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Re: [Air-l] MySpace sued again ...
by Marj Kibby 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Hugemusic <hmusic(a)ozemail.com.au> 01/19/07 1:28 PM >>> In the MySpace cases, a crime was committed by someone against a minor. We're not talking about "metal-inspired" teen suicide ... Metal was used as an 'excuse' in more than one murder trial. OSPs including MySpace have a 'safe harbor' against copyright breaches provided they act against the infringing party once they know about the infringement. It seems strange that they would be seen as obligated to protect members from other members who might lie, beyond publishing warnings and providing blocking facilities, and acting against members once they know they have transgressed. Speaking of moral panics, I think this is just another example of the public's enthusiasm for "the internet as deliverer of evil" stories. Marj

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Re: [Air-l] casual games
by Bonnie Nardi 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Oh yes, sorry -- online games! -- Bonnie On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Irina Gendelman wrote: > Bonnie, > > you're talking about online games right? > > Irina > On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Bonnie Nardi wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> One of my undergraduate students is studying women 35+ who play casual >> games such as poker and Bejeweled. >> >> She needs some more people to interview through email or in chat. >> >> Does anyone know anyone who plays these games in this demographic and >> if so, how the student could contact them? Or any listservs or >> whatever >> that might have such players? She has found several players on MySpace >> and Facebook who are willing to talk but they are too young for her >> study. >> >> The student has been playing herself but people are reluctant to give >> interviews when they have no idea who they are talking to. The games >> are only 30 minutes or so so it's difficult to establish rapport. >> >> I think this is an interesting area of research as apparently a lot of >> women in this age group play, subverting the stereotype that games are >> for young(ish) males. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> -- >> >> Bonnie >> >> Bonnie A. Nardi >> School of Information and Computer Sciences >> University of California, Irvine >> Irvine, CA 92697-3440 >> (949) 824-6534 >> www.artifex.org/~bonnie/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3440 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/

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Workshop update - reminder & new session
by T. Kennedy 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Apologies for cross-posting Hi Folks - just a reminder about our workshop today - see below. We've also added another 'pilot' workshop since it seemed that some people were unable to attend the 1pm SLT/PST time. The Pilot will be at the same location - 10am SLT/PST - so if you can't make the afternoon session, stop by for the earlier one. Thanks again. Tracy ____ Hello fellow SL researchers and educators! My name is Tracy Kennedy - I'm a Virtual Research Assistant for the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of you may remember me from last November when I posted an invitation to our Virtual Open House at the Virtual Center for Digital Media where we talked about a new Masters of Digital Media (MDM) program at the Great Northern Way Campus starting in September 2007. The open house was a great success and we are moving forward to put together some innovative ideas & educational tools in Second Life for our 'real life' curriculum. One initiative that we are currently working on is transforming traditional style educational spaces (for example lecture halls and seminar rooms) into student designed collaborative learning environments. We would like to move beyond conventional 'real life' pedagogical delivery modes and encourage students to actively engage and participate in their learning milieu by creating virtual learning spaces & places, and have students learn technical design skills (and modding) at the same time. Having said that, I'd like to invite you to a workshop we are having at the Virtual Center for Digital Media (139, 34, 25) on Thursday January 18th - 1pm PST/SLT (we've added 10am PST/SLT) where we will have a 'brainstorming' session to take the existing seminar room at the Virtual Center for Digital Media, and transform it into a dynamic, creative workspace that is collaboratively designed and built by a group of individuals - the intention is to show that a group of individuals can come together and create their own learning space. The following week (Wed Jan 24th 1pm SLT) we will put theory into practice and actually do the modifications and changes to the room to see what the end result might look like. However if you only want to come to the brainstorming session on the 18th - that's fine too - We're interested in your thoughts, ideas and expertise. If you have questions, please feel free to email me off-list at tracy(a)gnwc.ca. More information about the program here: http://www.gnwc.ca/mdm/ http://www.mastersofdigitalmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnwc Thanks! Tracy Kennedy ******************************************** Second Life - TracyTrail Blazer Virtual Research Assistant Center for Digital Media Great Northern Way Campus 555 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 1E2 tracy(a)gnwc.ca First Life - Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative Research Coordinator - NetLab - Center for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 www.netwomen.ca/Blog Research Director - Netwomen Consulting tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ********************************************

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Call for Chapters: Knowledge Management book
by Rosemary Agbonlahor 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello all, I think someone might be interested in this. Best wishes for 2007. Rosemary. ======== Call for Chapters +++++++ Knowledge Management +++++++++++++ You are invited to submit via email by Feb. 20 the following: 1. 500-word abstract of a proposed chapter, accompanied by a 2. one-page preliminary outline of the proposed chapter for a book on Knowledge Management. The book will be published by Informing Science Press and be made available online without charge (as well as in print). This will maximize the impact of your contribution to science. Topics covering all aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), theory, practice, innovation, and research, are welcomed. Some suggested topics are, but not limited to the following: * Business Intelligence * Communities of Practice * Innovation * Intellectual Capital * Knowledge Management Systems/Tools * Learning Organization * Organizational Learning * Strategy & Policy * Technology Transfer & Development * Virtual Organization * Any other topics relevant to KM Your abstract must contain an explanation of the topic you will write about and summarize what you propose to write. Please be concise, clear, and persuasive. Follow the abstract with your one-page preliminary outline of the proposed chapter. By February 20, 2007, email your abstract and the one-page preliminary outline in one document as an attachment file to Alex Koohang at ijkloeditor(a)ijklo.org . The purpose of abstracts is to determine the suitability and suggest areas for improvements. Authors for accepted proposals will be given 100 days to complete the first-draft of the chapter. All chapters will be subjected to blind review by three or more reviewers. Alex Koohang & Keith Harman Editors Preliminary Timetable February 20, 2007 Abstracts due March 20, 2007 Authors are notified regarding the acceptance of their abstracts June 28, 2007 Completed chapters are due to Editor July 1-31, 2007 Chapters are blind refereed by three or more reviewers August 30, 2007 Authors will be notified to revise their chapters September 30, 2007 Revised chapters are due Oct to Dec 2007 Editing and production January 2008 Book will be in print

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MySpace readings
by James W Craine 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks James Craine Department of Geography California State University, Northridge APCG Yearbook Editor

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CFP: Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007)
by danah boyd 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007) in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2007 in co-operation with ACM SIGMIS ======================================================================== === Poznan, Poland April 25 - 27, 2007 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/10th_bis/cfp-saw.shtml ======================================================================== === Deadline for submissions: February 18, 2007 ======================================================================== === The emergence of community-based Web sites and the visible shift from the concept of ìa Web of documentsî towards "a Web of peopleî creates a strong need for inter-disciplinary empirical and theoretical research focused on Web-based communities. On one hand, this requires expertise in the IT domain, including some knowledge of systems architectures and information extraction technologies. On the other hand, a multi-aspect analysis of human behaviour on the Web is possible thanks to existing frameworks within social sciences. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on the topics of development and detection of Web-based communities, social interactions within and between them as well as technology for mining of social Web sources. ======================================================================== === TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP ï social networks analysis in weblogs, forums and comment pages ï static and dynamic analysis of folksonomies ï advances in social networking services ï social bookmarking services paradigms and empirical analysis ï social roles and leadership in Web-based communities ï static and dynamic public opinion / mood analysis based on Web sources ï products / places rating based on user opinions from Web sources ï trust and distrust propagation in on-line communities ï on-line social identity / identities and social capital ï geographical-context-aware Web-based social applications ï social mash-ups for existing non-social web sites / applications ï topical and functional analysis of Web-based discourse ï social norms, social control and deviant behaviour in Web-based communities ï conflicts resolution in Web-based communities ï social, evolving Web sources use in information retrieval tasks ï dynamics and patterns of information propagation in social Web applications ï viral marketing in Web-based communities ï detecting user behaviour patterns and trends from large scale communities ï mining of interaction / discourse patterns in Web-based communities ï Web-based communities cohesion and stability ======================================================================== === SUBMISSION ï Long papers: max. 5000 words ï Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words ï Position papers: max. 2500 words Electronic submission system available at: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl The proceedings will be published as CD-ROM with ISBN number, on-line with ISSN number or both on CD-ROM with ISBN and on-line. Extended version of selected articles will be published as journal special issue (details will be published shortly on the Web site). ======================================================================== === IMPORTANT DATES February 18, 2007 submission deadline for papers March 20, 2007 notification about acceptance/rejection April 4, 2007 submission of final papers April 25-27, 2007 the conference ======================================================================== === Organizer: Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems, http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ ======================================================================== === Supporters: ï ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems ï GI - Gesellschaft f¸r Informatik, Austria, Germany, Switzerland ï NTIE - Polish Society for Information Systems ======================================================================== === Workshop organizers: ï Dominik Flejter ï Marek Kowalkiewicz ======================================================================== === Workshop Program Committee: ï John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland ï Dominik Flejter, PoznaÒ University of Economics, Poland ï Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia ï Marcin Paprzycki, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland ï Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ï Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland ======================================================================== === -- Dominik Flejter (d.flejter [at] kie.ae.poznan.pl) PoznaÒ University of Economics Department of Information Systems (http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/) - - - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - - - "taken out of context i must seem so strange" musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts

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Yale ISP's Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS)
by Eddan Katz 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

OPEN STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (OSIS) AT YALE LAW SCHOOL The Information Society Project at Yale Law School cordially invites you to attend the Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled for February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to register at http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards are increasingly serving as a locus of political and economic controversy. Technical standards, though not made by legislatures or elected representatives, increasingly mediate between prevailing social tensions such as access to information versus property rights and law enforcement versus individual civil liberties. Economically, the intellectual property arrangements underlying standards determine the competitive openness of certain technology markets and intersect directly with global trade conflicts. Technically, recent interoperability problems in government services like disaster response have prompted renewed political interest in open standards around the globe. Despite the significance of open standards in the global ICT context, even the meaning of openness is a contentious topic. OSIS will be the first academic conference to examine concepts of open standards in the larger context of technology, markets, politics, and law. During this ground-breaking symposium, a distinguished international group of technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives, lawyers, computer scientists, and activists will map out the terrain of open standards issues in four panels: (1) Technology; (2) Economics; (3) Politics; and (4) Law. For a full conference description and to register for the event, please visit the symposium web site at http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html. Confirmed speakers include: An Baisheng, Deputy Division Chief, WTO Department, Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, and Director, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Daniel Benoliel, ISP Fellow Alumnus, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Vittorio Bertola, At-Large Advisory Committee, ICANN; President & CTO, Dynamic Fun Sherrie Bolin, President and CEO, The Bolin Group Geoffrey Bowker, Professor & Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University Carl Cargill, Chief Standards Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Laura DeNardis, Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Alexander Galloway, Assistant Professor, Culture & Communication, New York University Linda Garcia, Professor & Director, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University Rishab Ghosh, Senior Researcher, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Training Centre on Innovation & Technology Robin Gross, Executive Director, IP Justice Eddan Katz, Executive Director, Information Society Project, and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Ken Krechmer, Fellow, International Center for Standards Research, University of Colorado, Boulder John Morris, Director, Internet Standards, Technology, and Policy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Huang Rengang, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission to the WTO, People's Republic of China Manon Ress, Director, Information Society Projects, Consumer Project on Technology Robert Shaw, Deputy Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Peter Strickx, General Manager, Architecture & Standards, Fedict, Belgium Bob Sutor, Vice President, Standards and Open Source, IBM Corp. Natalie Sunker, Republic of South Africa, Deputy Director, Intellectual Property, Policy & Legislation, Department of Trade and Industry Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP John Wilson, Lead Economist, Development Economics Research Group, International Trade, The World Bank

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Re: [Air-l] MySpace readings
by Paul DiPerna 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hi James, Last fall I presented a paper at ASA that gave a brief overview of MySpace, discussing some of its organizational and online history. The study surveyed social search and networking sites, and analyzed their usage over time. I found these popular press articles helpful context on MySpace: Steven Levy and Brad Stone, "The New Wisdom of the Web," Newsweek, April 3, 2006, pp. 47-53. Leslie Walker, "New Trends in Online Traffic," Washington Post, April 4, 2006, p. D1. Anya Kamenetz, �The Network Unbound,� Fast Company, Issue 106, (June 2006), p. 68. Rachel Rosmarin, "The MySpace Bubble," Forbes.com, June 29, 2006. This is the link to the ASA conference paper-- http://pauldiperna.typepad.com/Connector_Website_Model_FullReport.pdf Hope this is helpful. If you have any trouble accessing the pdf, just let me know. Best, Paul -------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org Online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna 2007/1/15, James W Craine <james.w.craine at csun.edu>: > > I am teaching a Geography of Media class this semester and want to include > a discussion of MySpace - can anyone recommend any foundational readings > that I might use - the readings do not have to be of a geographical nature - > I just need something that discusses MySpace as a social and cultural > construct - I'm hoping that there might be a few articles that are just > basic required reading for any class discussing MySpace - many thanks > > > James Craine > Department of Geography > California State University, Northridge > APCG Yearbook Editor > _______________________________________________ > The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Reminder ASIS&T AM 07 proposals due this week
by Richard Hill 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

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 URL for the compelte Call for Participation: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html 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 Dick Hill ------------ 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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CAQDAS 07 : 2nd Call for Papers
by C.Silver＠surrey.ac.uk 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward this to anyone who may be interested. 2nd Call for Papers : CAQDAS 07 : Advances in Qualitative Computing : 18-20 April 2007, Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 31st January 2007. The main conference website can be found here : http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm Please see the website for more info, or contact me Many thanks and hope to see you in April. Christina Dr Christina Silver, Resource Officer CAQDAS Networking Project Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey GUILDFORD GU2 7XH, UK email: c.silver@ surrey.ac.uk

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