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Re: [Air-L] anthropology is not a science?
by William Bain 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

it seems I forgot to add the link on applying quantum statistics to psychological studies of decision processes - i doubt it's new to this list but fwiw it's at : http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/aerts/publications/1994QuantumStatistics.pdf apologies for the lapse anyhow! wb --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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4th International Conference on e-Social Science
by Yuwei Lin 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** 4th International Conference on e-Social Science Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008 Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond. We invite contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research. Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, demos, workshops, tutorials and panels. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods to substantive social science problems * Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative e-Social Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data mining, text mining, social network analysis and collaborative environments * Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data *The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their future (co-evolution) ------------------- Important Deadlines ------------------- Paper abstracts: January 25th, 2008. Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008. Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008. Submission instructions will appear on the conference web site in December. Authors will be informed of the programme committees decision in early March, 2008. For full details of this call, including a full list of topics of interest and submission instructions, please visit http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/

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info
by arvind jha 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Is there any kind of website available, on which i can check the numbers of student in each SES centers in USA???

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TheGreatDebate: Social Networking Technologies Will Bring Large [Positive] Changes to Education
by Gerry Mckiernan 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ "Since its inception The Economist has challenged readers to engage with the world's business, political, scientific, technological and cultural affairs and uncover the connections between them. We now challenge you to bring your knowledge to the floor of our online Oxford-style debates. Your participation shapes the contest and your votes decide the winner. " [ http://www.economist.com/debate/ ] The Third Debate In The Series Started January 15th 2008 [Today] Social Networking: Does It Bring Positive Change To Education?" Schedule of Events Jan 15th / Debate begins. Jan 18th / Rebuttals posted. Jan 23rd / Closing arguments. Jan 25th /Final winner announced. Moderator Robert Cottrell, Deputy Editor of Economist.com Robert Cottrell has been deputy editor of Economist.com for the past two years, and online editor of Intelligent Life magazine since its re-launch this year. He is based in New York. Speaker PRO Ewan McIntosh, National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures for Learning and Teaching Scotland Writes for the Guardian newspaper and the BBC on social media and learning issues, speaks internationally and consults for organisations on how social media can be harnessed for to improve learning in the organisation. Speaker CON Michael Bugeja, Director of Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, ***Iowa State University*** Author of 21 books, with research often being cited by New York Times and International Herald Tribune to name a few, Dr. Bugeja was among the first to analyse the use of Facebook before many professors realised that most of their students were already registered and of Second Life before many students had ever heard of it. For Links and Etc. Visit : [http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/01/proposition-social-network…] Do Register and Do Vote !!! [As Often as Possible] [:-) Cheers ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Re: [Air-L] anthropology is not a science?
by William Bain 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Denise N. Rall wrote: "Our understanding of the discipline, social science, employs the term science as Wissenschaft, or a generalised sense of knowledge, as in what can be discovered or known about a given topic." I just wanted to say thanks, first, for posting all of that. I visited the Christine Borgman webcast Denise mentions and was interested by the distinction between creating "infrastructure of information" and "infrastructure for information", as well as the way the distribution of the sciences is addressed as being bureaucratic. It may be of interest on that last point to note something I recently read by Murray Gell-Mann in _The Quark and the Jaguar_ (paperback, Abacus, 1995), where the hierarchy of the sciences is discussed. On p. 109 Gell-Mann suggests that a science A is more fundamental than a science B when "1. The laws of science A encompass in principle the phenomena and the laws of science B. and 2. The laws of science A are more general than those of science B (that is, those of science B are valid under more special conditions than are those of science A)." He goes on to assign to mathematics a special place in the continuum. Looking for more information to patch up my view of quanta after getting confuse onlist the other day, i found an interesting discussion i wanted to share (fwiw) and so note it here. It applies quantum statistics to psychological studies of decision processes and, well, left me somewhat less confuse or confused :-) Thanks again to Denise et al. Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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Re: [Air-L] Religious Dimension of Sustainable Development
by Luis Gutierrez 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:37:45 +1100 From: Jonathan Marshall > <Jonathan.Marshall(a)uts.edu.au> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Religious > Dimension of Sustainable Development To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <f523dac4bd56b.478495e9(a)uts.edu.au> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello Jon and everyone, Apologies for posting this to the list without further clarification. My intent was simply to inquire if there is anyone in the AOIR who is doing internet research on religious factors in sustainable development. I am the editor of the e-newsletter. As we all know, religion is a complex and controversial topic. I use "religion" in the general sense of a personal relationship with God by anyone who believes (as I do) that there is a God. There are many religious traditions and many ways to be "religious." Spirituality may be a better term to use. My lack of clarity about what "religion" simply reflects the difficulty of finding any consensus on what it means precisely for each person. There is "religion" (or "spirituality") and there are religious traditions that eventually become "religious institutions." My thesis is simply that these religious institutions have enormous influence on many people, and such influence should be taken into account when planning, monitoring, and evaluating international development projects such as the UN "Millennium Development Goals." But I cannot find evidence that it is actually taken into account in any systematic manner, and I was hoping someone here can point me to internet resources on "religion & sustainable development." With this, I have already told you more than I know. Again, please accept my apology for posting this to the listserv without adequate explanation. Hope we agree that ignorance is not a good excuse to refrain from asking honest questions. Jon, or anyone who thinks you can help me, please contact me off-list. Best wishes for a good 2008, Luis LTG214B(a)verizon.net

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MySpace security presser
by NICHOLAS GEIDNER 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

From: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120032570019988591.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Text of MySpace Statement January 14, 2008 10:57 a.m. Attorneys General Praise MySpace Safety Efforts and Call for Broad Adoption; Endeavor to Include New Protections for Teens and Tools for Parents NEW YORK---January 14, 2008-- In a joint effort to increase the safety of teens online, MySpace and Attorneys General in the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking representing 49 states and the District of Columbia today unveiled a Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety designed for industry-wide adoption. This common set of Principles relates to online safety tools, technology, education and law enforcement cooperation. The Attorneys General praised MySpace for its efforts to date, the progress it has made in improving online safety and its continued efforts to make specific improvements over the coming months. The Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety recognizes that an ongoing industry effort is required to keep up with the latest technological developments and to find additional ways to protect teens. The Attorneys General called on other social networking sites and Internet providers with community features to adopt the Principles and bring their sites up to par with MySpace in terms of safety. The Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety was announced in New York City by Attorneys General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer for MySpace and Fox Interactive Media. They were joined by Attorneys General Marc Dann of Ohio and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, members of the Executive Committee of the Multi-State who participated in the development and adoption of the Principles. Attorney General Anne Milgram of New Jersey and a representative of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo were also present to endorse the Principles. On behalf of MySpace, Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said, "We thank the Attorneys General for a thoughtful and constructive conversation on Internet safety. This is an industry-wide challenge and we must all work together to create a safer Internet. The Principles we have adopted set forth what the industry needs to strive towards to provide a safer online experience for teens and we look forward to sharing our ongoing safety innovations with other companies." The Principles of Social Networking fall into four categories: -- Site Design and Functionality. The Principles incorporate safety initiatives that MySpace has already implemented (Appendix A attached) and initiatives it will work to implement in the coming months (Appendix B attached). Examples of safety features MySpace has in place include reviewing every image and video uploaded to the site, reviewing the content of Groups, making the profiles of 14 and 15 year old users automatically private and protecting them from being contacted by adults that they don't already know in the physical world, and deleting registered sex offenders from MySpace. Examples of improvements MySpace will make include defaulting 16 and 17 year old users' profiles to private and strengthening the technology that enforces the site's minimum age of 14. -- Education and Tools for Parents, Educators and Children. The Principles acknowledge that MySpace has already been devoting meaningful resources to Internet safety education including a new online safety public service announcement targeted at parents and free parental software that is under development. MySpace will explore the establishment of a children's email registry that will empower parents to prevent their children from having access to MySpace or any other social networking site. In addition, under the Principles MySpace will increase its communications with consumers who report a complaint about inappropriate content or activity on the site. -- Law Enforcement Cooperation. The Attorneys General view MySpace's cooperation with law enforcement, which includes a 24- hour hotline, to be a model for the industry. The parties will continue to work together to enhance the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and prosecute Internet crimes. -- Online Safety Task Force. As part of the Principles, MySpace will organize, with the support of the Attorneys General, an industry-wide Internet Safety Technical Task Force to develop online safety tools, including a review of identity authentication tools. While existing age verification and identity products are not an effective safety tool for social networking sites, the Task Force will explore all new technologies that can help make users more safe and secure including age verification. The Task Force will include Internet businesses, identity authentication experts, non-profit organizations, academics and technology companies. Ernie Allen, President and Chief Executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, has agreed that his organization will serve on the new Internet Safety Technical Task Force. Said Allen, "Today millions of teens use social networking sites. MySpace has taken significant steps to be more secure and private and to identify th ose who attempt to do harm on their site. The collaborative effort between MySpace and the Attorneys General is a major step that will make using social networking sites much safer for teens." About MySpace MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. By integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities, and member forums, MySpace has created a connected community. As the first ranked web domain in terms of page views(1), MySpace is the most widely-used and highly regarded site of its kind and is committed to providing the highest quality member experience. MySpace will continue to innovate with new features that allow its members to express their creativity and share their lives, both online and off. MySpace's international network includes more than 20 localized community sites in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Mexico, Australia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherl ands, Spain, Austria, Japan, New Zealand and Brazil. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS) (NYSE:NWS.A) (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV). (1) Among the top 2000 domains comScore Media Metrix, November 2007. For more information on comScore Networks, please go to http://www.comscore.com.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION Leeds ICS Postgrad Conference
by Paul Aitken 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Abstracts (DEADLINE EXTENDED): 28 January 2008 Email: ics-pg-conference(a)leeds.ac.uk Website: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~cspaa/ics-pg-conference/index.html Communication and Space/ Place 2nd Postgraduate Conference University of Leeds, Institute of Communications Studies Leeds, United Kingdom Friday, 6 June 2008 Following the great success of last year's first PhD conference, the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) at the University of Leeds will be hosting a second post-graduate conference for research in communications and media. We invite students from all disciplines at the Master's or Doctoral level to present research that pertains to the conceptualisation and/or observation of 'space/place' in relation to communication, media and culture. Although Space and Place can be understood broadly, the theoretical and material implications of their relationship to media and communications are important to studies in this field. The two words, taken either together or separately, are crucial to all manner of media and communications structures/networks/economies/policies, such as the discursive 'space' of contemporary politics, shifting conceptions of public and private 'places', the focus on flows between locales in a global capitalist economy, the importance of creative 'space' in the culture industries, the decentralised 'space' of online 'citizen media', and so on. While a look at various definitions of either word reveals at once their potential compatibilities and irreconcilabilities, the linguistic convergence marked by each word's functionality as both verb and noun presents us with myriad possibilities of thinking Space and Place. Spaces and places may be 'real' or 'virtual' environments and locales; sites of expansion or contraction; material realisations or policies of freedom or restriction. Space/Place can also be understood in terms of culture and discursive relationships; they can be formations where the identities of groups and individuals are explored and/or constructed, and where notions of human agency encounter forces and ideologies that influence and are influenced by the ways that social actors and institutions communicate. The following are some possible areas of inquiry: -The problematic dichotomies of public-private, 'real'-virtual, spaces and places for the use/consumption of media. -Meaning/Representation: The spaces and places in which media and communication are produced and consumed have a profound relationship to how 'meaning' is derived from them. How are people from different cultures, ethnicities, etc. represented by and in media and communications? -What are the policies that shape the relationship of communication, space/place, and 'stakeholders' (public, state, market, NGOs etc) how is space/place regulated? How do space/place relate to prohibition of communication, or the use of various media as propaganda? -The spaces and places in which media and communication are produced and consumed have a profound relationship to how 'meaning' is derived from them. To what extent, and in which ways, are media and communications spaces/places contingent (or not) on aspects of each other and on media producers and consumers? -Are there barriers to participation in certain media/communications spaces/places? How does power operate in these spaces/places? How are new formations of power relationships developed with relation to space/place? How are old formations changing or being reinforced in contemporary media? -What happens at the edges and intersections of spaces/places, i.e. when traditional media meet the Internet, or when communications cross over between genres and media? Does a place necessarily constitute a space, and vice versa? Are they fluid; are they mutually exclusive? Please submit an abstract by 21 January 2008 with a general description of your research paper, indicating your topic, theoretical framework, research questions or hypotheses, and methodological considerations. The abstract should not exceed 500 words and should be attached to your email in a common document format (MS Word compatible, Word Perfect). Should your proposal be accepted, we will ask you to provide a full paper before the conference. All accepted full papers will be read, discussed and commented on by members of the academic staff from the Institute of Communications Studies who have expertise in your topic, method, or theoretical framework. This can be a golden opportunity for you to refine your thoughts, openly share your concerns, and receive constructive critique from professors and fellow postgraduate students working in your area. It is also a great chance to start building or expanding your professional and academic network. Following the conference your paper will be published in the forthcoming ICS Postgraduate Conference proceedings open access online journal. Contact Information: Email: ics-pg-conference(a)leeds.ac.uk Conference Website: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~cspaa/ics-pg-conference/ Important Dates: Abstracts: 21 January 2008 Acceptance Notification: 3 March 2008 Full papers: 30 April 2008 Please indicate the following in the body of your email: Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract Name Affiliaton (program and university) Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year) Phone number E-mail address Mailing address A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR/DVD, stereo, etc.) Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). Mobility and other special needs requirements (wheel chair access, etc.) We look forward to receiving your abstracts, and thank you for your interest! -The Organising Committee. ___________ Paul Aitken Guitarist - Improviser - Academic +44 (0) 7942 610 871 info(a)paulaitken.com http://www.paulaitken.com http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/paitken "I am well aware that I have not written anything but fictions...which is not to say that they have nothing to do with the truth." - Michel Foucault

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call for papers: Learning Inquiry
by Jeremy Hunsinger 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Distrbute Widely. -jh Dear Colleagues; As Learning Inquiry starts it second year of publication we are sending out a call for participation in our ongoing attempt to create a transdiciplinary forum to engage the widest variety of perspectives on learning. We're looking for articles and special issues that push the boundaries and include new perspectives, but also take the opportunity to share research and experiences from particular locations of inquiry to a larger audience. Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, which is devoted to establishing the area of "learning" as a focus for transdisciplinary study. The journal's goal is to be a forum centered on learning that remains open to varied objects of enquiry, including machine, human, plant and animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business, government, and the professions, both in informal and formal environments. The audience for this journal is anyone interested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. The first volume of Learning Inquiry has included papers from a wide variety of perspectives that have helped to frame the discourse we hope the journal will engender. Our first issue, on the futures of learning included contributions from Gary Natriello, Erik De Corte, Helen Verran, Mark Warschauer, Stuart Moulthrop, Douglas Kellner and Heinz Mandl on Discovery Networks, Metaphysics and Learning, Play, and Knowledge Management. Leonard J. Waks brought together a "Special Issue on Listening and Reflecting" with participation from Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, Stanton Wortham, Latherine Schultz, Suzanne Rice, Elizabeth Meadows, Megan Laverty, Andrea English, A. G. Rud and Jim Garrison Past and forthcoming contributions cover topics as diverse as the ethical challenges of training brain surgeons, organizational learning theory, futures of digital learning, music and math, learning and discipline, and situated cognition. Learning Inquiry strives to strike a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a scholarly dialogue on learning independent of domain and methodological restrictions. Learning Inquiry also presents special issues that identify the central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future research. How to submit a paper Please visit the journal website (http://learning-inquiry.info) Editors: Jason Nolan Ryerson University, CANADA Jeremy W. Hunsinger University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Editorial Board: David Berliner, Arizona State University, USA; Megan Boler, University of Toronto, CANADA; Erik De Corte, Catholic University of Leuven, BELGIUM; Katie Embree, Columbia University, USA; Charles Ess, Drury University, USA & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY; Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA; Henry Giroux, McMaster University, CANADA; Mimi Ito, University of Southern California, USA & Keio University, JAPAN; Cushla Kapitzke, Queensland University of Technology, AUSTRALIA; Heinz Mandl, Ludwig Maximilians University, GERMANY; Kinshuk, Athabasca University, CANADA; Penina Mlama, University of Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA; Nuria Oliver, Microsoft, USA; K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, USA; Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Iceland University of Education, ICELAND; Joel Weiss, University of Toronto, CANADA

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lessons in second life (Date and Time change)
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '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: the League of Teachers of Ethnographic Methods in Environments without People next week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: The Association for Inelegant Solutions to Simple Problems 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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