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LiveJournal Academic Research Bibliography
by Alice E. Marwick 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi all, For the last two months, I've been compiling a semi-comprehensive bibliography of academic research on LJ, which I am happy to say is now live: http://www.tiara.org/lj_bib.html Please email me with additions, suggestions, and changes. I hope this will be a helpful resource to the community. LJ is a fascinating site and deserves more academic attention :) Best, 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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getting bad for universites and researchers in italy
by FEDERICO MONACO 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Dear friends, concerning the frustrating situation scholars, teachers and researchers are living in Italy check some information on the following link: http://worriedteachers.com/ and get more informed. When possible support us by spread of information and proper attention on the web Federico Monaco Ph.D. student Università di Parma

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CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media
by Robin Reid 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Please feel free to repost or forward! Symposium title: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media April 30-May 2, 2009 The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University (http://resi.tamu.edu/ <https://libarts.tamu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://libarts.tamu .edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://resi.tamu.edu/> ) convenes a symposium every other year, and the proposed theme for the 2008-2009 year is Shifting Terrains: Inequalities in the 21st Century, and the symposium itself is to focus on Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media. The explosion of work on New Media (including the Internet, mobile devices, Web 2.0) and the juxtaposition and overlap between 'old' media (radio, television, film, and mass-print media) and New Media is a rich field of cultural production and scholarly research in which scholars of race and ethnicity have not been particularly well-represented. However, there are cutting edge scholars who do indeed explore various aspects of race/ethnicity and (New) Media (including audience/fan studies, representations of racial and ethnic identities in a variety of media, identity-focused online communities, etc.). We invite such scholars to submit papers with the intention of presenting work that deals with these topics during a 2 1/2 day interdisciplinary symposium, with several keynote speakers, including Dr. Lisa Nakamura and Dr. Henry Bial. We intend that a number of these papers will be compiled into an edited volume intended for publication, and that all papers and participants will have the opportunity to upload their papers on our developing interactive website for scholarly exchange on working papers. Submissions: 500 word abstracts or full papers of no more than 8000 words (including notes and references) should be submitted to: gatson(a)tamu.edu and resi(a)tamu.edu by December 31, 2008. Submissions will be reviewed by an organizing committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by March 15, 2009. *Please note person posting the call is not one of the organizers and reply to them. Thank you* Robin Anne Reid Professor, Literature and Languages Texas A&M University-Commerce Commerce TX 75429 903.886.5268 (work) 903.886.5980 (fax) Second Vice President, International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts www.iafa.org Tolkien at Kalamazoo President, Internation Association of Audience and Fan Studies http://community.livejournal.com/iaafs/profile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iaafs/ "There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely upon the sensible behavior of another human being." Gordianus the Finder, in Steven Saylor's The Triumph of Caesar

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Local content, interactivity, geotagging, donating, advocacy, and more
by Steven Clift 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

I am putting together some recommendations this week for a major national U.S. foundation and I'd like to be able to cite a few current statistics about forms on local online participation. I am interested in any baseline numbers you've discovered/know about related to various local online/participation activities, like: 1. The percentage of adult Internet users who have given their e-mail address to a neighbor, sent/received an e-mail with a neighbor 2. The percentage who have e-mailed local elected officials, signed a local online petition 3. The percentage who have joined a local online group/forum/e-list 4. The percentage of blogs that post regularly about their local community (placeblogs), percent of all "open" blogs that are political blogs and at what level of politics they focus on 5. Comparative features on local online news sites - Comparisons of reader comment policies/systems 6. Current attitudes of local elected officials about forms of online participation, e-mail, participatory democracy generally, etc. 7. Percentage of people who have either located a local charity online then volunteered, or have donated online to a local charity/cause 8. Percentage of people who receive an e-mail newsletter or updates from the local government, local media site, local religious group, other local groups Also, I am interested in reviews of current trends related to local content generation, particularly "user-generated content" of particular interest to local communities, as well as local search, the use of geotagging, and anything that seems to establish critical mass awareness/use of content and interactivity where geography is a primary determinate of relevancy. Instead of using the Internet to go to the world or simply replicate/enhance private family and personal life networks online, how are (can) people use the Internet (and related technologies) to "come home" and be part of "real" public life? In addition to posting on the list if you like, please send any replies to: clift(a)publicus.net Steven Clift http://stevenclift.com

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Re: [Air-L] undergrad internet & society courses in comm depts in US?
by Julia Pellicciaro 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hi Holly: The University of the Arts is a private university in Philadephia with about 2300 students. Its College of Media and Communication offers several courses that focus on internet & society in a few different contexts. The courses below will all have an arts/humanities approach to communications: CMMC 151 - History of Communication CMMC 207 - Digital Distribution CMMC 334 - News and Culture in the Digital Age MMDI 150 - Information Concepts You can view descriptions for these courses by searching http://catalog.uarts.edu/search_advanced.php For info on the CMMC courses, contact Sigmund Washington in the Communications Department at swashington(a)uarts.edu. For info on the MMDI course, contact Angela Dowdy in the Multimedia Department at adowdy(a)uarts.edu and/or Jeremy Beaudry (who is teaching it this semester) at jbeaudry(a)uarts.edu. You may mention my name if you contact any of them. Hope this is helpful! Best, Julia Pellicciaro Multimedia, Dec. 2008 ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > From: holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:11:33 -0500 > Subject: [Air-L] undergrad internet & society courses in comm depts in US? > I'm trying to collect information about undergraduate courses in > communication departments in the U.S. that focus on the internet/networked > technologies and society. Online information about such courses in > medium-sized private universities would be most helpful, but I'll take > anything. I have been teaching such a course as a special topic in my > department for what will be in the spring the third year in a row, and I'm > trying to convince members of my department that a course like this would be > a reasonable addition to the curriculum and deserves a course number. Thus, > I'm particularly interested in URLs that point to course descriptions or > catalogs that I can include in materials to give to my colleagues. > > Thanks in advance for any help with this! > > ----- > Holly Kruse > Faculty of Communication > The University of Tulsa > 800 S. Tucker Drive > Tulsa, OK 74104 > 918-631-3845 > holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu or holly.kruse(a)gmail.com > -- blog.telluricaesthetic.net /* Passion. Purpose. Integrity. */ To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. —Milton Glaser

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Can someone point me to a good open source reference citation program that works?
by Olaniran, B 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Can someone point me to a good open source reference citation and formatting program that works and is easy to use? I write a lot but I find myself cut in the web of digging through several manuscripts to locate sources and then having to having to cut and paste which is inefficient. My primary concern is for APA style but I will not mind one that can do APA and Chicago or MLA or their combo. Thanks in advance Oh by the way I'm using MS word 2003. Bolanle

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different strokes for different disciplines
by Barry Wellman 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Different disciplines have different rules re Citation forms. Sociology (and me) prefer full first names -- we are people after all. Psych (and those like Comm who follow APA) use initials. This always seemed antiseptic. I use Endnote as my reference manager. It will output just about any reference format you want, as long as you input the full first name when you input the record. Other ref. managers do the same thing, I am pretty sure. So you can, and I do, go back-forth between constricted APA format and full frontal ASA format. Barry Wellman, aka B. Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Citation praxis
by richard.ling＠telenor.com 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hello all, I need advice on the style of citations. I generally use only initials for first names in the name of gender equality. The idea being that the reader will judge the citation not by the gender of the author but by the quality of the work. I have recently been asked to change this format to include full given names. In addition to being a pain to look up all the names it seems to violate the gender equality idea. Is there a clear praxis here? Rich Ling ________________________________________

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Urban Informatics Reference
by Brian Loader 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

A number of people told me how much they enjoyed Stephen Graham's keynote address so I thought others might be interested in a special issue of Information, Communication & Society edited by Nick Ellison, Roger Burrows and Simon Parker in which Stephen has a piece on 'Sentient Cities'. The issue has been very well received and can be found in Volume 10, No 6 (2007). www.informaworld.com/ics Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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Google Policy Fellowship
by Richard Forno 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/ Introducing the Google Policy Fellowship As lawmakers around the world become more engaged on Internet policy, ensuring a robust and intelligent public debate around these issues becomes increasingly important. That’s why we're announcing our second summer for the Google Policy Fellowship Program—to support students and organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users. Program Overview Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and trademark reform, consumer privacy, open government, and more. Participating organizations are based in either Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA , Ottawa or Toronto, Canada and include: American Library Association, Cato Institute, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Center for Democracy and Technology, Citizen Lab, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of Music Coalition, Internet Education Foundation, Media Access Project, New America Foundation, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Technology Policy Institute. More information about the host organizations and the areas of focus for the fellows are outlined here. Fellows will be assigned a lead mentor at their host organizations, but will have the opportunity to work with several senior staff members over the course of the summer. Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of their organization, including conducting policy research and analysis; drafting reports and analyses; attending government and industry meetings and conferences; and participating in other advocacy activities.

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