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Re: [Air-L] Dissertation
by McKee, Heidi Auchincloss Dr. 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Sorry if my last post included the complete digest--I meant to delete! Heidi ******** Heidi McKee Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Digital Writing English Department Miami University Bachelor 364 Oxford, Ohio 45056 513-523-8403 (office) mckeeha(a)muohio.edu ________________________________________

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speaking of crime
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Australia's PM rolls out a new plan, vows "to clean up the internet" http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22218929-421,00.html The scariest bit, to my mind: "As well as practical tools to help families put internet pornography beyond the reach of children, the Government will form partnerships with major computer providers in upgraded steps to block porn sites and detect predators using popular websites such as MySpace and Facebook to contact children. Of the $189 million, $43 million will be provided immediately to double the size of the online child sex exploitation branch of the AFP and establish a working group to find ways of getting around privacy laws that protect sexual predators. A "black list" of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which covers Australian-based pornographic and terror sites, will be expanded internationally after consultation with the Attorney-General. " Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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Re: [Air-L] Dissertation
by Matthew Bernius 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

To second what Alex and other have said, in my experience US IRB boards in general: 1. Treat anything that's posted to the internet, without any form of membership/login as public speech. That goes for posts and comments. 2. In general once any form of log-in comes into play (as in myspace or live journal) then you need to get specific permission to publish. The only case where you have wiggle room is in cases where all that is needed is to create a log in based on an e-mail address (which can be argued are freely available to anyone). However, if the owner of the blog has to give you permission to read their entries (or in some cases the owner of the content) then you definitely need to get consent there. 3. If individuals have taken steps to protecting their identities, you also need permission if you are going to link screen names with RL "real names". 4. Get permissions for any interview data (again, just like in off line studies). - Matt -- ----------------------------- Matthew Bernius Visiting Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology mBernius(a)gMail.com http://www.waking-dream.com

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Fwd: MM 333: Intro. to Field Research Methods in Virtual Worlds Syllabus now available
by Ed Lamoureux 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

> thought, perhaps, some of you might be interested in seeing what this undergrad research course in SL looks like > this course meets this fall, online in Second Life, T-T 12noon-1:15 > pm. There are seats for Juniors, Seniors (with special permission; > I'll consider sophomores with special recommendation from faculty). > Students need access to computers and bandwidth during class (we've > not reserved labs for this online course). Interested students > should contact me. > > http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/333/mm333.html > 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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test
by Ed Lamoureux 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

sorry for this intrusion, but have had a lot of trouble posting to the group. list admins are trying to fix it. have to test it. peace 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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Re: [Air-L] crime statistics
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Thanks Robert. But I already had the IC3 reports, and they focus on white collar crime (fraud in particular). I'm looking for data on violent crime, including assault. I can't find any hard numbers. Even googling through news reports I only came up with 2 cases in the US in the last 2 years that involved contact on myspace (the "20,000 sex offenders on myspace!" panic is what prompted this question) Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:58:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Cannon <rcannon100(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] crime statistics? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org --- "Tuszynski, Stephanie" <stuszyn(a)UTNet.UToledo.Edu> wrote: > Are there any hard statistics on crime being > perpetrated on the Internet? I'm not talking about Internet Crime Complaint Center Annual Report http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreports.aspx "The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) was established as a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to serve as a means to receive Internet related criminal complaints and to further research, develop, and refer the criminal complaints to federal, state, local, or international law enforcement and/or regulatory agencies for any investigation they deem to be appropriate." =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Cybertelecom :: Federal Internet Law & Policy www.cybertelecom.org

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Folksonomy: free public lecture by Thomas Vander Wal, 2pm, 18 September 2007, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
by Bruce Mason 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

A lecture that may be of interest to some of our UK-based members. ---- Folksonomy: A look at a hated word but a loved resource 2:00-3:30PM, September 18, 2007. Free and open to the public. Room 0.01, Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester UK. LE1 9BH "Folksonomy" was recently voted one of the new terms most likely to make you "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard." This talk by the inventor of the term – Thomas Vander Wal – will offer you a chance to make your own judgment. The talk is open to all and will not require any specialist knowledge on behalf of the audience. A Folksonomy can be created when users of "web2.0" sites such as YouTube, Flickr, LastFM and Del.icio.us add keywords ("tags") to the items they view in order to add information about these items. As more and more users tags such items more information is created about the the items. Unlike library catalogues which are created by experts, folksonomies are like catalogues created by everyday people. For some, this heralds a brave new era of democratic information management, for others it heralds the death of expertise. Thomas Vander Wal lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and this is a rare opportunity to hear him in the UK. He coined the term "folksonomy" in 2004 and is a popular speaker on tagging/folksonomy, social web, and web applications around well structured information. He is principal, and senior consultant at InfoCloud Solutions, a social web consulting firm. Thomas has been working professionally on the web since 1995 (with a professional IT background beginning in 1988) and has breadth and depth across many roles and disciplines around web design, social web development & research and general web development. He is a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee and helped found the Information Architecture Institute and Boxes & Arrows web magazine. See his web site to find out more: http://www.vanderwal.net/<https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.vanderwal.ne…> The lecture is presented as part of the AHRC-funded research project Tags Networks Narratives, examining the interdisciplinary application of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts. It is a unique speculative project assessing the potential for collaborative social-software techniques such as folksonomy in narrative research. The project explores: * What kinds of collaborative social network tools are available for the gathering and classification of information? * Which researchers are making online narratives the focus of study, and how are those projects categorised by discipline? * How can these researchers make effective use of social network tools to share knowledge and develop interdisciplinary collaborations? The project is based in the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University, Leicester UK and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board from October 2006-September 2007. The project team consists of Professor Sue Thomas, Bruce Mason and Simon Mills. The talk is organised in partnership with Production and Research in Transliteracy group http://www.transliteracy.com<https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.transliterac…> For more information and directions to the venue visit http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/vanderwal07.htm<https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.…>

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Diaspora and the Media: Leeds Conference Programme
by Francisco Seoane 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

EUROPEAN WORKSHOP Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity 7 and 8 September 2007 University of Leeds Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity is the title of a two-day conference to be held at the University of Leeds on 7 and 8 September 2007. Organised by the Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section of the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA), this symposium will showcase the latest research on cultural difference, communication, and the media. Confirmed keynote speakers include Marie Gillespie (Open University), Charles Husband (Bradford University), and Kim Knott (Leeds University). A preliminary version of the conference programme and information on registration, travel, and accommodation are available at the workshop website: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ecrea-diasporamedia/ ------- Francisco Seoane Perez Provisional PhD student Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds E-mai: icsfsp(a)leeds.ac.uk Webpage: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/f.perez ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/reto/entretenimiento.html

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crime statistics?
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

A friend of mine, Allyson Beatrice, wrote a book that came out last month titled "Will The Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?" (Allyson and I met through our mutual interest in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") The book is not a scholarly work, more a collection of anecdotal essays about Allyson's experiences in online fan groups, including The Bronze (subject of the documentary I made: http://www.dlfilms.com/irl/index.html) She's been doing interviews this week and she's about ready to kill some of the interviewers who seem determined to try and compel her to say the Internet is just a big cesspool of pedophiles and rapists and so on. Are there any hard statistics on crime being perpetrated on the Internet? I'm not talking about identity theft or fraud or even possession of child porn, I'm talking about criminal activities like kidnapping and assault being perpetrated specifically through the net. My Web-fu is not coming up with anything other than a report from 1999 that is all percentages and no hard numbers. PS - the book is very funny, although Allyson takes some swipes at the Buffy fan/academics in the beginning. Worth a look for a non-academic perspective on the Internet in people's lives. Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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CFP>: 3rd Social Informatics Research Symposium @ ASIST 07
by Howard Rosenbaum 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

[Apologies for cross-posting] Call for papers and participation: 3rd Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The social web, social computing and the social analysis of computing (SIG SI) Friday October 19th, 1-6pm; Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Wisconsin The purpose of this ASIST preconference research symposium is to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communications technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIST. The symposium includes members of many SIGs. The symposium defines "social" broadly to include critical and historical approaches and well as contemporary social analysis; and, it defines "technology" broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper) as well as state of the art computer systems This year's theme is "The social web: Web 2.0, social computing and the social analysis of computing" We are pleased to announce that the keynote will be given by Dr. Alice Robbin, Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Her topic will be "Planning the Future of Social Informatics in ASIST." Dr Robbin will lead a lively discussion focusing on ~Funding opportunities for research on the social impacts of technology ~How social informatics reseachers in library and information science and related disciplines might collaborate in the development of innovative research proposals Call for papers and posters: Submit a short paper (3000 words) or poster (1000 words) by August 31,2007 Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. Acceptance announcements made by September 10, in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 14th). Tentative Schedule Paper presentations: 1-2:30 pm Break: 2:30-2:45 (with poster viewing) Paper presentations: 2:45-4:15 Poster 15 minute madness: 4:15 to 4:30 Break: 4:30-4:45 (with poster viewing) Closing Keynote Discussion: 4:45-6:00 pm For further information and instructions for submitting papers and posters see: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/eschenfelder/web/si2007. Kristin Eschenfelder Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison eschenfelder(a)wisc.edu 1-608-263-2105 http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen Howard Rosenbaum Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu 812 855 3250

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