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Answering questions on mailing lists & general mailing list notes
by David Brake 17 Dec '06

17 Dec '06

A few suggestions about answering questions on mailing lists like this one since we seem to have 'done' asking them: When providing references, an author name is good, a specific citation is better, a citation with a URL is better still and a citation with a brief synopsis of why the citation is of particular relevance is best of all* If you suggest a book might have something to say on a subject and can provide a specific page reference or two that would help a lot - particularly when the book is long and the mention is just a passing one. Though of course any helpful response is better than none at all! And four more general notes about this list in particular 1) please let's not discourage questioners. We were all first time posters once. If you want to help by providing advice on how best to post perhaps it could be done privately directly to the poster in question so they don't feel publicly singled out? Or perhaps we could send a generic message monthly with a summary of the AoIR's rules of conduct together with some 'best practice' tips? 2) Please make sure (for your own sake as much as anyone's!) that your private responses are sent directly to the person and not to the list? If you hit 'reply' any response will go to the list 3) Similarly, if you are posting a response to something you read via email digest please copy the subject line and put it into your own subject line rather than making the subject re: AoIR mailing list digest X and 4) Please please please remember to chop off the previous email discussion from your response except insofar as the rest of the conversation is needed to explain your own contribution. I and many others read this list in digest form and it is much harder to read when you have to end up reading the same messages quoted half a dozen times in a single digest. * Actually best of all in my case at least is if you can email the relevant citations in Endnote format or some other popular bibliographic software format but this mailing list doesn't support attachments. --- 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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The internet and time
by Abigail Groves 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Hi all, I am writing about the internet and its effects on time. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some readings on this topic? Thanks, Abigail Groves PhD Candidate National Centre in HIV Social Research University of NSW http://nchsr.unsw.edu.au

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Chimera PhD Programme October 2007 intake
by Ben Anderson 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Dear Colleagues I am pleased to announce that Chimera, the Institute for Social and Technical Research at the University of Essex is now accepting applications for places on its 2007 PhD programme (October intake). We are open to applications from prospective students who wish to study the interactions between technologies and society in a lively post-disciplinary research environment. Candidates must exhibit the potential to excel in incisive and innovative thinking which can help to understand the social and technical dynamics of societal change and/or develop and test new societal tools and applications. Our research activities and students are clustered into two groups but cross-group projects and student research programmes are actively encouraged. It is our practice at Chimera to enable research students to undertake 1-2 days per week paid research work on projects relevant to their PhD if they and their supervisors agree and if the funds are available. This provides invaluable project collaborative research experience and often involves working closely with industrial or public sponsors. For further information please see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/phd.html or: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/2006-Phd-Programme.pdf Please feel free to cross-post to appropriate fora and I would be very grateful if this announcement could be brought to the attention of suitable Masters level students. ---- Dr Ben Anderson Deputy Director, Chimera the University of Essex's Institute for Social and Technical Research +44 (0) 7710 187 806 Homepage: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/bena.html Chimera blog: http://istr.wordpress.com/

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Deadline Reminder ASIS&T AM 07 Call for Participation
by Richard Hill 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Deadlines January 21, 2007 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre- conference sessions February 25, 2007 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers March 31, 2007 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance May 27, 2007 Final versions due for conference proceedings --------- Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science October 18-25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Wisconsin Web 2.0 and social computing are changing the way people use and perceive the Internet as well as the ways they work and play. When users are no longer simply consumers of information, and become active producers and contributors, what are the implications for information science? How are social computing and Web 2.0 trends affecting the work of information professionals? What current research and applications are shaping future directions? ASIS&T 2007 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from all aspects of information science, industry, academe, and information professionals for lively discussions and debates about the social aspects of information, about all things 2.0 (or looking to the future) or higher. Please see the complete Call for Participation at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Contributed papers Contributed papers present original, recent, formally conducted research and design projects, theoretical developments, or innovative practical applications providing more general insight into an area of practice. These are generally reports of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly and professional journals. Contributed posters/short papers Two types of posters/short papers are encouraged. Contributed research posters present new and promising work or preliminary results of research projects. Contributed �best practices� posters present the results of design projects, practical implementations of an organization's practices or industry innovations. The content should clearly point out how the application advances the state of the art and key challenges, as well as potential impact on the participant's organization and/or practices in the field. Especially welcome are submissions that discuss applications for which a market analysis and/or evaluation of utility has been conducted. Joint submissions from researchers and practitioners showing different perspectives on a single issue are particularly encouraged. Posters are expected to invite questions and discussion in a personal and less formal setting. Technical sessions and panels Technical sessions and panels present topics for discussion such as cutting-edge research and design, analyses of hot or emerging trends, opinions on controversial issues, reports by practitioners on current information science and technology projects, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. Innovative formats that involve audience participation are encouraged. These may include panels, debates, forums, or case studies. Pre-conference sessions Pre-conference sessions present topics such as theoretical research, management strategies, and new and innovative systems or products, typically for purposes of concept development or continuing education. Purely promotional programs are excluded. Formats may include seminars, courses, workshops, and symposia. Sessions are scheduled for half to a full day and require a registration fee beyond the regular conference fee. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Deadlines January 21, 2007 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and pre- conference sessions February 25, 2007 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers March 31, 2007 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance May 27, 2007 Final versions due for conference proceedings All submissions are made electronically via a link from the ASIST Web site (http://www.asis.org) Details on acceptable file formats, citation style, and specific contact information required in the online submission form are on the Web page. Any problems with electronic submissions should be directed to: Richard Hill, Executive Director (rhill(a)asis.org) ASIS&T, 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: 301-495-0810 Phone: 301-495-0900 rhill(a)asis.org Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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CFP: Workshop on Methods of Collaboration - CHI 2007
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

HCI and New Media: Methodology and Evaluation CFP: *Workshop on Methods and Evaluation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration* Human Computer Interaction Conference, April 28-May 3, 2007 San Jose, CA http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia Research into new forms of sociality or critical applications of technology often requires unexpected and even disjunctive institutional partnerships. Universities in particular find researchers coming together around common resources or initiatives who share little in the way of methods, values, or politics. How are researchers and practitioners from Art/Design and the Sciences negotiating and sustaining collaboration today? What differences are preserved in the process, which ones obscured, which transcended? When have quantitative and qualitative methodologies successfully co-mingled, and what do the adherents of each have to learn? Aren't disharmonious partnerships more likely to be formed in a climate of decreased resources and increased pressure to demonstrate "creativity" that produces capital? This April in San Jose at the annual Computer/Human Interaction (CHI) Conference, we'll be conducting a workshop on these subjects for a day, and we're eager to enlist some more participants. The workshop will take the form of short presentations, large and small-group discussions, with representatives present from many disciplines. The context, if you're new to CHI, is a professional conference based predominantly in scientific discourse. We've proposed this workshop to CHI as an interdisciplinary team from art and science, and indeed the conference has seen an increasing amount of designers and artists in attendance recently. We'll be focusing on the following specific questions and topics: 1 - How are projects evaluated by interdisciplinary teams? Which criteria from which constituencies are applied, and to what ends? 2 - What methods of investigation are employed in design processes by teams composed of diverse practitioners? How are ideas iterated? 3 - When is labor divided based on disciplinary difference? At what stages in the process are these differences ignored? 4 - When is evaluation and critique incorporated into process, and how? If your research or practice has led you to navigation of these or related questions, we invite you to submit proposals for participation and presentation at this Spring's workshop, on April 27th in San Jose. Please see the full CFP for more a more detailed explication of this workshop's goals. We hope to assemble a group capable of producing applicable methods and useful processes in the pursuit of research that is interdisciplinary by necessity, and perhaps not by choice. DEADLINE: January 12, 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/HCIandNewMedia/ RELATED LINKS (precedent at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/memory http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/mobilemapping http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/people/adamczyk/pvss/ http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/ ---------------------------------------- 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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public libraries adopting CTCs
by Michel J. Menou 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Fwd from Jesse list of Dec. 8, 2006 > Sujet: > QUERY: trend toward Public Library "adoption" of independent CTCs? > De: > David Perrotta <gradresearch(a)EB11.COM> > Date: > Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:52:15 -0500 > > > I'm an MLIS student at University of Pittsburgh, and I'm attempting to > determine whether or not there is a trend toward public libraries > "adopting" independent community technology centers and managing them > as subsidiaries. This has happened in Oberlin, OH where I live, and > it has been a very positive move for both institutions (the library > and the CTC). > > What I'm wondering is whether this is an anomalous situation or part > of a larger trend. I'm aware that numerous public libraries house > Community Technology Centers, but I have no information on how many of > these began life as independent projects and how many were library > initiatives from the start. > > So far, my search of the literature in the library and information > science and sociology domains has turned up very little. I would be > very interested to hear from anyone who is aware of published work on > the subject. > > with thanks, > - David Perrotta > > dnp7(a)pitt.edu > david.perrotta(a)oberlin.edu > > > ----------------------------- > David Perrotta > MLIS Student > School of Information Sciences > University of Pittsburgh > 601c Information Sciences Bldg. > 135 N. Bellefield Avenue > Pittsburgh PA 15260 > tel. 412-624-9370 -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou [at] gmail.com Michel.Menou [at]wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/ciberpeople/menou/ =====================================================================

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Fwd: [Linganth] T9 word completion & SMS literacy....
by joshua raclaw 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I'm sure there are more people familiar with SMS studies on this list than the original - please address all responses to Richard off-list at Richard.Senghas(a)sonoma.edu. ----- Forwarded message from Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas(a)sonoma.edu> ----- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:15:31 +0100 From: Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas(a)sonoma.edu> Reply-To: Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas(a)sonoma.edu> Subject: [Linganth] T9 word completion & SMS literacy.... To: linganth(a)ats.rochester.edu Anybody out there aware of any recent work, especially anything with ethnographic elements, that deals with the effects on literacy of word-completion features in mobile phones? (They appear as "T9" options on my own mobile phone here in Sweden, not sure how they are labeled elsewhere.) -RJS Richard J Senghas (Professor of Anthropology, Sonoma State U, California) Visiting Researcher, Institutionen för nordiska språk Stockholms universitet S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Richard.Senghas(a)nordiska.su.se Richard.Senghas(a)sonoma.edu ----- End forwarded message ----- Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice Women and Gender Studies University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ http://sociocmc.blogspot.com

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Conference submission site is OPEN
by Mia Consalvo 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Hi all, This is a quick announcement to let you know that the submission site for AoIR's 2007 conference in Vancouver is officially OPEN and ready for business! We're using the same system as last year, so things should look familiar to those of you who have submitted in the past. If you are new, please follow the basic directions to create an account and then upload your submission. I've attached the CFP below as a reminder, and please note that submissions are DUE by February 1, 2007. Likewise, if you have questions about the submission process, please email me offlist at consalvo @ ohio.edu. Happy Holidays! Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 740.597.1521 *********** Internet Research 8.0: Let¹s Play! International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Workshops: October 17, 2007 AoIR conference: October 1820, 2007 Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2007 Let¹s Play The Internet better, internet/s - is at once part of the background hum of the developed world and an exotic realm of fantasy and play. It is an essential, mundane part of daily life, and simultaneously radical, revolutionary, profane, and fun. Internet/s invite us to play. We surf, blog, role play, and chat in the interest of work, learning, and play. Serious technologies and applications invite playing around as a way to learn how to use them. Playful applications take root in serious business, as online chat becomes a business communication tool. Games find applications in education, business, and war. Playful blogging evolves into a social and political force to be reckoned with. We play with our identity online, shaping current and future roles offline. The play goes on Our conference theme of play invites empirical research and theoretical reflection on how human beings ³seriously play² with one another on, via and through internet/s, on local, regional, and global scales. We call for papers that explore the intersection of the serious and the playful, the sacred and the profane, the revolutionary and the mundane, and fantasy and the reality. CALL FOR PAPERS We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and communities, that address the (playful) blurring of boundaries online. The following TOPICS are suggestions simply intended to spark initial reflection and creativity: - Mundanity implies normalcy, and thereby, the efforts to understand and regulate online interactions in ways that are analogous to and consistent with offline practices and norms (e.g., privacy protection, norms for community interaction, efforts to regulate information flows involving pornography, hate speech, etc.). As internet/s become interwoven with ordinary life on multiple levels, in what ways do these alter ordinary life, and/or how do prevailing community and cultural practices reshape and tame¹ such internet/s and the interactions they facilitate? - Global diffusion: how do internet/s, as they exponentially diffuse throughout the globe facilitate flows of information, capital, labor, immigration and play and what are the implications of these new flows for life offline? - eLearning: how can such practices as distance learning and serious games utilize the liminal domain (the threshold world of dream and myth, in which important new skills, insights, and abilities are gained in the process of growing up) to go beyond traditional ways of learning? Are they necessarily better, or easier, to use or to learn from? - Identity, community, and global communications: how will processes of identity play and development continue, and/or change as the role and place of the Internet in peoples lives shift in new ways including the expansion of mobile access to internet/s? - E-health: what do new developments in sharing medical information online and expanding telemedicine technologies into new domains imply for traditional physician-centered medicine, patient privacy, etc.? - Digital art: from downloading commercially-offered ringtones to facilitating cross-cultural / cross-disciplinary collaborations in the creation of art, internet/s expand familiar aesthetic experiences and open up new possibilities for aesthetic creativity: how are traditional understandings of aesthetic experience affected and how do new creative / aesthetic / playful possibilities affect human ³users² of art? - Games and gaming: the average gamer in North America is now a twenty-something whose lifestyle is more mainstream than adolescent. As games and gamers ³grow up² and as games continue their diffusion into new demographic categories while they simultaneously continue to push the envelopes of Internet and computer technologies what can we discern of new possibilities for identity play, community building, and so forth? Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference theme, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on that theme. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference theme - e.g., in CSCW and other forms of online collaboration, distance learning, etc. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written paper.¹ We also welcome proposals for roundtable sessions that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as organized panel proposals that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 500-750 words - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words - PANELS - submit a 500-750 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a panel session, which may include a second paper that they are presenting OR submit a roundtable proposal. You may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not presenting them. Detailed information about submission and review is available at the conference submission website http://conferences.aoir.org. All proposals must be submitted electronically through this site. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Several publishing opportunities are expected to be available through journals, based on peer-review of full papers. The website will contain more details. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must send a final paper by June 30, 2007. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquires regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the Conference Chair and no later than March 31, 2007. DEADLINES Proposal submission deadline: February 1, 2007 Presenter notification: March 31, 2007 Final workshop submission deadline: March 31, 2007 Submission for student award competition: June 30, 2007 Submission for conference archive: July 31, 2007 SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS Full papers and a conference registration by at least one of the paper authors must be in place by July 31, 2007 for papers to be presented. Formatting: Please submit papers in PDF with simple formatting, using sans serif font and in-text referencing. If you can't submit in PDF, use DOC or RTF format. Submission process: Submit full papers to aoir2007(a)gmail.com by July 31, 2007. CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Dr. Mia Consalvo, Ohio University <consalvo(a)ohio.edu> Conference Chair: Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University <smith(a)sfu.ca> Vice-President of AoIR: Dr. Charles Ess, Drury University <cmess(a)drury.edu> Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org

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Video analysis software
by Anders Fagerjord 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video. They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information. Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them? --anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no

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writing effective questions to lists
by Barry Wellman 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

I'm gearing up to write a book on writing for the social scientists. I want to put in something about how to write in listservs, chat groups, IM, etc. I was struck this week by Abigail's Q (see below) which I thought was a good example on how NOT to answer a question, because it was so broadly framed: what is it about time that Abigail is interested in? (dissertation advising manta). Yet, I have been struck by how much interesting discussion Abigail's Q has evoked. For one thing, there ain't much on time (altho did anyone mention Evitar Zeruvabel?), so anything might be worthwhile. Second, the broadness of the Q seems to have served as a projective test -- evoking a variety of responses. So, I am lead to wonder and to ask: what tips do people have for posting to lists? My quick guide is: 1. Be specific as to content and need. 2. Lurk on the list for a while to get a sense of its style. 3. Try to post something else first, so that you are contributing as well as asking for information. PS: I'd like to endorse Frank Thomas' request for evidence on Virillo's conjectures. 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 _____________________________________________________________________ On 12/7/06, Abigail Groves wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am writing about the internet and its effects on time. I was wondering >>> if anyone could suggest some readings on this topic? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Abigail Groves >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> National Centre in HIV Social Research >>> University of NSW >>> http://nchsr.unsw.edu.au

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