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Fwd: [school-discuss] Open Learning Exchange
by Jeremy Hunsinger 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: Joel Kahn <jj2kk4(a)yahoo.com> > Date: November 3, 2007 1:34:03 PM CDT > To: HOLISTIC_LEARNING(a)yahoogroups.com, INTERDIS(a)LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU, global-text-project-general-group(a)googlegroups.com > , schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net, IntegratingTechnology(a)yahoogroups.com > Subject: [school-discuss] Open Learning Exchange > Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net > > If any of you have not yet heard about > the Open Learning Exchange, take a look: > > http://ole.org/ > > Joel > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com 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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Migrant internet use refs compiled
by Andrew Whelan 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi all, Below is everything we got so far on migrants' internet use. The search was tilted towards the Irish context, but hopefully some of these may come in handy for others. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the list! Andrew Adeniyi, Abiodun Gabriel. 2007. Nigerian diaspora and the virtual construction of identity. Text of paper prepared for the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) post-graduate conference holding 18.05.2007. Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/papers_files/files/Abiodun_Adeniyi_…) Antonova, Slavka. 2000. Women Immigrants in Montreal and Internet. Studio XX (http://projets.studioxx.org/projets/TaT/english/analysis.pdf) Bernal, Victoria. 2006. "Diaspora, cyberspace and political imagination: the Eritrean diaspora online." Global Networks vol. 6, no. 2: 161-179. Chan, Brenda. 2006. "Virtual Communities and Chinese National Identity."Journal of Chinese Overseas vol. 2, no. 1: 1-32. Cotter, Gertrude. 2004. A Guide to Published Research on Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Immigrants in Ireland. Integrating Ireland (http://www.integratingireland.ie/pdfs/13_Guide%20to%20Published%20Research%… ). Cullen, Paul. 2002. Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Ireland. Cork University Press. Ejorh, Theophilus. N.d.. Immigration and Citizenship: African Immigrants in Ireland . UCD Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative (http://www.ucd.ie/mcri/immigration_and_citizenship.pdf) Fung, Anthony. 2002. "Identity politics, resistance and new media technologies: a Foucauldian approach to the study of the HKnet." New Media & Society vol. 4, no. 2: 185-204. Georgiou, Myria. 2003. Diasporic Communities On-Line: A Bottom-Up Experience of Transnationalism . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA, May 27, 2003 (http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p111957_index.html) Georgiou, Myria. 2003. Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU: Addressing Cultural Exclusion . London School of Economics and Political Science (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EMTEL/reports/georgiou_2003_emtel.pdf) Hughes, Gerard, and Emma Quinn. 2004. The Impact of Immigration on Europe's Societies: Ireland. European Migration Network ( http://www.esri.ie/pdf/BKMNEXT057_Impact%20of%20Immigration.pdf) Kanat, Kilic. 2005. "Ethnic Media and politics: The case of the use of the internet by Uyghur diaspora." First Monday vol. 10, no. 7 (http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1259/1179) Leung, Linda. 2005. Virtual Ethnicity: Race, Resistance and the World Wide Web. London: Ashgate. Lien, Pei-te. 2006. "Transnational Homeland Concerns and Participation in US Politics: A Comparison among Immigrants from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong." Journal of Chinese Overseas vol. 2, no. 1: 56-78. McLaughlin, W. Sean. 2003. "The use of the Internet for political action by non-state dissident actors in the Middle East" First Monday vol. 8, no.11 (http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1096/1016 ). Meredyth, Denise, Julian Thomas, Scott Ewing, and Liza Hopkins. 2006. Wired High Rise: A Community Based Computer Network. Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Melbourne ( http://www.sisr.net/publications/0603wiredfinal.pdf) Miller, Daniel and Don Slater. 2001. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach . Oxford: Berg. Panagakos, Anastasia, and Heather Horst. 2006. "Return to Cyberia: technology and the social worlds of transnational migrants." Global Networks vol. 6 no. 2: 109–124. Shi, Y.. 2005. "Identity construction of the Chinese Diaspora, ethnic media use, community formation, and the possibility of social activism." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 19, no.1: 55-72. Titley, Gavan. 2003. "Cultivating Habitats of Meaning - Broadcasting, Participation and Interculturalism." Irish Communications Review vol. 9 (http://www.icr.dit.ie/volume9/articles/Titley.pdf) Ugba, Abel. 2002. Mapping Minorities and their Media: The National Context – Ireland. Contribution to an EU project on "Diasporic Minorities and their Media in the EU" (www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/Media/EMTEL/Minorities/reports.html) Ugba, Abel. 2005. Active Civic Participation of Immigrants in Ireland . Country Report prepared for the European research project POLITIS, Oldenburg (www.uni-oldenburg.de/politis-europe) Van Den Bos, Mathijs. 2006 "Territorial bounds to virtual space: transnational online and offline networks of Iranian and Turkish–Kurdish immigrants in the Netherlands." Global Networks vol. 6, no. 2:201-220. Wei, Wu. 1999. "Cyberspace and cultural identity- a case study of cybercommunity of Chinese students in the United States." In Civic Discourse: Intercultural, International and Global Media, edited by Michael Prosser and K.S. Sitaran. Stamford: Ablex. White, Elisa. 2002. "Forging African diaspora places in Dublin's retro-global spaces: Minority making in a new global city." City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 251-270. Wong, Loong. 2003. "Belonging and diaspora: the Chinese and the Internet." First Monday vol. 8, no. 4 (http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1045/966) Yau, Nicola. 2007. "Celtic Tiger, Hidden Dragon: exploring identity among second generation Chinese in Ireland." Translocations vol. 2, no. 1 (http://www.imrstr.dcu.ie/currentissue/volume1issue2-4.doc) -- http://231074.blogspot.com/ http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/

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Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and Myspace: What Can We Learn About Social Networking Sites from Non-Users etc.
by Zeynep Tufekci 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi All, I just wanted to share two papers about SNS (responding to danah's call). One of them, "Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites," is at the pre-publication state and is available here: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~zeynep/papers/ZeynepCanYouSeeMeNowBSTS.pdf. The other is under review so I've included only the abstract below. Please send me an email if you would like a copy of that paper when I start circulating it. Cheers, -z Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and Myspace: What Can We Learn About Social Networking Sites from Non-Users This paper attempts to understand the rapid adoption of social networking sites by students on U.S. college campuses. Locating these online tools within the emergence of social computing, a conceptual distinction is made between the expressive Internet, the Internet of social interactions, and the instrumental Internet, the Internet of airline tickets and weather forecasts. Starting with the theoretical frameworks of Robin Dunbar and Erving Goffman, this paper situates the activity on these sites under two rubrics: 1) presentation of the self and impression management, and 2) social grooming. The study compares and contrasts user and non-user populations in terms of expressive and instrumental Internet use, friendship ties, attitudes toward social-grooming, general curiosity about people, enjoyment of keeping in touch and of social activities, concern for privacy, and other variables hypothesized to be linked to social network site adoption based on qualitative (n=35) and quantitative data (n=714). Three clusters are found to influence social network site adoption: disposition towards social grooming, disposition towards conformity, and privacy concerns. We especially find that non-users display an attitude towards social grooming (gossip, small-talk, and generalized, non-functional people-curiosity) that ranges from incredulous to hostile. Contrary to expectations, however, non-users do not report a smaller number of very close or somewhat close friends compared to users, but they do keep in touch with fewer people. Users of social networking sites tend to be heavier users of the expressive Internet, while there is no difference in non-social uses on the instrumental Internet, highlighting the need to differentiate between the different modalities of Internet use when examining social impacts. Keywords: social network sites, Goffman, Dunbar, presentation of the self, social grooming, Facebook, Myspace

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Fwd: 3rd Workshop on Critical Research in IS, in conjunction with ECIS, 08 June 2008, Galway, Ireland
by Jeremy Hunsinger 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

> > [Apologies for multiple postings] > > Quo Vadis CRIS? > The 3rd International Workshop on Critical Research in Information > Systems > to be held on 8th June 2008, prior to the ECIS Conference in Galway, > Ireland. > > Critical Research in Information Systems (CRIS) has been relatively > successful in gaining legitimacy as a research approach in IS. A > number of > special issues, tracks and book publications bear witness to this. > Critical > research can now be published in most major IS outlets. The most > recent > examples of this are the special issues in Information Technology & > People > (issue 19:3, 2006) and a distributed special issue to be published > by the > Information Systems Journal in 2008. > > There has been much debate about what constitutes a critical > approach and > who or what should be counted as critical. A comprehensive > definition is not > to be expected anytime soon, but the body of CRIS literature is now > sufficiently extensive and coherent to allow for the identification of > critical work. > > This workshop aims to ask questions about what could or should come > next in > the development of CRIS. How will CRIS position itself with regards > to other > critical disciplines (e.g. critical management studies, critical > ethnography)? What will its role be in the field of IS? Will it be the > alternative to positivist and interpretivist research in IS > departments? > Would this mean the development of a canon of criticality in IS? > Does/will > CRIS share the radical underpinnings of critical social research? > How will > CRIS respond to criticism from postmodernists? Would it aspire to > become > 'post-postmodern critical'? Will it transcend academic discipline and > inspire further activities, e.g. a political movement, professional > association and regulations, an academic teaching platform? > > These and many other questions will be asked about the future of > CRIS. The > workshop therefore invites contributions that will help us seek > out the > answers and engage in creating CRIS' future. > > Workshop Chairs are currently in negotiation with publishers > concerning a > publication of the workshop contributions. Further details will be > discussed > at the workshop. > Call for Papers > > The one-day workshop will consist of a mixture of keynote speaker, > full and > positional refereed papers and opinion pieces in an Open Forum. We > invite > researchers from around the world who are interested Critical > Research in IS > to join us in progressing the debate and critically reflecting on the > enactment of a Critical Research tradition in IS. The following > list is > indicative but not exhaustive of workshop topics: > > . Future agendas for CRIS in terms of focus, concerns, > methodologies, actions and implications: > . In search of meaning of being critical in IS research - > reflections, reactions and redirections > . Raising the critical voice in the IS discipline - how, > where, with > whom? > . Concerns for IS practice and practical consequences of CRIS > research > . Experiences, practical and self-reflective accounts of CRIS > scholars in their line of work > . The relationship of CRIS and other disciplines - how do > we see the > critical project in the future within and beyond disciplinary > boundaries? > . Possibilities of networking, widening reach, contributing > to the > establishment of CRIS as a valuable and legitimate approach > . Examples of current CRIS research, empirical or conceptual > > We are asking contributors to submit full papers that broadly focus > on the > workshop theme and topics, or shorter positional papers that > address the > questions raised in the introduction to the workshop call for > papers. If you > would like to deliver a 3 minute opinion piece to the Open Forum > please > submit a brief outline of the issue you would like to raise. > > > Timeline > > Launch of cfp 01 > November > 2007 > > Expression of intention to submit: 15 January 2008 > > Deadline for submission: 15 > February2008 > > Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2008 > > Final papers due: 1 May 2008 > > Date of workshop: 8 June 2008 > > > Submission of intentions and papers to be made to the workshop > chairs at > bstahl(a)dmu.ac.uk > Organisation of the workshop: > > Chairs > Programme Chairs: > B. Stahl, D. Cecez-Kecmanovic > > Workshop Organizing Chairs: > Rachel McLean > > Updated information will be provided on the following website: > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/cris-2008/web/call-for-papers- > cris-2008 > > I hope to see you in Galway. > Bernd > > Dr. Bernd Carsten Stahl > http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/ Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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Re: [Air-L] Fwd: 16bil pixels supper
by William Bain 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

"... the most famous, most discussed and most controversial art work of all time..." :-) just to quibble mildly: *one* of the most famous, most discussed and most controversial? I followed the link and it really is beautifully presented! nice zoom, pan details. Thanks! Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Machinima event in London
by Andres Guadamuz 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

[Apologies for cross-posting] Bloodspell: The rise of machinima Viewing and panel 22 November 2007 5.15 - 8.30pm London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway Road London, N7 8DB Bloodspell is the world's first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell is a Fantasy story "of a world where men and women carry magic in their blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power." This event is organised by the London Metropolitan Business School and the Open Rights Group (special thanks to Michael Holloway and Fernando Barrio for putting the event together). For those new to the topic, "machinima", in very basic form, involves the use of software that has been designed to create video-games to produce films with their own script and narrative. The word “machinima” was coined some time ago by Hugh Hancock, who also wrote and directed Bloodspell. The evening will start with Hugh Hancock introducing the concept of machinima and the movie, to be followed by a viewing of Bloodspell. After the viewing a panel will address the issues raised by the film to then open the floor for discussion. The panel includes: Chair Professor Lilian Edwards, Director of the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton (ILAWS) of Southampton University Panelists: - Holly Ayllet, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University and Managing Editor of Vertigo Magazine. - Ian Brown, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of Oxford University - Andres Guadamuz, Co-Director of SCRIPT, the Centre for Research in IP and Technology Law at The University of Edinburgh. Venue http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/conference/venues/graduate-centre/ Bloodspell http://www.bloodspell.com/ Related sites: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ http://electromate.blogspot.com/ http://blogscript.blogspot.com/ http://technollama.blogspot.com/ http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/ http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/ Regards -- Andres Guadamuz AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz(a)ed.ac.uk http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/ IP/IT/Medical Law LLM by Distance Learning http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/

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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
by Nicole Ellison 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi there, As you know danah boyd and I have been working for the last year on a special section of JCMC focused on social network sites. I'm thrilled to announce our introduction to the issue, which might be of interest to many of you working in this area, is now online. Our piece, titled "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship," has four sections: - a usable definition of "social network sites" - a history of some of the major shifts in the development of SNSs - a literature review of work done in this space - a description of the articles included in the special issue The article is available here: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ boyd.ellison.html Note that not all the pieces are live yet; I'll post another announcement when the full issue is ready for your consumption and critique. Thanks to everyone who helped us with reviews and info! Looking forward to hearing what y'all think. Nicole * * * Nicole Ellison, PhD nellison(a)msu.edu

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E-Government/ E-Governance --> HICSS42: Call for Minitrack Proposals
by Jochen Scholl 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Call for Minitrack Proposals in the e-Government/e-Governance Track at HICSS42 (January 5 to 8, 2009) -- apologies for double-postings! While HICSS41 has not yet happened, we are already planning HICSS42, which will once again be hosted at the Big Island of Hawaii (Hilton Waikoloa, January 5 to 8, 2009). The research streams dedicated to phenomena in e-Government and e-Governance are rapidly expanding. Therefore we are seeking proposals for new miinitracks in e-Governance or e-Government (please see detailed instructions by clicking here: <HTML version> http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/CfMinitrProposalsHICss42.html <PDF version> http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/HICSS42/CfMinitrackProposals.pdf Also, we are seeking prospective minitrack co-chairs in all topical areas of e-Government and e-Governance. Please send me (see email address above) a short notice indicating your interest in serving as a minitrack co-chairin one of the minitracks of the HICSS42 e-Government track. Jochen Scholl E-Gov Track HICSS42

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Fwd: 16bil pixels supper
by Suzana Sukovic 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Milan, 27 October 2007 Today, for the very first time, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, the most famous, most discussed and most controversial work of art of all time, declared a World Heritage work of art and registered at the UNESCO worldwide sites, can be seen by all, in all its details, on the website: www.haltadefinizione.com. (Press release) Suzana Sukovic PhD Candidate _________________________________________ Information & Knowledge Management Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007, Australia www.hss.uts.edu.au/research/research_students/suzana_sukovic.html

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Speaking of NCA, here's another invitation
by Steve Jones 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

I would be remiss if I did not mention that all AoIRers (and other interested parties) are of course invited to attend the internet research lecture at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9:30am-10:45am, at the Palmer House, Salon 7, by Dan Hess, former VP at Tribune Interactive and Senior VP at comScore. An abstract of his talk is below. The lecture is sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. I'll hope to see you there. Thanks, Sj ------------ Title: Internet-Based Research: Past, Present and Future Abstract: The Internet has had a dramatic impact on the ability to understand the behavior, attitudes and perceptions of consumers. The omnipresent nature of the Web enables research on any level -- from global to hyperlocal, from actively self-reported responses to passive, real time measurement. Whether in marketing, media, academia, politics, government or elsewhere, every research practitioner has been somehow touched by the capabilities that the Internet has brought to bear. In this session, Dan Hess will examine the roots and evolution of research on the Internet, the current state and applications of the industry, and emerging technologies such as those used to analyze social trends and tonality of online community discussions. Hess will also review opportunities for academic and commercial researchers to increase their interaction around Internet research, to the benefit of both parties.

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