Here is a a new way to collect and manage reference material when using a
web browser. The software is available at the following link:
http://www.zotero.org/
Samita Nandy
I'm having problems with my email system. Sorry if this might be sent out twice. --
Dear colleagues,
the detailed program of the 9th international conference General Online Research (GOR07) is available. The conference will
take place March 26-28, 2007 in the wonderful city & University of Leizpig, Germany. It is organized on behalf of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) .
The program includes about 140 oral and poster presentations on topics such as the digital divide & digital inequality, e-
commerce, e-democracy, e-learning, blogs etc.
As traditionally, there is a continuing stream of sessions focusing on methodological questions concerning issues of online data
collection and web surveys. Also there is a stream of sessions on online communities and social networks.
On Monday, March 26, we offer a tutorial workshop program that covers key topics of the field of internet research. Also, on March 26, there will be the Early Bird Meeting of internet researchers. You can find the program, information about
registration, and many more details at the following url:
http://www.gor.de/
Hope to see you in Leipzig,
Uwe Matzat
=======================================
Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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phone: + 31 40 247-8392
email: u.matzat "at" tm.tue.nl
http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/
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Dear colleagues,
the detailed program of the 9th international conference General Online Research (GOR07) is available. The conference will
take place March 26-28, 2007 in the wonderful city & University of Leizpig, Germany. It is organized on behalf of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) .
The program includes about 140 oral and poster presentations on topics such as the digital divide & digital inequality, e-
commerce, e-democracy, e-learning, blogs etc.
As traditionally, there is a continuing stream of sessions focusing on methodological questions concerning issues of online data
collection and web surveys. Also there is a stream of sessions on online communities and social networks.
On Monday, March 26, we offer a tutorial workshop program that covers key topics of the field of internet research. Also, on March 26, there will be the Early Bird Meeting of internet researchers. You can find the program, information about
registration, and many more details at the following url:
http://www.gor.de/
Hope to see you in Leipzig,
Uwe Matzat
=======================================
Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
---------------
phone: + 31 40 247-8392
email: u.matzat "at" tm.tue.nl
http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/
=======================================
Hello all,
I first joined a(o)ir sometime in the first year or two of the
organization's existence, but, sadly, switched institutions around 2000 and
lost my subscription to the list. I'm just getting back into the
cmc literature pretty heavy, and see a(o)ir all over the Web. Good to
see!!! I want to renew my membership to this here fine association and
attend the next convention...!
Where do I send the check and how much is it fer?
--
Also, I see proposals being accepted for the next convention. Anyone given
any thought to Lafayette, Louisiana? Cajun Country is a real hoot. I'll
throw a crawfish boil for everyone involved, if you are so inclined to come
down this way. We have Delta (Atlanta), Continental (Houston), and
Northworst (Memphis) -- all coming into Lafayette Regional Airport.
--
BTW -- I released an Internet literacy book in 2006, with a coauthor named
Sharon Scollard out of Canada. If you are interested in a basic "how to"
book, mixed with basic theory, see _Internet Effectively_ on Addison-Wesley
Computer Publishers.
Here's da link fer da book:
http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321304292,00.html
--
Tyrone L. Adams, Ph.D.
Richard D'Aquin Associate Professor of Journalism and Communications
Department of Communication
http://comm.louisiana.edu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 43650
Lafayette, LA USA 70504
Direct Phone: 337.482.6077
Facsimile: 337.482.6104
http://www.swampboy.com/
"One can resist the invasion of an army
but one cannot resist the invasion of
ideas." --Victor Hugo
Also looking at online learners, this paper describes barriers to online
participation, bringing that together under three main ideas ('radicals').
/Caroline
Bregman, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2003). Radicals of presentation: Visibility,
relation, and co-presence in persistent conversation. New Media and Society, 5
(1), 117-140.
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:17:18 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] Barriers to participation?
>To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org
>
>Dear Angelina -
>
>
>Palloff, R. M., & Pratt, K. 1999. Building learning
>communities in cyberspace: Effective strategies for
>the online classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
>
>These folks describe some of the barriers to
>participating in virtual communities. Here's the gist
>of one researcher from my thesis:
>
>"As lessons from the virtual classroom indicate, not
>all students who participate in online communities are
>successful in developing online personae (see below).
>Pratt describes the considerable skill set required
>for online identity formation as the following:
>•the ability to carry on an internal dialogue in order
>to formulate responses
>•the creation of a semblance of privacy both in terms
>of the space from which the person communicates and
>the ability to create an internal sense of privacy
>•the ability to deal with emotional issues in textual
>form
>•the ability to create a mental picture of the partner
>in the communication process
>•the ability to create a sense of presence online
>through the personalization of communications (Pratt
>1996: 119-120).
>Pratt, K. 1996. The electronic personality
>[unpublished thesis]. The Human Organization Systems
>Program, Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara,
>CA.
>
>Old stuff but -- will set up the dynamics for barriers
>to learning.
>
>I suspect you are looking at the technology as a
>barrier. Pallof & Pratt look at the personality
>attributes of the user/learner as the barrier.
>As lessons from the virtual classroom indicate, not
>all students who participate in online communities are
>successful in developing online personae (see below).
>Pratt describes the considerable skill set required
>for online identity formation as the following:
>• the ability to carry on an internal dialogue in
>order to formulate responses
>• the creation of a semblance of privacy both in terms
>of the space from which the person communicates and
>the ability to create an internal sense of privacy
>• the ability to deal with emotional issues in textual
>form
>• the ability to create a mental picture of the
>partner in the communication process
>• the ability to create a sense of presence online
>through the personalization of communications (Pratt
>1996: 119-120).
>
>Steve Jones also noted: “The extent to which people
>use [the internet] as a means to invent new personas,
>to recreate their own identities, or engage in a
>combination of the two and the ways in which they do
>so are issues central to the construction of a
>computer-mediated social world” (Jones, S. 1997:156).
>
>
>Cheers. Denise
>
>
>Steve Jones noted: “The extent to which people use
>[the internet] as a means to invent new personas, to
>recreate their own identities, or engage in a
>combination of the two and the ways in which they do
>so are issues central to the construction of a
>computer-mediated social world” (Jones, S. 1997:156).
>
>Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis, "Locating four pathways to
>internet scholarship" School of Env. Science, Southern Cross University,
Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA
>Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344
>http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/
>Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
>http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html
>
>
>
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Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Paolo Pumilia <xsocialsciences(a)yahoo.it>
> Date: February 21, 2007 3:48:10 AM EST
> To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net
> Subject: [school-discuss] an association for the open content
> Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am glad to inform you that the group of university teachers and
> IT scholars
> is forging ahead with establishing an international non-profit
> association
> aimed at fostering proper use of information technologies in
> education and
> academic research, especially focusing on open access and open
> content.
>
> While mid-term projects will be publishing a monthly newsletter and
> organizing
> an annual conference (as you can read in the statute), our first
> immediate
> objective is to foster 'open communities' of teachers and
> researchers forging
> their own digital tools and to provide them the opportunity to meet
> and grow.
>
> It is up to us to establish the exec committee duties, at this
> stage, to
> pursue those objectives.
> Our first task will be just to discuss how the association could be
> instrumental in bringing such 'open content' communities to light.
> Maintaining connections with educational and research institutions and
> international institutions will probably be among our committments.
>
> I would appreciate your suggestions about people who could
> contribute in some way
> to set up and lead the association projects and available to be
> part of the
> Executive Committee.
>
> Here you can find the statutes draft: http://www.eexplor.org/
>
> Your comments and help are very welcome
>
> Thank you
> --
> Paolo Pumilia-Gnarini
Jeremy Hunsinger
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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
Is there any scholarship on why people vandalize Wikipedia and other
public sites?
I've been doing Wikip. entries and edits for about 6 months, and I
amazed/dismayed at what I see.
Really childish stuff about actress B having big breasts (less respectable
word being used) and Actress S being "pie-faced". Plus a lot of people
writing F--k on entries at random sites.
(No, I am not being squeamish, but I thought that you or your filter might
be.)
Why this, especially when the Wiki police are so efficient on taking it
down. But what social or psychological gratification does it serve?
Naively, Barry Wellman
_____________________________________________________________________
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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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Surveillance and Society
Issue 5 (2/3): Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures
Edited by: Louise Amoore, Stephen Marmura, and Mark Salter
Publication date: September 2007
Deadline for submissions: 1st March 2007
Call for Papers
The border has been called the fundamental political institution,
delineating between inside/outside, us/them, safe/dangerous, known/unknown.
With the increased ability of state and commercial agents to overcome and
reinvent traditional sovereign lines, borders are instantiated throughout
society not simply at border posts but also at airports, in databases,
through international call centers, and with identity documents.
Cross-border data-flows may complicate realities already identified as
problematic within information-based societies. Surveillance practices in
public spaces, border zones, and the workplace may become both more nuanced
and more intrusive, as we see with anti-globalization protests, Schengen
border zones, and in low-wage non-unionized labour shops. The tracking and
identification of specific individuals or groups by government agencies may
be intensified. Consumers may be increasingly subjected to 'foreign'
marketing and advertising strategies not legally sanctioned within their
own societies. Citizens may have data transmitted and analyzed far from the
point of origin or of collection in the cases of passenger profiling or the
more general war on terror. Wider and wider risk groups are being
surveilled in ways that circumvent or restructure borders.
Surveillance and Society is seeking papers that examine how borders produce
or reinforce spaces, zones, or enclosures and the processes, structures,
and institutions of control that exceed the border. The editors are
interested in how the mobility of data itself is transforming, what kinds
of boundaries and exceptions this produces, how this rearticulates
relationships between science, law and the political, and how the border is
realized via data. We are seeking both theoretical and empirical articles
which illuminate this set of issues. In addition to sociology, the subject
of borders and surveillance holds relevance for a wide range of academic
disciplines including geography, law, cultural anthropology, philosophy,
and political science. We encourage contributions which draw attention to
geo-demographic, legal, cultural, ethical, technological, political and/or
social-economic aspects of data-flows.
Possible topics of interest include:
Implications for privacy in cross-border data-flows;
Effect of RFID or biometric technologies on both identity documents and
border policing;
Dataveillance of financial transactions by both commercial enterprises and
governments;
Strategies of risk displacement and risk management through
knowledge-industries;
International surveillance of marginal or "dangerous" populations;
International comparative studies of state approaches to the governance of
cross-border data;
Comparisons between corporate vs. state influence over data-flows;
Divergences in relevant public attitudes towards privacy and personal data
flows in different countries;
Parallels and anomalies concerning data-flows and international flows of
goods, currency and persons.
Submissions should be sent electronically to Emily Smith at
<mailto:smithea@post.queensu.ca>smithea(a)post.queensu.ca by March 1st 2007
with a publication date of September 2007.
We welcome full academic papers, opinion pieces, review pieces, poetry,
artistic, and audio-visual submissions. Please see
<http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/>www.surveillance-and-society.org
for further submission guidelines.
Andrew, have you had the chance to look at the P2P Foundation's wiki?
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page
They have a wealth of references and links..
Maybe there you'll be able to find a couple relevant sources.
Best,
Paul
--------------
Paul DiPerna
Blau Exchange
http://www.blauexchange.org
email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org
Online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Air-l] music 'piracy' groups query
From: "Andrew Whelan" <amj.whelan(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, February 08, 2007 1:44 pm
To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org
Hi Chris,
Many thanks for these leads, I am vaguely familiar with some Lessig
stuff
and the EFF but the rest are new to me (indeed, I didn't know the EFF
made
an argument supprting ripping in terms of fair use). I am especially
interested in how 'rippers' relate to the p2p 'masses', as it were, and
therefore I'm as yet undecided on whether or not to contact rip groups
directly - they are anyway notoriously cagey. However, I have amassed a
significant number of group-produced '.nfo' files, a very small number
of
which include contact details (usually for IRC channels). I would of
course
probably need an 'invite', but may, if needs be, be able to secure one
through p2p contacts.
Thanks again,
Andrew
On 2/8/07, Heidelberg, Chris <Chris.Heidelberg(a)ssa.gov> wrote:
>
> Andrew:
>
> Good luck! You will have to know someone and have that person vouch for
> you because this has really gone underground thanks to the MPAA and RIAA
> series of international raids and successful lawsuits all over the
> globe. They may think you are a narc, so be careful. However, the RIAA
> and MPAA have plenty of stories, position papers, and releases on these
> groups and how they caught them. The most recent group that I have found
> as an ancillary part of my research for my upcoming defense was in
> Russia. Lessig has written several good books that can give you the
> legal history of technology disruption and intellectual property
> lawsuits. Consider the history of Napster, Morpheus, eDonkey, Limewire
> and more when looking for articles.The lawsuits are interesting too. You
> can actually Google them and it will lead you to articles. I would look
> at Good Morning Silicon Valley which has done a lot of articles and
> commentary on the subject. Look at Lawrence Lessig's website. Also, you
> can try Fisher who wrote the book Promises to Keep on this subject in
> 2004. He's a Harvard researcher.Also look at the software trade group
> site for their positions on piracy.That's how I found some things. Also,
> look at the EFF site. Check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
> similar groups are defenders of fair usage through ripping.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Whelan
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:13 AM
> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] music 'piracy' groups query
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am researching the groups who 'rip' commercial CDs and vinyl for
> peer-to-peer distribution and wondered if anyone had come across any
> reading on this phenomena. The only article I have been able to find
> addressing this subject specifically is:
>
>
>
> Cooper, Jon, and Daniel Harrison. 2001. "The social organization of
> audio piracy on the Internet." *Media, Culture and Society* vol. 23, no.
> 1, pp.
> 71-89.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions as to material, especially on audio, or film 'rippers',
> or indeed software 'cracker' groups, would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew Whelan
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All,
A colleague of mine is interested in doing some research investigating
professional gamer culture. A student is interested in researching this
(being a professional themself). Can anyone recommend some articles
to begin the literature review process? I have a vague memory of seeing
some similar citations posted awhile back but haven't found them.
JW
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