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CFP: Online personals workshop at CHI 2004
by Andrew T. Fiore 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

We're happy to announce a workshop about online personals for CHI 2004. The deadline for submitting position papers is 12 January 2004. We hope to see you in Vienna! Please feel free to forward this announcement as widely as you would like. Thank you! Andrew Fiore Jeana Frost Judith Donath MIT Media Lab ========== Online Personals: "Scientists, designers seek same for good conversation" CHI 2004 Workshop: Call for Participation Vienna, Austria Monday 26 April 2004 Organizers: Andrew T. Fiore Jeana H. Frost Judith S. Donath Contact: <chi-personals(a)media.mit.edu> On the Web: http://smg.media.mit.edu/personals/chi2004/ ::: ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Online personal advertisements have shed their stereotype as matchmakers for the awkward to claim a prominent role in the social lives of millions of users. This one-day workshop will bring together social scientists and designers to discuss: 1. How people are behaving in online personals systems and how best to study this behavior. 2. How different personals systems handle self-expression, searching, matching, and communicating. 3. How the design of personals systems interacts with individual and cultural constructs of relationships and attraction. 4. New methods, metaphors, design paradigms, and gadgets for finding and communicating with dating partners. ::: HOW TO APPLY To apply for the workshop, simply submit a 2- to 4-page position paper. We will consider a variety of work related to online personals, as appropriate to your discipline, as long as it reflects your experience with or consideration of the topics above. Some suggestions: * Quantitative study of behavior on a personals system * Novel designs for better personals systems (especially radical departures from the norm) * Review of the literature on attraction and its application to online dating * Interviews (or surveys) with users of online personals systems * Experiment involving construction and perception of identity in personals ads We will select participants from diverse backgrounds based on the relevance and originality of their position papers. Please email your paper to chi-personals(a)media.mit.edu by 12 January 2004. We will notify you of acceptance by 23 February 2004. Limited to 15 participants.

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Social movements and the Internet
by Lee Salter 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

The following conference is not solely on the Internet, but there is a strand on social movements and the Internet, which some subscribers might be interested in? The Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill College, UK 2nd International Conference: Imaging Social Movements Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004 Call for Papers Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising a 2nd International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of the construction of images, representations and articulations of social movements. The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon the political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which social movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others create and contest images of them. This conference aims to bring together social movement researchers across the social sciences and humanities in considering questions of conception, process and outcomes in the imaging social movements - past, present and future. Proposed indicative strands include: Social Movements and the Internet Social Movements and Popular Film The Mechanics of Representation Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements Media construction of Opposition The Documentary Tradition Performance Social Movements and Popular TV We welcome traditional papers, posters and less traditional audio-visual presentations. Send proposals with abstract of 150-200 words by 31st January 2004 to Roger Spalding/Lee Salter Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP. UK Email: salterl(a)edgehill.ac.uk Web site: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/ -- Lee Salter School of Law, Governance and International Relations London Metropolitan University, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2AD

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Position posting--Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNLV
by J. Kilker 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

Title:Director, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Mass Communication, full time 12-month tenure track position. Responsibilities: The program director will supervise and provide leadership for faculty and staff; manage the program budget, oversee recruitment of new faculty and staff, schedule and staff courses, be involved in student advising, act as the program's primary advocate to the dean, build and maintain the program's standing nationally and internationally, continually evaluate the program's quality and success, The Director will be responsible for program administration, teaching, research, adviser, and scholar. He or she will report to the Dean's Office in the College of Urban Affairs. Qualifications: Ph.D. in Journalism, Mass Communication, or related area, commitment to teaching and research, strong leadership skills, ability to mentor faculty, foster a collaborative, supportive environment, administrative experience. Evidence of teaching effectiveness and a dynamic research program leading to regular publication must be provided. He or she must be tenurable at the full professor rank. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with ACEJMC accreditation, knowledge of information technology and new media. Evidence of successful grant writing and fundraising is also preferred. Position contingent upon funding. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The review of the applications will begin January 15, 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should include a letter of interest, curriculum vita, and three letters of recommendation. For more information see the UNLV World Wide Web site at http://www.unlv.edu Contact person: Professor Helen Neill, Chair, Environmental Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454030, Las Vegas, NV 89154. Phone: (702) 895-4892, neill(a)ccmail.nevada.edu UNLV is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity educator and employer committed to excellence through diversity.

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Social impacts of digital "piracy"
by Tamara Paradis 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Hello (This is my first time posting to the list, so I guess I'm officially "de-cloaking"!) As part of a soci/anth field research course I'm taking at Concordia University, I'm doing a small-scale research project on digital appropriation tactics among young Canadian males, a practice that is often called "piracy". However, I don't use that term, because it seems laden with negative sterotypes and pre-conceptions. I'm particularly interested in how these youth integrate their music downloading/ripping, software "softlifting", image/text/slogan/logo lifting practices, etc. into their identity, sense of agency, power relations with society and attendance of social norms. These are areas of research and inquiry on this topic that don't seem to have much done on them yet, which is largely why I chose this topic over other digital culture research possibilities. As part of the research project, I am expected to do an analysis and report on at least 6 academic journal articles from peer-reviewed publications. So far, though, there doesn't seem to be anything written in the soci/anth/psych/cul.studies literature about the identity and social/personal aspects of these practices. All hits to date have revolved around authorship, financial/legal/civil impacts and the like. Thus, I'm putting out the call to all of you -- are you aware of any academic-focused articles written about this topic, particularly with same focus as my own? Do you know of anyone who has done qual./quan. Research on the topic? Have you perhaps presented something yourself at a conference that isn't yet published? If you'd be willing to share your research/article or point me to a resource or individual, I would be very grateful. While I'd also appreciate referrals to certain books or websites, my list of these resources is fairly long already. It is primarily academic journal articles, scholarly conference proceedings and scholarly-focused articles/research that I now require. Thanks in advance for any and all help! Tamara *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Tamara Paradis tparadis(a)canada.com

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RE: Re: [Air-l] miserable failure
by ericgoldman＠onebox.com 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

There is even a phrase to describe this process: "Google Bombing." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm. A number of other targets have been hit, including AOL and Disney. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/09/30/column.nettrends.reut/ and http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,74566,00.html. Eric. -- Eric Goldman Marquette University Law School ericgoldman(a)onebox.com Personal home page: http://eric_goldman.tripod.com -----Original Message----- From: MERLYNA LIM <merlyn(a)bdg.centrin.net.id> Sent: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:20:27 +0100 To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] miserable failure 'i am feeling lucky' button is basically referring to the first web page Google returned for your query, and only the first one. however, Google is unique among search engines, because while mostly it shows you pages that have the exact keywords you're looking for, occasionally it also shows you pages that don't have those keywords but other pages linked to that page with those keywords. and interestingly the linkers can impact the Google rank of the linkee.. This algorithm is called Google Bombs by a brilliant gag Adam Mathes. So, in the case 'miserable failure' while that page of Bush's biblio has no words of 'miserable failure', that page comes up as the page who has most links to the pages who link to it with the phrase 'miserable failure'. merlyna david silver wrote: > ok, so: > > Try > "miserable failure" > at > Google.com > and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button > > two questions: 1) how cool is this? 2) does anyone know how it is done? > > david

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Re: how to measure participation rates
by susan.aaron＠utoronto.ca 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

I attended the conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences this past summer and one member presented a software for analysing information. He did some analysis of on-line text for me and it was useful re thematic counting and could possibly do participation as well if the analytical text was set up for that. It does numbers and diagramatics and probably could track chaotic formulas. It is called "Crawdad" and is accessible for academic use. The man's name is Kevin Dooley and he is based at Arizona State University http://www.eas.asu.edu/~kdooley/ This isn't my area really so hopefully this is of use, and I know of a few more interactive interfaces that visualize interactions that is of nearer my interests. Susan Aaron Message: 8 From: "Katerina" <knd(a)hol.gr> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:19:18 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] how to measure participation rates Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01C3BB53.EA3C0EB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1253" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you all for your valuable help.=20 Nescan seems to be a tool applicable to newsgroups and not web-based = discussion forums.=20 I have contacted a PERL programmer and I am waiting for a reply. If this = doesn't work I will have to carry it through manually. I am thinking = that I could use a sample of the messages, for example the two most = popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of attempting = the impossible task of analyzing the total of the interactions in the = group.=20 Thank you once more,=20 K.D.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01C3BB53.EA3C0EB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1253" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dwindows-1253"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2734.1600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Thank you all for your valuable help. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Nescan seems to be a tool applicable = to=20 newsgroups and not web-based discussion forums. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>I have contacted a PERL programmer = and I am=20 waiting for a reply. If this doesn't work I will have to carry it = through=20 manually. I am thinking that I could use a sample of the messages, for = example=20 the two most popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of=20 attempting the impossible task of analyzing the total of the = interactions in the=20 group. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>Thank you once more, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2>K.D. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01C3BB53.EA3C0EB0--

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Fwd: IEEE Fellowships
by Steve Jones 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Begin forwarded message: > PROGRAMS OF SUPPORT FROM THE IEEE HISTORY CENTER: 2004/2005 > > The IEEE History Center offers three different programs of support > annually for young scholars pursuing the history of electrical > engineering and computing: An Internship for an advanced > undergraduate, graduate student, or recent Ph.D.; a Dissertation > Fellowship for an advanced graduate student or recent Ph.D.; and a > Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. The Internship and the > Dissertation Fellowship are funded by the IEEE Life Members Committee; > the Post-Doc is funded by Rutgers University. The Internship and the > Post-Doc require residence at the IEEE History Center, on the Rutgers > University Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey; there is no residency > requirement for the Dissertation Fellowship. The Post-Doctoral > Fellowship is currently filled, but the IEEE History Center is pleased > to announce the competitions for the other two 2004 awards: > > > > > > > > IEEE Fellowship In Electrical HistoryAcademic Year 2004/2005 > > The IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History supports either one year of > full-time graduate work in thehistory of electrical science and > technology at a college or university of recognized standing, or up to > one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar in this field who has > received his Ph.D. within the past three years. This award is > supported by the IEEE Life Members Committee. The stipend is $17,000, > with a research budget of $3,000 also supplied. > > Candidates with undergraduate degrees in engineering, the sciences, or > the humanities are eligible for the Fellowship. For pre-doctoral > applicants, however, the award is conditional upon acceptance of the > candidate into an appropriate graduate program in history at a school > of recognized standing. In addition, > pre-doctoral recipients may not hold or subsequently receive other > fellowships, but they may earn up to $5,000 for work that is directly > related to their graduate studies. Pre-doctoral Fellows must pursue > full-time graduate work and evidence of satisfactory academic > performance is required. These restrictions do not apply to > post-doctoral applicants. > > The Fellow is selected on the basis of the candidate's potential for > pursuing research in and contributing to electrical history. > Application forms are available on-line or by request from the IEEE > History Center (see contact information below). The deadline for > completed applications is 1 February. This completed application > packet should be sent to the Chairman, IEEE Fellowship in Electrical > History Committee, IEEE History Center, RutgersThe State University > of New Jersey, 39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538. > Applicants will be notified of the results by 1 May 2003. > > The IEEE Fellowship in Electrical Engineering History is administered > by the IEEE History Committee and supported by the IEEE Life Members > Committee. > > > > > > > > IEEE History Center Internship2004 > > > Scholars at the beginning of their career studying the history of > electrical technology and computing are invited to contact the Center > to be considered for a paid Internship at the Center's offices on the > Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. > > The Intern program seeks to provide research experience for graduate > students in the history of electrical and computer technologies, while > enlisting the help of promising young scholars for the Center's > projects. The Intern generally works full-time for two months at the > History Center on a Center project that is connected to his or her own > area of interest. This time is usually during the summer, but other > arrangements will be considered. Interns are also encouraged to > consult with the Center's staff and its associates, and guided to > research resources in the area. The Internship is designed for those > near the beginning or middle of their graduate careers, but advanced > undergraduates, advanced graduates, and, on rare occasions, recent > Ph.D.s will also be considered. Special consideration is often given > to scholars from outside the United States who might not otherwise > have an opportunity to visit historical resources in this country. > > The stipend paid to the intern is US$3,500. Additional funds may be > available to defray travel costs, depending on the Intern’s > circumstances. This Internship is supported by the IEEE Life Members > Committee. > > There is no formal application form. To apply, please mail a > curriculum vitae showing your studies in electrical history along with > a cover letter describing the sort of project you would be interested > in doing (see contact information below). The deadline for contacting > the IEEE History Center is 15 March 2004. > > > > > IEEE is an AA/EO employers. Women and minorities are encouraged to > apply for all positions. > > The IEEE History Center is cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical > and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)the world’s largest > professional technical society, and Rutgersthe State University of > New Jersey. The mission of the Center is to preserve, research, and > promote the legacy of electrical engineering and computing. The > Center can be contacted at: > > IEEE History Center > Rutgers University > 39 Union Street > New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538 > email:history@ieee.org > http://www.ieee.org/history_center

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job opportunity - Temple University
by Jan Fernback 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Fellow aoir-ers, this job opportunity may be of interest: * * * * * * * New Media Director: three-year appointment for non-tenure track faculty position. Reporting to the Dean of the School of Communications and Theater, this individual will lead New Media faculty and students in a growing interdisciplinary program of national stature. The program draws from all Departments in the School which include: Advertising; Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media; Film and Media Arts; Journalism; Strategic and Organizational Communication; and Theater. The candidate will be expected to integrate research, teaching, creative, and fund-raising initiatives in New Media, including the development of IRIS LAB (Interdisciplinary Research of Interactive Societies), a cross-disciplinary research initiative for advanced new media study and production. For more information, please see the New Media web site at www.temple.edu/nmic. Industry, research, and/or professional/creative experience required. A record of fund raising is highly desirable. Candidates with national reputation in new media preferred. Salary competitive. Applicants must submit: (1) cover letter indicating interest and relevant experience; (2) c.v./resume; (3) statement of new media philosophy; (4) samples of work and (5) the names, titles, telephone numbers and email addresses of at least three references to: New Media Director's Search Dean's Office School of Communications and Theater Temple University Philadelphia, Pa. 19122 Application review will begin on February 1, 2004 and continue until position is filled. Temple University is an affirmative action employer. Women, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ________________________________________________________ Jan Fernback, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media Temple University 2020 N. 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 215-204-3041 fernback(a)temple.edu ________________________________________________________

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Norwegian guidelines for online research available in English
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Dear AoIR-ists: As you may know, the guidelines originally published in 2001 by the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social sciences and the Humanities (NESH), Norway, played a significant role in the discussion and development of the AoIR guidelines for online research. More recently (September 24, 2003), NESH developed and published (in Norwegian, of course) a set of guidelines specifically oriented to internet research, the "Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for internettforskning" - available at http://www.etikkom.no/retningslinjer/internett I'm pleased to say that NESH has approved an English translation of the guidelines undertaken by Line Gulløv Lundh and me. (Believe me, Ms. Lundh - a student working with ethics committee member Klaus Bruhn Jensen at Copenhagen University- did the majority of the work!) I commend the new guidelines to your attention, not only for their own sake (to my knowledge, they are the only ones explicitly developed by a national authority for online research - please correct me if I'm wrong!) - but also for what they suggest regarding the range of views and approaches on online ethics: http://www.etikkom.no/Engelsk/Publications/internet03 Comments and suggestions welcome! Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

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Fw: Hgh/low context on websites?
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Dear AoIR'ists: The following is from one of the students in my Master's course on corss-cultural communication online here at IT-University, Copenhagen. If you have any tips or suggestiions, please pass them on - either to me and/or Elizabeth. Thanks! charles ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac> ----- Original Message ----- From: <elizabeth(a)itu.dk> To: <catac(a)wirth.murdoch.edu.au> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: Hgh/low context on websites? > Can anyone help? > > I'm at student at the IT-University in Denmark, writing a project on IT > across cultures. > > I'm looking for material to do with the ways in which communication on the > Internet differs in relation to high and low context cultures. My interest > lies primarily in the way information is conveyed on websites, and whether > the characteristics such as non-verbal communication are reflected on > websites, for instance through use of certain colours, symbols, visual > metaphors and so on. > > Thanks, > > Elizabeth. >

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