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Gender differences in internet Behaviour
by Shrwan Khanal 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hi all I am researching on gender differences on internet use pattern, knowledge, purpose of internet use. It is a case study of University of Zambia, Zambia. The data was collected(using structured questionnaire) in last autumn among 300 students (from the internet cafe within University premise). Could someone help me identifying some of the theoretical or conceptual aspect of this kind of study. It would also be helpful if similar study was done in other developing world where internet is introduced recently. -- Shrwan Khanal Masters Programme in Development and International Cooperation University of Jyvaskyla Finland cell:0442733433

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 52, Issue 8
by Michael Dieter 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Apologies for cross-posting. Web 2.0 Studies // Critical Internet Theory Geert Lovink Research Methodologies Workshop December 15th and 16th, 2008 School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne is seeking applications from researchers who wish to take part in a two day methodologies workshop with Professor Geert Lovink (Director, Institute of Network Culture, Amsterdam). Participation is free but places are limited and will be restricted to participants who are engaged in research relating to the theme of Web 2.0 studies and critical Internet theory. Participants will be chosen based on a competitive application process and priority will be given to postgraduates and early career researchers. The workshop will include a discussion of the work of Geert Lovink and presentations from successful applicants. Workshop Theme This two-day intensive workshop will focus on critical methodologies for studying Web 2.0. In relation to the contemporary Internet, there is an obvious need to move beyond cultural studies approaches to fandom, where active consumption is simply recast as participatory culture without any assessment of the economic and technological forces driving user-generated content. Rather than relying on the Jenkins-style models of convergence and the notion of collective intelligence, this workshop will encourage participants to consider the alternative possibilities and theoretical problems facing a materialist understanding of network culture. For instance, to what extent can software studies move from engineering issues and technologically-focused specifications to outline a broader analytics of power? What sort of creative concepts are available for understanding the everyday practices of blogging? How can organized networks transform their dependence on free labor to reach greater economic sustainability? While the theme is framed in part by Geert Lovink's ongoing theoretical work, this workshop also allows for the opportunity to discuss some of the more general difficulties facing Internet research, including questions of scale, speed and temporality, theories of technology, debates around networked politics and modes of collaboration. Some key topics: - organized networks - theories of blogging - recent web 2.0 literature (Bruns, Zittrain, Shirky) - software studies and protocol (Fuller, Galloway) - distributed aesthetics - free labor and collaboration The ARC Cultural Research Network has agreed to fund 3 stipends of up to $750 to support travel and accommodation costs of participants from outside Melbourne. How to Apply: Applications are due by Friday Nov 21, 2008. Applications must include a 250-word summary of your research topic, highlighting links to the theme and a one-page curriculum vitae. Applications and further information should be sent to Michael Dieter at mdieter(a)unimelb.edu.au Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC), is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and critic. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and in 2003 was based at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. In 2004, Lovink was appointed as Research Professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Associate Professor at University of Amsterdam. He is the founder of Internet projects such as nettime and fibreculture. His recent book titles are Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002) and My First Recession (2003). In 2005-06 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Institute for Advanced Study where he finished his third volume on critical Internet culture, Zero Comments (2007). Geert's weblog: www.networkcultures.org/geert

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Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Colleagues/ A Most Interesting Discovery This Saturday ... /Gerry Hull D, Pettifer SR, Kell DB (2008) Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Comput Biol 4(10): e1000204. Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as "thought in cold storage," and unfortunately many digital libraries can be cold, impersonal, isolated, and inaccessible places. In this Review, we discuss the current chilly state of digital libraries for the computational biologist, including PubMed, IEEE Xplore, the ACM digital library, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Citeseer, arXiv, DBLP, and Google Scholar. We illustrate the current process of using these libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. We then examine a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places. We conclude with how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some of the issues that will help or hinder this in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines. Graphic and Linked Contents Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/692uh3 ] 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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Articles on the philosophy of value
by Marius Johannessen 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

I'm writing a paper on the value of enterprise portals in government, and want to include a brief section discussing the term "value". But I have a hard time finding good articles through my university's library resources, so I'm posting here to see if anyone can help me. If you happen to have written something on the value of government portals, that would of course be welcome as well. regards, Marius Johannessen master's student information systems University of Agder

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New book on personal Digital Storytelling
by Knut Lundby 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Dear Colleagues, you may be interested in this new book on personal Digital Storytelling: "Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media" Edited by Knut Lundby (Peter Lang) Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on "me" flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called "mediatized stories." This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital media. Among the contributors to this volume are Nick Couldry, Kirsten Drotner, Nancy Thumim, David Gauntlett, James V. Wertsch, Ola Erstad, Glynda A. Hull and John Hartley. The book draws upon the "Mediatized Stories" project www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/ and also relates to the research on digital storytelling at QUT in Australia www.cci.edu.au Says Charles Ess, AoIR president: "Contributors address current discussions concerning media and identity, the democratizing potential of new media, as well as significant debates regarding how we best theorize 'media' and 'mediatization'. This is a 'must-read' collection for anyone interested in global perspectives on narrative, new media, and the larger impacts and potentials of digital technologies on both our individual and collective lives as de facto global citizens." www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/publications www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310273&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 Best wishes Knut Lundby ______________________________ Project leader MEDIATIZED STORIES www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/

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Launch of NS2: Niche Social network Sites Blog | Facebook Group
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Colleagues/ With the increasing number of Niche Social Network Sites (NS2), I have decided to create a separate blog devoted to NS2s. NS2 is "devoted to **documenting** the variety of online social network sites and services established to facilitate networking among communities with focused interests or purpose" and is [ http://nichesocialnetworksites.blogspot.com/ ] A Feedburner webfeed is available at [ http://feeds.feedburner.com/NS2NicheSocialNetworkSites ] A companion Facebook Global Group (Open To All) has also been created; One can join the group at [ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33724644068 ] >>The Facebook is devoted to **discussing** issues related to Niche Social Network Sites<< NS2 will profile ***non-Library and non-Educational*** online social networks sites/news/publications/etc. It has been seeded with recent posting to the Friends blog [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ] BTW: I've been invited to contribute detailed profiles of Niche Social Network Sites to _Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professional_ [ http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.asp ] and will be submitting 2,000-2,500 word contributions over the coming months/years ... I expect that the first profile will be published in a Spring Issue [?] BTW-2: I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All Niche Social Network Sites for NS2, as well as suggestions of NS2 Genres / Types / Categories (e.g. Military, Women, Librarians), and would appreciate any recommendations (as comments on the Blog Entry @[ http://tinyurl.com/64yk8s ]) and/or on the Facebook Discussion Board. BTW-3: For Examples of Niche Social Network Sites, Please See My IL 2008 presentation (Slides 90 ->) [ http://tinyurl.com/6ayxoq ] and/or a related Friends blog entry [ http://tinyurl.com/2hkdyq ]. Thanks! /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 and parental monitoring literature?
by Magdi Vanya 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

I am a research scientist working on a study of how families try to prevent adolescent drug and alcohol abuse. One aspect of our study investigates parents' use of technology (cell phones, internet) in monitoring or tracking their teen's behavior. I am wondering if you could perhaps point me to sources that address this. Thanks in advance, Magdi

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Position: Lectureship in Internet Studies Curtin University
by Matthew Allen 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Dear all We are currently seeking a lecturer to join the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. The appointment is for three years fixed-term. Applications are open for a two-week period. Please visit http://jobs.curtin.edu.au/search/positionview.cfm?positionid=15684 Matt Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor and Head of Department, Internet Studies School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://netstudies.curtin.edu.au <http://netstudies.curtin.edu.au/> +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) Immediate Past President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org <https://email.curtin.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.aoir.org/>

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convergence
by Sabryna Cornish 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi all--I am teaching a graduate course on media convergence. I have a good idea for readings for the course, but wanted some suggestions from list serv members about what they might require graduate students to read. I am purposely not including a description of the course to see what list serv members think about when they consider the term media convergence. I will say this is a theoretically based course. Thanks in advance for any help! Sabryna Sabryna Cornish Assistant professor of journalism Department of communication Northern Illinois University

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3CMedia: Making Links
by Marcus Foth 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication The Making Links 2007 Special Issue is now available online at: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue4/ This issue of 3CMedia continues a dialogue about the raison d’être for community organisations (including community media organisations) in times of participatory culture, media convergence and Web 2.0. Do the affordances of these socio-cultural and technical trends render the third sector less significant or even obsolete as some commentators speculate? This issue of 3CMedia has been edited by Marcus Foth and brings together research papers that explore new opportunities opened up to community sector organisations by emerging technologies. It features articles based on papers presented at the 2007 Making Links conference held at the NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre in Sydney in October, 2007. Originating in community health networks, the Making Links conference series now targets the whole community and non-profit sector. The fifth Making Links conference will take place this year at The University of Melbourne from 11th to 13th November, with conference themes of community, responsibility and sustainability (see http://www.makinglinks.org.au/) . The Making Links issue of 3CMedia includes papers by Atari Metcalf, Christine Satchell, Ali Asghar Kia, Danny Butt, Edwina Luck and Elizabeth Buchanan. For full abstracts see: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue4/ 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication is a free, scholarly e-journal and is published by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. See: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/ for further details. Thanks! Christina Spurgeon Editor 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Media & Communication Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, 4059, Australia Tel: + 61 7 31388184 Fax: + 61 7 31388195 Email: c.spurgeon(a)qut.edu.au -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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