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CfP: CSCW 2010 Workshop - The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations
by Cecilia Aragon 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Call for Participation ** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 ** CSCW 2010 Workshop, Sunday, Feb 7, 2010 The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative technologies. A new generation of scientists, working in large-scale collaborations, is repurposing social software for use in collaborative science. Existing social tools such as chat, IM, and FriendFind are being adopted and modified for use as group problem-solving facilities. At the same time, exponentially greater and more complex datasets are being generated at a rate that is challenging the limits of current hardware, software, and human cognitive capability. A concerted effort to create software that will support new scientific practices and handle this data tsunami is redefining the collaboratory and represents a new frontier for computer supported cooperative work. This follow-on event to a similarly themed workshop at CHI 2009 is intended to foster community among researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines interested in the changing dynamics of scientific collaborations. We encourage papers on the following topics, especially those with a focus on changing practices in these areas: * Collaborative scientific applications concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing, and visualization * Case studies concerning data gathering, analysis, sharing and visualization * Socio-technical research on scientific collaborations * Social networks of scientists * Repurposing social software for science * Participatory design and/or rapid prototyping for scientific software * Distributed data gathering and analysis * Time-critical scientific applications * Studies of generational differences in how science is done * Cross-functional applications and comparisons of a scientific to a non-scientific field Paper Submission Instructions: Submissions should be position papers 2-4 pages in length. Please use the ACM SIGCHI Template (Word version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.doc or LaTeX version: http://www.cscw2010.org/templates/cscw2010pubsformat.cls) . All submissions will be reviewed. The possibility of a journal special issue or book based on expanded versions of the submissions will be explored following the workshop. Papers (in .pdf or .doc format) should be submitted via email to CRAragon(a)lbl.gov. Please put "CSCW 2010 Workshop Submission" in the subject of the email. ** Submission deadline: November 20, 2009 ** Notification of acceptance will be sent out on or before December 18, 2009. For more information, please see the workshop web site: http://www.sci.utah.edu/cscw2010/ Organizers: Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CRAragon(a)lbl.gov Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University, jheer(a)cs.stanford.edu Charlotte Lee, University of Washington, cplee(a)u.washington.edu Claudio Silva, University of Utah, csilva(a)sci.utah.edu

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Fwd: [BUSLIB-L] Top 50 or so Social Networking Sites - Ranked SUMMARY
by RBerkman＠aol.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

(Interesting information from BUSLIB, a top quality business librarians listserv I subscribe to) Bob Berkman Associate Professor Media Studies The New School

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streaming video for my 1000 talk at Uni Udine
by Barry Wellman 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

today. In Italy. http://comunicasionemultimediale.unuid.it/index.php/barry-wellman-conference Sorry for the late notice. May be downloadable and on YouTube in a week. 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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what Murdoch says about Google?
by J. J. 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Here you are: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/What-Lies-Behind-Murdo… Jarek Janio Santa Ana College

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Ethics and Online Presentation?
by Amy Barackman 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Dear All, I am currently helping Dr. Koelsch from Duquesne University do research on the ethics related to the online presentation of participant narratives. I would love to get input from the AoIR group on the relevant research on this topic. Specifically, I am interested in the following: 1) Is there precedent for putting narratives on an online site for general use? 2) If not, what might be some ethical issues that would differentiate the confidentiality of narratives in an online space from those that are published in a book or journal? Any leads would be appreciated! Amy -- Amy Barackman, M.A. Graduate Student Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 15282 (203) 648-6005

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two faculty positions at Michigan State University
by Charles Steinfield 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce two faculty positions at Michigan State University to start in the fall of 2010. Please consider applying, or if not a good fit for you, please forward this note to any of your colleagues who might find either position of interest. Thanks for your help! Brief descriptions of each position are pasted in below, and the full announcements with application instructions are online at http://cas.msu.edu/jobs . with best regards, Charles Steinfield Professor and Chair Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Health Communication Technology The Department of Communication and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University are seeking an individual to fill an open-rank tenure-track faculty position in Health Communication Technology beginning fall 2010. Candidates will pursue funded scholarly research opportunities in areas that focus on the improvement of health services through communication technology. Examples of these include telemedicine, online health information and services, and the use of technology in health communication such as electronic medical records. The successful candidate will design new health communication technology curricula and teach existing courses in computer mediated communication, communication technology, research methods, organizational communication, and/or human computer interaction. A PhD in Communication, Information Studies, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Health Informatics or a related discipline is required. Computational Journalism The School of Journalism and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media at Michigan State University are seeking an innovative, dynamic individual to fill a full-time, tenure stream position in Computational Journalism at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates will be expected to gain recognition through peer- reviewed scholarly publications. Faculty are also expected to pursue external funding to support their research activity, which may result in a reduced teaching load. Candidates will join an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary faculty team and should be able to contribute through research and design experience at the intersection of journalism and information or computer science. To fill this position we seek a person who uses information and communication technology to collect and disseminate news in a cutting edge fashion. The ability to use information technology to create new tools, services or technical systems to both gather and disseminate news is highly desired.

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Re: [Air-L] Textbook on the social web?
by RBerkman＠aol.com 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

If AIR-L has not done this already, a compilation and annotated bibliography of these and related works (perhaps with links to reviews if not done by AIR-L members themselves) made available easily and freely would be a very good service for those in this field, and perhaps for a wider audience as well. Bob Berkman Associate Professor Media Studies The New School

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fyi...potential Hotmail security/privacy issue
by Richard Forno 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

(Just passing along for any AIR'ers who may be using Hotmail. Not exactly a good idea from a security/privacy concern, IMHO -rick) Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout By Chris Williams 2th November 2009 15:19 GMT Hotmail users are now unable to log out of their account if the browser they are using does not accept third party cookies. The move by Microsoft raises security concerns, particularly as PCs on corporate networks and in cybercafes and libraries are often set to reject cookies. < - > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/12/hotmail_cookies/

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design
by Gonzalo Bacigalupe 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Danah, Great article! Missed my T Station stop while reading it. @bacigalupe Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:15:44 -0500 From: danah boyd <aoir.z3z(a)danah.org> To: "Mary K. Bryson" <mary.bryson(a)ubc.ca> Cc: Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Re-Design Message-ID: <C6A56100-4E76-4280-A1AF-D31EBC68D084(a)danah.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I share your disappointment. Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan, and I investigated retweeting practices in the spring and summer and found a whole plethora of different practices that are not supported by this implementation. We wrote this up in a HICSS paper that will be published and presented in January, but we've made a draft version available for those who want to know more about retweeting: Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter danah boyd, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan HICSS 2010 http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf

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Twitter Re-Design
by Mary K. Bryson 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

RE: Why Retweet works the way it does http://evhead.com/2009/11/why-retweet-works-way-it-does.html <BY: Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, of which he is currently CEO.> I think it's interesting that Ev <creator of Twitter> misses the most valued function of the retweet <to this user>, which is the linkage between the retweeter and the original author of the RT tweet - the creator of Twitter's new modification of retweet removes the citation factor - The current Twitter syntax of say, Richard Smith retweeting something about surveillance and blogging makes me follow a link about say, blogging, precisely because Richard Smith is citing it. For the URL simply to appear in my InBox from ZX would be meaningless. This is a good example of where a tool designer fails to talk to users about what is good about the actual design and what would then, be lost in the supposed "improvement". Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/

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