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Re: [Air-L] IR 9.09.0 Submission
by Marj Kibby 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

This reminds me of the first assignment deadline for a freshman class - I want to give my speech about leaving things to the last moment and not ensuring early that you understand what is required :-) Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> <bl506(a)york.ac.uk> 02/24/08 4:10 AM >>> Can we deal with individual submissions off list please as I can only assume it's a bit of a pain for list members. Mail problems to me and Charlie and we will get them sorted in time. Brian

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IR 9.09.0 Submission
by Philipp Budka 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi List and Conference Organizers, I was wondering when submitting a single presentation/paper to the IR 9.0 conference, I also have to add the abstract as PDF file somehow? Or is it fine to copy-paste the abstract in the form only? Thanks and all the best, Philipp P.S. Apologies, if this already has been clarified somewhere else. -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Dreyhausenstraße 18/7 A-1140 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/?mc=sv_ext_mf@gmx

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t-shirts and stuff
by Jeremy Hunsinger 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

just a small reminder of http://www.cafepress.com/aoir Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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Re: [Air-L] do we all have asperger's?
by RTMahon＠aol.com 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Seems there are at least two primary issues at work here. First, is the use of Asperger's in a clinical setting. The expert witness in the case cited below was not talking about individuals who use computers being prone to AS, or computer use constituting AS. Let's not get into ecological fallacy, right? In my reading she was talking about computer use being a possible manifestation of AS. This requires matching the individual to his or her context and specific behaviors. When is the computer used, how long and for what purpose? I have worked with individuals in clinical settings who have Asperger's and the diagnosis in my experience is a useful tool for critically examining and changing behavior. The use of a computer to play a single game and only a single game or to look at one or two websites only might be useful information when making a diagnosis or assessment. The social isolation that results from computer use, meaning a lack of face to face interaction with other individuals, may exacerbate or sustain difficulties connecting with other people or expressing empathy. Again, that depends on the individual, and does not mean that all individuals who use computers have or may have Asperger's syndrome. Secondly, its seems like folks are touching on normative behavior on a number of levels. Asperger's is sometimes characterized by unusual use of language, inability to 'filter' social unacceptable language, or is considered a form of Autism. Each of these characterizations incorporate ideas about normative behavior. Interestingly, Pervasive Developmental Disorders like Autism have become so common in some settings that the 'disorder' itself has become normative. This raises a whole host of issues about the validity and utility of these diagnoses, but does not really relate in any way to general statements about computer use as normative. It sounds like some of this may be a defensive emotional reaction to feelings or insecurities about daily computer use. Where is the context? Where is the self-critique? Ryan Mahon **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-du… 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

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Submissions are open again!
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

OK people I'm told you can now submit those proposals so I guess I have to go back to work again! Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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do we all have asperger's?
by Barry Wellman 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

I am not making this up: "A day after the Hans Reiser murder trial drifted into the netherworld, the murder case against the Linux programmer careened Thursday into the world of psychiatry. Defense witness and psychiatrist Beverly Parr, on the stand for the second day, testified that those who use a computer regularly "possibly" might have Asperger's syndrome. Those diagnosed with this disorder have impaired social skills. "His activities were restricted to the computer more than I would expect," testified Parr, a family friend of the Reisers. "What you're saying, you found his work on the computer matched one of the diagnostic features of Asperger's?" prosecutor Paul Hora asked on cross examination. "Possibly." There's more to the story at the website: Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/hans_reiser_trial/index.html#top 22Feb08 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 _______________________________________________________________________

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ASIS&T AM 08 - New submission deadline Posters Short Papers ONLY
by Richard Hill 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

The Annual Meeting planning committee has extended the deadline for POSTERS and Short Papers submissions from Feb 21, 2008 to Feb 29, 2008. NEW DEADLINE for Poser and Short Paper Proposals is Febreuary 29, 2008 All other proposal deadlines have already passed. Dick Hill _____ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Social Networking Sites Geography Visualization
by Michael Farrugia 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, I'm a research student studying Information Visualization and Social Networks at UCD in Dublin. I have recently collected some data about the popularity of social networking sites in different countries, and presented the data in a graphical format. The data identifies the most popular social networking site in each of the 116 countries for which the data was available. It also contains the ranking of the SN site in the context of all other sites accessed in that country. You can view and interact with the visualizations at this website: http://csserver.ucd.ie/~mfarrugia The aim of creating these visualizations is to generate discussion and allow people to share insights and ask questions on the popularity of social networking sites and their use in different countries. The data extracted is also freely available in the many eyes website and new visualizations of this dataset can be created in the same site. By tracking the comments and discussions around the different visualizations I'm trying to identify the most popular visualization by the number of comments it receives. Regards, Michael Farrugia School of Computer Science & Informatics University College Dublin, Ireland __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Job Posting - Researcher in webbased data collection
by Anja Göritz 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany in the project 'The effects of incentives on data quality in online panels' funded by the German Research Foundation to be filled with a Junior Research Fellow (0.5 salary scale 13 TV-L for 2 years) or Senior Research Fellow with Doctoral Degree (salary scale 13 TV-L for 1.5 years). A detailed job description can be found at: http://www.goeritz.net/vacancy.pdf Please forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested in this position. Thank you! Dr. Anja Goeritz University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Department of Organizational and Social Psychology Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg (Germany) www.goeritz.net

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IR9.0 Reviewers
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Some of you who very kindly agreed to act as reviwers for IR 9.0 may be wondering why you have not yet received anything to review. The reason is probably that you did not indicate your interests on the system so the Track Directors cannot identify you as a possible reviewer. But all is not lost! The good news is that you can edit your reviewing interests in My Profile, which appears at the top of the right-hand menu after you login. We would be ever so grateful if you could take a few minutes to do this so that we can spread the task around fairly and not burn out any particular volunteers. Thanks, Brian Brian D. Loader Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD Email bl506(a)york.ac.uk Tel: +44(0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44(0) 1904 433043

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