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social networking and habbo dot com
by Deanya Lattimore 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

has anyone done any research on the habbo.com phenomenon or others like it? It is a "safe site" for kids 13-18 years old where they create avatar characters and rooms for them, play games and chat. If anyone has information about other sites like this (I'm currently looking into yub.com) or any information about articles on social networking that take place in these kinds of spaces, I would love to hear it. I could probably also use references that survey children's computer use and studies of gendered behavior online. thank you all so much for this great list. Deanya Lattimore ABD Syracuse, Composition & Cultural Rhetoric http://www.deanya.com/

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SWG and user rebellion
by John White, PhD 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

I'm not certain if anyone is aware of this but it occured to me an interesting case study is happening with the MMPORG Star Wars Galaxies. A significant change to the game was released yesterday/today and is the subject of alot of discussion on the forums sponsored by Sony Online that support the game. Petitions have been started, canceled accounts, etc. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting event and thought someone might be interested in it from several possible angles, including social networks online, PR, and a few other orientations. Forums for the game can be found at: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/ No account required to view. JW -- ===================================================================== John B. White, Ph.D. | john.white(a)wku.edu Dept. of Public Health - WKU | Office: 270.745.5867 1 Big Red Way | Fax: 270.745.4437 Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576 | http://www.wku.edu/~whitejb ===================================================================== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 4/25/2005

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2nd CfP HICSS39 - E-Government Track
by Jochen Scholl 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Apologies for unintended double-postings-- CALL FOR PAPERS Electronic Government Track Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ Within the newly established e-Government Track < http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss >, a total of eight minitracks will cover the rapidly expanding e-Government research agenda at the 39th Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS39). Please find the detail minitrack calls under the specified URLs: € E-Gov Services, co-chairs: H. Brücher, K. Eschenfelder, & H. Krcmar http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsvcs?sub=egovsvcs € E-Policy, Law, and Governance, co-chairs: M. Janssen, S. Holden, & T. Maxwell http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/epolicy?sub=epolicy € E-Democracy, co-chairs: A. Macintosh, E. Welch, & S. Beaumaster http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/edemocracy?sub=edemocracy € E-Gov Organization and Management, co-chairs: M. Wimmer, S. Dawes, & T. Pardo http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmgmt?sub=egovmgmt € E-Gov Infrastructure and Interoperability, co-chairs: K. Andersen, R. Klischewski, & J. Scholl http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovinfra?sub=egovinfra € Mobile Government (m-Gov), co-chairs: R. Krimmer, R. Hackney, & J. Moon http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmobile?sub=egovmobile € E-Gov Security, co-chairs: G. White, T. Cresswell, & S. Jones http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsecurity?sub=egovsecurity € E-Gov Research Methods and Foundations, co-chairs: Å. Grönlund, J. Gant, & D. Norris http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovresearch?sub=egovresearch IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 !!New Date!! - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. - Late registration fee $675 applies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION € HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. € Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. € (Optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. € Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. € HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. € Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk(a)nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl(a)u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar(a)hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king(a)jda.com <mailto:david.king@jda.com> ; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis(a)indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen(a)aol.com <mailto:murphjen@aol.com> ; Dave Croasdell davec(a)unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague@hawaii.edu> Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu> Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis@indiana.edu> 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com <http://kauai.hyatt.com/>

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RE: [Air-l] blogs and value
by Van-Couvering,EJ (pgr) 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Sure, I use FreeMind and (previously) MindManager quite a bit. One way I use them is for literature reviews - to keep track of major subjects and articles. See http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2004/12/literature-searching-and-ma… Another is to organise my thinking around particular topics - but normally only at an early stage. I got started into mindmaps by reading Tony Buzan's original book on the subject, called Use Your Head -- he's written many since but to my mind this one is still the most interesting. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0563208112/qid=1114698278/sr=…. The reviewers for Amazon, I note, hate it. It bears more looking into, but I have found it useful. Freemind is a good and free program. So I like that. Haven't used or heard of ZigZag before. Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: Alan Sondheim [mailto:sondheim@panix.com] Sent: 27 April 2005 22:47 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] blogs and value Along these lines - has anyone worked with diagrammatic tools such as FreeMind or Ted Nelson's ZigZag? I'd really like to hear about their experiences. Thanks, Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ nettext at http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ WVU 2004 projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ partial backup at http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Books: Vel (Blazevox) The Wayward (Vox) Sophia (Writers Forum) .echo (Alt-X) _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org(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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IR conference reviewing complete
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

We have completed the review of the paper for the IR 6.0 conference. If you have submitted a paper, panel, roundtable or workshop, you should have received an email by now with an acceptance or rejection. We received around 325 single paper submissions of which we have accepted approximately 220 papers. In addition we have accepted 17 multi-paper panels, 7 roundtables, and 6 workshops (half and full-day). Acceptances were based on the reviews submitted by the team of reviewers -- thanks all for a job well done! We determined acceptance by sorting the papers by the recommendations given by reviewers. Recommendations were "Accept", "Probably Accept", "Probably Reject", "Reject". We sorted the papers to determine a top set with an automatic acceptance, and a comparable set with an unequivocal rejection. This left, of course, a set with mixed reviews. We made our way through the middle range reviewing papers and reviews of the papers to make final decisions. In general, of papers accepted, the recommendations toward acceptance will have outweighed those toward rejection. Now, the task of organizing who talks when! Looking forward to seeing lots of you at the conference in October. We will be working on the program organization, and will keep you posted on our progress. /Caroline Haythornthwaite Program Chair IR 6.0 ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Re: [Air-l] IR conference reviewing complete
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Thanks .. on behalf of myself, Anna, Ingbert, and all the anonymous reviewers! /C ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:19:55 -0500 >From: Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] IR conference reviewing complete >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >On behalf of the executive committee of AoIR, let me say: > >THANK YOU TO CAROLINE AND ALL THE REVIEWERS!!!!! > >It's a lot of work and we really appreciate your efforts to make our >conference as good as it can be, > >Thanks! > >Nancy > > >-- >Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym >Communication Studies, University of Kansas >Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA >Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org >_______________________________________________ >The Air-l-aoir.org(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/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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RE: [Air-l] Online survey tools
by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dr. 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Tamara, I have used SurveyMonkey (www.surveymonkey.com) I found it to be very easy and user-friendly and does everything you are asking for; I think it cost about 20/ month. For up to 10 questions and fewer than 100 respondents, it's free, so you can try it out for a smaller project. What was nice about it was that all your data stay there even when you discontinue paying the monthly fee. You can decide to restart your account any time. Doreen -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Tamara Paradis Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:14 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Online survey tools I have to do an online survey to gather ethnographic data for a research paper. I know of a few survey tools out there that are completely hosted and provide an aggregate of the results, but I've no idea what their cost is. Have any of you used some good tools for this? I basically want to be able to send my prospective respondents a link via email that they follow to fill out the survey online and submit it. It would be approximately 20 questions, with only a few allowing write-in responses. Ideally I'd like to export the results afterwards into a spreadsheet for analysis and crunching. Tamara _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org(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] blogs and value
by Amanda Lenhart 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I just complete my MA thesis, and it addresses some of the topics discussed in this thread. In particular, I looked at the interaction between a blog author and his or her audience, both measurable and imagined, and how the conceptualization of audience alters a blog author's presentation through/in the blog. Further, the thesis discusses how problems and variations in audience conception create difficulties in interactions in the blog and the formation of norms for blogging. My thesis is not yet available online, but if you would like to read it, please email me off-list. --Amanda Amanda Lenhart Communications, Culture & Technology Georgetown University & Pew Internet & American Life Project alenhart(a)pewinternet.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Justine Humphry Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:54 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] blogs and value Hi Tamara, My own blogging practice and motives are much more akin with yours Tamara. I think that one of the advantages of imagining that there "might" be a readership but not being entirely concerned if there is one or not, can help to formulate your thinking as a process in itself. I used to use a technique in journalling where I imagined myself writing for someone and had an image in mind of who that person was. I think this is one of the playful aspects of blogging and writing in general. With blogs this is particularly powerful since it blurs the line between imagined community and existing community. The idea that it is a solitary and self-reflective exercise and that it also published and may interest others and be read by others is not mutually exclusive. Cheers, Justine On 4/28/05, Alan Sondheim <sondheim(a)panix.com> wrote: > > > Along these lines - has anyone worked with diagrammatic tools such as > FreeMind or Ted Nelson's ZigZag? I'd really like to hear about their > experiences. > > Thanks, Alan > > http://www.asondheim.org/ nettext at > http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ WVU 2004 > projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ partial backup at > http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects at > http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Books: Vel (Blazevox) > The Wayward (Vox) Sophia (Writers Forum) .echo (Alt-X) > _______________________________________________ > The Air-l-aoir.org(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-aoir.org(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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uk election blogs
by Wainer Lusoli 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

A note of update on the UK election: there are about 50 candidates blogging, different styles of course, out of 3500+ candidates. I posted a list to the AoIR blog, http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/561, if you want to take a look. Following a recent thread on the list, I'd be curious to see how the blogs add to / subtract from the communication of candidates' campaign. Wainer ----------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Fellow @ ESRI University of Salford http://www.lusoli.info w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk +44 (0)161 295 5126 -----------------------

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FW: [chineseinternetresearch] Fantasies Inspire Chinese Gamers (BBC)
by Charles Ess 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Just in case anyone interested in games may not have seen this.. 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: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 ------ Forwarded Message From: Jack Linchuan Qiu <qlcomm(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: <chineseinternetresearch(a)yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 04:01:55 -0000 To: <chineseinternetresearch(a)yahoogroups.com> Subject: [chineseinternetresearch] Fantasies Inspire Chinese Gamers (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4486823.stm Fantasies inspire Chinese gamers By Louisa Lim BBC News, Beijing Ancient warlords and dragons that breathe fireballs loom large in China's online fantasy games. And the virtual world is sometimes taking precedence over the real one for the growing band of online gamers. International firms are eyeing China's computer gaming industry because it offers huge prospects for growth. But one unusual story, which recently hit the headlines here, possibly points to a worrying trend. Harsh reality It involved a 41 year old man, Qiu Chengwei, who had become hooked on a popular online game called the Legend of Mir 3. Mr Qiu had spent many hours amassing points to earn the right to use a cyber weapon called a Dragon Sabre. But he had made the mistake of lending his precious weapon to another player, who promptly sold it for almost 900 real world US dollars. Mr Qiu was so incensed he went to the police, but was told that the law doesn't protect virtual property. He then went to the house of the man who sold his cyber weapon and stabbed him in the chest, killing him. Mr Qiu has pleaded guilty to intentional injury but says he never meant to kill. This cautionary tale shows just how seriously people are taking online games in China. Something to do For some, internet games are more important than virtually anything else. I know two thirty-something friends who decided their aim in life was to gain supremacy in one particular game, in this case a historical war game. For more than a month, they took it in turns to play - one sleeping on a camp bed by the computer, while the other played. For them, the reason was simple: boredom. One had been laid off and had nothing better to do. The other worked at a state-owned bank, so could catch up on his sleep at work. Eventually, through their joint efforts, they amassed enough points to become nationwide champion, so they decided to stop. That's the story they told me, though I suspect that their wives had something to do with it. Gold rush In Chinese country towns especially, there isn't a lot to do at night. But go into any internet cafe and you'll find rows of youngsters tapping away, oblivious to the outside world. China's puritanical press has even labelled internet cafes "hotbeds of juvenile crime and depravity". And this notion is reinforced by stories of internet-related deaths, like the unfortunate seller of the Dragon Sabre or two students who fell asleep on a railway track after an all-night session at an internet cafe. Nonetheless, money is king in China. Online gaming is a massive market, and one that is increasing exponentially. Last year China had almost 100 million internet users; one-fifth of them played online games. In 2004, the online gaming industry was worth $600m. That may not sound like that much, but it represents growth of 60% over the year before. A 31 year-old who set up an online gaming company just six years ago has been named China's second richest man, with an estimated fortune of more than $1bn. Beijing wants to capture the market, and is setting up a college of internet gaming to train developers to come up with healthy games. With hundreds of millions of potential gamers still lacking access to the internet in China, this could be the new gold rush. And no one wants to be left out. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chineseinternetresearch/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: chineseinternetresearch-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------ End of Forwarded Message

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