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Fwd: [Icic] open education map
by Jeremy Hunsinger 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

this seems like a good project, if you are in the 'open education' space, please contribute from heather ford: > > I just started a project that I thought we could work on together :) > Inspired by Jessica Powell from Google who did this great Literacy > Map http://www.google.com/literacy/maps.html, I started an 'Open > Education' map to show all the people working in the open education > space. This could be really helpful for people who need your advice > in a country on going the 'open way' or just enabling us to know who > to visit when we travel or maybe to find people working in our own > country on these issues :) > > Please help me populate it by adding your org and thinking about > whether we could improve the classification of info that I've > suggested (i.e. address of org, relevant people, relevant projects) > on: > > http://tinyurl.com/29bf26 or the full URL here: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=1130788733134390199… > > Best, > Heather. > > Heather Ford > iCommons Executive Director > http://icommons.org > > The iCommons Summit: 29 July - 1 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan > > Phone: +27 11 327 3155 > PO Box 1453, Saxonwold, 2132, Johannesburg > > > > _______________________________________________ > iCiC mailing list > iCiC(a)lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icic 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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Reminder: APSA Annual Meeting 2008 (Boston) - Call for Papers: Information Technology and Politics
by Derrick L. Cogburn 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submissions to the 2008 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting is 17 December 2007, with notification of acceptances in early March 2008. As such, I wanted to take a moment to remind you of the Call for Papers issued by our Information Technology and Politics (ITP) Section (http://www.apsanet.org/content_6386.cfm ). The theme for the 2008 Annual Meeting is "Categories and Politics of Global Inequalities," and may be of interest to many of you (http://www.apsanet.org/section_222.cfm ). We welcome your submissions and look forward to chatting with you if there are any questions. Please feel free to forward this announcement to other colleagues and lists that may be relevant. Kindest regards, Derrick ========= Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D. Executive Board Member Program Chair Information Technology and Politics (ITP) Section American Political Science Association http://www.apsanet.org/~itp/ http://cotelco.syr.edu

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Why aren't more websites accessible?
by Glen E. Farrelly 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Im new to academic research and to this group, so forgive me if Im not following conventions. I'm in the process of submitting a master's level grant application to examine why more websites, specifically Canadian, are not made accessible for the visually impaired. While I believe the perceived cost and effort to make websites accessible is a significant reason, I was hoping to find research into other factors. If anyone knows of any research in this area - or in ascertaining the degree of inaccessibility - I would greatly appreciate any tips, links or advice. Thank you, Glen Farrelly Student, Royal Roads University / Web Producer Glen.farrelly(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

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Re: [Air-L] MA class on orgs and tech - need reading recommendations
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

I taught an Information, Technology and Organizations a few years back for undergrads. The syllabi are online. This is the most recent, but definitely out of date at this time. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/lis201_f02.html /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:13:48 -0500 >From: Nicole Ellison <nellison(a)msu.edu> >Subject: [Air-L] MA class on orgs and tech - need reading recommendations >To: AOIR listserv <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >Hi all, >Hope you all are well! I am looking for some reading recommendations >for a class I'm teaching this spring. It is an MA-level course in a >technology-focused department with two tracks - one focused on web >design and the other on social science and policy. The course is >called "Organizations and Technology" and the description is quite >broad. I am looking to revamp the class, most likely with a focus on >industry developments and the ways in which various orgs are >incorporating/capitalizing on "web 2.0" features. > >Any suggestions re: readings? Some I am already evaluating: Nicholas >Carr's "Does IT Matter," "Information Rules" (Shapiro and Varian), >"Long Tail" (Anderson), and "Wikinomics" (Tapscott and Williams). >Article suggestions are welcome as well. > >Thanks much in advance! > >Nicole > > > > * * * >Nicole Ellison, PhD >nellison(a)msu.edu > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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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Info on Lightspeed Systems?
by Alexis Turner 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

I have a semi-professional/semi-personal interest in Lightspeed Systems, an internet filtering company whose primary client-base is high schools. Sadly, most searches I'm turning up either talk about the services they provide or consist of desperate students ("omg plz help my skool uses this devil filter called lightspeed and i cant acess a page i need fer a report i am doing. how do i bypass this suystem!!1!one"), but pages actually discussing their technical platform or providing a thoughtful analysis of their business model/impact/political stance/etc are pretty scarce. Does any one know of any meaty sources discussing this company? Thanks, Alexis + -------- redheadedstepchild.org ------- +

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MA class on orgs and tech - need reading recommendations
by Nicole Ellison 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hi all, Hope you all are well! I am looking for some reading recommendations for a class I'm teaching this spring. It is an MA-level course in a technology-focused department with two tracks - one focused on web design and the other on social science and policy. The course is called "Organizations and Technology" and the description is quite broad. I am looking to revamp the class, most likely with a focus on industry developments and the ways in which various orgs are incorporating/capitalizing on "web 2.0" features. Any suggestions re: readings? Some I am already evaluating: Nicholas Carr's "Does IT Matter," "Information Rules" (Shapiro and Varian), "Long Tail" (Anderson), and "Wikinomics" (Tapscott and Williams). Article suggestions are welcome as well. Thanks much in advance! Nicole * * * Nicole Ellison, PhD nellison(a)msu.edu

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Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy Symposium
by Sal Humphreys 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Apologies for cross-postings - this may be of interest to Australian AoIR-ers. Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy Symposium 14-15 February 2008 QUT, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation presents a symposium to explore: * struggles over the use and reuse of IP * rights and responsibilities of modders and machinima creators * jurisdictional issues * the clashes between developers and lawyers in creating terms of access * the legitimacy or legality of terms in End User Licence Agreements and Terms Of Service * the legitimacy of secondary markets * the status of ephemeral and user-created content with classification boards and internet regulators * in-game governance and exclusion policies * privacy, data mining and surveillance * appropriate government support for the emerging games industry This symposium will offer a chance to discuss the issues of game governance, from code through to government policy, and to explore an integrated set of solutions to the current problems. Bringing together people from creative industries, media studies, law, business and IT faculties, industry, government and player groups, the emphasis will be on exploring and suggesting alternatives to current practices. Speakers include: Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Dr Terry Cutler, President ACMI, Industry consultant and strategy advisor Professor Brian Fitzgerald, QUT Law School, Lead in Creative Commons Australia Professor Stuart Cunningham, Director Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Dr Sal Humphreys, Convenor, Games and Law Research Group, QUT Dr John Banks, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Games researcher, QUT Industry representatives, Government Representatives, Player representatives To register: email symposium convener Dr Sal Humphreys: s.humphreys(a)qut.edu.au For more information visit the symposium website at http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw Dr Sal Humphreys Post Doctoral Fellow Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia s.humphreys(a)qut.edu.au http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Humphreys,_Sal.html Mob. 0414 456 078

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CfP: 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008); deadline: 12 Jan 08
by Dominik Flejter 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

=========================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) Innsbruck, Austria May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2008 =========================================================================== In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share and use knowledge in a social way. This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects as well as ways of working and doing business. It also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on topics including theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Users in the social Web * User identity/identities on the Web * Activity patterns * Privacy / intimacy in the social Web * Psychological aspects of acting in the social Web * Analysis and reduction of the socio-technical gap in social software * Communities on the Web * User roles, leadership and interactions * Conflicts and their resolution * Social norms and their enforcement * Trust and reputation in communities * Relations of on-line and off-line communities * Social discourse and decision-taking on the Web * Large-scale social Web mining and empirical studies * Social network analysis * Associations mining from social network * Large-scale behaviour patterns and anomalies' mining * Moods' / opinions' / social problems' analysis * Experts finding on the social Web * Mining formal semantics from social sources * Methodologies of Web-based social macro and micro studies * Social Web and business * Social Web as a source of business information * Social Web as a business communication channel * Business models for social software and services * Specific types of social software on the Web (bookmarking, social networks etc.) * Use cases and best practices * Applications of Web-based social software * Social software architectures * Social software on the Semantic Web * Strategies for bootstrapping social software systems and bypassing the critical mass problem * Social software in information processing and retrieval * Social software in collaborative maintenance of content and data SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 5000 words * Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words * Position papers: max. 2500 words * Demo papers: max. 2500 words Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=SAW2008. The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org workshop proceedings publication service (open content). Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet (http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641). WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. The workshop will consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to presentation and discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal) devoted to discussion of several issues related to present and future of the social Web. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and topically related BIS workshops on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups, and Lightweight Composition on the Web (M&LCW 2008) and Advances in Accessing the Deep Web (ADW 2008). IMPORTANT DATES * January 12, 2008 - submission deadline for papers * February 12, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 12, 2008 - submission of final papers * May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Dominik Flejter * Tomasz Kaczmarek * Marek Kowalkiewicz PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada * Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Andrew T. Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, the USA * Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia * Sebastian Kruk, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland * Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China * Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany ===========================================================================

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CALL FOR PAPERS ANZCA 2008
by Antonova, Slavka 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Dear colleagues, I and Alison Henderson, another "kiwi" colleague, are organizing a stream "Science, Environment, Technology, and Communication" for the Australia New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2008 conference, July 9 - 11, Wellington, New Zealand. We'd like to invite those of you working at Australian and New Zealand universities to submit papers and panel proposals that broaden our understanding and critique of communication practices about, within, and between constituencies concerned with 'power and place' - this is the conference leading theme - in science, environment, and technology. We call for work from theoretical and applied perspectives in a variety of social settings that might include, but not be limited to, contested sites such as: nanotechnologies and nutriceuticals, wind farms and biofuels, blogs and Bebo. The full papers must be submitted to this refereed stream through the central ANZCA 2008 submissions process by 15 February 2008. Information on the submission process is available on the ANZCA 2008 website: http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/cob/conferences/anzca-2008/anz ca-2008_home.cfm Please contact me before your holiday break to discuss possible topics for papers or panels, and if you are willing to act as a reviewer on the following email addresses. Cheers, Slavka Dr. Slavka Antonova Senior Lecturer Dept. of Management & Int. Business Massey University Auckland Ph.: 064 (0)9 414-0800 ext. 9240 Fax: 064 (0)9 441-8109 s.antonova(a)massey.ac.nz

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Ph.D. Fellowships - University of Copenhagen
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

PhD Fellowships at the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, is inviting applications for 6 PhD fellowships funded by the globalisation pool of the Danish Government and supporting parties, starting 1 September 2008 for a period of up to three years. Applications may concern any subject area within the Humanities. A short description of the academic fields covered by the Faculty is available at http://english.hum.ku.dk/. The complete text of the announcement of the fellowships is available from http://english.hum.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/ Further information is available from the PhD Centre, tel. +45 35 32 92 23, e- mail: phdcentret(a)hum.ku.dk, Room 10.1.22, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. _______________________________________ Klaus Bruhn Jensen Professor, dr.phil. Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication Film and Media Studies Section University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj(a)hum.ku.dk www.media.ku.dk ________________________________________

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