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Digital Youth Project
by cjpascoe＠socrates.berkeley.edu 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

In light of the recent discussions on this list about children and media, I'd like to highlight the ongoing research of the Digital Youth Project. We are an interdisciplinary team housed at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Southern California examining children's informal learning with digital media. A variety of our projects are currently being featured on the MacArthur Foundation's Spotlight Blog. You can find them here: http://spotlight.macfound.org/ We welcome your feedback and comments. Best, CJ Pascoe ___________________________________________ C.J. Pascoe, Ph.D. Institute for the Study of Social Change University of California, Berkeley Phone: 510-643-4227 Web: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cjpascoe Book: http://ucpress.edu/books/pages/10671.html Digital Youth: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu

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Sept 1, NOT Oct 1
by Barry Wellman 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

It must have been a bad day yesterday. My entire point in writing was to remind AoIR authors for ICS that the hard deadline is SEPTEMBER 1. (Instead, I wrote October 1.) So in an attempt to move things along, I created confusion. My strong apologies. 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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Re: [Air-L] Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Oops -- I did it too -- wrong list, only meant to go to Barry ... blush :( ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:38:55 -0500 (CDT) >From: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline >To: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca>, aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >This was the wrong date and wrong email list -- it's September first and not be >confused with submissions of papers to the conference. Can you send a follow >up to ignore this and I'll send an email specifically to the ICS authors. /C > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:57:02 -0400 >>From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >>Subject: Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline >>To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> >>Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> >> >>Just a reminder that those of you planning to send in AOIR papers for >>the special issue of Information, Communication and Society MUST submit >>them by midnight, Central (US) Daylight Time, October 1, 2007. >> >>Send a .doc copy online to each of myself and co-editor Caroline >>Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) >> >>No late submissions; no excuses. >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> >> > >---------------------------------------- >Caroline Haythornthwaite >Associate Professor >Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 > > >_______________________________________________ >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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Re: [Air-L] Full specs for AOIR-ICS issue
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

To clarify before we get swamped with questions -- this was meant only for those who had been invited to submit. This is not an open call for papers. This relates to the special issue of ICS arranged by the AoIR publication committee. A set of papers were selected from submissions to the conference by the conference chair, and Barry and I as editors selected from that a smaller set for invitation to the special issue. Those authors have a Sept. 1st deadline for their paper to us. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:26:56 -0400 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: Full specs for AOIR-ICS issue >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Cc: barry wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca>, Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu>, brian loader <bl506(a)york.ac.uk> > >Some folks have asked for a clarification of the requirements for the >spcial AoIR issue of ICS. Here it is. > >In short ... > >Sept. 1st papers come in. >Oct. 1 comments go back. >Nov. 5th final revised versions come in. > > >From the email sent to potential authors ... > >... the process goes as follows: > >Phase 1 -- Completed -- A short list of papers/authors were invited by the >editors to submit a formal paper by Phase 2. The list has been closed. > >Phase 2 -- Heads-up to the Short List >2. If you're on the short list, please submit a full paper of 5-7,000 >words by ** September 1, 2007 ** to both editors: Haythornthwaite and Wellman. >NOTE: This is a hard deadline. No papers will be considered after this deadline. > >3. The editors will return comments and suggested edits on your paper by >October 1, 2007. (We may also secure an additional referee, if needed.) > >4. Return the final paper to both editors by ** November 5, 2007 **. > >Please note that due to the quick turnaround time to have the special issue out >early in January 2008, *no* extensions will be given for these deadlines. You >are, of course, free to submit the paper at a later date for ICS, but it will no >longer be considered part of the special issue if you miss either the September 1 >or November 5 deadline. (Please submit late papers directly to Brian >Loader, the ICS editor). > >Papers should conform to ICS style as indicated at this URL. Please pay particular >attention to ICS formatting for references both in text and in the final reference >list. >See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ricsauth.asp > >In addition, please follow these guidelines for papers sent to the special issue >editors: > >-- Use Times Roman typeface, 12 pt text for normal text throughout > >-- Double space throughout > >-- Add line numbers, by page (in Word for Windows this is under File: >Page Setup: Layout; on Word for Mac this is under Format: Document: Layout) > >-- Submit Word files only (no pdf, LaTex, or Word Perfect please). > > > 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 > > >Caroline Haythornthwaite >Associate Professor >Graduate School of Library and Information Science, >University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL USA 61820 > > ---------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Air-L] Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

This was the wrong date and wrong email list -- it's September first and not be confused with submissions of papers to the conference. Can you send a follow up to ignore this and I'll send an email specifically to the ICS authors. /C ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:57:02 -0400 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> > >Just a reminder that those of you planning to send in AOIR papers for >the special issue of Information, Communication and Society MUST submit >them by midnight, Central (US) Daylight Time, October 1, 2007. > >Send a .doc copy online to each of myself and co-editor Caroline >Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) > >No late submissions; no excuses. > > 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 > _______________________________________________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------- 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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Fwd: Job: 5-years position for a PhD in the area ofInteractive/Multimedia Design
by Jeremy Hunsinger 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: Luís Teixeira <lteixeira(a)PORTO.UCP.PT> > Date: August 21, 2007 9:13:05 AM CDT > To: PHD-DESIGN(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Job: 5-years position for a PhD in the area ofInteractive/ > Multimedia Design > Reply-To: Luís Teixeira <lteixeira(a)PORTO.UCP.PT> > > Please forward this email to all potential interested people. Thanks. > > Luis > > > > P.S. - Sorry for duplicate messages. > > > > -- > > > > Assistant Researcher in the area of Interactive/Multimedia Design > > > > http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx? > task=global&jobId=6889 > > > > CITAR invites applications for Assistant Researcher in the area of > Interactive/Multimedia Design to be responsible for the design and > development of multimedia contents, translating scientific data and > public requirements into creative, highly usable interfaces, design > wireframes and prototypes, plan and run usability tests, and write > detailed user interface specification documents. > > > > The selected candidate will integrate the multidisciplinary team of > this project, Science and Society â€“ promoting citizenship through > the reflection on ethical issues in life sciences. The project is > the result of the established partnership between the Centre for > Bioethics Research and the Research Centre for Sciences and > Technology of the Arts, both belonging to the Portuguese Catholic > University [please see UCP/GIB/2007 Job reference]. The Project > aims at developing the role that universities and research centres > have in the knowledge society as well as their contribute to > citizenship > > > > CITAR is a research unit of Portuguese Catholic University located > at the Regional Centre of Oporto. Citar's mission is to foster > scientific research, through art, science and technology. The > centre hosts and promotes interdisciplinary studies by fostering > work developed together by artists, scientists and engineers with > different backgrounds, knowledge, and cultures to create art, > audiovisual objects and technologies. Unique in Portugal, it > presents a model of practice-based research and innovation in which > scientific and technologic investigation is undertaken using > traditional methods and experience from arts. > > > > Requirements: The applicant will be responsible for the different > aspects of content production, including concept, content and > communicating design, by analyzing specific life science content > and user scenarios for different target audiences and proposing new > user interaction design and content production to meet project > goals for the best possible user experience. The applicant will > work with multidisciplinary teams to plan the navigational > structure, design the interface requirements, and develop > multimedia content needs for the different types of projects that > can vary from CD/DVD-ROMs, Flash applications, or Web Applications. > > Salary and Benefits: Salary will be ca. 42 000 â‚¬/year before > taxes, in accordance with the CiÃªncia 2007 guidelines. Benefits > include private health insurance, social security and paid vacations. > > > > Application Procedure: > > > > Candidates should send the following by mail to the address > mentioned below* > > > > - CV (including an e-mail address and publication list). > > - Portfolio (online and DVD) > > - Motivation letter > > - Name and contact information for 2-3 persons who can provide a > letter of recommendation if needed. > > > > Contact for further information: > > LuÃ s Teixeira > > CITAR - Portuguese Catholic University > > Porto, Portugal > > Telephone: +351-22-6196214 > > Fax: +351-22-6196291 > > Email: lteixeira(a)porto.ucp.pt > > > > Application deadline: > > 05 September 2007 > > > Esta mensagem (incluindo quais quer anexos) pode conter informação > confidencial ou legalmente protegida para uso exclusivo do > destinatário. Se não for o destinatário pretendido da mesma, não > deverá fazer uso, copiar, distribuir ou revelar o seu conteúdo > (incluindo quaisquer anexos) a terceiros, sem a devida autorização. > Se recebeu esta mensagem por engano, por favor informe o emissor, > por e-mail, e elimine-a imediatamente. Obrigado. > > This message may contain confidential information or privileged > material, and is intended only for de individual(s) named. If you > are not in the named addressee, you should not disseminate, > distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake > and delete this e-mail from your system. 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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public/private and imagined blog audiences (I just couldn't stop myself from posting)
by David Brake 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I have been fascinated and a little dismayed at the way this argument has developed and polarised in the last few days. It seems to me that part of the problem is a lack of clarity about what is being argued about. It is important to be clear whether in discussion you are talking about: 1) What is legal to do (and in what country?) 2) What an IRB will allow 3) What is or should be considered ethical. Similarly, and based on my own research, I feel it is important to distinguish between a) What the 'technical' publicness of speech is (ie can the public actually read it) b) The attitudes people 'should' have to what they have written given the technical nature of the medium and c) The attitudes people *actually* have to the publicness of what they have written (which may or may not correspond to the technical characteristics of the actual choice of medium). I don't have enough specialist knowledge to address 1 or 2 but do have a view on 3. To put it more simply and in response to this particular circumstance: In my view, what is important, ethically, in deciding whether asking for permission to use a weblog text is necessary is not whether a web page is actually publicly readable or whether its author is reasonable to expect privacy given their choice of medium, but whether a broader exposure of the text to additional readers (if it is then connectable to its author) is likely to cause the authors significant harm, whether immediate or future, which is likely to be connected to the question whether it seems likely its author envisioned the audience for that page as a private one. I am particularly vexed with the attitude exemplified by Charlie Balch's comment: > As a bottom line, if you post it on the net, it is public. The > publisher > might regret their post but that does not make it private. Yes, > additional > exposure might bring some greater harm to the poster but the poster > has > brought it upon themselves. Also by Jeremy's: > i expect your mom, like my mom, to be able to become comfortable > with blogging over a period of time, to be able to master what skills > they desire to have, and from there to make decisions. The main problem here is often that people who blog don't think through that they have a public private issue to deal with. We have developed rules about what we can and can't use in research based on offline situations that have arisen over centuries and are well understood by all. My feeling (based on my research to date as well as some 20 years of experience online) is that we should be cautious about our use of material that has been posted during this transitional period where the boundaries of public and private online are not widely understood by many participants. In a decade or so when most Internet users are practiced enough to have reached a real understanding of the consequences of expressing one's self online in spaces that are widely accessible and indefinitely archived, we could then consider re-examining our ethical stances. People sometimes make dumb decisions it is true, but as researchers we are bound not to exploit those bad decisions for our own benefit if this is likely to cause them significant harm. Bringing a 'public' text which in practice is very unlikely to be read by significant numbers of people to the attention of a larger or more influential group through publishing it - particularly when such publication comes with a judgement attached - *is* effectively an intervention. Of course you could argue as Charlie does that academic journal readers represent a quite small number of people, and that they are unlikely to have any connection to the research subjects or reason to act on what they have learned about them. This is an argument I have some sympathy with but historically this doesn't seem to weigh strongly in academic decision making. And of course academic research can leak into the broader public discussion - some of us might end up writing newspaper articles that point people to our research (which we might make publicly available on our web pages these days) or we might end up writing 'cross-over' books which talk about our academic work but are aimed at a more general audience. On the other hand if there is significant potential harm to an individual it might be more than compensated for if research gives us important new insights. (Yes I'm a utilitarian). PS Intellagirl wrote: > Has there > been any research on what audiences bloggers etc really think they are > reaching, want to reach etc? The rift between the the ideal > audience and the > actual audience? One of the core aspects of my thesis on personal webloggers will be an examination of just this issue. An early exposition of it is in print but alas only in Norwegian! Here is a selection of other literature on this topic. It is not exhaustive and I would be interested to hear of others' work in this area: Gumbrecht, M. (2004) "Blogs as 'Protected Space'". in World Wide Web Conference, New York, p. 5, http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/ www2004gumbrecht.pdf Nardi, B., D. Schiano and M. Gumbrecht (2004) "Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary?" in CSCW, p. 11, http://home.comcast.net/~diane.schiano/CSCW04.Blog.pdf boyd, d. (2004) Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice Last accessed: 13 Dec 2004 Last updated: 12 Dec 2004 Address: http:// www.danah.org/papers/BrokenMetaphors.pdf. Viegas, F. (2005) "Bloggers' Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey ", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10 (3). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html Lenhart, A. and S. Fox (2006) "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" Pew Internet & American Life Project http:// www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp Norwegian speakers might want to look at: Brake, D. (2007) 'Personlige webloggere og deres publikum: Hvem tror de egentlig at de snakker med?' i Lüders, M., Pritz, L. & Rasmussen, T. (Red.) Personlige medier: Livet mellom skjermene, 141-163. Oslo: Gyldendal. I have (the original) English language version, "Personal webloggers and their audiences: Who do they think they are talking to?" and will share it on request (though there is much I would change with it now). --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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Full specs for AOIR-ICS issue
by Barry Wellman 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Some folks have asked for a clarification of the requirements for the spcial AoIR issue of ICS. Here it is. In short ... Sept. 1st papers come in. Oct. 1 comments go back. Nov. 5th final revised versions come in. >From the email sent to potential authors ... ... the process goes as follows: Phase 1 -- Completed -- A short list of papers/authors were invited by the editors to submit a formal paper by Phase 2. The list has been closed. Phase 2 -- Heads-up to the Short List 2. If you're on the short list, please submit a full paper of 5-7,000 words by ** September 1, 2007 ** to both editors: Haythornthwaite and Wellman. NOTE: This is a hard deadline. No papers will be considered after this deadline. 3. The editors will return comments and suggested edits on your paper by October 1, 2007. (We may also secure an additional referee, if needed.) 4. Return the final paper to both editors by ** November 5, 2007 **. Please note that due to the quick turnaround time to have the special issue out early in January 2008, *no* extensions will be given for these deadlines. You are, of course, free to submit the paper at a later date for ICS, but it will no longer be considered part of the special issue if you miss either the September 1 or November 5 deadline. (Please submit late papers directly to Brian Loader, the ICS editor). Papers should conform to ICS style as indicated at this URL. Please pay particular attention to ICS formatting for references both in text and in the final reference list. See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ricsauth.asp In addition, please follow these guidelines for papers sent to the special issue editors: -- Use Times Roman typeface, 12 pt text for normal text throughout -- Double space throughout -- Add line numbers, by page (in Word for Windows this is under File: Page Setup: Layout; on Word for Mac this is under Format: Document: Layout) -- Submit Word files only (no pdf, LaTex, or Word Perfect please). 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 Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL USA 61820

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Reminder: Firm Oct 1 deadline
by Barry Wellman 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Just a reminder that those of you planning to send in AOIR papers for the special issue of Information, Communication and Society MUST submit them by midnight, Central (US) Daylight Time, October 1, 2007. Send a .doc copy online to each of myself and co-editor Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) No late submissions; no excuses. 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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traditional web marketing fails on social networks
by Ed Lamoureux 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

"get interactive or get out" http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196857/traditional-marketing- failing-social-networks Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication Co-Director, New Media Center 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/> AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam Second Life: Professor Beliveau

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