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Question
by Yosem Companys 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Dear friends, Does anyone know of a program that will map network connections off of Lexis-Nexis data (or a similar newspaper/magazine database) along the lines of Muckety.com? I know I can code the data and input these into one of the existing programs. Just wondering if there is any app out there that someone has already designed that could do it automatically, so as not to reinvent the wheel or waste unnecessary time and labor. Thanks, Yosem

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What's Cooking at SSRC?
by Jeremy Hunsinger 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

> > > > Hi all, > > (With apologies to those of you who have received a variant of this > email) > > > > We want to signal a couple of things SSRC is doing these days and > invite > your participation. Some of you will be familiar with the SSRC Media > Research Hub (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org ). The Hub is intended > as a resource and brokering service for researchers, activists, and > practitioners working on (and in) the convergent media environment. > > > (1) Some of you already have profiles in the Resource Database > (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/resource-database ). The Resource > Database is a tool for mapping this complex intersection of fields > and-increasingly-for analyzing it. It combines elements of a social > networking tool and a wiki: anyone can create or edit profiles of > people, institutions, research resources, networks, and projects; > anyone > can connect these profiles to provide richer descriptions of > institutions, social networks and collaborations. > > The Resource Database is readable for all visitors, but you must log > in > to add, edit, or make use of advanced features (such as claiming your > profile to gain sole control over your personal and contact > information-and, if you choose, hide that information). So please > come, > create an account, claim your profile, and help us expand and enrich > this collective resource. For those of you who miss Netzwissenschaft, > this is a good place to come and play. See, e.g., this charming URL: > > > > (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/resource-database/@@rdb-search.html?fo > rm > .search_text=&form.portal_types=Person&form.person_role=researcher&for > m.gender=&form.institutional_role-empty-marker=1&form.resource_type- > empt > y-marker=1&form.person_role-empty-marker=1&form.country=&form.gender- > emp > ty- > marker=1&form.institutional_location=&form.topics:list=f0265830ebf104 > 25cf66d75d705d1631&type_of_search=Internet > %20Researchers&form.actions.se > arch=1 ) > > > > > (2) The Hub also hosts grant projects designed to foster public > scholarship and research-activist collaboration > (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants ). > > > > Have a look especially at five recently-announced Research Bounties > (and > at the other Open Projects. These are calls from advocates for > collaboration with the research community. Researchers are invited to > comment on and/or propose to take up the listed projects. Several of > these come with prize money (bounties). Several are Internet related. > > (3) The Media Hub hosts a low-volume email list for notification of > grant opportunities and other program activities. To subscribe, visit: > http://programs.ssrc.org/media/emaillist/ . > > > (4) We welcome suggestions for how to use (and improve) the Media > Research Hub in support of work in this area. As the dataset > expands, it > will become an increasingly rich tool for understanding and analyzing > the field. If you have a design, data visualization, or network > analysis itch that might be scratched via the Hub, do drop us a line. > The backend skillset for the Hub, fyi, is Python/Zope/Plone, but the > site is web service friendly. > > > > So like other collectively-produced goods, the Research Hub depends on > community support. We will be happy to repost submissions of relevant > news, job opportunities, and internship offers. We will be happier > still > if you document your area(s) of work and interest on the hub. And we > will be borderline ecstatic if you have an interest in making major > additions (such as online bibliographies, class projects, other > organized contributions). On this or other subjects, drop us a note at > mediahub(a)ssrc.org . > > Best, > > Joe Karaganis > > Karaganis(a)ssrc.org > > > > Minna Aslama > > aslama(a)ssrc.org > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Karaganis > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:49 PM > To: 'Jeremy Hunsinger' > Subject: RE: postdocs > > Hi Jeremy, > > We did hire one -- http://www.ssrc.org/staff/Guilhot/ ; > > I've been out of the loop on this discussion this year. If you're > interested I'll inquire. > > I hope Chicago has been good to you this year. I haven't been back at > all, unfortunately. > > Best, > > Joe > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Hunsinger [mailto:jhuns@vt.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:58 AM > To: Joe Karaganis > Subject: postdocs > > Hi Joe, > > I hope all I well with and I'm sorry I've missed you when you've been > to Chicago. I'm just wondering did SSRC hire any PostDocs last > year? I'm curious because I've just received another announcement of > them from Becky. > > > jeremy hunsinger > Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, > School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > (www.cipr.uwm.edu > ) > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers > http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki > http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal > http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary > Studies:the book series > >

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SCRIPT-ed April 2008
by Andres Guadamuz 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

[Apologies for cross-posting] The April 2008 issue of SCRIPT-ed – A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, is available online: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/issue5-1.asp Editorial: - Lex Personalitatis & Technology-driven Law; Joseph A. Cannataci Reviewed Articles: - Trade Mark Coexistence Agreements: What is all the (lack of) fuss about?; Matthew J Elsmore, - Criminal Friends of Entertainment: Analysing Results from Recent Peer-to-Peer Surveys; Herkko Hietanen, Anniina Huttunen, Heikki Kokkinen - Entry into the Market for Online Distribution of Digital Content: Economic and Legal Ramifications; John B. Meisel - The Black Label: Trade Mark Dillution, Culture Jamming and the No Logo Movement; Matthew Rimmer - Oscar Pistorius and the Future Nature of Olympic, Paralympic and Other Sports; Gregor Wolbring Analysis: - Genetic Models of Disease Resistance in Livestock: “What Does Our Conscience Want?”; Kenneth M Boyd - Corporate Counsel's New Dance Partner: "Criminal Lawyers Teach the Limbo Dance"; Maureen Duffy-Lewis and Daniel B. Garrie - A Modest Proposal for Annotating the Dialectical State of a Dispute; Ronald P. Loui Reports: - TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society; Paul de Hert Book Reviews: - The Global Technology Revolution 2020: In Depth Analysis - Bio/nano/materials/information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications; Richard Silberglitt et al. - The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases: European Perspectives; Matti Hayry, Ruth Chadwick, Vilhjalmur Arnason and Gardar Arnason (eds.) - Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War; Michael L. Gross - How Universities Promote Economic Growth; Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima (eds) - Crossing Borders: Cultural, Religious, and Political Differences concerning Stem Cell Research. A Global Approach; Wolfgang Bender, Christine Hauskeller, Alexandra Manzei (eds) - Broadcasting Pluralism and Diversity: A Comparative Study of Policy and Regulation; Lesley Hitchens -- Andres Guadamuz SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre University of Edinburgh Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz(a)ed.ac.uk http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/ SCRIPT-ed Journal of Law, Technology and Society http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed IP/IT/Medical Law LLM by Distance Learning http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/

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First AoIR ICS special issue
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

AoIR-ICS special issue Information, Communication & Society, Volume 11 Issue 2 2008 Editors Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite are pleased to announce the publication of the first AoIR-ICS collaboration issue of papers selected from the 2007 AoIR conference. As noted in our introduction: The contents of this issue may well surprise those who think that the Association of Internet Researchers looks only at the Internet. Two articles (DeNel Rehberg Sedo; Ralph Schroeder & Matthijs den Basten) focus on readers’ responses to “old” media (radio, television and books) and discussion of books on websites and wikis. Another article looks at mobile phones (Hijazi-Omari & Rivka Ribak) describing how Palestinian Israeli young women carry on clandestine conversations with their boyfriends on mobile phone. New forms of creative production online are addressed in three papers: Eszter Hargittai & Gina Walejko describe how male and female young adults create video, music, writing and artistic photography; Smiljana Antonijevic does an ethnography of non-verbal communication on Second Life; and Lori Kendall takes us to the wonderful, imaginative world of animutations. Some mentoring rounds out the issue. Michelle Kazmer & Bo Xi evaluate using four different ways of collective semi-structured interview data: face-to-face, phone, email, and IM; Dan Li & Gina Walejko show how to sample the vast, disorganized world of blogs; and Antonijevic’s article provides a useful guide to the microethnography of nonverbal communication, such as gaze and arm movement. No one journal issue can do everything, and we note that some hot topics did not make it into this year’s collection. We look to this year’s conference submissions for more on the new and old world of media and the Internet as Caroline Haythornthwaite and Lori Kendall take on the task of editing the second annual collaboration of AoIR and ICS. /Barry Wellman & Caroline Haythornthwaite TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL COMMENT 143 – 148 Authors: Barry Wellman; Caroline Haythornthwaite ORIGINAL ARTICLES PLAYING WITH FIRE: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel 149 – 166 Authors: Hiyam Hijazi-Omari; Rivka Ribak LITERARY SLEUTHS ONLINE: e-Research collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki 167 – 187 Authors: Ralph Schroeder; Matthijs Den Besten RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB AND 'CANADA READS': Readers, books and cultural programming in a digital era 188 – 206 Author: Denel Rehberg Sedo BEYOND MEDIA PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS: Online multimedia productions as interpersonal communication 207 – 220 Author: Lori Kendall FROM TEXT TO GESTURE ONLINE: A microethnographic analysis of nonverbal communication in the Second Life virtual environment 221 – 238 Author: Smiljana Antonijevic THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age 239 – 256 Authors: Eszter Hargittai; Gina Walejko QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING IN INTERNET STUDIES: Playing with the media, playing with the method 257 – 278 Authors: Michelle M. Kazmer; Bo Xie SPLOGS AND ABANDONED BLOGS: The perils of sampling bloggers and their blogs 279 – 296 Authors: Dan Li; Gina Walejko ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Lessons in Second Life
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

distribute as appropriate -jh Every Week on Monday (1:00-2:30pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ this week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: Griefer's are Necessary for Learning next week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: The Group for the Rememberance of the History of Education in Second Life or Something Related that I Forgot jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/ .

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IR 9.0 Deadline for Conference Papers
by bl506＠york.ac.uk 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Some of you intrepid online explorers will have found that the deadline for the submission of papers to the conference is to be found on the CfP. For the rest of you please note that the deadline for full papers is 31 July. The papers, once submitted, will be indexed and available as part of the open archive, via OCS. Please submit papers in PDF with simple formatting, using sans serif font and in-text referencing. Brian -- Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506(a)york.ac.uk

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CFP: 10th Persistent Conversation minitrack
by Tom Erickson 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Persistent Conversation Minitrack Digital Media and Content Track at HICSS 42 January 5-8, 2009 Hilton Waikoloa Village, the Big Island, Hawai'i See http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html for an online version and further information. IN ONE PARAGRAPH The Persistent Conversation minitrack is a yearly gathering of people who design and study systems that support computer-mediated communication. Persistent conversation is not limited to asynchronous textual communication: It includes instant messaging, voice chat, and other 'ephemeral' media. Nor do we limit our focus to systems explicitly designed to support conversation: We are interested in conversational exchanges as manifested in applications (for instance, blogs, annotation systems, distance education) and in sites oriented around the use of photos, video and other media. If you're interested in presenting a paper in the minitrack, the first step is to submit an abstract by March 15, 2008. A 10-page paper would be due June 15th. IMPORTANT DATES -04/21: Prospective authors submit 300-word abstracts -05/05: Feedback on abstracts sent -06/15: 10-page papers due (see http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm for details) -08/15: Accept/Conditional Accept/Reject notices sent -09/15: Final papers due; at least one author must register for conference ABOUT THE MINITRACK This interdisciplinary minitrack and workshop brings designers and researchers together to explore persistent conversation, the transposition of ordinarily ephemeral conversation into the potentially persistent digital medium. Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, text and voice chat, email, blogs, web boards, MOOs, graphical and 3D virtual environments, gaming systems, video sharing sites, document annotation systems, mobile phone texting, etc. Such communication is persistent in that it leaves a digital trace, and the trace in turn affords new uses. It permits conversations to be saved, visualized, browsed, searched, replayed, and restructured. Persistence also means that conversations need not be synchronous: They can be asynchronous (stretching out over hours or days) or supersynchronous (with multiple parties 'talking' at the same time). Finally, the creation of persistent and potentially permanent records from what was once an ephemeral process raises a variety of social and ethical issues. ABOUT PAPER TOPICS We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following two general areas: * Understanding Practice. The burgeoning popularity of the internet (and intranets) provides an opportunity to study and characterize new forms of conversational practice. Questions of interest range from how various features of conversations (e.g., turn-taking, topic organization, expression of paralinguistic information) have adapted in response to the digital medium, to new roles played by persistent conversation in domains such as education, business, and entertainment. * Design. Digital systems do not currently support conversation well: It is difficult to converse with grace, clarity, depth and coherence over networks. But this need not remain the case. Toward this end, we welcome analyses of existing systems as well as designs for new systems which better support conversation. Also of interest are inquiries into how participants design their own conversations within the digital medium -- that is, how they make use of system features to create, structure, and regulate their discourse. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: - Turn-taking, threading and other structural features of CMC - The dynamics of large scale conversation systems (e.g. blog networks) - Methods for summarizing or visualizing conversation archives - Studies of virtual communities or other sites of digital conversation - The roles of mediated conversation in knowledge management - Studies of the use of instant messaging in large organizations - Novel designs for computer-mediated conversation systems - Analyses of or designs for distance learning systems NEXT STEPS Submit a 250 to 300 word abstract of your proposed paper via email to the chairs: Tom Erickson (snowfall at acm dot org), Susan Herring (herring at indiana dot edu) by the deadline noted above. We will send you feedback on the suitability of your abstract by the deadline noted above. FOR MORE INFORMATION - About the minitrack, see http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html or contact: Thomas Erickson (snowfall at acm.org) and Susan Herring (herring at indiana.edu) - About previous years' papers (including pdf's) and participants, see: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC_History.html - About the HICSS conference, see: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ ----------------- Tom Erickson http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/

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Fwd: Call for DIAC/OD Poster Proposals
by Andrea Kavanaugh 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

*please distribute widely. apologies for cross posting* Begin forwarded message: > From: douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org > Date: April 12, 2008 12:48:44 PM EDT > Subject: Call for Poster Proposals > > > Please forward to interested colleagues and lists. Thanks! > Poster proposals are due Wednesday April 15th. > > > Call for Poster Proposals > > Tools for Participation: > Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support > > DIAC-2008 / Online Deliberation 2008 > University of California, Berkeley > June 26 - 29, 2008 > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/ > > Thanks to everybody who submitted research papers or other submissions > to DIAC-2008 / Online Deliberation 2008! > > Poster Proposals (due April 15, 2008) > > There are two basic components: the proposal and the poster itself. > The final contribution to the result (that will be printed in the > proceedings will include text and graphics. The poster proposal > should not be more than two pages of text. A poster is a broad and > graphic depiction of the work. The proposal should contain! t! ! he > following title, research question(s), motivation, relevance to > conference, methodology, status, findings, implications, impact, > possible future work, description of poster, and citations to related > work. These fields can be omitted or abbreviated depending on the > nature of the work. The inclusion of graphics in the proposal is > encouraged and may cause the page length to go over two pages. The > proposal should not be longer in that case than four pages. > > Posters will be displayed at certain times during the conference > and the presenter is expected to be on-hand during specific times > to help explain and discuss the poster. > > Submissions must be made via the conference submission system on > the DIAC-08 web site. Submissions should be written in English and > authors whose first language is not English are encouraged to have > their submissions reviewed for language prior to submission. > Submissions should be formatted for "US Lette! r"! ! size using 11 > point > Times-Roman font. > > As a reminder, our areas of focus include but are not limited to: > deliberative and collaborative systems, e-democracy and e- > participation, > mobilization and organization, negotiation, consultation, > sustainability, > community support systems, open source models, human rights, > ecological awareness, conflict resolution, justice, transparency > systems, media and civic journalism, media literacy, power research, > citizen science, economic development and opportunity, peace and > reconciliation, infrastructure development, policy, education, > community networks, research and development for civil society, > social software, virtual communities and civic intelligence. > > We are especially interested in technology development that is > already being tested or fielded. We are also interested in > exploratory, > theoretical and other intellectual work that helps build understanding > and support for future efforts! . ! ! In addition to exploring social > technology, we must at the same time understand and advance the > social context of technology, including its design, access, use, > policy and evaluation, as well as intellectual frameworks and > perspectives that inform technological as well as social innovation > including requirements, case studies, critique and self-reflection, > and infrastructures for future work. > > DIAC-08 combines CPSR's 11th DIAC symposium with the third Conference > on Online Deliberation. The joint conference is intended to provide > a platform and a forum for highlighting socio-technological > opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in the area of community > and civic action. Technology enhanced community action ranges from > informal communities of practice to democratic governance of formal > organizations to large social movements. > > The DIAC symposia have resulted in six book publications (in addition > to the proceedings). Alth! ou! ! gh we don't have specific plans at > this > time, we are hoping to publish our seventh book based on this event. > > Thanks! We hope you'll join us in Berkeley this June. > > Doug Schuler > douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/

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CFP: ACM Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
by Steve Jones 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Call for Papers - ACM MIR2008 http://www.mir2008.org ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval October 30-31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada colocated with ACM Multimedia Send questions/requests by email to mir(a)liacs.nl DEADLINES - June 20, 2008: Submission of full paper - July 14, 2008: Notification of acceptance - July 20, 2008: Camera-ready full paper - October 30-31, 2008: Conference KEYNOTE - Prof. Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GOALS The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval including, but not limited to: - Exploration of media archives - browsing, experiential computing - Interfaces for multimedia exploration, visualization, query and retrieval - Indexing and search of multimedia data: images, video, audio, multi-modal systems - Digital life experience analysis and retrieval - life logs, digital immortality, life bits - Video surveillance browsing and retrieval, object detection and recognition, archiving - Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval - Applications - WWW searching, trademarks, scientific and medical media, etc. Double-blind full papers should be submitted using the paper submission web system at http://www.mir2008.org (preferably 6-8 pages in the ACM Conference style in English). All papers will be peer-reviewed. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Michael Lew (Leiden University) Program Co-Chairs: Alberto del Bimbo (University of Florence), Erwin Bakker (Leiden University) Brave New Topics Chair: Mark Zhang (SUNY Binghamton) Publicity Chair: Mark Huiskes (Leiden University) Asian Liaison: Kiyo Aizawa (University of Tokyo) SPONSORS ACM ACM SIG Multimedia Getty Images LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under FOCUS/BRICKS grant number 642.066.603

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Reminder, CFP
by Niels Brügger 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

*Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-posting* REMINDER, Call for Papers Conference title: Web_site Histories: Theories, Methods, Analysis One-day conference, October 14th 2008. The main purpose of Web_site Histories is to place the new and emerging field of Web History on the research agenda and to map the field of historical website studies. Organizer: The Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark. The conference is associated the AoIR 9.0 conference "Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place" in Copenhagen (http://conferences.aoir.org ) Confirmed keynote speakers: Kirsten Foot, Associate Professor, University of Washington Steven Schneider, Professor, State University of New York Title: Object-Oriented Web Historiography. Abstract: Foot & Schneider will present a keynote address that focuses on their proposal of an “object-oriented” approach to researching and writing Web history. They will consider the various meanings of object entailed within the notion of object-oriented Web historiography in order to advance both the theoretical foundation and methodological rigor of developmental analyses of Web artifacts in their hyperlinked contexts. Developmental analyses of any aspect of the Web, whether engaged in contemporaneously or retrospectively, entail dynamics within and between the (co)producers of Web artifacts, production practices and techniques, and Web artifacts themselves. These dynamics make it difficult but very important for scholars to identify and situate their object(s) of analysis historically and theoretically. See extended description at http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/events/conferences/wsh08/keynote . Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider are the authors of Web Campaigning (MIT Press 2006) as well as a number of articles about Web Sphere Analysis. A panel will round off the conference by discussing the future directions of studies of Web History. Besides Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider panel participant will be Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus. The main purpose of Web_site Histories is to place the new and emerging field of Web History on the research agenda and to map the field of historical website studies. The focus on the Web can be seen as a specialization within the larger field of Internet History, but with another subset of questions and challenges. The underscore in the title reflects the uncertainty and variability of the object of study – are we talking about the Web in general, Web Spheres, individual websites, or web pages? The conference welcomes papers on any of these approaches or any other theme, topic or idea connected to the theories, methods or analysis of Web History. Theoretical approaches could be discussions of the object of study or reflections on doing historical research on this particular subject. Methodological approaches may include abstract or more specific considerations of the range of applicable methods, both old and new, to Web History. Finally, the analytical approach welcomes contributions exploring the practical hazards and possibilities of this special kind of empirical material, as well as papers on concrete empirical studies. Papers are also welcome on a wide array of historically-grounded themes. The topics below are examples of the kinds of issues paper presenters are invited to address — but are not intended to limit topics suitable for paper submissions: · General as well as more specific histories of the development of the Web, focusing on, for instance, technology, graphic design, culture etc. · The history of the Web as a subset of the history of the Internet, with emphasis on, for instance, the development of hardware, software and protocols · The organizational architecture of the Web in a global, national, transnational or local perspective · Defining moments and events on the Web, either in terms of how the Web was conceived and built, or in terms of how it is or was perceived and used · Demographical, social, cultural, or other factors influencing Web use and uptake · Political, economic, institutional or personal histories of the Web · The growing popularity of social networking sites in a historical perspective · Interactivity, genre and media discussions in relation to the Web · The histories of expectations in pre-web time meeting the reality of the Web · Source availability and validity – the archiving of the Web · The history of the Web in the larger framework of media history Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by April 15th 2008 (further instructions at http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/wsh08) After a process of double-blind peer review, authors will be notified of accepted papers by May 15th. Full papers will be due by August 31st 2008. Please note that there is a maximum of 30 participants, and priority will be given to paper presenters. Paper presentations will consist of short presentations with opponents/discussants and roundtable-style discussions. Presenters are therefore also expected to act as opponents/discussants. Participation in the conference is free, and coffee and lunch is included (yes, there is such a thing as a free lunch). Following the conference, papers will be considered for inclusion in an edited volume on Web Histories. The conference takes place at the University of Aarhus, two days before the start of the AoIR 9.0 conference in Copenhagen (http://conferences.aoir.org ). Aarhus is situated west of Copenhagen and is the second largest city in Denmark with a population of approximately 300,000. It is accessible by train or by air via the Aarhus or Billund airports. Read more about Aarhus and the university:http://www.au.dk/en/why and http://www.au.dk/en/aarhus.htm . The Centre for Internet Research is located at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, and was established in September 2000 in order to promote research into the social and cultural implications and functions of the internet. Read more about the Centre:http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/about/profile Conference website: http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/wsh08. The conference is sponsored by: · 'The Knowledge Society', a joint research priority area at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Aarhus, · the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus · the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus. About the organisers: Niels Brügger (PhD, MA) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, and co-founder of the Centre for Internet Research. His primary research interests are website history, web archiving, and the internet and media theory, and he recently started the research project "The history of www.dr.dk, 1996-2006" (read more at http://imv.au.dk/~nb) Vidar Falkenberg (MSc) is a PhD fellow at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, and a member of the Centre for Internet Research. His research is on the development of online newspapers in Denmark (read more at http://www.internetaviser.dk) ------------------------------------------------------------ RESEARCH BLOG On my blog http://drdk.dk/wordpress I write about the research project "The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006" as well as about issues of relevance to the internet and to dr.dk of today [ in Danish ] COMING CONFERENCE I am co-organizing the conference 'Web_site Histories: Theories, Methods, Analysis', 14 October 2008 Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2008 Visit the conference website: http://www.cfi.au.dk/en/wsh08 LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS Website History: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in an Emerging Field, Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, The 8th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver 2007, 25 pages Abstract: http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=930&cf=6 A Critical Textual Philology of the Website: Why and How?, The pre- AoIR 8.0 Workshop 'Internet Histories', Vancouver 2007, 22 pages Abstract: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Pre-conference_workshops The website as unit of analysis? Bolter and Manovich revisited, Digital Aesthetics and Communication (Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, vol. 5) (red. A. Fetveit, G.B. Stald), Intellect, Bristol 2007, 75-88 About the publication: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.appx.php?issn=1601829X NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsbrugger Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The research project "The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006" http://drdk.dk The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.imv.au.dk Theories of Media and Communication http://www.medieteori.dk Internet Archive in Denmark http://www.netarkivet.dk

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