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CALL-FOR-PAPER (OSINT-WM 2008) (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

fyi Barry Wellman ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:07:47 -0700 (MST) From: Reda Alhajj <alhajj(a)ucalgary.ca> To: alhajj(a)ucalgary.ca Subject: CALL-FOR-PAPER (OSINT-WM 2008) Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a symposium on Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining (OSINT-WM 2008) http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/OSINT-WM.htm <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/OSINT-WM.htm>. Submission Deadline = 15 March 2008. The Symposium is co-located with Information Visualization 2008. We invite you to consider submitting your research article to the above mentioned symposium. The proceedings of the symposium will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of the accepted papers (after peer review) will also be published as Special Issue "Open Source Intelligence and web Mining" of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=897 <http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=897> Please contact me if I can provide any further information. Best Wishes, -- Reda Alhajj, Professor of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Analyzable Taxonomies for Internet Research
by Luis Gutierrez 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

AIR-L .... PLEASE SEE ITEM 7: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence, February 2008 http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n02.html Main theme: SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Contents include: 1. Religious Freedom and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals 2. Religion as a Primarily Human Initiative 3. Spirituality as a Primarily Divine Initiative 4. A Critical Analysis of Patriarchy and Patriarchal Religions 5. The Democratic Alternative to Patriarchal Governance 6. The Spirituality of Sustainable Development 7. Update on Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Resources This is what I currently have: http://www.pelicanweb.org/knowledgeorganization.html 7a. Free access to HTML and EXCEL versions 7b. Relational analysis of links very useful to me 7c. Any suggestions for making it more useful to others? 7d. Is there a box I can add for visitors to suggest links? 7e. What tool do you recommend to check link validity? 7f. See the following: http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/encyclopedia/index.html http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/search/index.html Do you know of anything better than this? ----------------------------------------- 8. Prayer, Study, and Action (with letter by Erica Jong) 9. Links to Archived Newsletters and Other Resources Hope to get some feedback form AIR-L .... Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, SSNV Research Newsletter http://pelicanweb.org/solisust.html

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Canadian general warns that Wikipedia postings may be aiding the Taliban
by Barry Wellman 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

>From the Toronto Star, February 15, 2008. (I am not making this up). Allan Woods, "Military Issues Web Warning" "Brig.-Gen Peter Atkinson... warned that seemingly innocuous photos, videos and news reports can be the source for as much as 80% of the intelligence that insurgents routinely gather on operations.... "Wikipedia is among the most dangerous of the public-access websites, he said.... 'Due to its collaborative content contribution, anybody can add to the content, providing a compilation of details on a specific incident, like the descriptions of a casualty, photos, locations, and news articles contributed by several sources,' Atkinson told reporters." BW: To check this out, I searched on Canadian, Taliban and 2008, and found nothing currently revelatory, even in the article, "War in Afghanistan (2001-present)". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29 I do not have the time, inclination or resources to search the history of every article to see who revealed what, when, where, why, or how. As an influential essay on Wikipedia says, "Wikipedia is not a newspaper." Therefore, I wonder if there will be much operational reporting on it that lasts more than a short while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_newspaper YMMV. 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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for fun
by Paul Emerson Teusner 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Dear AoIR conference organisers, We really need Yossi Vardi as a key-note speaker at AoIR 9. Please make it happen. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/203 paul emerson teusner fishers, surfers and casters - <http://teusner.org/> http://teusner.org/ bio - <http://paulteusner.org/> http://paulteusner.org/

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web2.0 discourse, logo and taglines
by smork＠itu.dk 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hi all Have any of you or do you know of some who have published on the rhetoric of web2.0, especially the way these companies uses logo and taglines as a way of branding themselves. Think taglines like Flickrs flickr loves you or Googles dont be evil and other tacky lines (pun intended). Cheers, Soeren Moerk Petersen

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Electronic Commerce Research: Virtual Worlds Special Issue Call
by Savvas Papagiannidis 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, for any enquiries. =================================== Electronic Commerce Research: Virtual Worlds Special Issue Call ==================================== DEADLINE: 31st May 2008 (for more information please visit: http://www.ebusiness-newcastle.com/news/article.php?id=40) I HAVE AN AVATAR THEREFORE I EXIST: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN METAVERSES Millions of users from around the globe participate in massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG), such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, 3D worlds that are often considered the next generation Web. With their user base growing at an exponential rate we are already experiencing the development of a phenomenon that may be as significant as the Web itself. The rapid development of MMORPGs and metaverses is likely to bring about significant business as well as social, legal, policy, methodological and technological opportunities and challenges. This special issue aims to explore these and contribute to this rapidly expanding field by focusing on issues relevant to electronic business and management. Academics and practitioners are invited to submit conceptually and empirically based original papers addressing areas such as those listed below: -Business opportunities and challenges -Marketing implications -Identity management issues -Virtual economies and economic policies -Virtual entrepreneurship and metaverse ebusiness models -Developing MMORPGs and related strategies and ebusiness models -Real money trading -Consumer and business ethics in metaverses -Case studies (e.g. Second Life, World of Warcraft etc) -Human-computer interaction issues in metaverses -Psychological aspects of participating in metaverses -Legal issues (e.g. copyright and ownership of virtual property) The above areas are just indicative and this special issue would welcome papers discussing other relevant topics. For the manuscripts guidelines please visit the journal's web site. All papers, accompanied by a short biographical note for each author (approximately 200-250 words per author), should be submitted as an email attachment to Dr Savvas Papagiannidis (savvas.papagiannidis(a)ncl.ac.uk) All papers will be double blind refereed. Important dates: - Last date for submitting the manuscript: 31st May 2008 - End of the first review cycle: 1st of July 2008 - Tentative date for completing the revised papers: 15th August 2008 - Tentative date for completing the second review cycle: 15th September 2008 - Submission of the final manuscripts for print: 15th October 2008

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Call for short papers from graduate students for Rocky Mountain Communication Review
by Daren Carroll Brabham 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Call for short papers for a forum in the graduate student journal Rocky Mountain Communication Review. **FACULTY: PLEASE spread this forum call--and news about RMCR in general--to your graduate students!** Forum: "New Media, New Relations" Rocky Mountain Communication Review Guest forum editor: Daren C. Brabham, University of Utah (daren.brabham(a)utah.edu) Rocky Mountain Communication Review (RMCR) seeks short papers (approximately 1500 words) that address the ways in which new media technologies are changing how we work, solve problems, make friends, tell stories, and make progress in our world. The focus of this forum is on the role new media play in re-structuring, re-making, and re-imagining our world. In other words, how exactly have new media changed our world? What are the implications for these changes? What are the most pressing questions and agendas for research regarding these changes? For the purposes of this forum, new media include both digital mass communication technologies (e.g., the Web) as well as personal digital media (e.g., cell phones, digital music players). Submissions can be empirical, rhetorical, or theoretical. Possible topics may include: * how new media are changing the nature of specific industries and professions (e.g., journalism, stock photography); * how social networking sites are changing the ways we make friends, fall in love, and make professional connections; * how personal digital media script our daily rituals and needs; * how new media enable democratic participation; * how new media change/challenge aspects of our identities (e.g., along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, nationality); * how new media technologies enhance, fragment, or otherwise change the way we tell stories and entertain; * how new media technologies change the ways we teach and learn; and * how new media technologies affect social movements and activism. RMCR is a peer-reviewed, online communication journal by and for graduate students, published by the University of Utah. Authors MUST be currently enrolled in a graduate program to be eligible for publication in the journal. All submissions undergo blind, peer-review by at least two graduate students. RMCR is an up-and-coming journal in its fourth volume, and the journal was recently added to the EBSCO database. For more information about the journal: http://rmcr.utah.edu. Please send inquiries, proposals, and papers to Daren Brabham at daren.brabham(a)utah.edu by June 1, 2008. db --- Daren C. Brabham Graduate Teaching Fellow Department of Communication University of Utah 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 2400 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 phone: (801) 633-4796 daren.brabham(a)utah.edu www.darenbrabham.com <http://www.darenbrabham.com/>

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FWD: Call 4 Papers Special Issue Ephemera: The Political Economy of Academic Journal Publishing
by Yann Bona 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Some might be willing to contribute ;) PS: Btw, a great link to 11 (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths; http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths/ PPS: Apologies for cross-posting De: "Boehm, Steffen" <steffen(a)ESSEX.AC.UK> Asunto: Call for Papers: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ACADEMIC JOURNAL PUBLISHING Para: EPHEMERA(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for a special issue of the open access journal ephemera on the Political Economy of Academic Journal Publishing (deadline November 1, 2008). If you are aware of colleagues with a particular interest in this topic please could you forward this call for papers to them. Best regards, Craig Prichard and Steffen Böhm The Political Economy of Academic Journal Publishing Call for Papers & Proposal for a Special Issue of ephemera: theory & politics in organization (www.ephemeraweb.org) to be edited by Craig Prichard & Steffen Böhm ‘Publish or perish’, that famous diktat, is without doubt the central, pervasive and unassailable logic governing most academic work in the current period. The central figure, the one around which this decree currently revolves, is, of course, the academic journal article. While the book and perhaps the lecture remain important in some locations, the journal article has become the core currency and the very measure by which academic jobs, careers, reputations and identities are made and traded. Yet despite all the hours congealed into ‘the article’, and the years spent perfecting the craft of writing for journal publications, many of us know very little about the industry that surrounds our work and to which we contribute so much. Of course, we may recall certain events: Some will have noted the sale, for nearly US$1 billion, of Blackwell’s 875-strong journal collection to US company Wiley in late 2006. Others will be aware that they can now, if they so wish, purchase their already published papers as individual downloads on Amazon.com. There will be some for whom internet-based open access journals (such as ephemera) or online repositories are now the natural home of their written academic work. There may be others whom have confronted the crisis that surrounds journal subscription pricing and are seeing the demise of library journal collections in their university libraries. And there may be a few among us who recognize those journals and publishers that feature in Ted Bergstrom’s hall of shame for the most expensive journals currently published (http://www.journalprices.com) But for all those that recognize such events and processes there are many more for whom such events have ‘taken a while to get our attention’, as Ron Kirby, the University of California mathematician who led the editorial revolt against Reed Elsevier’s pricing strategy at the journal Topography, said recently. This special issue is an invitation to begin to change that. It is a call for contributions that directly and critically explore the dynamics, problems, tensions, and issues that surround the political economy of academic journal publishing. Part of this is an invitation to explore alternative ways of organizing the production of academic work, particularly the theory, politics and organization of open access publishing, which is, perhaps, the most promising initiative to challenge corporate forms of journal publishing today. This exploration of alternatives is an acknowledgement that the writer and academic author could be regarded, at various moments, as agent, challenger and also victim of hegemonic regimes. We invite inter-disciplinary contributions from around the world and particularly welcome submissions from countries of the Global South, which have seen particular growth of open access publishing initiatives. Possible topics include (this is not an exhaustive list): - Political economy of open access publishing - Academic publishing and the knowledge society - How to organize an open access journal? - Political economy of corporate and university press publishing - The place of journal publishing in the overall apparatus of academic publishing - Historical perspectives of academic journal publishing - The hegemony of UK/US publishing & referencing and its global economy - Issues of censorship in the process of publishing - Issues of inclusion/exclusion in journal publishing - Academic publishing in the Global South - Desires and identities connected to journal publishing - The public sphere and journal publishing: Who do we really reach? - The role of journal publishing in the setup and maintenance of professions and disciplines - Cases of open access publishing - The organisation of open access repositories - Case histories of open access repositories - Copyright vs Copyleft - Publishing and language: the hegemony of English - Intellectual property and the impact on academic publishing - What is a journal’s ‘impact’ and how to measure it? - The specific role of ephemera: theory & politics in organization in the world of journal publishing and potential ‘alternative impact factor measurements’ - Academic evaluation and performance measurement systems (such as the RAE in the UK) - Publishing outside academia Full papers should be submitted to the special issue editors via email by 1 November 2008. Papers should be between 5000 and 9000 words; multimedia work is welcome. All submissions should follow ephemera’s submission guidelines: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/submit.htm. All relevant submissions will undergo a double blind review process. The special issue is scheduled to be published in late 2009. Special issue editors: Craig Prichard Tari Whakahaere Kaipakihi , Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa Pouaka Motuhake 11-222 Papaioea, Aotearoa Department of Management 214 Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, New Zealand Phone: +64 (0) 6 356-9099 ext. 2244 Email: c.prichard(a)massey.ac.nz Steffen Böhm School of Accounting, Finance and Management University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ UK Phone: +44 (0) 1206 87 3843 Email: steffen(a)essex.ac.uk -- Yann Bona Beauvois Departament de Psicologia Social Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) yannbona(a)molekulab.net http://psicologiasocial.uab.es/fic/en/user/yannbona

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recent privacy and identity stats?
by Sam Ladner 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hello everyone, I am looking for recent trends in privacy/identity issues online. The best I have been able to find is Pew's Internet and American Life recent stats (61% feel no compulsion to hide their digital footprint). Does anyone know of any other recent statistics regarding privacy, security, or identity? -- ~~~~~ Sam Ladner, PhD Sociologist Toronto

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Content Analysis for Web Discussion Boards
by Laura B Nielsen 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Dear Colleagues, I am looking for reference material for use in my work at EPA. We are planning to launch a discussion board with a limited number of comment fields. But we also want to analyze discussion content in order to better understand the needs and interests of our customers--in particular those who come to EPA seeking environmental information. 1) Have any of you been teaching about content analysis methods lately? If so, what's your favorite reference? 2) Has anyone been working on content analysis of discussion boards as a research method? Laura B. Nielsen, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Georgetown Public Policy Institute 3520 Prospect Street, Suite 308F Washington, DC 20007 WEB http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/lbn4/ Program Analyst Environmental Analysis Division, MC 2842T Office of Information Analysis and Access Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (202) 566-0621

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