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WebQubed: Web 2.0 Mixed and Mashed
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Colleagues/ While I believe that many Web 2.0 developments are Quite Innovative, I sense that the integration of Web 2.0 technologies are Not As Radical as they could be ... For Example: ***Are There Current Web 2.0 Mashups / Services / Sites / Etc. That Allow A User To:*** >Add a relevant audio / photo / video / etc. TO a private/public PDF / Word / TXT / document ? >>Add a tag to relevant audio / photo / text / video / etc. that is **Linked** to a relevant private/public audio /photo / text / video / etc. >>> Add a linked-tag (for audio / photo / text / video /etc. ) to national catalog record (via Open WordCat)? To a local OPAC record ( A PennTags & Plus)? The Question Of The Day is: To What Degree Has The Wide Variety Of Media Been Integrated Into Other Media ?? / To What Degree Has Such Media Been Mixed And Mashed To Create A New Medium ? How Might Libraries Benefit From Such Integration? BTW: I have created a Global Facebook Group that is "devoted to consideration and discussion of any and all (Im)Possible / (Im)Probable intergrations of Any and All Web 2.0 technologies" which is available is linked form [ http://tinyurl.com/d4nsw8 ] BTW: I am aware of All Things Web 2.0 >> Let The Radical Thinking Begin << /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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Fwd: Labour 2.0: campaigning for the net generation
by Andrew Chadwick 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi there, London-based AIRers may find this event interesting. Cheers, Andy Chadwick Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Harrison <mark(a)progressives.org.uk> > Date: 17 February 2009 14:59:30 GMT > To: <Andrew.Chadwick(a)rhul.ac.uk> > Subject: Labour 2.0: campaigning for the net generation > > Dear Andrew > > Thank you for agreeing to speak at ‘Labour 2.0: campaigning for the > net generation’, on Saturday 28 February 2009. I’m pleased to > confirm the arrangements for the day. > > We’re very excited that Joe Rospars, New Media Director of Barack > Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign, will be making the keynote > speech at the conference. It will follow an opening address by Rt > Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Labour’s general election coordinator. You > can see the full confirmed speaker programme at the bottom of this > email. > > Mark Harrison > Events Manager > > mark(a)progressives.org.uk > 020 3008 8180 > 07812 017265 > > > AGENDA > > 11:00 > Opening address > Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP > Secretary of State for International Development > > 11:20 > Keynote speech > Joe Rospars > New Media Director, Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign > > 12:00 > What will the future of internet campaigning look like? > Professor Andrew Chadwick, Director, New Political Communication > Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London > Greg Jackson, Tangent > Tom Steinberg, MySociety > > 12:45 > Lunch > > 13:30 > Mobilising the centre-left blogging community > Adam Bienkow, Tory Troll > Tom Barry, Boris Watch > Theo Blackwell, blogger and councillor > Alex Smith, writer and political activist (chair) > > 14:15 > Fundraising and voter ID online > Gavin Shuker, Political Insight > Jag Singh, MessageSpace > > 15:00 > Learning from the private sector > Simon Redfern > Oliver Rickman, Google > > 15:45 > Afternoon break > > 16:00 > Transforming Labour’s campaigns and communications through new media > Nick Anstead, University of East Anglia > Matthew McGregor, UK MD, Blue State Digital > Sue Macmillan, New Media Campaigns Taskforce Leader, The Labour Party > Paul Simpson, Tangent > Howard Dawber, PPC for Bexleyheath & Crayford (Chair) > > 16:45 > Close of conference debate: > Can the centre-left dominate the internet despite being in office? > James Crabtree, Senior Editor, Prospect > Derek Draper, LabourList > Rt Hon David Lammy MP > Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome > > 17:30 > Close > -------------------------- Professor Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Political Science, Head of Department (2006-2009), Department of Politics & International Relations, Director, New Political Communication Unit http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk, Royal Holloway, University of London. ------------------------------------------------------ Series Editor: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics: http://www.oup.com/us/digitalpolitics Associate Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics: http://www.jitp.net New book: http://handbook-of-internet-politics.com Last Book: http://www.andrewchadwick.com

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The 12th Annual SXSW Web Awards - People's Choice Award
by Steven James May 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Dear AOIR, I hope this finds everyone well. Writing to advise that my MA thesis project, "Weekend Pictures", has been nominated for Best Student Website at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. As part of the nomination, the project is also eligible for the People's Choice Award which is selected by the public. You can view all the nominated sites, including my project "Weekend Pictures", and vote online once a day until March 15, 2009 here: https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/. Any support, and help with spreading the word, would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Steven James May Weekend Pictures Ryerson University Toronto, Canada https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/

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mobile broadband speeds
by Paul Emerson Teusner 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi everyone, According to tonight's news reports, Telstra, Australia's largest and by far most evil phone and ISP company, announced it had the world's fastest mobile broadband speeds, together with the world's largest coverage. Can't recall the coverage, but the speed mentioned was "up to" 21 Mbps. The report suspected that most people would most often experience half that to their mobile Internet devices. What do you guys think? Is Telstra having us Aussies on? Can anyone support or disprove their claim? paul emerson teusner fishers, surfers and casters - <http://teusner.org/> http://teusner.org/ bio - <http://paulteusner.org/> http://paulteusner.org/

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Library 2.0 Symposium at Yale Law School
by Michael Zimmer 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

This event may be of interest to many. Apologies for any cross-postings. -mz -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org Library 2.0 Symposium to Explore the Future of Digital Collections The Yale Information Society Project will host the Library 2.0 Symposium on Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Yale Law School. The confluence of book digitization projects, user-generated content, and social networking applications is forcing us to rethink the role of libraries. This symposium will bring together leading thinkers from libraries, academia, and legal practice to lay out a vision for the future of the library and digital collections; the ethical implications of Library 2.0, including data retention and patron privacy; intellectual property rights in user-generated and traditional digital library content; and the future of book digitization projects. Featured speakers will include Ann Wolpert, head of MIT libraries and the MIT press; John Palfrey, Professor of Law and Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School; Josh Greenberg of the New York Public Library; Jeff Cunard of Debevoise and Plimpton; and a host of other luminaries. The Library 2.0 Symposium will take place in Room 127 of Yale Law School located at 127 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut. This event is free and open to the public but is expected to fill up quickly. Please register at your earliest convenience at http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=705106 . More information about the symposium is available on the Yale ISP web site at http://isp.law.yale.edu. The Library 2.0 Symposium is made possible by the generosity of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School.

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cfp: Special Issue on Learning in Virtual Worlds
by jeremy hunsinger 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Apologies for x-posting-jh CALL FOR PAPERS special issue of Learning, Media and Technology issue theme: Learning in Virtual Worlds Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski Virtual worlds are learning worlds. There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs and multi-media spaces like ActiveWorlds(R), Second Life(R), World of Warcraft (R) to support educational goals in primary, secondary, higher and lifelong learning contexts. The extensive writings on virtual reality and virtual worlds over the past four decades have covered the breadth of the phenomena and experiences of learning via CMC in these situated spaces; this call for papers seeks scholarship that builds upon and extends those accounts. We seek research that deals with learning and research in social networks or among friends, learning through play, learning through artistic creation and learning in unconventional virtual realities. We seek papers that examine learning or modes of learning that occurs in unexpected ways. For example, workshops have been transformed with the inclusion of new materials, like clay or other art equipment, encouraging participants to express themselves through different modes of communication. Such physical practices mirror the opportunities afforded in virtual environments, increasing potential outcomes by breaking down borders of expression, creating a place for play, and expanding discourse. We seek research that aims to capture similar alternative practices in learning within virtual worlds. While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded study in the social or behavioral sciences. We seek a special issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. Submission guidelines: This special issue is edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Please contact them at jhuns(a)vt.edu and akrotoski(a)yahoo.com to discuss your submissions. The editors welcome contributions from new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage papers of around 6000 words. Short discussion papers of 2000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed for the 'Viewpoints' section. Learning, Media and Technology submission guidelines and referencing styles will be followed [see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp ] The guest editors will consider papers received by March 15, 2009. Fewer than 10 papers will be accepted. The special issue will be published in early 2010. Please send papers to jhuns(a)vt.edu, clearly indicating that your submission is for the Special Issue on learning in virtual worlds. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Facebook's ToS Changes
by Richard Forno 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

For those on Facebook, FYI: Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." By Chris Walters, 6:14 PM on Sun Feb 15 2009, 82,243 views Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want. < - > http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-any…

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Fwd: Mellon Postdocs in Humanities at Tufts (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Pls contact Prof Ennis, not me, if interested Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:28:40 -0500 From: James Ennis <jennis(a)tufts.edu> To: James Ennis <jennis(a)tufts.edu> Subject: Fwd: Mellon Postdocs in Humanities at Tufts Dear Colleagues and Friends, If you know a new- or soon-to-be-PhD who might be interested (say in sociology of art, or culture, or perhaps media) would you please pass this along? Needs to be able to pass as a humanist, but we did host such a person a a couple of years ago. If they are interested, have them contact me in the next week. Thanks and all best wishes... JE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James G. Ennis Associate Professor of Sociology Eaton Hall 112 Sociology, Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Office hours M 4:30-5:30, W 1:30-2:30 617 627 2473 --> my office 617 627 3561 --> department office 617 627 3032 --> fax ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin forwarded message: > From: Jillian Dubman <jillian.dubman(a)tufts.edu> > Date: January 23, 2009 8:44:57 AM GMT-05:00 > To: as-faculty(a)elist.tufts.edu > Subject: Mellon Postdocs in Humanities > > This message is sent on behalf of Andrew McClellan, Dean of Academic > Affairs for Arts and Sciences. > _______________________________________________________ > > Dear Colleagues, > > As many of you know, the Mellon Foundation generously agreed to > renew funding for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the > Humanities at Tufts for another six years. Advertisements (see > below) were placed in appropriate venues and applications are coming > in, against a deadline of February 1, 2009. An ad hoc committee will > be assembled to read files and select candidates. Though it is now > late in the day, should you know potential applicants please > encourage them to apply. Since the program calls for fellows to be > houses in departments and, ideally, paired with suitable mentors/ > collaborators on the Tufts faculty, we may be in touch with some of > you to ask about your possible interest in hosting or working with a > given applicant. We hope this year's pool of applicants will add two > exciting young scholars to our community beginning this coming fall. > As we have funding for the next years (and perhaps beyond), please > be on the lookout for talented young scholars who might be > interested in applying in coming years. Collaborative research > projects with our faculty are encouraged. > > "The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously provided Tufts > University with funding to bring two postdoctoral fellows to campus > each year to pursue new research projects in the Humanities. Two > fellows will be appointed in fall 2009. > > Fellows will be housed for two years in the Center for the > Humanities at Tufts and affiliated with the department or > interdisciplinary program most germane to their field of research. > Fellows will be expected to teach one course in the spring semester > of their first year and two in the second year of their residency > through their home department or program. It is further expected > that fellows will take part in the intellectual life of campus, > working with faculty and students, attending and helping to plan > events and meetings, etc. Applicants whose research will benefit > from the research environment and faculty at Tufts are especially > encouraged to apply. > > Applications will be competitively evaluated by the Mellon > Postdoctoral Committee. There is no requirement that the fellows be > U.S. citizens. Applicants for the fellowships must have received > their Ph.D. within the past five years. The stipend for fellows will > be $42,500 plus benefits, and a research allowance of $5,000 per year. > > Recipients of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships will be appointed > by the Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences, upon the > recommendation of the Mellon Postdoctoral Committee. All > applications must be received no later than February 1, 2009." > > Thank you for your interest and support, > > Andrew McClellan > Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts & Sciences > Tufts University > Ballou Hall > Medford, MA 02155 > tel: 617 627-4230 > email: andrew.mcclellan(a)tufts.edu > >

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forwarding call for papers for International Journal of E-Politics
by Ronald E. Rice 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS INAUGURAL ISSUE SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March, 15th, 2009 International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ IJEP Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) International Editorial Review Board: Advisory Board: Ada Scupola, Carol Saunders, Christine Williams, Lynne Markus, Philip Ein-Dor, Prashant Palvia, Robert Davison, Ron Rice, Shailendria Palvia, Shezaf Rafaeli, Steven Gordon Associate Editors: Andrea Calderaro, Arik Ragowsky, Cathy Urquhart, Christopher Reddick, Dave Oliver, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Isaac Mostovicz, Jack Quarter, Joy Peluchette, Katherine Karl, Luciano Paccagnella, Myles Stern, Nada Kakabadse, Nava Pliskin, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Pippa Norris, Ramesh Srinivasan, Sandy Staples, Tim Roberts, Toni Sommers, Toru Sakaguchi MISSION OF IJEP: The primary objective of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to lay the foundations of E-Politics as an emerging interdisciplinary area of research and practice, as well as, to offer a venue for publications that focus on theories and empirical research on the manifestations of E-Politics in various contexts and environments. E-Politcs is defined as influence attempts facilitated by or related to electronic media or to the information technology field. As such, it is seen as interdisciplinary, encompassing areas such as information systems, political science, social science (psychology, sociology, and cultural studies), security, ethics, law, management and others. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: The politics of the IT function and its role in organizations a.. The political activities of members of the IT function vis-à-vis the rest of the organization b.. Changes in the power of the IT unit as a function of the diffusion of new technologies c.. The strategies used by members of the IT unit to influence others d.. The impact of global issues such as outsourcing, downsizing, political upheavals, etc. on the political role played by the IT unit within organizations. The politics of virtual communities a.. The use of electronic media for industrial relations and negotiations with employers b.. The use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and harassment in commercial and non-commercial environments c.. The impact of status and authority on electronically enabled political maneuvering by management and the effects of culture, race, and gender on political activities within and between organizations. a.. The political dynamics of geographically based communities (community informatics) b.. The political dynamics of virtual communities of practice, including: learning communities, customers' communities, eDating communities, gaming communities, support group communities, social networking communities, etc. Party politics and social activism a.. eVoting and electronically enabled eGovernment b.. The role electronic media in political campaigns. Including their impact on political debate, information sharing, political decision making, fund raising, etc. c.. As electronically enabled party politicking is becoming a global phenomenon, the utilization of E-Politcs at all levels of governance, including the city, the state, the country and the global arenas. SUBMITTING TO IJEP: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to ak1667(a)wayne.edu by ****** NO LATER THAN March, 15th, 2009.****** PUBLISHER: The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference) and "Medical Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Celia Romm Livermore (PhD) Editor-in-Chief International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) School of Business Administration Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 48202, USA E-mail address: ak1667(a)wayne.edu www.igi-global.com/IJEP ======================================================= Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice(a)comm.ucsb.edu http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/rice.php http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/

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Psychology and communication online
by Richard Kunzmann 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear Dominik, In 2002 I completed my dissertation on the role which frequent internet communication in cyber-communities may play when people with spinal-cord injuries want to re-affirm their self-concepts and expand their circle of significant others. If you want access to that dissertation, I can gladly send it to you. However, there were some texts and sites I found very helpful, particularly those with a strong psychological slant: John Suler's Website is an excellent starting point for confronting many of the issues currently affecting CMC as it applies to psychology Also, Wallace, P. (1999). The Psychology of the Internet. New York: Cambridge University press You might find some of the following articles and books good, though I'm sure a number of researchers might have produced more recent research articles that have taken Web 2 etc. into account: Baumeister, R.F. & Leary, M.R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117(3), 497-529 Haythornthwaite, C.B., Wellman, B. & Garton, L. (1998). Work and community via computer-mediated communication. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.), Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, interpersonal and transpersonal implications (pp. 199 – 226). San Diego, California: Academic Press Joinson, A.N. (1998). Causes and implications of disinhibition behaviour on the Internet. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.), Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, interpersonal and transpersonal implications (pp. 43 – 60). San Diego, California: Academic Press Joinson, A.N. (2001). Self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication: The role of self-awareness and visual anonymity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 177-192 Williams, K.D., Cheung, C.K. & Choi, W. (2000). Cyberostracism: Effects of being ignored over the Internet. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(5), 748-762 I hope this helps you head off in the right direction! Best, Richard Kunzmann _________________________________________________________________ Join the all-new Windows Live Messenger family http://get.live.com

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