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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update
by Richard Smith 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Dear fellow AIR members, By now most of you will have received your acceptance (or not!) notices for your paper/presentation at AIR8.0 in Vancouver. Mia Consalvo, the program chair, and the many reviewers who worked with her deserve a huge round of applause (digital, for now) for their heroic efforts in getting the reviews done and back to you. I hope it worked out for the best for you. With a review in hand, no doubt you are toiling night and day on your final paper. While you are doing that, however, you might have some questions about the conference itself. Where will I stay? What will I wear? Will there be decent wireless available? Who are the keynote speakers? What else can I do while I am in Vancouver? Those questions (and many more, I am sure), are what I am here to answer for you. My name is Richard Smith, and I am the Conference Chair, and your host for the AoIR 8.0 "Let's Play!" conference to be held in Vancouver this October. I will write to you from time to time, and maintain a set of wiki pages, to keep you apprised of our plans, the arrangements, and anything else you want to know. I look forward to meeting all of you, and hope this is the best conference ever. I won't clutter up your email box with too many of these newsletters, but let me start with a few short bits of news: Wireless * We will have a site-wide, industrial strength wireless network available for all delegates with a laptop or other 802.11b compatible device. We also have three areas for you to access a workstation, for those of you who don't want to carry around a computer. * The hotels and cafe's in the vicinity of the conference offer wireless internet and most of them have it for free. Hotels * We are using a conference centre that is part of my university<http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/mecs/index.htm>, so we are not obliged to "encourage" you to stay in any particular hotel. Feel free to use your favorite internet room booking site to get your accommodation. * There is quite a nice hotel right across the street and many more in the immediate neighbourhood, ranging in price from $75/night to ... well, the sky is the limit when it comes to hotels, but you can find something nice for $150. (All prices in Canadian dollars, currently trading for about .87 US. * I will post - once I have the wiki up and running - a more detailed list of hotels in the immediate area, along with prices and recommendations. Personally, if I have to stay downtown for the night I stay at the "Ramada Limited" on Pender Street. See their site at http://www.ramadalimited.org/ Dress/Clothes/Weather * Vancouver is "west coast" and dress is pretty casual here. But we are also in the Pacific Northwest and evenings will be cool, so bring a sweater or light jacket. Although October isn't officially the rainy season, it certainly *does* rain here, so bring some shoes that aren't going to leave you with wet feet all day. Here are some stats on the weather here: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/stats/pages/C02096.htm?CABC0308 Tourism/Activities * I know you will be spending all your time with your head down at the conference and won't have time for any frivolities, but if you DO want to do a little dancing (crazy AIR folk that you are), we can point you to some clubs. Vancouver is one of those cities with a "downtown renaissance" driven largely through a condo building boom over the last decade. As a result, the downtown is full of people in the evenings, and there are LOTS of things to do. * We also live right next to the ocean, the mountains, the wilderness... if you want to know more about things like trips to Whistler (probably no skiing in October, I'm afraid), wait for my wiki pages with travel ideas. Keynote speakers * I am thrilled to tell you that both Henry Jenkins<http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/>and Cory Ondrejka <http://lindenlab.com/management#ondrejka> have accepted our invitations to speak. In addition, I am just in the final negotiations with a third, wonderful keynote speaker I am sure you will enjoy. This will be an AIR to remember. Pre-conference workshops * Several people have stepped forward to organize preconference workshops. I won't steal their thunder here, but you can count on a doctoral workshop as in years past and if you're a student you will be pleased to know that the entire workshop is being sponsored by Microsoft Research<http://research.microsoft.com/>(thanks Marc Smith! and thanks to Nancy Baym who organized that sponsorship!), meaning that you will not go hungry or suffer from a lack of coffee during that event. * Other preconference workshops include one focused on internet history, one focused on the use of second life in teaching and learning, and one on the impact of the internet on organizations. Details on these, as well as "fun" tours and such will come in future notes like this one. I hope this whets your appetite for information about Vancouver. This being the era of intelligent search engines, and wikipedia, I don't suppose I have to do much more than invite you. You can do the rest. But if you run into trouble, or you are debating between two hotels, or some other question that isn't readily visible online (and we WILL get that wiki going soon), give me a shout. Reply to this email: smith(a)sfu.ca (yes, I really did get the user ID of "smith"), and I will try to help you. Warmest regards, ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Conference Chair, Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 8.0: Vancouver Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ <http://www.sfu.ca/%7Esmith/> New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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Blog as a collective action tool
by Homero Gil de Zuniga 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

That blogs are rapidly changing the landscape of information is not new. How they do it is very interesting though. Here you have the domino effect in its purest essence. Blogs conspicuously provide an outstanding setting to promote collective action and mobilization (as a paper we recently submitted to AEJMC attest). In this particular case it does not refer to politics. It just exemplifies collective action to change the course of things. Nevertheless, it is a living proof of the potential of blogs as a tool. Hazruido.com (under the auspicious of Organe cell phone company in Spain) launched a viral contest to position a "the made up word" HABITAQUO into the top ten in Technorati (http://technorati.com <http://technorati.com/> ) . The word is still number one! I bet that now it is not only the inclusion of the word in many blogs but also the "curiosity circle" produced by people who search the word once they see it is number one. Here is some info in English http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2007/04/why_is_habitaquo_technoratis_m ost_searched_tag.asp http://www.brandtarot.com/blog/?p=711 Here is the info in Spanish for those of you who are able to read it. Contest page : http://www.hazruido.com/ Google news: http://google.dirson.com/post/3292-palabra-concurso-posicionamiento-2007/ Cheers, HGZ

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Re: [Air-l] Ph.D. student is looking for a good home for his Thesis
by Marj Kibby 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

If a student transfers their Doctoral program to my institution, in Australia, the degree cannot be awarded within two years. All Australian universities would require that a significant amount of the program be undertaken with them, before allowing the thesis to be submitted for examination. Most have supervisory teams to minimise the chance of irresolvable conflict. All I know of would bend over backwards to find solutions to a problem rather than lose a PhD student. RHD completions = money. Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Lisa Lynch <l.lynch(a)mindspring.com> 04/06/07 11:24 AM >>> Semantics aside, doesn't this request strike anyone as a bit odd? I'm genuinely perplexed: I can't imagine a doctoral program taking on a late-stage student on these terms. Is there something I don't understand about Australian universities? _______________________________________________

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Second Life Education/Researchers Meetup at AERA 4/10 5pm - UPDATE
by Sarah Robbins 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Let's meet at 5pm Tuesday at my FAVE pizza place: Giordano's Deepdish Pizza, 135 E Lake St, Chicago, IL (312) 616-1200 If you get lost, my cell: (317)985-7200 This is down Michigan Ave. about a block - south of the Hyatt Regency -- Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins http://www.intellagirl.com http://secondlife.intellagirl.com Yahoo: Intellagirl Skype: Intellagirl SecondLife: Intellagirl Tully

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Second Life Education/Researchers Meetup at AERA 4/10 5pm
by Sarah Robbins 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Sorry for the cross postings What: Second Life Educators/Researchers (and other curious folks) Meetup Where: AERA, Chicago (location to be announced. Some common, easy to find location in the conference center) When: 5 pm Tuesday April 10 Why: Sharing ideas, making connections, and drinking a beer Hope to see many of you there! -- Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins http://www.intellagirl.com http://secondlife.intellagirl.com Yahoo: Intellagirl Skype: Intellagirl SecondLife: Intellagirl Tully

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Re: [Air-l] Origin of the term "Internet" ? - ontology revisited
by William Bain 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Robert Cannon wrote: "Where does the Internet end and everything else begin? Part of how the Internet is defined depends on why you ask. I am a communications attorney. As such, it is important to know whether one is on the Internet, a mobile telephone network, or digital television transmission medium. The laws with regard to each is entirely different." Wouldn't this boil down to the fact that all of the things you mention are wide-area networks with the "widest" being *the* ?nternet? I spose that would make the "narrower" ones "?nternet-connectable networks." Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.

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Re: [Air-l] HTML tutorial wanted
by Paul DiPerna 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Darren, HTML Code Tutorial has been helpful to me in the past. http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ The site has a very good forum and active online community. Good luck, Paul -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-l] HTML tutorial wanted From: darren j <darrenj(a)cyllene.uwa.edu.au> Date: Thu, April 05, 2007 1:43 am To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Dear AIR I am looking for a simple, quick, user friendly HTML tutorial for my first year students, who have no background experience. Any suggestions? Thanking you Darren Darren Jorgensen Internet Studies Curtin University Western Australia _______________________________________________ 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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Dave Sirfry's state of the live web report
by Jeremy Hunsinger 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html obviously this will be technorati.com oriented, but it has some interesting insights and data that some researchers might find useful to know and critique. 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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is a term paper dead?
by Maciej Kos 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hello, I came across this article: "Cut-and-Paste Is a Skill, Too" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR200703230… by Jason Johnson, former technology director at Washington's Lowell School, is an information technology consultant at Ingenium Corp. "Now I watch my former teaching colleagues grade papers not simply by marking a dangling participle here or an incomplete thought there, but by Googling phrases from their students' work, searching for the suspected source of yet another cut-and-paste job. I wonder if that's really what teachers should be doing. As kids today plagiarize more and more from the Internet, the old-fashioned term paper -- composed by sweating students on a typewriter as they sat elbow-deep in reference books -- has no useful heir in the digital age. It's time for schools and educators to recognize the truth: The term paper is dead." As a teacher, I have the same problem. On the other hand, the Internet has improved the quality of my lectures - I know that my every word is being googled by students during the class. This does not only make me prepare better but also makes students' questions more interesting. How do you deal with plagiarism? Do you allow your students to be online during classes? Any thought on how this all will change in the next 10-20 years? Regards, Maciej

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AMIS Volume on E-Government (2nd Call for Chapters/Call for Reviewers)
by Jochen Scholl 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Call for Volume Chapters and Reviewers (Submission Deadline September 30, 2007) Electronic Government: Information, Technology, and Transformation (Volume Title) To appear as a volume within the Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS) series published by ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY. AMIS is a series of research monographs devoted to the principal aspects of information systems with Dr. Vladimir Zwass as the series editor. AMIS is intended to become a lasting record of both the knowledge about organizational information systems and of research methods for creating new knowledge. For more information about the AMIS monograph series, please visit http://www.mesharpe.com/amis.htm. As the volume editor, I would also like to invite you to join the reviewer team, which will meet the highest standards of academic peer reviewing. Please send contact information and a short statement of interest regarding either one or both (submission and reviewer team membership) to me (jscholl(a)u.washington.edu) Thank you! For further details please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/CfP_AMIS_e_Gov.html Since EG is a relatively new domain of study, the first contribution of this volume is to serve as a springboard and a steward for developing and demonstrating principles, accepted standards, and exemplars of disciplinary (e.g., IS), multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and perhaps transdisciplinary EG. The second envisioned contribution of this volume would aim at sharpening and accentuating the various topical orientations within EG through review and representation of unique and exemplary research contributions. The third (and implicit) contribution of this volume would lie in furthering the development of a worldwide academic scholarship in EG. For this volume theoretical, empirical, quantitative, or qualitative research contributions are sought. Inquiries are welcome regarding any submission- or review-related question. Please send your inquiries and submissions electronically to Dr. Hans J Scholl AMIS EG Volume Editor University of Washington jscholl(a)u.washington.edu The deadline for submitting a manuscript to the AMIS volume on EG is September 30, 2007. However, we encourage you to submit your manuscript earlier and will send it out for review immediately upon receipt. Again, please find further details under http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/CfP_AMIS_e_Gov.html

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