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RE : [Air-l] Network Software
by OGEZ Emilie RD-TECH-LAN 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hello Yosem, I invite you to subscribe to the Socnet mailing-list which is about social networks : http://www.insna.org/INSNA/socnet.html And here is an article that could be useful: Huisman, M. & Van Duijn, M.A.J. (2005). Software for social network analysis. In: P.J. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (eds.), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 270-316). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/snijders/Software%20for%20Social%20Network%20Analy… Regards, Emilie -------- Message d'origine-------- De: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org de la part de Yosem Companys Date: dim. 06/11/2005 01:09 À: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Objet : [Air-l] Network Software Dear All, Does anyone know of any good network software programs with which I could analyze an email dataset of html files to be able to construct a social network of relations between senders, recipients and CCs? Thanks, Yosem _______________________________________________ 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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Artifact - a new journal from Routledge
by Ken Friedman 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Artifact - a new journal from Routledge Artifact is a new international, peer-reviewed academic journal treating the impact of computerization on design. VISION The computer has had a profound impact on the look, feel, and function of our everyday world. As a tool, the computer has become indispensable for the design professional, profoundly changing the design process. As a design material, the computer is extremely versatile, enabling intelligent objects and processes. As a medium, the computer transforms our understanding and stores our experiences. The combined impact of these forces is changing the relations between humans and our technology in unprecedented ways. Artifact does not draw an artificial line of demarcation between the virtual and the physical. It strives to illuminate the problems and possibilities in their interaction. The journal does not frame digital design as a design discipline such as industrial design or graphic communication. The unique role of the computer as tool, material, and medium, makes digital design an integrated element of almost any design project today, with designers in all fields and disciplines using digital design in some way. Artifact assumes an open position. The journal strives to promote transdisciplinary design research. It will not create or maintain disciplinary boundaries. Rather, Artifact will encourage cross- fertilization, interconnections, and crossbreeding among different scientific disciplines, the design industry, and the arts. PUBLICATION The journal appears in both a print version and a digital version. The journal is published using a 'Web first' concept. Each issue is first published on the web. The year's issues are gathered together into a full paper volume published at the end of the year. In some cases, web technology will mean that the web version supports special interactive features and links that can only appear in the print volume as illustrations and references. SUBMISSION We welcome contributions which seek to understand and reflect the different aspects and impacts of virtuality within the field of design from theoretical or applied perspectives. Artifact brings contributions in the form of academic articles, book reviews, design case post mortems, and design company profiles. To point to possible directions, we have selected themes for the first four issues of Artifact: - Volume 1, issue 1: What is an artifact? - Volume 1, issue 2: Soft artifacts. Tracing 'soft movements' in several creative domains, notably architecture and digital film. - Volume 1, issue 3: The third place? The ontological status of objects and events in computer games. - Volume 1, issue 4: Digital design processes. What impact has digital technology had on the design process? The themes are not meant to be exhaustive. We hope they will trigger ideas and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. Deadline for the first issue of Artifact is 18 November. Articles will be published 1 March 2006. However, contributions addressing the theme of the first issue may be published on-line at a later date and appear in the print volume. Please send submissions and queries by e-mail to Ida Engholm at <ida.engholm(a)karch.dk> or to Charlie Breindahl at <hitch(a)hum.ku.dk>. Articles should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word .doc format or as PDF files. Please send articles with a cover letter containing full author information. Articles should be prepared for double- blind review using anonymous format and full references in APA style. In addition, we welcome suggestions for design case post mortems, book reviews and designer profiles. EDITORS Charlie Breindahl External Lecturer University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen Denmark Ida Engholm Associate Professor Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Judith Gregory Faculty of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Erik Stolterman Director, Human-Computer Interaction Design Professor of Informatics Indiana University School of Informatics USA ADVISORY BOARD Thomas Binder Director Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Jeanette Blomberg Director of Experience Modelling Sapient Professor of Human Work Science University of Karlskrona/Ronneby Sweden David Durling Professor of Design Director of the Advanced Research Institute Middlesex University UK Lars Dybdahl Associate Professor The Department of Art History University of Copenhagen Denmark Pelle Ehn Professor School of Arts and Communication Malmö University Sweden Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School Norway and Denmark Susan M. Hagan Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University USA Marius Hartmann, Ph.D. Designer Danish Broadcasting Corporation Denmark Steve Jones Professor and Head Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago USA Klaus Krippendorff Gregory Bateson Term Professor University of Pennsylvania USA Lev Manovich Professor of Visual Arts University of California, San Diego + Director, Lab for Cultural Analysis California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology USA Bonnie Nardi Associate Professor School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine USA Jannie Nielsen Professor Department of Informatics Copenhagen Business School Denmark Christiane Paul New Media Curator Whitney Museum of American Art New York USA Martin Pingel Technological Coordinator Denmark's Design School Denmark Sharon Poggenpohl Professor Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Johan Redström Research Director, studio Design Göteborg Interactive Institute Gothenburg Sweden Michael Schmidt Createch Director k10k and Cuban Council Denmark/USA Lisbeth Thorlacius Associate Professor Department of Communication, Journalism, and Computer Science Roskilde University Denmark Wendy Siuyi Wong Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts York University Canada Kristoffer Åberg Senior Interaction Designer Sony Ericsson Sweden --

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Network Software
by Yosem Companys 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Dear All, Does anyone know of any good network software programs with which I could analyze an email dataset of html files to be able to construct a social network of relations between senders, recipients and CCs? Thanks, Yosem

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: JoCDS ... Special Issue on CI and CD
by Michael Maranda 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Friends, Upon my return from recent travels I was very excited to find waiting in my bushel of mail: "Community Development: the Journal of the Community Development Society, vol 36, No 1, special issue on "Community Informatics and Community Development" with Kenneth Pigg as Guest Editor. Unfortunately the abstracts are not available online (yet?) but I hope that the titles and authors I will list will prompt you to consider how we in the broader Community ICT field can work more closely together with organizations such as the Community Development Society: http://www.comm-dev.org Their conference will be next June in St. Louis, and is themed "Communities that Click" unfortunately their site indicates that the call for abstracts closed Oct 31 but I am sure that committed and interested parties can be accomodated it would be really great for Community Informatics, Community Networking, CTC and Community Development folks to connect there. We really are in an era of a convergences. Titles and authors in this special issue: Introduction: Community Informatics and community Development . Kenneth E. Pigg Bowling Alone and Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities . James K. Scott & Thomas G. Johnson Library and Information Science (LIS) and Community Development: The Use of Community ICT towards a Social Equity Agenda . Bharat Mehra Information Technology and Community-Level Socio-Economic Development Greg Laudeman Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development Norman Walzer & Justin Colavito Do Information and Communication Technologies Promote Rural Economic Development? . Kenneth E Pigg & Laura D. Crank Participatory Action Research for Electronic Community Networking Projects Larry Stillman Bulding Knowledge, Buidling Community: Integrating Internet Access to Secondary Data as Part of the Commity Development Process Julie N. Zimmerman and Alissa Meyer The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP): Networking our Nation -- A Decade of Lessons Learned Amy Borgstrom, Don Druker & Judith Sparrow A good number of recognizable names! The Journal is avialble with membership in CDS, but I can't find info at the moment as to ordering individual copies by other means. Regards, MM ____________________________________________________________________________ Michael Maranda President, The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) http://www.afcn.org Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter http://www.ctcnetchicago.org Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition (ilCTC) http://www.ilctc.org Vice President, CAAELII http://www.caaelii.org Vice President, NPOTechs http://www.npotechs.org Attend the Illinois Community Technology Conference, November 16-17, 2005. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference

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new issue of JCMC - including theme issue on culture and communication
by Charles Ess 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Dear Air-ists, JCMC's special thematic section on Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication (edited by Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess), is now available on the JCMC website: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ This issue was inspired by (and includes) several presentations made originally at our biennial conference series on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication" (CATaC) in 2004, Karlstad, Sweden. This issue brings together both: successful uses of the frameworks developed by Edward T. Hall and Gert Hofstede for analyzing cross-cultural communication online (primarily, interestingly enough, advertising websites - and in this genre, these frameworks "work" better for fast-food and universities [!!!] than for, say, durable goods - see the first article by Marc Hermeking, Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtaet, Munich) and critiques of Hall and Hofstede, coupled with proposed new models - including one based on the work of W.E.B. Dubois - vis-à-vis critical applications and empirical studies in Singapore, international online classes, and "mainstream" vs. sites designed by and for African-Americans (Brock). The explicitly ethical impetus behind this work is: how do we develop forms of cross-cultural communication online that do _not_ colonize "the Other" by imposing Western cultural values and communicative preferences? That is, despite our fond belief that these technologies are "just tools," i.e., somehow culturally and communicatively neutral, they demonstrably embed and foster the values and preferences of their Western [indeed, largely white male middle/upper-class] designers - thus threatening a form of "computer-mediated colonization" as they are enthusiastically diffused throughout the globe in the name of wiring an electronic global village, ostensibly for the sake of democratization, freedom of expression, economic prosperity, etc. By contrast, if such computer-mediated colonization is to be avoided, we need to become much more savvy about how to undertake cross-cultural communication online in ways that acknowledge, respect, and foster the cultural values and communicative preferences that define distinctive cultural identities and persons. Enjoy! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Heidelberg, Chris 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Thanks Denise! This article was helpful because I am doing my dissertation on "Edutainment & Convergence: How Entertainment Techniques Can Be Utilized In Higher Education." This article is interesting because it mentions a fact that I have discovered in my research since 9/2003 when I began my doctoral program in higher education administration: there is only limited meaningful empirical research to guide and enhance the quality of distance learning. Australia, Canada and Great Britain appear to be ahead of us here in the United States on applying distance learning. In fact, most of the meaningful research that I found that specifically helped me emanated from those nations. This does not mean that the U.S. does not have some success stories. However, the U.S. appears to have allowed distance learning, especially online learning, to become dominated by for profit institutions which may be a problem. Specifically, because of this problem, I am investigating another model. I am looking at the technology and entertainment practitioners as my subjects for my qualitative study. After graduation or if I receive funding, I will hire and find a great quantitative researcher/statistician and I will do a larger study, and from that sample I will continue my qualitative efforts. Since I already work as a producer/director/writer, I know fellow practitioners in Hollywood, Houston/San Antonio, Miami/Palm Beach and here in the Washington/Baltimore area. I have conducted a few pilot studies and I am working on an interactive website. If you know of any articles that you believe can help me, please forward them to me. I really want to contact James Gee because he has some provocative thoughts on edutainment. It may not be a panacea but it has some merits. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Roversi Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:43 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher? Denise N. Rall wrote: > Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the >lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the >University of Southern Queensland or gave the paper there. Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio _______________________________________________ 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] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Antonio Roversi 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Denise N. Rall wrote: > Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the >lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the University of >Southern Queensland or gave the paper there. Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio

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Birth of virtual communities
by Emilie MARQUOIS-OGEZ 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello everyone, I'm looking for examples of virtual communities that gave bearth to other virtual communities. I mean that the members of one virtual community (a mailing-list for instance) decided to have two virtual communities instead of one. The first one is about a subject and the second one is about another subject (linked to the first one, more specific, for instance). Have you ever heard of cases like this? Many thanks. Regards, Emilie Marquois-Ogez ---------------------------------------------- Emilie Marquois-Ogez Doctorante en informatique France Telecom R&D 38-40, rue du Général Leclerc 92794 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex France Equipes de recherche : - TECH/EASY/DIAG (France Telecom R&D) - Systèmes à objets coopératifs (IRIT - UT1) Tel : +33 (01) 45 29 81 91 Fax : +33 (01) 45 29 69 26 Page Web : http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/ceriss/soc/perso/marquois/Emilie% 20MARQUOIS.html

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Antw: air-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4
by Carl-Markus Piswanger 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I am out of office - for requests please call +43 (0)664 8340264 (Mailbox). I will be back on November 7. Carl-Markus Piswanger

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New mailing list: eBay studies
by Ellis, Rebecca M 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I would like to inform the AOIR list membership of a new academic mailing list set up in response to our recent successful conference, Cultures of eBay, held in August 2005 at the University of Essex. To join the list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ebay-studies.html The list is regarded as an undisciplined space for the discussion of a variety of eBay research themes including (but not exclusively) eBay and... identity, community, social capital, collecting in an e-society, consumption, consumer lifestyles, employment effects, website design, usability, the 'real' economy, the 'perfect market' and representations of eBay. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary research and collaboration through a discussion of eBay-related ideas and ongoing research. It also welcomes postings on relevant calls for papers and conferences. ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ________________________________________ E: rellis(a)essex.ac.uk Adastral Park, PP1 Ross Building, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 3RE _________________________________________

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