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Re: [Air-l] laptops and Internet access in class
by Jean H 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi Steve, We've actually done this in a second year Communication class (with some students attending remotely via Elluminate). Including the remote group (and projecting their chat window onto the main screen) seemed to enrich and enliven the discussion. Anecdotally, students who were less inclined to participate vocally in the lecture hall reported that they were more inclined to have a voice in this multimodal group discussion. Some students in the lecture hall logged in to participate textually on the screen, while most sat back to watch, preferring to interact orally. Certainly raises some question marks, doesn't it? There was a recent thread here about incorporating backchannel discussions in select presentations/panels (presenters willing) at AOIR this year. That would be interesting to see! Cheers, Jean. Jean Hébert PhD Candidate, Sessional Instructor School of Communication SFU, Vancouver, Canada > On 5/18/07, Steve Jones <sjones(a)info.comm.uic.edu> wrote: > >> I've often wondered what it would be like if I provided students with >> a back-channel via IRC for the class (and what would it be like if I >> projected the channel on a screen in front of the class)? What would >> students do with this (if anything)?

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laptops and Internet access in class
by Julie Cohen 18 May '07

18 May '07

A colleague of mine recently published this op-ed in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR200704 0601544.html He describes his reasons for banning his first-year students from bringing laptops to class (they go into "stenographic mode", or they surf and check e-mail, which distracts other students and detracts from the learning experience). He reports that his students reacted positively to the experiment (some of my own reacted quite negatively when I mentioned they idea, but they were upper-years who had self-selected to study IP/technology law). He has also begun campaigning to have us modify our wireless network so that it is turned "off" in classrooms during class time and/or to modify our entire network to disable students' university e-mail and web accounts during the hours that they're listed as being signed up for class. I was surprised to learn this, but apparently the U. of Michigan law school has done both of these things and some other law schools are considering it. In the ensuing debate, many colleagues cited what I think are some very good reasons not to do the last two things, including: missed pedagogical opportunities (both re use of the Internet for on-the-fly research as subjects come up in class and re ethics of networked technology use), cost, inequality as between students who use only our network and students who can access other available wireless networks via commercial accounts, and excessive paternalism. Now that the semester has ended, I expect the subject to come up again, and I thought I would see what members of this list think. Most specifically, I'm wondering (1) what you all say to colleagues who react to laptops and wired classrooms in this way; and (2) techniques that you use to encourage students to think about their own responsibilities re networked technology usage. Thanks, Julie

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correct ref for Wellman & Haythornthwaite
by Barry Wellman 18 May '07

18 May '07

Someone suggested Suman & Lunn's article on e-commerce in everyday life, but gave the wrong source. It's in Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, eds., The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. While I am at it: I sometimes see references/citations to the American Behavioral Scientist issue of the same name (Internet in Everyday Life) that Caroline and I edited in 2001. Every one of the articles in the ABS was seriously revised for the 2002 Blackwell book version, so please try to use and reference the book version. Happy Queen Victoria's Birthday to You All! (And especially to Caroline below the world's longest formerly undefended border.) Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender now _____________________________________________________________________

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Trolls
by William Bain 18 May '07

18 May '07

Folks, I wonder if I could break lots of rules and send a short comment here in a too general sense and jamming together diifrent thing s that have been talked about in regard to this subject. I was kind of briefly in on the discussuion when it started, and I did mention the diea of agreeing to disagree, which by now has been much more elocquently expressd or re-expressed by a number of people. Anyway, the short bit I wanted to say was just that I, like several others who have recently spoken, have always found this list welvcoming and at the same time (as I'd hope) bright enough to be impateint with tiresome comments. I do hope that this isn't a tiresome comment, but I also wanted to add my voice to others saying we should move on from this topic. Actually, I think that's already the case and people have shown that the elenchics aoir rpomotes have an eloqunces of their own. the one negativish idea that sprang up (from my perspective) is some of the comments about students. Adult to adult, we're all students, tho ovbiously at different phases and in different roles. several moons ago an experession was used on this list, "ghetthoisation of graduate students" I think wa s the phrase. I think it's good to recall that expression in regard to moving on and, well, end of short bit and in support of continued elenics :-) WRB 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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Re: [Air-l] The Master Plan
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 18 May '07

18 May '07

Very clever James, so clever that it may lead to anyone with an interest in Internet Research going to another list where they may actually hear about something other than adulation of a troll. Congratulations James, you've managed to elicit a useless email to waste yet more time for the list -- and I mean my email here. I've retained non-filtering of this list as I'm on the AoIR executive this year. I find it very sad that this list is no longer a real AoIR resource. Talk about tragedy of the commons. /Caroline Haythornthwaite ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:29:18 -0700 (PDT) >From: James Whyte <whyte.james(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: [Air-l] The Master Plan >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >I like a puzzle. All day I have been trying to figure out the Plan. It finally hit me. Reid Cornwell is indeed one of the cleverist people I have come in contact with. > > He spams a list of people in which he is held in low regard. > For the purpose of inviting them to a conference. (how dare he) > And/or present their intellectual work > This of course is a nefarious plan to give them $200 and have 4 meals with them. > Even more insidiously, he is going to put them in the presence of world- class scholars, educators and policy makers. > He also exposes them to a three term Governor and former presidential candidate. > While exposing them to state-of-the-art technology > All of this in a lovely historical town with a major university (the cad) > He offers to publish their works and to broadcast their presentations. > Now here is the really twisted part. He does all of this so he can be called names and subjected to ad hominem attacks, to what end. He's going to steal 2 days of their time. > > You know what else, he forms a non-profit and gives away scads of money to education and then has the audacity to form a virtual Internet research organization. > > I agree with Jeremy you should watch out for a guy like this. He must be stopped. > > Oh I forgot. He is going to steal the email address, he already had, for some other sinister purpose, while requesting that you unsub. > > How about that for clever? > > James > > > > >--------------------------------- >Finding fabulous fares is fun. >Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. >_______________________________________________ >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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The Master Plan
by James Whyte 18 May '07

18 May '07

I like a puzzle. All day I have been trying to figure out the Plan. It finally hit me. Reid Cornwell is indeed one of the cleverist people I have come in contact with. He spams a list of people in which he is held in low regard. For the purpose of inviting them to a conference. (how dare he) And/or present their intellectual work This of course is a nefarious plan to give them $200 and have 4 meals with them. Even more insidiously, he is going to put them in the presence of world-class scholars, educators and policy makers. He also exposes them to a three term Governor and former presidential candidate. While exposing them to state-of-the-art technology All of this in a lovely historical town with a major university (the cad) He offers to publish their works and to broadcast their presentations. Now here is the really twisted part. He does all of this so he can be called names and subjected to ad hominem attacks, to what end. He's going to steal 2 days of their time. You know what else, he forms a non-profit and gives away scads of money to education and then has the audacity to form a virtual Internet research organization. I agree with Jeremy you should watch out for a guy like this. He must be stopped. Oh I forgot. He is going to steal the email address, he already had, for some other sinister purpose, while requesting that you unsub. How about that for clever? James --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.

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dealing with spam and trolls
by Rhiannon Bury 18 May '07

18 May '07

May I also suggest to folks that they not use their professional/academic e-addresses for listservs. I set this account up solely for the purpose of listserv mail. I also see that I have received the Cornwell spam for the first time but bizarrely giving me the opportunity to unsubscribe. I've heard that some spam works by sending a message that asks you to unsub but in fact you end up actually getting your addressed grabbed and used for even more spam. Truth or urban myth? Rhiannon

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Internet Activism & Advocacy
by Paul DiPerna 18 May '07

18 May '07

Below is a compilation of sources that I received from folks here. It's a bit unorthodox, but I list the entries in chronological order, from oldest to most recent. Thanks very much to all who sent me citations these last two weeks. ** member credits at bottom of this email ** Myers, D.J. (1994). Communication technology and social movements: contributions of computer networks to activism. Social Science Computer Review 12 (2), 250-260. Hill, K.A. & Hughes, J.E. (1997). Computer mediated communication: the USENET and political communities. Political Communications 14, 3-27. Davis, R. (1999). The web of politics: The Internet's impact on the American political system. New York: Oxford University Press. Ferdinand, P. (2000). The Internet, democracy, and democratization, Portland, OR: Frank Cass. McConnell, S. (2000). A champion in our midst: Lessons learned from the impacts of NGOs' use of the Internet. Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2(5), 1-15. Wilhelm, A. (2000). Democracy in the Digital Age. New York and London: Routledge. Abbott, J. P. (2001). Democracy(a)internet.asia? The Challenges to the Emancipatory Potential of the Net: Lessons from China and Malaysia. Third World Quarterly, 22(1), 99-114. Armond, P. (2001). Netwar in the emerald city: WTO protest strategy and tactics. In J. Arquilla, and D. Ronfeldt (Eds.), Networks and netwars (pp. 201-238). Santa Monica, CA: Rand. Camacho, K. (2001). The Internet: A tool for social change? Elements of a necessary discussion. The Project Evaluation of the Social Impact of the Internet in Central America: The Case of Civil Society Organisation. Mexico: FLASCO. Warkentin, C. (2001). Reshaping World Politics. NGOs, the Internet, and Global Civil Society, Boston: Rowman & Littlefield. Hick, S. & J. McNutt (Eds.), (2002) Advocacy, Activism and the Internet. Community Organization and Social Policy, Chicago: Lyceum Books. Hill, D. T. & K. Sen (2002). Netizens in combat: Conflict on the Internet in Indonesia. Asian Studies Review, 26(2). Jordan, T. (2002). Activism! Direct Action, Hactivism and the Future of Society. London: Reaktion Books. Langman, L., & D. Morris (2002). Internet mediation: A theory of alternative globalization movements. In M. Gurstein & S. Finquelievich (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Community Informatics. Montreal, Canada, October 8, 2002. Lim, M. (2002). Cyber-civic Space. From Panopticon to Pandemonium? International Development and Planning Review, 24(4), 383-400. Myers, D. J. (2002). Social Activism through Computer Networks, in Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Burton, O. V., (Ed.): http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/burton/ch06.html (2003). From Real to Virtual (and Back again): The Internet and Public Sphere in Indonesia. In K.C. Ho, R. Kluver & K. Yang (Eds.) Asia Encounters the Internet. 113-128. London: Routledge. (2003). The Internet, Social Networks and Reform in Indonesia. In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power. Alternative Media in a Networked World 273-288. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. (2003). Transnational Civil Society and the Internet in an Unregulated Capitalist World System: A Utopian Dream? Response to Surman & Reilly's Appropriating the Internet for Social Change. Report. Geneva: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), IT Governance and the Politics of Civil Society Research Network. Bennett, W. L. (2003). New Media Power: the Internet and Global Activism. In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power. London: Rowman and Littlefield. Diani, M., & D. McAdam (Eds.), (2003). Social movements and networks: Relational approaches to collective action. New York: Oxford University Press. McCaughey, M., & M. D. Ayers (Eds.), (2003). Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge. Meikle, G. (2003). Indymedia and the new net news. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 6(2). Retrieved December 10, 2005 from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0304/02-feature.php Park, H.W. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analysis: Between networks and indicators, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4): http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/park.html Park, H.W. (2003). What is hyperlink network analysis?: New method for the study of social structure on the Web. Connections, 25(1), 49-61. http://www.insna.org/Connections-Web/Volume25-1/7.Hyperlink.pdf Pickerill, J. (2003). Cyberprotest: Environmental activism online. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Surman, M. & K. Reilly (2003, November). Appropriating the internet for social change: Towards the strategic use of networked technologies by transnational civil society organizations. Version 1.0. Social Science Research Council. Retrieved December 14, 2005 from: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic. (2004). Informational Terrains of Identity and Political Power: The Internet in Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 27(73), 1-11. Brainard, L.A. & J. M. Brinkerhoff (2004). Lost in cyberspace: Shedding light on the dark matter of grassroots organizations. Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly. 33 (3), 32S-52S. Samuel, A. (2004). Hacktivsim and the Future of Political Participation, Thesis presented to the Department of Government in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Political Science: http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/dissertation/pdfs/Samuel-Hacktivism-entire.p… Sey, A., & M. Castells (2004). From Media Politics to Networked Politics: The Internet and the Political Process. In M. Castells (Ed.) The Network Society: A cross-Cultural Perspective 363-381. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Thelwall, M. and L. Vaughn. (2004). Special Issue on Webometrics. JASIST, 55(14). van de Donk, W., Loader, B., Nixon, P., & D. Rucht (Eds.), (2004). Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and social movements. New York: Routledge. (2005). Islamic Radicalism and Anti Americanism in Indonesia: The Role of the Internet, Washington DC: East West Center. (2005). The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy, London and New York: Routledge. de Jong, W., Shaw, M., & N. Stammer (Eds.), (2005). Global Media, Global Activism. United Kingdom: Pluto Press. Davis, R. (2005). Politics On-line: Blogs, chat rooms and discussion Groups in American democracy. New York: Routledge. Hara, N., & Z. C. Estrada (2005). Analyzing the mobilization of grassroots activities via the Internet: A case study. Journal of Information Science, 31(6), 503-514. Also published in FirstMonday, 8(12). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/hara/index.html Schneider, S. M., & K. A. Foot (2005). Web sphere analysis: an approach to studying online action. In Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in social research on the internet (pp. 157-170). Oxford: Berg Publishers. (2006). Cyber-Urban Activism and the Political Change in Indonesia. EastBound, 1(1), http://www.eastbound.info/journal/2006-1/. Garrett, R. K. (2006). Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224. Pickard, V. W. (2006). United yet autonomous: Indymedia and the struggle to sustain a radical democratic network. Media Culture & Society, 28, 315-336. Shumate, M., & J. Pike (2006). Trouble in a geographically distributed virtual network organization: Organizing tensions in continental direct action network. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 8. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/shumate.html Hara, N., & Shachaf, P. (in press). Online peace movement organizations: A comparative analysis. In I. Chen & T. Kidd (Eds.). Social information technology: Connection society and cultural issues. Hershey, PA: Idea Group. Preprint is available at: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~nhara/paper/HaraShachaf-peace.pdf Some other helpful links: http://www.policymagic.org/electron2.htm http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/blogs/ http://www.merlyna.org/pubs ==================== CREDITS ==================== Ted Coopman Kelly Garrett Noriko Hara Joyce Lamerichs Patricia Lange Merlyna Lim John McNutt Yanuar Nugroho Kate O'�Riordan Denise Rall Chris Ward

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Reminder - Sensorium at the University of Sussex
by Kathleen O'Riordan 18 May '07

18 May '07

This Monday - all welcome - apologies for cross posting The Centre for Research into Material Digital Cultures at the University of Sussex Public Lecture, Monday, 21st May: 5:30 'Sensorium': Embodied Experience versus Digital Media Speaker: Caroline Jones, Professor of Art History, MIT Respondent: Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London. Chair: Dr Michael Bull, founding editor of Senses and Society. Venue: Brighton and Sussex Medical School Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex, All Welcome ------------------------------------------------------- Dr Kate O'Riordan Department of Media and Film University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile30746.html

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Arranging a meet of AoIR people at the ICA
by David Brake 18 May '07

18 May '07

I just used one of those websites for event arranging to make a page to help AoIR people get together. You can "invite" yourself (thus letting us all know you are going) and suggest a date, time and location (the date and time that are there are just placeholders). <http://www.meetwithapproval.com/? event=a70ac8268793511b4b9a1865f5d2a838> --- 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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