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Re: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

A few references not directly associated with Second Life, but with the migration from ftf to online education: Research Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of E-Learning Research. London: Sage. -- includes chapter on CSCL, and on second language learning Design Barab, S. A., Kling, R. & Gray, J. H. (Eds.) (2004). Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning. NY: Cambridge University Press. CSCL Koschmann, T. (Ed.)(1996) CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Other Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M.M. (Eds.) (2004). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang. Steeples, Christine & Jones, Chris (2002). Networked Learning: Perspectives and Issues. London: Springer. Also look at the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (you only need to register to see that articles) http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:58:26 +0100 >From: "sultan ." <sarifi(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [Air-L] Literature in Second Life >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Hello all > >As a postgraduate student who is very interested in SL applications in >education, I am pleased to be part of this group as I am learning from you >new and innovative ideas every day. However, this is my first post and I >hope I can get your help in two issues: > >1- I am going to write a research literature to answer the following >question: > >Can "first life" educators add to their practice by migrating some of it to >Second Life? > >I would like to seek out relevant research on design and practice in this >theme and provide a review of educational potential that would be useful to >an interested practitioner. > >So, what are your recommendations? And could you please guide me to some >places and references in this field? > > > >2- I am planning to do my MA thesis in one of the following topics: > >A- Collaborative learning in SL based on meetings between some students >in world. > >B- The potential of second life in learning English as a second language >based on my observations to some sites and islands and practice as I speak >English as a second language. > >Which topic do you recommend me more? And could you please guide me to some >references for both topics. > > Bear in mind that my bachelor degree is in English and I am now doing my MA >in ICT in Education not in English. > >Please do not hesitate to write me your feedback and suggestions. > >I need your help. > > Thanks a lot > > Sultan > sarifi(a)gmail.com >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- 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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Gender swapping in SL
by William Bain 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Adam Davis wrote : "I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL." Of possible *ancillary* interest: an article in *The Independent* on the lucrativeness of "porn-lit". The article mentions the Net as being "largely to thank for the rise of erotic literature", a perhaps questionable perception........ Anyway, as I say, of possible interest in a general way, it's titled "Dirty sexy money: The writer Rupert Smith on his lucrative porn-lit sideline" -- at the long url : http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/dirty-sexy-m… Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

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Re: [Air-L] Gender swapping in SL
by Joshua Raclaw 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Are you familiar with these two articles? The Hussain and Griffiths article is probably most relevant to what you're interested in, though the Sundén may also be worth looking at. Hussain, Z. and M. Griffiths. (2008). "Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study." Cyberpsychology and Behavior 11(1). http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cpb.2007.0020?cookieSet=1 Sundén, J. (2002). “I’m still not sure she’s a she”: Textual talk and typed bodies in online interaction. In P. McIlvenny (Ed.). Talking gender and sexuality (pp. 289-312). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice Women and Gender Studies University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:09:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: Adam Davis <adavis45(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: [Air-L] Gender swapping in SL >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Apologies for cross-posting... > > >I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL. My focus is on identity in online environments, and I haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for in database searches. > > >Many thanks, > >Adam Davis >PhD Student >Mass Communication and Media Arts >Southern Illinois University >SL: Forthwith Sideways > > > >--------------------------------- >You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. >_______________________________________________ >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/

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Some Results from the Survey: Libraries & the Mega Internet Sites
by primarydat＠aol.com 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Primary Research Group has published Libraries & the Mega-Internet Sites ( A Survey of how Libraries Use and Relate to Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBAY, Amazon, Facebook, YouTUBE & Other Mega-Internet Sites), ISBN 1-57440-096-7. This report presents data from more than 120 academic, special and public libraries from the US, UK, Canada and other countries about how they use and relate to the mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, and others. In many ways the mega-sites have transformed library management, fostering change in information literacy education, library marketing and public relations, cataloging, digitization, collection management and other aspects of librarianship. The report provides hard data on exactly how libraries are dealing with the emerging internet giants, how they are adopting, negotiating, repelling, and embracing them. Just a few of the reports conclusions are reproduced below: • 31.1% of the libraries in the sample had ever purchased an e-book from Amazon. Non-U.S libraries were more likely than U.S. libraries to purchase an e-book from Amazon. Indeed, more than 45% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample have purchased an e-book from Amazon, while only 29.63% of the U.S. libraries in the sample have made such a purchase. College and university libraries were the most likely to ever have purchased an e-book from Amazon; 35.62% of the academic libraries in the sample had made such a purchase. The tendency to purchase e-books from Amazon correlated positively with library budget size; 44.44% of the libraries in the sample with a budget exceeding $4.5 million have purchased an e-book from Amazon, while only 24.14% of those with budgets of less than one-half million dollars have made such a purchase. • More than 32% of the librarians responding to the survey considered Wikipedia an “unreliable information source and don’t recommend its use,” while another 65.3% considered it “generally reliable but to use with some caution”, and only 2.48% considered it “as reliable as print encyclopedias”. • Just over half of the libraries in the sample reported that their library staff and patrons did not really use Google Scholar much. Three in 10 participants answered that they used it “reasonably often,” while just over 8% reported using it “extensively.” Fully 9% of the libraries in the sample were completely unaware of Google Scholar. • Awareness and use of Google Scholar generally increased as library budgets increased. No library with a budget below $500,000 reported using Google Scholar extensively. • Over 28% of participants reported that they were currently working with a search engine organization to digitize and make available online elements of their collection. Larger libraries were far more likely than smaller libraries, in terms of budget size, to be working with a search engine to digitize elements of the collection. More than half of the libraries in the sample with an annual overall budget of greater than $4.5 million are working with a search engine to digitize parts of their collection, while only about 11% of libraries with annual budgets of less than $1.5 million are working with a search engine for this purpose. • Overall, 23.14% of the libraries in the sample had offered workshops that included instruction in use of the Yahoo search engine. Nearly half of all public libraries in the sample had offered instruction in use of the Yahoo search engine. • 11.67% of the libraries in the sample have ever offered a course to their patrons on how to use eBay. More than 41% of the public libraries in the sample have offered such a course, as have 29.63% of libraries with budgets of greater than $4.5 million. • 17.36% of the libraries in the sample had a presence on the social networking site Facebook. Interestingly, 25% of non-U.S. libraries in the sample had Facebook pages, far more than the 16.51% of U.S. libraries in the sample. As might be expected of a social networking site that got its start exclusively focused on academia, academic libraries were much more likely than other types of libraries to have a Facebook page. 22.67% of the higher education libraries in the sample have a Facebook presence. • Only seven libraries in our sample have digitized and sold digital print on demand copies of out of copyright works or other works for which they have copyright permission, and then have sold these items through online retailers. Of those that have done this, 16.67% sold through Amazon, another 16.67% did this through Google, and 66.67% through some other online bookseller. • 9.24% of the libraries in the sample have one or more YouTube accounts for the library. 16.67% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample have at least one YouTube account while only 8.41% of the U.S. libraries in the sample had a YouTube account. • 24% of the libraries in the sample use Yahoo Groups. Non-U.S. libraries were far more likely to use Yahoo Groups than the U.S. libraries in the sample; 58.33% of the non-U.S. libraries in the sample use Yahoo Groups, while only 20.2% of U.S. libraries did so. • 20.66% of the libraries in the sample have staff who use Google Docs special productivity tools, including Google spreadsheets, word processing capabilities and other features. • 10.74% of the libraries in the sample not currently using Google Blogger plan to do so in the near future. A quarter of non-U.S. libraries the sample had such plans, as did 9.17% of the U.S. libraries. The 100 page report presents more than 300 tables of data defining the relationship between libraries and the megasites. For further information visit our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com

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SNS publications
by danah boyd 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

As folks write and publish work on social network sites, please send me the full citation information and the URL to the article. I'm still trying to keep my online biblio of SNS articles up-to-date since folks are always asking about what research is out there. The page also has lots of Google love so I know that there are a lot of folks interested. (If you can't put the article online, please tell me what email I should use to send folks to you.) Research on Social Network Sites http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html Thanks! danah

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Carey Award DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Mark D. Johns 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS James W. Carey Media Research Award 2008 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ The Carl Couch Center invites self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes works on topics that have been central to Carey's scholarship. Among others, submissions might focus on technology, time, space and communications, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular culture. Applications will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Carey’s approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of six: Prof. Stuart Adam, Poynter Institute for Media Studies Prof. Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College Prof. Linda Steiner, University of Maryland Prof. Lance Strate, Fordham University Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published/presented or have been accepted for publication or presentation—that is, works that have been accepted for publication in a book or journal, or have been accepted for presentation at a competitive academic conference. To be considered for the 2008 award, works should be published or presented in 2007. Those interested please submit a copy of their works electronically to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR, at mjohns(a)luther.edu in plain text, Microsoft Word, or Corel WordPerfect format. If the work submitted is a paper, a 100-word abstract needs to be included. Paper length is limited to 30 pages plus references. If a book is submitted, a copy of the table of contents and one chapter are sufficient. The application deadline is *extended* to April 15, 2008. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15. The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner’s choice of the 2008 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), or National Communication Association (NCA). Questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Looking for Internet Research activities in Norway
by Shrwan Khanal 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi everyone, I am doing my Master's in Development and International Cooperation at the University of Jyvaskyla Finland. I am researching on internet use at University of Zambia. I would like to know if there is any workshop, seminars or similar events taking place in Norway especially in Bergen. I would like to participate in such activities. I would be great if I can meet some researchers in Bergen working in ICT sector in the third week of April. At the moment I am at the Upsala University in Sweden. -- Shrwan Khanal Development and International Cooperation University of Jyvaskyla Finland cell:358442733433

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Couch Internet Research Award
by Mark D. Johns 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2008 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch’s theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2008 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $500 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 15-19, 2008 in Copenhagen. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is April 28, 2008. Notification of award will be sent by June 16. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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OECD Follow-up Study on Open Educational Resources
by Jeremy Hunsinger 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Jan Hylén wrote: > In 2006 OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation > carried out a study on Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher > education. The report from the study was published in May 2007 by > the OECD under the title "Giving Knowledge for Free -- The Emergence > of Open Educational Resources". It can be freely downloaded fromhttp://www.oecd.org/document/41/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_38659497_1_1_1_… > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation is carrying > out a study on Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. > As one part of that study we are launching a web based survey for > individual teachers, instructors and researchers using and producing > OER. > > We would like to invite anyone working in a higher educational > institution that uses or produces open learning content, such as > courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections > and journals, or open software tools to develop, use, re-use and > deliver learning content, to take our survey. It will not take more > than 10-15 minutes to complete. > > This is the link to the survey: http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=if9u3twr4jlg2zp406174 > > A report with the findings will be published on the OECD website. > For more information regarding Open Educational Resources, please > see: www.oecd.org/edu/oer . > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Thank you > Jan > _________________________________________________________ > Jan Hylén, Ph.D. > jan.hylen(a)metamatrix.se > M: +46 (0)734-41 40 44 > D: +46 (0)8-506 533 01 > <image001.gif> > > Sveavägen 31, 3 tr SE-111 34 Stockholm, Sweden > T: 08-50 65 33 00 F: 08-50 65 33 99 > www.metamatrix.se 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

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Re: [Air-L] April Fooled?
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

It was a good one :) ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:24:39 -0400 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: [Air-L] April Fooled? >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >As I digest, I apologize if someone has answered already > >Someone pointed out the UK post yesterday in eMarketer that said that UK >kids prefer to hang out with their parents rather than online, etc. > >A very senior and experienced survey analyst forwarded it to me, totally >straightforwardly. I replied with skepticism. > >A few hours later, he replied that he had been April Fooled. The thing was >an April Fools Day hoax. > >BTW, Barbara Neves, my Portuguese colleague, tells me that in her country >it's called Liars Day. ;-) > > Barry Wellman > _______________________________________________________________________ > > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 > Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php > Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days > _______________________________________________________________________ > > >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- 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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