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Academic BarCamp [Urbino, Italy - 11th Oct 2008]
by FG 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Dear Colleagues, we are in the process of organising an Academic Barcamp in Italy entitled: Self observing social networks and the future of society The un-conference will be held at Faculty of Sociology in Urbino on the 11th of October 2008. *As soon as he was able to settle in and overcome the physical effects of Mexico City's altitude, Norbert Wiener began to work at the INC with Arturo Rosenblueth on the type of muscle tremor known as clonus. In the evening he would eat dinner with the interns at the hospital dining room, where the usual diners would address him as maestro. Aided by a Spanish grammar that he took with him everywhere, Wiener discovered that the term was utilized indiscriminately to refer to a professor, a carpenter, or bricklayer. He felt proud to be called maestro, since he scorned the pomposity of academia and the rivalry of vanities it contained *(Quintanilla 2002, p. 311). If you don't know what a BarCamp <http://barcamp.org/BarCamp> is you should probably read this page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp> first. If you already know the meaning of BarCamp <http://barcamp.org/BarCamp> you are probably asking yourself if an Academic BarCamp<http://barcamp.org/BarCamp>is not an oxymora in itself. Adding the "academic" adjective to a BarCamp <http://barcamp.org/BarCamp>may seem quite strange at first but we have always been fascinated by paradoxes and intrinsic contradictions. We also love both informality and science. And we deeply believe this is not an oxymora neither a contradiction. That's why we decided to promote within "Festival dei Blog '08" <http://conversazionidalbasso.pbwiki.com/blogfest08> something never attempted before. A self-organized meeting of people from the academia and bloggers to talk about the impact of the Internet on society in the informal self-organized setting typical of a BarCamp <http://barcamp.org/BarCamp>. No call for papers, no abstracts committee, no review (blind or not), no selections at all. Wait, wait… I can hear your toughs… "No selection? How do you think to assure the quality of scheduled speeches without any selection?" We have a simple answer. We believe that BarCamp <http://barcamp.org/BarCamp> is not really attended by everyone. Just folks who really loves to share use to attend this kind of events. And since "love for sharing" is one of the most important attitude for a researcher... That's why we plan to gather the best Italian Internet researchers as well as some friends from all around the world. If you are interested in the impact of social media on society and you are a bright mind (we know you are :) ) this is the event for you! To register an interest in attending this conference, please visit: http://barcamp.org/AcaBarCamp If you are coming to Europe to attend IR 9.0 this is the perfect event companion as well as a good opportunity to visit Italy. Also, please feel free to circulate this notice to any of your colleagues who may be interested to attend. Best wishes, Fabio Giglietto Fabio Giglietto, PhD. Associate researcher LaRiCA - Department of Communication Studies Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo" References Quintanilla S. (2002), Arturo Rosenblueth and Norbert Wiener: Two Scientists in the Historiography of Contemporary Education, «Mexican Journal of Educational Research», 7-15, pp. 303-329.

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Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
by Barry Wellman 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

There's a basic article about possible border searches of laptops at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement It's a plurilateral effort. Usual WP caveats apply I don't think that people's laptops (or Berries) will be routinely searched, given the volume of border traffic.* And if you're under surveillance, there will be ways to get at your stuff besides border searches. *Coming into the US from Canada this Wednesday at Queenston-Lewiston took 25 minutes, and the joy of watching swat teams and sniffer dogs. The other direction (US > Canada) took 1 minute, according to the broadcast information. I doubt that swats & dogs were used. 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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Letters to Lara
by Derek McMillan 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

To collect new data for the "Letters to Lara" project, I have set up an email address, blog and youtube presence. letterstolara1(a)yahoo.com letterstolara.blogspot.com http://uk.youtube.com/user/letterstolara1 The youtube video was number 2 in the UK education charts for a while yesterday! The original project http://derekmcmillan.com/cover.htm made some use of the the internet but gathered most of its data from pupils at the school I worked at. This time the data from pupils can also be collected via Moodle. I think teachers may wish to use some other iconic computer game persona in place of Lara but may be hard-pressed to find one to rival the original and best!

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warrantless laptop searches at US borders
by Julie Cohen 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Dear all, If you are traveling to/from the US, please take note of the following. (Yet another reason not to have the annual meetings here...) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR200808 0103030.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter Best, Julie

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Re: [Air-L] warrantless laptop searches at US borders
by gus andrews 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

There was a good talk at HOPE (or maybe even a few?) with further details on warrantless laptop searches -- see http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.php for the talk description. DVDs and audio of the talks should eventually be up at http://radio.hope.net/archive/ or http://www.thelasthope.org/ . --Gus

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ASIST> 4th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI)
by Howard Rosenbaum 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

[Apologies for cross-posting] Second Call for Papers and Participation: 4th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI) People, information and technology: The social analysis of computing Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:30-12:30 PM Hyatt Regency Columbus, Ohio The purpose of this ASIST preconference research symposium is to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communications technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIST. The symposium includes members of many SIGs and defines "social" broadly to include critical and historical approaches and well as contemporary social analysis. It defines "technology" broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper) as well as state of the art computer systems. This year's theme is "People, information and technology: The social analysis of computing” In keeping with the theme of the conference, the symposium is soliciting work that focuses on the relationships of mutual shaping between people and information as mediated by technology. According to Horton, Davenport, and Wood-Harper (2005; 52) “the impetus for researchers to consider both social and technical aspects as mutually constitutive as a means of understanding technology introduction and use has a growing audience.” This symposium will highlight research focusing on the social realities of ICT based information systems (broadly defined) in IS in order to better understand the following: ~ How are the design, implementation, use, disuse, and ongoing reconfiguration of information and ICTs influenced by social groups, organizations, politics, and culture? ~ How do information and ICTs shape those creating, implementing and using them? ~ What are the roles of information and ICT in ongoing social change at various levels of social analysis such as groups, organizational units, political entities or cultural systems? ~ What are the complex reciprocal relationships among information, ICT, people, social groups and the environments that surround and pervade them? ~ What are the variations in meanings or interpretations of information and ICT across social groups and organizations? ~ What are the moral or ethnical consequences of ICT system development and use? We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the notion of mutual shaping – what is involved in people transforming information and information transforming people? A critical analysis is useful because it “bring into question established social assumptions and values regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs) and established understandings of ‘information,’ particularly as they play themselves out and are institutionalized in social and professional discourses and professional training.” (Day, 2007; 575). We encourage all scholars, both beginning and established, interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. This year, the SIG SI is partnering with SIG USE to offer a comprehensive full day program. The theme of this symposium fits well with the main themes of the SIG USE symposium meaning that there would be a full day of exploration of the question of the transformative relationships between people, information, and ICTs from two different but clearly related perspectives. The SIG SI symposium will take place on Saturday morning and the SIG USE symposium will be in the afternoon. Collectively, the two sessions can offer a comprehensive full day program, although each will work well as a stand-alone event. The two SIGs will co-sponsor a networking lunch that will take place in between the two events [Cost: Pay-on-your-own. Further details to be announced later]. There will be a discount for people who register for both symposia. Call for papers and posters: Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 29, 2008 Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. Acceptance announcements made by September 9, in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 12th). Tentative Schedule Paper presentations: 8:30-10:45 pm Break: 10:45-11:15 (with poster viewing) Closing Keynote Discussion: 11:15-12:30 pm Lunch with SIG-USE: 12:30-1:30 PM Fees Members $60 - $70 after Sept. 12 Non-members $70 - $80, after Sept. 12 If you register for the SI Symposium and the SIG-USE Symposium you will receive a $10 discount: Members $140 - $150 after Sept. 12 Non-members $150 - $160, after Sept. 14 Organizers: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science -Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu Elisabeth Davenport, School of Computing, Napier University e.davenport(a)napier.ac.uk Kalpana Shankar, School of Informatics -Indiana University shankark(a)indiana.edu Day, R. (2007). Kling and the “critical”: Social informatics and critical informatics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(4): 575–582. Horton, K., Davenport, E. and Wood-Harper, T. (2005). Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five “big” ideas. Information Technology & People 18(1): 50-67

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (august 2008)
by David M Silver 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

aoir people! the resource center for cyberculture studies (RCCS) publishes monthly book reviews and author responses ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ). books of the month for august 2008 are: Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire Editors: Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Nathan Scott Epley Publisher: Routledge, 2006 Review 1: Leslie Madsen-Brooks Author Response: Ken Hillis The Exploit: A Theory of Networks Authors: Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2007 Review 1: Daniel Gilfillan Review 2: Nathaniel Tkacz Author Response: Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker more next month. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Survey: Security Incidents and perception of security in online environments
by Johannes Strobel 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Apologies for cross-posting. Invitation to Participate in Survey As a team consisting of members of the “Center for Education and Research in Information and Security” and “Educational Technology” at Purdue University, we conduct a study investigating information security incidents and perception of security in online environments (games and virtual worlds), especially when it comes to educational institutions. We developed a survey and invite you to participate. Your identity will be kept confidential and not published or disclosed. Your participation will be strictly voluntary and you will be free to withdraw from participation at any time. It is entirely up to you, if you want to be contacted for some follow up questions. In all likelihood, unless you write extensive responses to the open-ended questions (which we would encourage), the survey should take about 15 minutes. It will be online until August 30, 2008. The url for the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fKEhOBQUA5MxHCc7g7F_2fPA_3d_3d If you have any questions please email us off list. Thank you in advance. Johannes Strobel & Fariborz Farahmand -- Johannes Strobel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Engineering Education & Educational Technology Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, Rm.: 1231 Purdue University 701 W. Stadium Avenue West Lafayette , IN 47907-2045 Phone: +1 765 496 1334 Skype: johannesstrobel E-mail: jstrobel(a)purdue.edu Web-site: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jstrobel/

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Places on Offer and Fellowships: PhD Information and Knowledge Society at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
by Ana Waksberg Guerrini 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

As a research centre, the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) plays home and offers support to the *PhD on the Information and Knowledge Society Programme*, the only PhD offered by the *UOC* (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Offered for the first time in 2000, this programme was one of the first PhDs created in this field of research and, indeed, the first to be offered in its entirety over the internet. The links between the different social, economic, political and cultural systems mean that the traditional disciplinary barriers have to be overcome so as to be able to conduct a thorough and in-depth analysis. Thus, this PhD programme is based on an *interdisciplinary perspective* that involves different theoretical standpoints and different methodological tools. The PhD programme for 2009 offers a total of 33 places linked to research groups or researchers on offer. Each of them gives the specific research lines of the PhD theses offered by each research group, the teaching staff in charge, as well as the possible requirements for each place: - Computer Science and Networking Technologies <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/comput…> - Community and Social Action <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/comuni…> - Law and ICT <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/dret_i…> - eGovernance <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/egover…> - eLearning <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/elearn…> - Information Systems <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/inform…> - New Economy <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/nova_e…> - Technology and health <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/tecnol…> - Technology and Education System <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/tecnol…> - Research Programmes <http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/progra…> - Risk Negotiation research programme. NEGRISC<http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/progra…> - Gender and the Information Society research programme<http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/oferta_de_places/progra…> The UOC's research institute, the IN3, offers *10 grants for full-time *PhDs that are carried out physically in its headquarters in Castelldefels's Mediterranean Technology Park. It carries a stipend and access to travel funds. For detailed information about the PhD programme, the places on offer, and the fellowships, please visit: http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1/presentacio best, -- Ana Waksberg Guerrini PhD Candidate - Information and Knowledge Society Internet Interdisciplinary Institute Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain awaksberg(a)uoc.edu ana.guerrini(a)gmail.com

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cfp: Expanding Literacy Studies - Grad Student Conference
by Lauren M. Squires 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

It would be great to have some new media/internet scholars doing literacy-related (broadly defined) work at this conference happening at OSU in the spring - please forward to interested grad students you might know! -LS CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students to be held April 3-5, 2009, at The Ohio State University. Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied? Literacy is traditionally defined as reading and writing. Contemporary constructs, however, include everything from cyber and health literacy to mathematical and visual literacy. The potential advance this broadened view might represent is complicated by historical myths about literacy, persistent fears about declines in literacy, and failure to connect literacy research across disciplines. Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and share investigations of literacy, broadly defined. This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the landscape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. This approach is meant to do the double work of expanding the field while critiquing the expansion. To that end, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in ALL fields. POSSIBLE TOPICS AND POINTS OF ENTRY: * health literacy * literacy and technology * visual literacy * representations of literacy * definitions of literacy * law and literacy * art literacy * uses and abuses of literacy * motivations for literacy * symbol systems * the sociology of literacy * the teaching of literacy * reading and writing * literacy and science * performances of literacy * literacy and popular culture * the future of literacy * histories of literacy * intersections of literacy * production and consumption of texts * multiple literacies * the literacy myth * literacy and social change * sites of literacy * literacy in communities * work literacy WAYS TO PARTICIPATE: * Facilitate a Roundtable Conversation * Lead an Interactive Workshop * Present a Creative Performance or Work of Art * Participate on a Panel (present a paper or discuss a poster) * Serve as a Discussant on a Panel of Presentations * Share and Discuss Your Research in a Dissertation Workshop WAYS TO COLLABORATE: To facilitate cross-discipline and cross-institutional collaboration on proposals, we will begin posting requests for collaborators on the conference website immediately. Visit the site to connect with people who have submitted requests and/or submit your own request for collaborators. Please include a description of the topic and format (presentation, performance, workshop, etc.) you are interested in collaborating on, along with your contact information. CONFERENCE SPECIAL FEATURES: Keynote Panel with Harvey J. Graff: "Responses to The Literacy Myth: 30 Years Later" In honor of the 30th Anniversary of the publication of The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century, author Harvey J. Graff will respond to a panel of graduate students from various disciplines speaking about "the literacy myth." Harvey J. Graff is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University. Interactive Workshop by Participatory Design pioneer Liz Sanders Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Ohio State and President of MakeTools (a design research firm), Liz Sanders is a pioneer in the use of participatory research methods for the design of products, systems, services, and spaces. Sanders speaks about and teaches human-centered design to students, clients, and colleagues around the world. She will lead conference participants in an interactive workshop about the future of literacy, as a reflection of and closure for the conference. Plenary Presentation by Shirley Brice Heath, author of Ways with Words Heath is a sociolinguist and anthropologist whose primary interests are oral and written language, youth development, racial relations, organizational learning, and the relationships among aesthetics, cognition, and human development. At the heart of Heath's research are the organizational structures and cultural values and behaviors that surround the learning and use of language. She is the author of the prize-winning book Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms (1983) and co-editor of Identity and Inner-city Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender (1993), as well as several other books and over 100 articles and book chapters. Heath is Professor at Large for the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and Margery Bailey Professor Emerita at Stanford University. DEADLINE: We will begin reviewing conference proposals September 1, 2008. Proposals will not be accepted after October 15, 2008. To learn more about the conference and to submit proposals, please go to http://literacystudies.osu.edu/conference. This conference is sponsored by LiteracyStudies@TheOhioStateUniversity (http://literacystudies.osu.edu)

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