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Re: [Air-L] [Spam:5.3 SpamScore] Air-L Digest, Vol 63, Issue 29
by David Jones 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Interesting discussions so far. We use Twitter as a primary communications stream among some of our professors and PhD students at Old Dominion, and it works wonderfully well for the most part. It's flexible in a way I don't think FB statuses can be. Sure, you can use to it update people about relatively mundane, everyday parts of your life. But, given its ties to other services, I think it has so much potential to be a powerful communications stream. It has an inherent ability to quickly network different media, services, and people on an ad hoc basis (a la the Iran elections situation). For me and my fellow doctoral students at ODU, it's allowed us to network with people who have similar research interests outside of ODU. The real power behind Twitter comes when you work through a third-party client that allows users to quickly access some of the other services that network into Twitter, like Twitpic. Tweetdeck is a pretty popular app amongst me and my fellow students. It's quick, flexible, and it has a drag-and-drop feature for images and links that often comes in pretty handy. We've taken to using hashtags to organize tweets into class and organization-specific streams. We track conversations about reading material, research interests, etc. And we use it as a way to disseminate links to information and longer conversations that might happen in other spaces. As someone said earlier, the one annoyance I've found is the overwhelming number of bots and spam. Dave Jones Old Dominion University djone111(a)odu.edu

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IHAC reports Canada - digital copies?
by dddumitr＠ucalgary.ca 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I am looking for digital copies of the two IHAC reports (Connection, Community, Content, 1994 and Preparing Canada for a Digital World, 1997) for a content analysis. If anyone has digital copies and would be willing to share, please contact me off line at <dddumitr(a)ucalgary.ca> Thank you. Delia Dumitrica PhD Candidate Faculty of Communication and Culture University of Calgary

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Twitter / norms
by Barry Wellman 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Interesting watching the discussion and differentiation of norms on Tw & FB. Reminds me of mobile phone use here in Toronto, which went from shouting (Spadina bus was very noisy) to current murmuring and (mostly) texting. 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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New Tool Useful for Government & Researchers
by Stuart Shulman 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

{Apologies for cross posting, but I would like to see this very widely cross posted, blogged and utilized. If you can help, your assistance is very deeply appreciated} The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT - http://pcat.qdap.net) makes searching, sorting and reviewing Federal Docket Management System bulk downloads of public comments easier and more amenable to team work. The BETA version is operating and new users can find sample data and codes on the site once they create a new account. http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=launch_press_release [Public Comment Analysis Toolkit Press Release] http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php [PCAT Help Wiki] http://www.screencast.com/t/WvGzlZX2JU5z [Flash video Introduction to the free, Web-based PCAT system] http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=why_would_i_use_this_system [Why would I use this system?] Thanks! ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate
by Charles Baldwin 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate The Electronic Literature Organization's Fourth International Conference & Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art June 3-6, 2010 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Organized by the ELO and Writing Digital Media at the Brown University Literary Arts Program dedicated to Robert Coover The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University's Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. <keywords> electronic literature . writing digital media . language-driven digital poesis . literal art . literary hypermedia . </keywords> We welcome papers and presentations on a broad range of topics. The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field: <keywords> expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism. </keywords> In addition we will give a special welcome to papers that engage with the contribution that Robert Coover has made to our field. A festschrift comprised of papers from the conference is proposed and Professor Coover will be our chief featured (e)Writer. (Other featured speakers to be announced shortly.) In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Program of Language-Driven Digital Art, concentrating on but not confined to installation works. We plan to show the selected work in gallery spaces close to the conference venue in downtown Providence over a two week period. Subject to funding restrictions, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to assist with attending the conference. If you want to give a paper, or form a panel, at this point, please submit a maximum 500-word abstract, with title and brief bio (indicating affiliation, if any). If you are proposing an installation, or an artistic presentation, or an alternative (innovative) proposal please also describe this in 500 words or less, with title, and bio(s). If you send illustrative, digitized AV materials, either keep these (byte-wise) small and short, or send us links. Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2009 - Send to: elo.ai(a)eliterature.org. Notification of Acceptance: January 25, 2010 PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for full papers will be May 1, 2010 to allow for reflection and exchange on the papers prior to the conference and to get a head-start in the publication process. The basic cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100. Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation. All conference attendees are also expected to join the ELO before the conference and this can be done at registration. We are planning to implement online submission and registration. Before submitting, please consult the conference website at ... http://ai.eliterature.org ... where these facilities will be available and where you will find much more information about both the content and the form of the conference and arts program. After consulting the website, for further queries and all email correspondence contact: elo.ai(a)eliterature.org The above address should be used for all conference business. It will checked by myself and also those colleagues and students who will be assisting me with the conference organization. But I appreciate that you may sometimes also want to get in touch with the conference organizer: John Cayley Literary Arts Program - Box 1923, Brown University, 68 1/2 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA. office: +1 401 863 3966, John_Cayley(a)brown.edu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FURTHER SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP SOLICITED The Conference is currently sponsored and supported by The Electronic Literature Organization, Brown University Literary Arts Program, Brown University Creative Arts Council, Brown University Library, and the RISD D+M Program. Any organization or individual in receipt of this call who would like to sponsor and support this major international conference, please get in touch. External sponsors are being sought and will be appropriately acknowledged.

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Announcement Update: 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction
by Sun-Ki Chai 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

An updated announcement - note the submission deadline has been changed to Nov. 15. The 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10), the largest conference devoted to social science-related research in computer science, will be held March 29-April 1 on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus in Bethesda, MD near Washington D.C. I am co-program chair this year, and am particularly interested in gaining the participation of more social scientists in order to make this a fully interdisciplinary conference. This year, we will be featuring some unique events designed to promote that interchange. The first day will be devoted to tutorial sessions, including those on computer science methods for social scientists and vice versa. Tutorials tentatively scheduled include introductions to principles of agent-based simulation; comparisons of network models in sociology, physics, and economics; and application of computational behavioral models to public health. If you have a proposal for a tutorial, particularly one introducing methods from the mathematical social sciences to outsiders, please send a brief description directly to me at <sunki(a)hawaii.edu> by November 15. The last half-day will be devoted to informal round tables to bring together social and computer scientists for intellectual cross-fertilization, as well as for forming interdisciplinary, interuniversity teams that could work together on grant applications. I welcome suggestions for topics to be covered at these roundtables. Short papers (approx 6-10 pages) and poster submissions are due November 15. As in past years, there will be opportunities to hear presentations from and talk to representatives of the largest federal funding agencies for scholarly research, including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Conference papers will be published as a book in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer/Verlag. More information, including the call for papers and previous years's programs, can be found at the conference website <http://sbp.asu.edu/>. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks, Sun-Ki -- *Sun-Ki Chai* *Email:* sunki(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sunki@hawaii.edu> Associate Professor Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 237 University of Hawai`i Honolulu HI 96822 ???/??? *Web:* www2.hawaii.edu/~sunki/ <http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Esunki/> *Phone:* Office +1 808 956-7234 Message +1 808 956-7693 Fax +1 808 956-3707 Cell +1 808 741-4843

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CFP: Where have all the cyberfeminists gone?
by Radhika Gajjala 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Title: Where have all the cyberfeminists gone? Editor: Radhika Gajjala _______ Submit Abstracts/proposals to radhika(a)cyberdiva.org by December 30 2009. Abstracts should be 1000 words long and should clearly detail the primary research questions, research site(s), theoretical framework and methodology. If you have questions about publication plans and venue for this collection - email me. _____ Call: As Faith Wilding and Critical Art Ensemble have noted "the territory of cyberfeminism is large. It includes the objective arenas [of] cyberspace, institutions of industrial design, and institutions of education--that is, those arenas in which technological process is gendered in a manner that excludes women from access to the empowering points of techno-culture." Cyberfeminism necessitates an awareness of how power plays out in any mediated context and privileges decentered, multiple, participatory practices. In the 1990s, several scholars and activists came forth with Cyberfeminist interventions and analyses of technocultures worldwide and their work connected with that of well known Feminists such as Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Katherine Hayles and Vandana Shiva among others. This collection is meant to be an exploration of what it means to be cyberfeminist now - more than a decade after Feminists burst forth onto the Internet scene demanding material access and social intervention both online and offline. What for instance does it mean to be “cyberfeminist” in a time when women are everywhere on the internet as consumers and as paid and free laborers? How does cyberfeminism play out in relation to forms of social entrepreneurship and online philanthropy (such as microfinance for instance)? What role to feminists play in a digital era of social networks, gaming cultures and digital finance when claims are made that feminism is no longer necessary? How do race, class, place, space, ethnicity, religion and nationalisms play into how women negotiate various technomediated environments online and offline? Or, in other words – where have all the cyberfeminists gone? Where are they going... -- Radhika Gajjala Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies Interim Women's Studies Director 2009-2010 233 Shatzel Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik

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CFP for collection of articles : Where have all the Cyberfeminists Gone?
by Radhika Gajjala 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Title: Where have all the cyberfeminists gone? Editor: Radhika Gajjala _______ Submit Abstracts/proposals to radhika(a)cyberdiva.org by December 30 2009. Abstracts should be 1000 words long and should clearly detail the primary research questions, research site(s), theoretical framework and methodology. If you have questions about publication plans and venue for this collection - email me. _____ Call: As Faith Wilding and Critical Art Ensemble have noted "the territory of cyberfeminism is large. It includes the objective arenas [of] cyberspace, institutions of industrial design, and institutions of education--that is, those arenas in which technological process is gendered in a manner that excludes women from access to the empowering points of techno-culture." Cyberfeminism necessitates an awareness of how power plays out in any mediated context and privileges decentered, multiple, participatory practices. In the 1990s, several scholars and activists came forth with Cyberfeminist interventions and analyses of technocultures worldwide and their work connected with that of well known Feminists such as Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Katherine Hayles and Vandana Shiva among others. This collection is meant to be an exploration of what it means to be cyberfeminist now - more than a decade after Feminists burst forth onto the Internet scene demanding material access and social intervention both online and offline. What for instance does it mean to be “cyberfeminist” in a time when women are everywhere on the internet as consumers and as paid and free laborers? How does cyberfeminism play out in relation to forms of social entrepreneurship and online philanthropy (such as microfinance for instance)? What role to feminists play in a digital era of social networks, gaming cultures and digital finance when claims are made that feminism is no longer necessary? How do race, class, place, space, ethnicity, religion and nationalisms play into how women negotiate various technomediated environments online and offline? Or, in other words – where have all the cyberfeminists gone? Where are they going... -- Radhika Gajjala Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies Interim Women's Studies Director 2009-2010 233 Shatzel Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik

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CFP -- Digital Diasporas: Distances, Cultures, and Languages (ACLA 2010, April 1-4, New Orleans)
by Scott Kushner 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Diasporas: Distances Cultures, and Languages American Comparative Literature Association 2010 Meeting April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans, La. Despite the continued existence of the book, the newspaper, and the scholarly journal, digital humanists are confronted with the sneaking suspicion that the internet is somehow different, a vast new space that mixes up our identities, our politics, and our languages. Networked texts give comparative literature the opportunity to ask: what exactly are we comparing? What kind of a diaspora is it when we can simultaneously be here, there, everywhere, and nowhere? Who is spreading out, where are they spreading to and from, and what might organize their itineraries? Finally, how do these texts, spaces, subjects, movements, and cultures coexist with and modify earlier media regimes? This seminar will address aspects of internet culture that cross, crush, redefine, and/or reinforce borders; that eradicate and/or extend notions of distance; that legitimate, destabilize, and/or invent linguistic practices. Potential topics include (but are certainly not limited to) blogs, Twitter feeds, YouTube, Facebook, SMS and mobile telephony, listservs, MMORPGs, lurkers, activists, hacking, art, affinity groups, citizenship, affect, nationality, gender, race, class, geographies, histories, literacies. Work representing all theoretical inclinations is welcome. Submit 250-word abstracts by November 13 at http://www.acla.org/acla2010. Be sure to select the Digital Diasporas seminar when submitting. Please contact Scott Kushner (scott.kushner(a)gmail.com) with any questions. Please distribute this CFP to any colleagues who might be interested.

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Re: [Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Jason Mittell 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Barry wrote: > And who the heck cares that you had eggs for breakfast, other than you and > your partner? > The egg lobby? Seriously, the most annoying thing to me about Twitter is that when you post or converse about something, you often get reactions from the metaphorical egg lobby - companies or groups out to promote their interests by looking for search terms and "cold calling" users about their products. Just yesterday I responded to a post asking for advice on survey software - and got a tweet from a survey software company promoting their product instead. A great advantage of FB is that you don't have to be friends with the egg lobby... As for the breakfast question - I often get culinary inspiration from what people say they're eating. No different than a coworker talking about the great food they had last night for dinner. -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://go.middlebury.edu/mittell Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv

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