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Center for Information Policy Research, UWM--AoIR 10 Grad Student Research Grant
by Elizabeth A Buchanan 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues, Things are quite chilly here in Milwaukee, but the excitement of a new President...and AoIR 10 are keeping us going! We are pleased to announce the following opportunity: The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) will sponsor one (1) graduate student for the IR.10 conference. Registration and 3 nights hotel fees (standard room at the conference hotel) will be covered. The student's research must focus on some aspect of information ethics or information policy, and internet studies, broadly conceived. To qualify, the recipient must submit a full paper for acceptance to IR.10 in accordance with the call for papers. Once accepted to the conference, the following should be submitted to Elizabeth Buchanan at cipr(a)uwm.edu by 1 May 2009: * Accepted paper notification * CV * Brief statement of how the paper will make an impact on the fields of information ethics, policy, and internet studies. Recipient will be notified by 1 June 2009. Please direct any questions to me. All the 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

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ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowships call open
by Yuwei Lin 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowships call open This scheme provides funds up to £5,000 for scholars from the Americas (North, Central, South and the Caribbean) to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the Americas, between 1 June 2009 and 31 August 2010. Approximately 18 research fellowships will be awarded. Funds may be used to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses. Details at http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/internationa… Deadline 12 noon on 20 March 2009. The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) has had three successes under this scheme in the past and you are strongly encouraged to consider an application. NCeSS applicants must be endorsed by Peter Halfpenny, the Executive Director of NCeSS. If you are interested in the Fellowship in either direction (from the Americas to the UK or vice versa) please let Peter <peter.halfpenny(a)manchester.ac.uk> know immediately. -- Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org http://www.ylin.org

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new version of the software coffee released
by Luca Tateo 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Dear colleagues, it is a pleasure to announce the new release of CoFFEE software (4.1 version): "The CoFFEE After". It is downloadable at the http://www.coffee-soft.org/ Web site starting from Jan, 22th, and at the Sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffee-soft/ now! What's new in version 4.1? 1) New tools Two more tools have been added: - Internet Explorer Tool: allows each student to navigate the World Wide Web through a standard browser. It offers the standard functionalities of a (private) browser, but also the opportunity for the teacher to provide a "follow-me" mechanism. - Document Browser Tool: the Document Browser tool is an HTTP server that allows the teacher to share documents with the classroom; students can open the documents and browse the links that are eventually present in them. 2) Activity indicators The teacher can now monitor the activity level of the students in real time. Close to the name of each student there is an icon indicating the level of partecipation to the discussion (red = low, green = medium, blue = high), based on the number of messages sent in his/her group in the current step. By selecting a student, the teacher can see in details the number of messages sent in each tool and the percentage of messages sent in the group. 3) "Fully anonymous" behaviour In the Chat Tool and the Threaded Discussion Tool the teacher can activate a "fully anonymous" behaviour: in this case teacher cannot see the names of the students and the report (PDF/RTF/HTML) does not bring information about the names of the contributors. The identity is, however, still present in the traces/logs. 4) Hebrew nationalization CoFFEE has been (partially) nationalized in Hebrew language, and (partial) support for right-to-left widgets has been added. Try and enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luca Tateo Project LEAD - Department of Education Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy) via Rufoli, 23 Ogliara I-84135 Salerno mobile +39.392.5178418, +39.347.5423594 office +39.089.962106 ltateo(a)unisa.it, network.salerno(a)tiscali.it Skype ID: luca.tateo lucatateo.blog.tiscali.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Air-L] New study: studiVZ, Facebook, MySpace: Social networking sites and the surveillance society
by Jeff McCarthy 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Christian thank you for your paper. I'm studying SNS currently and have recently read Boyd and Ellison in addition to Beer's response. Your paper is very useful too. Best regards Jeff Jeff McCarthy Marketing & Retail The Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Campus Manchester UK M1 3GH Tel: +44 (0)7900 808230 Email: jeff.mccarthy(a)mmu.ac.uk Academia: http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer >>> Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)sbg.ac.at> 01/19/09 5:11 PM >>> Fuchs, Christian. 2009. 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. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2. Study: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdf Background Information: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_E.html -- --------------- Christian Fuchs Associate Professor eTheory Research Group ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs(a)sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at Blog: http://christianfuchs.wordpress.com Co-Editor of tripleC - open access online journal on cognition, communication and cooperation for a global sustainable information society: http://triple-c.at New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 408 Pages. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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new fee waiver policy
by Charles Ess 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Dear AoIR-ists, Those of you who attended the Annual General Membership (AGM) meeting during Internet Research (IR) 9.0 last October in Copenhagen (thanks again, Lisbeth, Brian, & Co!) will remember that our stalwart Treasurer, Monica Murero, reported that AoIR had achieved a strong and stable financial state - leading us to the very important question: how do we make the best use of our available funds so as to best benefit AoIR members? I'm very pleased to announce that one of our first responses to this central concern is a new fee waiver policy. Briefly, we will fund up to three IR conference fee waivers for those who have much to contribute to an annual Internet Research conference, but whose financial situation will otherwise prevent their attending. As you can see by the policy guidelines (complete version below), these fee waivers are designed to directly expand the diversity of viewpoints, cultures, etc. represented at our IR conferences. (Long-time members of AoIR, in particular, will recognize here an effort to address a concern driving the organization since its inauguration, i.e., how to foster and collect Internet-focused research and scholarship across a genuinely global range of perspectives and cultures - in part, by encouraging participation and representation from those countries and cultures whose scholars and researchers face the most severe financial limitations?) This information will also be posted on the AoIR and IR 10.0 websites soonest. In closing, and at the risk of highlighting a U.S.-centric perspective, I cannot help but observe the happy accident that we are able to announce this policy on the day that we in the U.S. are celebrating the inauguration of a new President. What many of us in the U.S. anticipate to be a new spirit of inclusion, openness, and striving for greater equality here and abroad is clearly resonant with AoIR's modest but significant step towards greater inclusion and diversity in the form of this fee waiver. On that happy thought - happy inauguration day! - c. President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://ijire.uwm.edu Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 ==> Fee Waiver Policy In order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR annual Internet Research (IR) conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers will make available up to three conference fee waivers per year. The number of fee waivers will depend first of all upon the ability of the conference budget to sustain such waivers (a judgment to be made by the AoIR Executive Committee upon the advice of the AoIR Treasurer and the local organizing committee) as well as upon the quality of the applications for fee waivers. Applications for fee waivers are invited from student or faculty authors whose paper or panel proposals have already been accepted via the AoIR IR conference reviewing process. All applications should be directed to the Vice-President of AoIR, and must be received by June 30 of the conference year. Late applications cannot be considered. Applications should be no longer than 2 pages, and must include the following information: 1) A brief description of how the author's presentation or contribution to the AoIR IR conference will uniquely articulate and/or represent a distinctive perspective (e.g., of persons and/or cultures) otherwise unlikely to be represented at the annual AoIR Internet Research conference. 2) An explanation of the author's distinctive circumstances that would warrant a fee waiver. These may include, but are by no means limited to: exceptionally limited financial resources (e.g., as a graduate student or scholar in a non-OECD country, as a disabled person on a limited income, etc.); exceptional limits on institutional support otherwise normally available (e.g., travel funds, grant funds, etc.); other exceptional circumstances that render the usual AoIR IR conference fees an insurmountable obstacle to attending the IR conference in order to present one's own work. Applicants may also include a letter of support from someone familiar with her / his circumstances, special needs, etc. Such a letter is optional, however, not a requirement. Applications will be reviewed by the AoIR Executive Committee. Fee waivers will be awarded on the basis of the Executive Committee's collective judgment as to which presentations will make the most distinctive contribution to the AoIR IR conference. In order to respect and protect the privacy of the applicants, all Executive Committee discussions and deliberations of fee waiver applications will be held in strict confidence. The AoIR Executive Committee regretfully acknowledges that there will be more fully meritorious applications than we will be able to award and support. Nonetheless we hope that awarded fee waivers will not only assist deserving scholars and researchers, but also thereby enrich the AoIR IR conferences in important new ways. Approved by the AoIR Executive Committee, 20 November 2008

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LiWA first newsletter
by Nathalie PISCHON 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

-- Apologies for cross posting -- Dear All, We are happy to inform you that the first Living Web Archives Newsletter is now available at: http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/newsletters/ This newsletter contains an introduction of the LiWA Project research goals and achievements in the following area: - Complex sites capture - Spam cleansing - Temporal coherence - Semantic evolution We hope you will enjoy it... Nathalie Pischon European Archive Foundation

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Submission deadline for IR 10.0 extended, plus author info
by Susanna Paasonen 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Dear all, We are working hard on setting up the new OCS conference system for the forthcoming IR 10.0 Internet:Critical conference in Milwaukee but will not be able to launch it until January 26 (which will be the earliest date to submit a proposal). Due to this, the CFP deadline will be extended until February 16 (which again means that notifications of acceptance will arrive end of March). I do realize that this long a wait with the submissions can be frustrating but we want to be sure that everything really works before the launch. We do appreciate your patience. Please note that in order to submit a proposal, one will need to create an account with the OCS conference system since old logins and passwords will not be carried over. Guidelines on how to do this will be available once the system is up and running (and linked through the conference web site, http://ir10.aoir.org/) Meanwhile, I'm attaching below the guidelines for submitting papers, panels, and roundtables to help with the preparations. In case you have any further questions or queries concerning these, or conference submissions in general, please do not hesitate to contact me. with best regards, Susanna Author guidelines: * PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words The abstract should indicate your methodological and theoretical framework * FULL PAPERS (OPTIONAL): For submitters requiring peer review of full papers, manuscripts of up to 8,000 words will be accepted for review. These will be reviewed and judged separately from abstract submissions Please be sure that all identifying information is removed from the paper as well as its metadata Papers need to be in either ".doc" or ".pdf" format only (NOT ".docx") * PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a 600-800 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation Please be sure to remove names of individual panel presenters in the body of the proposal, to ensure blind peer review * ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction Please be sure to remove names of individual roundtable participants in the body of the proposal, to ensure blind peer review Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a panel session, which may include a second paper that they are presenting. An individual may also submit a roundtable proposal. You may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not presenting them. Full papers should not exceed 8,000 words in length. If your word-processor is capable of doing a word count please use it to print this at the end of the text, together with the date of the manuscript. Notes should be kept to a minimum and placed at the end of the article before the references; footnotes should be avoided. Illustrations: Tables, figures and plates should not be inserted within the pages of the manuscript but should be submitted on separate pages attached to the article. References: please use the reference/format system most appropriate for your discipline (APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, etc.) Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Program Chair / IR 10.0

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MUVEs in Teaching and Learning - Online discussion event begins 25th Jan
by Helen Keegan 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

*apologies for cross-posting* The EXTEND project team, funded by JISC-EMERGE Benefits and Realisation, are hosting a series of online asynchronous discussions based around Learning Technologies. With contributions, videos and podcasts from JISC-EMERGE-funded projects HABITAT and MOOSE, the event will run from Sunday 25 Jan - Sunday 8 Feb 2009 and will focus on Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning. Some topics and questions include: · Can learning activities designed for 3D MUVEs be transferable to different contexts, disciplines or levels of education? · What does the term 'collaboration' mean relative to MUVEs? · Does the social nature of 3D MUVEs alter the tutor-student-tutor relationship? · What do MUVEs provide in terms of socialising/informal-learning that other platforms do not? · How relevant is 'play' and 'creativity' outside of the arts? Will non arts subjects ever accept MUVEs as a playful space within their teaching? · Are skills from more established technologies transferable into emerging technologies like 3D MUVEs? The event will be hosted on the HELP (Higher Education Learning Professionals) network, which you can join by visiting http://tiny.cc/IunFI - this will take you to a login page where you can create an account in 2 easy steps and enter the discussion. Please do join us for a lively and thought-provoking event! Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning: http://tiny.cc/IunFI Helen Keegan Research Fellow Computing Acoustics and Future Media School of Computing Science and Engineering University of Salford, UK M5 4WT http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/keegan

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Pirate Philosophy: Culture Machine 10
by Gary Hall 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

(Apologies for cross-postings) We are pleased to announce a new edition of the online, open-access journal Culture Machine: CULTURE MACHINE 10 (2009) http://www.culturemachine.net PIRATE PHILOSOPHY Tenth Anniversary Issue, edited by Gary Hall This tenth anniversary issue of Culture Machine explores how the development of various forms of digital culture and ‘internet piracy’ is affecting notions of authorship, intellectual property, copyright law, publication, attribution, citation, accreditation, fair use, content creation and cultural production that were established pre-internet. Contributors address the theme of piracy in the content and/or by playing provocatively with the form of their texts. The ‘Pirate Philosophy’ issue features: * Gary Hall, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 1.0): Open Access, Free Content, Free/Libre/Open Media’ * Adrian Johns, ‘Piracy as a Business Force’ * Jonas Andersson, ‘For the Good of the Net: The Pirate Bay as a Strategic Sovereign’ * Don Joyce, Negativland, ‘Vapor Music’ * Kembrew McLeod, ‘Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation and the End of Recorded Music’ * Alexander R. Galloway, ‘Debord’s Nostalgic Algorithm’ * Mark Amerika, ‘Source Material Everywhere: The Alfred North Whitehead Remix’ * Gary Hall, Clare Birchall and Pete Woodbridge, ‘Liquid Theory TV’ * Gary Hall and Clare Birchall, ‘New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader’ ------------------------- ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE The Culture Machine journal publishes new work from both established figures and up-and-coming writers. It is fully refereed, and has an International Advisory Board which includes Geoffrey Bennington, Robert Bernasconi, Sue Golding, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Mark Poster, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle and Kenneth Surin. Culture Machine welcomes original, unpublished submissions on any aspect of culture and theory. All contributions to Culture Machine are refereed anonymously. Anyone with material they wish to submit for publication is invited to contact: Culture Machine c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall e-mail: gary.hall(a)coventry.ac.uk and d.boothroyd(a)kent.ac.uk Culture Machine is part of Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org For more information, visit the Culture Machine site at: http://www.culturemachine.net -- Gary Hall Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info New book: Digitize This Book! http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hall_digitize.html Pirate Philosophy - Steal This! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YkXDTQ7iFs

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EuroITV 2009 'Networked Television' - CfP short papers/ posters/ demos/ doct consortium
by Jo Pierson 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Upcoming deadline: January 30th (short papers, posters, demos, doctoral consortium) EuroITV2009 - “Networked Television” 7th European Interactive TV Conference June 3rd to 5th 2009 Leuven, Belgium http://www.euroitv2009.org/ (for information about keynotes, workshops and tutorials, see below) Important upcoming deadline: January 30th: - Short papers - Posters - Demos - Doctoral consortium Call for Papers The EuroITV conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original, high quality papers addressing the special theme and topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. The main conference proceedings will be published by ACM. The special theme is "Networked Television", which will be addressed from a technological as well as a user point of view, including economical and business aspects. Important Dates: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos: January 30th, 2009 “ITV in Industry” submissions: March 1st, 2009 Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: • Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV • Ambient intelligence, ambient media environments • Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience • Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema • Asset management, metadata and content enrichment • Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows • Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems • Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies • New advertising and revenue models for television • Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction • Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t- learning • Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content • Communication services, video conferencing, messaging • Content management, digital rights management • Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising • Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation • Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) • Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures (ubiquitous and mobile) • Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) • Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology • Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces • Ethical, regulatory and policy issues • Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children • Digital divide and e-inclusion issues • Methods for digital television research and design Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings with full papers and short papers will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/) Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. This year's conference consists of three academic tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these academic tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work. Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction (Chair: Lyn Pemberton) Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies (Chair: Jo Pierson) Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies (Chair: Cristian Hesselman) Keynote speakers: http://www.euroitv2009.org/programme.html#keynotes Jan Van Bogaert (Alcatel-Lucent) "The Connected Home redefines the TV experience" Rich Ezekiel (Yahoo! Connected TV) "The Internet Revolution Will Be Televised" Workshops http://www.euroitv2009.org/programme.html#workshops - Think positive - designing and understanding enjoyable interactive media experiences - The Dynamics of a Networked Television Market - Enhancing Social Communication and Belonging by Integrating TV Narrativity and Game-Play - Defining the Architecture for Next Generation Inclusive Television Tutorials http://www.euroitv2009.org/programme.html#tutorials - 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 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/)

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