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Re: [Air-L] Social network conference
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

See you there. Arriving Wed. (got it so far off AoIR) /C ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:49:08 -0500 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: [Air-L] Social network conference >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org>, communication and information technology section asa <citasa(a)lists.ist.psu.edu>, asa comurb section e-list <comurb_r21(a)email.rutgers.edu> > >I'm going to be at the Social Network conference in St Petersburg FL this >Tuesday thru Sunday. Wonder if anyone else is. Please respond to me >privately, and I will circulate a list. > >Oh yes, please tell me which of the lists you got this on: > >AoIR __ >CITASA __ >CUSS __ > > 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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OnlineSocialNetworks: Launch of New Majordomo List
by Gerry Mckiernan 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ Launch of OnlineSocialNetworks Majordomo List During the past several years, online social networking sites have become quite pervasive within a variety of personal and professional communities. As noted by Wikipedia, *a social network service focuses on the building * of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities * . Most social network services * provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, * [etc.]* [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites ] The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning. Significant discussion items will be highlighted in my _Friends_ blog [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ] TO SUBSCRIBE to the OnlineSocialNetworks list send the following subscribe onlinesocialnetworks YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO majordomo(a)iastate.edu Once subscribed, subscribers can post messages by sending to onlinesocialnetworks(a)iastate.edu OnlineSocialNetworks is currently an UnModerated List. Thanks for Your Interest! /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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CfP: Green Pervasive 2008, Sydney
by Marcus Foth 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: PAPERS DUE FEB 8, 2008 Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability Workshop to be held at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008 May 19-22, Sydney, Australia http://www.urbaninformatics.net/green/ Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The Nobel Peace Price 2007 was awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. The citation highlights the urgency of the fact that information and awareness around causes and implications are necessary but not sufficient to combat climate change. Action is required. The key theme of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold: 1. Providing people with environmental data and educational information – via mass communications such as film, TV and print and new media, or micro communications such as pervasive sensor networks (cf. Participatory Urbanism and Ergo at urban-atmospheres.net; real- time Rome at senseable.mit.edu; biomapping.net; placeengine.com) – may not trigger sufficient motivation to get people to change their habits towards a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle. This workshop seeks to develop a better understanding how to go beyond just informing and into motivating and encouraging action and change. 2. Pervasiveness can easily turn invasive. It has already caused negative consequences in biological settings (e.g., algae in lakes and oceans, kudzu vine in the southeastern US, rabbits and cane toads in Australia). Pervasive can be a dangerous term when the ecological impacts are disregarded. Pervasive technology is no different. In order to avoid further serious damage to the environment, this workshop aims to lay the foundations to start re-considering the impact of pervasive technology from an ecological perspective. 3. Addressing the 21st century Digital Divide: The mass uptake of pervasive technology brings about digitally networked and augmented societies; however, access is still not universal. Castells and others use the notion of the ‘digital divide’ to account for those whose voices are not heard by this technology. Initially, the divide was seen only between the first and third worlds and then between urban and rural, but with today’s near ubiquitous coverage, the digital divide between humans and the environment needs to be addressed. Virtual environments could give the natural world an opportunity to ‘speak’. How can we address imbalances? For example, sensors embedded in the environment could allow creeks and rivers to blog their own pollution levels, local parks can upload images of native bird life. Can the process of ‘blogging sensor data’ (sensorbase.org) assist us in becoming more aware of the needs of nature? How can we avoid the downsides? We kindly ask prospective participants to submit a position paper (2-4 pages total, in English, .doc, .rtf or .pdf file formats) related to one of the workshop topics to Marcus Foth at m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au by Feb 8, 2008. Each submission should include a short biography stating the author’s background and motivation for attending the workshop. Papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee and selected on the basis of relevance, originality and impact. Accepted position papers will appear in the Pervasive 2008 Workshops Proceedings. A template will be made available at the Pervasive 2008 website. The workshops proceedings will also be published online and distributed electronically at the conference (on a CD or memory stick). All workshop participants will need to register for the conference. Further information is available at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/green/ Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology Eric Paulos, Intel Research Berkeley Tom Igoe, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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Social network conference
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

I'm going to be at the Social Network conference in St Petersburg FL this Tuesday thru Sunday. Wonder if anyone else is. Please respond to me privately, and I will circulate a list. Oh yes, please tell me which of the lists you got this on: AoIR __ CITASA __ CUSS __ 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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Academics and practitioners at the 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference?
by Deborah Elizabeth Finn 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Dear AIR Colleagues, I recently registered for the 08NTC, which will be held in New Orleans this March <http://nten.org/ntc>. Just for fun, I also created a wish list for the conference, which you can read here: < http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/19/3474713.html>. As you'll see, one of the items is a good mix of academic researchers and nonprofit technology professionals. So, here's my question: how many Association for Internet Research members will be in attendance? Should we try to organize a face-to-face pracademics affinity group meeting in New Orleans? Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Cyber-Yenta Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org Recommended reading: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights >

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Coding Analysis Toolkit: Beta Testers Needed
by Stuart Shulman 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

[Please forward this to any relevant list or individual] I am recruiting volunteers to beta test my invention: the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT). http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm Originally a tool for adjudicating text coding decisions made by multiple coders using ATLAS.ti, thereby making it easy to measure inter-rater reliability *and* coder validity, CAT has grown quickly into a promising new set of web-based tools for anyone who wants to code a lot of digitized text in a quick, efficient, effective, reliable and valid manner. By design, CAT is a mixed method toolkit, facilitating close qualitative analysis of text, accurate measurement of coder errors, and large scale, quantitative content analysis. The adjudication tool is the centerpiece; it helps users refine categories and resolve difficult manual coding problems. The toolkit is designed to do a small (but growing) number of key coding, analyzing, and reporting tasks. For anyone who has ever struggled with the commercial off-the-shelf products, CAT is specially designed, from the ground up, to eliminate all the annoying things that have bugged text analysts for years. Whereas people spend 2-3 days learning the basics of existing qualitative data analysis products, I can train people in the use of CAT in about 5 minutes. I invite you, your team, or your graduate students to sign up for a free beta tester account. http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/ While CAT is scheduled to be commercialized later this year, for now, anyone can use it for free. When it does commercialize, it will be very cheap or free for graduate students. Beta testers will be asked to complete a web-based usability survey, however, we anticipate this feedback will result in an even better system. I predict there will be some spiffy dissertations that include megabytes of coded data. You can learn more about the origin of CAT at: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu I have some interesting datasets I can share to get you started thinking a whole new way about text. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Director, Sara Fine Institute School of Information Sciences Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program University Center for Social and Urban Research http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net

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Fair use analysis
by Bill Herman 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

In all due respect, Prof. Burk, please explain. I'm asking publicly because, if I've given an incorrect analysis, I'd like to be corrected on the record. Cheers, Bill >> > >> >Each of these factors favors a finding of fair use here. The intended >> >use is for nonprofit scholarship and education. The copyrighted work >> >being quoted is something (a post to a free listserv) with absolutely no >> >commercial value. (Posts have intellectual value, but we've already >> >given them away.) The proposed project would reproduce mere fractions of >> >each post. Finally, there is no concern about the effect on the >> >marketability of something with no commercial value. >> > > Bill's fair use analysis is pretty much wrong, but no worries, the use is > probably fair anyway. DLB > > -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of > Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 > ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: > 612-625-2011 bits: burkx006(a)umn.edu > >

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FW: Facebook Accessibility Request
by Rowin Young 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Some of you may be interested in this project - apologies for any duplications. Best wishes, Rowin ________________________________ From: JISC CETIS Accessibility Mailing List on behalf of Sharon Perry Sent: Wed 16/01/2008 11:45 To: CETIS-ACCESSIBILITY(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Facebook Accessibility Request Hi Everyone Thanks to Heather at JISC for letting me know about this. If you belong to Facebook, a final year student is doing a project on accessibility issues in Facebook for people with visual impairments. If you are part of the Facebook community and would like to help, join his group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5967339981&ref=nf and he will send you a few questions for you to answer. Best Regards Sharon. Sharon Perry, Accessibility Domain Co-ordinator, JISC CETIS, University of Bolton, Website: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/accessibility

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Re: [Air-L] have I discovered a new disease?
by nsenga＠mediom.qc.ca 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

"" Recently I have noticed that both heels of my outer palms have become uncomfortably irritated -- the result I am sure of having them on the keyboard's palm rests for 10 hours at a time. The solution: I am trying to lift my wrists up so that only my fingers touch the keyboard. And I will be taking a break at the Social Network conference, this Tuesday thru Sunday. But I am wondering if this is a new phenomenon, or others on this list have experienced it. I do like Thinkpads for reliability and keyboard feel, but I notice that their palm rests are a bit rough. Barry Wellman "" This precisely is the sense of my query a while ago, whether some of you on the list may also be investigating the encounter of (internet) hardware with users. Is there any research work currently being undertaken on this topic? Francois Montreal -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE

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Re: [Air-L] What is web culture?
by William Bain 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Conor Schaefer wrote : 'I understood "keys" in this analogy to be access controls, whether in the form of logins to walled-garden communities or basic infrastructure access. But what is "gas"?' My brief and hasty analogy was done in good fun (from my pov at least) and is far less encyclopedic than you interpret, Conor. My simpler idea had keys as simply turning on a computer and gas as software. The intention was a little leg pulling in the direction of companies that might run into difficulties with anti-trust laws by selling whole packages all together. A bit too simple, I confess, to keep up with your interpretation. Without wishing to make too much of a shaggy dog story, my analogy also intended an "open air" operation in spoof answer to the tool shed analogy. Since nothin raeally encloses the web, so I thought, it seems to me that a motor pool or mebbe airport analogy would come closer. But as you've seen, my starting point is kind of leaky. I seem to have equated the www with the internet, alas. I hope it wasnt a complete waste of time. ywsyls :-) Best, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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