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Extended Deadline - Summer School on Virtual World Research from July 10-19 in Bremen, Germany
by kerstin Radde-Antweiler 19 May '09

19 May '09

Dear List-members, we have extended the deadline for application for this year's Summer School "How Virtual is reality?" (http://how-virtual-is-reality.eu/) held in Bremen (Germany) from July 10 to July 19. We will accept applications until June 7th from anyone interested in doing academic reseach in Internet phenomena / Virtual Worlds. The course is mainly addressed to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students. As a cooperative effort of the University of Bremen and Jacobs-University (Bremen) the summer course will broach the issue of the relevance of new environments such as "Second Life" and "World of Warcraft" for contemporary culture and social life with a special focus on rituals and religions. Instructed by more than 10 international teachers, the participants in the Summer School will explore the interdisciplinary study of practical methods and theoretical approaches for the scientific handling of ritual and media. The media will not only objects of methodological, theoretical and practical research but will also serve as platform for academic discussion and teaching. Summer School participants will be able to design and perform research projects on religion both on and within virtual worlds. Please forward this information to everyone who might be interested in the course. A banner and a poster are available on the "Media" section of the website. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Simone Heidbrink, organizers -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dr. phil. Dipl. Theol. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Universität Bremen - FB 9 - Institut für Religions- wissenschaft und-pädagogik Badgasteiner Str. 1/SPT D-28359 Bremen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> T. +49 (0)421 218 67911 F. +49 (0)421 218 4577

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text, readers, p.s.
by Barry Wellman 18 May '09

18 May '09

Realize the story needs some add-ons. a. I find that my newbie Master's students, unless extremely well trained as undergrads, also are making the transition between the "right answer" and thinking critically. b. One reason why internet stuff is becoming routinized is that it is now the great majority of the North American young adult population. So no "gee whiz" (altho possibilities always changing) and less early adopter extra-special smartness. The institutional of the Internet -- and of Internet studies. Just my .02. 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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texts, readers
by Barry Wellman 18 May '09

18 May '09

1. The discussion re textbooks hits home an important difference between grad students -- let's look critically at multiple points of view and different pieces of evidence -- and undergrads -- tell us what the right answer is. 2. Having said that, I find that my third-year students ("juniors" and "seniors' to the 'Mericans) are happy with a set of article readings (online), as long as (a) there ain't too many (3/week seems ok) and (b) my ppt lectures serve as the integrating "textbook". 3. Looking back to 1962, I had a similar experience when I entered my senior year at Lafayette, a good undergrad US college. It was only in the honors history seminar that I received pre-grad school training about not looking for "the right answer" but evaluating different points of view and evidence. So everything old may be new again. 4. I AM intrigued by the list members who say students are less excited and knowledgeable about the Internet. OT1H, my course enrollment was up this year (but that may be because folks had a schedule opening). OTOH, students were generally less excited and less knowledgeable. I hadn't thought about it before, but my hunch is that the list members were right in saying the Internet has become blase -- reminds me of when I couldn't talk about the telephone as being important in the 1970s-1980s when it hugely was. (And perhaps still is.) 5. Anyway, I know of 3 nice books in our area that are coming along: a. Paul Levinson b. Nancy Baym (she's been tweeting about it) c. Lee Rainie & me. Ad astra! 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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Adam Greenfield at HCSNet Workshop, 13/14 July, QUT Brisbane
by Marcus Foth 18 May '09

18 May '09

Second Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane June 19, 2009 Workshop position papers (300-500 words) due June 26, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13/14, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 Keynote Speaker We are pleased to announce Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in Helsinki, as the keynote speaker for this workshop. His talk "The city is here for you to use" will give us a preview of the ideas in his forthcoming new book. Workshop Theme This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local participation and civic engagement in urban environments. Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed ‘Web 2.0’ to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors, location and context awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg., futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds (eg, hub2.org) and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. This workshop will be held back-to-back with an ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN) workshop on the 11th and 12th of July 2009 at QUT titled, “Unboxing the iPhone: The Circuits of Digital Culture,” organised by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson, supported by the CRN’s Cultural Technologies Node. This will provide opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences. http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/activities/glamm-iphone.html The workshop is also very timely in that it coincides with the six week residency of Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT, and the 2009 inaugural Queensland Innovator in Residence: http://yearofcreativity.deta.qld.gov.au/innovator.html Audience We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human- computer interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering. The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of citizenship. Event Format The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and plenary discussions. Submissions We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by Fri 19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943 This workshop is free for anyone who has been HCSNet Member for 2 months prior to the workshop. Non-members need to pay $100 registration fee for this workshop via the online facility. Please register online by Fri 3 July 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/events/register/2943 Travel Bursaries HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers will have priority. Organisers Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology -- 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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SciTechMed Journals/Publications On Twitter ?
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 18 May '09

18 May '09

Colleagues/ I Am Most Interested In Any and/or All *Journals (or Journal Publishers)* That Have Incorporated Twitter (or Other Micro-Blogging Service(s)) ... / I Am Particularly Interested In Any and/or All Initiatives In Which Tweets Have Been Incorporated / Integrated _Within_ The Journal and/or Journal Article Content(s) ... / I Have Done A Preliminary Search Of Various Twitter Directories >>> But Find Next To Nothing ... [?] BTW-1: I've Discovered That A Surprising Number Of >>>Monograph Publishers - Newspapers - Magazines - Other Media Do Twitter / Tweet ... BTW-2: I Am Acquainted With Bill Drew's Most Excellent Compendium Of "Library Vendors Using Social Software" and _Science_ ... Please Post Any/All Journal Titles As A Comment On The Blog Entry At [ http://tinyurl.com/pro8yj ] Thanks A Million ! /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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Mobile MEDLINE (+): PubMed On Tap Upgrade Now
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 18 May '09

18 May '09

Colleagues/ PubMed On Tap is an application for your iPhone or iPod Touch that lets you search PubMed while on the go >>> Specifics * Specify fields and search mode, using AND, OR, and NOT logic operato * Specify option to find only articles with Full Text or Free Full Text * E-mail the results as formatted text or an RIS tagged record, ready to be imported into reference management applications like Bookends and EndNote * EZproxy support * Link to Full Text articles that open in Safari or Internal Web Browser (requires access privileges) * Internal Web Browser / Landscape view * Remember/recall recent searches * Navigation between references in the formatted view * Order full-text copies of articles using Loansome Doc Ordering System Format: Software / Date: Mar 2009 / Version: 1.3.1 / License: Purchase / Price: $2.99 / Platform: Mobile / System Req: iPhone or iPod touch / Links to the iTunes Download Link AND Other Screen Prints Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/pv9yy5 ] !! Thanks To The Distant Librarian For The Original HeadsUp !! NOTE>>> I Am Also Interested In Other Mobile Apps That Provide Access To Medline/PubMed (and/or PubMed Central) <<< NOTE || Please Post As Comment To The Associated Blog Entry At [ http://tinyurl.com/pv9yy5 ] Happy Monday ! Regards, /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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Textbook Suggestion Needed
by Ted Coopman 18 May '09

18 May '09

All, I am teaching an upper division Internet Communication (theory) course online in the fall and am interested in suggestions for a basic textbook/reader. In the past I have used Thurlow, C., Lengel, L., & Tomic, A. (2004). Computer-mediated communication: Social interaction and the internet. London: Sage. My students did not like it very much (typical), but the main issue now is that it is dated. This is same issue with Castells' Internet Galaxy. I have considered going with journal articles, but I generally like to have a foundation text as well that lays out the basics; history, culture, CMC, basic theory, etc. I teach at a California State University campus with a slighty older student population who may not have the best skills but do have plenty of life experience. Straight forward language and pragmatics are a plus. Ideally any text would be broad and include both social scientific and cultural perspectives. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre San Jose State University

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FW: Conference announcement: Maximising opportunities for young learners in the digital age. 14 July 2009, Oxford
by D.R.Brake＠lse.ac.uk 18 May '09

18 May '09

Maximising opportunities for young learners in the digital age A one day international conference to be held on Tuesday 14 July 2009, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Registration is now open for this one day conference which represents the conclusion of the ESRC Seminar Series entitled "The educational and social impact of new technologies on young people in Britain". Agreed speakers include: · Justine Cassell, Northwestern University: "Identity, community and emergent leadership among young people online" · Ola Erstad, University of Oslo: "The learning lives of digital youth: beyond formal and informal literacies" · Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics: "From page to screen? Critical reflections on the prospects for ICT in education" · John Furlong and Chris Davies, University of Oxford: " Young people busy with technology: a snapshot of young lives today" · Keri Facer, Manchester Metropolitan University: "Taking the 21st century seriously: challenges and opportunities for education in the next 20 years" · Panel discussion, chaired by Neil Selwyn, Institute of Education, University of London To book a place, email seminarseries(a)education.ox.ac.uk <mailto:seminarseries@education.ox.ac.uk> . Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. There will be a £10 charge to be collected at the door. For more information about the seminar series, and to download reports on the four seminars held during the past year, see www.education.ox.ac.uk/esrcseries/home/ <http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/esrcseries/home/> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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CFP: Disintermediation Processes and New Media
by Cristian Vaccari 18 May '09

18 May '09

Italian Political Science Association (SISP) Annual meeting, Luiss University, Rome, 17-19 September 2009 Panel on Disintermediation Processes and New Media Section of Political Communication Convenors: Lorenzo Mosca and Cristian Vaccari Discussant: Sara Bentivegna By promoting processes of disintermediation, the new media stimulate the production of autonomous information flows, which bypass gate-keeping practices by both political actors and traditional mass media. While journalists maintain an important filtering function between society and the mediated public sphere, they have to face a double challenge. On the one hand, they are by-passed by the proliferation of alternative media, especially online (web radios, portals, blogs, forum, street televisions, and so forth). On the other hand, they have to deal with the possibility for political and social actors to autonomously represent themselves via the new media, not least through social networking tools (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.). In turn, these new communication arenas enable actors that are outsiders in the institutional political sphere to autonomously organize themselves and, in some cases, to incisively participate to public life. How does, then, the functioning of the public sphere and political communication change as a result? How does the relationship between communication producers and receivers change when disintermediation processes occur? Under which conditions can effective participatory spaces be opened up for actors excluded from the institutional sphere? Which strategies do political actors devise to take advantage of these opportunities, and to what extent are they motivated to doing so? During the last decade, the scientific literature on these issues has produced comparative analyses on the online presence of political parties, unions, representative institutions, civil society actors and groups, or of some combinations of these different actors. Most of these studies have utilized standardized codebooks for website analysis. Other studies, however, have developed insightful qualitative analysis, while at the same time being limited by their focus on single case-studies. While this line of research has mostly focused on the organizational (meso) level, research on the individual (micro) level has only episodically relied on fully representative surveys capable of solid generalizations. The surveys conducted so far have often been based either on samples representative of the whole population – where, as a consequence, a limited amount of items focused on internet usage – and surveys on self-selected samples of internet users, which in some cases featured articulated sets of indicators on information consumption and production online, but offered little in terms of generalizability. Moreover, to date the literature does not feature any longitudinal study of internet users. This panel aims at collecting contributions focusing on processes of disintermediation enabled by new media, focusing on both individuals and organizations. We particularly welcome proposals that integrate quantitative and qualitative methods and that shed light on the role of contextual factors in these participatory practices, thus illuminating the nexus between online and offline environments. *SUBMISSION PROCEDURE* Please send a title and an abstract of up to 250 words to lmosca(a)uniroma3.itor cristian.vaccari(a)unibo.it by June 15, 2009. Proposals and papers can be submitted either in English or Italian. A decision about which contributions to include will be made by June, 20 2009. See http://www.sisp.it/convegnofor rurther details on the meeting.

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Re: [Air-L] Textbook Suggestion Needed
by Fare Marco 18 May '09

18 May '09

I'd like to suggest a book by the professor I work with: INTERNET (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications) by Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini, 2006. Table of Contents 1. The Political Economy of the Internet 2. Computer Mediated Communication: Features and Technologies 3. Hypertext 4. Websites as Communication 5. Conceptualising Users of the Internet: Traces and Search Engines 6. Internet: Communities and Practices >From Routledge page ( http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/Internet-isbn9780415352277 ): >From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment, Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, the limitations it imposes and the functions it allows. Internet explores: * the political economy of the internet * hypertext * computer mediated communication * websites as communication * conceptualizing users of the internet * internet communities and practices. Perfect for students studying this modern phenomenon, and a veritable e-feast for all cyber junkies. Also on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/INTERNET-Routledge-Introductions-Media-Communications… Thanks, Marco. --------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Fare', researcher @ webatelier.net Universita' della Svizzera italiana - 6904 Lugano (Switzerland) (e) marco.fare(a)lu.unisi.ch (w) http://www.unisi.ch/personal-info.htm?id=680 (t) +41 (0)58.666.4788 - (f) +41 (0)58.666.4647 --------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:23:29 -0700 > From: Ted Coopman <ted.coopman(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Air-L] Textbook Suggestion Needed > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Message-ID: > <b39de3830905151723k74286ca3l81b7731dac5547b1(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > All, > > I am teaching an upper division Internet Communication (theory) course > online in the fall and am interested in suggestions for a basic > textbook/reader. > > In the past I have used Thurlow, C., Lengel, L., & Tomic, A. (2004). > Computer-mediated communication: Social interaction and the internet. > London: Sage. My students did not like it very much (typical), but the > main > issue now is that it is dated. This is same issue with Castells' > Internet > Galaxy. > > I have considered going with journal articles, but I generally like to > have > a foundation text as well that lays out the basics; history, culture, > CMC, > basic theory, etc. > > I teach at a California State University campus with a slighty older > student > population who may not have the best skills but do have plenty of life > experience. Straight forward language and pragmatics are a plus. > > Ideally any text would be broad and include both social scientific and > cultural perspectives. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -TED > -- > Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. > Lecturer > Department of Communication Studies > Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre > San Jose State University

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