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Re: [Air-l] Call for Participation: Community Web Workers Conference Sydney 8/9 Nov 2004
by uriram＠bgumail.bgu.ac.il 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

how do i un-subscribe from this list? thanks > > From: Marcus Foth <m.foth(a)qut.edu.au> > Date: 2004/09/01 ד AM 10:26:24 GMT+03:00 > To: <communityinformatics(a)vancouvercommunity.net>, > "'fibreculture-announce(a)lists.myspinach.org'" <fibreculture-announce(a)lists.myspinach.org>, > <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > CC: Jill Sergeant <JSergeant(a)afao.org.au> > Subject: [Air-l] Call for Participation: Community Web Workers Conference > Sydney 8/9 Nov 2004 > > Making Links 2004 is a conference for people working with websites in > non-profit and community sector organisations in Australia. > > http://communityweb.ngogeeks.com/ > > See email below for details.... > > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Jill Sergeant <JSergeant(a)afao.org.au> > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:06:08 +1000 > To: <communityweb(a)cat.org.au> > Subject: [Communityweb] November web workers conference > > Hi to all. > > We are now taking registrations for this event: > > http://www.afao.org.au/index_afa_771.asp?action=view_article&id=3042&section > =947 > > Don't miss out on our early bird registration discount. > > > Jill Sergeant > Website Officer > > Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) > PO Box 51 > Newtown 2042 > > Ph: 8568 1106 > Fax: 9557 9867 > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > > > -- > Marcus Foth, BMm BInfTech(Media) MA(DigitalMedia) > Webmaster > Queensland AIDS Council > PO Box 3142, South Brisbane BC QLD 4101, Australia > Email webmaster(a)quac.org.au > Web http://www.quac.org.au/ > > CONFIDENTIALITY > The information in these documents is confidential and is intended for the > exclusive use of the addressee named above. In certain cases it is also > legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, > reproduction, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this > communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission > in error please contact us immediately by telephone so that we can arrange > for its return. There is no warranty that this email is error or virus free. > It may be a private communication, and so, does not represent the views of > QuAC. If it is a private communication, care should be taken in opening it > to ensure that undue offence is not given. > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l-aoir.org mailing list > Air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >

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Web as a mirror.../web science research methods workshop - invitiation to dinner Sat 18 Sept
by Mike Thelwall 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

The Web as a mirror.../web science research methods workshop is having a pre-workshop dinner on Saturday the 18th September, and all are welcome. Free drink for everyone who comes along! ...English tradition of the host "getting the first round in" Meet at 7pm on Sat 18th at bus stop B next to Bramber House at the centre of the map http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/campus/map/map.pdf We can then get a bus into Brighton and find somewhere good, which should be fun. PS The Proceedings of the AoIR-ASIST 2004 Workshop on Web Science Research Methods are online at: http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/AoIRASIST/

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Research on identity communication in online communities
by Meng Ma 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Hello All, My advisors and I are conducting research on the identity management of online community members. I find some posts in this list very interesting and relevant. For example, last week or so, somebody posted a discussion regarding how people pick their nicknames online. We are studying various ways people manage (or negotiate) their identities and present themselves as who they are in the cyberspace. We are not able to find too much academic research in this area besides old works from Goffman and some social psychologists. So I think maybe I can post here and see if some colleagues have similar interests and/or can give some advice. Also, we developed an online survey for our study. If interested, anyone is welcome to fill it out while we conducting a pilot test. Here is a link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=6415601545 Sorry to bother those who are not interested. Thank you! _____________________ Jessie Meng Ma, PhD Candidate DIT, R.H.Smith School of Business University of Maryland, College Park.

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What's Kansas City doing on 9/11?
by david silver 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Friends, I am passing along information about events that will take place in Kansas City on Saturday, September 11. Anyone living in or near Kansas City should totally go! I believe the events represent the best in public scholarship. The reason I am posting this to a list devoted to internet studies is this: about 95% of all coordination of The September Project exists via the internet. The events (below) are organized in large part by my friend and colleague, George Williams, an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. George's blog: http://ghw.wordherders.net To find an event near you, please visit http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp david *** On September 11, 2004, people from all over Kansas City will share and discuss their ideas about citizenship, democracy, and patriotism. At the University of Missouri-Kansas City (call 816-235-2559 for more information). Open forum & Bring-your-own-picnic, 11-2 University Playhouse (51st & Holmes) Come have your say, listen to speakers, singers, poets. Bring a picnic lunch and have a conversation on the grass. Roundtable Discussion, 2-3:30 Oak Street Residence Hall Professors, students, and community members will discuss "Civic Responsibility in Light of September 11." Voter Registration Miller Nichols Library Exercise your right: register to vote. Johnson County Public Libraries (call 913-495-7514 for more information). The Continental Soldier, 10-11 a.m. Antioch Library, 8700 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Merriam, KS Storyteller Mark Armato brings to life the soul of an army soldier facing the discontents of war. Patriots and Poets, 12-1 p.m. Lackman Library, 15345 W. 87th St, Lenexa, KS Kansas City Star book editor and poet, John Mark Eberhart will read several poems celebrating freedom and democracy and mourning the losses of war. Patriots and Poets, 2-3 p.m. Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St, Overland Park, KS John Mark Eberhart will read several poems celebrating freedom and democracy and mourning the losses of war. The September Project is a collection of people, groups, and organizations working to create a day of engagement, a day of conversation, a day of democracy. The September Project is for all people. To learn more: http://www.theseptemberproject.org Contact George Williams at williamsgh[at]umkc[dot]edu _______________________________________________ cultstud-l mailing list: cultstud-l(a)mailman.acomp.usf.edu http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l

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Cool Stuff
by Nancy Baym 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Are you looking for a way to support AoIR and own more things at the same time? We have a variety of AoIR items available for purchase featuring the AoIR logo, some designed just for the upcoming Sussex meeting. Some items (including the fabulous messenger bag) are even on sale! We've got shirts, jackets, hats, mousepads, mugs, bags, and more! Browse our merchandise at: http://www.cafepress.com/aoir All the money we earn selling this stuff goes right back into the association that brings you things like...this list! If you have an AoIR-relevant design you'd like us to consider using on these things, send it to me and we'll consider it. And a reminder that paid membership in AoIR brings with it benefits such as discounted conference registration, book discounts, and journal discounts. The newest member discount? 20% off all books in the Digital Formations book series published by Peter Lang (including the first Internet Research Annual, featuring select papers from the first three AoIR conferences). To join visit http://aoir.org/join 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

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Game studies birds of a feather meeting
by Mia Consalvo 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Hi all, I just posted a message in the forums to have a BoF meeting for all those interested in digital games at Sussex. The day/time is Sunday 1-2:15 (from my draft of the program anyway). Please post there if you can make it, and if you can't, but would like to get together for a social gathering later in the conference, email me directly and I can let you know when and where we're getting together for that. Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. 213 RTVC School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 (740) 597-1521 consalvo(a)ohio.edu

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CFP: CSCW 2004 workshop on Social Networks for design
by Danyel Fisher 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

fellow A(o)IR members, I'm forwarding this announcement to the list because I think that this workshop represents an interesting approach to processing computer-based data and thinking about the applications of social networks to internet research. I'd like to invite you to consider submitting to the workshop, and attending CSCW 2004 in Chicago. CSCW is a research field studying Computer Supported Collaborative Work; while it draws largely from computer science, it has many active members with backgrounds in design, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. The CSCW Conference, held this year in Chicago in November, is one that many AIR members might enjoy. --------------- Social Networks for Design and Analysis: Using Network Information in CSCW A CSCW 2004 workshop. Workshop Date: Saturday November 6, 2004 – Chicago, IL Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 22 Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 1 [ Note that CSCW early registration ends on October 13. ] Workshop web page: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/ Organizers * Shelly Farhnam, Microsoft Research * Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research * David W. McDonald, The Information School, University of Washington The CSCW community has a tradition of adopting social and analytical theories to understand groups and group processes as well as when designing new systems to support and augment cooperative work. Social networks have a long tradition in sociology and cultural anthropology, but are only beginning to break in totheCSCWmainstream.Thekeynotion from network analysis, that the interconnections between people can be used to understand and improve their interactions, is one that has direct implications for CSCW research. Network models have clear implications for research into communication systems, teamwork, and knowledge management. Social networks are being used in several different ways: * "Social Network Analysis" – Which is the more traditional, formal, techniques of mathematical sociology and anthropology are used to analyze a population. * "Social networks" – The general connections that people have with each other. Examples include explicitly articulated social networks in Friendster, Orkut, or LinkedIn, which use the language and concepts of social networks. * Social network techniques in CSCW design – These techniques can vary from contact management, to recommendation techniques, to ways of understanding how an organization is adopting and using a new technology. While we are particularly interested in this third stream of research, we are generally interested in understanding the broad range of social network research within CSCW. We are interested in exploring tools that both use social networks as a source of information, and that support end-user interactions with social networks. This full-day workshop seeks participation from social scientists and system designers to address the ways in which social networks can be adapted for use in analyzing cooperation and as a framework for considering new system designs. The workshop will consider four specific topics: * MEASUREMENT - How are social networks being collected and measured (automatically, manually, quantitatively, qualitatively)? What do these networks actually represent? How are the networks validated? Are the measurements implicit or explicit? * TOOLS - What is the state-of-the-art for analyzing, visualizing and representing social networks? In what context are these tools useful and how can the tools be adapted to specific CSCW situations? * APPLICATIONS - Systems are embedding social networks into the fabric of system design. How can system designers distill the complexities of networks into user-oriented displays? How are social networks supported by the system, software, or architecture? * EVALUATION - How does the use of a social network change, facilitate, or hinder users and their collaborations? JOINING THE WORKSHOP Individuals interested in participating in the workshop should submit a position paper describing work in one or more of the topic areas above and a completed workshop survey. The workshop organizers will review position papers. Authors will be notified of acceptance to the workshop on October 1st. One goal of the workshop is to nurture interdisciplinary applications of social networks that specifically consider a CSCW perspective. Attention will be paid to representing a diverse spectrum of positions. The workshop will be limited to 15 participants. All workshop attendees should register for the CSCW conference. Proposals should consist of * A four-page position paper describing work in one or more of the workshop areas above. * A completed workshop survey, which is intended to get some ideas of the broad range of skills in the community. The survey can be found on the workshop web page, http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/ Please submit your workshop proposal to David McDonald, dwmc(a)u.washington.edu in PDF or Microsoft Word.

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CSCW 2004 Workshops Deadline
by Reddy, Madhu 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

[Apologies for Cross-posting] Dear Colleague, The workshop program of the ACM 2004 Conference on CSCW provides an opportunity for in-depth exploration of emerging themes with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. This year's program consists of 11 full-day workshops that will be presented on Saturday Nov. 6, 2004 and will cover a variety of topics on: - representations of digital identity, - long-term knowledge management, - social networks, - advanced collabortive environments, - collaboration transparency, - Eclipse as a vehicle for CSCW research, - Studies of social practices, - and much more Check out the complete program at http://www.acm.org/cscw2004/prog_workshops.html. Interested workshop participants need to submit a position paper to the workshop organizers by Friday, Sept. 10. Please join in what should be a lively and interesting set of discussions and exchanges on new and emerging themes on technology and social practices that shape our understanding of how people communicate, coordinate, cooperate and even compete. If you have any questions or comments about the workshops program, please do not hesitate to contact us at cscw2004-workshops(a)acm.org. For more information about CSCW 2004, please visit http://www.acm.org/cscw2004/ Andreas Girgensohn and Alison Lee CSCW 2004 Workshop Co-Chairs Madhu Reddy CSCW 2004 Publicity Chair

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Any new e-democracy/e-government researchers/articles?
by Steven Clift 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

If you are new on the scene with an interest in e-democracy or e-government (from online campaigning and advocacy through to e-consultation and political social networking), drop me a note: clift(a)publicus.net As part of my Democracies Online Newswire <http://dowire.org> effort I run a special e-mail list for e-democracy researchers. With APSA and the next AOIR conference coming up, I always notice a fresh crop of graduate students and others with interesting papers (of which I am always interested in reviewing when time allows). Sincerely, Steven Clift P.S. I am also looking for _regularly_ updated e-democracy-related RSS feeds for: http://dowire.org/feeds Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://e-democracy.org/do Speaking requests: http://publicus.net/speaker.html Watch my BBC World interview: http://publicus.net/media.html

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re-formatted program (size reduced)
by Ulla Bunz 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that we have re-formatted the Word file of the conference program for quicker download. I have dial-up at home, and the download took me now just under 40 seconds. The file now takes up just under 600KB instead of the approx. 3000KB it was before. Also, the tables no longer run off the page. Hopefully this helps. We considered saving it as an html file but that seems to increase the memory size again. As before, the program is available linked to the conference page at http://www.aoir.org/2004 under the "Program" tab. This was just a technical change. To the best of my knowledge, no scheduling changes were made unless you specifically discussed them with Sheizaf. Best, Ulla -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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