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naturally occurring conflicts?
by Jonna Ahti 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hi all, I'm writing my phD thesis on chat-room conflicts and I would be very pleased if you could guide me to some articles written about this subject. I'm a linguist and I will use conversation analysis and discourse analysis but I'm also interested in socio linguistic and socio psychological approach to the subject. I'm familiar with all classic books and articles but it has been hard to find any good texts on social+verbal conflicts on the net. Does someone know for example this: "Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace"? I would also like to point out that my aim is to study naturally occurring verbal conflicts/disputes in stead of flaming (which, of course, will be discussed in my work). Thank you in advance! Jonna Ahti -- Ms. Jonna Ahti PhD student NORDICA - Department of Scandinavian Languages and Scandinavian Literature P.O.Box 24 00014 University of Helsinki Finland tel. +358-40-5625497 jonna.ahti(a)helsinki.fi

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naturally occuring Wiki conflicts
by Barry Wellman 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

For the heck of it, I've been watching 30-50 Wikipedia sites for the past 6 months. There are many conflicts on there, most of which get resolved. To find them, pick conflict-filled entries. Here are some I've noticed: Iran, Conrad Black, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Stephane Dion, Shootings at Kent State, social network (where people keep wanting to sell their software); Anna Nicole Smith. Yup, I have eclectic tastes, plus to some extent I've been prone to watching sites where the action is. (This is a totally convenience sample.) I'm not mounting any project on this yet, but all the other studies of Wikip (in my limited experience) that I know about are macro-statistical ones. It's pretty easy to see patterns of cooperation and conflict on a micro level -- go for it. 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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Fwd: [SLED] Call for Participation in a free online conference with April 7 proposal deadline
by Jeremy Hunsinger 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: Vance Stevens <vstevens(a)emirates.net.ae> > Date: March 28, 2007 2:49:55 AM EDT > To: educators(a)lists.secondlife.com > Subject: [SLED] Call for Participation in a free online conference > with April 7 proposal deadline > Reply-To: SL Educators <educators(a)lists.secondlife.com> > > Hello all, > > The conference indicated here is a free online one that would be > amenable to accepting proposals pertaining to Second Life. If > interested, read on ... > > Call for Participation for WiaOC 2007 > CONNECT: a free synchronous and asynchronous online conference for > teachers and education professionals > May 18-20, 2007 > > Webheads in Action <http://webheads.info>, a world-wide cross- > cultural online community of several hundred ESL/EFL educators and > other professionals, invites your participation in CONNECT: > Conversations on Networking, Education, Communities, and > Technology, a unique conference to be held entirely online May > 18-20, 2007. > > The conference is called a convergence because it is intended to be > a fair or festival in which many communities of colleagues converge > to celebrate with us by presenting their work in a wide variety of > formats. Participation is free and open to all who are interested. > Keynote speakers include Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Etienne > Wenger, Barbara Ganley, Teemu Leinonen, and Leigh Blackall. More > information is available at <http://wiaoc.org> or <http:// > www.wiaoc.org>. > > WiAOC 2007 follows on the success of our first completely free > online global convergence <http://2005.wiaoc.org> > > Proposals for presentations at WiAOC 2007 will be accepted through > April 7, 2007. > > Proposals are invited for synchronous events, asynchronous events, > or combinations of the two. Session topics can be pedagogical or > technical, and might include examples of practical work with > students, training sessions, reports of research or research in > progress, demonstrations of new media, or descriptions or > explorations of how interaction takes place over the Internet-e.g., > how online communities form as a result of computer-mediated > communication. > > Synchronous events (including, but not limited to presentations, > demonstrations, panel / roundtable discussions, chats and > conversations) can be held at any of our partners' voice-enabled > presentation portals, or one of your own choosing. Training and > assistance will be available for presenters wishing to use our > partners' venues. > > Asynchronous events might include bulletin board discussions, > online poster sessions, integration with content management > systems, or other formats. > > To create a proposal, first register at the convergence proposal > site http://wiaoc.prof2000.pt/. > > Remember your ID and password there, because once you have > registered, you may, until the deadline, revisit the site as often > as you like to edit or add to your proposal, or create new ones. > > Tagged artifacts will be aggregated during and around the time of > this conference. Please tag any artifacts you create wiaoc2007. > > You may direct questions to WiAOC Coordinator Vance Stevens at > vstevens(a)emirates.net.ae > > We look forward to interacting with you at the WiAOC 2007: CONNECT > free online convergence > > Please feel free to distribute this notice to your colleagues as > you see fit > > The WiAOC 2007 Organization Team > > > > 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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reminder: online pornography collection
by Attwood, Fiona 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Reminder: Call for Papers: Collection on Online Pornography Proposals are sought for a new edited collection on online pornography. Although online pornography attracts a great deal of public attention and is frequently the focus of moral, political and legal debate, comparatively little attention has been paid to it by academics. This is a glaring knowledge gap, particularly given the central role of pornography in the development of new technologies and the rapid expansion and development of online pornography. This collection responds to the pressing need for academic work in this area. Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following topics and areas: Regulation, censorship and governance The economics of online porn Reviewing porn: industry publications, experts, communities, fans Porn audiences Porn and file sharing Commercial porn sites Celebrity sex tapes Realcore amateur sex online Alternative porn and subcultures Smart smut online magazines and erotica Pornstars online Sex art, Slash fiction, Retro porn Sexblogs Porn and shock sites Proposals of 200-250 words, accompanied by a biographical note of 100 words, should be sent to Feona Attwood at f.attwood(a)shu.ac.uk by March 30 2007.

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[Fwd: [km4dev-l] Web2ForDev 2007 Conference ]
by M.J. Menou 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Apologies for cross posting -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [km4dev-l] Web2ForDev 2007 Conference >> http://www.web2fordev.net/ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:29:05 +0100 De: Servin, Geraud (FAOLOBR) <Geraud.Servin(a)fao.org> Répondre à: KM for Development <km4dev-l(a)dgroups.org> Pour: KM for Development <km4dev-l(a)dgroups.org> *Web2ForDev: Participatory Web for Development* *What*: Web2ForDev 2007 is the first conference devoted to exploring the ways in which international development stakeholders in agriculture, rural development, and natural resource management can take advantage of the technical and organizational opportunities provided by the often-called Web 2.0 methods and approaches. *Where*: Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy *When*: 24-27 September 2007 For more information please take a look at ___http://www.web2fordev.net/_ _________________________________________ Eng. Géraud SERVIN knowledge management . bioenergy Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) +32 2 204 0747 . geraud.servin(a)fao.org

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How did Reid Cornwell get my e-mail address?
by Pamela Rosengren 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hi all, I just got an unsolicited e-mail from Dr Reid Cornwell. I thought it unusual that AoIR would not post an announcement for him, so I did a quick web search and found some background info on http:// alex.halavais.net/dr-w-reid-cornwell/ so there's no need to fill me in on who he is and what he does. I'm not pointing any fingers, but I think AoIR needs to know that Reid Cornwell is doing this. I hope he hasn't obtained our addresses improperly. Maybe he is just posting to individuals who have posted to the list. Best regards, Pamela Rosengren Graduate Student, Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology

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CFP: IRIE Special Issue on Ubiquitous Computing
by David J. Phillips 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Call for Papers IRIE: International Review of Information Ethics Issue No. 008; Vol. 8; December 2007 Special Issue: Ethical Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous Computing (an idea introduced by Mark Weiser, and often bracketed with slight modifications under the concepts of Pervasive Computing or Ambient Intelligence) imagines, in the extreme case, the entire mesosphere saturated by ICT. In this fantasy, ICT will accompany all aspects of our life. Our everyday world will be made intelligent, and all our actions, at all times and everywhere, will undergo some kind of ICT support. We will be appropriately guided, monitored, and provided with our needs and desires. More prosaically, Ubiquitous Computing systems generally consist of interlinked capacities for memory and data storage, for perception and environmental sensing, and for the interpretation of contexts and situations. These activities might be carried out using various kinds of technology. And indeed, a whole host of technical research fields are working toward this goal, from mechatronics to materials science, from network engineering to computing and AI research. And of course, ubiquity or omnipresence will never be total. For technical, economic, and other reasons, there will only be pockets where Ubiquitous Computing systems come into effect. Nevertheless, the present research scenarios entail applications which will have more or less impact on every domain of life, from leisure, jobs, and health care to domestic policing and war. Any ethical discussion of Ubiquitous Computing is inherently problematic because we are dealing with emergent technology. We must take into account its potential, without knowing how far this potential can be realised in detail, and without knowing the fields in which pervasive ICT will find acceptance. Nevertheless, any research program that may so radically infiltrate our daily life requires some kind of ethical framework, to complement and counterbalance economic and militaristic motivations, and to provide direction with respect both to traditional values and to our hopes for the future. The case of Ubiquitous Computing brings into sharper focus two key problems in theoretical ethics that have already attained a special position in applied media ethics: on the one hand, determining the reality which will be influenced with our acting, and on the other hand, determining the subject to whom these actions will be attributed and who will intervene in reality. In certain sense we may say that Ubiquitous Computing diminishes the confrontational character of reality. Ubiquitous Computing environments will necessarily perceive and act upon subjects as ideal types, or stereotypes. Situations may be reduced to typical moments. Ambivalence and ambiguity may be lost. Moreover, the more invisible, pervasive, and transparent these systems become, the more they disappear and are taken for granted, the harder they will be to confront. If the mechanisms by which these systems produce and ascribe identities, situations, and contexts are unavailable for engagement by the subjects of the system, then those subjects may lose the skills and resources necessary to negotiate the construction of these identities, situations, and contexts. It may simply become necessary to accept the system’s reification of the typical. The experience of the world and the self will therefore undergo a transformation in intelligent environments. This gives rise to countless ethical issues whose analysis must go hand in hand with the development of such systems. The key questions just posed must be supplemented by additional specific problems, concerning, for instance, the anonymous generation of cognition, possible changes in the ethos of cognition, privacy and the formation of trust in intelligent worlds, and finally, the context sensitivity of the system and the related intrusion in our sphere of understanding. The 7th issue of IRIE will tackle the ethical challenge of ubiquitous systems and therefore furnish a contribution to the establishment of an ethics of Ubiquitous Computing. This ethics is anchored in the field of media ethics, yet it may call into question the fundamental issues in this field, insofar as the entire mesosphere appears as disposed to such media. Thus, the boundaries between media and the what they mediate may be radically questioned. Deadlines Deadline for submission abstracts: June 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance to authors: August 15, 2007 Deadline for submission of full articles: November 15, 2007 Publication: December, 2007 Possible Topics The production of reality (as concrete contents) and the production of Wirklichkeit (as opposed to the individual and an embedding of reality) - Medialization of the physical world - Interpretation of reality and environments using context sensitive and adaptive systems - Modelling of acting and behaviour through context sensitive and adaptive systems Privacy, Surveillance, Trust - Privacy in intelligent interactive environments - Surveillance, data protection and personal freedom - Ubiquitous systems and trust Manufacturing of the Acting Subject - Identity formation in intelligent environments - The Other in intelligent environments - Self-perception in intelligent environments Cognition in intelligent environments - Generating cognition in intelligent environments - Anonymous generation of cognition and cognitive acquisition - Transformation of the cognitive ethos Problems of Ubiquitous Computing in special fields of application - Health Care - Economy and work - Living in a smart home (and other fields …) Rules of the game Potential authors must provide an extended abstract (max. 1500 words) by 31/05/2007. The abstract can be written in the mother tongue of the author though an English translation of this abstract must be included if the chosen language is not English. IRIE will publish articles in English, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish. The author(s) of contributions in French, Portuguese, or Spanish must nominate at least two potential peer reviewers. The abstracts will be selected by the guest editors. The authors will be informed of acceptance or rejection by 15/08/2007. Deadline for the final article (3.000 words or 20.000 characters including blanks) is 15/11/2007. All submissions will be subject of a peer review. Therefore the acceptance of an extended abstract does not imply the publication of the final text unless the article passed the peer review. For more information about the journal see: http://www.i-r-i-e.net Contact PD Dr. habil. Klaus Wiegerling (Universität Stuttgart, D), Prof. Ph. D. David Phillips (University of Toronto) manage the special issue as guest editors. Please send the extended abstracts by e-mail to both of them: Prof. Dr. David Phillips, davidj.phillips(a)utoronto.ca PD. Dr. habil. Klaus Wiegerling, wiegerlingklaus(a)aol.com -- David J. Phillips Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto 140 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6 CANADA (+1) 416-978-7098 (voice) / 416-971-1399 (fax)

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Leonardo Electronic Almanac - CFP: Dispersive Anatomies Special
by Charles Baldwin 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

- Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely - ** *Dispersive Anatomies* http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/calls.asp#dispersive ** *Guest Editors:* Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim and Mez Breeze leadispersive(a)astn.net ** *Editorial Guidelines:* http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp *Discussion Group: *leadispersive-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com <leadispersive-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> *Deadline: *31 May 2007 *Call for papers - LEA Dispersive Anatomies* *------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that address dispersion - dispersion of bodies, objects, landscapes, networks, virtual and real worlds. A fundamental shift in the way we view the world is underway: the abandonment of discrete objects, and objecthood itself. The world is now plural, and the distinction between real and virtual is becoming increasingly blurred, with troubling consequences within the geopolitical register. This shift is related to a cultural change that emphasizes digital deconstruction over analog construction: a photograph for example can be accessed and transformed, pixel by pixel, cities can be taken apart by gerrymandering or eminent domain, and our social networks are replete with names and images that problematize friendship, sexuality, and culture itself. One issue that emerges here: Are we networking or are we networked? Are we networks ourselves? LEA is interested in texts and works that deal with this fundamental shift in new and illuminating ways. Specifically, anything from essays through multimedia through networks themselves may be considered. We're particularly interested in submissions that deal with the incoherency of the world, and how to address it. *Key topics of interest --------------------------------- *Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): - Networked warfare in real and virtual worlds. - The wounded/altered body in real and virtual worlds. - Transgressive sexualities across borders, sexualities among body-parts, dismemberments and groups, both real and virtual. - Critical texts on the transformation of classical narrative - from its emphasis on an omniscient narrator and coherent plots/characters, to literatures of incoherency, dispersed narrations, and the jump-cut exigencies of everyday life. - Deleuze/Guattari, TAZ, and other phenomena at the border of networking. - Internet visions and their abandonment or fulfillment. - The haunting of the world by ghosts, virtual beings, dreams and nightmares that never resolve. - The geopolitical collapse of geopolitics. - Military empires as scattershot entrepreneurial corporations. Dispersion has two vectors: the breakup or breakdown of coherent objects; and the subsequent attempt to corral, curtail, or recuperate from this breakdown. How do we deal with networks that are constantly coalescing and disappearing? Where are we in the midst of this? In an era of pre-emptive culture, is guerilla warfare to be accompanied by guerilla culture as the order of the day? *Want to be kept informed?* *------------------------------------------* For the latest news, updates and discussions, join the LEA Dispersive Anatomies Mailing List. Email: leadispersive-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com <leadispersive-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com+> ** *Publishing Opportunities ---------------------------------------* ** As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish: - Critical Essays - Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery - Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key texts/references in Dispersive Anatomies) - Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course programmes in this area to contact us) LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / students / practitioners / theorists to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly encourage authors outside North America and Europe to submit essays / artists statements. Proposals should include: - A brief description of proposed text (200-300 words) - A brief author biography - Any related URLs - Contact details In the subject heading of the email message, please use *Name of Artist/Project Title: LEA Dispersive Anatomies Special - Date Submitted.* Please cut and paste all text into body of email (without attachments). Editorial Guidelines: http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2007 Please send proposals or queries to: Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim, Mez Breeze leadispersive(a)astn.net and Nisar Keshvani LEA Editor-in-Chief lea(a)mitpress.mit.edu

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New book - Online Matchmaking
by David Brake 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Most of us probably fought early on against the notion that Internet use is all about sex. Well much of the time it isn't but sometimes it is about sex - or love - and considering the amount of public interest in this use of the Internet this aspect is surprisingly under-studied (qualitatively at least). So here's a timely collection of essays potentially useful for your own research, teaching or just coming up with interesting anecdotes at cocktail parties... http://www.palgrave.com/newsearch/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403998493 [blurb follows] Online Matchmaking examines the joys, fears, and disappointments of hooking up with people in cyberspace. Unlike most other books that exist in this field, this collection includes studies by experts from a variety of disciplines, including Communications, Cultural studies, English, Health, Journalism, Psychology, Rhetoric, and Sociology. Online Matchmaking could be used as a primary or secondary resource for any subject that focuses on cyber-relationships. Contents: Introduction; M.T.Whitty PART 1: DEFINING ONLINE MATCHMAKING From the BBS to the Web: Tracing the Spaces of Online Romance; D.N.DeVoss Cyborgasms: Ten Years On and Not Enough Learned; R.Hamman Scripting the Rules for Mars and Venus: Advice Literature and Online Dating; S.Paasonen PART 2: PRESENTATION OF SELF TO ATTRACT LOVERS The Art of Selling One's 'Self' on an Online Dating Site: The BAR Approach; M.T.Whitty Examining Personal Ads and Job Ads; A.Horning How Do I Love Thee and Thee and Thee: Self-presentation, Deception, and Multiple Relationships Online; J.M.Albright PART 3: ONLINE DATING PROGRESSION TO FACE-TO-FACE: SUCCESS OR FAILURE? Expressing Emotion in Text: Email Communication of Online Couples; A.J.Baker A Progressive Affair: Online Dating to Real World Mating; K.Y.A.McKenna PART 4: DARKER SIDES OF ONLINE DATING Cyber-Stalking as (Mis)Matchmaking; B.H.Spitzberg & W.R.Cupach Cyber-Victimization and Online Dating; R.A.Jerin & B.Dolinsky PART 5: ONLINE DATING SUB-GROUPS Sexual Orientation Moderates Online Sexual Activities; R.M.Mathy Whips and Chains? Fact or Fiction?: Content Analysis of Sadomasochism in Internet Personal Advertisements; D.K.Wysocki & J.Thalken Conclusion: M.T.Whitty --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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UK Internet Research Doctoral Forum: Aberystwyth in April
by m.thelwall＠blueyonder.co.uk 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Research training workshops for doctoral students Qualitative and quantitative approaches in Internet Research 19th -20th April 2007, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK The Department of Information Studies at Aberystwyth is running the third in a series of training workshops and seminars aimed at research students involved in researching Internet use, or using the Internet as a tool in their research. In this event we hope to combine insights from different areas of research into the Internet and new technologies, with contributions from leading researchers who use various methodologies to investigate David K. Allen: Researching mobile communications technologies Dr David K. Allen is senior lecturer at Leeds University Business School and Director of the AIMTech research group, which carries out research for the public, private and educational sectors on mobile information systems, information behaviour and cultural and organisational change. He will discuss the range of research that the group is involved with, focussing on their work on mobile communications, as well as reflecting on the links between research and practice. Mike Thelwall: Quantitative methods for Internet Research Professor Mike Thelwall is based at the University of Wolverhampton, and is a leading researcher in web bibliometrics and link analysis (Webometrics). He has published extensively in these areas. He will introduce students to research techniques for investigating Internet use, including link analysis and blog analysis. Attendees will be shown how to take advantage of existing online data sources and will also be introduced to new specialist research software. Prof. Thelwall previously led a similar workshop at UWA in April 2006. Attendance This is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) -funded workshop series which aims to acquaint doctoral students with some of the many ways that the Internet can be used both as a research tool and as a subject of research itself. PhD students at ANY stage of their research are invited to attend the intention is to provide training, facilitate discussion and allow research students from the various Information Studies and Information Systems departments in the UK to meet and forge links in an informal environment. Attendance at the workshop is FREE of charge, including accommodation and meals, but places are limited. It will also be possible to refund some travel expenses. Under the terms of the programme, priority will be given to AHRC-funded students, and those in relevant Information Studies/Systems departments but all interested students are encouraged to apply. Attendees will asked to prepare a brief, 5 minute presentation of their current research in order to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas. The programme is intended to complement any research training that students undertake at their home institution and as such confirmation of attendance will be provided for those who require it. Please contact Dr Wendy Shaw to apply for a place (wes(a)aber.ac.uk) The AHRC encourages doctoral students to undertake research training throughout their PhD. As such the intention of these workshops is to provide research skills that are both transferable and of immediate applicability for new researchers. The series is funded with provision from the AHRC to support collaborative research training for doctoral students. Aberystwyth is accessible by train, bus and road with easy rail links from Shrewsbury and Birmingham, further information about the University of Wales Aberystwyth including travel links, can be found at http://www.aber.ac.uk/ ----- Introduction to Welsh! http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafan

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