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Deadline Extended: OZCHI 2006 Virtual Communities Workshop
by Alastair Weakley 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline extended until 29th September. DEST SUBMISSION- PLEASE NOTE: Papers will be peer-reviewed, published and authors will be invited to present their papers at the workshop as required for DEST submission. http://www.virtual-communities.net.au/ozchi06/ Virtual Communities OzCHI 2006 Workshop Approaches to the Design of Social Software for Dis-Organisations : A One-Day Workshop in Association with OZCHI 2006 http://www.ozchi.org/ A fundamental challenge exists for distributed organisations seeking to foster collaboration: understanding and capitalising on the inter- relationships between collaborative tools and techniques to support generation of ideas and innovation. Commercial imperatives underpin research into these inter-relationships, in terms of how to create a culture and environment in which ideation and innovation can flourish. This workshop will address the collaborative needs of organisations that are distributed or otherwise informally structured. In particular we will explore approaches to the design of tools that support increased communication and social interaction within such groups. Traditionally, support systems have been introduced from the top downwards but there is increasing evidence to suggest that alternative approaches can be even more effective. The increasing use of bottom-up, emergent technologies such as wikis and weblogs, is a well-known phenomenon. This workshop seeks to address approaches for the design of such tools. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together people with an interest in social software and those whose concerns relate to user- centred design approaches. Social software as embodied in current systems, such as wikis, is typically developed and introduced from the bottom of an organisation and works its way upwards. Even when more traditional design adopts a user-centred approach, instigation for the introduction of new systems often comes from the top of an organisation. The workshop will address this seeming dichotomy: how can this bottom-up adoption be facilitated and encouraged by those at the top. More specifically, we aim to address how approaches to the design of the tools themselves can stimulate increased adoption. There are also fundamental differences in the nature of the software itself which the workshop will also cover. In comparison to traditional groupware like Groove, social software tends to be more lightweight and at least in the case of wikis and weblogs more extensible. One important question is how these characteristics contribute to the apparent success of social software. Many of these tools come from a technically minded background and have not received any formal usability testing, let alone had any form of user participation during the design process. How could such testing or participation be of benefit? We invite papers, which may describe approaches and work in progress as well as finished research, length 3-5 pages. In keeping with the workshop theme of bottom-up social software at work, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design methods for social software * Evaluation of social software impact * Categorisation of social tools * Social Software at Work * Integrating social software and task oriented software * Issues around self-image as represented through social software usage Important Dates : * Submission of papers: - extended deadline: 29th September 2006 * Notification to authors: 6th October 2006 * Camera Ready papers due: 12th October 2006 The Virtual Communities Project is funded by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design http://www.interactiondesign.com.au . Virtual communities is researching how to improve work in distributed organisations, looking at how to help these organisations translate their ideas into actions. We develop models and business cases that describe key principles, success stories and how-tos. Programme Committee: Jeremy Yuille (RMIT), Ralf Muhlberger (University of Queensland), Fiona Peterson (RMIT), Laurene Vaughan (RMIT), Markus Rittenbruch (University of Queensland), Alastair Weakley (University of Technology, Sydney) ___________________________________________ Alastair Weakley Senior Research Assistant Australasian CRC for Interaction Design Creativity & Cognition Studios Faculty of IT University of Technology, Sydney Australia

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Brisbane Conference: Changes to the Participatory Pedagogies Panel (Fri, 29 Sept, 12.45 - 14.15)
by Tama Leaver 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hi All, (Apols to those getting this email not attending the conference.) Due to circumstances beyond his control, one of the panelists in the "Participatory Pedagogies Convergence and the Extended Blogosphere" is unable to attend the conference this week. Adrian Miles and I will still be presenting our papers -- "Networked knowledge objects (videographic pedagogy for new knowledges" and "iPodium: Student podcasting and participatory pedagogies" -- as planned, but in the latter half of our session (12.45 - 14.15 in the Lockyer Room) we would like to hold a more informal and wide-ranging discussion around participatory cultural tools and approaches (blogs, podcasts, vlogs, IMing, social bookmarking, etc.) and their place in higher education. Anyone at the conference is more than welcome to participate, but can I especially urge those people doing interesting and innovative things with social software in their teaching to join the conversation if you possibly can! See you all in Brisbane in a few days! Cheers, Tama -- Dr Tama Leaver Associate Lecturer (Higher Education Development) Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (M400) University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia Ph: (+61 8) 6488 1502 Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1156 email: tama.leaver(a)uwa.edu.au www: http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au blog: http://ponderance.blogspot.com edublog: http://tama.edublogs.org

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Tagging AoIR 7.0
by Ericka Menchen Trevino 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hello, I noticed the conference program suggested the Technorati tag for blog posts aoir2006 so I wanted to mention this on the list since I haven't seen it mentioned here. There will be a number of new faces attending the conference this year so this should be useful for finding commentary. The posts do take some time to show up, so don't worry if your post isn't there instantly. The place to view blog posts thus tagged as the conference progresses is http://www.technorati.com/tag/aoir2006 Also, judging by the surveys we sent last year many people liked sharing pictures on Flickr. (I'll be talking about this and and many other issues 10:00 Saturday) To keep it simple I vote for aoir2006 for Flickr as well. View these at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/aoir2006 Best, Ericka Menchen Trevino Graduate Student University of Illinois at Chicago http://blog.erickamenchen.net

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Listserve research
by 'Gail Taylor 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Rosanna Tosario wrote: "There is a lot of fuss, and a lot of studies, about "community", online as well as offline. The bottom line of what makes a community is participation in shared governance forms (any form). When groups form and especially *norm*, they create rules as well as procedures to create new rules and change old ones, ie governance. That's why I said that whenever there is a governance problem Tuckman can't be applied, in my opinion. If governance is problematic, there can be no norming." First off, it can be argued that members of this listserve are members of a group. This listserve is institutionalized, and hosted by the Association of Internet Researchers. Officers of this organization are controlling processes related to making this online forum available to members of the association, and interested others. They are also controlling behavioral norms through the development of policies and procedures that guide participation in this forum. The actions of the officers are similar to their peers in other institutionalized settings, both educational and business, who are choosing to use Internet-based technologies to facilitate group formation processes. I was the person who first suggested that Tuckman's group formation stage theory was transferrable to online environments. It is widely used in educational and business settings, or institutionalized settings, as a way to understand group formation processes in online environments. I introduced Tuckman's theory at a time when members of this group were exhibiting behaviors of the norming stage. At that time, postings were being made by members suggesting officers should change policies governing the number of postings a person might make to the group on any given day. Prior to that time, the members of the group had gone through an extended performing stage without any major disruptions. There were some minor disruptions associated with a new member who chose to remain anonymous. It has been suggested that the Fielding Model might be a better choice for assessing online group behaviors. This model is also one that is representative of an institutionalized approach. Here's a link to an overview of the model. Http://ciara.fiu.edu/pasi/publications/Sewell-Fielding_Model-PASI.pdf. It is one that implies group members are in control when in reality their actions are controlled by the institution. ~Gail ***************************** Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society. We have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior." -- Jerry Springer

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Listserv research
by 'Gail Taylor 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

There is a growing body of literature related to this topic in the business sciences. You might want to take a look at articles that have been written about interactions among members of online communities of practice, as well as how groups form and maintain sustained performance in online environments (i.e., virtual groups, virtual organizations). You might also want to take a look at what Bruce Tuckman has been writing about group formation processes. His stage theory -- forming, storming, norming, and performing -- is transferrable to online group interactions. There is also a lot of valuable information available on group interaction processes in the growing body of change management literature. ***************************** Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society. We have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior." -- Jerry Springer

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A DistributedTeach-In on Guantanamo
by David M Silver 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Dear list members, On October 5, 2006, there will be a national teach-in called Guantanamo: How Should We Respond? ( http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/index.htm ). The teach-in takes place at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey and will be broadcasted to over 200 participating campuses in 44 states. Because October 5 is near, most of us won't be able to organize an event on our own campuses. But as engaged scholars, events like this, especially in times like ours, merit our attention and thoughts. This project has three main elements: 1. On October 5th, Seton Hall will host an all-day conference available at academic institutions across the United States to study the national and international implications of indefinitely detaining hundreds of individuals deemed "enemy combatants." The program ( http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/page3.htm ) is impressive. Topics range from "medical professionals and guantanamo" and "journalists look behind the wire" to "history of torture in the modern world" and "american detention policy: the next frontier." Speakers include professors, attorneys, governmental officials, military officials, religious leaders, and human rights advocates. Among the speakers are journalists from the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Miami Herald, and Time magazine. 2. Beginning at 10:00 EST, the Teach-In will be available via high-quality video streams accessed through this website. Schools in earlier time zones can pick up the sessions in progress or, by accessing a recording of the earlier sessions, view the whole program from the beginning. This teach-in is truly national. Currently, as of September 20, over 200 campuses in 44 states are organizing teach-ins about guantanamo. The overwhelming majority of hosts are law schools, colleges, and universities. There are also 5 seminaries and 1 medical school participating in the teach-in. Additional information regarding the technology that connects the events at Seton Hall to the rest of the participating campuses can be found here ( http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/Teach-In_Tech_9-13-06.pdf ) 3. And, of course, participating schools can schedule their own programming instead of or in addition to some of the nationally broadcast sessions. For example, here at the university of San Francisco ( http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/page11.htm ), a large number of professors and administrators have organized the following events: Tuesday, October 5 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Terrace Room, USF Law School 9:00 - 10:30: Attorneys Bud Walsh and Bernie Casey, both of whom represent Guantanamo Bay detainees, will present. 10:30 - noon: Professor Richard Leo (Law School) will speak on interrogations, with emphasis on interrogations at Guantanamo. Noon - 1:30: Frank Lindh (father of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban") will speak along with a lawyer from the firm that represented John. 1:30 - 3:00: Attorney and Professor Banafsheh Akhlaghi (Politics) will speak on representing deportees, refugees, people on the no-fly list and other people under the radar. 3:00 pm - : We will run the Internet feed from Seton Hall, beginning with the first presentation. A national teach-in on how to respond to guantanamo - what a great idea. (Actually, if YOU are reading this from outside the US and are interested in making this an INTERNATIONAL teach-in, please contact Mark Denbeaux at denbeama [at ] shu.edu) It takes a great deal of work to organize projects like this. It also takes a great deal of courage, since so many college and university campuses, like so many other sectors of American society, are hostile to engaged debate and dissent. Finally, it takes a great deal of faith to organize projects like this - faith in college campuses as spheres of relevance, spheres of creativity, and spheres of democracy. david silver department of media studies university of san francisco http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [cultstud-l] The 3rd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
by Jeremy Hunsinger 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Begin forwarded message: > From: "CFP@QI2007" <cfp(a)qi2007.org> > Date: September 22, 2006 4:33:32 PM EDT > To: CFP <cfp(a)qi2007.org> > Subject: [cultstud-l] The 3rd International Congress of Qualitative > Inquiry > Reply-To: Cultural Studies <cultstud-l(a)comm.umn.edu> > > The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2007) : > Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence (http:// > www.qi2007.org) > > The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take > place at > the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 2-5, 2007. > The theme > of the Congress, building on Jan Morse, is "Qualitative Inquiry and > the > Politics of Evidence." Participants will explore the politics of > evidence > and truth and what these terms mean for qualitative inquiry in > this new > century. If we as qualitative researchers do not define these terms > for > ourselves, someone else will. > > Questions to be considered include: In qualitative inquiry, What is > truth? > What is evidence? How is evidence evaluated? Can evidence be > manipulated? " > How can qualitative research inform the policy-making process? How is > qualitative evidence represented, discounted, or judged to be > unacceptable? > What is a fact? What is true, or false, or evidence is determined by > socially defined criteria. Different discourses--law, medicine, > history, > cultural, or performance studies--- define qualitative evidence > differently. > > The Congress will consider the influence of scientifically based > research > (SBR) models on qualitative inquiry. These models are becoming quite > influential in other nations (U.K., South Africa, Australia). The > Congress > will also consider what evidence and truth mean under the terms of > postpositivism, poststructualism, indigenous, democratic, > postcolonial, > queer, feminist, performative, and participatory models of inquiry. > Participants will explore new ways of evaluating and using > qualitative > evidence in social policy arenas. They will examine how new > understandings > of qualitative evidence can advance the goals of social justice and > progressive politics. > > Session Themes will include, but not be confined to, rethinking > such terms > and topics as: mix-methods, voice, authenticity, lived > experience, the > politics of evidence, evidence-based research, research design, data, > empirical material, epistemology, triangulation, validity, > reliability, > coding, sampling, induction, deduction, naturalism, generalizability, > science, analysis, interpretation, rules of inference, models of > quality, > case-based, collaborative, mixed and multi-method approaches, > narrative and > performative criteria of evaluation, criteriology, pragmatism, > interpretive > rigor, constructivist criteria, action-based criteria, > transformative-emancipatory criteria, warrantability, writing as > interpretation, trustworthiness, collaborative action research, > auto- and > performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, coloring epistemology, > colonial > and post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, > critical > pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, > epistemology, > social justice criteria, the ethics of evidence, ethics and IRBs, > womanist > inquiry, critical focus groups, funding qualitative health care > research, > new rules of evidence for grounded theory, advocacy as method, > qualitative > evaluation inquiry, new technologies of evidence and inference. > > We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals. > Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until > December 1 > 2006. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, > 2006. To > learn more about the Third International Congress and how to > participate, > please email info(a)qi2007.org. > > > _______________________________________________ > CULTSTUD-L mailing list: CULTSTUD-L(a)comm.umn.edu > http://www.comm.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l jeremy hunsinger Assistant Professor Pratt Institute www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Trusted Wikipedia, blessed versions
by SJ Klein 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Alex : lovely idea. confusing name, though. 99.9% of wikipedia is trusted by *someone*, after all... Better to do a small project as you suggest, with a topic specific name, and see how it works out. The Chemistry WikiProject is currently doing that kind of expert peer review on chem articles; they have 15+ phds and professors who have split up the major articles and are shepherding them to high information density, well-referenced 'feature' quality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemistry On a personal level, I think it is unbearably charming that there is a 'chemicals trophy box' maintained by proud coeditors in the "chemicals" subproject of this chemistry project, which informs me that Caffeine is the latest article on a chemical to gain 'featured' status. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CHEM I am an advocate for what you propose, which I have called a 'blessed versions' approach to stability and peer review. It has not yet been implemented by anyone; you would be the first. Please update this page as the project progresses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Blessings Best wishes, SJ

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Happy OneWebDay
by Jeremy Hunsinger 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

about: http://www.onewebday.org/ Welcome to join the OneWebDay celebration at any of the dozens of cities listed here: http://www.onewebday.org/wiki/index.php/In-person_Events jeremy hunsinger Assistant Professor Pratt Institute www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Trusted Wikipedia
by Alex Halavais 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Many people dismiss Wikipedia out of hand as a trusted source, precisely because it is written and edited by "anybody." This differs, they suggest, from a newspaper, which is "fact checked," or from an academic paper, which is "peer reviewed." Over the last two years, I have chatted with a number of people about the possibility of peer reviewing Wikipedia "from the outside." At Wikimania, a number of proposals were made--some of which are already under way--to make Wikipedia both a more credible and a more accurate source of information. The two, while complementary, are not necessarily identical. What I would like to do is assemble an editorial board of recognized experts in Internet Studies, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Human-Computer Interaction who would go through the process of finding appropriate peer reviewers and certifying particular versions of Wikipedia articles as being peer-reviewed. This would provide the reader with an additional indication that the work is of high quality and accurate. To do this, we need to assemble a group of people who have some level of recognition in the field, and who are willing to devote a small amount of time to helping to select a core set of articles and oversee the review process. While we will be looking at a number of ways to make this process more technologically easy, the key issue here is to find a group of people willing to invest a little time and their reputations in an effort to make Wikipedia a more trusted source. If you are interested in chatting a bit more about the project, drop me a note. If you will be in Brisbane for the Internet Research, perhaps we can discuss the possibilities over lunch on Thursday. -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //

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