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Re: [Air-L] Metaphors in Technology
by Jason Mittell 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Gordon, If you're interested in work exploring metaphors of older technologies (and can stand a little self-promotion), I wrote an essay years ago that might be of interest: “The Cultural Power of an Anti-Television Metaphor: Questioning the ‘Plug-in Drug’ and a TV- Free America,” Television and New Media, 1: 2, May 2000, 215-238. (Downloadable at my website below). That essay was greatly inspired by Janice Radway's excellent piece, "Reading is not Eating: Mass- Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor," Book Research Quarterly, #2, 1986, 7-29. Both might be useful as models to update for your study of online metaphors. Good luck, -Jason On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:15 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am working on a project dealing with the use of metaphor in >> communication about technology, as well as communication within >> software. I am trying to compile a list of metaphors used on the web >> and in computer software. For example, the "shopping cart" in online >> shopping, PowerPoint using "slides", "dialog" boxes in operating >> systems, "bulletin boards", etc. >> >> Have any of you come across or perhaps even thought of other >> metaphors >> employed in software, online or off, or in communication about >> technology? I would like to make a giant list of examples. >> >> Also, any recommended readings would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help! >> >> >> >> -Gordon Carlson >> -University of Illinois at Chicago >> -PhD Student of New Media Communication and RA in Electronic >> Visualization Lab >> -- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-5123 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com

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Email Analysis Software
by Derek Hansen 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Like many of you, I frequently analyze relatively large collections of email messages (e.g., up to 100,000 messages sent to an email list). To do this I have used a hodge-podge of different programs, none of which I am completely happy with. I have used both quantitative and qualitative approaches and would be interested in hearing from you about software that works well for either approach. The only requirement is that it works well with lots of messages. Below I have listed some of the basic things I've done with various tools. I'd love to see you all add to the list. Thanks ahead of time. Tool: Mailbag Assistant (PC only, $40 - see http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/index.php) - View messages from large corpus (90,000 messages) quickly (much quicker than traditional email clients) - Create complex searches (using regular expressions) that can be saved and re-run on different subsets of data - Export messages (or just message headers) into a database format (e.g., export header information into MS Access Database) - Run some basic built-in queries (e.g., # of messages per month, contributors, most frequently used words) Unfortunately, the version I used (as of a year ago) did not allow you to tag individual messages or pull out a random sample of messages easily. Tool: Custom built programs that help multiple coders tag messages that are shown in a web browser. Unfortunately, I could not find an existing program that worked and have used 2 different custom programs for the same purpose (each with slightly different functionality). The tools that were developed are not really meant to be easily used for other rating scenarios :(, so I am interested in finding a more general purpose rating support tool. The most important functionality included: - Displays a message (randomly selected from a corpus of messages that all get rated) through a web browser, along with a set of pre-defined codes with check boxes that can be marked off. - Supports multiple raters and calculates inter-rater reliability statistics (Cohen's kappa) - highlights words of interest to the coders on the web display - includes some analysis ability: can click on any code (in analysis mode) and all messages coded by either rater (or just one rater) will be displayed; can display messages where there was disagreement between raters; can find messages coded into multiple groups, etc. Also shows overall summary stats on number of messages coded into each group etc. Any thoughts on programs that do these things, or even more generally, tools that are useful in working with email (e.g., visualization of messages) would be greatly appreciated by me and probably many other list members. Thanks ahead of time. Derek Hansen Assistant Professor iSchool at Maryland

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Re: [Air-L] Email Analysis Software
by Rhiannon Bury 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Derek: In the past, I've also analyzed large amounts of email messages. No doubt there is newer software out there but my instinct is the same as it was then: get them into a specialized program for qualitative research, which has complex and powerful search functions. I have used QSR's N6, which has now been replaced by NVIVO. The latest version 8 has just been released. The trick will be importing the messages into NVIVO. It may have a function to do that itself but until I take the training later this month, I don't know. Here's a link to the QSR website: http://www.qsrinternational.com/ Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor Athabasca University

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CFP - Digital imageries: culture and reception
by kelly boudreau 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

*Call for papers: Digital imageries: culture and reception * The deadline for submissions for this double issue is August 1st, 2008 Founded at the Université de Montréal, Kinephanos (www.kinephanos.ca) is a bilingual inter-university web-based journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal's primary interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures. The preferred approaches include cinema studies, communication theories, religion sciences, philosophy, cultural studies and media studies. Theme Kinephanos' first issue aims to explore and understand how digital technologies change the communication relations between the object and the subject. As a double issue, "Digital imageries: culture and reception" will also be devoted to the different influences digital technologies have brought to cinema and other forms of audiovisual expression, such as television, animation and video games. In addition the articles must incorporate ideas pertaining to the spectator's and/or gamer's reception. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Remediation of film's aesthetics outside of cinema - The new cinematographic experience and the challenge of archival - Case study: critical reception of a digital movie (Speed Racer, Beowulf, 28 Days Later, etc.) - Popular culture, virtual community and collective intelligence - The video game trailer : trompe-l'oeil and out-of-bounds - Who wants digital? - Japanese animation: web and fansubbing - Film and digital projection… or fiction! - Digital legitimation While Kinephanos privileges publication of thematic issues, we strongly encourage writers to submit articles exceeding the theme which will be published in each issue. How to submit? Abstracts of 750 words are to consist of the subject, the problem addressed and the title of the article. Please include bibliographical references, your name, email address and your primary field of study. Send submissions (in French or English) by August 1st, 2008 to: marc.joly(a)umontreal.ca or martin.picard(a)umontreal.ca Following our approbation sent to you by email (2-3 weeks later), please send us your completed article by November 1st, 2008. Editorial guidelines Kinephanos is a refereed Web journal. Each article is evaluated by double-blind peer review. Kinephanos does not retain exclusive rights of published texts. However, material submitted must not have been previously published elsewhere. Future versions of the texts published in other periodicals must reference Kinephanos as its original source. Your text must comply with the following specifications: 6,000 words maximum (excluding references but including end notes) with double spacing, Times New Roman 12-point font, a bibliography with all your references, end notes must be inserted manually in the text as follow : « ... » (1), references must be within the text as follow « … » (Jenkins 2000, p. 134), and 5 keywords at the end of the text. Kinephanos accepts articles in French and in English

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_Morning Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigatio
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Friends/ Nearly a Decade Ago I Speculated About The Future of Scholarly "Information Access, Organization, and Navigation" Well It's The Future and It's About Time That The Predictions Happened [:-)] ... The Section on Navigation Can be Viewed As ***Sensory Navigation***, The Thread of My [Other] Recent Postings. /Gerry _Abstract_ Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented. _Table of Contents_ Scholarly Communication Scholarly publishing E-Communication _Indexing and Abstracting Services_ Biology Engineering Geology Mathematics Medicine _Citation Indexing and Indexes_ Access E-Journals E-Articles _Transformational Communication_ Intelligent Software Agents Information Overload Custom-Configured Institutional E-Journals Just-in-Time Electronic Collections _Organization_ Conventional Automated Navigation Information Visualization Auditory Browsing Haptic Interaction Virtual Environments _"In The Beginning ... "_ References Full Text and Links Available At [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/morning-becomes-electric-post-mod… ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/6f6e74 ] Comments Are Most Welcome On The Posting Enjoy! /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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Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Friends/ Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color, Nor Haptic Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degrees of Sound. SOUND Wikipedia:Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas; particularly, sound means those vibrations composed of frequencies capable of being detected by ears. Using Other/Related Audio/Auditory Technologies Readers Would be Able To Hear That Range of Tones Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus And/Or Substitute And/Or Supplement An Author's Audio/Auditory Layer Such Tones Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance. THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. Nearly A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Auditory Browsing Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: _The NextWAVe(sm)_ Thoughts About The Proposal? Please Comment on The Posting At [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/20-08/06/texttonesm.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/53vmxn ] BTW: A Link to _The NextWAve(sm)_ is Also Available ... /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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Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Friends/ Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color, Nor Haptic Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degrees of Sound. SOUND Wikipedia:Sound is vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas; particularly, sound means those vibrations composed of frequencies capable of being detected by ears. Using Other/Related Audio/Auditory Technologies Readers Would be Able To Hear That Range of Tones Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus And/Or Substitute And/Or Supplement An Author's Audio/Auditory Layer Such Tones Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance. THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. Nearly A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Auditory Browsing Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: _The NextWAVe(sm)_ Thoughts About The Proposal? Please Comment on The Posting At [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/20-08/06/texttonesm.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/53vmxn ] BTW: A Link to _The NextWAve(sm)_ is Also Available ... /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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Please Post -- Call for Papers: Internet in China -- special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC/REC)
by Teresa M Harrison 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

EJC/REC: Call for Papers The Internet in China Edited by: Randy Kluver, Texas A & M University, rkluver(a)tamu.edu Teresa M. Harrison, University at Albany, harrison(a)albany.edu China's population of Internet users has now increased to 221 million, matching the US for the largest number of users online in the world. The Internet is having revolutionary effects on Chinese society, allowing greater openness to expression, presenting challenges to the Chinese government to control information, and posing the potential to improve the quality of life for Chinese citizens. While the Internet may be unlikely to "democratize" China, it is unquestionably modernizing Chinese culture and society, while providing radically new opportunities for Chinese citizens. This special issue seeks to publish the best research addressing the impact of Internet use and new media technologies on China's culture and society. We invite submissions from scholars documenting the scope and depth of these changes in an effort to better understand the Chinese information technology revolution and its consequences. We also seek submissions that consider these effects within the context of social theory and cultural criticism. Topics may include, but are not limited to: * How the Internet is used in China to find, present, and discuss information about the world * Chinese perceptions and attitudes about the Internet, the Web and new media * The demographics of Internet adoption * Internet and political communication in China * Blogging, social networking, wikis, and other Web 2.0 phenomena in China * Mobile, location-based services, and other emerging technologies in China * Cross-cultural comparisons * Cross-media use comparisons * The history of the Internet in China Inquiries to either editor about possible topics are welcome. Deadline for completed manuscripts is Monday, July 7, 2008. All submissions should be made electronically (.doc, .rtf or .pdf format), in English and emailed to Teresa Harrison (harrison(a)albany.edu) Manuscripts should conform to the specifications of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. For further information about EJC/REC, see http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm

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Text~Touch(sm): Haptic Highlighting/Rating of Text
by Gerry Mckiernan 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Friends/ Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.ht…] Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiMonet:sts-l@ala.orgdal Minds Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degree of Texture. TEXTURE Wikipedia: Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. Using Other/Related Haptic Technology Readers Would be Able To Feel That The Range of Textures Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus. Such Texture Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance. [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.ht… ] THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: The Magic Touch(sm). Your Thoughts On Text~Touch(sm)? Please Post As A Comment On The Posting In The Scholarship 2.0 Blog at [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/texttouchsm-haptic-highlightingra… ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/3uznzo ] The Web Is Not Only Semantic - It's Haptic! /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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Learning and Research in Second Life(R) Copenhagen 16, oct.
by Jeremy Hunsinger 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Call for Papers/Participation Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life(R) on October 16, 2008 in Copenhagen at Internet Research 9.0 (http://conferences.aoir.org/ ) Deadline June 15th (Individual extensions may be given). Second Life is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab (R) which has captured the attention of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research? Our honored keynote will be Pathfinder Linden Researchers are requested to submit papers and short biography to slworkshop08(a)gmail.com , which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration. These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion). Subsequent invitations will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography with priority given to people submitting full papers. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to slworkshop08(a)gmail.com. Decisions will be made by August 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life which will be organized by Jason Nolan. We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate. This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger, Rochelle Mazar, Aleks Krotoski and Jason Nolan. Lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation. (And you'll probably get a t-shirt!) *We are also seeking additional sponsors, please contact jhuns(a)vt.edu if you would like to sponsor this workshop. Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Everything you can imagine is real. --Pablo Picasso

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