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Dissertation | Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society ... | Christian Fuchs
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Colleagues/ Another recently announced dissertation on Social Networking Sites: Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance / Fuchs, Christian. 2009. Salzburg / Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428. 145 pp. /Gerry 674 students from Salzburg participated in the study that was conducted by the eTheory Research Group (University of Salzburg, ICT&S Center). 88.3% of the respondents use studiVZ, 39.5% Facebook, 15.9% MySpace, 9.0% Xing, 7.4% Lokalisten. Each of 61 other social networking sites (SNS) is used by less than 1%. [snip] 59.1% of the respondents see the maintenance of social contacts as the biggest advantage of SNS, 55.7% say that economic and political surveillance is the greatest risk. [snip] 81.8% of the respondents have little knowledge about concrete data surveillance in Europe (e.g. the Data Retention Directive or the Austrian Security Police Act). But 67.4% have a critical standpoint towards surveillance. 88.7% of the studiVZ users have good or very good knowledge about what happens with their data on the platform. The same is true for only 35.9% of Facebook users and 22.6% of MySpace users. [snip] The study recommends that citizens see commercial Internet platforms that store and evaluate personal data generally critically and that by establishing special consumer protection websites it could be documented in the public, which rights in dealing with personal data such platforms obtain by their terms of use and their privacy terms. [snip] The expertise of the study will be part of the Europe-wide research project "Living in Surveillance Societies" of the European Science Foundation, in which Christian Fuchs represents Austria in the management committee Links to Full Text of The Dissertation (English and/or German) Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/bz9t5s ] Also: UnRelated/Related: Brazil (The Film) 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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Research on multiple CMC environments
by Alice E. Marwick 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi all, I'm looking for research on the interaction of different types of CMC - e.g. how chat, email, IM, social networking, virtual worlds, blogging, SMS, mobile etc. are used together as part of a communication environment by users. Most studies I've found concentrate on a single aspect; I'm looking for work on the use of two or more types of CMC by the same users. Thanks! Alice -- Alice Marwick PhD Candidate, New York University Department of Media, Culture and Communication (206) 650-9109 alice.marwick(a)nyu.edu

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Call for Papers: Communication Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media
by Teresa M Harrison 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

From: Teresa M Harrison, University at Albany, harrison(a)albany.edu Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC -- http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm) Subject: Call for Papers: Communication Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media Over the last few years, social media technologies such as blogs, microblogs, digital videos, podcasts, wikis, and social networks, have seen a dramatic increase in adoption rates. Because they connect people and facilitate the exchange of information and web content, social media technologies not only provide a powerful new way to interact with one another, they also present exciting new pedagogical opportunities. This special issue seeks to examine the pedagogical applications of social media technologies, especially with regard to the communication classroom. Examples of best practices in social media adoption in all areas of communication education are welcome, as are case studies or empirical research analyzing the effectiveness and/or effects of incorporating social media technologies into the communication classroom. Research examining the role these technologies play in the social construction of a collective knowledge pool would also fit within the scope of this special issue. Deadline for completed manuscripts is April 1, 2009. See the full call for papers at: http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/calls/socmedia.htm Issue Editors: Corinne Weisgerber, Ph.D. and Shannan H. Butler, Ph.D. Send inquiries and submissions to: corinnew(a)stedwards.edu

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Bastard Culture! User Participation and the Extension of Cultural Industries
by mirko tobias schaefer 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi all, for those who are interested in participatory culture, I'd like to post a link to my dissertation. Comments and critical feedback are very welcome. Bastard Culture! User Participation and the extension of Cultural Industries http://mtschaefer.net/media/uploads/docs/Schaefer_Bastard-Culture.pdf Abstract: The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, my dissertation steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation. I argue that participatory culture is rather a dynamic interaction of users and companies, discourses and technologies. The availability of computers and Internet expand the traditional culture industry into the domain of users, who actively participate in cultural production, either by appropriating products from the commercial domain or by creating their owns. But while user activities constitute a significant loss of control for certain sectors of traditional media industries, especially in the area of distribution, the larger culture industry benefits from user driven innovation through the appropriation of corporate design. Furthermore, the media industry undergoes a shift from creating content to providing platforms for user driven social interactions and user-generated content. In this extended culture industry participation unfolds not only in the co-creation of media content and software-based products, but also in the development and defense of distinctive media practices that represent a sociopolitical understanding of new technologies. ----------------------- Mirko Tobias Schäfer | Assistant Professor | Department for Media and Culture Studies | Faculty of Humanities | Utrecht University | Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, room 2.13a | NL- 3512 HH Utrecht T: +31-30-644620751 F: +31-30-253 6167 M: mirko.schaefer(a)let.uu.nl | W: www.mtschaefer.net

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CfP: Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2010
by Scott Counts 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Call for Participation: CSCW 2010 ______________________________ Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010 Savannah, Georgia, USA February 6 - 10, 2010 http://www.cscw2010.org ***PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2009*** Greetings CSCW researchers! We invite you to submit results of your research to the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), to be held February 6-10, 2010, in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The conference has several possibilities for participation: * Papers & Notes * Workshops * Panels * Videos * Interactive Posters * Demonstrations * Doctoral Colloquium * Student Volunteers CSCW brings together top researchers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and social aspects of collaboration. Although work is an important area of focus for the conference, technology is increasingly supporting a wide range of recreational and social activities, and we embrace the growth of the discipline in the areas of Collaboration, Sociality, Computation, and the Web. Appropriate topic areas for CSCW include all contexts in which technology is used to mediate human activities such as communication, coordination, cooperation, competition, entertainment, education, medicine, art, and music. The technology may include: email, instant messaging, blogs, shared workspaces, teleconferencing, games, co-located systems, robotics, haptics, and emerging technologies. Given the broad charter of the CSCW research area, we are interested both in research on the core themes which have made CSCW an intellectually rich and rigorous community, and on submissions that push the boundaries of CSCW research and that illustrate the many and diverse technologies that facilitate collaboration. Possible topics include: * Innovations and experiences with Intranets, the Internet, WWW * Innovative installations: CSCW and the arts, media, museums, etc. * Innovative technologies and architectures to support group activity, awareness and telepresence * Social and organizational effects of introducing technologies * Theoretical aspects of coordination and communication * Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative practices * Ethnographic and case studies of work practice * Working with and through collections of heterogeneous technologies * Emerging issues for global coordination and communication * Studies exploring the appropriate balance between individual and collaborative work. * Systems for emergency preparedness and large-scale rapid deployment (e.g. disaster relief) * Social Systems: Social Network Sites and Collective Intelligence * Computer Supported Cooperative Healthcare * Multi-player gaming and Virtual Environments * Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Mashups * Visions of future directions for CSCW * Human Robotic Collaboration (HRC) * Collaboration with and through advanced sensing systems Submission deadlines: * Papers and Notes: June 1, 2009 * Workshops: July 3, 2009 * Videos: October 18, 2009 * Interactive Posters: October 18, 2009 * Demos: October 18, 2009 * Doctoral Colloquium: October 18, 2009 Conference Co-Chairs * Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research * Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan Technical Program Chair * John Tang, Microsoft Research Papers and Notes Co-Chairs * Steve Whittaker, University of Sheffield * Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 54, Issue 30
by David Gurzick 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

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CFP: Panel for AoIR 10 on "friends"
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Everyone - Erika Pearson and I are organizing a panel for the conference this October and looking for papers that would work together under our theme. The preliminary summary is below. Please email your paper proposals/abstracts to me at stuszynski(a)bethanywv.edu and to Erika at erika.pearson(a)otago.ac.nz if you'd like to be considered. This panel seeks to explore the ways relationships are constructed (and misconstructed online). From questions of "What is a friend?" to the weak ties of Twitter followers, this panel looks at both critical theorizing and user experience of online socialization. Together, these papers consider ways to redefine the complex bonds that are currently lumped together under the broad and overused label 'friend.'" Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.

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Political discussion groups online
by anna 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear all! I am doing the research in the field of Language of CMC and mainly I am studying political discussion groups online. As a sample study I am using data from the BBC forum Have your say. I am wondering if you know any research done in this field, from different perspectives. Mostly I am interested in the evolvement of political talk online and its characteristics. Thank you very much for your help in advance! I would be happy to post my findings here ! Anna Ivanova PhD Student, University of Seville, Spain annclub1(a)rambler.ru -- anna . -- Нарисуй морозные узоры на окнах! http://moroz.rambler.ru/

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Transcription Software
by laudone＠fordham.edu 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi all, I am in the beginning stages of my dissertation research, which involves in-depth qualitative interviews and am looking into transcription software packages (such as Dragon). I am aiming to have about 50-75 interviews, so transcribing them myself isn't the best option for me. I haven't heard too much about the software however. Does anyone have experience with this? Any insight is greatly appreciated! Many thanks, Stephanie Laudone _______________________ Stephanie Laudone, MA PhD Student, Teaching Associate Dept. of Sociology Fordham University Laudone(a)fordham.edu

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5 days left: SAW 2009 (Social Aspects of the Web, Springer proceedings)
by Dominik Flejter 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland April 28, 2009 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=34&ws=saw2009 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2009 =========================================================================== In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel, extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share, and use knowledge in a social way. This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects, as well as ways of working and doing business. The change also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so, and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions. Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. TOPICS OF INTEREST * People on the social Web * Individuals on the Web (identity, privacy, incentives, activity models, trust and reputation, ...) * Communities on the Web (roles, leadership, social norms and conflicts, types of communities, ...) * Collaboration on the Web (content and data development and maintenance, decision taking ...) * On-line and off-line life (mixed interaction models, on-line vs. off-line communities, ... ) * Business activities in the social Web (sales, exchanges, word-of-mouth, recruiting, marketing, ...) * Data and content on the social Web * Social content organization (tagging, classification, recommendations, collaborative filtering, ...) * Content dynamics (content flow and evolution, mashups, comments, collaborative creation, ...) * Semantic social Web (standards, annotation of social content/data, ontology learning, ...) * Data and social network portability (standards, policies, technologies, licenses, ...) * Social software and services * Specific types of social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, resources sharing, ...) * Development (architectures, technologies, platforms, infrastructures, ...) * Adoption (critical mass problem, socio-technical gap, data and social network migration, ...) * Alternative user interaction models (games, mobile, mixed reality, ...) * Social software in the enterprise (knowledge management, CRM, collaborative software, ...) * Business models of social services (pricing, cost models, customer relation, content acquisition, ...) * Mining the social Web * Mining user-generated content (opinion, comments, rankings, forums, ...) * Mining the social graph (collaborative filtering, social network analysis, ...) * Mining activity patterns (access, used features, participation, interactions, ...) * Entity-centric content integration (on people, experts, objects, companies, locations, ...) * Social Web mining in business (for marketing, products design, customer support, ...) SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saw2009. Papers approved for presentation at SAW 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * February 1, 2009 - submission deadline for papers * February 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 15, 2009 - submission of final papers * April 28, 2009 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Dominik Flejter * Tomasz Kaczmarek * Marek Kowalkiewicz PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany * Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan * Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia * Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China * Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany =========================================================================== -- Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ > Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ > SAW 2009 Co-chair

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