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FW: e-Research 08 in Oxford
by Eric Meyer 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

> Oxford e-Research Conference 08 > 11-13 September 2008 at the University of Oxford > > Please circulate widely > Additional details online: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/ > > This multi-disciplinary, international conference on e-Research will be > held at the University of Oxford from 11-13 September 2008. It is being > organized by a consortium of research projects in association with the > journal Information Communication and Society (iCS). > Please visit the website for additional details about conference themes, submission procedures, and other details. > Deadlines > Abstracts (or drafts) of Proposed Papers: 15 March 2008. > Workshop and panel outlines: 15 March 2008. > > Authors will be informed of the programme committee's decision by 15 April > 2008. > > Full Papers should be received by 15 August 2008 > > More information about the conference and the collaborating centres can be > found at: > > Conference Web site: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/ > >

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Panels and things for IR9.0
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi everyone, First a big thanks for the proposal submissions and a reminder that this is the last day for proposals for papers. Second can I apologise for any confusion over the panel proposals and reassure everyone that no decisions have been or will be made until we have all the proposed panels completed and in front of us for consideration. So don't PANIC! Now due to the limitations of the system we are using it is no longer possible to submit a proposal and abstracts separately (although this was not very helpful for the Brisbane conference anyway so I'm told!). So what we would like is a "600-800 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation" in a single submission. Also it is fine to include biog details in the abstract - simply put everything in one place. As I say we will not be making decisions over the next week or so until all proposers of panels are happy that we have received their definitive versions. Email me if you have any concerns but please don't get stressed. One more reminder is that we will be notifying proposers of our decision on 31 March 2008. Information on the workshop proposals will follow next week. 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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Submission problems
by Brian Loader 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Thank you for all the emails to say that you are unable to submit your proposals at the moment. I have notified the people looking after the site and they will let us know when the problem is fixed. 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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Conference Panel Sumission Help
by Jay Hauben 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, I am trying to submit a panel proposal and the 6 abstracts from the panelists for AoIR-9. The deadline is Feb 22 but I have not been able to see how to submit the panel proposal and the 6 abstracts along with the 6 little biographies. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks. Jay

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Re: [Air-L] and now for *the dark side* of facebook
by Julian Hopkins 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi All, If anyone's interested, I did a blog post once comparing (from a layperson's point of view) the different terms of service relating to privacy of some SNS and email services http://www.julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/30-Facebook-owns-YOU!.html I'd say that the CIA is probably interested in mining sns sites, just like they try to gather information on any place where people can talk and mobilize. Making tenuous connections and 'fallacies of association' have always been the bread and butter of conspiracy theorists, but it is useful to remember how cosy some elites become, resulting in 'inward thinking' (can't remember the proper word) and so on. Regards, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:21:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexis Turner <subbies(a)redheadedstepchild.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] and now for *the dark side* of facebook To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0802201409230.22375(a)sdf.lonestar.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'd actually like to go even further than Alex and ask, do we really believe that the only way interested spy agencies can obtain this information is by getting it siphoned through companies they have a *friendly* relationship with? In other words, I agree that none of this information specifically points to Facebook being part of some conspiracy, because, in addition to Alex's point of the nepotism amongst companies, the named agencies certainly have the abilty to log in to a system and build some simple little scrapers to retrieve the data they want all by themselves, with or without assistance from the company. For that reason, I do believe the entire structure of Facebook and ALL business models like it raise serious privacy concerns. Facebook's connections are public knowledge and make it an easy target. But perhaps we should really be asking this question of ALL social networking sites. I think the Facebook discussion has lost the forest for a single tree. -Alexis On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Alex Halavais wrote: ::Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:53:31 -0500 ::From: Alex Halavais <alex(a)halavais.net> ::Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org ::To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org ::Subject: Re: [Air-L] and now for *the dark side* of facebook :: ::On Feb 20, 2008 12:12 AM, Kimberly De Vries <cuuixsilver(a)gmail.com> wrote: ::> Anyway, has anyone from Facebook ever commented on the whole intelligence ::> community connection? ::> :: ::Is it just me, or is this a serious association fallacy. No doubt, ::network visualizations can help to root out conspiracies, criminal or ::not. But the mere fact that people associate with one another means ::little more than that: they associate with one another. Given the ::degree to which corporate boards interlock, I would be surprised if ::most companies could not be similarly associated with the intelligence ::community. :: ::Let's take one of the claims in plain English: :: ::Facebook is a site that collects a lot of information in order to ::create profiles of individuals; ::ACCELL is a VC company that invested in Facebook; ::James Breyer is on the board of ACCELL; ::James Breyer is also on the board of BBN Technologies; ::Dr. Anita Jones is on the board of BBN Technologies; ::Dr. Anita Jones at one point "oversaw" DARPA (among others); ::DARPA funded the Information Awareness Office, ::The IAO aimed to data mine profiles of individuals; ::Kevin Bacon started the IAO! :: ::(OK, I added the last one.) :: ::It's worth being critical of the overlapping membership networks of ::corporate boards, but to my mind, the above chain of connections is ::not particularly interesting. :: ::Alex :: :: ::-- ::// ::// This email is ::// [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. ::// [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. ::// ::// Alexander C. Halavais ::// Social Architect ::// http://alex.halavais.net ::// ::_______________________________________________ ::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/ :: + -------- redheadedstepchild.org ------- +

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Sampling Internet Users in Two Cities
by Burns, Kelli 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

I've been asked by a consultant/friend how to locate a sample of Internet users in two U.S. cities. His client would like to conduct a survey to get a better understanding of the potential online audience for a Web site. Any suggestions or resources would be much appreciated. Thank you, Kelli Burns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of South Florida

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Douglas Kahn talk at Sussex: Media Ventriloquism
by Kathleen O'Riordan 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Centre for Material Digital Culture Department of Media and Film University of Sussex, UK RESEARCH SEMINAR /VISITING SPEAKER SERIES: Douglas Kahn (University of California, Davis, Technocultural Studies Program, Dept of Music, and Art History) will be speaking on: 'Media Ventriloquism' 5:00pm, Wednesday, February 27, (Week Eight). Room: EDB 121 Douglas Kahn researches intersections of history, theory and contemporary practice in art, music, literature, media arts, cinema, sound, electromagnetism, science, technology and politics, from the late-19th Century to the present, with an emphasis on avant-garde, experimentalism, bohemian and subcultural activities. He is author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT), and co-editor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (MIT). Dr Kate O'Riordan Department of Media and Film EDB University of Sussex Falmer Brighton UK BN1 9RG Tel: 00 44 (0) 1273 876730 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile30746.html

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and now for *the dark side* of facebook
by nativebuddha 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

some dirt on the facebook: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook -robert

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taxonomy of social network services
by Barry Wellman 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Given the nice interest in the taxonomy of Social Network Services, may I ask Tracy Kennedy and other thoughtful users to contribute taxonomies and other useful things to the Wikipedia article "Social Network Service". It's in need of such help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service Thanks. BTW, there is also a more fully developed article on [[social network]] -- focusing on social network analysis. 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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Re: [Air-L] Implementation and confirmation in Rogers' innovation decision process
by Bob Stepno 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Very interesting. This may not be a perfect match, but Roger Fidler reflected on the discontinuance of early teletext and videotext media projects at length in his book Mediamorphosis (1997 Pine Forge Press) -- and does discuss Rogers earlier. Bob Stepno http://stepno.com Radford University > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:58:15 -0800 > From: "Cho, Inho" <choinho(a)mail.utexas.edu> > I am conducting a research regarding discontinuance of an innovation (an > intranet), but I am troubled in conceptualizing/operationalizing > discontinuance.

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