinary research and teaching of the program. Outstanding candidates may be considered for appointment at a higher rank. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates as part of its commitment to professional excellence and diversity. Please send application letter/statement of interest, c.v., and the names of three referees to cctjobs(a)georgetown.edu by 1 November 2010, citing LTPjob.

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Persistence and Change in Social Media
by Guillaume Latzko-Toth 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

I haven't seen this news posted here yet so here it goes... Many thanks to Anabel and Bernie for putting this special issue together! --Guillaume ---- A special issue on "Social Media" of the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (BSTS) has just been released. Note that until Oct. 15, all Sage journals are offering open access (upon free registration). Table of Contents (http://bst.sagepub.com/content/current ) October 2010; 30 (5): Persistence and Change in Social Media - Bernie Hogan and Anabel Quan-Haase Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on Twitter - Sarita Yardi and Danah Boyd Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online - Jimmy Sanderson and Pauline Hope Cheong Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and to Mourn - Brian Carroll and Katie Landry Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging - Anabel Quan-Haase and Alyson L. Young Metaphors of Synchrony: Emergence and Differentiation of Online Chat Devices - Guillaume Latzko-Toth ------------ Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago

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Forming a new program in ICT - recommendations?
by Michele H. Jackson 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hello -- I've been following the discussion of where a PhD should study with great interest. I have a somewhat related question and am very interested in your opinions and advice: I am on a committee that has been given the charge to "discern the intellectually coherent mission (or missions) that will enable distinctive research, scholarly, and creative contributions in ICT" on our campus. ("Distinctive" here means of excellent academic quality, as in "of distinction".) Our recommendations are to be high level -- i.e., what is the model or general structure our campus should implement? (e.g., we should recommend whether the unit should give graduate or undergraduate degrees, but we don't have to plan out the curriculum). We have no constraints on what direction to go...we could recommend a college, department, school, program, support unit, research institute, center, etc. Our committee is very interdisciplinary (engineers, social scientists, humanists, natural scientists, business professors, artists). We are soliciting input from stakeholders across campus, through several small meetings and also public forums. We are also trying to learn from our peers, gathering models of what other universities are doing. And we are talking to industry representatives. The University of Colorado-Boulder is a state university, with approximately 30,000 students. We are a comprehensive Research I/AAU school. This is a unique opportunity for us -- do have any thoughts or recommendations? Many thanks in advance, mj Michele H. Jackson University of Colorado at Boulder Associate Professor, Department of Communication Director, ASSETT http://assett.colorado.edu Co-Director, CASE for Sustainability http://comm.colorado.edu/case jackson(a)colorado.edu 303-492-8139

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CfP: 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, C&T 2011, Brisbane 29 June - 2 July 2011
by Marcus Foth 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

2nd Call for Papers 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – C&T 2011 29 June – 2 July 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ NEWS Two birds one stone! C&T 2011 followed by the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2011 in Brisbane Missed the CHI paper deadline? Submissions for C&T 2011 are still open until 10th Dec 2010 First C&T workshops announced: Digital Cities 7: Real World Experiences Making Sense of Twitter: Quantitative Analysis Using Twapperkeeper and Other Tools Ethnographic Fiction and Speculative Design: Supporting Community Participation in the Development and Implementation of New Technologies C&T 2011 OVERVIEW The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2011 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. The conference program will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynote and panel speakers. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Brisbane, Australia's new world city. Marcus Foth Conference Chair IMPORTANT DATES 10 December 2010: Full papers and workshop proposals due 24 January 2011: Review reports due 18 February 2011: Notification of acceptances sent to authors 4 March 2011: Camera ready papers due 30 April 2011: Workshop papers, Doctoral Consortium and Student Volunteer applications due 29 June 2011: Pre-conference workshops and Doctoral Consortium 30 June – 2 July 2011: C&T 2011 conference at QUT, Brisbane, Australia CONFERENCE TOPICS C&T 2011 welcomes contributions in all areas of community and technology research, design and development. In addition, we particularly invite authors to address any of the following topics: Augmented Reality Civic Intelligence Context and Location Awareness Community-centred Design and Evaluation Methodologies Community Engagement E-research with Communities E-government and E-governance Participation Smart Community Services Sustainability Universal Usability and Accessibility Urban Informatics Tangible Interfaces for Community Interaction Technologies of Scale Making Visualisation Techniques Working across Cultures PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be written in English. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. Please format papers using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform. Full papers must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, contact information and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Papers submitted by the due date will undergo a double blind peer review process by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, innovation, academic rigour, and clarity of writing. Accepted papers will be included in the published conference proceedings if at least one author of any accepted submission has registered and attends the conference. Papers are submitted via an online submission system that will be opened in September 2010. Please send any questions to Jesper Kjeldskov, Technical Program Chair: jesper AT cs.aau.dk WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops are half day or full day sessions prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. Workshop proposals (max of 2 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available athttp://www.sigchi.org/chipubform) should be aimed at a community with a common interest. If you are working in an emerging area of Communities and Technologies, consider organising a workshop as an opportunity to advance the field and build momentum. C&T workshops might address basic or applied research and practice, new methodologies, emerging application areas, design innovations, management and organisational issues, or education. Each workshop should generate ideas that give the C&T community a new, organised way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that suggest promising directions for future research. Some workshops result in edited books or special issues of journals; you may consider including this goal in your workshop proposal. Please send proposals to Jaz Choi, Workshop Chair: h.choi AT qut.edu.au DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on 29 June 2011. The Doctoral Consortium offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit 4 pages, using the ACM SIGCHI two column layout available at http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform, addressing 4 headings: Aims and Background; Significance and Innovation; Methodology; Questions and Issues (that is, identify those areas you seek feedback on). Places at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the submitted proposals. Please send applications to Christine Satchell, Doctoral Consortium Chair: christine.satchell AT qut.edu.au VOLUNTEERS C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply, email us your contact details (email, phone, university), an abstract of your research project, a CV, and the reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer. Applications close on 30 April 2011. Please send applications to Ronald Schroeter, Volunteers Chair: r.schroeter AT qut.edu.au http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ #ct2011 -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Lab Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily
by Jesper Tække 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Also in the conference paper I provide a definition of 'the border of meaning' and a discussion of the differences between communities, defined by having a border of meaning on the one side, and networks lacking a border of meaning on the other side. Maybe someone can tell us where to find the papers written for Gothenburg? ----- Original meddelelse ----- > Fra: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex(a)googlemail.com> > Til: Jesper Tække <ses(a)post10.tele.dk> > Dato: Ons, 06. okt 2010 13:42 > Emne: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily > > Thanks a lot! > Best wishes, > Alexander. > > 2010/10/6 Jesper Tække < ses(a)post10.tele.dk [mailto:ses@post10.tele.dk]> > > Dear Alexander, > > I have been working with something like you are asking for using > the Luhmannit concept the ?border of meaning? which means that > the community through its history of communication has > conditionated what they are talking about and in what tone. > > I have studied Usenet Newsgroups, webolgs and chatrooms - here is > a link to my chat article: > > http://cfi.au.dk/fileadmin/www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfis_skriftserie/011… [http://cfi.au.dk/fileadmin/www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfis_skriftserie/011…] > > Now I am looking at Facebook groups: Are they communities, or are > there communities among them, or are they only ?places? for > self-presentation and/or kinds of petition? > > At our conference in Gothenburg I present a paper critically > discussing Facebook as a network within the societal community - > see the front page of the program. > > Best Regards > Jesper > > > > ----- Original meddelelse ----- > > Fra: Semenov Alexander < semenoffalex(a)googlemail.com [mailto:semenoffalex@googlemail.com]> > > Til: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org] > > Dato: Ons, 06. okt 2010 10:46 > > Emne: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily > > > > Hello, everybody. > > I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through > > common > > itnerests. > > My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in > LiveJournals > > are not > > such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of > > interaction. So > > that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of > taste and > > part of > > self-presentation in their profiles. > > In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one > of > > such > > communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( > > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal [http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal] > > -FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). > > Their data show that there is no correlation between interests > and > > friends > > and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, > that is > > my > > working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some > sources. > > I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another > > approach. > > -- > > Alexander Semenov. > > MA student > > Faculty of Sociology > > Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) > > http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html [http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html] > > > > Graduate Student in Sociology at > > State University - Higher School of Economics > > http://www.hse.ru/eng [http://www.hse.ru/eng] > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:Air-L@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 [http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org] > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ [http://www.aoir.org/] > > > Jesper Tække > Assistant Professor, PhD > Information and Media Studies > Aarhus University > > http://www.jespertaekke.dk [http://www.jespertaekke.dk] > imvjet(a)hum.au.dk [mailto:imvjet@hum.au.dk] > > > > > -- > Alexander Semenov. > MA student > Faculty of Sociology > Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) > http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html [http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html] > > Graduate Student in Sociology at > State University - Higher School of Economics > http://www.hse.ru/eng [http://www.hse.ru/eng] Jesper Tække Assistant Professor, PhD Information and Media Studies Aarhus University http://www.jespertaekke.dk imvjet(a)hum.au.dk

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