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Communities and Technologies 2007 early registration
by Charles Steinfield 14 May '07

14 May '07

Dear Colleagues, Only a couple of weeks remain for the early registration period for the Communities and Technologies 2007 conference, to be held June 28-30, 2007 at Michigan State University. Early registration ends on May 31st. A fantastic program has been assembled, with 30 outstanding papers, 13 workshops encompassing a range of methodologies and research topics, four keynote speakers who have made significant contributions both to research and practice, and three panel discussions about aspects of communities and technologies by leaders in the field. The conference also will feature the opportunity to explore an innovative online event/conference networking service designed to enhance discussions among participants (more information will be available soon on this). We have put together a social program that includes a dinner/reception at the historic Cowles House on the Michigan State campus as well as an evening dinner/reception at the Michigan Historical Museum. Early registration fees for the meeting are $400 for regular attendees (that is, non-students), and $100 for students. Registration at these rates includes participation in a workshop. Late registration begins on June 1st, with fees increasing to $450 for regular attendees, and $150 for students. The International Conference on Communities and Technologies has developed into one of the premier meetings for interdisciplinary exchanges related to the development, usage, and impacts of technology-supported communities. Please visit the conference web site (http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/) for more detailed information. We hope to see you at C&T 2007. Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, Mark Ackerman and Nosh Contractor Conference Organizers

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Learning Inquiry Issue 1, Volume 1
by Jeremy Hunsinger 14 May '07

14 May '07

The first issue of the journal Learning Inquiry is now online. I expect the print to arrive shortly:) The first issue is centered on the theme "The Futures of Learning" and has contributions from many leading scholars from an extensive range of fields. The futures of learning http://www.springerlink.com/content/t73064v85621/ Editorial: introducing Learning Inquiry Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger Imagining, seeking, inventing: the future of learning and the emerging discovery networks Gary Natriello Learning from instruction: the case of mathematics Erik De Corte Metaphysics and learning Helen Verran The paradoxical future of digital learning Mark Warschauer Learning, change, and the utopia of play Stuart Moulthrop Critical media literacy is not an option Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share Implementation of knowledge management in organizations Katrin Winkler and Heinz Mandl 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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C'LICK ME - Public Display of Internet Pornography - June 2 - Amsterdam
by Matteo Pasquinelli 13 May '07

13 May '07

C'LICK ME Public Display of Internet Pornography 2nd International Netporn Festival Paradiso, Amsterdam – Saturday, 2 June 2007, 1pm to 5am Website: www.c-lickme.nl List: www.listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org C'LICK ME is an event to investigate internet pornography in a non- conventional way. We are looking forward to a queer event without any rigid queer correctness (as queer doesn't always mean good porn!). We want to re-think the society of the netporn spectacle: the digital zeitgeist that has given us a hypersexual body. What to do with our bodies and digital machines? Pornography has found its way into every nook and cranny of the Internet, but how can we still be queer radicals or body artists, private hedonists or fervent bloggers in this climate? Do we still need to have a sanctified space like an underground or a dungeon, when we produce desire with our floating networked bodies? Porn went porn-chic years ago. Today netporn goes into Myspace bedrooms and everyday "realcore". C'LICK ME is not only netporn displays, but strategies of public engagement and sharing thoughts about netporn. While creating a visibility of desire, we try to experiment with a new "invisibility" of identities. From the era of queer communities, we move into the culture of crossbreed pornography. Even amongst those horny mobs targeted by the netporn industry giants, people cherish their own queer varieties. Netporn means the messy process of personal affections and anomalies melting into the databases of porn masses. In the era of pornification of mainstream imagery, there is no more society without netporn, but a lot has to be done to sexualize the critical "multitudes". Queer and net activists, theorists and artists once again gather in Amsterdam to discuss the growing pains of autonomous culture zones, but also netporn as sexwork, production of affective commodities and one of the biggest global markets. C'LICK ME wants to create a networked debate, continuing the discourse started with the first Netporn Conference in 2005, that was organized by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli. This conference afterwards connected to other experiences across Europe and elsewhere, like the Porn Film festival and the Post Porn Politics symposium both held in Berlin in 2006. What does a “post-porn politics” mean after entering the digital realms of the network society? And what will be the destiny of the porn genre in the age of the affective technologies? Before brainstorming the dissolution of porn into commodities or its future explosion in global conflicts, our specific DIY contribution is an anti-essentialist and intoxicated event, with input from new publics, with a nostalgic embrace of (post) punk wet dreams and sex revolutions. Most of all, C'LICK ME invites you to experience the sexual evolution of the digital generation. Your stimulators, Katrien Jacobs, Matteo Pasquinelli and Marije Janssen Program - Day program C'LICK ME day program will feature an international selection of speakers from various disciplines presenting their views and thoughts in a performative setting. Guests, among others, are American film producer, sex blogger and writer Audacia Ray, multi-media artist and musician Terre Thaemlitz, post-porn theorist and performer Tim Stuttgen, 21 century activist Francesco Palmieri ‘Warbear', and genetic pornography demagogue, Adam Zaretsky. Visitors and participants will meet during the dinner, especially designed by food artist Patrick Faas for C'LICK ME. The day program will be hosted by Nat Muller. - Evening program The evening program features video and film screenings, which includes the European premiere of Audacia Ray's film The Bi Apple, the (least) favorite porn scenes brought to you by participants and celebrities, the bareback monologues and a soiree of irreverent porn acts. The evening program will be hosted by Bahram Sadeghi. - Night program As the evening turns into night, C'LICK ME invites you to an unforgettable party with in the main hall: Dj Sprinkles a.k.a. Terre Thaemlitz, live performances by: Khan of Finland en LeClic and Dj's Sandrien and Abraxas. Get sweaty on the dance floor or lose yourself in the underground atmosphere created in the small hall by the Phag Off collective from Rome who for the first time will collaborate with Cruise Control queer crew. Team Plastique will perform live. If this is too much you can relax in the basement and listen to the whispered dirty stories in the ‘For Your Ears Only' project by SXNDRX. List of participants: Audacia Ray, Terre Thaemlitz, Tim Stuttgen, Warbear, Florian Cramer, Lotte Hoek, Feona Attwood, Sharif Mowlabocus, Adam Zaretsky, Dominik Bartkowski. Ticket prices: Passepartout (including festival dinner) 27,50 euro Day ticket: 7,50 euro Evening ticket: 12,50 euro Night ticket: 12,50 euro Tickets can be bought at: Ticketservice: www.ticketmaster.nl national: 0900 300 1250 AUB Ticketline: national: 0900 0991 international: +31 20 621 12 88 If you would like more information on the program, participants and practical info, please visit our website: www.c-lickme.nl or myspace: www.myspace.com/clickmeamsterdam You can also join our mailinglist to discuss topics with participants: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org For more information, Marije Janssen: marije (at) paradiso.nl C'lick Me – 2nd International Netporn Festival is made possible by: - Institute of Network Cultures - Stichting Democratie and Media - Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten

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2nd CFC - Collaborative Learning using Concept Mapping
by Rita Marriott 13 May '07

13 May '07

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposals Submission Deadline now: 6/30/2007 Full Articles Due: 9/31/2007 Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning using Concept Mapping For more information please access the website http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=178 or send an e-mail to rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott Editor University of Birmingham/UK --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

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Meta lurking
by Alex Randall 13 May '07

13 May '07

I wonder if one is lurking in THIS discussion... Am I a meta-lurker? There is also the oft-used admonition "Lurk more!" when someone is perceived to (a) be new and (b) have committed a perceived mistake that could have been prevented if he or she had simply paid more attention to norms, expectations, and history I wonder if a discussion among his group will really have any effect of the millions of lists in which lurkers are referred to by that name. Alex Randall Professor of Communication University of the Virgin Islands

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internet and computer stats
by Mariana Goya 12 May '07

12 May '07

Dear Aoirs: Im studying if internet and the personal computer can affect writing, particularly in the academic community. For that reason, Im trying to find numbers about internet growth and computer usage since 1976. Currently I have the number of internet users worldwide and the number of hosts, and some incomplete information about computer usage. But Im still trying to find some numbers related to academics. Does anyone know where can I find statistics about academics use of internet and/or computers? I appreciate your help, Thanks, Mariana ----------------------- Mariana Goya Martinez Graduate Student, Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.

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Seeking feedback on blogging course syllabus
by Heath Row 12 May '07

12 May '07

I'm teaching my first class at NYU starting next week, and I'd like your general input on the outline of the course. You can check the class blog at http://blogospherism.blogspot.com/ and the working syllabus at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcxjw7xx_2hgk4hf What am I missing? What resources should I tap? I'd love your input. Heath -- Heath Row | mediadiet.net | advercise.blogspot.com this email is: [ ] bloggable [ x ] ask first [ ] private listen to this: http://tinyurl.com/3bemo2

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JCMC 12.3, April 2007
by elw＠stderr.org 12 May '07

12 May '07

Not sure I saw a copy of this go to the list. Pardon me if this is a duplicate... --elijah ---- The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication has just published (April 2007) a double-themed special issue: Theme I: The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines, guest edited by Eszter Hargittai Theme II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication, guest edited by Charles Ess (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki) The table of contents is appended below. All current and past JCMC articles can be accessed at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ --- Contents of JCMC - Volume 12, Issue 3, April 2007 --- Special Theme I: The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines 1. The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction - Eszter Hargittai 2. Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines - Werner Wirth, Tabea Böcking, Veronika Karnowski, and Thilo von Pape 3. In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance - Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Thorsten Joachims, Lori Lorigo, Geri Gay, and Laura Granka 4. Searching for Culture-High and Low - Jennifer Kayahara and Barry Wellman 5. Learning to Search and Searching to Learn: Income, Education, and Experience Online - Philip N. Howard and Adrienne Massanari 6. Is Relevance Relevant? Market, Science, and War: Discourses of Search Engine Quality - Elizabeth Van Couvering 7. Equal Representation by Search Engines? A Comparison of Websites across Countries and Domains - Liwen Vaughan and Yanjun Zhang 8. Google Bombing from a Time Perspective - Judit Bar-Ilan Special Theme II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication 9. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication - Charles Ess (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki) 10. Diaspora on the Electronic Frontier: Developing Virtual Connections with Sacred Homelands - Christopher Helland 11. Internet Use among Religious Followers: Religious Postmodernism in Japanese Buddhism - Kenshin Fukamizu 12. Online-Religion in Japan: Websites and Religious Counseling from a Comparative Cross-Cultural Perspective - Akira Kawabata and Takanori Tamura 13. Conflict and Intolerance in a Web Community: Effects of a System Integrating Dialogues and Monologues - Mitsuharu M. Watanabe 14. Who's Got the Power? Religious Authority on the Internet - Heidi Campbell 15. Islam, Jihad, and Terrorism in Post 9/11 Arabic Discussion Boards - Rasha A. Abdulla 16. Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites - Noor Hazarina Hashim, Jamie Murphy, and Nazlida Muhamad Hashim 17. Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber Rituals in Online Spaces - Stephen Jacobs 18. Technological Modernization, the Internet, and Religion in Singapore - Randolph Kluver and Pauline H. Cheong --- The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It has been published on the Web quarterly since June 1995. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ---

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Lurkers Wanted - Revisited
by James Whyte 12 May '07

12 May '07

I truly appreciate all the people who volunteered for this call. However the posibility of an unbiased study has been compromised by the continuing discussion on this list. IMHO, a collection of anecdotal observations could have merit as a thought piece in the general sense of an ethnography but it would not have the the properties which would suggest general processes. I.e. the subjects are also observers and informed by the discussion. This is not a negative to me because the discussion has interrogated the use of jargon in scholarly discourse. Again I thank you for the offer. As scholars I know you understand my logic. If you are a volunteer and read this please write me off list and let me know you read this. I want to make sure everyone get the word. Regards, James --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV.

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Zotero and sharing saved web pages & notes
by irina g 12 May '07

12 May '07

Yes, as far as I can tell. There is a discussion about this on the Zotero forum ( http://www.zotero.org/documentation/ ). It seems that they are working to make create complete online access, but haven't gotten there yet. Since I have a lot of documents and references saved in Zotero, I just loaded a portable Firefox app right onto my USB and also copied the Zotero library onto my USB as well (you can find more explicit instructions on the forum). So when I go to a new computer, I plug in the USB and open Firefox from it. This way I am always using the same Firefox and Zotero interface with same bookmarks, etc. and all my saved documents are with me. The only trick is not to forget the USB somewhere! irina On May 11, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Marcela Musgrove wrote: > So if you changed browsers or computers, the USB drive is the only way > to port your records from Zotero? > Marcela > > > On 5/11/07, irina g <> wrote: >> Frank, >> >> I am currently writing my dissertation and Zotero has been an amazing >> resource! One thing that I found really helpful is that you can >> install portable Firefox on a USB drive, which then lets you take >> your Zotero wherever you go. As far as I know, there is no way to >> send your files through an online interface, but at least you can >> load your Zotero refs. onto other computers, including your >> colleagues'. >> >> Irina >> On May 10, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Frank Thomas wrote: >> >> > I just started to use Zotero and am delighted how easy it is to >> > save web >> > pages and publications, include references and notes, and export >> > into my >> > EndNote reference manager. Now I want to share my grabs with my >> > colleagues. I think they have not yet attacked the sharing of saved >> > pages and annotations. Or do I miss something ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Frank Thomas >> > >> > -- >> > .......................................... >> > Dr. Frank Thomas >> > FTR Internet Research >> > 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois >> > France >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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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