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[AOIR8] Ramada sold out
by Richard Smith 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I wouldn't normally pepper you with more than one message per month, but I think I should let the list know that the cheaper of the two conference hotels - the Ramada - is now sold out, or soon will be. If you are looking for a nice hotel in Vancouver, I can recommend the Delta which is right across the street from the conference. http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Delta_Details I am also negotiating with another hotel, the Quality Inn, for some rooms. But I think you might - if you haven't already - want to start looking on your own. The internet, I hear, is very good for that sort of thing.... If anyone has special needs, or would like a suggestion on where to stay, please let me know. ...r

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Re: [Air-l] Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

In a previous year I think I suggested 5K. That's a workable size -- enough to say something but not too long to go overboard. Consider a range of +/- 1K around the 5. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:32:48 -0700 >From: Richard Smith <smith(a)sfu.ca> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0 >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >M-H, > >Not a dumb question. There is no recommendation on the site, as far >as I know. I have referred others who asked to Mia, the program >chair. My sense is that a paper of 20-30pp is about right, but I >haven't got any official word on that. > >Since the "proceedings" are electronic page length isn't the issue >that it might have been in the past. > >...r >On 12-Jul-07, at 4:24 AM, Mary-Helen Ward wrote: > >> I've been round and round the AOIR8.0 site and I can't find a guide >> to the >> length of a completed conference paper. Abstract 750 wds, but no >> information >> on full submission. >> >> I may have missed something... Can anyone enlighten me? >> >> >> M-H >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > >_______________________________________________ >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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Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0
by Mary-Helen Ward 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I've been round and round the AOIR8.0 site and I can't find a guide to the length of a completed conference paper. Abstract 750 wds, but no information on full submission. I may have missed something... Can anyone enlighten me? M-H

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #4 (July 12, 2007)
by Richard Smith 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Dear AIRmobiles, It is that time of the month again.... the time of the month when I write to you with updates on the Internet Research 8.0 ("Let's Play") Conference, to be held at Harbour Centre in Vancouver, Canada - October 17-20, 2007. You know. That thing we do. In the fall (spring for your antipodeans). Here's what you have to do to be here (or be square) in Vancouver in the fall: 1. Get your registration in by July 15 to qualify for BIG early registration discounts. http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf&cf=5 2. Book your hotel room. Now. Or you won't get a discount and you'll be stuck in some expensive room far from the conference. a. RAMADA ($79/night): http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Ramada_Details b. DELTA ($189/night): http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Delta_Details 3. If you are a student, and want to be in the paper competition, get your paper in to Mia ASAP (July 15 is the deadline). Other than that, I don't have a lot more to say. I think I have flooded your mailboxes enough the past few months. If you have questions, send them to me (smith(a)sfu.ca) or post them to AIR-L(a)listserv.aoir.org. ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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stand up for world peace video
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK_VXRp8Sto any thoughts on networked production? 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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Re: [Air-l] Google scares me again
by jerichob＠juno.com 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

This strikes me also as being analogous to all-in-one ID cards (e.g. campus IDs or various proposals for national ID cards) - where once a person's records were held in discrete offices and therefore much more difficult to collate for profiling or investigative purposes, now there is handy access to the whole package through linked records. Who is it convenient for? Jericho -- Michael Zimmer <michael.zimmer(a)nyu.edu> wrote: Hi Ellis - Well, it is convenient when my grocer tracks my purchases through my frequent shopper card so I can count on certain items remaining in stock (assuming I'm not the only one buying them). And perhaps it is helpful for Google to provide an advertisement for digital cameras if I search for "Olympus Stylus". That's using particular bits of my activities in order to taylor a particular service to me. But it's a difference in kind when my activities that were previously dispersed across various products, services, and locations can be tracked an aggregated into a single source. And it's also a difference in kind when that information is processed in order to create some kind of psychological profile of what kind of a person I am (not just what beer I buy or what I happen to be searching for that day). Who knows what kind of decisions might be made based on such an attempt to profile my psyche. (I'm thinking of issues raised in: Bowker & Star's "Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences", Gandy's "The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information," and Lyon's "Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, and Digital Discrimination" ) And I have yet to see any documentation from companies such as Google outlining precisely what information about me they collect, how it might be aggregated across their products & services, and what kind of processing they perform with said data, and with whom it has been shared with. The typical "privacy policy" is purposefully vague on such details. -mz ----- Michael Zimmer, PhD Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School e: michael.zimmer(a)nyu.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Ellis Godard wrote: > Perhaps I'm new-fashioned, but I like targeted communications based > on mined > data. There's always been tracking, capturing, aggregating, and > profiling - > it's just getting better executed, and somewhat better documented, > each of > which is arguably a boon. > -e > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l- >> bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Michael Zimmer >> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:40 PM >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Google scares me again >> >> Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I think psychological profiling of >> users based online habits is a tad more problematic than just >> "somewhat" of an ethical minefield. >> >> Microsoft recently announced their hopes to do something similar: >> http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/23/msft-wants-to-identify-all-web- >> surfers-based-on-surfing-habits/ >> >> One wonders if any part of one's earthly existence will remain >> untouched by those wanting to track, capture, aggregate, and >> profile... >> >> -mz > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/

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CFP-IEEE Int'l Symposium on Technology and Society, 2008
by Milliken, Mary C. 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

For AoIR information, MCMilliken PhD Candidate, Sociology, UNBF Dear research colleagues, In 2008, the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. We are calling for papers, abstracts and ideas addressing the ISTAS 08 theme: Citizens, groups, communities, and information and communication technologies (ICT). The submission deadline is December 17, 2007. You will find information on the call for papers, submission requirements, tracks, and publication outcomes on the ISTAS 08 website: www.istas08.ca You can also watch our YouTube welcome to ISTAS 08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8gf049gio ISTAS is an annual international forum exploring the social implications of technology. ISTAS 08 will bring together participants interested in sharing their research, projects and ideas about: *How citizens, groups and communities are or could be linked with information and communication technologies (ICT) *Designing and developing ICT with and for citizens, groups and communities ISTAS 08 will be a multi-disciplinary event for engineers, computer scientists, researchers in the social sciences, arts and humanities, community-based researchers, policy makers and members of technology user communities. Papers and discussions will address the social and technical aspects of the specific topics. ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology: www.ieeessit.org The ISTAS 08 host is the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in Fredericton in June 2008. Organizers, Dr. Susan ODonnell National Research Council Canada ISTAS 08 Program Committee Co-Chair Dr. William McIver Jr. National Research Council ISTAS 08 Organizing Committee Chair

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Online Survey Software Sites
by ksh＠anthro.umass.edu 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hello, I am drafting a survey to collect partial data for my online ethnography. Im looking for recommendations of easy to use survey software sites. Sites with easy to build and publish survey software, good data results with affordable pricing. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Kamela

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Re: [Air-l] social network migration
by Lisa Jo Elliott, M.A. 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

I agree with you, Gail. After spending a year as a usability engineer for a company that produces enterprise database software primarily to banks, two things became very clear. First, software that stores personal data is constantly changing and built in a Rube Goldberg-like fashion by the enterprise/organization using the software. The technical and development abilities within these organizations varies widely with some organizations being at a greater risk of a security breach because of the quality and experience of their technical staff. This seemed to be a function of the quality of recent computer science graduates available to the organization and less a function of managerial practices. Second, personal information is treated as any other information inherent to the business' operation. Compliance with government regulation is taken very seriously by the technical folk who manage the information, but the wider implications of personal data accessibility and unanticipated paths of data loss are not a consideration in day to day operations. In their opinion, data is a business commodity meant to be sold and shared. Subsequent to my year's experience, I have become very selective with where I do business and what spelling of my name I wish to provide. I feel that regulations should have been in place decades ago, before the "cat was out the door". Future regulation and research may wish to consider the effect of the new personal information regulations in the UK and the technological restraints it has placed on banking growth. Regards, Jo Elliott

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Re: [Air-l] social network migration
by 'Gail Taylor 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Michael Zimmer wrote: "Returning to this discussion, Google is (surprise) working on a social networking platform called Socialstream, which would "draw content from a variety of sources. Socialstream would be based on a unified social network (USN), a single network that provides social data to other sites as a service. A service model allows many social networks to be linked together, letting them share both content and the nature of the relationships of the people who use them." I'm wondering whether Michael might share some insights about legal issues that will need to be addressed by businesses who enter into agreements with others businesses to share personal information about their users and online practices. In reading through information presented about the Google product, it was suggested that user actions would be regulated by business agreements. many decisions are going to be made for individual users would be made for the user by the business owners and operators. It was suggested that users would only need to specify, "as an afterthought", who would be able to see personal informaton and what services would host it. This is a major change in practice from the manner in which users are currently using Google services, particularly those related to the capture and exchange of personal information with other entities (government agencies including law enforcement, public and private sector businesses, private citizens). /Gail --------------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant Library & Information Science Research Assistant "Technology enables man to gain control over everything except technology." -- Unknown

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