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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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Re: [Air-L] Transcription Software
by Denise N. Rall 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear AIR-ers - As someone who types fairly rapidly, I have an advantage (and the use of two hands). However radical it might seem, I think that ordinary transcription, the listening repeatedly and repetitiously to half-heard words and the necessity of then relaying them into text, has everything to do with the process of learning what the person has actually said. I take this view from a world-class biologist who said to me once: "You have to live with your data for a long time before the meanings can arise" Another social scientist taped a photo of her participant to the edge of her computer screen while transcribing. She felt that her difficulties with transcription with her E. Indian participants was part of the process of 'coming to know' her participants. Other cognitive scientists talk of the importance of using our hands in learning. Don't have the exact cite, but it was about tool-making, tool-using, through continous repetition - humans build cognitive links in their brains. It's refreshing to realise that my hands can be involved in helping me think. There's no dishonour in typing words, in fact, lots can be learned by patient listening . . . and typing . . . and listening . . . and typing . . . Why take shortcuts? There's lots to learn in the painful process! Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Internationalisation Project Officer Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Presenter, Internet Research 9.0, 15-18 October 2008, Copenhagen, DK --- On Wed, 28/1/09, laudone(a)fordham.edu <laudone(a)fordham.edu> wrote: Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox

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New Blog Series: New Media Practices in International Contexts
by Mimi Ito 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Here is an announcement of a series of blog posts that I am hoping might be of interest to some of you on this list. --mi New Media Practices in International Contexts Blog Series January 26 2009 The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, UCHRI Futures of Learning (www.futuresoflearning.org) We are very pleased to introduce our new blog series, New Media Practices in International Contexts. Our blog series looks at the intersection of youth, new media and learning in a range of countries outside of North America and Western Europe. Inspired by the ways in which Scribner and Cole's (1981) work among the Vai of Liberia transformed activity theory, Brian Street's (1984, 1993) fieldwork in Iran contributed to the development of New Literacy Studies and Paulo Freire's (1970) work in Brazil influenced critical pedagogy, we believe that examining new media practices from an international (and, in some cases, transnational) perspective will enhance our current efforts to theorize youth, new media and learning. Over the next three to four months we will be introducing six case studies – Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Korea and Japan – which challenge us to think about the intersection of youth, new media and learning in new ways. Beginning with Cara Wallis' analysis of China today, each country review will begin a discussion of the telecommunications landscape. Subsequent posts by HyeRyoung Ok (Korea), Anke Schwittay (India), Heather Horst (Brazil), Mimi Ito and Daisuke Okabe (Japan) and Araba Sey (Ghana) will focus upon internet and mobile phone practices, gaming as well as new media production. As we have discovered in reading and writing up the material, each case study provides a unique perspective on the ways in which infrastructure, institutions and culture (among other factors) shape contemporary new media practices. If you know of books or articles that we have missed, or have feedback on any of the case studies, we would really welcome a comment or an email. Before I conclude, I want to add one final note. In the exploratory phase of this project we sent out requests for articles, books and information to various individuals and news lists. We were all amazed at the generosity of fellow researchers in providing summaries of the fascinating work being carried out in this space and, in some cases, extensive bibliographies. We would like to thank the following individuals for their valuable suggestions and assistance: Julie Soleil Archimbault, Francois Bar, Paul Braund, Larissa Hjorth, Răzvan Nicolescu, John Postill and Mikko Villi. In addition, many of us have also found discussions on the Media Anthropology and Association of Internet Researchers extremely valuable. We are very grateful to these two communities of scholars.

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Re: [Air-L] Transcription Software
by laudone＠fordham.edu 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Thanks for your suggestion! ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:49:08 +0100 >From: "Dominik M. Rosenauer" <rosenauer(a)mac.com> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Transcription Software >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >hi stephanie > >i used atlas-ti for my thesis. the advantage of this software is that it >also works with other media than text and different researchers can easily >collaborate using the same data. just to name a few advantages. and if you >can use the student version it has a reasonable price! > >best > >dominik > >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > >_______________________________________________ >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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CfP Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments
by Christian Pentzold 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

apologies for x-posting, please distribute as appropriate *********** CfP Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments *********** Interdisciplinary Workshop Oxford Internet Institute Oxford University Thursday, March 26, 2009 9am-6pm Over the past decades, a variety of new technologies have reconfigured the ways in which we initiate and maintain social and economic relations. Today, millions of people around the globe buy goods from people they have never met in person, edit the online encyclopedia Wikipedia without monetary rewards, use e-mail and SMS to organize political protest, stay in contact with friends via social networking sites, or look for a new partner via online dating services. In short, an increasing part of our lives is taking place in digitally networked environments. Powered by information and communication technologies built on cheap and interconnected processors with considerable computing capacity, these environments are characterized by novel forms of interaction. Digitally networked environments are often assumed to magically govern themselves. Especially when traditional modes of governance like law and centralized regulations fail, researchers tend to resort to ideas like self-regulation, decentralization, liberalization, or peer production to describe the complex interactions and mechanisms that take place in large-scale, loose-knit socio-technical networks. Moreover, the network itself is often contrasted with markets or hierarchies as a new mode of governance in its own right. This workshop will adopt a different approach and take a closer look at new and non-obvious modes of governance in digitally networked environments. Specifically, we would like to explore what these modes are, how they work, and who or what controls them. Questions might be, but are not limited to: What is the role of calculation, measurement, classification, trust, accountability, or reputation? How can we understand leadership and authority under these conditions? Which role does the technical infrastructure play? Is there evidence for a new form of network governance? Overall, the goal of the workshop is to generate a deeper conceptual, empirical, and normative understanding of these new modes of governance through open and creative discussion. Format: We are planning on having a one-day workshop with several sessions, focusing on one mode of governance each. A session will be kicked off by a presenter and a respondent, preferably grounding their arguments in empirical analysis. At the end of the day, we hope to wrap up the workshop and summarize the findings in a brief report. Participation: The workshop is open to a maximum of 16 postgraduates and post-docs from all departments and universities. If you would like to participate, please send a brief abstract (300 words) including your name, affiliation, and contact details to malte.ziewitz(a)oii.ox.ac.uk by Feb. 20, 2009. Priority will be given to those who commit to introducing a mode of governance of their choice for discussion. Refreshments, lunch, and challenging ideas will be provided. A limited amount of travel funding is available. Contact: Christian Pentzold (christian.pentzold [at] oii.ox.ac.uk) Malte Ziewitz (malte.ziewitz [at] oii.ox.ac.uk) Oxford Internet Institute Oxford University 1 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/ Generously supported by the Web Science Research Initiative

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IR 10.0 submission site launched - and open until February 16
by Susanna Paasonen 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi again, Sorry for the typo in my previous email: the submission site for IR 10.0 - Internet:Critical is open until _February_ 16 (and not for the next 12 months...) And here's the info again: Guidelines on proposing single papers, panels and roundtables are available on the site. Since we are accepting full papers this year, there are a few more options to choose from than usual - so please make sure to select the correct link below. Please also note that you will have to create a new user ID for the OCS system we are using. When creating a new user ID, you also have the option of volunteering as reviewer. Peer review plays a crucial role in guaranteeing the overall quality of the conference, and offers to review are very much appreciated. For *full paper* submission please create a new user ID and password here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/irf/10f/user/account and then submit your paper here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/irf/10f/presenter/submit/1 For *paper abstract*, *panel*, and *roundtable* submissions, please create a new user ID and password here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/ir/10/user/account and then submit your paper here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/ir/10/presenter/submit/1 In case you have any technical questions concerning submissions via OCS, please email Alex Halavais (alex(a)halavais.net) - thanks to whose efforts the site is now up. With any other questions concerning submissions, do not hesitate to contact me. Looking forward to your proposals! Susanna Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Program Chair / IR 10.0

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IR 10.0 submission site launched!
by Susanna Paasonen 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Dear all, And apologies for potential cross-posting: I tried sending the info on the list yesterday but my attempts seem to have backfired. So here's the retry: I'm extremely glad to announce that the submission site for IR 10.0 - Internet:Critical is now open, and will be until January 16. Guidelines on proposing single papers, panels and roundtables are available on the site. Since we are accepting full papers this year, there are a few more options to choose from than usual - so please make sure to select the correct link below. Please also note that you will have to create a new user ID for the OCS system we are using. When creating a new user ID, you also have the option of volunteering as reviewer. Peer review plays a crucial role in guaranteeing the overall quality of the conference, and offers to review are very much appreciated. For *full paper* submission please create a new user ID and password here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/irf/10f/user/account and then submit your paper here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/irf/10f/presenter/submit/1 For *paper abstract*, *panel*, and *roundtable* submissions, please create a new user ID and password here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/ir/10/user/account and then submit your paper here: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aoir/index.php/ir/10/presenter/submit/1 In case you have any technical questions concerning submissions via OCS, please email Alex Halavais (alex(a)halavais.net) - thanks to whose efforts the site is now up. With any other questions concerning submissions, do not hesitate to contact me. Looking forward to your proposals! Susanna Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Program Chair / IR 10.0

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