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GIS & social science workshops
by Ulla Bunz 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

The workshops below may be of interest to members of the list. I participated in last year's Columbus, Ohio workshop (this year's description sounds very similar) and found it very useful. A lot of the ideas can be applied to cybergeography. Ulla Bunz -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 --------------------------------- Original Message --------------------------------- Subject: CRTNET Digest - 29 Mar 2005 to 30 Mar 2005 (#2005-47) From: "Automatic digest processor" <LISTSERV(a)lists.psu.edu> Date: Thu, March 31, 2005 12:07 am To: "Recipients of CRTNET digests" <CRTNET(a)LISTS.PSU.EDU> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 3/30/05 From: Roger Smitter rsmitter(a)natcom.org The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) is currently accepting applications for participation in workshops under its Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) program, to be held this summer. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, SPACE seeks to disseminate tools and concepts for spatial thinking to individuals responsible for developing undergraduate curricula in the social sciences. The workshops are free to selected participants and scholarship support is available to help defray the cost of travel and lodging. The application deadline is April 15, 2005. A PDF version of the flyer with all the information can be found at http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/workshops/2005/SPACE_Workshops_2005.pdf

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Ethnography vs. Ethnomethodology
by Steffen Büffel 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all! Thanks for the very helpful replies I got to my original posting(s). BTW: Sorry again for the multiple postings. Turned out that our server got bambarded with spam the last couple of days. Instead of 200 000 - 300 000 mails per day it had to process over 800 000 emails (!!!) which slowed it down quite a bit and gave users the impression that email were lost in the virtual nowhere. Anyway, the replies I got raised another question for me, namely: What is the difference between ethnography and ethnomethodology? Of course I will go and check in the recommended readings myself but I thought that maybe this is an interessting issue for the list as well. Cheers. Steffen -------------------------------------- wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter University of Trier - Media Studies phone +49 651 201 2273 fax +49 651 201 3741 mobile +49 176 2120 4435 icq 115761393 http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html

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Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Steffen Büffel 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Dear all! I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological approaches to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and more recent publications (implying that classics have to be "old" *g*) you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! Steffen P.s. Seems I had some trouble with my Emails. Hope this one gets trough to the list.

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Re: [Air-l] Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Anne Beaulieu 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Jason Rutter's work springs to mind. he also has a specifically methodological paper coming out in C. Hine's anthology on virtual methods to be published this year. http://les1.man.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter/ Michael Lynch (Cornell) has also done important work on technology (though not specifically the internet) from an ethnomethodological perspective. http://www.sts.cornell.edu/viewprofile.php?ProfileID=9 regards, Anne >>> ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca 30/03/2005 23:24:04 >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steffen Büffel" <bueffel(a)uni-trier.de> To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:33 PM Subject: [Air-l] Ethnomethodology and Internet Research > Dear all! > > I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological > approaches > to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and/ or more recent > publications you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! > > Thanks! > Steffen > > -------------------------------------- > wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter > University of Trier - Media Studies > phone +49 651 201 2273 > fax +49 651 201 3741 > mobile +49 176 2120 4435 > icq 115761393 > http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Ethnomethodology and Internet Research
by Steffen Büffel 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Dear all! I'm a looking for key articles/ publications on ethnomethological approaches to Internet research. Are there any "classics" and/ or more recent publications you can recommend? Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! Steffen -------------------------------------- wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter University of Trier - Media Studies phone +49 651 201 2273 fax +49 651 201 3741 mobile +49 176 2120 4435 icq 115761393 http://medien.uni-trier.de/132.0.html

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Document History visualization
by Ellis Godard 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Interesting freeware tool, from IBM and noted on /. yesterday, that users Java to analyze collaboratively authored and edited documents like wikis (or any complex document developed over time) in a visual representation. >History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve > from the shows-border-wars-between-wiki-thugs dept. > posted by Zonk on Monday March 28, @00:43 (News) > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/054225 > > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/historyflow > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/screenshots/4985F7ED629EE82D88256FC700764 >E11/$FILE/historyflow03.jpg > > >What is History Flow Visualization? >History Flow Visualization is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving >documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. The >application includes online help, as well as a plug-in for retrieving the >history of a given page from any MoinMoin "wiki." ("Wikis" are Web sites >that are freely editable by anyone who visits them.) >

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Seminar series announcement - Online Learning
by Rebekah Willett 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

An exciting seminar series entitled ONLINE LEARNING: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES will be held in May and June at the Institute of Education, University of London. The series is organised by The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. Tuesday 3rd May 5.30-7.00, Room 639 Active participation or just more information? Young people's civic uses of the internet Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics Tuesday 17th May 5.30-7.00, Room 639 “Hello newbie! **big welcome hugs** hope u like it here as much as i do!” An exploration of teenagers’ informal on-line learning communities Julia Davies, Sheffield University Tuesday 7th June 5.30-7.00, Room 639 Online/Off-course: Exploring the political and economic construction of the digital curriculum Neil Selwyn, University of Cardiff All seminars are free and open to the public. For more information contact Rebekah Willett (r.willett(a)ioe.ac.uk) For directions to the Institute of Education, see www.ioe.ac.uk There is a map on the home page in the lower left hand corner.

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virtual rape?
by Kathy Mancuso 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

AoIRers, Who writes about virtual rape and sexual harassment other than Julian Dibbell (or people arguing online about the mr bungle case who get their facts from dibbell)? Thanks, Kathy Mancuso University of South Carolina Department of Anthropology -- "Sometimes, I get so sick of fighting. I have to slay the dragons of the myth of heterosexual European [able-bodied] male society in my dreams, then get up in the morning and be an activist . . . What if there really was a level playing field? I would love to see how far I could actually go. What if all I had to show off was my mad skills? Wouldn't I really be able to fly then?" --Margaret Cho Websites for my projects: Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software/blogging research (ask for CFP): http://del.icio.us/museumfreak SC Student Anth Conf (CFP): http://www.cas.sc.edu/Anth/events/scconference.htm USC does Britten's War Requiem: April 19, 7:30, Koger Center

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book announcement
by Ulla Bunz 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Upon request I'm forwarding the following. Ulla CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005 User-Centered Evaluation and Online Communities A book edited by: Niki Lambropoulos, Intelligenesis Consultancy, London, UK Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/communities-book.html -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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PhD course announcement at IT University of Copenhagen
by T.L. Taylor 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi folks. I will be hosting a PhD course at the IT University of Copenhagen on June 2-4 entitled "Mundane Technologies: The Structures and Practice of Everyday Use". The guest lecturers for it will be Lucy Suchman and Nina Wakeford. The course will explore the intersections between the structures of use embedded in technologies (be it physical configurations or software and architectures) and the actual practices that circulate through them. Rather than taking technological artifacts at face value, this course will examine 1) the embedded values, social & political configurations, and use-orientations within a technology (normative orientations) and 2) the intervening ways actual use is constructed, contested, and negotiated. The course will take up the notion of the "imagined user" and draw on work that seeks to understand the (at times messy) co-construction of technology and everyday users. Additionally, consideration will be given to methodological orientations that foster research exploring this relationship. The course will include students from a variety of fields, including those doing work on computer gaming, CSCW, Ubicomp, and internet studies to name a few. Students will focus on exploring - through the readings and reflections on their own research - the intersections between systems, values, and practices. Despite divergent objects of study (across several research departments), the goal of the course is to create a venue for some shared inquiry into the normative aspects of systems and the intervening everyday use of technological artifacts. Space is limited and applications are required. Check out http://www1.itu.dk/sw29224.asp for more details (ECTS will likely be 5 if a paper is submitted and a lesser amount if not). TL -- ___________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor Center for Computer Games Research Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communication IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax) tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.itu.dk/~tltaylor/

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