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"A New Literacies Sampler" - full text online.
by Michele Knobel 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hello everyone-- A New Literacies Sampler was published earlier this year, and, in the spirit of open access, the publishers, Peter Lang, have very kindly granted permission to run the final page proofs of A New Literacies Sampler online. The chapters authors have likewise agreed enthusiastically to have the book available as an open access resource. The book comprises a collection of research studies that focus on new literacies, and includes chapters on wireless laptop classrooms, live action role play, video games, popular youth-oriented websites, blogs, fanfiction, collaborative writing using IM, discussion fora etc, and online memes. The book can be accessed here (http://www.soe.jcu.edu.au/sampler) as a complete set of pdf page proofs. The links on the page beneath the cover image will take you to the book contents and the entire text, respectively. Colin Lankshear and I are really pleased to be able to invite you to read a freely-available digital version of the entire text. Cheers, Michele Michele Knobel, PhD Professor, Dept of Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education 3173 University Hall Montclair State University Montclair NJ 07043

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web 2.0 discussion references
by Clifford Tatum 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Thanks everyone for the lively discussion of Web 2.0. It is always fascinating when “definition” discussions occur on this list. My assessment of the discussion, along with the materials provided, is that the term Web 2.0 is inadequate to describe the phenomena that many of us are grappling to articulate in our research. That said, I would also argue that there is a collection of socio-technical interaction that warrants new analysis and perhaps a new category. The other competing collector-name(s) referenced in this discussion were “social software” or “social networking”. I like these better than web 2.0 but they still seem lacking. It is interesting to recall a number of similar definition debates on AoIR-l over the last couple of years. For example, there were significant challenges to terms such as cyberspace, Internet, Web, Internet research, new media, and probably many more. I suspect these terms are still somewhat contentious. However, this fluid state of meaning (and/both) is in part what makes the field so interesting. See below for a list of citations/references/blogs submitted in the Web 2.0 discussion. Clifford --- Allen, C. Life With Alacrity. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/. Beauvisage, T. Characterizing Users’ Paths Through the Web. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://thomas.beauvisage.free.fr/pubs/ Beauvisage_These_ParcoursWeb.pdf. blip.tv (beta). Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://blip.tv/. Brake, D. Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2007/02/overstating-the- significance-of-web-20. Chang, H. (2004). Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. Clarendon Press. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// www.amazon.com/dp/0195171276. Digital Ethnography. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http:// mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/. Fuller, M. (2003). Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software. Autonomedia. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// www.amazon.com/dp/1570271399. Kleinrock, L. The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/ 1stmesg.html. Kuhn, T.S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University Of Chicago Press. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// www.amazon.com/dp/0226458083. MacLeod, D. Kant take my iTunes off you | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1972016,00.html. Mackenzie, A. (2006). Cutting Code: Software And Sociality. Peter Lang Pub Inc. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0820478237. McCloud, S. (1994). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Harper Paperbacks. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/ dp/006097625X. McLuhan, M., & Fiore, Q. (2005). The Medium is the Massage. Gingko Press. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/dp/ 1584230703. McLuhan, M., & Powers, B.R. (1992). The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (Communication and Society. Oxford University Press, USA. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195079108. Mozilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla. Nielsen, J. Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.useit.com/alertbox/. O'Reilly, T. What Is Web 2.0 - Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what- is-web-20.html. Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://ourmedia.org/. Scheidt, L.A. Professional-Lurker: Comments by an academic in cyberspace. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.professional- lurker.com/. Shirky, C. Clay Shirky's Internet Writings. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.shirky.com/. Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking. Turkel, W. Digital History Hacks: Exploratory Bibliography. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/ 2007/01/exploratory-bibliography.html. Turner, A. In Which I Eat Crow...Sort of., redheadedstepchild.org. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://redheadedstepchild.org/ destruct/?page=001753. Van Couvering, E. Web behaviour: Search engines in context. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vancouve/thesis/ navigation.pdf. VideoDL.org - Download Online Video (Google Video, YouTube etc) in a Flash! Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.videodl.org/. Web 2.0 Off the PC. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http:// www.iiszone.ziffdavis.com/article/Web+20+Off+the+PC/197323_1.aspx. Wesch, M. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE. Winer, D. History of Frontier. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://dave.editthispage.com/historyOfFrontier. [NOTE: bibliography complied using Zotero, an endnote-type plugin for Firefox - http://www.zotero.org/]

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WikiSym 2007 - Call for Papers
by Andrea Forte 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

WikiSym 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007) Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007 In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB See http://www.wikisym.org/ Archived * Peer Reviewed * ACM Sponsored OVERVIEW The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2007! We recognize the online world is always evolving, and we also welcome contributions which are about other online media consistent with the wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory. We are seeking submissions for * research papers (long and short): due 7 May 2007 * workshops: due 7 May 2007 * panels: due 7 May 2007 * posters: due 9 July 2007 * demonstrations: due 9 July 2007 Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis, we invite contributions from researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields including: * business, marketing, law * communications and media studies * computer science, human-computer interaction * history, political science, geography * information and library science * linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies * natural sciences, medicine Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to: * wiki technologies and implementations * wiki in the workplace; for business use * wiki as social software for collaboration and work group processes * wiki user experiences, usability, discourse analysis * wiki for non-text media (images, video, audio) and spatial systems * wiki content dynamics and evolution, wiki metrics * wiki journalism; wiki archiving * wiki reputation systems, quality assurance processes * wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse * wiki scalability, social and technical * wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit-knowledge * wikis for specific domains (education, genomics, politics, etc.) * wikis written by and for small audiences (ex: family wikis) * wiki legal issues (copyright, licensing) * wiki translation and multilingual wiki content SUBMISSION DETAILS Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research or novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience (including case studies) or experimentation. They will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled. Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the "Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)". We invite full papers (recommended length of 10 to 15 pages with maximum of 20 pages, and a 30 minute presentation time) and short papers (maximum 6 pages, with a 15 minute presentation time). Papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Workshop and Panels submissions will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. A submission should consist of two pages describing what you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. It should include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the submission. Workshops will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own (depending on your request). Panels will be given a 90 minutes time slot and a room of their own. Poster submissions will be reviewed on their merits and may describe research projects or experience reports. A submission should consist of two page extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will be invited to bring a poster for display at the symposium. Posters must be flat and within 1mx2m in size. Demos will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one page in length, with a title, a short description of the demo, as well as a description of any special technical needs you may have (ex: wireless connectivity). Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective deadline through our submission system, which will be available through the WikiSym website. Questions should be directed respectively at papers(a)wikisym.org (research papers and practitioner reports), workshopsandpanels(a)wikisym.org (workshops and panels), or demosandposters(a)wikisym.org (posters and demos). SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Palais des Congrs in Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2007. A special hotel rate has been negotiated at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. WikiSym 2007 will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2007 conference, and participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly register for WikiSym and OOPSLA 2007. Registration is handled through the ACM OOPSLA website: http://oopsla.org/ If you have any questions, please contact Alain Desilets through chair(a)wikisym.org. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Alain Dsilet, NRC-CNRC, Canada (Symposium Chair) Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada (Program Chair) Phoebe Ayers, U. of California Davis, USA (Wikimedia Liaison and Publicity) Angela Beesley, Wikia / Wikimedia, USA (Posters and Demos Chair) Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA (Panels and Workshops Chair) Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, USA (Honorary Chair) Ted Ernst, Open Space World (Open Space Chair) Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Publicity Chair) Dirk Riehle, SAP, USA (Treasurer and Corporate Sponsorships) Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org and StructuredWikis LLC, USA (Web Master)

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An Academic Tool of Possible Interest
by Samita Nandy 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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

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General Online Research 07: Conference Program online
by Matzat, U. 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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 --------------- phone: + 31 40 247-8392 email: u.matzat "at" tm.tue.nl http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/ =======================================

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by Matzat, U. 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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/ =======================================

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(Re)introduction to group
by Tyrone Adams, Ph.D. 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

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

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Re: [Air-l] Barriers to participation?
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

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 > > > >____________________________________________________________________________ ________ >The fish are biting. >Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. >http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Fwd: [school-discuss] an association for the open content
by Jeremy Hunsinger 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

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 () 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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vandalism
by Barry Wellman 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

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 _____________________________________________________________________ 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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