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Alliance of Youth Movements; nice fit withAoIR?
by Jeff Jacobsen 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit This looks like a nice fit with AoIR. I heard it mentioned on NPR this morning. They're having a conference in Mexico City now, and one in New York City in December. Anybody going? Jeff Jacobsen B.A. Religious Studies, B.S.Political Science, Arizona State University

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Re: [Air-L] ucla on internet conference
by Trudy Barber 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

No mention of Tim Berners-Lee....? >>> jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> 16/10/09 4:08 PM >>> sort of sad that they have no social,cultural,political, economic, comm, media, etc. researchers on the speaker list that i see. at least we see where they think our work fits into the future i guess:( > > > On October 29, 2009, UCLA Engineering will celebrate the 40th > anniversary of the Internet with a Symposium that focuses not on the > history or even on the technology, but rather on the impact the > Internet has had on society, business, communities, lifestyles, > culture, etc., and on the likely directions it will take in the > future. > > Forty years ago, a team led by UCLA's Professor Leonard Kleinrock, > sent the first message on the ARPANET, which later became the > Internet. The Internet has revolutionized communication, education, > business and entertainment leading to dramatic changes in our > social, political and economic lives. > > What's next? The event's featured Internet leaders, activists and > analysts will offer valuable insights on the opportunities and > pitfalls that lie ahead. Please check the website http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/IA40/index.html > for detailed information. > > During this event, an IEEE Milestone Award will be unveiled by IEEE > President John R. Vig. > > The keynote address will be given by Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman > of One Laptop Per Child. > > Other Featured Speakers include: > > Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post > John Taylor, Co-Founder & Bassist, Duran Duran > John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier > Foundation > Shiva Shivakumar, Vice President, Google, Inc. > Michael Morhaime & Frank Pearce, Co-Founders, Blizzard Entertainment > Mark Bregman, Chief Technology Officer, Symantec > Thomas Gewecke, President of Digital Distribution, Warner Brothers > Regina Dugan, Director, DARPA > Gary Bridge,SVP, Cisco > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Best regards, > > Len > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com _______________________________________________ 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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Call for Participation: First Digital and Media and Learning Conference
by Dan Perkel 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Dear all,Please see the call for participation below. Regards, Dan ------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel ----- ALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS FIRST ANNUAL DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEME: "DIVERSIFYING PARTICIPATION" February 18 – 20, 2010 Cal IT2 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California **SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30, 2009** **KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED** We are pleased to announce the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. For this inaugural year, the theme will be "Diversifying Participation". Henry Jenkins is the Chair of the Digital Media and Learning Conference and our Keynote Speakers will be Sonia Livingstone<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/soniaLivingstone.htm> and S. Craig Watkins <http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/cswatkins.html>. We invite submissions for session proposals that speak to the conference theme as well as to the field of digital media and learning more broadly. Those wishing to present work should look to propose or participate in a panel topic (see submission process outlined below). DIVERSIFYING PARTICIPATION A growing body of research has identified how young people's digital media use is tied to basic social and cultural competencies needed for full participation in contemporary society. We continue to develop an understanding of the impact of these experiences on learning, civic engagement, professional development, and ethical comprehension of the digital world. Yet research has also suggested that young people's forms of participation with new media are incredibly diverse, and that risks, opportunities, and competencies are spread unevenly across the social and cultural landscape. Young people have differential access to online experiences, practices, and tools and this has a consequence in their developing sense of their own identities and their place in the world. In some cases, different forms of participation and access correspond with familiar cultural and social divides. In other cases, however, new media have introduced novel and unexpected kinds of social differences, subcultures, and identities. It is far too simple to talk about this in terms of binaries such as "information haves and have nots" or "digital divides". There are many different kinds of obstacles to full participation, many different degrees of access to information, technologies, and online communities, and many different ways of processing those experiences. Participatory cultures surrounding digital media are characterized by a diversity that does not track automatically to high and low access or more or less sophisticated use. Rather, multiple forms of expertise, connoisseurship, identity, and practice are proliferating in online worlds, with complicated relationships to pre-existing categories such as socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, race, or ethnicity. We encourage sessions that describe, document, and critically analyze different forms of participation and how they relate to various forms of social and cultural capital. We are interested in accounts of the challenges and obstacles which block or inhibit engagement to different forms of online participation. We also encourage session proposals that engage with successful intervention strategies and pedagogical processes enabling once marginalized groups to more fully exploit the opportunities for learning with digital media. Conversely, we are interested in hearing more about how marginal and subcultural communities find diverse uses of new and emerging technologies, pushing them in new directions and navigating a complicated relationship with "mainstream" forms of participation. Specifically, we seek to understand the following: - What can research on more diverse communities contribute to our understanding of the learning ecologies surrounding new media? - What are the technologies, practices, economic, and cultural divides that lead to segregation, "gated" information communities, and differential access? - When and how do diversity and differentiation in participation promote social and cultural benefits and opportunities, and when do they create schisms that are less equitable or productive? - What strategies have proven successful at broadening opportunities for participation, overcoming the many different kinds of segregation or exclusion which impact the online world, and empowering more diverse presences throughout cyberspace? - Are there things occurring on the margins of the existing digital culture that might valuably be incorporated into more mainstream practices? In addition to these questions directly addressing the conference theme, we welcome submissions that address innovative new directions in research and practice relating to digital media and participatory learning. SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions should be in the form of full session proposals. Proposed sessions may range from 1 to 2 hours in length and may include traditional paper presentations, hands-on workshops, design critiques, demos, pecha kucha, or roundtable discussions. We welcome and encourage submissions of innovative formats, but request that the proposals come in the form of session proposals rather than individual papers or presentations. The goal of the event is to foster dialog and build connections. To that end, sessions should have at least three to four presenters and/or discussants. Session organizers should reserve substantial amounts of time for open discussion and exchange. We have established an open wiki for potential participants to engage in session organizing. The wiki can be used to call for contributions to a briefly outlined session topic, to seek out partners to develop a topic together, to brainstorm about co-presenters, and any other functions potential participants find valuable. The wiki can be accessed at: http://dmlconference2010.wikidot.com/forum:start Session organizers should submit proposals that consist of a title and a 200-word abstract (including proposed presentation topics and formats and the speakers and/or discussants). In addition, names and contact details for the session organizers and participants will be required. The submission system is available here <http://www.dmlcentral.net/conference/applicants/> Each individual will be limited to participation on no more than two panels at the conference. Participants will be expected to fund their own travel and accommodation. Registration for the conference will be free. Conference Website: http://dmlcentral.net/conference Conference Wiki: http://dmlconference2010.wikidot.com/forum:start Conference Submission System: http://www.dmlcentral.com/applicants/ Conference Committee: Henry Jenkins, David Theo Goldberg, Heather Horst, Mimi Ito, Jabari Mahiri and Holly Willis KEY DATES AND DEADLINES Submission System Available: September 30, 2009 Deadline for Submissions: October 30, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2009 Registration System Opens: December 15, 2009 Conference Program Announced: December 15, 2009 Registration Deadline: February 1, 2010 Evening Reception: February 18, 2010 CONTACT INFORMATION Digital Media and Learning Research Hub UC Humanities Research Institute University of California, Irvine Email: dmlhub(a)hri.uci.edu

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internet researchers wave
by jeremy hunsinger 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

having just figured out how to make a wave public. I have made an internet researchers open wave and invited several people to it already, but if you would like to find it. in your wave search box put: with:public internet researchers then scroll down until you find internet researchers with the red panda. of course there are all kinds of other open waves in with:public that might make things worth your while to make your wave with:public first add public(a)a.gwave.com to your contacts. it might give you an error, but just hit enter and it appears. then add that identity to any wave you want to be public. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Live without dead time. -graffitti Paris 1968

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ucla on internet conference
by jeremy hunsinger 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

sort of sad that they have no social,cultural,political, economic, comm, media, etc. researchers on the speaker list that i see. at least we see where they think our work fits into the future i guess:( > > > On October 29, 2009, UCLA Engineering will celebrate the 40th > anniversary of the Internet with a Symposium that focuses not on the > history or even on the technology, but rather on the impact the > Internet has had on society, business, communities, lifestyles, > culture, etc., and on the likely directions it will take in the > future. > > Forty years ago, a team led by UCLA's Professor Leonard Kleinrock, > sent the first message on the ARPANET, which later became the > Internet. The Internet has revolutionized communication, education, > business and entertainment leading to dramatic changes in our > social, political and economic lives. > > What's next? The event's featured Internet leaders, activists and > analysts will offer valuable insights on the opportunities and > pitfalls that lie ahead. Please check the website http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/IA40/index.html > for detailed information. > > During this event, an IEEE Milestone Award will be unveiled by IEEE > President John R. Vig. > > The keynote address will be given by Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman > of One Laptop Per Child. > > Other Featured Speakers include: > > Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post > John Taylor, Co-Founder & Bassist, Duran Duran > John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier > Foundation > Shiva Shivakumar, Vice President, Google, Inc. > Michael Morhaime & Frank Pearce, Co-Founders, Blizzard Entertainment > Mark Bregman, Chief Technology Officer, Symantec > Thomas Gewecke, President of Digital Distribution, Warner Brothers > Regina Dugan, Director, DARPA > Gary Bridge,SVP, Cisco > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Best regards, > > Len > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com

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Using Cellphones To Change The World
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Using Cellphones To Change The World MIT project leads to programs that help health workers, farmers in developing countries D.C. Denison / Boston Globe / October 14, 2009 It's an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic. But it's loaded with software that allows health workers in the remote northernmost Philippines province of Batanes to dramatically reduce the time it takes to get X-rays to a radiologist - and to get a diagnosis for a patient being tested for tuberculosis. The software, created by a nonprofit organization called Moca, is one of nearly two dozen cellphone-based projects that have sprung from NextLab, a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's taught by Jhonatan Rotberg, who was sent to MIT by Telmex, one of Latin America's largest telecommunications companies, to bring cellular technology to the "90 percent of people'' who fall outside of the marketing plans of most phone companies. [snip] And when Rotberg settled into his research and teaching position at the Media Lab, he made a discovery: The same device that powers teenage texting in the United States can be adapted to help farmers in Mexico and illiterate women in India. [snip] In NextLab, Rotberg challenged students by asking, "Can you make a cellphone change the world?'' And students have responded, creating nearly two dozen projects and three start-up ventures that have been working with communities in developing countries like India, Vietnam, and Mexico. "It really kind of jumps out at you, the positive impact you can have with cellphone technology,'' said Zack Anderson, a recent MIT graduate who was on a team that started Moca, a nonprofit that is developing mobile software to improve health care access in less wealthy countries. [snip] Using Rotberg's course as a sounding board, the Moca team decided to focus on facilitating cellphone communication between health workers in rural areas and doctors, who tend to be in cities. [snip] "The Philippines actually adopted cellphone texting way ahead of the US, so there's already a platform in place that we can leverage,'' he said. "We started with X-rays, but there's no reason we can't also transmit ultrasound videos, echocardiograms, and other medical imagery.'' [smip] Dinube, a NextLab spinoff that was tested in Mexico last summer, provides payment services to people who don't have access to traditional banks. [snip] Two other NextLab projects show the mobile phone's range: CelEdu offers cellphone-based games and quizzes that have been used in India to teach basic literacy skills. Zaca - developed by students at MIT, Harvard, and Tufts - helps farmers make deals with buyers using their cellphones, bypassing expensive middlemen. The cellphones also provide current crop prices and advice on growing practices. MIT's Legatum Center, which supports a variety of entrepreneurial programs to bring innovation to developing countries, has four cellphone-related projects in the works. That's not surprising, given that the center's director, Iqbal Quadir, founded Grameenphone, a company that introduced low-cost cellphone service to Bangladesh in the 1990s. [snip] To stay ahead of this rapidly evolving technology, Rotberg recently launched what he refers to as version 2.0 of NextLab. The spring semester course, hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, will be focused on creating a mobile phone-based platform for a broad range of projects. [snip] "There's no question that the cellphone footprint will expand, and that phones will get cheaper, and that computing power will grow,'' he said. "The only question is, will we recognize that this is an opportunity for social good?'' Link To Full Article Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/ygu44uj ] BTW: !!! Thanks To Garrett Eastman / Librarian / Rowland Institute at Harvard For The HeadsUp !!! EXTRA > Today, October 15, 2009, Bill Gates Delivered A Major Speech At The World Food Prize Symposium In Which He Committed $120 Million Toward Projects That Focus, In Part, On Small Farmers, Including Getting "Information To Farmers By Radio And Cell Phone." Links To The Full Text Of The Speech, An Associated Slide Presentation, And Video Of The Presentation Available From ThIs Posting. /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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McGraw-Hill Professional Business Books For iPhone Users
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Colleagues/ And The 'E' Goes On ... /Gerry McGraw-Hill Professional Business Books For iPhone Users Partnership with ScrollMotion Provides New Digital Content for Over 600 e-Books NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Business professionals around the world will now have instant access to McGraw-Hill Professional's critically acclaimed library of e-Books offering solutions to pressing business needs. McGraw-Hill Professional, the world's preeminent business publisher of print and electronic content, is partnering with ScrollMotion, a leading developer of original iPhone applications, to offer e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. ScrollMotion is the creator of the Iceberg Reader, an e-Book reader for the iPhone, which provides interactive functionality around content, including search functions, email sharing, multimedia, and more. The first McGraw-Hill titles are now available on the iTunes Apps Store. This launch list of acclaimed e-Books covers must-have information for all aspects of business, including career development, management, innovation, entrepreneurship, communication, finance, investing, and more, designed to help consumers make better informed business and financial decisions. [snip] More than 600 fully interactive McGraw-Hill titles will be added to this collection throughout the rest of 2009. E-books will be added on a rolling basis as new titles publish, and will cover other areas, including Medical, Engineering, Computing, Education, and more. [snip] "The audience for business books on the iPhone is an enormous untapped market, representing hundreds of thousands of commuters and other voracious readers who always have a smart phone in their pockets," said Calvin Baker, ScrollMotion Chief Content Officer. [snip] [snip] Links To The Full Press Release Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yfdlfu9 ] !!! Thanks To Gary Price / ReferenceShelf / For The HeadsUp !!! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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Bibliography on Semiotics of web communication
by Daria Santucci 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Dear all, I am working on the bibliography for my new class on Semiotics of web communication at University of Torino, Italy. Do you have books/articles (but also websites/blog) to suggest, that I could add to my list? Good tips are always welcome! Please note that I will focus on web campaigning and e-mobilisation, and the use of social networks to engage citizens. Many thanks, Daria -- Daria Santucci, Ph.D. Torino, Italy skype dariaonline twitter dariatweet

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter Research
by Julian Hopkins 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

This may help: Jansen, B.J. et al., 2009. Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(11), 1-20. Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Twitter: @julianhopkins Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:56:52 +0530 From: Mridula <mridula(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Twitter Research Message-ID: <459bd09b0910140026l71553a1fx80b88a78eef8cefc(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sorry for not searching the archives first but can you tell me where can I find some research work done on Twitter and its use by business companies? Regards, Mridula -- http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/ ------------------------------

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web accessibility tool for WCAG 2.0
by Peter Timusk 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello all I am not working directly these days as a researcher with the Canadian Internet Use Survey at Statistics Canada but hope to return there and am in the same workplace with that survey still. I can still put you in touch with the survey manager and help you navigate the survey documents or if you need some custom data. So do not expect more Internet studies papers from me soon. I am studying a course in web accessibility guidelines and thought I would share a tool by one of the teachers of this course. This tool allows one to check web pages for problems with accessibility based on WCAG 2.0 guidelines ATRC Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker http://www.achecker.ca/checker/index.php I hope you find this useful if you are making web pages or researching accessibility. It took me about 45 minutes to update three index pages from their old 1990's html to pass at level AAA. enjoy. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.

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