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Facebook posts used to fire people in Australia
by Monica Barratt 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Just thought this news article could spark some discussion here: http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/social-notworking-facebook-sni… Monica ------------------------------ Monica J. Barratt, B.Sc.Psych PhD Student @ the National Drug Research Institute 7/19-35 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Victoria 3070, Australia Phone: +61 3 9412 9902; Fax: +61 3 9412 9912 E-mail: monica.barratt(a)postgrad.curtin.edu.au Web: http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff.asp?persid=650

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apologies!
by Charles Ess 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

very sorry, everyone, for cluttering up your mailbox with what were meant to be personal thank-you notes not enough coffee yet (as the low-level quality of the attempts at humor should demonstrate). ack-thppt! - c.

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Charles Ess appointed Professor with specific duties
by Brügger Niels 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

The Centre for Internet Research at Aarhus University is proud to announce that Charles Ess has been appointed Professor with specific duties at the Centre and at the Institute of Information and Media Studies for a three year period. Read more at http://www.cfi.au.dk/en Best, Niels Brügger ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS March 2009 Website history and the website as an object of study, New Media & Society, 11/1-2, Sage, London 2009, 115-132 [ get an electronic copy at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1-2/115?etoc ] February 2009 Forstå Facebook [in Danish]. www.kommunikationsforum.dk. Copenhagen: 5 pages, 2009 [ read the article: http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler/forstaa-facebook ] November 2008 The Archived Website and Website Philology. A new Type of Historical Document?, Nordicom Review, 29/2, Göteborg 2008: 155-175 [ get an electronic copy at: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/269_brugger.pdf ] Strukturalismus (with O. Vigsø), Hans Fink Verlag, München: 104 pages, 2008 [ read about the publication: http://www.utb.de/katalog_suchen_detailseite.jsp?buchid=1942 ] INTERESTED IN WEB HISTORY? You may want to join the mailing list webhistory(a)imv.au.dk at http://mail.imv.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/webhistory INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF DR.DK? You may want to join the Facebook group "dr.dk's historie" [in Danish] at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61000607153 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.imv.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk

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Early registration EuroITV2009 extended to 20 April
by Jo Pierson 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

EuroITV2009 - 7th European Interactive Television Conference 3, 4 and 5 June in Leuven, Belgium Early registration for EuroITV2009 has been extended until 20 April 2009, in order to allow workshop and iTV in industry participants to benefit from the reduced fee. The registration form can be accessed from the following page: http://www.euroitv2009.org/registration.html The organization of EuroITV2009 is in full progress, and most of the programme has already been filled. We are proud to announce three diverse and excitingkeynote speakers: - The Connected Home redefines the TV experience by Jan Van Bogaert (Alcatel-Lucent) - The Internet Revolution Will Be Televised by Rich Ezekiel (Yahoo! Connected TV) - Needs, emotions, experience! by Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl (Folkwang University Essen) The following tutorials will be held on Wednesday 3 June 2009: - User Experience in TV-centric Services: What to consider in the Design and Evaluation? - Standardized IPTV services in Managed IP Infrastructures - Ambient Media - How to create an iDTV campaign - Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television On the EuroITV2009 website you can find more details about the current status of the programme, including the three keynote presentations, four workshops, five tutorials, 15 academic full papers and 21 academic short papers. The accepted posters, demos, doctoral consortium papers and iTV in Industry papers will be available on the website soon, and we are still expecting submissions for the Arts Exhibition (deadline 10 April). For more details, see: http://www.euroitv2009.org/ The detailed programme, including the schedule of the different sessions, will be available around mid-April. Conference Organizing Committee: General Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Grooff (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Program Chairs: David Geerts (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands) Tutorials Chair: Regina Bernhaupt (University of Salzburg, Austria) Doctoral Consortium Chair: George Lekakos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Demonstration Chairs: Erika Reponen (Nokia, Finland) and Hendrik Knoche (University College London, UK) Short Papers & Posters Chairs: Christof van Nimwegen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, UK) Workshop Chairs: Gunnar Harboe (Motorola Labs, USA) and Marianna Obrist (University of Salzburg, Austria) iTV in Industry Chairs: Karin Slegers (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Arts Chair: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) Track Chairs: Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton, UK), Jo Pierson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Cristian Hesselman (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands) Program Committee: http://www.euroitv2009.org/committees.html#program Contact: For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2009.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info(a)euroitv2009.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2009 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list on this page: http://www.euroitv2009.org/mailinglist.php Host: Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), IBBT / K.U.Leuven (http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/) EuroITV2009 is made possible by the following sponsors and partners: Zappware, IBBT, Philips (gold sponsors), Nokia, Ruwido (bronze sponsors), InformITV, ITVT, UITV.info, Interaction-design.org, Informatics Europe (media partners). It is organized in cooperation with EuroITV, ACM, SIGMM, SIGWEB, SIGCHI and IFIP. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm for more information. Jo Pierson, Ph.D. IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication Vrije Universiteit Brussel Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor B - 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 629 16 27 Fax: +32 2 629 17 00 E-mail: jo.pierson(a)vub.ac.be http://smit.vub.ac.be

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Papers and Videos Going Up for "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States"
by Stuart Shulman 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

All, While the site is still filling some content in and will become more interactive over time, I thought Air-L readers would enjoy an early glimpse of the papers and the YouTube videos prepared for our conference next week "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States": http://youtubeandthe2008election.jitp2.net/frontpage All of the presentations will be recoded next week and you will be able to watch them online. Also, we will be inviting people to use the Diigo toolbar to annotate the papers, posters & slides. Every effort will be made to get the content out for your consumption and importantly, to get the authors diverse forms of feedback. More to come... ~Stu

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Re: [Air-L] Facebook posts used to fire people in Australia
by Murray Turoff 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

I am sure some companies go looking for comments about themsevles that they don't appreciate. Some have sued yahoo, hotmail, and other web services that give out pen-name id's to get them to release the actual user of an account when that user has said somehting negative about the company. I believe the cases that went to court so far were all defeated with the help of ACLU supporting the web service (I may not be aware of all such cases nor is it clear if some companies might just turn over the information). I am not sure there is any law to force a company to not fire someone making negative remarks about it unless the comments and accompanying evidence would classify the person a whistle blower under the federal law. Many companies monitor email and what is on employee computers to seek out people misusing company resources. The social network systems should do a better job of warning users of such dangers. I note also that some companies that allow workers to work at home also install video cams in the homes of the employees to actually be able to monitor them when they want to. I suspect they are even concerned about who might really be doing the work!!! All of a sudden the home is not a private place. In the early days of email there was a wall street journal articel (becuase of the daft and lengels classic article on the "inadquacy" of text communications) that managers should never use email or should be seen typing. I wish i had saved a copy of htat one. After they got email sone managers decided it iwas a good way to assign unpleasent tasks or to fire people rather than meet with them face to face. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff

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Re: [Air-L] German Summer School on Virtual Worlds Research
by Christopher Wong 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

All, For those of you interested in this, also consider checking out this year's State of Play conference, happening at the same time. The formal announcement is attached, but in short, there will be a range of interesting people speaking, and we will have birds of feather panel sessions on a range of topics, such as law, economics, security, quantitive vs qualitative methodologies in VWs, kids and games, mixed reality (aka ARGS and PMOGs), inter alia. There will also be a graduate students symposium the day before (June 18), with a number of scholarships available to get PhD students to NYC for serious conversation. For details on this, please contact: Dan Hunter Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School Adjunct Associate Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Research: http://ssrn.com/author=243354 dhunter(a)nyls.edu Hope to see you in at our place in June. Kind regards, Chris - Christopher Wong Project Manager, Peer-to-Patent Fellow, Center for Patent Innovations @ New York Law School e: christopher.wong(a)law.nyls.edu - --------------------------------------------------------- From: Kerstin Radde <kerstin.radde(a)zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM Subject: [Air-L] German Summer School on Virtual Worlds Research To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org HOW VIRTUAL IS REALITY? We would like to call your attention to 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. The course is mainly addressed to graduate and postgraduate students like Master students and PhD candidates, but undergraduates with experience in the field are also very welcome to apply! As a cooperation of the University of Bremen, the University of Oldenburg and the Jacobs-University (Bremen) the Summer course will broach the issue of the relevance of new environments like "Second Life" or "World of Warcraft" for nowadays culture and social life with special focus on rituals and religions. Instructed by more than 15 international teachers, the participants of the Summer School will engage into the interdisciplinary study of practical methods and theoretical approaches for the scientific handling of ritual and media. The media will not only be subject to methodological, theoretical and practical research and discussion but will also serve as platform for academic exchange and teaching. After this Summer School participants will be able to design and perform research projects on religion in and within Virtual Worlds. Please forward this information to everyone who might be interested in the course! A banner and a poster will soon be available on the "Media" section of the website. We are looking forward to many interesting applications! The organizers Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Simone Heidbrink -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 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 7491

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Peer-to-Patent Research Fellowship Available
by Christopher Wong 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi All, I just wanted to share this paid research opportunity available with Peer-to-Patent. It is likely something that many of you will find interesting and for which you will likely know a number of well qualified candidates. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration! Kind regards, Chris - Christopher Wong Project Manager, Peer-to-Patent Fellow, Center for Patent Innovations @ New York Law School e: christopher.wong(a)law.nyls.edu - [Please feel free to repost] Peer to Patent Summer Research Fellowship New York Law School Summer 2009 Background Peer to Patent is the groundbreaking program developed by New York Law School and run in cooperation with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, along with the assistance of a number of private stakeholders. It harnesses the power of citizen-experts to assist patent examiners by searching for, identifying, and annotating prior art relevant to pending patent applications. A first Peer to Patent pilot was launched in June 2007. During the first year the project participants (peer reviewers) assisted in the prior art searches on 40 patent applications, generating 173 items of prior art. These items of prior art were the basis of rejection in over ten of the patent applications considered. In June 2008 the pilot was continued for a second year, and was recently extended to encompass a pilot program in the United Kingdom. Research Issue Although Peer to Patent has attracted over 350 active peer reviewers, the project team has little or no idea as to the motivations that cause these individuals voluntarily to contribute their substantial time to the project. The average reviewer spent approximately six hours searching and annotating individual patent applications. The project team also does not fully understand the best means for attracting additional peer reviewers to the project. In order for the project to scale to larger volumes of applications, both of these points need to be understood and addressed. More generally and theoretically, the motivations of citizens in producing material for governmental use are not well-understood. This fellowship seeks to provide an account of this sort of activity, as well as generate a design for a controlled study of incentive mechanisms for these sorts of activities. Research Activity The selected fellow will conduct interviews among a meaningful number of currently active peer reviewers to elicit their motivations for participating in the project and contributing their time. The fellow will review the non-profit motivation literature to provide a number of alternative methods of reward to determine whether any or all of them would induce the participants to continue their participation, increase their participation, encourage others to participate, or cease their participation altogether. Potential rewards may include: (a) basic recognition; (b) monetary interest; (c) cash awards; (d) prominent public recognition; (e) some other form of reward; or (f) no reward whatsoever. The fellow will develop a survey to be conducted among a wider segment of active and potential peer reviewers to test for validation of the data gathered in the initial sampling. From the results of the initial sampling, literature review, and survey, the fellow will develop findings on which to base an incentive program to attract and retain peer reviewers. The fellow will develop an experimental design to test the efficacy of each of these incentive possibilities. Term The fellowship will commence on or about June 1, 2009 and will continue until on or about August 31, 2009. The fellowship is a full time position for the three months stipulated; but this is open to negotiation for an exceptional candidate. Compensation The fellow will receive a monthly stipend of $3,000 (based on full time work status). Job Qualification It is expected that the fellow will be pursuing (ABD) or have completed a PhD in psychology, economics, policy, or communications; or some other relevant field involving the motivation of content producers. Application Deadline April 30, 2009. Application Procedure Applicants should send (1) a letter of application detailing their qualification for the position, (2) a resumé, and (3) a list of three referees, to: Ms Naomi Allen Administrator, Institute for Information Law & Policy New York Law School 57 Worth Street New York NY 10013 Naomi.Allen(a)nyls.edu Questions relating to the scope and nature of the fellowship can be directed to: Prof. Mark Webbink, Director, Center for Patent Innovations New York Law School mhwebbink(a)yahoo.com Prof. Dan Hunter Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy New York Law School dhunter(a)nyls.edu New York Law School is an equal opportunity employer that encourages excellence through diversity. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

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phd thesis on photosharing, everyday life and affect
by smork＠itu.dk 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi All, This mail just to let you know that I have put my PhD thesis online, if anyone should be interested. It deals with photosharing, everyday life and the affective character of media and produsage cultures. It can be downloaded here: http://drop.io/commonbanality . abstract below Cheers, Søren Mørk Petersen Abstract: Common Banality: The Affective Character of Photo Sharing, Everyday Life and Produsage Cultures This dissertation investigates the emergent new media practice of mobile blogging (moblogging) and photo sharing online, specifically focusing on how this practice has evolved within a specific community in Copenhagen. Through a 3.5 year long ethnographic fieldwork among everyday photographers in Copenhagen and 14 individual interviews with Flickr.com users, the dissertation both examines how individuals and collectives integrate technology into their everyday lives, especially what constitutes the process of becoming a moblogger. Compared to related research this dissertation deals explicitly with everyday photographers who document all the mundane and banal situations and contexts of their daily life. It is primarily analytic rather than theoretical in its approach. The analysis is centered on two main questions approached differently throughout the chapters: 1. How user generated media reconfigure the spectacle through changes in the production-consumption circuit. 2. How everyday photography enables a creative practice relating it to the affective character of everyday life and the urban environment. These two aspects are approached with a combination of fieldwork data and theory (primarily Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, Brian Massumi, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Stuart Hall, Gregory Seigworth and the Situationist International). The dissertation commences with a review of existing literature on camera phone usage, moblogging and photo sharing. Chapter two deals with different methodological issues related to my fieldwork, my interviews and the development of a new research method. This method dubbed the GRID was employed in group interviews with Flickr users in which they talked on the basis of their own pictures about how everyday photography, moblogging and photo sharing have been integrated into their everyday life. The thesis does not have a specific theoretical chapter; different theories are introduced throughout the analysis when considered relevant. In chapter three the analysis begins with a mapping of how my informants became mobloggers. This chapter will also describe what characterizes photo sharing, everyday photography and moblogging as a photographic practice. Along with this we will see why they have chosen Flickr as the site to share their photos on, and we will also see how their style developed. At this point it will already be evident that their community is important for many of the practices that they participate in so in chapter four we will look into community aspects. In chapters five and six everyday life will be related to their practice. Chapter five primarily deals with different theories of everyday life, in that it tries to explain what it is about everyday life and its mundane character that makes them want to document it. In explaining this we will witness how capitalism and everyday life, with its mundane habits and routines, foster a creative form of play when documenting our everyday life. We will also identify how the practice of everyday photography and photo sharing mediates between Lefebvres triadic structure of everyday life. Especially the affective character of everydayness provides an argument for developing an explanation of why they document the most mundane and banal aspects of everyday life. This chapter also identifies a new form of aesthetic living through a reconfiguration of Mike Featherstones theory. In chapter six we focus on how everyday photography, moblogging and photo sharing are integrated into the structures and different practices of everyday life. We will view their practice as a form of rhythmanalysis in which a new rhythm is created by specific relations between time, space and agency, resulting in a reconfiguration of the concepts of presence and present. This will lead us into chapter seven in which we will focus on various collaborative practices related to the way in which value is generated for the users of Flickr, and also look into how the creation of meaning and signification becomes collective and thus restructures the spectacle. Chapter eight deals with the relations between the city, moblogging and photo sharing, illustrating how these practices enable an electronic form of psycho-geography and dérive, techniques important for the revolution of everyday life as it was put into practice by the Situationist and Debord. Chapter nine will identify how user generated content can become enclosed within capitalistic structures, thus transforming their practice into relations that resemble work. In mapping how this happens, new places for a Marxist critique in contemporary society characterized by new means of production will be identified. In chapter ten the conclusion will summarize some parts of the dissertation by mapping the different reconfigurations that have been identified throughout the thesis.

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ALA Connect: Not Just Another Social Network
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Colleagues/ It's Here / It's Here / It's Here > ALA Connect /Gerry ALA Connect: Not Just Another Social Network It's like Facebook-but for librarians," we've said, all-too-simply (and inaccurately) in categorizing ALA Connect, ALA's new centralized virtual space. That's a facile comparison to make, but really Connect is more than that. Not just another social network, ALA Connect will help members engage in ALA business and network with others. It's a single virtual location in which ALA members can collaborate and work on division, round table, and committee projects with an impressive spread of tools: blog-like posts, online documents, group calendars, surveys and polls, chat rooms, discussion forums, and RSS/email alerts to track progress. [snip] But ALA Connect effectively reins in all the would-be unofficial online channels and tools and puts them under one roof, officiating them under the ALA brand. [snip] ALA Connect FAQ ALA Connect replaces the existing Online Communities service that ALA currently offers as a virtual, collaborative, workspace online. [snip] [snip] Every active ALA group already has a space in Connect automatically, because we've pre-populated it with data from our membership database (iMIS), and we synchronize member data nightly, so we'll always know which committees you're on and which other official ALA groups you're part of. Both ALA groups and communities use the same types of tools. By default, each one has blog posts, online documents (like wiki pages), a calendar, polls, a chat room, a discussion board, and images (logos, pictures, etc.). The group can use whichever of the tools it finds valuable. Non-members will be able to register in Connect to create a free account, but they will only be able to view and add to public content. [snip] >>More And Links>> [ http://tinyurl.com/dzqfq7 ] Enjoy ! /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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