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Free YouTube College Lecture Downloads
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Colleagues/ Another Most Interesting Development ... /Gerry New From YouTube: Free Downloads of College Lectures / David Shieh The Chronicle of Higher Education / Wired Campus / February 13 2009 "YouTube began testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site from partner institutions - including colleges - rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. That means people can grab lectures from Duke and Stanford Universities and several institutions in the University of California system to watch any time, with or without an Internet connection." [more] Links /Etc Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/allagu ] /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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Call for Paper - Religion and Spirituality in Cyberspace
by Roxanne Marcotte 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Sorry for any cross-posting CALL FOR PAPER The thematic issue "Religion and Spirituality in Cyberspace" of the Australian Religion Studies Review will explore some of the methodological and theoretical issues raised with the coming together of Internet with religion and spirituality and, hopefully, provide interesting case studies. Possible topics include cyber-theology, cyber-rituals, online religions, cyber-proselytization and cyber-polemics, cyber-pilgrimages, cyber-covens and sanghas, religious blogs, etc. Completed articles should not exceed 7,000 words. Submission deadline is February 2010. Early submissions are welcomed. Please see journal website (http://www.aasr.org.au/aasr_review.htm <http://www.aasr.org.au/aasr_review.htm> ) or contact me for further details. Dr. Roxanne D. Marcotte -- r.marcotte(a)uq.edu.au <mailto:r.marcotte@uq.edu.au> School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics The University of Queensland Brisbane Qld 4072 AUSTRALIA

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AoIR 10
by Elizabeth A Buchanan 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Dear Colleagues, With the deadline quickly approaching for submissions to the big AoIR 10 conference celebration, let me suggest a few more reasons to submit and attend: 1. Brewery tours 2. Indoor Water park at the Hilton (yes, see all of your favorite aoir regulars on the slip n' slides) 3. Conference banquet at the cool new Harley-Davidson museum, with great Milwaukee food and drink, featuring a panel of past aoir conference chairs 4. Great keynotes and papers 5. Doc Colloquium and exciting pre-conference opportunities 6. The Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum on the shores of Lake Michigan 7. Did we mention brewery tours? Best, e. -- Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee www.cipr.uwm.edu 414.229.3973 Visiting Fellow National Center for e-Social Science Oxford e-Social Science Node University of Oxford Local Co-Chair Association of Internet Researchers 10th Annual Conference 8-11 October 2009 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA http://ir10.aoir.org/

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WSU To Go Paperless || Social Networks For A Green Campus
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Colleagues/ Earlier this week, The Chronicle of Higher Education / Wired Campus reported on a recent initiative at Washington State University: "Internal Communications at Washington State U. Go Paperless" / Steve Kolowich / February 10, 2009 As noted in the story: "Washington State University has decided to go paperless for all internal communications on its four campuses, moving all memos, fliers, posters, and its weekly newspaper to cyberspace. 'Experts have been predicting a transition to a paperless society for years,' wrote Elson S. Floyd, the university's president, in a statement this afternoon. 'Meanwhile, it seems that the piles of papers that cross our desks keep growing. We plan to reverse that trend.' The decision, made official last month, comes amid an effort to trim $10-million from the university's budget by June, with further cuts anticipated next year. [snip] In addition, the article reports that "[w]hile the budgetary impact of going paperless might be largely symbolic, university officials note that the switch also has environmental benefits."[snip] She also said that quitting paper cold turkey would encourage the university to integrate Web 2.0 technologies-such as blogging and social networking-into its internal communications. [snip] For More Details and Link See [ http://tinyurl.com/b7otw5 ] She further elaborated stating ... 'it is really exciting to deliver the news in a new format," he added. "We have to learn to use the tools of the Web and Web 2.0 effectively.' For More Details and Link See [ http://tinyurl.com/daf8ge ] BTW: During the breakout session at our Sustainability Symposium held earlier this week, I had planned to suggest that various interlinked university social networks be created to facilitate communication, coordination, and cooperation amongst/between various individual, departmental, and administrative efforts but thought that The Idea would be considered Too Radical ... Little Did I Know That WSU Would See The (Potential) Benefit of Social Networks For Its Green Initiatives [:-)] 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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EU Kids Online conference - more details & deadline extension
by D.R.Brake＠lse.ac.uk 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Extended deadline for abstracts - now 28 February 2009 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS EU Kids Online: European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet An international one-day conference for researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government to address the policy issues and research findings about children and the internet. When and where: Thursday June 11th 2009, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. The conference theme addresses the following questions: Are all children benefiting from the internet and if not, why not? What new literacies are they developing? How strong is the evidence for the risks to children of going online? Why do risks differ from country to country? How can parents and policy makers better balance the online opportunities and risks for children? And what do children themselves want from the internet? The conference will report final results and recommendations from three year's work by EU Kids Online network of 60 researchers in 21 countries funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme. It will also showcase the latest current research in Europe and worldwide: Keynote speakers: * David Finkelhor (University of New Hampshire) * Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University, Australia) * Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics) * Charo Sádaba (University of Navarra, Spain) Call for papers: Researchers are invited to submit empirical papers about children's experience of the internet on these topics: * Social networks, online identities and e-participation * Learning, creativity and media literacy * Mobility, computer games and other emerging platforms * Parental and peer mediation * Risks, victims and perpetrators * Regulation, empowerment and protection Registration and submission details: Registration now open at http://www.eukidsonline.net. No conference fee; lunch and evening reception provided. To submit a paper, please send an abstract (300-500 words) to media.eukidsconference(a)lse.ac.uk by 28th February. We look forward to welcoming you to LSE to celebrate the end of our project and to debate the future agenda for research and for evidence-based policy. 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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Web 2.0 and Libraries / Seminar / Rome, Italy / March 6 2009
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Colleagues/ I have been invited to give a keynote presentation at a workshop in Rome, Italy, on March 6 2009: Web 2.0 and Libraries / Seminario di Aggiornamento Università degli Studi di Roma Tre (Facoltà di Architettura) / Aula Urbano VIII / Via della Madonna dei Monti / 40 Roma / 6 marzo 2009 / h.9.00-13.30 Web 2.0 has posed a number of challenges for the library and marks a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. In the course of this seminar, organised by CASPUR /CIBER in collaboration with AIB Lazio, AIDA, CILEA, FAO and University of Rome Three Library System we will seek to describe how libraries have responded to the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications and how organisations can best exploit the potential which Library 2.0 can provide. Keynote speaker, Gerry McKiernan, will describe current trends and changing scenarios, while other speakers will describe how Library 2.0 features have been deployed with a special focus on the Italian context. 9.00 - 9.30 / Greetings and Introduction / Mary Joan Crowley, Università degliStudi di Roma "La Sapienza" 9.30 - 11.00 / The Future of The Library / Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library 11.00 - 11.30 / Coffee break 11.30 - 12.00 / Q&A 12.00 - 12.30 / "Italian Library 2.0?": One question, many answers / Bonaria Biancu, Università di Milano Bicocca 12.30 - 13.00 / Aggregated News and Events on Agriculture: AgriFeeds / Valeria Pesce, FAO 13.00 - 13.30 / Will Web 2.0 ever meet library catalogs? / Andrea Marchitelli, CILEA Abstract _The Participatory Web: Web 2.0 and The Future of The Library_ As characterized by Wikipedia, "'Web 2.0' describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0] Such 'participatory' technologies include not only blogs (e.g. Blogger), photo-sharing (e.g. Flickr), social bookmarking (e.g. Delicious), but folksonomies (e.g., tagging), online social networks (e.g., Facebook), video-sharing (e.g., YouTube), and wikis (e.g., Wikipedia). In this workshop we provide an overview of several significant Web 2.0 technologies and profile numerous examples of libraries worldwide that have implemented these interactive technologies in their efforts to enhance collaboration and communication with their respective communities. Free | Pre-registration Required | Facebook EVENT Page >>Requests<< While I will profile The Usual Web 2.0 Suspects in my presentation, I am also interested in promoting newer/emerging Web 2.0 technologies as well, and would appreciate Any and All Suggestions; Library implementations would be of special interest. In addition to implementations by U.S./Canadian libraries, and I am particularly interested in Web 2.0 implementations by libraries in non-U.S. regions (e.g., Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, etc.) >>Please Post Your Suggestions As A Comment On The Associated Blog Posting At << [ http://tinyurl.com/dzpa99 ] Thanks For Assistance! 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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Internet use and social trust?
by Mia Lövheim 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Dear all, I have been involved in the planning of a Swedish survey looking at motives for voluntary work and social trust (generally), and would like to include some questions on uses of the internet in relation to the development of social trust, social capital, and participation in voluntary work that has been tried out previously in international research during the last 2-3 years. Any suggestions of questions and/or publication where I can find this kind of research questions would be most helpful! Thank you in advance for your help, /Mia -- Mia Lövheim TD Lektor i Religionssociologi Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet Box 511 75120 Uppsala tel (+46)018-471 2168 mail mia.lovheim(a)teol.uu.se www.teol.uu.se Mia Lövheim PhD Post Doc/visiting researcher Department of Media and Communication P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway tel +47 228 50426 mail mia.lovheim(a)media.uio.no www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/women

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Re: [Air-L] Does Comm Sci notice the internet?
by Tim Stephen 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

A colleague forwarded a portion of a thread of a recent air-l discussion regarding frequency of Internet-related publication in journals of the communication discipline. I'm just hopping on air-l long enough to send this along as I thought possibly the numbers below might be relevant in the context of this issue. Apologies if they're off point. The table that follows is a list of the number of papers each communication journal has ever published that were coded with keywords "cmc" or "web", or "internet" for 29 of the 100+ communication journals covered in ComAbstracts. This 29 journal subset was selected because these happened to strike me yesterday morning as having greater face-relevance to the question of which outlets are handling the greater flow of Internet-related research papers in the communication field. The number in parentheses following the journal name is the prestige rank of each journal (lower number, higher prestige) based on the correlation between communication doctoral program faculty's accumulated record of publication in each journal and the program's accumulated prestige/reputation rankings summed across the nine areas covered in the 2004 NCA study of doctoral program reputation. Journals without rankings had summed correlations at or below zero with perceptions of doctoral program prestige/reputation. Data are from ComAbstracts, ComVista, and ComAnalytics (http://www.cios.org/www/abstract.htm) Best wishes, Tim Stephen Department of Communication, University at Albany (SUNY) & CIOS n of papers|Journal Name (journal prestige rank) 310 | Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (not rated) 146 | Information Communication & Society (53) 134 | Electronic Journal of Communication (47) 67 | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (28) 58 | Canadian Journal of Communication (43) 52 | Convergence 51 | Journal of Communication (2) 47 | Communication Research (5) 35 | Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (30) 27 | Political Communication (12) 26 | Human Communication Research (1) 25 | Critical Studies in Media Communication (20) 23 | European Journal of Communication 22 | Asian Journal of Communication (37) 20 | Public Opinion Quarterly (46) 16 | Media Psychology 15 | Mass Communication and Society (41) 14 | Communication Yearbook (4) 14 | Communication Quarterly (11) 12 | Management Communication Quarterly (16) 11 | Southern Communication Journal (44) 10 | Communication Monographs (3) 10 | Western Communication Journal (7) 9 | Journal of Applied Communication (6) 9 | Television and New Media (29) 8 | Nordicom Review (not rated) 5 | Visual Communication 3 | Communication Theory (18) 1 | Quarterly Journal of Speech (14)

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Automated analysis of large social network
by Luca Rossi 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Dear all, I'm working on a research project aimed to develop a software tool able to map and analyze how social relations are reshaped on Facebook. I was wondering if you were aware of any paper or book about large social network analysis (preferably automated). I'm not thinking about small scale SN analysis but about large (or very large) SN. At the same time are you aware of any research based on the analysis of large quantities of User generated contents? (blog entries or youtube videos etc.). thank you all Luca -- Luca Rossi LaRiCA - Advanced Communication Laboratory Faculty of Sociology - "Carlo Bo" University, Urbino luca.rossi(a)soc.uniurb.it T. +39 0722 305726 F. +39 0722 305727 http://larica-virtual.soc.uniurb.it/redline

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Re: [Air-L] Broadband speeds: demand for 10 Mbps and above
by Catherine Middleton 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Amon asks: "what should be the justifiable bb speed targets to households for countries, like Canada, US, UK?" (full message quoted below) This is an important and unresolved question. The need for higher speeds is very commonly simply stated or assumed, without any specific justification. In theory, faster speeds are better, but in practice, at least in the short term, faster speeds from an ISP to a residence don't mean that content necessarily travels much faster. Additionally, it's well-known that speeds of "up to XX Mbps" rarely deliver the potential maximum speeds. (see the "UK Broadband Speeds 2008" report on this point). Regarding justification of the need for speed: - The California Broadband Task Force report does include a specific list matching applications to required network speeds: California Broadband Task Force (2008). The State of Connectivity – Building Innovation Through Broadband: State of California. http://www.calink.ca.gov/pdf/CBTF_FINAL_Report.pdf . - Similar information is also found in International Telecommunication Union (2003). Birth of Broadband. Geneva: ITU. - Another report that addresses the issue of demand for higher speed networks is: Broadband Stakeholder Group (2007). Pipe Dreams?: Prospects for next generation broadband deployment in the UK, www.broadbanduk.org/content/view/236/7/ - The issue of network symmetry (i.e. equivalent, or near equivalent upload and download speeds) is very important in a world where users generate content. The Australian case: In Australia, the National Broadband Network tender requested proposals for a 12 Mbps network. There doesn't appear to be any specific rationale for that particular speed, and many stakeholders argued for the need for much higher speeds in public consultations on the NBN. (see http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/funding_programs__and__… and http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/broadband_ctte/submissions/sublist.h…) In Australian cities, commercial ISPs will provide many consumers with speeds better than 12 Mbps well before the NBN is built (if it is built). In the short term, the primary reason for higher speeds is to deliver (i.e. broadcast) television services and other entertainment content. But despite the experiences of most people on this list, the average internet user isn't yet using the internet to download (or upload) much content. Canadian data continue to show that a large proportion of internet users, although they have broadband, don't really use the internet that intensely, or for applications that really require high speed. (See various papers on this topic at http://www.broadbandresearch.ca/ourresearch/papers.html , especially my work with Jordan Leith in the 'Working Papers' section of the site. We are currently working on a paper using 2007 data.) So while most people think they'd like higher speeds, actual usage data doesn't (yet?) suggest that everyone requires higher speeds to support the applications they are using. This of course raises the perennial 'build it and they will come' issue, the argument that if we had higher speed networks there would be more apps that took advantage of all this bandwidth, and people would find uses for it. I do think that in the longer term, more interesting and potentially useful things are possible, but there are enormous unresolved questions about how to build next generation networks that could provide for innovative health, education, government and other applications. For more info on broadband deployment, see my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/canadabroadband . catherine -------------------------------- Dr. Catherine Middleton Canada Research Chair - Communication Technologies in the Information Society Ted Rogers School of Management Ryerson University Toronto, Canada http://www.ryerson.ca/itm/fcty/Middleton/Middleton.html > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:05:09 -0500 > From: "Khakimov, Amonulla (MGS)" <Amonulla.Khakimov(a)ontario.ca> > Subject: [Air-L] Broadband speeds: demand for 10 Mbps and above > To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Message-ID: > <150AD404D534DD4CB1CF586D947F3AA403C81ACD(a)CTSPITDCEMMVX22.cihs.ad.gov.on.ca > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello all, > > I am looking for directions to research studies and reports that > justify > need for higher broadband speeds. There are lots of discussions going > around the need for ultra-broadband, fibre networks, etc. in many > countries. Some jurisdictions set up specific speed targets, for > instance UK recently announced it's plan to provide universal > broadband > access at minimum speeds of 2 mbps. However, I have seen only few > studies on technical review of those bandwidth heavy applications that > require high-speeds. Further, what should be the justifiable bb speed > targets to households for countries, like Canada, US, UK? Average > speed, > for Canada, according to OECD is around 7 Mbps.. Many experts suggest > these days that the minimum speed should be 10 Mbps or above.. What > online applications imply that? IPTV, on-line games, VC? Anything > else? > Any studies to support that? > > your help in finding relevant data is greatly appreciated.. > > Amon.

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