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jon kleinberg
by Barry Wellman 28 May '09

28 May '09

An Interview with 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award Winner Jon Kleinberg Jon Kleinberg, the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences, was interviewed recently by Stephen Ibaraki as part of a series for CIPS Connections. The 45-minute segment includes Kleinberg's thoughts on many points, including what attracted him to the field of computing, his work in the area of social network analysis, and his predictions for the future. Please visit An Interview with Jon Kleinberg to access the audio interview and read selected excerpts, as well as additional background. (http://awards.acm.org/2008/acm-infosys-award.cfm) (http://www.acm.org/membership/kleinberg-interview) 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 book] Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
by m.thelwall＠blueyonder.co.uk 28 May '09

28 May '09

Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results. The importance of the web itself as a communication medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents, from journal articles to holiday brochures, needs no introduction. Given this huge and easily accessible source of information, there are limitless possibilities for measuring or counting on a huge scale (e.g., the number of web sites, the number of web pages, the number of blogs) or on a smaller scale (e.g., the number of web sites in Ireland, the number of web pages in the CNN web site, the number of blogs mentioning Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential campaign). This book argues that it can be useful for social scientists to measure aspects of the web and explains how this can be achieved on both a small and large scale. The book is intended for social scientists with research topics that are wholly or partly online (e.g., social networks, news, political communication) and social scientists with offline research topics with an online reflection, even if this is not a core component (e.g., diaspora communities, consumer culture, linguistic change). The book is also intended for library and information science students in the belief that the knowledge and techniques described will be useful for them to guide and aid other social scientists in their research. In addition, the techniques and issues are all directly relevant to library and information science research problems. Table of Contents: Introduction / Web Impact Assessment / Link Analysis / Blog Searching / Automatic Search Engine Searches: LexiURL Searcher / Web Crawling: SocSciBot / Search Engines and Data Reliability / Tracking User Actions Online / Advanced Techniques / Summary and Future Directions http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00176ED1V01Y200903ICR004

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Webology: Volume 6, Number 1, 2009
by Alireza Noruzi 28 May '09

28 May '09

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 6, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 6, Number 1, 2009 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Articles - A study of journal publication attributes: Some considerations for academics in the information systems discipline -- Carmine Sellitto -- Keywords: Information systems; Citation; Journal; Impact Factor; ISI; Circulation; Article length; Knowledge diffusion -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a66.html - Citation analysis of Library Trends -- Rosy Jan -- Keywords: Citation analysis; Journals; Bibliometrics; Print-citations; Electronic-citations -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a67.html - Moving from script to science 2.0 for scholarly communication -- Khaiser Nikam & Rajendra Babu H. -- Keywords: Scholarly Communication; Open Access; Web 2.0; Open Access 2.0; Science 2.0; OpenWetware; PLoS -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a68.html ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Letter to the Editor: 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research' -- James Hartley -- Keywords: Scientific collaboration; Scientific research; Quality; Citation -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/editorial19.html - Reply to the Letter to the Editor: 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research' -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Scientific collaboration; Scientific research; Quality; Citation -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/editorial19a.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~

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Cambridge Paper: DRM makes pirates out of us all
by Richard Forno 28 May '09

28 May '09

6286. Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment Patricia Akester (PhD) was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship (in association with matched funding from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) to undertake a project looking at the impact of technological measures on the ability of users to take advantage of the statutory exceptions to copyright. When technological measures were under consideration in the mid 1990s two stark scenarios presented themselves: on the one hand, an ideal world where copyright owners could use DRM to make their works available under a host of different conditions in a way that responded to the diversity of consumer demand; on the other, a more bleak environment where all users of copyright material (and much non-copyright material) would be forced to obtain permission and pay to access material that previously would have been available to all. In the face of these two extreme visions, the European legislature developed a compromise position, embodied notoriously in Article 6(4) of the Information Society Directive. The legislature appeared to be hoping that rightholders would voluntarily make material within certain specified exceptions available to users. Patricia Akester examines how these issues are working out in practice. Based on a series of interviews with key organisations and individuals, involved in the use of copyright material and the development and deployment of DRM, she provides a sober assessment of the current state of affairs. http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/download/technological-accommoda…

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FW: [JoCI] Journal of Community Informatics: New Issue Published--Vol. 4 No. 3
by Michael Gurstein 28 May '09

28 May '09

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Feedback on the Journal or its contents are welcome. Discussion on some of the issues raised in the Journal can be carried forward on the Community Informatics Researchers elist. To subscribe send an email to: sympa(a)vcn.bc.ca message: subscribe ciresearchers Best, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics Phone 604-602-0624 Fax 604-602-0624 gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 4, No 3 (2008) Table of Contents http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/23 Editorial -------- Community Informatics: What's in a Name Michael Gurstein Articles -------- Social Networks and Social Capital: Rethinking Theory in Community Informatics Kate Williams, Joan C. Durrance Tl'azt'en Learning Circle: Information Technology, Health and Cultural Preservation Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Kendall Ho, Helen Novak Lauscher, Brandi Bell Defining the Networked Community Movement Sylvie R. Albert Call Centres and their Role in E-governance: A Developing Country Perspective Sharif As-Saber, Khalid Hossain Notes from the field -------- Community Revenue Collection System Guido Sohne New Concept Regarding Management of Security Cameras Yusaku Fujii, Naoya Ohta, Hiroshi Ueda, Yoichi Sugita, Koichi Maru Points of View -------- A 'meditation' on meaningful participation Ricardo Ramirez ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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APA Style to be updated July 1, 2009
by Debashis Aikat 27 May '09

27 May '09

The American Psychological Association (APA) will release July 1, 2009 its "sixth edition" of the Publication Manual of the APA. As you know, the current (fifth) edition was revised and updated July 2001. Key to the "sixth edition" of APA style is a Web presence. On July 1, 2009, APA will launch a fully revamped website featuring tutorials, sample papers, frequently asked questions, an APA Style blog, and other resources about APA Style. The sixth edition of APA Style offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and formats for tables and figures. Some select features include: ~~ "new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification;" ~~ "significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electrophysiological and biological data;" ~~ "consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information;" ~~ "simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication;" ~~ "new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations;" See more details at http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200066 Cordially, Deb ******************************************** Debashis 'Deb' Aikat, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Media Futurist School of Journalism and Mass Communication CB # 3365, Carroll Hall 374 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 Phone: 919 962 4090 (office) Fax: 919 962 0620 Email: da(a)unc.edu URL: http://www.unc.edu/~daikat/ ******************************************

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FW: CfP - INC2010 International Network Conference 2010
by Holly Kruse 27 May '09

27 May '09

Forwarded on request. Holly -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Mon, 25 May 2009 20:49:34 +0200 Von: "Steffen W. Schilke" <steffen.schilke(a)gmx.net> An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: CfP - INC2010 International Network Conference 2010 ========================================================================= We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please disseminate this CFP to any relevant lists and among your colleagues/students. We would also like to invite you (or anyone from your research group / organisation) to contribute papers to this conference. Thanks in advance. Please find enclosed the CfP for the 8th International Network Conference ========================================================================= Eighth International Network Conference (INC 2010) Heidelberg, Germany 6th 8th July 2010 Call for Papers We invite you to participate in the International Network Conference 2010. This conference is the eighth in a series of events that was established in 1998, and will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in applications and networking technologies. Conference themes Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following: Internet technologies and applications: Internet architecture and protocols, Search technologies, Semantic web, Multicast/ broadcast technologies, SOA/Web services, Content management, Unified communications Network architectures and management: NGN, System management, Quality of service, Real time applications, Distributed systems and middleware, Multimedia communications Security: Authentication and access control, Network security, Intrusion detection and response, Cryptography, Information security and privacy management, Usability of security applications Applications and impacts: eLearning, eCommerce, Virtual communities, Social legal and ethical issues, Human interaction issues, Pervasive networks, Social networks, Network-enabled devices Mobile and wireless networking: 3G and 4G technologies, Mobile wireless Internet, Mobile commerce, Service discovery and management, Mobile device management, Wireless protocols, Wireless sensor or satellite networks, networks of actuators, broadband wireless access The conference welcomes papers addressing technological and/or application level issues, as well as those illustrating the impact of networking in a societal context (e.g. commerce, communication, education). In addition there will be three intensive workshop sessions covering interesting and controversial topics: Next Generation Networks Next Revenues? Innovative ideas within Next Generation Networks will have a huge impact on our society. New applications with a dynamic deployment may support the rapid development of new services even better than before. Does this lead to new revenues as well? Security vs. Usability Practical evidence suggests that these are often contradictory requirements. But do the issues have to be in competition? What approaches could solve the problem? The Pedagogy of eLearning? The role of eLearning within teaching is continuously changing. How will a varying number of factors influence the pedagogy of eLearning? What will be the future concepts within pedagogy in this context? Author guidelines Authors are invited to submit their full papers or position papers, via the conference web site, by 31st January 2010. The total length of the paper should not exceed ten pages for full papers and four pages for workshop position papers, including all figures, tables and references. A comprehensive set of instructions for preparing camera ready papers will be available on the conference web site. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. Important Dates Paper submission: 31st January 2010 Author notification: 5th March 2010 Final papers: 9th April 2010 Contacts Conference co-chairs: Prof Udo Bleimann and Prof Steven Furnell Organising co-chairs: Dr Paul Dowland and Steffen W. Schilke, MBA Email: info(a)inc2010.org http://www.inc2010.org

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CapitolCamp NY, a barcamp for State Government
by noel hidalgo 27 May '09

27 May '09

My coworkers, friends and I are planning an inaugural Barcamp for State Government and technology. This is the first step in changing how NY state provides constituent services. I hope you can join in on this historic event! Next Friday is CapitolCamp NY (June 5th 2009) at the New York State Capitol. < http://capitolcamp.org > The New York State Senate, NY State CIO's Office and concerned citizens are hosting a Barcamp to share ideas about how technology can make government work better for all the residents of the Empire State. For one day, we will focus on the particular theme of using technology to increase transparency and participation in New York State government. Friday, 5th June 2009 From 10:30 am till 6:00 pm New York State Capitol, Albany, NY Proposed after party from 6:30 - 8:30 (Location TBD) Register for free at < http://capitolcamp.eventbright.com >. Note, Not An Alternative, a Brooklyn based 501c3, is chartering a bus to depart at 9:00 pm, after the after-party. Tickets are $40.00, limited and can purchased at < http://capitolcamp.eventbright.com >. This your traditional "un-conference" where participants derive the day's events. Additionally, we have broken up day into three tracks. 1) "Senate 2.0": Technology, Transparency, & Participation in the NY State Legislature: begins with a discussion of the role that technology plays in the NY Senate, including presentation of the “roadmap” for the NY Senate CIO’s Office, and discussion of the future of public access to State legislative data; "legislatures 2.0" thematically related sessions for the rest of the day thereafter. 2) "Empire 2.0": begins with a discussion of the role of the Office of the State Chief Information Officer in developing the state strategy and roadmap for NY Executive Branch agencies for the use of web 2.0, new media, and social collaborative tools and technologies that can better serve citizens and improve inter-governmental communications; includes a brief presentation of the current state and open discussion seeking ideas to further the overall strategy; "state government 2.0" thematically related sessions for the rest of the day thereafter. 3) "Web 2.0 for Government" training workshop: expert online organizer Beka Economopoulos will offer hands-on training about how citizens, elected officials, and civil servants alike can Web 2.0 tools such as the new http://NYSenate.gov website, Twitter, and Facebook more effectively. We invite you to propose sessions on the CapitolCampNY's sessions page prior to the event < http://bit.ly/I4Mwl > and hope you can help us create new ways to solve the problems. Questions? Direct us a tweet via @CapitolCamp or Hashag - #CapitolCamp or email the NY Senate CIO's office at ciodesk(a)senate.state.ny.us

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QR Codes In Publications / Use By Libraries
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 27 May '09

27 May '09

Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of Any/All examples of the use of QR Codes in journals, monographs, e-prints, and/or other publications. As defined by Wikipedia, "A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera. Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR Codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users (known as mobile tagging). QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone's browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL. This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinks. Users can also generate and print their own QR Code for others to scan and use by visiting one of several free QR Code generating sites." >>BTW: I Am Also Interested In The Use Of QR Codes By Libraries<< Links To Additional Information (sites, YouTube videos, book) Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/qgf623 <http://tinyurl.com/qgf623> ] If You Are Aware Of The Use Of QR Codes In Any Type of Publication - Print And/Or Electronic, Please Submit As A Comment On The Blog Entry. Thanks! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Community Literacy Journal
by Jennifer deWinter 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hello everyone, My name is Jennifer deWinter. I have just taken the position of book editor for the Community Literacy Journal—an exciting forum in which scholarship engages with literacy practices outside of the defined walls of K-12 and higher education. There are a number of exciting publications in community literacy that we need reviewed, and those publications are not always coming out of university presses. As such, we are looking for reviews of the following: --New books --Seminal books --Websites --Documentaries --Serious games --Repositories of knowledge, such as blog sites, YouTube videos, and databases While this is not an exhaustive list, it provides a place to start. In the same way that literary practices occur in surprising places and times, so too does the literature break away from the typical boundaries of academic publications. Also, if you have a book coming to press that is topical to the journal, please let me know so that we can review it. In addition to the traditional book review, I will be instituting a “Keywords” essay in the book review section. Currently, there is more literature available than we are able to review in a semi-annual publication. As such, we at the journal have decided to include a thematic synthesis essay organized under key themes in the field of community literacy: community literacy (obviously), methodology, service learning, international service, youth programs, and so forth. These essays will serve the purpose of collecting the sources and putting them in conversation with one another in order to appreciate where we have been as a field of study and where we will go. If you are interested in writing one of these essays, please contact me with the keyword that you would like to explore. Both the book reviews and synthesis essays are also excellent publication opportunities for graduate students. I am, of course, excited about joining the journal. Community literacy continues to grow and transform entire groups, and it is the power and transformative potential of these literary practices that make this such an exciting area for scholarship and engagement. Please feel free to email me at jdewinter(a)wpi.edu with questions, queries, and submissions. Very best, Jennifer deWinter -- ------------------------- Jennifer deWinter, PhD Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Co-Director, Professional Writing Interactive Media & Digital Games, Affiliated Faculty Worcester Polytechnic Institute jdewinter(a)wpi.edu 508-831-6679

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