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web 2.0 etymology
by Margie Borschke 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Bounced... It seems worth mentioning that "Web 2.0" can be see as spinoff of Esther Dyson's cleverly named technology missives from the 90s, Release 1.0, 2.0 etc. (significantly these titles were later bought by O'Reilly-see below). I haven't read these since the time but if my memory serves me right (and sometimes it doesn't) I believe there is little in the current definition of web 2.0 that Dyson didn't envisage even in her writings about communities circa the mid nineties. Difference is we couldn't really make them happen then. Today, the tools to make it happen are better and easier to use, access is faster and more people are there to take part. So while I agree that it's not an entirely new practice, I do think that some of those early web dreams are now being realised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Dyson "Dyson and her company EDventure specialize in analyzing the impact of emerging technologies and markets on economies and societies. She created the following publications on technology: * Release 1.0, her monthly technology-industry newsletter, published by EDventure Holdings. Until 2006, Dyson wrote several issues herself and edits the others. When she left CNET, the newsletter was picked up by O'Reilly Media, which appointed Jimmy Guterman to edit it and and renamed the newsletter Release 2.0, which is also... * Release 2.0, her 1997 book on how the Internet affected individuals' lives. Its full title is Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age. The revision Release 2.1 was published in 1998. * Release 3.0, her bimonthly column for the New York Times, distributed via its syndicate and reprinted in Release 1.0. * Release 4.0, her weblog. On March 4, 2005, this weblog moved to Dyson's Flickr account ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/ )."

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Accuracy and Wikipedia
by James Whyte 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Sometime back at link was posted for a study on the accuracy/authority of Wikipedia. I have searched the archives and cannot find it. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. James --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Re: [Air-l] how to pin down web 2.0
by Lane DeNicola 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Alexis: not MY seven points--Tim O'Reilly's! I've rarely used the term myself without specifically meaning his conceptualization (recent hyperbole notwithstanding). I agree, too, that those seven points are "very, very specifically business oriented," though I may perceive the workings behind that a bit differently (I'm a "he," by the way). As a programmer in the late '90s, I came to love "the animal books" of O'Reilly & Associates, technical publications that focused largely on open source technologies (Jeff Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions," now in its third edition, is to this day one of the best technical volumes I've ever read). Their stripped down layout, engaging prose, and sharp handling of typically dry topics was a perfect complement to the DIY/toolset mentality of the FOSS community. I perceive the "corporate turn" (at O'Reilly Media and elsewhere) as a long-term strategy within the FOSS community to dispel the belief that open source was/is not appropriate to a serious commercial environment. I still see them struggling with that perception today (thus the business orientation). I'd agree with Hugemusic's explanation, that "the *term* Web 2.0 was created as a branding strategy for corporations to exploit the *phenomenon* of Web 2.0." Despite all the talk (including Tim O'Reilly's) about business models etc., I also see the most analytically relevant aspect of the Web 2.0 phenomenon on an axis orthogonal to the commercial/non-profit dichotomy. In an interview in last week's Wired: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/timoreilly_0413?currentPag… Tim O'Reilly states that "One of the big changes at the heart of web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services." This seems to me to support Christian's suggestion that "internet research needs to take a look at the political economy of web 2.0," specifically in terms of the implied shift from an industry that's seen as "manufacturing goods" (software) to one that "provides services" (communities, hosted apps, etc.). "Resources" (in particular bandwidth) is perhaps yet another matter, but whether we're talking a Google-sized commercial enterprise or a state-subsidized community portal, it's that shift from goods to services that I think is implicit in the Web 2.0 moniker (and is an especially telling part of O'Reilly's definition). -- Lane DeNicola Doctoral Candidate | Dept. of Science & Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.nacresky.com/lad Tried the Science Studies Search Engine? <http://www.nacresky.com/ssse>

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Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs
by Adolfo Estalella 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hi Kat, I some articles that treat the issue of using a blog as part of the research are: Takhteyev, Y., & Hall, J. (2005, 14-15 mayo). Blogging Together: Digital Expression in a Real-Life Community. Paper presented at the Social Software in the Academy Workshop, University of Southern California Annenberg Center. Blogging Thoughts (pdf) Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker: "Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool," in: Researching ICTs in Context, ed. Andrew Morrison, InterMedia Report, 3/2002, Oslo 2002 http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/Researching_ICTs_in_… Efimova, L. (2004, 2-3 de abril). Discovering the iceberg of knowledge work: A weblog case. Paper presented at the Fifth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (OKLC04), Innsbruck (Austria). https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-34786 I myself am using a blog as part of a ethnography of blogs and bloggers. While some researchers have approach the blog as a field diary (a few researchers and pH D. students have tried that in Spain) I think that it is not possible for different issues, the main one the privacy and respect to your informants. In my research design I pointed to three different issues arguing in favour of using a blog as part of my fieldwork: (i) for orienting the research, learning the same practices of bloggers, (ii) for gaining credibility and building rapport among bloggers, and (iii) as a way for observing the ethics obligations of the research, declaring my presence in the field. After 12 months I can say that not only the three objectives have been accomplished but my blog have been an invaluable artefact for establishing and maintaining relationships in the field. However, it is not easy: it is highly time consuming (as many other activities in ethnography) and you, as a researcher, are highly exposed. People are able to question you and to ask for explanation in any moment, indeed, I have been involve in a few hot debates that have been initiated by other bloggers and readers. The position of the ethnographer can be hotly contested, I have been questioned and I have been force to give explanations (a kind of explanations that I would have never been force to give if I had not written a blog). In that way, the blog is a risky artefact in the fieldwork, but I am complete convinced that in my research I would have not been to get access to some kind of people and I had hardly get aware of certain kind of practices of blogger if I had not written a blog. If you want to discuss it in large you can write to my email. Regards adolfo Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:51:21 +0100 (BST) > From: sop01kj(a)gold.ac.uk > Subject: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: > <58627.83.146.14.199.1177156281.squirrel(a)secure2.gold.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi everyone > > We are researchers at Goldsmiths and associated with INCITE > (www.studioincite.com) We're interested in how blogs are being used for > social research and have found blogs such as > http://becomingananthropologist.blogspot.com/ but very little explicit > discussion about blogs as a methodological tool. One exception is Kris > Cohen?s work and his article in Media, Culture and Society - > http://www.photosleavehome.blogspot.com/ - and Adam Reed?s work - > http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/staffprofiles/reed.htm > > Does anyone have any recommendations or references which might be helpful > in trying to find out if there is any methodological research around blogs > or photoblogs as ways of collecting data from participants or acting as > fieldwork/visual diaries? And are there any other research groups > interested in this? > > Many thanks > Kat Jungickel - PhD Student, Sociology Dept > Vicky Skiftou - Academic researcher, Sociology Dept > v.skiftou(a)gold.ac.uk, 0207 9197484 > > -- Adolfo Estalella (http://www.estalella.es) http://estalella.wordress.com http://somia.wordpress.com Ph D. Knowledge Society Program Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (http://www.uoc.edu) Phone: 00 34 936 735 077 Fax: 0034 936 641 970 Mail: jestalellaf(a)uoc.edu / adolfoestalella(a)gmail.com Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia Av. Canal Olímpic s/n, Edifici B3 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona) Spain

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CFP> Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop
by Howard Rosenbaum 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

***Apologies for cross-posting*** Call for papers: 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies\ June 28-30, 2007, Michigan State University Workshop: Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop Full description at: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/page4j.html Community depends on memory; computer mediated community (CMC) depends on digital memory. Human memory is limited, corporeally bound, and subject to forgetting. As a consequence, communities develop other means of maintaining memory. Bowker (2005) argues that memory practices are infrastructure tools used to preserve memory in scientific communities. Information technologies are examples of memory practices that support community. In this workshop, we seek to explore the concept of memory practices in the study of community and broaden it beyond the scientific community to include CMC: communities of practice, interest communities, professional communities. We invite researchers of CMC to submit 5 page position papers: ~ Describing the communities they are studying ~ The memory practices on which they are focusing, and ~ The methods they are employing to study these practices. We welcome submissions in three broad areas. Theme One: Historical work on memory practices, technology and communities: Theme Two: Memory practices in communities of practice: Theme three: Memory practices in interest communities – gamers, shoppers, serious leisure and other interest groups – driven by social infrastructures. To participate send an abstract of 500 words or less to hrosenba(a)indiana.edu by May 4. Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 18. Questions or comments: Elisabeth Davenport, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT (e.davenport(a)napier.ac.uk) Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN47405 (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) Conference web site: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/index.html

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how to pin down web 2.0
by Barry Wellman 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

One brute force approach which wouldn't take long is to a successive Google search on "1990" and "web 2.0"; "1991" and "web 2.0" etc. You'll get some noise and some nuggests, I reckon. 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: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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arranged marriages 21st century
by Barry Wellman 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

1. It's time for a rewrite of _A Suitable Boy_ taking matrimonial sites into account. 2. A former Muslim Indian-Canadian student of mine had an arranged marriage to a co-ethnic IT guy, but she turned down 2 possibles beforehand. She's now writing a story with me called "How I Arranged My Arranged Marriage" (title copyright by Uzma and me). 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: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Internet Usage in India
by Nicole Reinhold 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Dear all, I'm interested in Internet usage in India, in quantitative number but even more in what services, sites are popular and why. Especially I would like to learning more about user generated content and social networking sites in the Indian online community. Is there anybody with the same interest or that is part of the Indian online community that can share her/his experience. I'm also thankful for any related report, link or publication. Thanks Nicole MA. Nicole Reinhold, Senior Research Consultant Philips Design nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com

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Re: [Air-l] Journal or conference articles on web 2.0
by Paul DiPerna 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

This has been a curiosity for me too.. In the popular press, Tim O'Reilly has been credited with first coining the term, but my understanding is that it was commonplace for software releases (emphasizing social and communications features) to attach "Web 2.0" after product names. We see this on press releases as early as 1996. Roots for the "Web 2.0" term may go a lot further back than we think. Perseus SurveySolutions released software they called "Web 2.0" on its own, which won a PC Magazine Editors Choice Award in February 2000. For fun I just used High Beam to scan press releases on "web 2.0".. I came across a joint press release by organizations called FileNet and BEA Systems, dated April 29, 2003: "Gordon Simpson, deputy CTO from BEA Systems, is slated to speak on "Web 2.0: Integration Today and Tomorrow" today at 10:00 a.m. PDT.... Organizations are continually challenged by the need to increase access to timely information, lower operating costs, and improve relationships with employees, customers and partners. Using BEA WebLogic Integration(TM), FileNet and BEA can solve business integration and portal requirements by bringing together information and data that is spread throughout an enterprise." According to this O'Reilly Media post (below) brainstorming for the first Web 2.0 conference began in 2003. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/controversy_about_our_web_20_s.ht… A major caveat that this is fly-by research... and it's not clear if O'Reilly's private discussions occurred before, during, or after BEA's Web 2.0 speaking engagements on April 29 and July 11, in 2003. I don't know if there had been any ties between BEA Systems and O'Reilly, but it looks as though BEA might have been putting forth Web 2.0 as a collaboration-generating concept, at least for an organization's internal improvements, almost a year before O'Reilly Media began to use the term publicly and widely. On May 3 2004, O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International issued their joint press release announcing their October 2004 Web 2.0 Conference. - Paul ------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna

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Journal or conference articles on web 2.0
by Martin Garthwaite 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Dear All, WEB 2.0 seems to be very much in vogue at the moment, I'm researching web 2.0 for a short essay and was wondering if any members of the list have read / plublished work on any aspect of web 2.0. Thanks in advance. -- Martin Garthwaite +447957 764819 Skype id mgarthwaite1330 MS IM marting(a)gmail.com

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