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Barry's syllabi
by Barry Wellman 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Stephanie, et al, Who are syllabus hunting. Mine are always on line. Go to my website, click on courses and behold. Undergrad (2-term course with myself and Tracy Kennedy) and 1-term grad course. The syllabi are sociologically focused, of course, but not sociologically parochial. YMMV, 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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Intro courses syllabi and texts
by stuszyn＠bgnet.bgsu.edu 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello everyone. I'm trying to prepare a syllabus for a basic Introduction to Computer Mediated Communication course. I was wondering if anyone had any syllabi they would be willing to share to provide some inspiration. Also, I'd appreciate textbook recommendations if anyone's found a particulaly good intro book. Thanks! Stephanie Tuszynski ----- "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value. Rather, it is one of the things that give value to survival." --C.S. Lewis.

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critical software studies book, call for comments
by Greg Elmer 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello AoIR-ers, I'm beginning to put together an edited collection of previously published essays on critical software studies. Topics to be addressed include open source software, free software, experimental or 'speculative' software, search engines/portals, privacy, the browser wars, software standards/governance, political economy of software preferences, etc. Please email me *offlist* with comments and feedback (suggestions for essays to include), and most importantly if you would adopt such a book for a course you teach (please provide as much detail as possible). Much appreciated. -Greg Greg Elmer, PhD Bell Globemedia Research Chair Director, Infoscape Research Lab, www.infoscapelab.ca Rogers Communications Centre/School of Radio-TV Arts Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 416-979-5282 _______________________________________________ Co-Editor, Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces http://www.carleton.ca/space/

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Re: [Air-l] nvivo
by Alison Muirhead 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi there, If you're looking into different qualitative analysis tools I recommend visiting the overview written by Thomas Koenig at Loughborough University (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/research/software/caqdas_compariso n.html). It compares cost, technical data and functionality of about a dozen packages, including TAMS and WeftQDA which are freeware. There are a couple of other reviews I know of which may be of interest to you - see the comment attached to this blog post- http://www.inspire-research.co.uk/2005/03/engaging-networks-for-sustainable. html Hope this is of use, Kind regards, Alison. Alison C Muirhead Director Inspire Research Ltd Email: Alison(a)inspire-research.co.uk Web: www.inspire-research.co.uk

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Fwd: Stanford fair use project
by Dan L Burk 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Not a job for just anyone, but of interest nonetheless. DLB > > > Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society > Executive Director, Fair Use Project > > The Center for Internet and Society, located at Stanford Law School, is a > leading center for the study of the relationship between the public > interest, law and technology. CIS was founded by Founder and Director, > Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig. and is headed by Executive Director > Jennifer S. Granick, who also teaches the Cyberlaw Clinic. The Center for > Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy > program at Stanford Law School and a part of Law, Science and Technology Pr > ogram at Stanford Law School. The CIS brings together scholars, academics, > legislators, students, > programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction > of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the > two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy > public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry. The CIS strives as well > to improve both technology and law, encouraging decision makers to design > both as a means to further democratic values. > > The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), located at Stanford Law School, > is hiring an Executive Director to create, build and operate its Fair Use > Project. Fair use has traditionally been employed as a shield, protecting > creators after they are sued. However, threats of lawsuits and the > corresponding expenses deter creative expression even where the law would= > allow it. By taking a proactive stance, the Fair Use Project hopes to give > creators legal imprimateur for their creations. Also, through publicity, > copyright holders inclined to abuse their rights will be deterred. As a > result, creative expression will flourish. Through the use of affirmative > litigation in both commercial and noncommercial contexts, the Fair Use > Project will defend and expand the legal definition of "fair use." > > The Executive Director of the Fair Use Project will be the chief > administrator for the program, collaborating with and assisting the > Faculty director in all FUP activities. The position is for 12 months, > with the possibility of renewal. Functions will include: > > In collaboration with the Faculty Director, identify and develop > the direction and goals for the center. This may include identifying themes > and topics for academic symposia and other public presentations and > seminars. > > Take primarily responsibility for litigating ongoing intellectual > property impact cases, developing new initiatives to promote fair use, building the Fair Use Project, and public outreach. > > Take the lead in planning and executing all programs for the FUP. > > Assist with placement and editing of scholarly papers generated by FUP > events. > > Manage the budget for the FUP, including forecasting and reporting on >all activities and financial issues from year to year. > > Manage one or more CIS Fellows and Stanford Law School students to work on the cases in a clinical education setting. > > Qualifications: > > 3-5 years of post-law school civil litigation experience is required, as > is demonstrated ability to direct litigation of impact cases. Salary is > based on experience, with standard Stanford University benefits. > Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of > references, to: > > CIS Executive Director Jennifer S. Granick at: Crown Quadrangle, 559 > Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610 or through the CIS website. > > Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but the > preferred deadline for applications is March 8, 2006 > For further information, please contact Ms. Granick's legal assistant, > Lynda Johnston at 650-725-8571 > > > Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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Definition for Social Media?
by Niels Hendriks 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Dear List-members, in the past I have always been able to rely on the common knowledge of this list & I wish to thank you all for this. Once again I'm hoping for some help with this... As we (Belgian Master course in Communication & Multimedia Design - http://c-md.khlim.be) are working out new guidelines for Master theses,we are in search for the/a correct definition of Social Media. What we want to express with the term social media is the fact that in media design we are aware of the existence of others and the collaborations we see happening through the so-called social software. Concrete examples of social media are online communites, social networking places, social sharing tools (flickr),.... Although this is a nice start, we tend to feel that this is a very limited definition as we easily end up with an endless list of possible social practices, but not a more "abstract" definition. Can you help us with this? Thanks in advance, Niels Hendriks niels.hendriks(a)mda.khlim.be http://c-md.khlim.be

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Fwd: [MemberPubPol] Names for the Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum
by Jeremy Hunsinger 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

This is from isoc, but.. the nomination process is open. Begin forwarded message: > From: Matthew Shears <shears(a)isoc.org> > Date: April 3, 2006 3:24:32 AM EDT > To: memberpubpol(a)elists.isoc.org > Subject: [MemberPubPol] Names for the Advisory Group of the > Internet Governance Forum > > Dear all, > > > > You will recall that the Chair of the Internet Governance Forum has > called > for suggestions for candidates for the Advisory Group of the IGF. > Link and > details are here: http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm > > > > We understand that the AG will assist the UN SG and the IGF Chair > set up the > IGF and the Athens meeting - whether this particular AG would continue > beyond Athens remains to be seen. The AG will discuss substance > (issue > focus) as well as organizational matters (agenda setting, planning) > - the > first meeting of the AG is to be held (in Geneva) on May 22-23. The > composition of the 40 members is expected to be along the following > lines: > 20 or so from governments; 20 or so shared between private sector, > CS, and > the academic and technical communities. > > > > We are compiling a list of possible names to be forwarded to the > IGF Chair > and would very much appreciate your suggestions as to who would be > good > candidates for this Advisory Group. > > > > Many thanks for your assistance. > > > > Best, > > > > Matthew > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Memberpubpol mailing list > Memberpubpol(a)elists.isoc.org > http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/memberpubpol Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal

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Re: [Air-l] Language on the Internet (was AoIR in Latin-America)
by Cunliffe D J (Comp) 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi All, Joshua Raclaw wrote: "Are you suggesting that a spoken minority language might actually become endangered because it doesn't have an online presence? A vast majority of these minority languages don't even have a writing system." This is a subject of great interest to me, I would have responded earlier but I have been busy and rather ill. To the best of my knowledge, there is no conclusive evidence regarding the relationship between online presence and language death. However the assumption of a relationship is quite commonly held, though the nature of the relationship isn't always agreed upon: "The circumstances that have led to the present language mortality... [include]...electronic media bombardment, especially television, an incalculably lethal new weapon (which I have called 'cultural nerve gas')" Krauss, 1992, p6. "An endangered language will progress if its speakers can make use of electronic technology" Crystal, 2000, p141. However, it is important to recognise that all minority languages are not in the same boat. I totally agree that for some minority languages the Internet is totally irrelevant, but then for some so probably is printing. However for the larger minority languages, it seems to me that the lack of a presence could indeed be argued to be contributing to a languages decline. Take Welsh as an example, approximately 800,000 people with some language skill, good levels of education, high levels of exposure to computers in schools and in the home, reasonable levels of wealth. If Welsh is to be perceived as a modern living language, then surely it must have a presence on the Internet (as in fact it does). Much of the argument is not so much about new opportunities to use the language, but more to do with status, prestige and relevance to the modern world (see for example Eisenlohr, 2004). How could you convince a child going through Welsh medium education that their language was relevant if they never saw it on the Internet? The Catalans have recently gone so far as to establish a new top level Internet domain for their language/culture, so clearly they think it is of relevance to their language (Gerrand, 2006). Each minority language exists in a unique context, any generalisations about what will or won't be beneficial are doomed to look absurd for specific languages. Of course an interesting aside on this is to wonder what will happen to those languages that have a large real world speaker base but only have minimal presence online. Are you going to see a decline in these languages, or will we have some languages that are minority languages online but not offline? I am very happy to talk about these issues whether here on the list or off-list, so please don't be shy :-) Daniel. Daniel Cunliffe School of Computing, university of Glamorgan. www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~Daniel.Cunliffe/ D. Crystal, Language Death, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Eisenlohr, P. (2004) Language revitalization and new technologies: cultures of electronic mediation and the refiguring of communities. Annual review of Anthropology, 33, 21-45. Gerrand, P. (2006) Cultural diversity in cyberspace: the Catalan campaign to win the new .cat top level domain. First Monday 11 (1). Online document: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_1/gerrand/index.html M. Krauss, "The world's languages in crisis", Language, 68 (1), pp. 4-10, 1992.

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request: free nvivo equivalent
by Panayiotis Zaphiris 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi all.. we need to do some analysis of qualitative data (interviews and observation documents in MS word) we recently collected. We are looking for a free nvivo equivalent software to use to analyse our data as financial resources for this project are limited. any recomendations? thanks in advance... Panayiotis

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Re: [Air-l] FYA - "Public Spire"
by Christopher J. Richter 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

See Gilbert Rodmnan, "The Net Effect: The Public's Fear and the Public Sphere." Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age (ed. Beth E. Kolko). New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 11-48 for the eponymous and even funnier student gaffe. Chris Christopher J Richter, PhD Assoc. Prof. & Chair, Communication Studies Hollins University P.O. Box 9652 Roanoke, VA 24020 Tel. 5403626358 Fax 5403626286 e-mail crichter(a)hollins.edu www.hollins.edu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nathaniel Poor Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:07 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] FYA - "Public Spire" (humor, but true) I am grading exams. One of my somewhat dyslexic students who tends to confuse word-choice under exam pressure tackled a question about Habermas's Public Sphere, but instead for most of the answer wrote "Public Spire". I think that is pretty cool. An interesting new approach that perhaps acknowledges hierarchies within the PS idea. ^_^ ndp... --------------------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. www.umich.edu/~natpoor Visiting Assistant Professor Communication Studies Dept. Albion College http://www.albion.edu/commstudies _______________________________________________ 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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