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Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, now published
by A.N.Joinson 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, edited by Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes and Ulf Reips and published by Oxford University Press, is now officially published. I am grateful to the many members of AOIR who contributed their expertise to this project, which has led to a fantastic collection of over 30 chapters covering a wide variety of topics in the area of online behaviour. More information below. Regards Adam Joinson http://www.joinson.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handbook-Internet-Psychology-Joinson/dp/0198… Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Internet-Psychology-Joinson/dp/019856… Publishers blurb: 0. The first book to map out the whole field on internet psychology, covering the key areas in this burgeoning area 0. Presents cutting edge research from leading researchers in the field 0. Will lay the foundations for a science of internet psychology 0. Part of the successful and critically praised Oxford Handbooks series Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or understanding requires physical co-presence. "The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" brings together many of the leading researchers in what can be termed 'Internet Psychology'. Though a very new area of research, it is growing at a phenomenal pace. In addition to well-studied areas of investigation, such as social identity theory, computer-mediated communication and virtual communities, the volume also includes chapters on topics as diverse as deception and misrepresentation, attitude change and persuasion online, Internet addiction, online relationships, privacy and trust, health and leisure use of the Internet, and the nature of interactivity. With over 30 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled, and serves to define this emerging area of research. Uniquely, this content is supported by an entire section covering the use of the Internet as a research tool, including qualitative and quantitative methods, online survey design, personality testing, ethics, and technological and design issues. While it is likely to be a popular research resource to be 'dipped into', as a whole volume it is coherent and compelling enough to act as a single text book. "The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" is the definitive text on this burgeoning field. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in the psychological aspects of Internet use, or planning to conduct research using the 'net'. Contents 1. Introduction: Adam N. Joinson, Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Tom Postmes and Ulf-Dietrich Reips Section 1: Interaction and Interactivity 2. Social interaction and the internet: A comparative analysis of surveys in the US and Britain , Ronald E. Rice, Adrian Shepherd, William H. Dutton and James E. Katz 3. Love letters: The development of romantic relationships throughout the ages , Monica Whitty 4. Trust and social interaction on the internet , Melanie C. Green 5. Trust in mediated interactions , Jens Riegelsberger, M. Angela Sasse and John D. McCarthy 6. Assessing interactivity in CMC research , Sheizaf Rafaeli and Yaron Ariel McCarthy 7. Social psychology of interactivity in human-website interaction , S. Shyam Sundar Section 2: Groups and Communities 8. Characterizing online groups , David P. Brandon and Andrea B. Hollingshead 9. Social networks and online community , Caroline Haythornthwaite 10. Online social support groups , Martin Tanis 11. Psychology, discrimination and hate groups online , Karen M. Douglas 12. The psychological dimensions of collective action online , Tom Postmes Section 3: Personality, Self and Identity 13. Personality. individual differences and internet use , Yair Amichai-Hamburger 14. Through the internet looking glass: Expressing and validating the true self , Katelyn Y. A. McKenna 15. Impression management and identity online , Andrea Chester and Di Bretherton 16. Self-disclosure, privacy and the internet , Adam N. Joinson and Carina B. Paine 17. CMC and social identity , Russell Spears, Martin Lea and Tom Postmes Section 4: Psychological Aspects of Internet Use 18. Attitude change and social influence on the net , Kai Sassenberg and Kai J. Jonas 19. Digital deception: Why, when and how people lie online , Jeffrey T. Hancock 20. Phantom emotions: Psychological determinants of emotional experiences on the internet , Azy Barak 21. Internet use and abuse and psychological problems , Janet Morahan-Martin 22. Examining the role of the internet in health behaviour , Elizabeth Sillence and Pam Briggs 23. Toyko youth at leisure: Online support of leisure outings , Diane J. Schiano, Ame Elliott and Victoria Bellotti Section 5: Internet-based Research 24. The methodology of internet-based experiments , Ulf-Dietrich Reips 25. Designing internet-based experiments , Michael H. Birnbaum 26. Gathering data on the internet: Qualitative approaches and possibilities for mixed methods and research , Claire Hewson 27. Context effects in internet surveys: New issues and evidence , Jolene D. Smyth, Don A. Dillman and Leah M. Christian 28. Personality testing on the internet: What we know, and what we do not , Tom Buchanan 29. Technical considerations when implementing online research , William C. Schmidt 30. Using online panels in psychological research , Anja S. Goritz 31. Internet research ethics , Charles Ess

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Yale ISP's 2nd Annual Access to Knowledge conference (A2K2)
by Eddan Katz 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

**Remote participation in the A2K2 conference on the accompanyong Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2. We invite you to contribute background materials on access to knowledge issues and to suggest questions to be addressed on the individual panels. 2nd Annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K2) Yale Information Society Project April 27-29, 2007 Yale Law School http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html REGISTRATION is still OPEN at https://wems.worldtek.com/yaleA2K2 A2K2 Open Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/ Yale_A2K2 The last several years have witnessed the coalescing of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) social movement that champions human rights, human development, and the public interest as the focal points of innovation and information policy. The Yale Information Society Project's (ISP) first A2K conference advanced our commitment to building a broad conceptual framework of Access to Knowledge that can foster powerful coalitions between diverse groups. The A2k conference brought together leading scholars and activists from all over the world to participate in the construction of an intellectual framework for access to knowledge. Full conference proceedings and foundational resources for Access to Knowledge are available at the Yale A2K conference wiki. This year, on April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World Intellectual Property Day, the A2K2 conference promises be a pivotal event mobilizing the A2K coalition. Taking place between sessions of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in which the Development Agenda is being formalized, this gathering is an oportunity to help define the emerging vision of innovation and information policy. A2K2 will further build the coalition amongst institutions and stakeholders that crystallized at the first landmark conference, help set the agenda for A2K policy and advocacy, and deepen the understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of access to knowledge issues. The A2K2 conference program is focused around mobilizing different spheres of society: Industry, Civil Society, Governments, and Technologists. The policy panels focus on a diverse set of A2K issues and are oriented towards tangible legal and technological solutions and collaborative strategies for policy makers and individual institutions. Plenary panels: - Welcoming Address & Keynotes * Harold Koh - Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School * Jack Balkin - Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School * Yochai Benkler - Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School - The Social Movement of A2K * Margaret Chon - Professor of Law & Director, Center for the Study of Justice in Society (CSJS), Seattle University * Ahmed Abdel Latif - Second Secretary, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt * Ronaldo Lemos - Director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro * James Love - Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) * Sisule Musungu - World Trade Institute, University of Berne * Jerome Reichman - Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University Law School Moderator: Amy Kapczynski - Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Public Health, Samuelson Fellow in the Information Society Project, Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health - Mobilizing Industry * Brad Biddle - Senior Attorney, Intel Corporation * Andrew McLaughlin - Head, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Google Inc. * Nagla Rizk - Associate Professor and Chair, Economics Department, American University in Cairo * Pam Samuelson - Professor, School of Information and Boalt Hall School of Law and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley * Jule Sigall - Senior Attorney, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corp. * Brent Woodworth - Worldwide Segment Manager, Crisis Response Team, IBM Corp. Moderator: Colin Maclay - Managing Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Mobilizing Governments * Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office * Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO Program Information For All * Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires * David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy * Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of Education, Chile Moderator: Shamnad Basheer - Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor in Law, George Washington University Law School - Mobilizing Technologists * Getachew Mengitsie Alemu - Director General, Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office * Irina Bogdanovskaia - Faculty of Law, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Member, Russian Committee of the UNESCO Program Information For All * Carlos Correa - Director, Masters Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires * David Gross - Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy * Luis Villaroel Villalon - Copyright Legal Advisor, Ministry of Education, Chile Moderator: Colin Maclay - , Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford - Mobilizing Civil Society * Gwen Hinze - International Affairs Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) * Nnenna Nwakanma - Cabinet Member & Regional Coordinator, African Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS) * Josh Silver - Executive Director, Free Press * Sherwin Siy - Staff Attorney and Director, Global Knowledge Initiative, Public Knowledge * Madhavi Sunder - Professor of Law, University of California, Davis Moderator: Becky Lentz - Program Officer, Ford Foundation Policy panels: -- Partnerships for Access to Information * Serge Bounda - Chief Librarian , Sergio Vieira de Mello Library, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya * Hala Essalmawi - IPR Officer, The Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Egypt * Jason Phillips - Associate Director for International Library Relations, JSTOR (Journal Storage) * Crispin Taylor - Executive Director, ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists) Moderator: Ann Okerson - Associate University Librarian, Yale University -- Internationalized Domain Names * Wei Mao - Computer Network Information System, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Ram Mohan - CTO & VP Business Operations, Afilias Limited * Milton Mueller - - Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University * Hong Xue - Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School * Peter Yu - Associate Professor of Law and founding director of the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law Moderator: Robert Guerra - Managing Director, Privaterra -- Patent Quality * Tahir Amin - Co-founder, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK) * Daniel Ravicher - Founder and Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation * Frederick Abbott - Edward Ball Eminent Scholar, Florida State University College of Law * Arti Rai - Professor of Law, Duke University Moderator: Joshua Sarnoff - Assistant Director, Glushko- Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Practitioner-in- Residence, Washington College of Law, American University -- Open Access Literature * Achal Prabhala - Consultant, Lawyers Collective, India * Binyavanga Wainaina - Writer-in-Residence, Union College, New York * Gary Dauphin - Blackplanet.com, Africana.com, AOL Black Voices * Rob Spillman - Editor, Tin House magazine and Executive Editor, Tin House Books * Michael Vazquez - Advisory Editor, Transition magazine Moderator: Manon Ress - Director, Information Society Projects, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) -- Search Engines * Judith Dueck - Vice-Chair, Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS) * Niva Elkin-Koren - Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Israel * Michael Geist - Canada Research Chair in Internet and E- commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada. * Robin Gross - Executive Director, IP Justice * Richard Owens - Director, Copyright E-Commerce Technology and Management Division - WIPO Moderator: Sudhir Krishnaswamy - Head, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Research and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School, India University, Bangalore -- Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources * Anetta Bok - Gender Representative for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee-IPACC * Graham Dutfield - Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property Law Queen Mary, University of London * Abena Dove Osseo-Asare - Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley * Elpidio Peria - Associate, Third World Network (TWN) - Philippines * Antony Taubman - Head, Global Issues Division, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Moderator: Anupam Chander - Professor of Law, University of California, Davis -- Community Media & the Global Public Sphere. * Murali Shanmugavelan - Head, Information Society Project, Panos London. * Sasha Costanza-Chock - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California * Ethan Zuckerman - Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School. * Natasha Primo - Chair, Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Executive Director, Women's Net. * Wijayananda Jayaweera - Director, Communication Development Division, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Moderator: Fazila Farouk - Head, Civil Society Information Programme, Southern African NGO Network (SangoNet) -- Broadband Wireless in Developing Countries. * Susan Crawford - Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York * Willie Currie - Program Manager, Communications and Information Policy, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) * Satish Jha - Co-Chair, World IT Forum (WITFOR) * Kaili Kan - Capacity Development Officer, IICD * Caio Pereira - Researcher and International Relations Coordinator FGV-Sao Paulo Law School Moderator: Diana Korsakaite - Director, Strategy Department, Communications Regulatory Authority, Lithuania -- Agriculture & Intellectual Property * Fleur Claessens - Programme Officer - Intellectual Property, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) * Daniel Kevles - Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University * Susan Sell - Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University * Dalindyebo Shabalala - Staff Attorney and Director, Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Moderator: Andrea Glorioso - Assistant Researcher, Politecnico di Torino -- The Political Economy of Digital Archives * Glenn Otis Brown - Products Counsel, Google, Inc. * Paul Gerhardt - Project Director, Creative Archive, BBC * Magdy Nagi - Head of ICT Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt * Denise Nicholson - Copyright Services Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa * Guy Pessach - Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Moderator: Teresa Hackett - Manager, eIFL-IP, Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) -- Education in the Digital Age. * Titilayo Akinsanmi - Program Manager, Global Teenager Project, Mindset, Johannesburg, South Africa * Saskia Harmsen - Capacity Development Officer, IICD * Geidy Lung - Legal Officer, Copyright Law Division, Copyright and Related Rights Sector, WIPO * Mira Sundara Rajan - Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada * Andrew Rens - LINK Centre, Creative Commons, South Africa Moderator: Jack Lerner - Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley -- Access to Scientific Knowledge * Chris Armbruster - Founder and Executive Director, Research Network 1989 * Subbiah Arunachalam - Distinguished Fellow, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India * Juan Carlos de Martin - Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino * Larry Peiperl - Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science) * Sibusiso Sibisi - President and CEO, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa Moderator: Dan Burk - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

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postdoc fellowship in Amsterdam
by Jankowski 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear all: This announcement may be of interest to some persons on the AoIR list. Best, Nick Jankowski Virtual Knowledge Studio, 3-month Postdoctoral Fellowship, KNAW, Amsterdam Applications are invited for three-month fellowships within the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS), a programme funded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy for Arts and Sciences). The VKS aims to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the creation of new scholarly practices, termed here e-research, as well as in their reflection on e-research in relation to the development of their fields. A core feature of the VKS is the integration of design and analysis in a close co-operation between social scientists, humanities researchers, information technology experts, and information scientists. This integrated approach aims to provide insight into the ways in which e-research can contribute to new research questions and methods in the humanities and social sciences. The Virtual Knowledge Studio has the following goals: * to contribute to the design and conceptualisation of novel scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences; * to support scholars in their experimental play with new ways of doing research and emerging forms of collaboration and communication; * to facilitate the travel of new methods, practices, resources and techniques across different disciplines; * to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of knowledge creation. The fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have recently received their PhDs in order to provide the following: experience of working within an interdisciplinary research group, an opportunity to prepare material for publication and to develop new research ideas. During the three months of the fellowship, a senior member of the VKS staff will act as mentor. Expectations: * Deliver research seminar within internal VKS research meetings during first month. * Prepare at least one publication (in which VKS should be acknowledged upon publication). A draft of the publication should be circulated no later than 2 weeks before the end of the fellowship in order to enable feedback to be given before the end of the fellowship. * Prepare outline proposal for new research project. * Attend all research meetings (held every 2-3 weeks) during period of fellowship and be present at the VKS on a regular basis. Qualifications: * PhD in relevant field, from a university in the Netherlands or abroad. * In most cases, the PhD should have been awarded no more than 12 months prior to the application deadline Compensation: * You will receive a total of 10,000 euro to cover your accommodation and other costs. * You will be expected to cover most travel as well as insurance and other costs yourself. * You will be reimbursed for the costs of one return trip (economy/2nd class) between your main place of residence and Amsterdam. * You will be provided with shared office space and a PC. There is no formal application form. Applications are welcome in any area of the work of the VKS. Applications are welcome from both Dutch and non-Dutch candidates. To apply, please send your curriculum vitae, a 2-page statement outlining what you will work on while at the VKS and why you want to be based at the VKS, a copy of a publication or dissertation chapter, and the names and addresses of two referees. Two fellowships will be awarded each year. The next two periods, with deadlines, are: * Autumn 2007 (deadline: 15 May 2007) * Spring 2008 (deadline: 1 October 2007) Exact dates of the fellowship will be negotiated with the successful candidate. Application materials should be sent to: Jeannette Haagsma, VKS, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel: +31 (0)20 850 0282, email: <mailto:jeannette.haagsma@vks.knaw.nl>jeannette.haagsma(a)vks.knaw.nl

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Couch Award deadline near
by Mark D. Johns 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2007 A student award competition Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and concepts and Couch's theses, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Katherine M. Clegg Smith, Johns Hopkins University Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2007 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) in Vancouver, BC. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $200 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 18-20, 2007. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is April 30, 2007. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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program & list of new network theory (amsterdam, june 28-30)
by geert lovink 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Dear all, the full program, abstracts and biographies of the three days New Network Theory conference in Amsterdam (June 28-30, 2007) is now availabe online. Also a list has been opened where you can follow the debates in preparation of the event (perhaps of interest in case you can't make it). A poster and short version of the program on the backside will be printed this week. There will be live bloggers and streaming facilities (at least during the first day). With regards, Geert If you want to join the (temporary) discussion list on network theory, please visit: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/networktheory_listcultures.org http://www.networkcultures.org/networktheory/ Thursday 28 June - Public Event Location: De Zwijger Warehouse grote zaal 9:30 Doors open, coffee & tea 10:00 Welcome by Geert Lovink, Richard Rogers, Jan Simons 10:30 – 13:00 Morning session Moderator: Richard Rogers Siva Vaidhyanathan Tiziana Terranova Wendy Chun 13:00 – 14.00 LUNCH 14:00 – 15:30 Early afternoon session Moderator: Geert Lovink Alan Liu Anna Munster Martin Kearns 15:30 – 16:00 TEA/COFFEE 16:00 – 17:30 Late afternoon session Warren Sack Olia Lialina Florian Cramer Friday June 29 Locations: UvA Oude Manhuispoort (OMHP) UvA Turfdraagsterpad 9:30 – 9:45 Introduction by Geert Lovink, Richard Rogers and Jan Simons at UvA OMHP 9:45 - 11:30 Plenary Session at UvA OMHP Moderator: Richard Rogers Nosh Contractor Valdis Krebs Katy Börner 11:30 – 13:30 Parallel sessions at UvA Turfdraagsterpad/UvA OMHP A: Network Theory Moderator: Geert Lovink Tincuta Parv Marianne van den Boomen Leslie Kavanaugh Verena Kuni Mirko Tobias Schaefer B: The Link Moderator: Richard Rogers Iina Hellsten Astrid Mager Clifford Tatum & Kirsten Foot Charli Carpenter Leah A. Lievrouw & Lilly Nguyen C: Locative Media Moderator: Jan Simons Adrian MacKenzie Claire Roberge Nancy Nisbet Sophia Drakopoulou 13:30 – 14:30 LUNCH 14:30 – 16:30 Parallel sessions at UvA at Turfdraagsterpad/OMHP A: Networks and Subjectivities Bernhard Rieder Michael Goddard Konstantinos Vassiliou Franz Beitzinger, Natascha Zowislo and Jürgen Schulz Ulises Ali Mejias B: Networking and Social Life Yukari Seko Kristoffer Gansing Alice Verheij Kimberly de Vries C: Art and Info-Aesthetics Olga Kisseleva Wayne Clements Jacob Lillemose Katja Mayer Olga Goriunova Saturday June 30 Locations: UvA Oude Manhuispoort (OMHP) UvA Turfdraagsterpad 10.00 – 12.00 Parallel sessions at UvA Turfdraagsterpad/UvA OMHP A: Actor-Network Theory and Assemblage Moderator: Noortje Marres Thomas Berker Adolfo Estalella Marijke de Valck Betina Szkudlarek Michael Dieter B: Networks and Social Movements David Garcia Paolo Gerbaudo Megan Boler John Duda C: The Global and the Local Ramesh Srinivasan Jana Nikuljska Ali Mohammad Javadi Deborah Wheeler 12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH 13.00 – 15:00 Parallel sessions at UvA Turfdraagsterpad/OMHP A: Anomalous Objects and Processes Greg Elmer Jussi Parikka John Johnston Tony Sampson B: Networks and movements: an interdisciplinary conversation Moderator: Mario Diani Claudia Padovani & Elena Pavan Giorgia Nesti & Matteo Cernison Stefania Milan Francesca Forno Claudius Wageman & Manuela Caiani C: Mobility and Organization Moderator: Sebastian Olma Marga van Mechelen Jean-Paul Fourmentraux Desiree Hoving, Gertjan de Werk, Danny Soetanto, Dirk-Jan Peet & Heleen Vreugdenhil Robert van Boeschoten 15.30 - 17.30 Closing session conference at UvA OMHP Noortje Marres Matthew Fuller

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Seminars on drupal, wikis, content management?
by Chris Werry 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi, Does anyone happen to know of any seminars or courses being held over the summer (or any other time for that matter) that focus on wikis, drupal, or content management, and that have an educational orientation? I'm studying the educational uses of content management systems like wikis and drupal, but I'm also tying to gain a better understanding of how to make them work for the department I'm in. Thanks, Chris Werry San Diego State University

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Turnitin for Television?
by Sarita Yardi 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

CBS's story points to the challenge in recognizing plagiarism in multimedia environments, along the lines of the turnitin discussion in terms of written texts that we had a few weeks back. Given the popularity of the cut and paste, remix culture surrounding MySpace, GarageBand, or YouTube and the fact that these types of interactive media are being pulled into formal education curricula, both in K12 and higher education environments, it seems there is a huge need and challenge for researchers and educators to define the rules around collaboration/borrowing/sharing/stealing/reusing/remixing. There are likely different rules for audio and video than for written text, but even if they were the same, the tools for recognizing plagiarism would be very different (and are largely nonexistent right now?). "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric may vividly recall her first library card, but the network says she was unaware that her online video essay about the virtues of libraries was largely a work of plagiarism. CBS News said this week the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook" consisted mostly of passages lifted verbatim from a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow that was published in March. The producer responsible for Couric's piece was fired on Monday night, hours after the Journal contacted CBS News to complain, network spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said on Tuesday." ... "Sometimes the text is written by the producer," she added. "That's the way television generally works. It's a very collaborative medium." http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN1124528320070411 -- Human-Centered Computing College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology www.cc.gatech.edu/~yardi http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes/Members/yardi/imagineering-the-future

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consent for asynchronous qualitative email interviews with international participants
by C Cook or A McDonald 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

I am a PhD candidate and I am preparing for my ethics application to conduct interviews by email in the area of women's sexual health (ie 'sensitive' topic). From the literature there seem to be a variety of acceptable options with regard to consent, from tacit agreement inherent in the decision to participate through to a variety of procedures to obtain some form of consent documentation. As I am interviewing an international rather than local group of participants, obtaining a hard copy by post or fax is problematic in terms of reimbursement of participants and in terms of dissuading people from this extra step in participation. I would be very appreciative if anyone could update me on practices that are currently deemed acceptable. The main text I am working from in terms of ethics is Mann & Stewart 2000 'Internet communication and qualitative research: A handbook for researching online.' Kind regards, Catherine Cook

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Update on Communities and Technologies 2007 Invited Speakers
by Charles Steinfield 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Dear Colleagues, The C&T 2007 Web Site (http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007) now features updated information on the invited speakers. On each of the three conference days from June 28-June 30, a keynote talk will highlight facets of the community and technology relationship of interest to both researchers and practitioners, including research tools, managing online communities, and theoretical issues related to community technology design. Speakers, titles, abstracts and short speaker biographical statements are provided below for your convenience. Early registration, featuring a $50 discount on fees, is open now. Further details and an online registration system are available on the site. For additional information, please contact conference organizers at cct2007(a)msu.edu. With best regards, Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, Mark Ackerman, and Noshir Contract C&T 2007 Conference Organizers http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/ Communities and Technologies 2007 Invited Speakers Thursday, June 28, 5:30-6:30pm Invited Workshop/Keynote Marc Smith Microsoft Research, Community Technologies Group Illustrating Digital Traces: Visualizations of patterns generated by computer-mediated collective action systems Abstract: An explosion of collectively authored content is absorbing a growing slice of people's daily lives, from email, email lists and text messages to blogs, wikis, photos feeds, and tag collections. These systems leave behind rich archives containing patterns of interaction. In raw form, terabytes of messages or other units of interaction are nearly incomprehensible. Using data mining and visualization tools a range of insights and agendas for research are possible. In this workshop I will introduce a range of tools both from the Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group and related work that bring patterns and structured inherent in masses of artifacts of computationally mediated interactions. Students will receive a DVD with a sample dataset and a visualization browser (along with related materials). About Marc Smith: Marc Smith is a Senior Research Sociologist leading the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Marc's group focuses on computer-mediated collective action. He studies and designs enhancements for social cyberspaces. In particular he is interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online conversation and annotation environments. His goal is to identify the resources groups need in order to cooperate productively. He is co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace, with Peter Kollock, which explores identity, social order and control, community structures, dynamics, and collective action in cyberspace.He also developed software called Netscan that measures and maps social spaces in the Internet, starting with the Usenet. A related project called Project AURA allows users to associate conversations (and more) with physical objects using mobile wireless devices and web services. Marc was a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Sociology. More information is available at Marc's Microsoft Research Page. Friday, June 30, 9:20 - 10:20am Keynote Talk Rob Malda and Jeff Bates Slashdot The Life, Times and Tribulations of Slashdot Abstract: Join Rob Malda and Jeff Bates as they discuss the incubation of Slashdot and the emergence of user-driven content long before this whole Web 2.0 thing. Slashdot in the last ten years has seen the rise and fall of the .com Bubble, and the re-emergence of the Internet as well as being the forerunner of the social networking/ user generated content websites so popular today. Rob and Jeff will be talking about the history of Slashdot, its unique editorial and user systems and talking with the audience about the site is headed now.About Rob Malda, Jeff Bates and Slashdot (from http:// slashdot.org/about.shtml) "In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble 'First Post' in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September of 97 Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda changed all that. With the help of Jeff 'Hemos' Bates and others, Slashdot has stumbled forward with the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters'.""Today Slashdot is owned by OSTG, but it is still run by many of the same people as it was 'Back in the Day'. Today we serve millions of pages to hundreds of thousands of readers. But the goal is still the same." Wikipedia's entry about Slashdot notes that "Slashdot ... is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a "nerdy" slant. It is known for the Internet forum-style comments section attached to each story; Slashdot was one of the first popular websites to include a commentary section in such a prominent manner." It further states that "Though the site antedates the modern concept of the weblog, Slashdot's architecture is commonly compared to that of modern blogs. Slashdot is notable in that its commenting system is much more robust than most blogs, with threading and user moderation having been introduced before these were commonplace in modern weblog packages." Saturday, June 30, 10:20 - 11:20am Keynote Talk Judith Donath MIT Media Lab, Social Media Group Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals Abstract: Much of what we want to know about other people is not directly observable: are you a nice person? do you really like the cake I baked? will you return this loan? Instead, we rely on signals, which are observable,though not always reliable, indicators of these qualities of interest. Signaling theory is an approach for analysiing the reliability of such cues. Understanding signals is particularly important when designing for online communication, for here almost everything is a signal; I cannot, for example directly observe your height but must instead rely on the signal of a photograph or self description. In this talk I will introduce signaling theory, then show how it can be used in both the analysis of existing communication technologies and the design of new ones. The focus will be on signals of social idenitity - what type of person are you and - of growing concern online - are you, in fact, a person? About Judith Donath: Judith Donath is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Sociable Media research group. Her work focuses on the social side of computing, synthesizing knowledge from fields such as graphic design, urban studies and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for online communities and virtual identities. She is known internationally for pioneering research in social visualization, interface design, and computer mediated interaction. She created several of the early social applications for the web, including the first postcard service ("The Electric Postcard"), the first interactive juried art show ("Portraits in Cyberspace") and an early large-scale web event ("A Day in the Life of Cyberspace"). Her work has been exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston and in several New York galleries; she was the director of "Id/Entity", a collaborative exhibit of installations examining how science and technology are transforming portraiture. Her current research focuses on creating expressive visualizations of social interactions and on building experimental environments that mix real and virtual experiences. She has a book in progress about how we signal identity in both mediated and immediate situations. Professor Donath received her doctoral and master's degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, her bachelor's degree in History from Yale University, and has worked professionally as a designer and builder of educational software and experimental media.

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Position Announcement: Program Officer, Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere, SSRC
by Rik Panganiban 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Program Officer Position Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Program Social Science Research Council April 2007 The SSRC seeks a program officer to support the 'Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere' program and related work in the Public Spheres program area. The Necessary Knowledge program fosters collaboration between academic and advocacy communities on media and communications issues, ranging from media policy to media reform and media justice. It operates both domestically and internationally. The program officer will have responsibility for several aspects of the program, including administration of our two-tiered grants competition for research-advocacy collaboration. This work is supplemented by efforts to facilitate and coordinate collaboration in the field, ranging from managing working groups, to organizing conferences, to information brokering via online tools. The latter responsibilities vary widely, and are developed in dialogue with research and advocacy partners. Public representation and evaluation of the program is an important part of the program officer role. This program needs to speak in distinctive ways to academic, NGO and funder constituencies. Experience across these lines is highly desirable. Program officers also play an important part in project development at the SSRC, with responsibilities for project design, outreach, and fundraising. The ideal candidate will have substantive grounding in an area of domestic (US) media or communications policy, while also being a strong generalist in the field who can quickly learn new issues. Organizational and writing skills are crucial. Web skills, NGO experience, and international expertise are a plus. A complete or near-complete PhD in a relevant field or comparable research experience outside the academy is a requirement. This is not primarily a research position, although SSRC program staff are active researchers in their respective fields. It is a position of intellectual entrepreneurship, and offers a unique perspective on and capacity to effect change within the field. The new program officer will work with the program director and program assistant for the Necessary Knowledge program, as well as with partners engaged in other aspects of the work, such as activist outreach and grant monitoring. Program information can be found here: http://programs.ssrc.org/media . Interested applicants should send a letter describing their background and reasons for interest in this position, recent curriculum vitae, relevant writing samples and the names of at least three professional colleagues who can serve as references. Salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications. Applications may be submitted by e-mail to applications(a)ssrc.org . Please put 'Public Spheres position' in the subject line.

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