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Young women and the Internet: the self-perception gap
by Christian Sandvig 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Dear aoir colleagues, I noticed this interesting new study by Hargittai & Shafer is out, and it is getting some great press. Aside from the research value, this is also a great item for classroom discussion. I quote: "[M]en and women do not differ significantly in their abilities to find...information online. However, young women are less likely to perceive themselves as skilled...[this] may affect significantly the extent of their online behavior and the types of uses to which they put the medium." (p. 444) The cite: Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender Eszter Hargittai & Steven Shafer. 2006. Social Science Quarterly. 87(2):432-448. http://eszter.com/research/a17-genderskills.html The press: <http://eszter.com/research/a17-genderskills.html> "Gender differences non-existent when it comes to surfing skills" Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0607070132jul07,1,152691.colum… (FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Minnesota Public Radio segment: http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/futuretense/mpr_20060707_futuretens… I hope this is helpful, Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/

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Wikimania 2006 early registration still open
by Phoebe Ayers 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

A quick notice that early registration is still open for Wikimania 2006, the 2nd annual international meetup and conference of the Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org) It will be held August 4-6th, 2006, on the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference will feature presentations from Jimmy Wales, Larry Lessig, Brewster Kahle, Eben Moglen, Yochai Benkler, and Clay Shirky; along with some of the most active contributors to Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and the MediaWiki platform. Presenters and attendees will discuss the present and future of Wikimedia Projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource and more); the dynamics of Wikipedia and related communities; publishing and verification of information; and technical updates and Mediawiki hacking. Wikimania will be a chance to meet the people behind one of the extraordinary successes of the Internet - a multilingual volunteer community of a hundred thousand people who are passionate about creating high-quality free knowledge for the world. For community members, it will be a chance to meet fellow Wikimedians, learn about what's happening today, and discuss current issues and the future of the projects. For others, Wikimania 2006 will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to participate in shaping the future of Wikipedia and collaborative knowledge production generally. Early registration prices are good until July 9th. Register online : http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org Send questions to: wikimania-info(a)wikimedia.org. -- phoebe s. ayers http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org

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Web survey reuse question
by 'Gail Taylor 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I have been following the discussion related to the use of the Opinio survey software product. Multiple questions came to mind related to the reuse of online questionnaires in support of research studies. Do you know of any research studies where online questionnaires have been reused by researchers other than those who developed and validated a particular questionnaire? Do any of you know validity issues are being addressed by researchers when questionnaires that were developed and validated using a particular software product are migrated to another product? Do any of you know whether researchers are charging a fee for the reuse of their questionnaires? Does the software producer also benefit monetarily from the resale of the questionnaire? Do any of you know of any Internet research methodology books that directly address these questions? In doing readings in this area, I am finding these questions tend to be overlooked as the methodologies tend to present information related to doing original research as opposed to extending research through the replication of previous studies. ~ 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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Wikipedia stuff in the news.
by Peter Timusk 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

This is an interesting press article about Wikipedia today. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/05072006/6/n-technology-ken-lay-s-death- prompts-confusion-wikipedia.html apparently wikipedia has 13,000 editors and authors and I guess I am one of these for my article on statistical literacy which happens to be linked to in the entry on my alma matter Carleton University the net marches on. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Future Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.

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Special Issue on the Psychological Interpretation of War
by Orion Anderson 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

ONCE AGAIN AVAILABLE: Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR The Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) is generating excitement throughout the world as the definitive publication on the sources of collective forms of violence (including genocide and terrorism). We have reprinted copies of this important issue in order to make it available once again to researchers and teachers. For information on how to <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> obtain a copy of the Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Articles included in the issue-as well as brief excerpts from a few of them-are described below. Please order ASAP to make certain you obtain your copy of this groundbreaking publication. With best regards, Orion Anderson P. S. A number of faculty have selected this issue as a text for courses on peace studies, warfare, terrorism, violence in society and history, etc. _____ ARTICLES INCLUDE: MEMORIALIZATION AND THE SELLING OF WAR, Deborah D. Buffton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. "War is so closely connected with the identity of nations that participation in war is a necessary action to show one's devotion to the country; a society cannot consider itself 'alive' if its citizens are not willing to die for it. Fighting and dying for one's country become the means through which a society is 'resurrected'." HUMILIATION AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, Paul Saurette, Assistant Professor School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. "Once we understand 9/11 as fundamentally humiliating and not just threatening the United States-we can make better sense of the elements of the global war on terror. A legal approach would never have been accepted, even if international laws were reliable and effective enough to pursue al-Qaeda. Why? Although courts promise to provide justice, they rarely explicitly deliver vengeance and counter-humiliation." DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION IN POSTMODERN WAR IMAGERY, Myra Mendible, Associate Professor of American Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. "Humiliation is one of the techniques through which institutions and nations construct docile and disciplined bodies. The rigorous and often painful physical trials, the drill sergeant hollering insults, separate those worthy of the warrior's honor from the ones that carry "the virus of weakness." In forging a marine corps-a military body defined by strength and hardness, the soldier extirpates any trace of the feminine. Discipline begins with self-abnegation; absolute surrender to the authority of the stern father figure who punishes and rewards." <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE. SACRIFICE, TRANSCENDENCE AND THE SOLDIER, Babak Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California at San Diego. "The soldier's experience in believing that he is dying for something greater than himself, for something that will outlast his individual, perishable life in place of a greater, eternal vitality (embodied in the national or a religious identity) is crucial for the ideological justification of war." GROUP PSYCHOLOGY, SACRIFICE AND WAR, Norman Steinhart, M.D., Research Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS WILL TO SACRIFICE, Patrick Porter, Tutor in Modern History at the University of Oxford THE MYTHOLOGY OF WAR, Dr. Andrew Robinson, Political theorist, University of Nottingham THE MANIC ECSTASY OF WAR, Wendy C. Hamblet, Professor of Philosophy, Adelphi University, New York GUILT AND SACRIFICE IN U.S. WARFARE, Carl Mirra, American Studies at SUNY College, Old Westbury <https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/> For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE. MALE GENDER INSTABILITY AND WAR, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University COMBAT MOTIVATION, Johan M.G. van der Dennen, senior researcher on war and peace at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands For further information please contact Orion Anderson at (718) 393-1104 or send an email to <mailto:oanderson@ideologiesofwar.com> oanderson(a)ideologiesofwar.com _____

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Ross Hetherington/CMHealth/HSC is out of the office.
by ross.hetherington＠sickkids.ca 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I will be out of the office starting 2006-07-04 and will not return until 2006-07-06. I will respond to your message when I return. Ross Hetherington Managing Director, The Family Health Centre The Hospital for Sick Children Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology & Public Health Sciences University of Toronto Voice: (416) 813-1086 Facsimile: (416) 813-6011

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Query on youth, media, and civic engagement
by andrea baker 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, all, I'm posting for Howard Rheingold (The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs): >>I'm writing a chapter for a book about youth and civic engagement. >>I'm concentrating on how to teach young people (loosely defined, >>from around 12-20) to use participatory media such as blogs, wikis, >>podcasts (also tagging, RSS, digital video) in a way that increases >>civic engagement. That is, I'm specifically interested in the use >>in classrooms or settings outside the classroom in which young >>people use participatory media to advocate, debate, deliberate, and >>organize civic/political action. >> >>Do you have examples? Can I quote you? If you do have something to >>contribute, please provide all the information I need to cite you >>properly (name of teacher, institution, age of youth involved, >>location, etc.) >> >>I am creating a wiki that will be a public resource, offering >>assistance to educators inside and outside schools who want to >>teach the use of participatory media in a way that encourages civic >>engagement. I will make the wiki public in a couple months, but if >>you want an invitation to the wiki while it is still behind a >>password, let me know. >> >>Thank you for your time. I'm hoping that your examples will >>encourage and assist others. Please email me directly at >>howard(a)rheingold.com. >> >> >>Howard Rheingold >>howard(a)rheingold.com >>www.rheingold.com www.smartmobs.com what it is ---> is --->up to us

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Enabling older users to create and share self authored multimedia content Workshop
by A.C.Roibas＠bton.ac.uk 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, This workshop can be of interest for the AOIR community (see below). Best, Anxo ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás, SCMIS Faculty of Management & Information Sciences University of Brighton Watts Building, Moulsecoomb Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK m +44(0)7814 491790; t +44(0)1273 64 2458; f +44(0)1273 64 2405 http://cmis.mis.brighton.ac.uk/staff/anxo/ Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities: enabling older users to create and share self authored multimedia content workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP 2006 www.sintef.no/ubicomp This workshop is a discussion platform to unfold the design of future scenarios of pervasive interactive multimedia for elderly people. These systems should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this workshop addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked applications. The aim is to generate debate about the design and development of new pervasive applications which will make it possible for elderly citizens to be content creators and consumers of self-authored content facilitating in this way leisure and social activities and, at the same time, encouraging mobility. The workshop will focus on a discussion on new methods such as living labs, on-the-field enactments, 'Cultural Probes', Participatory Design approaches and advanced in-situ evaluation techniques.. Moreover, workshop organizers will open up a debate around how too identify suitable novel interaction models more appropriate for these scenarios. PARTICIPATION Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper (no longer than 4 A4 pages) about a research or study (to be included in one of the sessions described above) they have been involved with before the 16 June to a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and participants will be selected on the basis of their interests, quality of the position papers and familiarity with the topic. The best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a prestigious HCI journal. DEADLINES July 5, 2006: Submission Deadline (workshop position papers) July 24, 2006: Acceptance Notification (workshop position papers) September 17-18, 2006: Workshops September 19-21, 2006: UbiComp Main Conference ORGANIZERS Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás University of Brighton Petter Bae Brandtzæg SINTEF ICT Prof. Dr. Veerle Van Rompaey University of Leuven Urpo Tuomela, City of Oulu

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BumpTop GUI
by Ellis Godard 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

The biggest potential change to desktop GUI since Windows, or an overworked physics farce that will never see broad use? Either way, the ability to pile, scatter, bump, ruffle, nudge, toss, lasso, fold, crumple, and shelve icons as if they were physical objects, makes my head spin - in a good direction. Here's a demo (the 7 min version is worthwhile!!): http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/BumpTop.html Here's a review: http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/23/bumptop/#more-584 Regards, Ellis Godard, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Sociology Department Cal State Northridge www.csun.edu/~egodard

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CFP: Santa Barbara 2008-Writing Research Across Borders (5/1/07; UCSB 2/22/08-2/24/08)
by Karen Lunsford 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi everyone, AoIR research interests often intersect with those of Writing Studies (e.g., human-computer interaction, online communities' writing, distributed work practices, etc.), so I thought many of you might like to see this call. Very best wishes, Karen Lunsford, UCSB ----- Forwarded message from bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu ----- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:41:30 -0700 From: Chuck Bazerman <bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu> Please distribute widely Open Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders February 22-24, 2008 University of California Santa Barbara Conference website; http://education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf08/ Proposal Deadline: May 1, 2007 Email: writing(a)education.ucsb.edu Recent decades have seen the growth of writing studies in many nations, focused on all levels of education, and all uses of writing in society, using the resources of many different disciplines. This increased research attention to writing reflects an increased recognition of the importance of writing in modern societies. Yet to a large extent the many emerging traditions of writing research have neither connected fully nor shared their work. This conference brings together the many writing researchers from around the world, drawing on all disciplines, and focused on all aspects of writing at all levels of development and in all segments of society. This will be an opportunity to learn from different research traditions, share our findings, seek common agendas, and lay the groundwork for future communication and alliances. As a first step to building this important conversation we have invited some of the leading writing researchers, and those listed at the bottom of this call have already committed to participating. We are now issuing an open call for proposals for panels, roundtables, individual presentations, and poster presentations addressing * current research on writing, * methodological issues * reflections on ongoing research programs * considerations of national or disciplinary trajectories of research * agendas for further research We anticipate a program of up to two hundred and fifty presentations. Proposals to present current research should specify research questions, methods, data corpus, and findings, as well as the scope and duration of the research project. Proposals to provide overviews of and reflections on research traditions and agendas should identify clearly the relevant literatures to be considered. Proposals for individual and poster presentations should be from 250 to 500 words in length and panel and roundtable proposals, 500 to 1000 words. Please indicate your preferred format. Proposals should be sent by May 1, 2007 via email to writing(a)education.ucsb.edu .Please include complete contact information. For further information please visit our conference website: http://education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf08/ If you have any questions contact us at writing(a)education.ucsb.edu INVITED SPEAKERS already committed to participating: Paula Carlino, Argentina, University of Buenos Aires Caroline Channock, Australia, Latrobe Rosemary Clerehan, Australia, Monash University Luuk van Waes, Belgium, University of Antwerp Angela Dionisio, Brazil, UFP, Recife Angela Kleiman, Brazil, Unicamp-Sao Paulo Marilyn Chapman, Canada , University of British Columbia Graham Smart, Canada, Carleton University Denis Alamargot, France, University of Poitiers Michel Fayol, France, University Blaise Pascal Frederic Francoise, France, Université de Paris V Annie Piolat, France, University de Provence Sylvie Plane, France, IUF de Paris Yves Reuter, France, Université Lille Joachim Grabowski, Germany, University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany Pietro Boscolo, Italy, University of Padua Emilia Ferreiro, Mexico, National Polytechnic Institute Gert Rijlarsdam, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam Lisa Emerson, New Zealand, Massey University Olga Dysthe, Norway, University of Bergen Rochelle Kapp, South Africa, University of Cape Town Liliana Tolchinsky, Spain, University of Barcelona Linda Allal, Switzerland, Universite de Geneve Otto Kruse, Switzerland, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Switzerland David Galbraith, UK, University of Staffordshire Ken Hyland, UK, University of London Roz Ivanic, UK, Lancaster University Theresa Lillis, UK, Open University Brian Street, UK, Kings College- London Mark Torrance, UK, University of Staffordshire Arnetha Ball, USA, Stanford University Charles Bazerman, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Anne Beaufort, USA, SUNY Stony Brook Carol Berkenkotter, USA, University of Minnesota Virginia Berninger, USA, University of Washington Sheridan Blau, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Ulla Connor, USA, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Christiane Donahue, USA, University of Maine, Farmington Ann Dyson, USA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jill Fitzgerald, USA, University North Carolina Chapel Hill Steve Graham, USA, Vanderbilt Kris Gutierrez, USA, University of California Los Angeles Christina Haas, USA, Kent State University Richard Haswell, USA, TAMU Corpus Christi John R. Hayes, USA, Carnegie Mellon University George Hillocks, USA, University of Chicago Tom Huckin, USA, University of Utah Susan Jarratt, USA, University of California Irvine Ilona Leki, USA, University of Tennessee Paul LeMahieu, USA, University of California Berkeley Andrea Lunsford, USA, Stanford University Karen Lunsford, USA, University of California Santa Barbara Charles MacArthur, USA, University of Delaware Paul Matsuda, USA, University of New Hampshire Debra McCutcheon, USA, University of Washington Heidi McKee, USA, Miami University Sandy Murphy, USA, UC Davis Bill Nagy, USA, Seattle Pacific University Sondra Perl, USA, CUNY Graduate Center Jim Porter, USA, Michigan State University Paul Prior, USA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign David Russell, USA, State University Rebecca Rickly, USA, Texas Technological University Tony Silva, USA, Purdue University Peter Smagorinsky, USA, University of Georgia Melanie Sperling, USA, University of California Riverside Clay Spinuzzi, USA, University of Texas Austin John Swales, USA, University of Michigan Chris Thaiss, USA, University of California Davis Gary Troia, USA, Michigan State University Kathleen Blake Yancey, USA, Florida State University -- Professor Charles Bazerman Department of Education Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone: 805-893-7543 bazerman(a)education.ucsb.edu http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman ----- End forwarded message -----

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