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Re: [Air-l] iTunes
by Marj Kibby 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

My paper at the conference next week looks at how the Y!Music playlist adapts to indvidual input - covers some related areas. "Radio That Listens to Me" Marj 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

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iTunes
by Peter Timusk 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi Steph your would have to ask the Apple engineers about how they build the algorithm...you need to ask about probabilities or setting for RND (random in computer programing) settings. You could also test it and find the relative frequencies of songs inclusions. This would give you quantitative answers. For qualitative answers I would suggest asking musicians who support being paid excess amounts of money and other musicians who might support free music. Also ask musicians who think they might benefit by their song being in one of your random plays i.e musicians seeking exposure but perhaps not money. Peter On 17-Sep-06, at 5:00 PM, Stephanie Jo Kent wrote: > Ok. Here's the deal. I'm really dumb about a lot of this stuff. I > just updated iTunes to 7.0. Did a Party Shuffle. I'm wondering about > the "randomness factor". Specifically, the chances that a sequence of > several songs would fall into sync? > > I'm interested in qualitative answers as well as any quantitative > results. For instance, is there some snoop software that reads my > measurable statistics in relation to online music? > > steph > http://www.reflexivity.us > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Air-l] Taxonomy of Content on the Internet (Eliezer Ferreira)
by Christy Dena 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello Muhammad and Eliezer, Thankyou for taking the time to further define metadiscursive. I employed the term as a lazy catchall for the sake of brevity, but ended up causing concern for my research. You're right, I shouldn't employed a term that is wrought with plurality. I appreciate the guidance you have given because I have only looked at this question from the point of view of the paratextual and intertextual at this stage. I'm also aware of the difficulty of defining what is a discussion about something and what is a work. Indeed, this is what I argue -- that they are all layers of the 'work'. But I don't think there is data that is that specific (tell me if there is!). I have assumed that there is not data that already clusters activity on the Net according to its status in a 'work', and instead am trying to find any data that provides a snapshot of different types of activity. Since a lot of research has gone into blogs, forums and listservs (in particular fan communities) I thought there would be some data on this that I can compare with data on how many works are available on the Net: how many films webcast for instance, how many hypertext works etc? Even data for a specific country or even data around a particular work would help. At present I'm comparing data on a per-work basis: comparing sites that are part of the fictional world, forums, listservs, news articles and so on. I label them all as part of the work and describe their various functions in the work. In the end, I think I'll have to just go with this per-work analysis. But it would be nice to find out if there is any data that provides some form of taxonomy of data on the Net. Is this clearer? Thankyou for your assistance in advance, Christy Message: 6 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:58:52 -0300 (ART) From: Eliezer Ferreira <tradutoref(a)yahoo.com.br> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Taxonomy of Content on the Internet To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20060917155852.16082.qmail(a)web51706.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Christy, As professor Muhammad has said I don't have a definite answer to our investigation. But I guess any study of this nature must be considered by an etnographic point of you since we are to take into account the diversity of material posted on the Net and the culturally situated individual who has written that. As the very concept of discursive and metadiscursive may vary feom Scholars to Scholars, so the approach peolple may have of the other discourse. Maybe it hasn't been the focus of your research, but at least it is some food for the thought. My research project is related on how students read on the internet and hoiw the digital divide affects this reading. So, in a way, I am to analyse data from an etnographic pespective also. Hope I have shed some light... Good luck in your journey, Eliezer Ferreira Professor of English Faculty of Arts and Letters /UFPE Brazil Muhammad Abdul-Mageed <mumageed(a)yahoo.com> escreveu: Dear Christy, and all, Although I do not have an answer for the question you raised, I guess an important point is the one related to the criterion upon which we label anything as being metadiscursive. As far as I can see, two main perspectives can emerge. First, it can be said that anything that is not related to the propositional content--which Christy seems to call the 'actual thing,' is metadiscursive. Second, anything related to 'writer-reader' interaction can be taken as being an example of metadiscourse. Again, as far as I know, this will depend upon the perspective from which we strike the distiction between discourse and metadiscourse. But I am not sure whether you Christy is concerned with these theoritical issues about the nature of metadiscourse or not. Anyhow, 'metadiscourse' has been defined differently by different people. Scholars like Williams, Deborah Schiffrin, Vande Koople, Avon Crismore, and Ken Hyland have been actively involved in theorizing about the concept. And it is the more recent writings of Hyland that seems to challenge the traditional definitions of the concept and offer a different classification, not based upon the dichotomy of discourse and metadiscourse as two opposing, but intricately related, concepts. I think that we need to be clear about the criterion before deciding. Best Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Dept of English, Faculty of Arts, Kafr El-Sheik Univerity, Egypt Christy Dena wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to find out if there is any data to support the contention that the majority of content on the Internet is meta-discursive: discussions about things rather than the actual thing. This is I believe a logical assumption to make considering the amount of content in blogs, wikis, forums, listservs, news, general websites and so on; and the affordances of the web and the primary function of the web for many. But perhaps there is more content (mainly remediated perhaps) that I may be aware of. I'm aware that more and more content is being made available on the Net but I don't think it outweighs discussions about it yet. I can look at the stats on the amount of blogs and so on and the stats on why people use the web but I'm wondering if there are any studies that compare the various types of content available on the Net? And, I'd also be interested on the views of those on this list. Do you think there is more meta content than anything else? Do you think there more discussions about content than anything else? I'm aware that a snapshot of the entire Net is not an option, nor is there the possibility of a conclusive taxonomy of the Net, but just interested in pursuing the idea. As a background, I'm looking at this question from the view of an analysis of how entertainment has changed with the Internet. If I simply missed studies that are already on the AOIR website or have been discussed on this list, could someone just send me a link, and accept my apologies! Cheers, Christy Dena School of Letters, Art and Media University of Sydney, Australia Web: http://www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com Web: http://www.ChristyDena.com Web: http://www.WriterResponseTheory.org Web: http://www.SlateNight.com _______________________________________________ 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/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. _______________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by Ellis Godard 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Yes. But the apparent "register to edit" option could have been a ruse to conceal that it's a non-editable marketing ploy. I didn't register to check. -----Original Message----- From: phoebe ayers [mailto:phoebe.wiki@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:54 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard(a)csun.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction On 9/15/06, Ellis Godard <egodard(a)csun.edu> wrote: This is probably olds (not news) to at least some of you, but there's a fairly comprehensive Wiki site devoted to the story behind the television show Lost, and to ongoing associated fiction, much (though not all) as if it were nonfiction. http://lostpedia.com/wiki/ Editing requires a login (which I didn't register for), so perhaps it's not Wiki-powered just Wiki-in-appearance, but it still made we wonder what other creative applications of Wiki might exist. -eg A quick technical note: that site is based on MediaWiki, and is certainly a wiki -- it simply requires registration before editing, which is not uncommon. There is nothing in the "wiki" concept that requires *anonymous* editing to be possible :) Whether to require registration or not, or restrict editing to a specific user group, or have some finer distinctions such as not allowing anonymous editors to create new pages etc, is typically something that you can set up when administering a wiki. See the sites listed at Wikia: http://www.wikia.com/ for more wiki-powered fan-sites (Star Trek, etc), sites on various specific topics, etc. etc. best, phoebe -- phoebe ayers | brassratgirl /at/ gmail.com | "Reading, almost as much as breathing, is our essential function." -- Alberto Manguel

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Conference: Literacies of the Body and Image
by Kevin Leander 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

The website for the 2007 Mid-Winter Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research is now available. Please consider submitting a proposal for this year's conference. The conference theme is What Counts As Literacy? Living Literacies of the Body and Image. Contact Kevin Leander (<mailto:kevin.leander@vanderbilt.edu>kevin.leander(a)vanderbilt.edu) or Cynthia Lewis (<mailto:lewis@umn.edu>lewis(a)umn.edu) with any questions. We look forward to seeing many of you there! <http://education.umn.edu/NCTEAR/>http://education.umn.edu/NCTEAR/ -- Kevin Leander, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University

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Taxonomy of Content on the Internet
by Christy Dena 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello All, I'm trying to find out if there is any data to support the contention that the majority of content on the Internet is meta-discursive: discussions about things rather than the actual thing. This is I believe a logical assumption to make considering the amount of content in blogs, wikis, forums, listservs, news, general websites and so on; and the affordances of the web and the primary function of the web for many. But perhaps there is more content (mainly remediated perhaps) that I may be aware of. I'm aware that more and more content is being made available on the Net but I don't think it outweighs discussions about it yet. I can look at the stats on the amount of blogs and so on and the stats on why people use the web but I'm wondering if there are any studies that compare the various types of content available on the Net? And, I'd also be interested on the views of those on this list. Do you think there is more meta content than anything else? Do you think there more discussions about content than anything else? I'm aware that a snapshot of the entire Net is not an option, nor is there the possibility of a conclusive taxonomy of the Net, but just interested in pursuing the idea. As a background, I'm looking at this question from the view of an analysis of how entertainment has changed with the Internet. If I simply missed studies that are already on the AOIR website or have been discussed on this list, could someone just send me a link, and accept my apologies! Cheers, Christy Dena School of Letters, Art and Media University of Sydney, Australia Web: <http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/> http://www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com Web: <http://www.christydena.com/> http://www.ChristyDena.com Web: <http://www.writerresponsetheory.org/> http://www.WriterResponseTheory.org Web: <http://www.slatenight.com/> http://www.SlateNight.com

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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by William Bain 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Sorry for previous truncated send. It was meant to refer to Ellis Godard's comment on what other creative applications of Wiki might exist. I just wanted to mention Alan Sondheim's WRYTING-L(a)LISTSERV.WVU.EDU and his experiments merging image/word. Samples of his work are available at http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ Actually this is probably very old news--I think I first learned of wrYting on this list. For what it's worth, anyway............ WB William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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Re: [Air-l] Wiki Fiction
by William Bain 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Editing requires a login (which I didn't register for), so perhaps it's not Wiki-powered just Wiki-in-appearance, but it still made we wonder what other creative applications of Wiki might exist. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.

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Fwd: Positions at Georgia Tech
by Steve Jones 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

> Please circulate! Apologies for cross-posting. > > Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture > (LCC) is seeking to fill 2-3 positions at the rank of Assistant > Professor in the emerging discipline of Digital Media. We seek > practitioner/theorists who combine technical expertise with a > strong grounding in the arts and humanities. Candidates should be > prepared to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level in LCC's > suite of programs in computational and digital media. A Ph.D. or > terminal degree in an appropriate field is required, as is > computational proficiency and a demonstrated capacity for > significant original research/creative work. Evidence of > significant potential in generating external funding is desirable. > Preference will given to candidates who demonstrate expertise in > one or more of the following fields: > > Digital Art and Design > Practitioner in the use of digital technology for communication and > expression. We particularly seek candidates in the area of visual > design (graphic design, visual arts, moving image). Candidates > should be prepared to situate their practice in the social and > cultural contexts of new media. Preference will be given to those > whose work relates to strengths of our department, such as > experimental media, game design and critique, interactive > narrative, tangible media, and mixed reality. > > Information Architecture/Information Design > Designer/producer/researcher with a focus on the expressive > application of emerging structures of information distribution and > organization (e.g. media syndication widgets, google map mashups, > folksonomies & tag clouds, social networking sites, semantic web) > and the technologies of information abstraction that underlie them > (e.g. relational databases, structured documents, XML metadata & > controlled vocabularies, wikis). > > Interactive Narrative > Practitioner/theorist of computational expression, with an emphasis > on procedural approaches to interactive narrative in various media > forms such as virtual/mixed reality, games, and interactive > television. Specialties could include one or more of the following: > interactive fiction, computational story systems, computational > poetry, narrative and cognition, story generation, interactive > documentary, narrative intelligence, and AI. > > Applicants should send a letter with a statement of research > interests and pedagogical approach, a CV, one or two pages of > screenshots, and/or a pointer to an on-line portfolio. (Requests > for full dossiers and portfolios will be sent to selected > applicants.) Applications should be addressed to Chair, Search > Committee, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA > 30332-0165. Review of applications will begin October 15 and > continue until the positions are filled. The Georgia Institute of > Technology is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. > Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. For more information > about the School, please visit http://www.lcc.gatech.edu.

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Re: [Air-l] vampirefreaks et al
by William Bain 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

In relation to this thread in general but maybe more explicitly to John Wunderlich's mention of "The Human Behavior Experiments" on CBC and the research on obedience, authority, and related issues, there might be some interest in the series of ongoing conferences "At the Interface". Within this is "Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphors of Enduring Evil" (18-21 September, Oxford, UK, http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M4/cfp.html I'm only familiar with the websites, but the slant is inter or transdisciplinary and it looks like it might match up with a lot of the research being mentioned here. There are llinks to the parent site, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ati.htm and I found some interesting Nietzsche research in the e-journal, as well as gender related issues, http://www.wickedness.net/ej.htm Best regards, William William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

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