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RE: [Air-l] relation digital divide - knowledge gap
by Opgenhaffen Michaël 13 May '05

13 May '05

Thanks Eszter, Redhika, Ulla, Danny, Paula and others for your help. I understand that my question was not well formulated, my excuses for that! This is quite a complex domain for me and I want to get it right. Therefore, an additional question: If I got it right, the knowledge gap is the situation that some groups (high-class, white, rich, well-educated, ...) are getting smarter en smarter (because of there learning-abilities and -motivations and other benefits) and the other groups aren't, so that the gap between the info-rich and info-poor is widening (cfr Matthew-effect). Since the success of ICT, we can observe sort of a same distinction between those who can work with internet and computers and those who can't or won't. Those who can work with ict, benefit from that use, while the groups for who it could be great to work on (for closing the knowledge gap) aren't working with ict so that again, the gap is widening. I now i formulated it very briefly, but is this in general correct? My question is twofold: 1) Can i describe the difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users as 'a knowledge gap'? I thought I read it somewhere, but as i read your answers, i begin to think that the knowledge gap is more a social phenomenon and not the difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users. 2) If this difference can not be called 'knowledge gap', which concept do you suggest to describe this possible difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users? Thankx a lot in advance. I know my English is not as good as my dutch is, but i hope clear anough to understand. Michaël ------------------------- Michaël Opgenhaffen Translation studies and journalism Lessius school Antwerp Belgium

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trans/inter
by Barry Wellman 13 May '05

13 May '05

Somebody just queried this list about research comparing to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. What's the difference, besides different jargon communities? 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 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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new media theory + social software
by Kathy Mancuso 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi everyone, I don't want to say too much because I'm still trying to figure out what I'm thinking about, but does anyone know if anything has been done connecting the new media as art/visual product literature (here I am thinking Manovich on montage, Landow on hypertext, interface design theory) with current research on social software (danah boyd, Clay Shirky, the CoP crowd, et al)? So the visual aspects of social software. I am not thinking here so much of network mapping applications, of which there are plenty. Thanks, Kathy Mancuso

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transdisciplinarity
by Philipp Budka 13 May '05

13 May '05

Dear List, I am searching for literature on transdisciplinarity compared to interdisciplinarity (within the context of new media content production). I am grateful for any kind of info, particularly for online available articles and papers. Best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Rustengasse 5/10 A-1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net http://www.lateinamerika-studien.at -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++

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RE: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Dmitri Williams 12 May '05

12 May '05

Jim- Go to http://terranova.blogs.com/ It's where virtual world issues get posted and debated by most of the leading scholars and by the game developers, too. You'll also find a ton of links to people and papers in the area encompassing social psych and ethnographic approaches, but also legal and economic ones as well. -Dmitri ******************** Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:19:19 -0400 From: jcumming(a)email.unc.edu Subject: [Air-l] Virtual Worlds/Game Studies To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20050511101919.vjqrfumqw48ss808(a)webmail2.isis.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format="flowed" I'm a recent BA grad who is planning to enter a grad program focusing on virtual worlds and digital media in Fall '06. In the meantime, I am looking for meaningful work/experience related to those subjects - I'm particularly interested in the social psych & ethnography of online cultures, and their "emergent" qualities in relation to designers' intentions vs. players' use. Any suggestions? I already know of the conference recently posted on the listserv. My apologies for adding to the inboxes, but I was told this would be an excellent source of input. Thanks. Jim University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill --------------- Dmitri Williams Assistant Professor, Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Webology: Volume 2, Number 1, April, 2005
by Alireza Noruzi 12 May '05

12 May '05

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting firstly. We are pleased to inform you that the third issue of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ----------------------------- Editorial -- Saeid Asadi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/editorial3.html ----------------------------------------- Information Search Strategies on the Internet: A critical component of new literacies -- Laurie A. Henry -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a9.html ----------------------------------------- Information searching habits of Internet users: A case study on Medical Sciences University of Isfahan (MUI), Iran -- Asefeh Asemi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a10.html ----------------------------------------- Web Impact Factors for Iranian universities -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a11.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ----------------------------------------- Regards, A. Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne, France

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nominations
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 May '05

12 May '05

the nomination period is still open, it stays open until the end of the month. This is your chance to make a difference in AoIR, to determine the next few years, to develop and pursue an agenda that will benefit the association as a whole, so consider running for office. Note we also need volunteers and interested parties for systems management of aoir, so if you know someone with those talents and some spare time, nominate them too. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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CFP: Con/texts of Invention
by Dan L Burk 11 May '05

11 May '05

Of possible interest, from Martha Woodmansee. DLB > Con/texts of Invention > A working conference of the Society for Critical Exchange > > With support from the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case > Western Reserve University School of Law; the History of Science > Department at Harvard University; the Washington College of Law at > American University; and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical > Studies of Science at the University of Chicago > > Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio > April 20-22, 2006 > > This conference interrogates the social and cultural construction of > invention - the diverse ways in which invention has been conceptualized in > the arts and sciences in the broadest sense, including literature, the > fine arts, entertainment, the physical and life sciences, law, economics, > medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, communications, > computation, finance, and business. Emphasis will be on the institutional > cultures, rhetorics, and histories of invention across these fields. In > this way the Society seeks to extend and deepen the inquiry of its > long-standing project on "Intellectual Property and the Construction of > Authorship" (see www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/IPCA_main.html) Papers reflecting > upon the impact of the "critique of authorship" will thus be especially > welcome. The conference will include lectures and panel discussions; to > facilitate discussion, papers selected for panels will circulate in > advance of the conference. > > Topics may include (but are not limited to): > > * the author as inventor * the inventor as author * imitation and > originality * psychologies of creativity * pathologies such as writer's > (or inventor's) block * genius * hack(ing) * tradition and the individual > talent, including the anxiety of influence * forgery * crimes such as > plagiarism and piracy * the inventor as hero * invention vs. discovery * > simultaneous discovery * joint/collective invention * useful and useless > knowledge * the idea /expression distinction * invention vs. innovation * > material and social inputs to invention * invention policy * narratives of > invention * depictions of invention, including patent drawings * invisible > invention * inventing organisms * invention in rhetorical theory * genre > and invention * invention and memory * invention in popular and children's > literature * pedagogies of invention * invention and self-help, including > creativity workshops and invention promotion services * cross-cultural > perspectives on invention * invention and power * imperialism and > invention * universities and invention * rhetorics of entrepreneurship * > representations of collaboration * corporate authorship/invention * > economies of invention * legal incentives and disincentives * private and > public domains * discourses of intellectual commons, including free > software and open source * collage and sampling * geographies of invention > * ethnography of invention * gender and invention > > Please send paper abstracts (no full papers please), a CV of no more than > three pages, and any suggestions for panel topics by October 5 to: > dar29(a)case.edu. > > Conference Organizers: > Olufunmilayo Arewa, Law, Case Western Reserve University > Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard University > Peter Jaszi, Law, American University > Adrian Johns, History of Science, University of Chicago > Martha Woodmansee, English and Law, Case Western Reserve University Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA 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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User needs in digital repositories job
by Mike Thelwall 11 May '05

11 May '05

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Information Science - to analyse user needs in digital repositories A position has become available for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a 1-year project conducting analysing user needs in digital repositories. The approach will combine qualitative and quantitative methods, employing both colink analysis and interviews. The researcher will interview stakeholders for a range of types of digital repositories in the UK and use automated colink analyses to develop quantitative models of repository effectiveness and user base. Applicants are required to have * A Ph.D. in Information Science * Experience of postdoctoral research * Experience of analysing interviews for research purposes * Knowledge or experience of webometrics, or link analysis The project involves collaboration with another UK university and the researcher should expect to have to travel extensively within the UK for team meetings and conferences. Good communication and team working skills are essential. The salary is expected to be £24,450 for the year and the starting date is predicted to be 1 June 2005. Please contact Mike Thelwall m.thelwall(a)wlv.ac.uk by 20 May 2005 to request an application form or to express interest in the post. The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population, especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups.

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Know of humanities/social research on wireless?
by GTa3411203＠aol.com 11 May '05

11 May '05

I am also exploring the use of wireless devices to support workplace learning. Here are a few articles that might be helpful. Fortunati, L. (2005). Is body-to-body ocmmunication still the prototype? The Information Society, 21(53), 53-61. Fortunati, L. (2002). The mobile phone: Towards new categories and social relations. Information, Communication & Society, 5(4, 513-528. Green, N. (2002). On the move: Technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space. The Information Society, 18, 218-292. Jain, S. S. (2002). Urban errands: The means of mobility. Journal of Consumer Culture, 2(3), 385-404. Leonardi, P. M. (2003). Problematizing "new media": Culturally based perceptinos of cell phones, computers among united states latinos. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 20(2), 160-179. Rafael, V. L. (2003). The cell phone and the crowd: Messianic politics in the contemporary phillipines. Public Culture, 15(3), 399-425. --------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, Ed.M. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "There is no difference between living and learning." -- John Holt

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