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c u in LA
by Barry Wellman 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

I will be in LA Nov 1 - Dec 2, hanging out at the Center for Digital Futures (near Pershing Square), aka World Internet Project. This may provide the opportunity for some face-time with AoIR people. Please get in touch. (For various reasons, I don't know if I will have e-contact Nov 1-7. But try.) I can always be reached via Phoebe Schramm at the Centre (oops, Center -- I'd better get that right before Homeland starts tailing me) for Digital Futures. I also expect to be talking at greater Hillsboro (aka Portland OR) Dec 7 and suburban Microsoft (U Washington) Dec 8. And if I still have your attention, see my Second Bar Mitzvah speech (aka my hour-long inaugural Endowed Chair lecture) on my website. Click on Publications, and then Presentations, and then find "The Internet in Everyday Life" blurb that starts with "Eighty nine slides ..." There will be a video, integrated with the slides, eventually. PS: I ran a seminar with the American Marketing Association yesterday, in which they were mega-surprised that some scholars are diffident about posting to this list about their work because it is "self-promotion". When I (and NetLab) have spent months and years researching and writing it, I/we want people to read it and hear it!!! 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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not a founder
by Barry Wellman 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Sorry Sam Tilden, I wasn't a founder of AoIR. I just have a big e-mouth. But some bio notes. I was the first keynoter at the first AoIR conference (hosted by Nancy Baym in beautiful Lawrence KS). I was elected to the first AoIR executive committee. I DID found the International Network for Social Network Analysis. 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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Handbook of Web Log Analysis - Call for Chapters
by Jim Jansen 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Handbook of Web Log Analysis - Call for Chapters (Proposals Submission Deadline: 01 January 2007. Full Chapters Due: 01 May 2007) CO-EDITORS Bernard J. Jansen (The Pennsylvania State University) Amanda Spink (Queensland University of Technology) Isak Taksa (Baruch College) INTRODUCTION Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies today, leaving few aspects of our lives untouched. Search applications on individual Web sites are increasingly important for people to locate needed information. Analyses of customer interactions within Web sites provide insight into user intent. Ecommerce Web sites leverage customer actions to provide better services and products. Millions of people build relationships on social networking Web sites. For these and a variety of other domains, both academic and industry researchers increasingly use Web logs to study the interactions between people and Web services. Important issues are arising, including the logging techniques used, the process of data collection and cleaning, how to analyze the data, ensuring privacy, building trust, and which quantitative and qualitative techniques produce the best understanding of user behavior. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK The edited book, "Handbook of Web Log Analysis", will provide an understanding of Web search log analysis methods and processes. This book will provide an understanding of the tools and techniques used to analyze Web search logs, including quantitative and qualitative methods. Each chapter will push forward our understanding of Web log analysis from various perspectives, including research from information science, computer science, information systems, communications, among others. The book will critically examine the significant issues, theories, and techniques surrounding Web log analysis. Topics include, but are not limited to, analysis of: search engines, single Websites, search applications, e-commerce sites, blogs, recommender systems, digital libraries, personal information repositories, multimedia collections, social networking sites, listservs, and the burden of addressing privacy and trust in any such logging application. Manuscripts should focus primarily on theories, models, processes, approaches, challenges, limitations, or tools of Web log analysis and not on empirical results. THE TARGET AUDIENCE The books is intended for use by information technology professionals, Web site designers, ecommerce organizations, information architects, search engine developers, and researchers involved in various aspects of understanding the customers and users of Web sites. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 1 January 2007, a 2-5 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 1 February 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 01 May 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints. FURTHER INFORMATION Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to: Dr. Bernard J. Jansen Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University 329F IST Building IST Building, University Park PA 16802 Tel: (814) 865-6459 Fax: (814) 865-6426 E-mail: jjansen(a)ist.psu.edu

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Aoir - organization
by Sam Tilden 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Et Al, No one has mentioned Barry Wellman. Was he not one of the co-founders. He seems to play such a profound role. Also Charles Ess Sam --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.

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Re: [Air-l] ICA panel - abstracts sought - asap...
by Seungahn Nah 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

FYI, JCMC has a special theme issue for social network sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dmb/jcmc-sns/ Seungahn -------------------------------- Assistant Professor Community and Leadership Development University of Kentucky On 10/27/06, radhika gajjala <radhika(a)cyberdiva.org> wrote: > > A student in our program here at Bowling Green requested me to post > this for her > > please email responses to Rucha K. at ruchak(a)bgsu.edu > > > > > >>Panel Description (Rough draft) > >> > >>Boulieu (2004) suggests that cyberspace as a site is not para- > >>social and represents communities of deep social involvement, > >>The issues that arise within cyberspace are "real" and > >>therefore need to be examined to examine their social effects. > >>This panel comprises of papers that look at new media > >>technology and examine the social issues and mechanisms that > >>are unique to them. Ideas like social interaction, identity > >>creation, social need fulfillment and anonymity are explored in > >>various cyber-sites like Facebook, Blogs and Instant messaging > >>portals. > >> > >>This is a very rough draft...we should be able to refine it as > >>I get the abstracts:-) > >>Thank you and take care > >>Rucha > > -- > Radhika Gajjala > Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator > School of Communication Studies > 302 West Hall > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, OH 43402 > http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik/index2.html > > > For queries about > BGSU's School of Communication Studies > Grad program, email comsgrad(a)bgsu.edu > > > For info on the Theory Research cluster at SCS - see > http://scs.bgsu.edu/Research/ResearchClusters/theory.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/ >

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Biblio program RefWorks
by NIP JOYCE 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

I have used Endnotes for a while, but our university is promoting RefWorks, which is web-based. Has anyone used it or could recommend whether it is worth moving over? Nip Yee-man, Joyce, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Journalism Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong Hong Kong T: (852) 3411 7834 F: (852) 2336 1691

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cowpaths: social software
by Barry Wellman 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Seems like a good conference for those who wear Wellies while networking;-) 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 _____________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:32:14 +0200 From: "Dr. Ralf Klamma" <klamma(a)INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE> Subject: 2nd Call for Participation & Registration - Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** 2nd Call for Participation & Registration - 20 days to event 2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics - "Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software" - November 16-17, 2006, B-IT, Bonn, Germany http://www.medien-informatik.eu Blogs for the event - Please feel free to join International Cowpaths: https://klamma.wordpress.com/ German Cowpaths: http://trampelpfade.blogg.de/ Social software - often connected to older forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online communities - can be defined as software that supports activities in digital social networks. The use of new digital media tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging and other communicative or multimedia assets create new challenges for interdisciplinary research in media informatics. * What are the effects when media get agency in digital networks? * How can we trace and understand collective processes on the internet? * What is the role of visualisation? * What is the role of social software on change processes in organisations? * Are there new models of labour, new processes and new forms of organisations possible? * Will users be empowered or will lack of data protection and privacy set free new genies? * What is the impact of tools supporting social structures on the emancipation and appropriation? * Which are the impacts on design and media? * Will they help facilitating new forms of democracy, digital rights, and overcome the digital divide? * Or will the hunt for digital reputation lead to cow paths where only cows walk by? The second international symposium on perspectives in media informatics is organized jointly by the two leading collaborative research centres for media Media and cultural communication and Medienumbrueche, the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology B-IT, and the Network of Excellence on technology enhanced professional learning PROLEARN. It brings together researchers and practitioners from media informatics, sociology, ANT, law, media theory, social software, collaborative work and learning, to discuss current trends and emergent issues of sociality in digital networks in a mixture of invited talks and round table events. The event will be accomplished by online activities and practical exercises in social software. Symposium Chairs Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, SFB/FK 427) Volker Wulf (University of Siegen, Fraunhofer FIT, SFB/FK 615) Organizing Committee Erika Linz (B-IT Bonn) Marc Spaniol (RWTH Aachen University, SFB/FK 427) Michael Veith (University of Siegen, SFB/FK 615) Technical Organizer Reinhard Linde (RWTH Aachen University) Register online at: http://www.medien-informatik.eu/MI-2006/MI-2006-registration before November 11, 2006 and get a 50 discount! Programme For programme details please visit: http://www.medien-informatik.eu/MI-2006/MI-2006_programme Thursday, November 16, 2006 - Invited Talks: Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups: Recent Work from the Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Software Development Teams: Tracing, Visualizing, and Understanding Collective Processes on the Internet Anabel Quan-Haase (The University of Western Ontario) Rethinking Social Software Erhard Schüttpelz (University of Siegen) The Media in the Age of Citizen Journalists Frank Kappe (TU Graz) Public Talk in the Informatics Year - Science Year 2006 (http://www.informatikjahr.de) Interactive TV: From one way communication to software-based collaboration? Thomas Becker (Marketing Director & Group Executive Digital Home, Buhl Data Service GmbH) Research Policy to forster North Rhine Westfalia's Software and Media Industries Dr. Michael Stückradt, Vice-Minister for Innovation, State of North Rhine Westfalia, Düsseldorf Reception Friday, November 17, 2006 - Workshops/Round Table: Workshop 1: Applying Social Software for Knowledge Management Claudia Müller (University of Potsdam) and Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen University) Workshop 2: User Generated Content & User Generated Metadata Johannes Liegl (Know-Center, Graz, Austria) and Mathias Lux (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Workshop 3: Impact of Social Software on Society: PROWalk Event Sebastian Fiedler (Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna, Austria) and Ton Zijlstra (Proven Partners, Enschede, The Netherlands) Workshop 4: Media and Conflict Studies Michael Schnegg (University of Cologne) and Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University and SFB/FK 427) Round Table: Research Issues in Media Informatics Volker Wulf (University of Siegen and SFB/FK 615) Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University and SFB/FK 427) Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Thomas Becker (Marketing Director & Group Executive Digital Home, Buhl Data Service GmbH) Karl Gosejacob (Charles Bernd GmbH and Head of VDMA Division Software, München) Reinhardt Michael (Section Head IT, State Ministery for Innovation NRW, Düsseldorf) Katja Henke (Manager Research Line "Usability Engineering", T-Labs, Berlin) Knut Manske (Head of Darmstadt Lab, SAP-Research, Darmstadt) -- Dr. Ralf Klamma, AOR mailto:klamma@informatik.rwth-aachen.de RWTH Aachen www : http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/rkl Informatik V phone : +492418021513,+491735228052 fax: +492418022321 IS mail : Informatik V, Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org) To unsubscribe, send an email message to listserv(a)lists.ufl.edu containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. ------------------------------ End of SOCNET Digest - 25 Oct 2006 to 26 Oct 2006 (#2006-252) *************************************************************

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AOIR organization
by Sam Tilden 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Et Al, Who were the orginal organizers of AOIR? Was there a diad? If so who were they? Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership) Sam --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

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undergrad text on CMC?
by Mark Warschauer 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Can anybody recommend a recent overview book (authored or edited) on CMC that would be suitable for an undergraduate class? It's for a class on Technology and Literacy. I plan on using my own recently released _Laptops and Literacy_ to cover issues related to K-12 education. I'd like to use one additional book that gives an overview of CMC (email, text messaging, Web, bulletin boards, blogs, wikis, etc.) suitable for undergraduate students at a research university. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Warschauer Associate Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine 2001 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw(a)uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw

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4S in Vancouver
by Michele White 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Thanks to Jonathan for asking about the 4S Conference in Vancouver. I had meant to post and suggest that people who are attending the conference or in the area and interested in Internet studies might meet for a drink. Are people from the list who are attending interested in meeting after the reception on Thursday or Friday evening? All my best, Michele White

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