A good book on exactly this topic is Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook
(http://www.cyberselfish.com/)
Todd Davies *** email: davies(a)csli.stanford.edu
Symbolic Systems Program *** phone: 1-650-723-4091
Stanford University *** fax: 1-650-723-5666
Stanford, CA, USA 94305-2150 *** web: www.stanford.edu/~davies
Mark & Doug:
Consider using the seminal work by McLuhan & Fiore, The Medium Is The
Message. It is a short and quck book but it was prophetic.
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Subject: Re: [Air-l] Technology and Literacy text
Doug and others--thanks for your replies. I am planning on using Gee's
videogames book (cited by Doug below) and also my own book, Laptops and
Literacy (coming out from Teachers College Press by the end of summer
2006, which covers use of computers in K-12 settings).
I want a third book that provides an overview of the relationship
between technology and literacy, probably something similar to Ilana
Snyder's edited books but if possible more up to date.
Thanks again--
mark
>Mark,
>
>I'm wondering if you mean the use of technology to study literacies,
>technology-supported literate activities, or techno-literacies such as
>information literacy?
>
>Ilana Snyder has edited two collections that might be useful for a
>general "technology and literacy" course that hits each of these
approaches:
>
>_Page to Screen; Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age_ (1997) and
>_Silicon Literacies; Communication, Innovation and Education in the
>Electronic Age_ (2002)
>
>Gunther Kress's _Literacy in the New Media Age_ (2002) would be
>appropriate for an advanced undergraduate course; he takes issue with
>applying the "literacy" label to processes other than reading and
>writing alphabetic texts, which is a key question for
>technology/literacy studies.
>
>For an accessible text that focuses primarily on gaming (and that can
>be used in a variety of interesting ways), there's Jim Gee's _What
>Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy_ (2004).
>
>Finally, Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe's _Literate Lives in the
>Information Age: Narratives on Literacy from the United States_ (2004).
>
>The above list of texts comes mostly from the fields of literacy
>studies and computers and writing.
>
>
>Doug
>
>Douglas Eyman, Senior Co-Editor
>Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
>htp://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
>
>Mark Warschauer wrote:
>> Can anybody recommend a text on Technology and Literacy to be used
>> for an undergraduate course on the topic to be taught in spring 2007?
>>
>> Thanks--
>> Mark
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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 2006,
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DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM
(Please forward to students you supervise, to relevant lists, and
please excuse cross-postings.)
The AoIR 7.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students working in
internet research or a related field a special forum on 27 Sep 2006
where they will have a chance to present their research plans and
discuss them with peers and established senior researchers.
Interested students should prepare a 2 page summary of their
research. This should provide a context for the research, describe
the methods being used, the progress to date with a focus on issues
and concerns, as well as the expectations and hopes from the colloquium.
Please submit your 2 page application by 1 May 2006 to: Marcus Foth
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Applicants will be notified of acceptance to the Doctoral Colloquium
by 1 June 2006. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an 8
page report on their research by 1 August 2006. This report is not a
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I've heard, in Lessig's book "code" and informally in conversation
about the link between free-market secularism / Libertarianism and
programmers / technologists. Are there good resources that addresse
how this link historically evolved and why it happened? (If it, in
face, did?).
Ericka Menchen Trevino
Graduate Student
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Communication
http://blog.erickamenchen.net/
Dear all,
I've just been persuaded to self-promote my new book, although I am quite
embarrassed doing so.
At any rate, for those of you who might be interested
The book is titled 'Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of online
relationships and is available from the publisher's website:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403945144
and can be purchased from Amazon.
Here is the book's blurb:
Description
How do people play at love in cyberspace? How are these relationships
different and similar to the way individuals initiate, develop and maintain
offline relationships? Monica Whitty and Adrian N. Carr address each of
these questions and argue that cyberspace should not be perceived as a
conglomeration of bodiless selves. In this book, cyberspace is depicted as a
potentially more playful space than the offline world. Nonetheless, despite
the liberating qualities cyberspace has to offer, cyberspace can be
problematic for some - especially when individuals venture too far into the
realms of fantasy. Through examples of Whitty's own research on
cyber-relationships, online dating, Internet infidelity, cyber-harassment,
and presentation of self online, as well as drawing from other people's
research, the positive and negative aspects of online relating are
presented. Cyberspace Romance is an invaluable resource for anyone studying
or conducting research on Internet relationships or interested in their own
or others' online romances.
and the Table of Contents:
Contents
Cyber-relationships, The Story so Far
>From Courtly Love to Cyber-flirting
Playing at Love: Winnicott and Potential Space
Object Engagement and Dysfunctional Aspects of Relating Online
Cyber-cheating: Can We Really be Liberated in Cyberspace?
Deviance and Cyberspace
Online Dating: Shopping for Love on the Internet
Characters and Archetypes in Cyberspace
Visions of the Future
Kind Regards,
Monica
Dr. Monica Whitty
Queen's University Belfast
School of Psychology
David Keir Building
Northern Ireland
BT7 1NN
Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 5654
Email: m.whitty(a)qub.ac.uk
http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/whitty/profile/
Hi All,
I wonder if anyone could give me feedback on textworld.com's concordancer. Or would you have any other suggestions for conconrdancing and other text mining pplications. I'm mostly interested in mining large chunks (as in novels).
Thanks for any help,
William
William Bain
Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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Hello all,
A colleague of mine has been given a hard time following some stuff he's posted on his personal blog (http://ringmar.net/forgethefootnotes/) He's interested to learn about universities' policies regarding personal blogging by academics. What can and cannot be said in a personal blog maintained by an academic?
I'd appreciate any references you might suggest or if you know of any related cases.
Thanks!
Shani
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Shani Orgad, PhD
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
e-mail: s.s.orgad(a)lse.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 79556493
fax: +44 20 79557248
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/shaniorgad.htm
DEADLINE EXTENDED CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS
Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2006
A student award competition
Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research
http://www.cccsir.org
The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers
to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch
Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply
symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate
interactive relationships between social interaction and communication
technologies as advocated by Couch, and/or (3) develop symbolic
interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated
based on the quality of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist
approaches and concepts and Couch's theses, (2) originality, (3)
organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge.
Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four:
Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Dr. Katherine M. Clegg Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Lori Kendall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all
disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are
not eligible for award consideration. The top three papers will receive
Couch Awards to be presented at the 2006 meeting of the National
Communication Association (NCA) San Antonio, Texas. The top paper will
be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, runner up will
receive a certificate and a cash prize of $200 US, and a third paper
will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three
authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the NCA
conference, November 16-19, 2006
Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word
abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at johnsmar(a)luther.edu.
Application deadline is May 10, 2006 (extended). Notification of award
will be sent by June 15.
Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please
contact:
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Luther College
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Hello all,
I'm currently writing-up my PhD thesis on the use of the internet by the
'movement for alternative globalization' or anti-globalization movement as
it is more widely known. I have focused on the European Social Forum, one of
the main events organized every year by the movement in Europe attracting
thousands of participants. I have examined the processes of mobilization,
organization and collective identity formation through interviews with
organizers, a content analysis of the main email lists devoted to the
organizing process, as well as a survey of activists who mobilized to
participate in it.
One of the main patterns that seems to be emerging from this research is
that the impact of email lists and the internet in general cannot be fully
understood without examining their relationship and co-existence with other
modes of communication and particularly face-to-face. For instance, in the
European Social Forum organizing process the main decisions are taken in
face-to-face, large meetings, while the internet is used to prepare for
these meetings (in terms of circulating the agenda, circulating/co-writing
documents for discussion, publicising the time and place of meetings and
making practical arrangements for people to attend) and also circulate,
discuss and challenge the decisions that have been taken. In addition, while
face-to-face communication is deemed indispensable for the development of
relationships of trust and solidarity (a recurrent quote is that 'you have
to look people in the eyes' in order to trust them), the internet helps to
maintain these links in-between physical meetings and across geographical
boundaries.
On a more general level, it seems that different modes of communication are
better suited to different functions within the political process depending
on how they configure time and space. In that respect, synchronous, oral,
interpersonal communication aids the development of a sense of unity and
belonging within a bounded space and time. On the other hand, asynchronous,
written and more impersonal communication expands the geographical scale of
social movements and helps to relax the constraints and frustrations of
direct face-to-face contact, allowing a looser, more flexible structure to
emerge. Of course this is a quite simplified suggestion as different
applications or modes of communication display varying degrees of
synchronous/asynchronous, oral/written and personal/impersonal
communication.
Now on the issue of mobilization, the results of my survey seem to agree
with Todd's suggestion that interpersonal communication is the most
important mode of communication. People attending the ESF in Paris in 2003
(my survey had 257 participants) were mobilized predominantly through
face-to-face communication and then through email or email lists. Only 4%
has heard about the ESF solely through the mass media and not also through a
political organization, friends or relatives, the workplace or the
university. (For anyone who might be interested in more info about this,
I've published an article in an open-access journal, which is available here
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdf/Kavada.pdf)
I'm really sorry for the long email, it's just so exciting to see people
interested in this subject.
Anastasia Kavada
PhD Candidate
University of Westminster
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