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Books on interactive media authoring
by Christer Clerwall 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi I am looking for books on interactive-/multimedia authoring. More specifically I am looking for books on how to write scripts for interactive media, work with storyboards, flowcharts, planning and so forth. The ideal book should cover the process from idea to finished product. If you now of articles that cover this area it could work just as well. /Christer Clerwall -------------------------------------------------- Christer Clerwall Lecturer/Ph. D. candidate Faculty of Economy, Communication and IT Department of Media and Communication Studies Karlstad University, Sweden +46 54-700 11 06 christer.clerwall(a)kau.se http://www.clerwall.se/christer/en/

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Re: [Air-l] Technology and Literacy text
by Heidelberg, Chris 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Doug: Have you look at Gee's other books. What is interesting is that my dissertation (which is 3/4 done- is focusing on "Edutainment & Convergence: How Entertainment Techniques and Technology Can Be Utilized In Higher Education.") has had similar difficulty finding many works on this subject (Gee is one of the gurus) because of higher education's resistance to change and especially technology. I actually altered my dissertation's focus so that I could get answers from the perspective of entertainment professionals after reading in much of my literature how education has a potentially great future because of handheld mult-media devices, phones, games and convergence in general. Let me know what you decide on using. What is funny that when I started writing and researching three years ago there was not much work on this side of the pond on my subject, but now everyone I meet these days has an interest in gaming and how to use it in academia and finally some good works like Gee's is finally being recognized. Good luck. Please send me some of your writings or at least point me to where I can download and buy some texts that you have created. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Eyman Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:17 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Technology and Literacy text Chris, McLuhan's work is certainly important, but moreso I think in terms of media literacy (read: understanding media from the receiver's perspective)...but it doesn't do much in terms of production. I'm reading "literacy and technology" to speak more to how people use technologies to support their literate activities (reading and writing--both alphabetic and multimodal), which includes both critical analysis (in terms of reading media/technologies) and writing/building/composing digital texts. Mark -- I'd add the following a short piece that connects digital composing practices with MOOs and other remediative technologies to the New London Group's take on multimodality, which might be useful (and not just because I wrote it ;) Digital Literac(ies), Digital Discourses, and Communities of Practice: Literacy Practices in Virtual Environments. Eyman, D. Cultural Practices of Literacy Study Working Paper #12 http://educ.ubc.ca/research/cpls/content/working.html (this is coming out as a chapter in a book next month, but the other work in that text includes literacy studies of Somali refugees, migrant farm workers, etc -- good stuff in terms of literacy studies but not focused on technology as such) Doug Heidelberg, Chris wrote: > 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. > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mark Warschauer > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:04 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > 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 >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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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Call for Papers: M/C Journal 'free' Issue
by Axel Bruns 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 April 2006 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'free' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>. Call for Papers: 'free' Edited by Trebor Scholz and Rachel Cobcroft Today, freedom is far from free. Network and hardware access bears often ignored costs. 'Free and open' at times means 'closed and expensive'. Freedom can be conceptualised to fit innumerable agendas. Freedom is the freedom to say no, to withdraw your collaboration, to refuse friendly cooperation. To be free is to live one's contradictions. But whose freedom do we praise? There is no solace in the liberty of being employed but poor, surveilled and uninsured. For Stewart Brand the central hacker ethos indicates that 'information wants to be free'. Lessig's Free Culture and Stallman's Free Software mark the tension between proprietary and open source domains - the battle between intellectual 'property' and creativity. The flood of civic, participatory technologies such as the blog contributes to a larger number of voices being heard. Online, commons-based peer production creates novel, economic realities that no venture capitalist can kill. For Yochai Benkler these alternative economies are not fads but real facts. They are not utopian dreams but lived reality. Sociable Web media allow for larger individual freedom and the potential to co-create society. The freedom to remix, to mash up, to reconceptualise, recontextualise, hybridise, breathes in free cultural formations. Knowledge repositories like Wikibooks allow for knowledge-on-call, albeit bringing access which is at times partial and exclusive. Such openly accessible initiatives out- collaborate even the best-paid Britannica editors. Freedom is an inalienable right that has often been overruled in the name of justice and liberty. Citizens worldwide are armchair passengers on the nightly news train or watch reality TV shows such as 'Big Brother'. They dream of their lives as thankfully being 'free'. After all, to be free is a guaranteed human right, as enshrined by the United Nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Captured in this document is the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; freedom of expression and opinion; and the right to life, liberty, and security of person. This issue of M/C Journal asks a question which intentionally traverses politics, media, philosophy, techno-studies, and new media art: to what extent are we, and can we expect to be, free? The United States' statesman Benjamin Franklin reminds us that 'they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Bertolt Brecht associated a blue sky with freedom. How much space is there for freedom in spaces of your actions, thoughts and feelings, online and off? Ubiquitous multinationals sell us the freedom to customize as privilege of the user. Increasingly, companies give away things for free. Enticing 'free gifts' must be paid back in the long run to the Googles and Ebays. We buy into the hierarchies of sharing and exchange. Are freedom, independence and autonomy merely illusions in the participatory panopticon? The potential of being on the loose is the power to shape civic society while learning to live with hybridity. Which threats to freedom are we prepared to accept in the pursuit of the rhetoric of freedom? Can we live with the cruel lie that to preserve freedom, one must strike pre-emptively? We invite contributions from theorists, practitioners, and all those who dare to reclaim the discourse of freedom. Feel free to contribute! Send 1000-1500 word articles to free(a)journal.media-culture.org.au. For more information: free(a)journal.media-culture.org.au Article deadline: 26 June 2006 Issue release date: 23 Aug. 2006 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006: 'collaborate': article deadline 6 March 2006, release date 3 May 2006 'street': article deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June 2006 'free': article deadline 26 June 2006, release date 23 August 2006 'filth': article deadline 21 August 2006, release date 18 October 2006 'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006, release date 13 December 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/

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size of open source community?
by Katie Bessiere 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi everyone- This is actually a question that I'm forwarding on from a friend of mine. Does anyone know (an estimate of) the 'size' of the open source community? Also, any articles or research that might address this would be helpful as well. Thanks! katie

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Special Issue: Psychological Anthropology of War
by Orion Anderson 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

******************************************************** NOW AVAILABLE: Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR ******************************************************** The Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW (published by Taylor and Francis) is now available. Based on over 150 proposals received, eleven articles were accepted for publication. These essays represent the cutting edge of contemporary thought on the psychology of warfare. A LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE NOW ARE AVAILABLE -------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/ -------------------------------------------------------- Articles included in this special issue are listed below. We also have provided below brief excerpts that convey the excitement of this special issue. ******************************************************** ARTICLES INCLUDE: SACRIFICE, TRANSCENDENCE AND THE SOLDIER, Babak Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California at San Diego. 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 MEMORIALIZATION AND THE SELLING OF WAR, Deborah D. Buffton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 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 HUMILIATION AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, Paul Saurette, Assistant Professor School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION IN POSTMODERN WAR IMAGERY, Myra Mendible, Associate Professor of American Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University GUILT AND SACRIFICE IN U.S. WARFARE, Carl Mirra, American Studies at SUNY College, Old Westbury 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 information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/ --------------------------------------------------------- For further information please contact Orion Anderson at (718) 393-1104 or send an email to oanderson(a)ideologiesofwar.com ******************************************************** EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLES: Buffton: 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." We see this message of war resurrecting society in war memorials. One of the most influential sculptors of war memorials in post World War I France created monuments in which we see a peasant woman at the grave of a soldier marked by a cross and a helmet, but sprouting from the grave come abundant sheaves of wheat. The message is that the blood of the dead soldiers brings forth new life to reinvigorate the country. Saurette: 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 by the administration, 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. Criminal prosecution may provide restitution, but it could not deliver the larger goal of counter-humiliating al-Qaeda and thus publicly re-establishing global respect for America. --------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/ --------------------------------------------------------- Mendible: Humiliation is one of the techniques through which institutions and nations construct docile and disciplined bodies. Military institutions inscribe the value of discipline and control on the soldier's body and psyche. Phillip Caputo describes the demeaning aspects of his US marine training. The rigorous and often painful physical trials, the drill sergeant hollering insults, separated those worthy of the warrior's honor from the "unsats"-the ones that carried "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. Rahimi: 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. --------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/ --------------------------------------------------------- Steinhart: Willingness to offer up one's life to one's nation is perhaps even more essential in war than fear and hatred of the enemy. It is because everyone must contribute to the larger good that 'enemies' must be destroyed or at least subdued, for many of these 'enemies' do not appear to citizens as a threats in their daily lives or cause them harm directly. Robinson: The people who engage in and support wars, or any other kind of social action, are motivated by a conception of the world, i.e. a set of conscious or unconscious beliefs and assumptions which make their course of action seem justified, necessary or desirable. Wars commence in the culture first of all and we kill each other in euphemisms and abstractions long before the first missiles have been launched'. Hamblet: Wars confirm the values, virtues and meanings of one's own cultural group. Sacred symbols-flags, national anthems, tales of past heroes, fallen ancestors-are put to work in luring the best of the nation-its strong and courageous youths-to the extreme patriotism required to maintain order. Mirra: In war, the good and bad selves are divided or split; the good is retained for the self and the bad is exported or projected on to others. Since the other subsumes these violent traits, it is seen as demonic and worthy of annihilation. Individuals or nation-states that cause others to suffer must somehow release themselves from the torment of guilt. The easiest way to circumvent guilt is to cast one's enemies as inhumane, wholly deserving of violent treatment. van der Dennen: Despite the social legitimization of violence provided by military institutions, the repugnance and revulsion many soldiers feel toward killing is a recurring feature of the military literature. Marshall, as we have seen, claimed that army psychiatrists studying combat fatigue in the European theater had found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure in the individual. --------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR, please CLICK HERE: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/ ---------------------------------------------------------

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Online graffiti
by Deanya Lattimore 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

I don't think I've missed anyone saying this, but apologies if I have. Recent posts have made me think of sites like WalmartSucks.com as online graffiti -- "graffiti" being generally thought of as something that the owner of the building would have removed if possible. But websites that use the brand names of others to complain about them have an added nuance of derogation, so I'm not sure how productive my thinking is here. :-D. On Sunday, April 23, 2006, at 03:02 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:56:03 +1000 > From: Jean Burgess <je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti > I think the case for the abuse of wikipedia working like graffiti > only works if the metaphor is refined a bit - it's more like someone > coming along to a community street mural and deliberately painting > something out of step with the aesthetic and political values that > have been implicitly or explicitly agreed on by the 'community' that > is working on the mural. > A bit different from walking up to the blank rendered wall of, say, > a McDonald's and writing "ronald sucks" on it. In one case (the > mural), the wall is constructed as open and 'writable' and in the > second case (mcdonald's) it isn't, because of very clear binary > distinctions between who owns the wall and therefore gets to paint > it, and who doesn't. > All of which makes wikipedia a far more interesting case, IMHO. > cheers > Jean > > Jean Burgess > http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess > Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Internet ethics
by Gail Taylor 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi everyone, I'm starting to track the manner in which employees are being disciplined by their employers for using Internet- based technologies during their on- and off-duty work hours. I came across a news story this morning that might be of interest to others of you who might be doing the same. An administrative judge in the U.S. has ruled that "surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone" in workplace settings. The employee in question works for a government agency. Do you think this ruling is one that private sector employers will see as a signal to rethink and restructure current definitions of employee appropriate use of Internet-based technologies? -- Gail Gail Taylor, M.Ed. Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ***************************************************** Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet. Administrative Law Judge John Spooner reached his decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work. The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer. In his decision, Spooner wrote: "It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work." He added: "For this reason, city agencies permit workers to use a telephone for personal calls, so long as this does not interfere with their overall work performance. Many agencies apply the same standard to the use of the Internet for personal purposes." Spooner dispensed the lightest possible punishment on Choudhri, a reprimand, after a search of Choudhri's computer files revealed he had visited several news and travel sites. Martin Druyan, Choudhri's lawyer, called the ruling "very reasonable."

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what can/'t you say on a blog
by Barry Wellman 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog. I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory. 1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right. 2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff. It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc. Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience. Good luck, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Webology: Volume 3, Number 1, 2006
by Alireza Noruzi 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 3, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ------------------ Editorial: Link Spam and Search Engines -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/editorial7.html ----------------------------------------- Stemming and root-based approaches to the retrieval of Arabic documents on the Web -- Haidar Moukdad -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a22.html ----------------------------------------- E-marketing, Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, and Legal Solutions -- Li Xingan -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a23.html ----------------------------------------- Environmental Knowledge and Marginalized Communities: The Last Mile Connectivity -- A. Neelameghan and Greg Chester -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a24.html ----------------------------------------- Book Review of 'Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment'/ Lucy A. Tedd & Andrew Large -- Hamid R. Jamali http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/bookreview3.html ========================================= Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Regards, A. Noruzi --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Re: [Air-l] folksonomies
by M.B.Gaved 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi Alla there's a wikipedia article on "Folksonomy" with some links to papers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy regards Mark Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Alla Genkina Sent: Sun 4/23/2006 5:49 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] folksonomies Hello, I am just beginning my PhD research and am interested in folksonomies/tagging/social bookmarking. Can anyone point me to research in this area? I have not been able to find too many references aside from general discussion on blogs. On the same token, I would also be interested in references that talk about the social construction of knowledge online. Thank you so much in advance for you help. Sincerely, Alla _______________________________________________ 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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