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Universities policies on blogging
by S.S.Orgad＠lse.ac.uk 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

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 ******************************************* 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

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DEADLINE EXTENDED Carl Couch Internet Research Award
by Mark D. Johns 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

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: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: johnsmar(a)luther.edu

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Re: [Air-l] social movements / social software
by Anastasia Kavada 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

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 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Searching for the studies of post-adoption discontinuance
by choi2 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

I am studying communication technologies and post-adoption discontinuance for my dissertation. Even though the innovation diffusion theory, the technology acceptance model, and others has dealt with the phenomena, but empirical studies of it are quite rare except Papazafeiropoulou's and Parthasarathy's. And, I also think the conception of the discontinuance is some problematic in that it is included in the cycle of diffusion processes. I need to know some researches on discontinuance. If someone has the information regarding the topic, please email me *offlist* with references as well as comments and feedback. Thank you very much. Inho Cho (choinho(a)mail.utexas.edu) Department of Communication Studies University of Texas at Austin

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Re: [Air-l] Non-lexcial items (Intern)
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Check out the work by Naomi Baron and also Susan Herring. Baron's book >From alphabet to email is a good place to start. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Patricia Lange Sent: Monday, 17 April, 2006 19:05 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Non-lexcial items Hello, I just joined this list. Apologies if you've circulated this recently, but I'm interested in citations on nonlexical items such as uh, um, oh, er, eh, and the like. I'm familiar with (especially older) work by Fox Tree, Cherny, Yngve, Schiffrin, Schourup, Fraser, Heritage, Schegloff, Hosman, Herbert Clark, and Pomerantz. But my main interest is folks who have looked at these terms in online contexts. I wrote a chapter in my dissertation on um. And I'm looking for citations on um and other words used online. Any leads appreciated. Is it your sense that this has been talked about a lot in the literature in terms of online usage? Thanks, Patricia G. Lange, Ph.D. Dept. of Anthropology San Jose State University __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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/

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Laughter in CMC.
by joshua raclaw 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi all, Does anyone know of any sources that specifically examine the use of laughter in online communications (both 'lexically', as in 'lol' or 'haha', and through textual play, such as '::laughs::')? I'm looking for significant discussions of the use and interpretation of laughter, rather than just short descriptions devoted to this phenomenon within a larger piece of work. Thanks, Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/

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Turn-taking in email
by Bernie Hogan 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Hi Everyone, I'd like to leverage the recent and informative discussion on hedges to ask a related conversation-analysis question. Can anyone point me to discussions of turn-taking online, particularly via email? I know of Marc Smith's work with newsgroups and 'answer-people', Loch et. al.'s paper comparing online and offline turntaking and Rebecca Warner's work, but that's about it. Any input is appreciated, Many thanks, BERNiE Bernie Hogan PhD Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto --

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Re African American blog search
by Barry Wellman 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Sociologist Prof. Abdul Alkalimat <AAlkali(a)UTNet.UToledo.Edu> has run an African-American studies list for years, and may well have more info about blogs. I haven't been in touch with him for a few years, so my info may be out of date. Google, and Ye Shall Fine. 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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searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
by Andre Brock 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

I'm studying African American weblogs and online media for my dissertation; i did a technorati and bloglines search initially, but was really unsatisfied with the results because many of the African American blogs i read weren't included. I did a snowball sample, using informants (bloggers) and their blogrolls, said inspiration being derived by work that Susan Herring and some others have been doing a lot of work on blogs recently (cites below). That worked really well for me, but i should add that it worked well because i was looking for bloggers discussing a specific race-related incident. I did so because such incidents seem to crystallize discussions of identity, which of course in a blogging context is performed discursively and often reified in the comments. Basically, if you're looking for a performance of identity - which is what i'm getting when you use the word "genre" - you need to find content that encourages an articulation of that identity. Thousands of bloggers write about their cats, but cats are pretty much a race-neutral topic. Look for topics that incite comment, and you'll find your target population. Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf Andre -- Andre Brock PhD Candidate - Library and Information Studies Project Athena Fellow POSSE Mentor - UIUC Posse 2 (217.333.4693) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

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Re: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
by Christy Dena 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

You can also search and track topics of blogs conversations at BlogPulse: http://www.blogpulse.com/. Ignore if this has already been suggested! Cheers, Christy http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:43:22 -0500 From: "Andre Brock" <andre.brock(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman) To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <dc5118540604141243i1cfd582bh57c586129b0d6dbb(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm studying African American weblogs and online media for my dissertation; i did a technorati and bloglines search initially, but was really unsatisfied with the results because many of the African American blogs i read weren't included. I did a snowball sample, using informants (bloggers) and their blogrolls, said inspiration being derived by work that Susan Herring and some others have been doing a lot of work on blogs recently (cites below). That worked really well for me, but i should add that it worked well because i was looking for bloggers discussing a specific race-related incident. I did so because such incidents seem to crystallize discussions of identity, which of course in a blogging context is performed discursively and often reified in the comments. Basically, if you're looking for a performance of identity - which is what i'm getting when you use the word "genre" - you need to find content that encourages an articulation of that identity. Thousands of bloggers write about their cats, but cats are pretty much a race-neutral topic. Look for topics that incite comment, and you'll find your target population. Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf Andre -- Andre Brock PhD Candidate - Library and Information Studies Project Athena Fellow POSSE Mentor - UIUC Posse 2 (217.333.4693) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign ------------------------------ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/312 - Release Date: 14/04/2006

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