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re: [Air-l] Citations wished for on "interpretative reflexivity"
by Matt Ratto 08 Jul '04

08 Jul '04

Dear Denise, not sure exactly what you're looking for - the first use of the term ïnterpretive reflexivity" or work on more general concepts of reflexivity and sts. If the latter, I've always found Steve Woolgar's comments to be thought-provoking, in particular, his responses to Collins and Yearly in the 'epistemological chicken' debate: (1992) "Some Remarks about Positivism: A Reply to Collins and Yearly" in Science as Practice and Culture, ed. Pickering, A., University of Chicago Press, Chicago. pp. 327-342 He also has a book which addresses this subject: (1988) Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge. Sage, Beverly Hills. Nice stuff in here by Malcolm Ashmore . best, Matt Dr Matt Ratto Networked research and digital information KNAW-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science Joan Muyskenweg 25 Postbus 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: (31)(20)462-8719 fax: (31(20)665-8013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/toon

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RE: interpretative reflexivity
by Steve Brown 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

The classic source for this in STS is: Ashmore, M. (1989) The reflexive thesis: Wrighting sociology of scientific knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press you might also want to look at: Woolgar, S. (ed) (1988) Knowledge and reflexivity: New frontiers in the sociology of knowledge. London: Sage. Finally forced to de-lurk! Steve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Steven Brown tel: +44 (0)1509 228487 Department of Human Sciences fax: +44 (0)1509 223940 Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU s.d.brown(a)lboro.ac.uk UK http://devpsy.lboro.ac.uk/psygroup/sb/home.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:56:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [Air-l] Citations wished for on "interpretative reflexivity" To: air-l(a)aoir.org Message-ID: <20040707055630.49248.qmail(a)web12101.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Air-er's- Thanks heaps for all your communiques over the years. I have actually put a few citations into Endnote from this list (about 300) and will upload that to my website as soon as I can. In the meantime, will the STS'ers on the list help me out here with interpretative reflexivity. Textbooks, websites, citations - I have looked, end up with Pierre Bourdieu, but I am loking for the STS version of this theory. Most grateful, will post anything back to list that arrives off list, Cheers, Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, Env. Science & Mgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html

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Re: time of AoIR conference
by Michel J. Menou 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

In complement to Kathleen's reply, please note that there are workshops Saturday Sept. 18 afternoon, from 1pm, and Sunday morning. The workshops program is already available on the site under "program" Michel alrao> Message: 3 alrao> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:58:29 +0100 alrao> From: K.S.O-Riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk (Kathleen O'Riordan) alrao> Subject: Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open! alrao> To: Association of Internet Researchers <air-l(a)aoir.org> alrao> Message-ID: <1089104309.40ea69b5b8d88(a)webmail.sussex.ac.uk> alrao> Content-Type: text/plain alrao> Dear Eleftheria alrao> Apologies, the preliminary programme is not yet available, although we alrao> hope to produce this soon. The conference runs from midday on Sunday alrao> until midday on Wednesday. alrao> Regards alrao> Kate O'Riordan alrao> <Eleftheria.Vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl>: >> Dear Colleagues, >> Is there any preliminary programme of the conference available? What >> time does it start on Monday? Until what time does it last on >> Wednesday? >> I need this information to book accomodation/ ticket. >> Thank you very much. >> Kind regards, >> >> >> Eleftheria Vasileiadou, >> Communication researcher >> >> Department of Social Sciences >> NIWI-KNAW >> PO BOX 95110 >> Joan Muyskenweg 25 >> 1090 HC Amsterdam >> Tel. +31 20 462 8637 >> Fax. +31 20 665 8013 >> Eleftheria.vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl >>

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3 New Papers + 1 Extended Abstract on opensource.mit.edu|freesoftware.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

Hello Friends, <sorry for any x-posting> Hope everyone is doing OK and have recovered from July 4th, EuroCup 2004, Tour de France and other assorted summer fun! Please find below 3 new papers and one extended abstract on the opensource.mit.edu|freesoftware.mit.edu website. Many thanks to all the authors who submitted their work. Please provide them with comments on their working papers. Ok back to my dissertation writing. Warmly, Karim -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu Paper 1 Authors: Twidale, Michael B & David M. Nichols Title: Usability Discussions in Open Source Development http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/twidalenichols.pdf Abstract: The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore how open source projects address issues of usability. We examine bug reports of several projects to characterise how developers address and resolve issues concerning user interfaces and interaction design. We discuss how bug reporting and discussion systems can be improved to better support bug reporters and open source developers. Paper 2 Authors: West, Joel & Siobhán O'Mahony Title: Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/westomahony.pdf Abstract: Prior research has focused on community-founded open source projects; more recently, firms have spun out existing code to create a new project. We compare the lifecycle differences between these models, and identify identify problems unique to spinout projects, particularly in building an external community. We illustrate these issues by examining a proposed open source project for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Paper 3 Authors: Henkel, Joachim & Mark Tins Title: Munich/MIT Suvey: Development of Embedded Linux http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/henkeltins.pdf Abstract: The use of Linux in embedded devices has increased enormously in recent years. Most of the publicly available code for embedded Linux is developed and contributed by commercial firms, not by hobbyists. This raises the question if and how the development process differs from that of other OSS. This issue was addressed in a survey of embedded Linux developers yielding 268 valid responses. This paper is a collection of descriptive results from the survey. Extended Abstract Author: Bertelli, Federico Title: Open source software development put in an impure public goods context http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/bertelli.pdf Description: The open source software development appears to be a problem of pure public goods contribution, but looking more in depth emerge the classic question posed by Lerner and Tirole: "Why should thousands of top-notch programmers contribute freely to the provision of a public good?". So, the aim of this research is to elaborate a model able to cope with the low level of free riding.

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working definition of Internet Studies & Research
by Denise N. Rall 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

It is with great interest that I read David Silver's paper about Internet Studies, after sitting on the panel at Toronto meeting. Excellent work, David! Silver, D. (2004). "Internet/cyberculture/digital culture/new media/fill-in-the-blank studies." New Media & Society 6(1): 55-64. I wanted to (unpublished scholar as yet) offer my definition of the field, Internet Studies & Research, (I built my own fill-in-the-blank) for free: A preliminary definition of Internet Studies & Research states: Internet Studies & Research, as it develops within programs of study or research projects at universities, research centers or institutes, is elaborated by scholars who work across disciplines and take the internet, *its use and users* as their objects/subjects of study and research (Rall, 2003). ------------------------------------------------------- It's a bit awkward there with the subjects/objects hybrid there - but sometimes internet interactions are objects (infometrics, webmetrics, measuring links - I wouldn't call them subjects) and sometimes they are subjects or rather, participants, but the objects/partcipants seemed even dicier than objects/subjects. Sometimes internet reseach measures things, and sometimes it considers people . . . not to open the QUANT/QUAL discussion again! It's a free definition, so feel free to comment! (and I will *seek permission* from you invididually before using any email responses for my research!!!!) Cheers, Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, Env. Science & Mgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open!
by Eleftheria Vasileiadou 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Dear Kate, Thank you very much for your prompt reply. Kind regards, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Communication researcher Department of Social Sciences NIWI-KNAW PO BOX 95110 Joan Muyskenweg 25 1090 HC Amsterdam Tel. +31 20 462 8637 Fax. +31 20 665 8013 Eleftheria.vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl http://www2.niwi.knaw.nl/en/maatschappijwetenschappen/staf/eleftheria/toon

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open!
by Eleftheria Vasileiadou 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Dear Colleagues, Is there any preliminary programme of the conference available? What time does it start on Monday? Until what time does it last on Wednesday? I need this information to book accomodation/ ticket. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Communication researcher Department of Social Sciences NIWI-KNAW PO BOX 95110 Joan Muyskenweg 25 1090 HC Amsterdam Tel. +31 20 462 8637 Fax. +31 20 665 8013 Eleftheria.vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl http://www2.niwi.knaw.nl/en/maatschappijwetenschappen/staf/eleftheria/toon

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Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Possibly of interest to AoIR members ... > > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Volodymyr Kindratenko wrote: > > >> > I would like to invite you to participate in the Second >> > International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social >> > Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces. This workshop >> > will be organized in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on >> > Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'04), held September 7-10, 2004 in Nottingham, >> > England. Please find attached Call for Participation or visit workshop's >> > website at http://www.dynamo-interactive.com/ubicomp04/. >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > >> > Volodymyr Kindratenko >> > >> > PS: Please forward this CfP to anybody you think may be interested in >> > attending the workshop. > > > > > > * > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > Volodymyr Kindratenko, Ph.D. .......... kindr(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu > > > > > > National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) > > > University of Illinois (UIUC) phone: 217-265-0209 > > > 605 East Springfield Avenue fax: 217-244-2909 > > > Champaign, IL 61820, USA > > > http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~kindr > > > http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > *

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what are YOU doing on SEPTEMBER 11?
by david silver 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Folks, A few months ago, I posted information about The September Project to air-l. These days, the project has grown quite considerably. Please take a moment to read this email and please consider getting involved. david Here is a project that might interest some of you. The September Project is a coordinated effort to get people to gather in public places like libraries on Saturday, September 11. There, they will engage in talks, deliberations, and performances about democracy and citizenship. We believe libraries are the best infrastructure upon which to build because they are free, they are public, and they are distributed across this country and most countries. We are here http://www.theseptemberproject.org In the States, we are working with 101 libraries, schools, and colleges in 23 states. A map: http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp Participating libraries include public libraries, primary and secondary school libraries, academic libraries, libraries for the hearing and visually impaired, and juvenile hall libraries. Spain's El Proyecto Septiembre has stretched the project outside the US. They are here http://septiembre.ciberpunk.org. If you do not know Spanish, you can translate it by cutting and pasting the URL into this site http://babelfish.altavista.com With help from our friends in Spain, we are in contact with folks interested in setting up similar projects in Canada, Chile, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela. International hosts are planning events that focus on issues that matter to them. Our goal is to have 1000s of public spheres on Saturday, September 11, 2004. We believe that this is a way for all of us, the people, to assume an active and creative role in defining, shaping, and expressing what this day means to us. Having the events take place on September 11 -- perhaps one of the most contested entities in our times -- is a natural. What if internet studies scholars, centers, units, and departments help organize events? The mode of events is up to you and your communities: talks on freedom and democracy; deliberations on citizenship; performances on identity and nation, etc. All we ask is that the events are free and public. We hope all events will be accompanied with voter registration and encourage all US-based organizers to work with the League of Women Voters. I'd love to be part of a thread on air-l about what we can do. At the very least, please consider doing one (or all!) of the following: 1. Contact your local public, university, K-12, and/or correctional facility library to learn what they have planned for September 11. 2. Share the idea with the organizations to which you belong -- professional, civic, cultural, religious/spiritual -- and ask them to collaborate with their local libraries. 3. Volunteer at your local library as a speaker, performer, roundtable participant, and/or event coordinator. 4. Post, forward, and distribute -- locally, nationally, globally -- this message through as many channels as possible. 5. Show up at participating public spaces on Saturday, September 11, 2004. Bring your family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Thank you for your time. I hope you all get involved and I hope we can share ideas on this list. david silver www.theseptemberproject.org

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TASA Conference
by Marj Kibby 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

Please send any response to this email directly to Wendy Mee: <w.mee(a)latrobe.edu.au> TASA '04 Conference 'Communication, Media and Cyberspace' Panel Latrobe University Beechworth, Victoria Australia 8-11 December 2004 Please see TASA Conference website for further information: http://www.tasa.org.au/conference/index.php 'Communication, Media and Cyberspace' This is a general invitation to researchers investigating social issues relating to communication, media and cyberspace. This panel seeks to engage with a diversity of approaches to the study of visual, text-based and audio technologies. We encourage papers which explore issues as wide-ranging as representation and identity; memory and visual culture; globalization and digital divides; the use of the Internet and other media in the delivery of healthcare and education; (dis)embodiment and emotion, and the media in nationalist and postcolonial politics. Postgraduate scholars and early career academics are particularly encouraged to apply. Please note the following: Full Papers Refereed - 3000 words, 200 word abstract, submitted by 31 July 2004 Authors of papers accepted for inclusion in the Refereed Conference Proceedings will be allotted 20 minutes in the conference session, plus 10 minutes for questions. (Alternatively, authors can submit a long abstract of between 500-750 words by 31 July and the full paper by August 15) Full Papers General - 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 You may if you wish submit a 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 of a paper for acceptance in this section of the conference even if you do not wish to be included in the CD. Papers of this length will be allotted 20 minutes in the conference session, plus 10 minutes for questions. Work in Progress Paper - 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 The third option is that you may submit an abstract of 200 words by 15 October 2004 for a work in progress paper. These papers will be allotted 10 minutes in the conference session, plus 5 minutes for questions. Please direct all enquiries to Wendy Mee w.mee(a)latrobe.edu.au Thanks! TASA Office School of Social Science The University of Queensland ST LUCIA QLD 4072 Ph: 07 3365 7516 Fax: 07 3365 1544 Email: admin(a)tasa.org.au ABN: 17 398 473 186 Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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