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2nd Call for Papers - "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle" + plus a great free tool for capturing data
by Stuart Shulman 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Do you need YouTube data for research? Give Tubekit at try! http://www.tubekit.org/ TubeKit is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers. It allows one to build one's own crawler that can crawl YouTube based on a set of seed queries and collect up to 17 different attributes. TubeKit assists in all the phases of this process starting database creation to finally giving access to the collected data with browsing and searching interfaces. Call for Papers "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" April 3 & 4, 2009 - Amherst, Massachusetts http://youtube08election.crowdvine.com/ A two-day conference jointly hosted by: The University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Political Science The Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) The Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) The National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) Keynote Speakers Day 1: Richard Rogers, Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Director of govcom.org. Dr. Rogers is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from other media. Rogers concentrates on the research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet. His research involves studying and building info-tools. He studies and makes use of the adjudicative or 'recommender' cultures of the Web that help to determine the reputation of information as well as organizations. The most well-known tool Rogers has developed with his colleagues is the Issue Crawler, a server-side Web crawler, co-link machine and graph visualizer. Day 2: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Approach The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches rooted in political science, media studies, and communication scholarship. The JITP Editor strongly endorses new and experimental approaches involving collaboration with information and computer science scholars. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to: - citizen initiated campaign videos, - candidates' use of YouTube, - bloggers use of YouTube to influence the primaries or election, - the impact of YouTube on traditional or new media coverage of the election cycle, - the effect of YouTube on citizen interest, knowledge, engagement, or voting behavior, - social network analysis of YouTube and related election-oriented sites, - political theory or communication theory and YouTube in the context of the 2008 election, - new metrics that support the study of the "YouTube Effect" on elections, - archives for saving and tools for mapping the full landscape of YouTube election content, - use of YouTube in the classroom as a way to teach American electoral politics, or - reviews of existing scholarship about YouTube. Paper Submissions Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a manuscript following one of the six submission formats by January 7, 2009. These formats include research papers, policy viewpoints, workbench notes, review essays, book reviews, and papers on teaching innovation. The goal is to produce a special issue, or double issue, of JITP with a wide variety of approaches to the broad theme of "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States." How to Submit Everything you need to know about how to prepare and submit a strong JITP paper via the JITP web site is documented at http://www.jitp.net/. Papers will be put through an expedited blind peer review process by the Program Committee and authors will be notified about a decision by February 15, 2009. A small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be invited to present a poster during the Friday evening reception. All posters must include a "YouTube" version of their research findings. Best Paper and Poster Cash Prizes The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a single $1,000 prize. The creator (or creators) of the best YouTube poster/research presentation will also receive a single prize of $1,000. Conference Co-Chairs Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst (mailto:stu@polsci.umass.edu) Michael Xenos, Louisiana State University (mailto:xenos@lsu.edu) Program Committee Sam Abrams, Harvard University Micah Altman, Harvard University Karine Barzilai-Nahon, University of Washington Lance Bennett, University of Washington Ryan Biava, University of Wisconsin Bob Boynton, University of Iowa John Brigham, University of Massachusetts Amherst Tom Carlson, Åbo Akademi University Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway University of London Greg Elmer, Ryerson University Kirsten Foot, University of Washington Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeff Guliati, Bentley College Mike Hais, Co-author, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics Matthew Hale, Seton Hall University Justin Holmes, University of Minnesota Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute Mike Margolis, University of Cincinnati Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst John McNutt, University of Delaware Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California-Information Sciences Institute Antoinette Pole, Montclair State University Stephen Purpura, Cornell University Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project Jeffrey Seifert, Congressional Research Service Mack Shelley, Iowa State University Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chirag Shah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Wilkerson, University of Washington Christine Williams, Bentley College Morley Winograd, University of Southern California Quan Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Stout -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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Major Additions To The _Friends_ Social Networling Blog | 08-28-08 |
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

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Re: [Air-L] Online Research Methods Texts
by dlaurent＠selu.edu 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Has anyone suggested: The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods edited by Nigel Fielding, Raymond M. Lee and Grant Blank. and Internet Research Methods: A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences by Claire Hewson, Peter Yule, Dianna Laurent, and Carl Vogel also by Sage Publications. Both unashamedly promoted :-) Dianna Dianna Laurent, Ph.D. English Department Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, Louisiana 70402 USA

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amaze your friends with your knowledge
by Barry Wellman 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

A reporter called me today for an interview and told me that next week is the 10th anniversary of Google. (Either Sept 5 or 7 -- he wasn't sure). Now you know. The funniest thing: he hadn't Googled me before he interviewed me! Barry 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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Tagging @ Sub-Document Level(s)?
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Colleagues/ Are you aware of any current applications/technologies that allows one to Tag a document at the **Paragraph** (or Chapter) level? (and Not Only At The Document Level)? I am also interested Tag Cloud technologies that allows for the visualization of Tags associated with selected Paragraphs (or Book Chapters or Other Formal Parts Of A Work). 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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Re: [Air-L] Basic intro/survey article on "what is new media?"
by Dan Perkel 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

I'd recommend looking at two collections/readers that take very different approaches to answering that question ("what is new media research?"). The first is the New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrup- Fruin. The second is The Handbook of New Media (Updated Student Edition) 2006, edited by Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone. Regards, Dan Dan Perkel PhD Candidate, School of Information University of California, Berkeley dperkel(a)ischool.berkeley.edu http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu

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New Age Tagging = SharedTags(sm) | TagFont(sm) | TagSort(sm)
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Colleagues/ .... Tag Queries for a Thursday Early Afternoon .... I. Are there implementions/technologies that can display the degree of association/co-occurence of Tags within a corpus (and enable one to navigate in one way or another (e.g., tag cloud and/or other visualization))? II. Are there implementations/technologies that allow one to designate the relevative importance of a tag for a section and/or corpus of text? Major / Minor Importance Would Be A Good Beginning (e.g. Bold vs. Non-Bold) BTW: Certainly The Ability To Indicate Relative Importance by Font Size / Style Would Be More Interesting [:-) [And Lets No Forget About Color [http://tinyurl.com/53vk36 <http://tinyurl.com/53vk36> ]] III. Are there implementations/technologies that allow one to sort sub-document tagged text by select criteria? For example: Have the ability (re)sort tagged text sections (e.g. paragraphs) such that the most relevant sorted sections are displayed before those of less relevance (e.g. sections with tags that are more 'associated' or co-occurring BTW: Tagging Is Not Limited To 'Text' (Can Also Apply To Photos (Flickr), Videos (YouTube), Other Media . Please Post Responses / Thoughts As (A) Comment (s) On The Blog Entry Associated With This Posting At [http://tinyurl.com/6msku4 <http://tinyurl.com/6msku4> ] Thanks! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu> There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 <https://exchange.iastate.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blogger.c…> ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows

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Facebook and Libraries
by Gerry Mckiernan 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Friends/ I am in the process of completing a survey article on Libraries and Facebook. In addition to the literature and initiatives profiled in the Friends blog, I am greatly interested in learning of Any/All libraries using Facebook as a complement / supplement / substitute for Any / All library services / programs / etc. such as, but not limited to the following uses or contexts: *Classroom Intruction *Collection Management *Course Management Desk Reference *Digital Reference *Distance Education/Learning *Information Commons *Learning Communities Among other services, I am particularly interested in non-Public Services uses, notably Technical Services. BTW: I am aware of various Facebook Library Groups/Pages such as *Librarians and Facebook *Libraries Using Facebook Pages I am also interested in Any / All Other Relevant Literature / Sites. Links to associated * Facebook Groups/Pages are available at [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/04/libraries-and-facebook.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/5jtx8j ] ***Please Post Your Recommendation As A Comment To This Blog Entry** Thanks A Million! AND Happy Monday! /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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Re: [Air-L] Online Research Methods Texts
by André Brock 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

I find this book to be immensely helpful: Jones, Steven, ed. (1998) Doing Internet research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. Because you also asked about self-presentation, here's some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet: Miller, D. and Slater, D. (2001) The Internet: an ethnographic approach. Kvasny, L. and Igwe, C. F. (2007) An African-American weblog community's reading of AIDS in Black America Gajjala, R. (2004) Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women Gajjala, R. and Gajjala, V. (2008) South Asian Technospaces (Digital Formations) McGahan, C (2007) Race-ing Cyberculture: Minoritarian Art and Cultural Politics on the Internet. **self promotion** My dissertation is on African American online identity following Hurricane Katrina. I've also got an AOIR paper on the early Katrina research and some other stuff in the pipeline. Hit me up offlist if this stuff is of interest. André On 8/28/08 9:29 AM, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics

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Research fellowships (Digital Ecosystems, Cultural Enterprise)
by Matthew Allen 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Dear all Curtin University is now calling for applications for 2009's postdoctoral and senior research fellowships. These are highly competitive and prestigious awards with 4-year terms. 13 in total are available across the whole university. Because of Curtin's current desire to concentrate research into a small number of key areas, preference (strong preference I am told) will be given to applications in designated areas. Two designated specialisations apply particularly to Internet research and would enable a successful applicant to join the Department of Internet Studies. These specialisations are digital ecosystems and cultural enterprise. They are vague enough, I suspect, to enable many different research projects to be successfully proposed, but do require a degree of concentration of networked information technologies, and on the production/understanding of cultural forms and businesses. All the information is at: http://research.curtin.edu.au/grants/fellowships.cfm. The closing date is 31 October. IF you want to join the Internet Studies Department, then your key reference is the Head of School, Media, Culture and Creative Arts (within which net studies fits) A/Prof Steve Mickler. However, please cc me into any correspondence to him so I can keep abreast of potential applications. I would be delighted to provide advice as well, prior to any formal contact. (Note - I am not contactable between 5 and 24 September). 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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