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Internet Addiction research
by Ellis Godard 18 May '06

18 May '06

Anyone researching/critiquing this areas may wish to respond to a Reuters story today citing Diane Wieland's piece in Perspectives on Psychiatric Care, and repeating her odd misunderstandings. My own reaction (sent to PPC) is below. -eg ------------------- Dear Editor, I am disturbed by your publishing of Diane Wieland's article purporting to advance our understanding of "Internet addiction". Psychiatric nurses may play an important role in assisting those unable to cope with online interactions, whether due to unique aspects of online settings (asynchronicity, relative anonymity, etc.) or not. And observation and scholarship regarding these matters are indeed deserving of attention. Wieland, however, veers far from observation and not close enough to scholarship. She asserts that online relationships are not part of "real life", as if the former are solely imagined and wholly unimportant. She fans worry that online relationships may result in infidelity and divorce, as if any relationship in any medium could be free from temptation, and without mentioning that online relationships often generate fidelity and marriage. She portrays "interpersonal relationships" online as is they could only be "pseudo-intimate", neglecting more than a decade of research regarding love, friendship, and productive interactions online. The division she reifies, between a forboding cyberspace and a sensuous physical reality, is illusory. Weiland is not the only practitioner to ignore and even contradict long-established sociological knowledge. And I am not often a cheerleader for interdisciplinarity. But the search for psychiatric solutions will be more fruitful if it is more careful. Therapies and treatments that promote abstinence risk isolating patients socially, financially, and even therapeutically, at a time when cyberspace is becoming increasingly important for many people's health, wealth, and interpersonal well-being. Regards, Ellis Godard, PhD Assistant Professor Sociology Department Cal State Univ. Northridge

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Looking for good search-engine literature
by Ben Peters 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi, I'm Ben Peters, a doctoral student at Columbia struggling with how to study search-engines. There's the problem of plenty: searching search-engines produces a library of material with no card catalog. There's the problem of self-reflection: studying search-engines through search-engines makes one pause to consider. Must one remove herself from the medium in order to study it (and other second-order issues)? But how else can one study a subject so young, except by using it to study itself? And there's the problem of posterity: search-engines seem to be evolving so quickly, with the web they index, that one struggles to step back from detailing a close search-engine genealogy to view the larger historical role search-engines may be having upon society. The species of search-engines is as important as their specifics manifestations. Plus I'm sure there's at least a billion other problems I haven't happened upon yet. Anyway, I've got a month to devote to this topic right now. Someone throw me an anchor, please: citations to institutions, people, books, articles, sites, or any related discussion would be hugely appreciated. Pleasantly perplexed, Ben bjpeters [at] gmail.com bjp2108 [at] columbia.edu

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Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti
by Sigal ZOHAR 16 May '06

16 May '06

Thank you very much Alex for this important link since I am new here too. Regarding online Graffiti, David, I am writing my PhD about online Graffiti. Right now there are very few articles that relate graffiti to the internet. I am going to launch a website shortly in which graffiti will be categorized by several factors (motive will be added but will not define graffiti as a sole factor. I have dealt with defining "New Graffiti" (new media graffiti") in my masters and I will try to bring up my definitions in hoping to share it with you and with all the members of this great list. Sigal ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Halavais <halavais(a)gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:15 am Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti > Welcome, David. And this provides a great opportunity to remind folks > that five years worth of AIR-L archives are available here: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/ > > ripe for analysis (hint!), and can can be viewed in threaded form. > That may be helpful especially for new members of the list. > > - Alex > > On 5/16/06, David Low <low(a)aanet.com.au> wrote: > > Jimmy Wales wrote > > > > Does anyone else have some insight into graffiti on the > > internet...articles, places to look, etc? > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > -- > // > // 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 > // > _______________________________________________ > 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] Looking for good search-engine literature
by Jim Jansen 16 May '06

16 May '06

Ben, One additional topic for focus -- as if you need it in the search engine field! :-) -- is sponsored search, content providers paying for inclusion in search engine results listings. Is sponsored search advertising or just another method of providing relevant content? All sorts of research angles with this area. Best, Jim ************************************** Jim Jansen Email: jjansen(a)acm.org URL: http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/ Blog: http://jimjansen.blogspot.com/ Phone: 814-865-6459 Fax: 814-865-6426 College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University 329F Information Sciences and Technology Building University Park, PA, 16802, USA **************************************

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Re: [Air-l] internet in movies, list so far
by Eugene Gorny 16 May '06

16 May '06

I would add Nirvana (1997) to the list. http://imdb.com/title/tt0119794/ Cheers, Eugene > On 3/28/06, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> wrote: >> >> Here are the movies people have recommended to me so far -- THANKS! A >> few people have also recommended searching the Internet Movie >> Database: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=internet but I am >> thankful for specific recommendations of movies you have actually >> seen or heard about. If you can think of films not on this list, >> please keep sending them! >> >> Closer >> >> Code Hunter (2002) >> >> Disclosure (1994)- >> >> eXistenZ (1999) >> >> Fear dot com. >> >> Firewall. >> >> Hackers (1995) >> >> Johnny Mnemonic (1995) >> >> Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) >> >> Lawnmower Man (1992) >> >> Matrix (1999) >> >> Matrix Reloaded (2003) >> >> Minority Report (2002) >> >> Mission Impossible. >> >> Must Love Dogs (2005) >> >> NetForce (1999) >> . >> Perfect Man (2005) >> >> "Pulse" >> >> Sandor/Ida (Swedish movie) >> >> Sneakers (1992) >> >> Something's Gotta Give. >> >> Swordfish (2001) >> >> Technolust >> >> Terminator 3! : Rise of the Machines (2003) >> >> The Net >> >> Thomas is love. >> >> Virtuosity (1995) >> >> War Games (1983) >> >> You've Got Mail

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Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti
by M.B.Gaved 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi Sigal sounds interesting. Like Cameron, I'd ask about what definition you have for "online graffitti" - online archives of physical real-world graffitti one of my favourites is Banksy's own site: http://www.banksy.co.uk/ - online spaces which are set up for free expression (wow, this is so broad it could mean *anything*! perhaps, an online environment with a graphic tool set? anybody fancy trying to define this category?) - defacement of existing online content? years ago attrition kept an archive of hacked websites http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/ I am not sure who might be keeping current lists? good luck, let us know how you get on! Mark The Open University http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of M. Cameron Jones Sent: Wed 4/19/2006 11:44 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti Hi Sigal - On 4/19/06, Sigal <sigalz(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online > graffiti" as a communication method. Are you asking about where you can find/see/study online graffiti? Or about existing research about it? Some examples of the former http://www.drawball.com/ http://worm.bluesfear.com/index2.html As for the latter -- I remember a CHI poster or paper a few years ago about it... found it. Carter, S., Churchill, E., Denoue, L., Helfman, J., Nelson, J. (2004). Digital graffiti: public annotation of multimedia content. CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Vienna, Austria. pp 1207 - 1210. - Cameron Jones _______________________________________________ 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] Research on Internet Use in Finland?
by Susanna Paasonen 16 May '06

16 May '06

There has been a fair amount of research on democracy, citizenship and the Net in Finland. The Information society institute at University of Tampere stopped its operations in 2005 but their publications can be found at http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/ISI/english/publications.html - and the people can be easily reached. In Helsinki, Sinikka Sassi http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/ssassi/ is working on citizenship and info soc and she would also be able to point out other people investigating the area. In Turku, Pekka Räsänen (http://users.utu.fi/pekras/index.html) has published a fair amount. At University of Joensuu there have been interesting projects on local info soc projects although not all of these are about the net per se: Johanna Uotinen (johanna.uotinen(a)joensuu.fi) is a good person to contact. The sponsored portals (http://www.tietoyhteiskunta.fi/in_english/) (http://e.finland.fi/) tend to little critical edge but archives on publications and such. Hope this is of some help. Susanna ----------------------------------------- Susanna Paasonen Assistant Professor in Digital Culture PL 35 (JT) 40014 University of Jyväskylä

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cyworld.
by "김은영" 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hello? I am a Korean and student. It is the mail sent to the second. Introduction to the individual mini homepage which most people manage in South Korea is carried out. In South Korea, It is called 'cyworld' The easy method of leading a photograph is used. The place different from a bull log shares information through the first degree of il-chon ( as almost the same as a messenger's buddy ) It copied by many popularity in China. You also visit and a life sight of us is caught. The address of that http://www.cyworld.nate.com/　 Thank you for reading. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 새로운 기부 문화의 씨앗, 해피빈 http://happybean.naver.com

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Do you think about wireless networking?
by Ji-Eun KIm 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi. I talk about that networking sites go wireless. We aren't just talking on cell phones. Now as many sites go wireless, they enable full access from a mobile phone. So we can access cyberspace anytime. It's very convenient. But on the other hand that is problem. Because its potential dangers become easier to access anywhere, anytime for our kids. Do you think about wireless networking? Please give me your opinion. Thank you for reading!! --------------------------------------------------------------- Ji-eun Kim, Young-nam university student (from Korea) mail : amunim@naver.com------------------------------------------------------------------------ 새로운 기부 문화의 씨앗, 해피빈 http://happybean.naver.com

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Do you think about wireless social networking?
by Ji-Eun KIm 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi. I am a Korean. I talk about that social networking sites go wireless. Now we aren't just talking on cell phones. For millions, the phones are a camera, an instant message machine and soon, an entry to the social clubs of cyberspace. So we can access convenient cyberspace anytime. But on the other hand that is problem. Because its potential dangers become easier to access anywhere, anytime for our kids. Do you think about wireless social networking? Please give me your opinion. Thank you for reading!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ji-eun Kim, Young-nam university student mail : amunim(a)naver.com

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