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Re: [Air-L] Twitter the Newspaper of Me
by geert lovink 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:15:47 -0400 > From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> > Subject: [Air-L] Twitter the Newspaper of Me > To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > > Just tweeted this: > > For some of us, Twitter is becoming the oft-foreold "Newspaper of > Me" -- > that is if you follow the links. > > Twitter, of course, is what you make of it. > > Happy Canada Day! > > Barry Wellman I understand, Barry. But that's mainly fwding existing news of the mainstream news industries. The Iran case showed that Twitter also had the potential to become a news source in its own right. This time it remained modest in scale, and the event itself faded away (it's too early to say it 'failed'). In this case the "Twitter Revolution' was hyped up by US American techno evangelists like Shirkey and Jarvis. Easy to deconstruct but that's not all of it. If Twitter is all about people communicating with each other, then why all this forwarding of major websites URLs that people are already visiting anyway? Geert

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New Study, Canadian Youth Online
by Mary K. Bryson 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi Folks, A while ago, I got a tweet of a just released report concerning a Canadian study of youth online. Now, it seems I can¹t re-locate the URL and Google is not helping. I bet one of you knows about this report it seems it was about ten days ago. Thanks, 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 CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/ Twitter @CritInternet

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Aging Data
by Richard Taylor 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Colleagues, Can anyone provide advice in response to this request I received from a colleague at a European institute? "I have started doing some work on Aging. I am currently looking for some Internet diffusion data by age ranges that start before the year 2000. Ideally 1990 would be perfect. Do you have an idea of where I could get that data either EU countries or US. I have already looked at Eurostat and Pew but with little success." Thanks! Prof. Richard Taylor Institute for Information Policy Penn State University

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Wikipedia & health information
by Dr. Dina Ralt 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Based on its search engine ranking and page view statistics, the English Wikipedia is a prominent source of online health information compared to the other online health information providers studied. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2009, 16(4),471-479 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7CPS-4WNB0TY-8&_u… This is despite the data of Wikipedia that are less complete, and that has more errors of omission than the comparator database. Ann Pharmacother. 2008;42(12):1814-1821 http://www.theannals.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/12/1814 Dr. Dina Ralt http://nettingno.blogspot.com/ Tl: 972-3-5224750 Cellular: 972-52-8000210 Life is too short to be in a hurry...

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LiWA Second Newsletter
by nathalie pischon 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

-----------------Apologies for cross-posting-------------- Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that the second LiWA newsletter is out now. It concentrates on the LiWA applications such as: - Streaming application - Social web application You will find it online at: http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/newsletters/. To get informed on the LiWA progress, subscribe to our RSS feeds at: http://liwa-project.eu/. Enjoy reading it! LiWA - Living Web Archives is a three-year project under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. ----------------------- Nathalie Pischon Stichting European Archive *europarchive.org <http://www.europarchive.org/>*

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Twitter the Newspaper of Me
by Barry Wellman 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Just tweeted this: For some of us, Twitter is becoming the oft-foreold "Newspaper of Me" -- that is if you follow the links. Twitter, of course, is what you make of it. Happy Canada Day! 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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Engaging Data Forum Call for Papers | Submissions Deadline July 13
by Marcus Foth 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear all, The deadline for submissions to the Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information is July 13, 2009, 5:00 p.m. EDT (New York). Please visit http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata for further details on author guidelines for submissions. As a reference, our Call for Papers is below, in the attachment, and on our website. Please also distribute this reminder. Thanks! Best regards, Caitlin -------------------------------- Caitlin Zacharias Engaging Data Conference Coordinator SENSEable City Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suite 10-400 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA T ++1-617-2537926 F ++1-617-2588081 W senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata E czachar(a)mit.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please distribute! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ENGAGING DATA First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information Hosted by SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oct. 12-13, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA USA http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata CALL FOR PAPERS Over the past decade, the development and use of digital networks has produced an increasing wealth of new data. Handheld electronics, locative media, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly collecting a rich stream of real-time information on various components of our lives and the environment we inhabit, including our movements, purchases, social interactions, Internet activities, and many more. These data afford a wide range of research opportunities in the social and natural sciences that will create a multitude of beneficial information and services. Affected areas range widely and include, among others, workplace efficiency, traffic management, tourism, marketing, logistics, e-commerce, entertainment, urban and architectural planning, disaster response, security, environmental sustainability, and social interaction. Advances in this field are progressing cautiously, however, as the public, commercial and social entities, and the government are only just beginning to understand this new condition of pervasive sensing and data mining as well as the associated framework required to manage it. Conflicting standards on privacy and fear of entering upon uncharted territories hinder companies, researchers, and others from engaging in activities that make responsible use of potentially sensitive data. Moreover, regulation has not kept pace with the changing digital infrastructure, and as a result different stakeholders currently face different restrictions on data usage. In short, we still lack a complete understanding of the societal value in this data and the influence on society by its use, and much still remains unexplored. It is becoming imperative to develop a new framework of standards and best practices for collecting, storing, analyzing, reporting, sharing, and protecting valuable electronic data created by new technologies and services. The Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information is the launching event of the Engaging Data Initiative, which will include a series of discussion panels and conferences at MIT. This initiative seeks to address the above issues by bringing together the main stakeholders from multiple disciplines, including social scientists, engineers, manufacturers, telecommunications service providers, Internet companies, credit companies and banks, privacy officers, lawyers, and watchdogs, and government officials. The goal of this forum is to explore the novel applications for electronic data and address the risks, concerns, and consumer opinions associated with the use of this data. In addition, it will include discussions on techniques and standards for both protecting and extracting value from this information from several points of view: what techniques and standards currently exist, and what are their strengths and limitations? What holistic approaches to protecting and extracting value from data would we take if we were given a blank slate? These issues and questions will be addressed through invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. The forum will serve as a platform to exchange ideas, discuss the latest developments in this field, address significant issues, and create visions for the future. The forum is seeking original contributions in the form of both position papers and technical papers. Of particular interest are papers that open new paths for research, express a creative vision for the future, and contribute to a lively debate. TOPICS Papers are solicited that propose principles and approaches to building a viable social ecosystem for using information mined from human interactions with digital networks. Each paper must touch on the technical, security, social, legal/political, and financial aspects of the issue, although it is expected that papers will concentrate more on some aspects than on others. Topics of interest within these aspects include, but are not limited to, the following: --Technical-- Uses and concerns associated with data collection and mining: 1. Information mined by an endpoint party to a communication, including: -Types of information mined from consumer devices by endpoint parties (e.g. VoIP routers and radio handsets) -Accuracy and use of location analyses based on IP addresses, Internet traceroutes, etc. -Sharing of mined data with third parties -Methodologies to analyze and visualize this data 2. Collection, storage, and use of information gathered from wireless networks, including: -Location-based tracking and other forms of mobile sensing -Mobile phones, cordless phones, walkie-talkies, wireless microphones -Femtocells -RFID systems -Wi-Fi Networks -Implications for "white spaces" signal-sensing devices -Increased personalization of communications (i.e. device is commonly unique to a particular individual) -Sharing of data with third parties 3. Collection of information on traffic flow patterns in fixed networks, including: -How uses and concerns vary based on whether flows are segregated by endpoint, time-of-day, bandwidth usage level, application type, etc. -Optical and non-optical networks -Broadband networks -Personal area networks (PAN), Local-area networks (LAN), Wide-area networks (WAN), etc. 4. Information collection inside the network -Packet inspection, e.g. collection of IP addresses, HTTP cookies, etc. -Significance of IPv6 in providing static IP addresses that may be specific to particular devices and/or their locations 5. Soundness of data -Veracity, completeness, etc. of data collected from multiple perspectives, e.g. multiple sensors and/or points inside the network -Algorithms and other tools to deal with incomplete, contradictory, and incorrect data 6. Data protection -Effectiveness and adequacy of encryption, anonymization, aggregation, hashing algorithms, and level of accuracy of information at ensuring customer privacy -Metadata standards and preservation formats --Financial-- 1. Business and incentive models/structures --Security-- Social issues associated with data collection and mining: 1. Consumers and Privacy -Privacy concerns and countervailing interests concerning the authentication of electronic identities and transactions -Consumer awareness, e.g. how common it is for people to read privacy policies -Consumer access to, control of, and awareness of information collected about them -Ethical considerations and implications of data mining for both individuals and society -Social norms and expectations of privacy Legal and political issues associated with data collection and mining: 1. Standards for protecting and extracting value from data -Strengths and limitations of existing standards -"Blank slate," holistic approaches to protecting and extracting value from data -Applicability of set standards, e.g. EC Data Protection Directive, to the US, developed vs. developing countries, globally 2. E-government services -Appropriateness of permitting private entities preferential rights of access or redistribution of such data -Conformity with citizen expectations and assurances of the privacy of such data 3. Legal and regulatory concerns -Requirements, if any, for prior review and approval of proposed collection and use of data (IRB, etc.) -Acceptable methods of obtaining consent for the use of various types of information -Requirements of consent from parties related to the information, e.g. from only one party related to the information or from all parties related to the information -Responsibilities to disclose mining of information (who must disclose such activities and to whom must disclosure be made, e.g. direct customer of service, correspondents of direct customer, etc.) -Role of regulation in the exposure of information collected on network activities 4. Risk and Mitigation -Evaluation and mitigation of risks of research, government, and commercial activities involving data collection and mining -Methods of risk avoidance AUTHOR GUIDELINES Position papers must be 4-6 pages in length, technical papers 6-8 pages in length. Papers must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE format (two-column, single-spaced, 10-point font, on US Letter size paper). Please submit papers in PDF format. Templates can be found under: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer… Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind fashion. Please remove any mention of author names and affiliations in the entire submission, and if referencing previous work of the authors, use the third person. Papers will be evaluated according to originality, relevance, technical soundness, significance, and clarity. At least one author must register for the conference to have the paper published in the proceedings. The most exceptional papers in each category will be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings. All papers will be handled electronically and should be submitted online via EDAS. Please visit senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata for further details. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of full papers: July 13, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2009 Early registration: August 31, 2009 Conference dates: October 12-13, 2009 GENERAL CHAIRS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chairs Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assaf Biderman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technical Contributions Co-Chairs Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Lazer, Harvard University Program Committee Ben Adida, Harvard University Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University John Clippinger, Harvard University Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy and Technology Simon Davies, Privacy International Laura DeNardis, Yale University William Dutton, University of Oxford Deborah Estrin, UCLA Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dean Gallant, Harvard University Myron Gutmann, University of Michigan Gary King, Harvard University John Krumm, Microsoft Research William Lehr, MIT Marc Rotenberg, EPIC Karen Sollins, MIT Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University For questions regarding paper submissions, please contact Caitlin Zacharias: czachar(a)mit.edu. SENSEable City Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suite 10-400 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA T ++1-617-2537926 F ++1-617-2588081 W senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata E senseable-data(a)mit.edu -- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, 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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Blogs, listservs and ethics.
by Alecea Standlee 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hey all,I am having a bit of a debate about the use of blogs and listserv's in academic work. If one is using a listserv as a information source the current ethical guidelines say to cite it as an electronic resource. However, if a researcher is studying a blog/listserv as a research site, ie online ethnographic participate observation, does the same policy apply or rather do issues of informed consent pop up? What do you all think? Any thoughts or recommendations for readings would be most helpful! Alecea Standlee Syracuse University Department of Sociology

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Trivial tweeting
by Bernie Hogan 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear Aoir folk, I had a Morton's thai chicken sandwich for lunch. Delicious. Pretty trivial, eh? So why do people do it? I can understand retweeting 'important' or novel things: it is obviously a practice for garnering attention (see danah, Scott and Gilad's new DRAFT: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/06/18/understanding_r.html ). But why do people tweet what appears to be trivial statements? In the process of norm formation on twitter, I have been privy to more than a few conversations where the most common complaint about twitter is that twitter is for people who want to show off everything they're doing and, "I don't care what they had for lunch"; they are being exhibitionistic (which is a veiled term for unwanted self-exposure). Any thoughts? Here's some ideas: 1. People do not know what constitutes 'interesting' and they are trying. (The spaghetti on the wall hypothesis - throw it all and see what sticks) 2. People genuinely believe they are promoting something. 3. People want to make themselves accessible - mundane twitters help signify a sense of "connected presence". Also, have you followed anyone who was a trivial twitter, but ultimately stopped tweeting everything? Have you been privy to a norm-reevaluation (i.e. someone complaining about a tweeter that led to a change in the tweeter's behavior?). Did you tweet everything and then give up because it led to more bad press than good press? Was there an audience feedback in there, for example, people stopped following me until I started posting 'serious' things, like discussions about twitter, then it picked up? Take care, BERNiE (@blurky) Bernie Hogan Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford

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Re: [Air-L] Trivial tweeting (Bernie Hogan) RT @williamcarloswilliams
by Margie Borschke 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Bernie Hogan wrote: > > I had a Morton's thai chicken sandwich for lunch. Delicious. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

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