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Mebbe I missed it in the rush of emails, but aside from danah's discussion of her fieldwork, does anyone have any EVIDENCE on iPod use? I'm seeing lots of personal opinions but the R in this list should be real. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
I think danah is just like all of us who began the conversation- fieldwork. That's the research so far. @SharonG On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Mebbe I missed it in the rush of emails, but aside from danah's discussion of her fieldwork, does anyone have any EVIDENCE on iPod use?
I'm seeing lots of personal opinions but the R in this list should be real.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
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It looks like research on this question is just getting going and the marketing researchers are in the forefront. In my admittedly quick search there was nothing on use in research, so the conversation here might constitute the first foray into that area! A Mashable summary of a Resolve Market Research study on iPad use (text of the study itself is ~$1700 it looks like, yikes!): http://mashable.com/2010/07/08/ipad-usage-report/ Yahoo Research has found more men than women are using it-and also looked at some other demographic factors. Although it looks like they were only looking at how people were using the iPad to use their products, which could inherently bias their results if more men than women use Yahoo. Link: http://www.gearlog.com/2010/07/yahoo_study_reveals_men_use_ip.php comScore has looked into how people intended to use it: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/3/comScore_Releases... And other scattered stuff too on its use in gaming, by doctors, how it might be used, and use in other professions, etc. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.
From a PC user, Jessica
-------------------------------------- Jessica L. Beyer Doctoral Candidate University of Washington Department of Political Science http://students.washington.edu/jlbeyer -------------------------------------- On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, live wrote:
I think danah is just like all of us who began the conversation- fieldwork. That's the research so far.
@SharonG
On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Mebbe I missed it in the rush of emails, but aside from danah's discussion of her fieldwork, does anyone have any EVIDENCE on iPod use?
I'm seeing lots of personal opinions but the R in this list should be real.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
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Hi, also this discussion has convinced me to probably get an iPad instead of a laptop for upcoming fieldwork in Russia in which we will interview people about online activism (or lack thereof) in Moscow and in a region -- we need a more interactive way to display websites and overhead projection not really feasible etc -- although I worry that the iPad itself might be distracting (probably not as a lot of the interviewees will hopefully be active on line and fairly tech-savvy). Split design might be nice if someone used iPads for some interactions and standard laptops for others to gauge the effect ... hmmm ... probably the fieldwork in Russia doesn't have enough funding for this (we're even struggling to fund a few focus groups). I am theorising that having a more attractive 'window' into the Web will make people approach it as more embedded in their 'everyday' lives (part of our theory) ... maybe someone else could take up this iPad/laptop challenge? And publish in First Monday, say BEFORE my fieldwork? (: Well, I can always test it out on my students ... In regards to an earlier message, we are all *s, aren't we? Sarah Sarah Oates Professor of Political Communication, Politics Department University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT Email: s.oates@lbss.gla.ac.uk Website: www.media-politics.com <http://www.media-politics.com/> Telephone: (0)141 330 5124 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Jessica L. Beyer Sent: Mon 19/07/2010 00:46 Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet Researchers? It looks like research on this question is just getting going and the marketing researchers are in the forefront. In my admittedly quick search there was nothing on use in research, so the conversation here might constitute the first foray into that area! A Mashable summary of a Resolve Market Research study on iPad use (text of the study itself is ~$1700 it looks like, yikes!): http://mashable.com/2010/07/08/ipad-usage-report/ Yahoo Research has found more men than women are using it-and also looked at some other demographic factors. Although it looks like they were only looking at how people were using the iPad to use their products, which could inherently bias their results if more men than women use Yahoo. Link: http://www.gearlog.com/2010/07/yahoo_study_reveals_men_use_ip.php comScore has looked into how people intended to use it: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/3/comScore_Releases... And other scattered stuff too on its use in gaming, by doctors, how it might be used, and use in other professions, etc. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.
From a PC user, Jessica
-------------------------------------- Jessica L. Beyer Doctoral Candidate University of Washington Department of Political Science http://students.washington.edu/jlbeyer -------------------------------------- On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, live wrote:
I think danah is just like all of us who began the conversation- fieldwork. That's the research so far.
@SharonG
On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Mebbe I missed it in the rush of emails, but aside from danah's discussion of her fieldwork, does anyone have any EVIDENCE on iPod use?
I'm seeing lots of personal opinions but the R in this list should be real.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
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I thoroughly enjoy my iPad for web browsing, reading emails with light responses, twitter use, watching photos and videos, etc., at home, but I don't bring it to the office or use it much for serious academic work. However, there is one exception to this pattern--I think the iPad is terrific for fieldwork. I do a lot of research in schools and I would much rather bring my iPad than a laptop. First, I'm often walking around from place to place, and it's a lot easier to do that with an iPad than with a laptop that has to be closed and opened again and again. Also, I sometimes take notes standing up, which is pretty easy with an iPad but almost impossible with a laptop. Then there's the long battery life, which also makes life easier, and the speed with which I can get going on any program (as compared to my laptop, which needs to wake up from sleep, etc.) The non-intrusiveness that people are talking about can be another benefit. As for the question asked earlier, why an iPad as opposed to other tablets--was that serious or facetious? Are there any tablets in existence right now that even approach the iPad in terms of touch interface, speed, ease of use, range of apps available, battery life, and weight? I know that I and many others have high hopes for Android tablets in the future, but I don't think we are there yet. Mark Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine Education 3000C Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526 fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw twitter: http://twitter.com/markwarschauer
thanks, Mark - your larger post does a nice job, I think, of characterizing the primary uses to which the device is suited / designed.
As for the question asked earlier, why an iPad as opposed to other tablets--was that serious or facetious?
I won't speak for the author of the question, but as a recent iPad owner, I think it's a serious and important question. From my perspective, the inability to multitask coupled with the absence of a working file system (unless I'm wrong - please correct if I am!) means for me that it is much better suited to the sorts of uses you initially describe - light email, web-browsing, etc. I also think it has promise as an e-Reader, which, as a traveling / gypsy scholar, is tremendously inviting: that said, my first experiences in these directions (no names, please), have been more ones of frustration with what I can't do with a text rather than of joy with having a text handily available. Of course, it's also great for simply consuming media, if that's what you want - let's not forget that someone/s are very interested in not only the quality of our experience with the interfaces and the device, but also with specific bottom lines. But if I want to do at least my kind of serious work - multiple documents open, multiple apps open, cutting-and-pasting between these when needed, etc., alongside a solid Internet connection (the wifi reception on mine is weak compared with my MacBook) - a laptop or equally capable tablet is not just preferable but simply necessary. As is often the case, then, it's not just a matter of "what you can do" (the rhetoric too often associated with too many new devices and technologies that we frankly don't yet entirely know what to do with) - what do you need / want to do? (and please read all of this in a cordial, friendly tone, one grateful for the discussion) sent from my MacBook (this time), - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 On 7/21/10 1:23 AM, "Mark Warschauer" <markw@uci.edu> wrote:
Charles, You of course accurately pinpoint many of the limitation of the iPad as a laptop/desktop replacement for academic work. It will be interesting to see how all these things evolve in future years. (One quick suggestion: for importing files into the iPad, and maintaining file structure as you do so, you might want to try Dropbox. That doesn't say anything about what happens to the file structure after you use the files though. I suspect there are also good apps for taking notes on what one reads on an iPad, though I haven't tried them out yet. Nevertheless, the limitations you point out are spot on.) However, my comment about comparing iPads to other tablets was not in reference to what kinds of tablets may eventually appear, but what kinds are available now. I suppose there are tablets that do some of the things that you point to, but I would guess that they are also so cumbersome and difficult to use that they fail to serve their purpose. However, if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone here will let us know! Mark Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine Education 3000C Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-2526 fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw twitter: http://twitter.com/markwarschauer On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
thanks, Mark - your larger post does a nice job, I think, of characterizing the primary uses to which the device is suited / designed.
As for the question asked earlier, why an iPad as opposed to other tablets--was that serious or facetious?
I won't speak for the author of the question, but as a recent iPad owner, I think it's a serious and important question. From my perspective, the inability to multitask coupled with the absence of a working file system (unless I'm wrong - please correct if I am!) means for me that it is much better suited to the sorts of uses you initially describe - light email, web-browsing, etc. I also think it has promise as an e-Reader, which, as a traveling / gypsy scholar, is tremendously inviting: that said, my first experiences in these directions (no names, please), have been more ones of frustration with what I can't do with a text rather than of joy with having a text handily available. Of course, it's also great for simply consuming media, if that's what you want - let's not forget that someone/s are very interested in not only the quality of our experience with the interfaces and the device, but also with specific bottom lines. But if I want to do at least my kind of serious work - multiple documents open, multiple apps open, cutting-and-pasting between these when needed, etc., alongside a solid Internet connection (the wifi reception on mine is weak compared with my MacBook) - a laptop or equally capable tablet is not just preferable but simply necessary. As is often the case, then, it's not just a matter of "what you can do" (the rhetoric too often associated with too many new devices and technologies that we frankly don't yet entirely know what to do with) - what do you need / want to do? (and please read all of this in a cordial, friendly tone, one grateful for the discussion) sent from my MacBook (this time), - charles ess
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250
Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA
Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
On 7/21/10 1:23 AM, "Mark Warschauer" <markw@uci.edu> wrote:
Hi all I just realised I never did post the suggestions I was sent regarding books on mass media in the US (specifically, the evolution from broadcast to participatory models). In the end I did not get many suggestions, so I added a few refs myself. Hope this helps, cheers Mathieu <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Benkler, Y. (2006) The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale : Yale University Press. Castells, M. (2001) The Internet Galaxy : Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Graber, D. (2010) Media Power in Politics. Washington DC : CQ Press. Herman, E. and N. Chomsky (2002) Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York : Pantheon Books. Iyengar, S. and J. McGrady (2007) Media Politics : A Citizen's Guide. New York : W. W. Norton. McChesney, R. (1999) Rich Media, Poor Democracy : Communication Politics in Dubious Times. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. Oates, S. (2008) Introduction to Media and Politics. London : Sage
Today we celebrate the birthday of Marshall McLuhan who was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Montana. Marshall McLuhan once observed ... "We view the future through a rearview mirror." ... http://www.gingkopress.com/ima/medium-is-massage_i2.html
Alright, someone has to be the first to say it... MONTANA?! Ouch. :-0 Carry on. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stephen J Cavrak Jr Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2010 9:33 a.m. Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ipads and stuff Today we celebrate the birthday of Marshall McLuhan who was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Montana. Marshall McLuhan once observed ... "We view the future through a rearview mirror." ... http://www.gingkopress.com/ima/medium-is-massage_i2.html _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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/
Hello Barry and list, Early on, I found the personal opinions about the iPad in themselves so interesting that I conducted a study of 'anticipated user experiences'. The study focuses on online discussions about the iPad after the Apple event, but before the public release of the material product. The paper is under review, but the current abstract reads as follows: Pre-prosumption and the remediation of virtual products Abstract How do prosumers experience ICT products prior to actual use? This paper examines a particular form of concurrent consumption, use and production (i.e. prosumption) that has emerged with the rise of digital media and communication. It reports on the results from an online ethnographical study of the Apple iPad conducted before the public release of the material product. Consequently, most users had not physically interacted with the device in question. Nevertheless, the release of the technical specifications and marketing material generated a massive amount of produsage related online discussion. As such this paper explores the concept of pre-prosumption. Pre-prosumption can be compared to a form of predicted or expected use, relating to products or services that are only accessible to users as a form of representation (e.g. technical specification, virtual prototype, design sketch, or even idea), but with an added element of user-generated design suggestions, conflict coordination and software development. Remediation the process by which new digital media technologies reuses features of previous technologies and enter an existing media ecology is a prevalent theme in pre-produsage and involves a tension between features that support protracted use and features that provide total innovation. The paper argues that an analysis of pre-produsage can bestow designers with insights that relate to overall user experience, user satisfaction, and prioritization of usability-related problems. More specifically, pre-produsage analysis can trace the underlying reasons for a certain problem, intention or concern and connect it to a specific set of features. Finally, the paper shows how even proprietary products can become subject to prosumption resulting in artefacts negotiated by production, use and consumption.
From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:17:37 -0400 To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Internet Researchers?
Mebbe I missed it in the rush of emails, but aside from danah's discussion of her fieldwork, does anyone have any EVIDENCE on iPod use?
I'm seeing lots of personal opinions but the R in this list should be real.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
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Mathieu ONeil -
Sarah Oates -
Stephen J Cavrak Jr