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Re: [Air-l] air-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 - Class and Community
by Diane Potts 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Bonnie, would you mind sharing any responses you get to this post? I'm sure they would be of great value to many of us. Thanks! Diane Potts The University of British Columbia -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:07 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: air-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 Send air-l mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of air-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. social class and online community (Bonnie Nardi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:18:20 -0800 From: Bonnie Nardi <nardi(a)ics.uci.edu> Subject: [Air-l] social class and online community To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <15a973668f000d3bc217c8f83119ca2f(a)ics.uci.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof. Thanks. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (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/ End of air-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 ************************************

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Re: [Air-l] social class and online community
by David Brake 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

On 6 Jan 2007, at 21:06, Bonnie Nardi wrote: > Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? > Any > and all aspects thereof. Although this is something of a preoccupation of mine the only reference which leaps to hand is Farquharson, K. (2006) "“What Do You Do?” the Disclosure of Class Online". in AoIR 7, Brisbane, Australia. It isn't downloadable but the author KFarquharson(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au may be willing to send you her presentation and hopefully will pop up here with some of the references she used. --- 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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pls post
by Rodino, Michelle (rodinoml) 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Please post: Please share this job ad with your colleagues. I'd be happy to field any questions about working at UC (michelle.rodino(a)uc.edu) but search-related questions can be best answered by Gail Fairhurst at fairhug(a)email.uc.edu. Tenure Track Assistant Professor Issues Management and Public Relations POSITION APPROVED University of Cincinnati's Department of Communication The Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati seeks to hire a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Issues Management and Public Relations beginning Fall, 2007. The University of Cincinnati is a research-intensive institution committed to teaching excellence; the Department of Communication has an active research faculty that serves an M.A. program and a large undergraduate enrollment. Individuals will teach upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in Issues Management and Organizational Identity, Public Relations Campaigns, Public Relations Research, Organizational Communication, and courses from the area of the candidate's specialty. The individual will teach two (2) courses per quarter and be required to conduct and maintain an active research program in their area of specialty. The candidate must possess a Ph.D. in Communication and have demonstrated success in research and publication and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Please send (HARD COPY ONLY) letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, samples of scholarly works, teaching evaluations, and names of three (3) references to: Professor Gail Fairhurst, Chair of Search Committee, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 21084, Cincinnati OH 45221-0184. Applications accepted immediately and will be reviewed until position is filled. UC is an Equl Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Cincinnati 601 B Teacher's College PO Box 210184 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0184 Tel: (513) 556-4387 Fax: (513) 556-0899 michelle.rodino(a)uc.edu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Sat 1/6/2007 4:06 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: air-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 Send air-l mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of air-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. social class and online community (Bonnie Nardi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:18:20 -0800 From: Bonnie Nardi <nardi(a)ics.uci.edu> Subject: [Air-l] social class and online community To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <15a973668f000d3bc217c8f83119ca2f(a)ics.uci.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof. Thanks. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (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/ End of air-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 ************************************

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Interesting Article on eBay Community
by Chris Modzelewski 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi Everyone, I just came across an interesting article about eBay's Feedback System and the dynamics of the eBay community. A business-focused article, but one with some interesting insights into eBay's community. Here's the link: http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/02/ebay-smallbusiness-feedback-ent-sales-cx_a… All the best, Chris -- Chris Modzelewski Emerging Analysis Corporation

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Kelvin Grove Urban Village design competition
by Marcus Foth 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Kelvin Grove Urban Village design competition The Kelvin Grove Urban Village Project Team is conducting a design competition, seeking ideas and proposals for an installation (or multiple / distributed installations) at the Kelvin Grove Urban Village that will “display visual evidence of connectivity within the community”. This competition aims to attract students and professionals who have an interest in the visual and multimedia applications of Information and Communication Technology. The competition has two streams. The student stream is available for full-time or part-time Australian secondary or tertiary students and offers a prize of AUD 2,000. The open stream is available for everyone including businesses and offers a prize of AUD 5,000. The indicative budget for creation and installation is AUD 40,000. The competition commences on 1 January 2007 and closes on 31 May 2007. For further details or to obtain an entry form visit the Kelvin Grove Urban Village website. http://www.kgurbanvillage.com.au/news/design_comp/ Please consider entering this competition and please distribute widely. Thank you. Dr Marcus Foth Kelvin Grove Urban Village Information and Communication Technology Committee -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Room Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Foth,_Marcus.html

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Fw: E-Media Tidbits - Need Local Blogs? Check Out Placeblogger
by Hugemusic 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

For Pamela and the others interested in location-specific blogs, Placeblogger (as mentioned by Daisy) has launched. Cheers and best wishes for the New Year. Hughie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poynter Institute" <newsletters(a)poynter.org> To: <hmusic(a)ozemail.com.au> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:08 AM Subject: E-Media Tidbits - Need Local Blogs? Check Out Placeblogger Poynteronline E-Media Tidbits Monday, January 1, 2007 Posted by Amy Gahran 4:33:23 PM Need Local Blogs? Check Out Placeblogger What's happening in Pearlington, Miss. or Bozenman, Mont.? Sure, you could check local news outlets -- but to get a deeper slice of life you might peruse nearby placeblogs. Finding placeblogs just got a whole lot easier. Today, Lisa Williams debuted Placeblogger (http://placeblogger.com/) , an online resource that lists and showcases placeblogs -- so far 713 from around the U.S., with a few scattered elsewhere around the globe. What's a placeblog? Williams defines (http://placeblogger.com/faq) it as "an act of sustained attention to a particular place over time. It can be done by one person, a defined group of people, or in a way that's open to community contribution. It's not a newspaper, though it may contain random acts of journalism. It's about the lived experience of a place." Her own community site for Watertown, Mass, H20town (http://www.h2otown.info/) , is an example of a placeblog. While many placeblogs focus on hyperlocal news and citizen journalism, others are more personal views about life in that town or region. Placeblogger allows you to find and list placeblogs. Each placeblog listing includes a map, link, and other information. I know Lisa is a major fan of OPML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML) , so expect some sophisticated feed options later from Placeblogger. Apparently, wikis will be part of the mix. And there's already a discussion forum for placebloggers. Many news organizations already offer lists of local blogs or even syndicated content from them. Also, more and more news organizations are blogging about local issues. Why not add these blogs to Placeblogger, if they're not already listed? And if you're covering unfamiliar locations, why not check for nearby placeblogs to add color and context? See Jay Rosen's Pressthink (http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2007/01/01/placeblogge…) today for more about Placeblogger.

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (january 2007)
by David M Silver 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

folks, a new set of book reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] for january 2007: 1. From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy Author: Douglas Kellner Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003 Review 1: Robert Tynes 2. Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use Editors: Erik Bucy & John Newhagen Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004 Review 1: Cheryl Brown Editors response: Erik Bucy & John Newhagen 3. Media Debates: Great Issues for the Digital Age Editors: Everett E. Dennis & John C. Merrill Publisher: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006 Review 1: Tim Dwyer 4. No Safety in Numbers: How the Computer Quantified Everything and Made People Risk Aversive Author: Henry J. Perkinson Publisher: Hampton Press Inc, 1996 Review 1: Robert Whitbred coming very soon: Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect Christina Garsten & Helena Wulff, New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality Andreas Kitzmann, Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams Lev Manovich & Andreas Kratky, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database Bradley Quinn, Techno Fashion Richard Rogers, Information Politics on the Web T. L. Taylor, Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture Joseph Turow & Andrea Kavanaugh, The Wired Homestead: A Sourcebook on the Internet and the Family also coming very soon: a massive list of new and exciting books looking for reviewers. stay tuned. PEACE in 2007, enjoy. david silver university of san francisco http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/

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Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual
by Josep Vives 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Cross-post... ########################################### Apologies for cross-posting -------------------- ICFCA 2007 Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual Structures: Exploring Opportunities" -------------------- http://snafca.free.fr February 16, 2007 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The recent years have seen a renewed interest in an interdisciplinary effort aiming at analyzing social networks, in which both mathematical sociology and computer science play a notable role, relying altogether extensively on graph theory. This effort has mainly been fueled and supported by significant advances in computing capabilities and electronic data availability for several social systems: scientists, webloggers, online customers, computer-based collaboration-enhancing devices, inter alia. In particular, knowledge networks, i.e. interaction networks where agents produce or exchange knowledge, are the focus of many current studies, both qualitative and quantitative. Among these, community- detection issues such as finding agents sharing sets of identical patterns are a key topic. Social network analysis is proficient in methods aimed at discovering, describing, and plausibly organizing various kinds of social communities. The aim of this workshop is to investigate the opportunities for formal concept analysis in social networks by proposing possible bridges between these frameworks and by presenting issues of mathematical sociology which could benefit from conceptual structures, so as to eventually facilitate collaboration between the two fields. Therefore, we particularly welcome submissions of the survey type describing the state of the art in any of the fields listed below along with submissions specifying a concrete problem that still needs an efficient formal solution. Submissions may but do not have to address the possible use of formal concept analysis in these fields. TARGET AUDIENCE Social scientists using or willing to use formal techniques in any of the fields listed below; researchers in discrete structures and formal concept analysis interested in applications in social sciences. TOPICS Knowledge networks / epistemic networks Collective construction of knowledge, social cognition Social epistemology applied to social networks Social network analysis of communities of practice Information diffusion in social networks Affiliation networks Social network-based methods for community detection Web communities, open-source development communities Weblog analysis Social networking websites Collaboration-enhancing tools (in organizations, on the web, inter alia) Knowledge exchange devices Semantic web and social networks Knowledge management using social data Building semantics from collaborative environments Taxonomies and ontologies for scientific domains Network analysis for folksonomies Systems for folksonomy building Evolution of network structures ORGANIZERS Sergei Obiedkov (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - sergei.obj(a)gmail.com <//sergei%2Eobj(a)gmail.com/> Camille Roth (University of Modena, Italy & CREA/CNRS, France) - roth(a)shs.polytechnique.fr <//roth(a)shs.polytechnique.fr/> ################################################### Papers about similars topics in Online Congress of Observatory for Cybersociety ( www.cibersociedad.net) In Spanish: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2004/grups/grup.php?idioma=en&id=65 (deep Link) In various languages: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2006/gts/gt.php?perfilpagina=comunicaci… ------------------------------------------------------------------ Josep Vives Jounou Board Committee. Observatory for Cybersociety www.cibersociedad.net jvives(a)cibersociedad.net <//jvives(a)cibersociedad.net/> josep.vives(a)gmail.com <//josep%2Evives(a)gmail.com/> Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou jvives(a)cibersociedad.net josep.vives(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------

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unesco young scholars program
by Jeremy Hunsinger 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

(sorry for the u.s. bias, i'm reposting it from someone on my blogroll) UNESCO's Young Professionals Program (YPP) is extremely competitive. However, However, the United States is an "underrepresented state" in that we have fewer than our proportionate number of employees on the UNESCO staff (due largely to the fact that the United States had withdrawn from the organization for so many years). Each under- represented member state is allowed to submit twelve candidates for further consideration by UNESCO. U.S. candidate applications are reviewed by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. This year there were some outstanding candidates from the United States, and their applications have been forwarded to UNESCO with the endorsement of the National Commission and the Department of State. Alex Zemak, the Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission informs our editor that "Americans for UNESCO's representative Andre Varchaver contributed greatly to our Young Professional Review panel this year". http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php- URL_ID=11714&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Jeremy Hunsinger School of Library and Information Science Pratt Institute () 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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JITP Referral Request
by Stuart Shulman 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

{Apologies for cross-postings} Based on the advice of the Senior Editorial Board, I am writing to ask for your input as I personally solicit submissions from scholars working in the areas relevant to the Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP). If there is someone you would like me to invite to prepare a manuscript for submission to JITP, please visit the referral page at the link just below. https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/jitp/db/ Based on your referral, I will write a personal e-mail invitation inviting the scholar to consider JITP as a publishing outlet. The message will also list the person (or persons) who made the referral and it will include attachments with the Call for Papers, Instructions for Authors, and our Referee Guidelines. The referral web page will have fields for the first and last name of the person you are recommending, as well as their e-mail address. It will also ask for your first and last names and e-mail address. It should take only a minute or less for each referral you send. Please send as many as you can! Reading v.100 n.4 of the APSR (the flagship journal of the American Political Science Association), I was struck by the fact that 100 years ago, the inaugural editor of that journal struggled to get the flow of good manuscripts started. Perhaps in the year 2106, longtime JITP readers will marvel at the fact that this journal went through similar early growing pains. With your help, I'm sure we can get the word out (and the manuscripts in) to make JITP a long term success. Many thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu University Center for Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net

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