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Call for abstract - Transforming Audiences: Last call
by Jeremy Depauw 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Sorry for crossposting: -- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Call for papers -- ** ONE WEEK LEFT FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS ** TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES Identity | Creativity | Everyday Life 6–7 September 2007, University of Westminster http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). 'Audience' is now widely recognised as a concept in crisis. The traditional notion of families gathered around the television set has crumbled, to be replaced by much more complex models of dispersed and fragmented audiences, 'users', or 'participants', who may take the role of producer as well as audience, and who use traditional and new technologies in a mix of communication, consumption and creativity. At the same time, audiences survive. Today's diverse range of media forms continue to have audiences, and media theorists continue to produce important work about the connections between media and identities, everyday life, and responses to current and global affairs. Plenary speakers will include Sonia Livingstone and Joke Hermes. Confirmed speakers include Martin Barker, Göran Bolin, John Corner, Knut Lundby, Peter Lunt, and Maire Messenger Davies. Conference organisers: Caroline Dover, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill, and Roza Tsagarousianou (CAMRI, University of Westminster), with Geoffroy Patriarche, Chair, ECREA Audience and Reception Studies section, and Lynn Schofield Clark, Chair, ICA Popular Communication Division. CALL FOR PAPERS See full details at www.transformingaudiences.org.uk Deadline for proposals: 20 April 2007 -- Jeremy Depauw The Power of Knoweldge Sharing and Skills Synegism Journal de recherche: http://dev.ulb.ac.be/~jdepauw/dotclear/index.php

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17 July 2007: WIKI RESEARCH WORKSHOP
by Jeremy Hunsinger 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

17 July 2007: WIKI RESEARCH WORKSHOP CSCL2007 RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY. WORKSHOP TITLE: EMERGING ISSUES IN WIKI RESEARCH: KNOWLEDGE ADVANCEMENT AND DESIGN Aims & Objectives: Wiki technology is increasingly explored as a means of supporting collaborative learning activities. The flexibility of wikis' open architecture, the social and democratic aspects of authoring shared spaces and texts, and the potential to expand functionalities through the design of metadata holds enormous appeal for schools, universities, museums, workplaces and virtual communities. The aim of this workshop is to identify emerging issues and perspectives in CSCL research that are central to the development and design of wiki technology as a platform for knowledge advancement. Topics Include: The workshop will draw on CSCL research to explore two interrelated themes: design and knowledge advancement. The knowledge advancement theme explores the educational use of wikis inside different kinds of institutions and knowledge domains. How do the open architecture and shared authorship features of wiki software challenge the structure of classroom cultures and established concepts of accountability in collaborative knowledge building? The design theme explores the balance and design of affordances and features such as prompts and reminders to support cognitive development and social interaction in wikis. Designs that afford spaces for teachers and other types of experts will also be in focus. Activities: Participants will be invited to contribute to a 'wiki on wiki research' in advance of the full-day workshop. Topics raised in the wiki will inform the planning of workshop activities. Speakers will briefly introduce and lead a series of moderated discussions to exchange ideas and debate these central issues. Redesign of the 'wiki research wiki' as a CSCL resource is planned as a topic. Contact person: Andreas Lund, InterMedia, University of Oslo andreas.lund(a)intermedia.uio.no jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Re: [Air-l] Internet -- Source or Medium?
by William Bain 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

James Whyte wrote: "The bigger story to be told is the infinite variety of socially determined uses. In effect the advances in the technology simply expands the spectrum of uses. This spectrum seems to be only bound by very human creativity. Cyberspace is the house; the Internet is the hammer. I have found no evidence that AOIR is about the hammer." If I may respectfully quibble: Would we want an association of atomic physics to be exclusively about spectroscopy? But I suppose really it comes down to the depth of the analysis and whether the definitions come from a dictionary or an encyclopedia. Best, Will --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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Re: [Air-l] Hyperlink Network Analysis (HNA)
by John Postill 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear Alexander You may also want to have a look at Daniel Miller The Fame of Trinis: Websites as Traps Journal of Material Culture 2000 5: 5-24 Van den Bos, M. (2006), Hyperlinked Dutch-Iranian Cyberspace.International Sociology 21 (1): 83-99 Van den Bos (2006), M., Landmarks for Nowhereland: Scratching the Surface of Transnational Dutch-Iranian Hyperlink Networks, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Incorporating MAN (JRAI) . Best wishes John Dr John Postill Senior Lecturer in Media Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield S11 8UZ, UK j.postill(a)shu.ac.uk http://www.johnpostill.co.uk Coordinator, Media Anthropology Network European Association of Social Anthropologists http://www.media-anthropology.net

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Last Tag Show :: Web 2.0 performance
by Jose-Carlos Mariategui 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Multiplace 2007 | network culture festival presents __Last Tag Show__ http://www.lostpostservice.net/lts On 14th of April watch http://www.lostpostservice.net/lts for a net performance Last Tag Show exploring the facade of Web 2.0. Name it social media hack or Web 2.0 circuit bending, but above all the show is going to= refer to global performance of users building and enhancing their own web= image setting thus a social mask and yielding a performance of it's kind.= Last Tag Show will start at 8am London time, 3am NY time, 9am Prague time= , 11am Moscow time and will run for 24 hrs. For time converter tool go to: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time_converter.aspx?f=3DCZ http://www.lostpostservice.net/lts

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CFP: Surveillance and Inequality (deadline: July 15, 2007)
by Torin Monahan 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

[appologies for cross-posting] Surveillance & Society Call for Papers Special Issue on Surveillance and Inequality: Issue 5(4) (Guest editors: Torin Monahan and Jill A. Fisher) Publication date: December 2007 Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2007 Many domains of social life are being transfigured by new technologies of identification, monitoring, tracking, data analysis, and control. The lived experiences of people subjected to surveillance, however, can vary widely along lines of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and nationality. This can be seen with the enforcement of different types of mobilities for different categories of people, whether at borders, on city streets, or on the Internet. It can also be observed with the increasingly invasive monitoring and discipline of those accessing public services, such as welfare, public education, or healthcare, especially in the U.S. It can be perceived in security-screening and police-profiling practices, which continue to rely upon racial markers of risk. Or inequality can be found in the uneven treatment of individuals by insurance providers, credit agencies, service centers, or other commercial entities. Regardless of the domain, new surveillance systems appear to amplify existing social inequalities and establish rationales for increased control of marginalized groups in societies. The journal Surveillance & Society is seeking papers that examine issues of surveillance and inequality. The editors are especially interested in research papers that address the differential effects of surveillance upon marginalized and privileged social groups. Whereas surveillance studies inquiry often begins with technology as a starting point for analysis, we welcome papers that start with descriptions of power relations in any social settings and then move to illustrate the role of surveillance technologies or practices in the regulation of those settings. We further encourage contributions that theorize the relationship of the political economy to surveillance and inequality, whether by attending to globalization processes, neoliberal policies, or military operations. Finally, we are also quite interested in papers that seek to demonstrate or theorize the empowering potential of surveillance systems to correct social inequalities. Possible papers could investigate the role of surveillance in: * The regulation of gender or status relations in places of employment. * Socio-spatial segregation in cities, suburbs, exurbs, or rural communities. * The restructuring or elimination of public programs and spaces (or citizen rights) by neoliberal policies which could include a focus on schools, welfare, healthcare, voting, etc. * Racial or ethnic profiling by police, security personnel, or immigration agents. * The enforcement of differential mobilities (along with inquiry into the relationship of mobilities to the life chances and well-being of travelers). * The automatic prioritizing of services, rights, and mobilities in software-sorted service domains. * The control of womens bodies, especially in regard to reproduction. * Monitoring of children or the elderly or the monitoring of those charged with taking care of them. * The militarization of borders and the corresponding dangers faced by undocumented immigrants, refugees, and others. Submissions should be sent electronically to Emily Smith, at smithea(a)post.queensu.ca by 15 July 2007 with a publication date of December 2007. We welcome full academic papers, opinion pieces, review pieces, poetry, artistic, and audio-visual submissions. Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g., Author, 2007). Please see: www.surveillance-and-society.org/call.htm for further submission guidelines. Torin Monahan Assistant Professor Arizona State University School of Justice & Social Inquiry torin.monahan(a)asu.edu | www.torinmonahan.com

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social network analysis
by Barry Wellman 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Someone asked about Social Network Analysis, but gave a non-standard reference as a source. THE standard reference is Stanley Wasserman & Kathryn Faust, _Social Network Analysis (Cambridge U Press). For a non-technical intro, see my "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to ..." It's out of print (in Wellman & Berkowitz, _Social Structures: A Network Approach_), but scanned into my website. There's also a growing literature on web networks (so much more convenient when you don't have to deal with real people), with key works by Duncan Watts, Lada Adamic, Bernardo Huberman, Jon Kleinberg. I'll let the Actor-Network people speak for themselves. 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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FW: Re: consent for asynchronous qualitative email
by C Cook or A McDonald 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

_____ From: C Cook or A McDonald [mailto:bodhi@nznet.gen.nz] Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:44 To: 'air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org' Subject: Re: [Air-l] consent for asynchronous qualitative email Thank you for your reply and suggestions, Kristin. I anticipate that I will be able to obtain ethics approval as a number of other nurse researchers internationally have used in-depth email interviews for 'sensitive' topics, using a variety of mechanisms to protect participants' confidentiality to a level considered adequate to enable ease of participation and reasonable security. The use of g-mail, hotmail and encryption all allow for anonymising participants. It is specifically the consent procedures that are currently a focus for me. Kind regards, Catherine Cook PhD candidate Message: 5 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:03:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kristin R. Wolfe" <wolfek857(a)duq.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] consent for asynchronous qualitative email interviews withinternational participants I believe that an email interview may not get past the ethics review because the name of the participant would be tied to the email. > 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. >

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CFP: Persistent Conversation minitrack at HICSS (last call for abstracts)
by Tom Erickson 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Persistent Conversation Minitrack Digital Media and Content Track at HICSS 41 January 7-10, 2008 Hilton Waikoloa Village, the Big Island, Hawai'i See http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html for an online version and further information. IMPORTANT DATES - Mon, April 16, 2007: Abstract submission* - Tue, May 1, 2007: Feedback on abstracts - Fri, June 15, 2007: Paper submission [instructions on the HICSS site] - Wed, August 15, 2007: Accept/Conditional Accept/Reject notice --------------- *If you miss the abstract deadline but are interested in participating, please contact the organizers. ABOUT THE MINITRACK This interdisciplinary minitrack and workshop brings designers and researchers together to explore persistent conversation, the transposition of ordinarily ephemeral conversation into the potentially persistent digital medium. Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, text and voice chat, email, blogs, web boards, MOOs, graphical and 3D virtual environments, gaming systems, video sharing sites, document annotation systems, mobile phone texting, etc. Such communication is persistent in that it leaves a digital trace, and the trace in turn affords new uses. It permits conversations to be saved, visualized, browsed, searched, replayed, and restructured. Persistence also means that conversations need not be synchronous: they can be asynchronous (stretching out over hours or days) or supersynchronous (with multiple parties 'talking' at the same time). Finally, the creation of persistent and potentially permanent records from what was once an ephemeral process raises a variety of social and ethical issues. ABOUT PAPER TOPICS We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following two general areas: * Understanding Practice. The burgeoning popularity of the internet (and intranets) provides an opportunity to study and characterize new forms of conversational practice. Questions of interest range from how various features of conversations (e.g., turn-taking, topic organization, expression of paralinguistic information) have adapted in response to the digital medium, to new roles played by persistent conversation in domains such as education, business, and entertainment. * Design. Digital systems do not currently support conversation well: it is difficult to converse with grace, clarity, depth and coherence over networks. But this need not remain the case. Toward this end, we welcome analyses of existing systems as well as designs for new systems which better support conversation. Also of interest are inquiries into how participants design their own conversations within the digital medium -- that is, how they make use of system features to create, structure, and regulate their discourse. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: - Turn-taking, threading and other structural features of CMC - The dynamics of large scale conversation systems (e.g. blog networks) - Methods for summarizing or visualizing conversation archives - Studies of virtual communities or other sites of digital conversation - The roles of mediated conversation in knowledge management - Studies of the use of instant messaging in large organizations - Novel designs for computer-mediated conversation systems - Analyses of or designs for distance learning systems NEXT STEPS Submit a 250 to 500 word abstract of your proposed paper via email to the chairs: Tom Erickson (snowfall at acm dot org), Susan Herring (herring at indiana dot edu) by the deadline noted above. We will send you feedback on the suitability of your abstract by the deadline noted above. FOR MORE INFORMATION - About the minitrack, see http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html or contact: Thomas Erickson (snowfall at acm.org) and Susan Herring (herring at indiana.edu) - About previous years' papers (including pdf's) and participants, see: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC_History.html - About the HICSS conference, see: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ ------------------------------ Tom Erickson and Susan Herring Chairs, Persistent Conversation minitrack and workshop, HICSS 41

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Re: [Air-l] Internet -- Source or Medium?
by William Bain 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Richard Parent wrote "So, does this internet/web distinction still hold, or have we moved onto some new paradigm?" On that particular point, it seems to be again a question of part/whole and to depend on which or how many protocols are involved. But it makes me wonder about web versus Web. And in passing maybe I could note that I've used as subject line the abbreviated form for this thread, slightly changed from the original one. A rose, possibly, by any other name........ Best, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

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