Thanks, John, this is very helpful! On Feb 12 2009, John McNutt wrote:

There are two or three reports on the IMB Business of Government Site http://www.businessofgovernment.org/. There is also Gov Loop http://www.govloop.com which is an sns for government. John McNutt

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Hi there,

Does anyone know where I can find information about how Government agencies and/or Businesses are using online social network sites as part of their communication and marketing strategies.

I would appreciate any links to reports, news articles, example sites, papers, etc. of any thing you know of.

I'm looking for these in the next couple of hours. Thank you!

Christine

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Hi, all. I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the quality and quantity of information being shared here! Many thanks to the generous community for all your efforts. I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and Piore) Flexible Economic Networks. I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds like a good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded scholars. My experience to date suggests much good work is being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and a large degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in the nexus of these two areas. I have been fortunate to work with colleagues at NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community informatics, but am eager to know what else is happening out there? Thanks and best wishes, Gordon Titchener A. Professor in Tourism Management, Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09) http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology http://www.nztri.org/ Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project http://www.tourismresearch.com

Hi Gordon: Have you considered museums like The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. USA which has an virtual and live presence and an edutainment presence when you visit the museum. The Texas Institute of Cultures is doing the same thing in San Antonio. Disney is doing it in Orlando, and the Hollywood studios are doing it Los Angeles. Three of the participants in my dissertation study had Disney connections even though they lived in different parts of the country and it was eye-opening to get the perspectives. Chris A. Heidelberg, III, Ph.D. Loyola MD Faculty Social Security Administration Producer/Director & Internet Development Specialist -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Titchener Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:45 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L? Hi, all. I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the quality and quantity of information being shared here! Many thanks to the generous community for all your efforts. I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and Piore) Flexible Economic Networks. I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds like a good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded scholars. My experience to date suggests much good work is being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and a large degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in the nexus of these two areas. I have been fortunate to work with colleagues at NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community informatics, but am eager to know what else is happening out there? Thanks and best wishes, Gordon Titchener A. Professor in Tourism Management, Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09) http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology http://www.nztri.org/ Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project http://www.tourismresearch.com _______________________________________________ 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/

Thanks all for the suggestions thus far. Rosa Maria, I'm struggling with this one: "The virtual landscape conveys no magnetism or emotions." While I certainly appreciate where you are coming from and support the current move toward place appreciation in such projects as geotourism, slow food, etc. I think the statement might be a bit strong? My experience suggests that while organized tourism has created many contrived and monotonous landscapes (see Relph on Placelessness?) people are using virtual spaces such as WWW to express and socially construct meaning in their "real world" experiences? I look forward to struggling further! :-) Cheers, GT -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rosa María Merino Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 12:52 p.m. To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L? Hello! I think the virtual information helps us to give us an idea of a place, but is very distinct smell, eat and live on site. The virtual landscape conveys no magnetism or emotions. Rgds, Rosa María

Hi Gordon:

Have you considered museums like The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. USA which has an virtual and live presence and an edutainment presence when you visit the museum. The Texas Institute of Cultures is doing the same thing in San Antonio. Disney is doing it in Orlando, and the Hollywood studios are doing it Los Angeles. Three of the participants in my dissertation study had Disney connections even though they lived in different parts of the country and it was eye-opening to get the perspectives.

Chris A. Heidelberg, III, Ph.D. Loyola MD Faculty

Social Security Administration Producer/Director & Internet Development Specialist

-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Titchener Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:45 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L?

Hi, all.

I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the quality and quantity of information being shared here! Many thanks to the generous community for all your efforts.

I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and Piore) Flexible Economic Networks.

I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds like a good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded scholars. My experience to date suggests much good work is being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and a large degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in the nexus of these two areas. I have been fortunate to work with colleagues at NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community informatics, but am eager to know what else is happening out there?

Thanks and best wishes,

Gordon Titchener A. Professor in Tourism Management, Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09) http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology http://www.nztri.org/ Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project http://www.tourismresearch.com

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Hi All, This is my first time posting an inquiry to this list. I am wondering if anyone knows any literature/research about incorporating Web 2.0 technologies (especially Social Networking Sites) in teaching. Any relevant references/sources would be appreciated. Thanks! Yifeng -- Yifeng Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Kendall Hall 244 The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Rd. Ewing, NJ 08628 Telephone: 609-771-2373 Fax: 609-637-5187 Email: hu@tcnj.edu Homepage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/

Hi there,

[You may know about these already but...] I have found the 'Topical Bibliographies' <http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Topical_Bibliographies#Social_Networking_Sites>page from the AoirWiki to be very helpful for getting ideas going...and for your particular inquiry, danah boyd's 'Research on Social Network Sites' bibliography <http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html> may be a nice site to check out.

Cheers,

dana On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Mark Chen <markchen@u.washington.edu>wrote:

I haven't read this yet, but I was just forwarded this paper this morning!

Peters, Vanessa L., & Slotta, James D. Scaffolding Knowledge communities in the classroom: New Opportunities in the Web 2.0 era.

Email me off list if you want the Word version of it (not sure if it is published yet).

mark

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Yifeng Hu <hu@tcnj.edu> wrote:

...

Hi All,

This is my first time posting an inquiry to this list.

I am wondering if anyone knows any literature/research about incorporating Web 2.0 technologies (especially Social Networking Sites) in teaching. Any relevant references/sources would be appreciated. Thanks!

Yifeng

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Yifeng/List You may also wish to review posting in my _Friends_ blog [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ] _Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services_ is devoted to the use of online social networking sites for any and all types of library-related programs or services. However, it does include significant works relating to higher education uses/benefits as well Regards. /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ] -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Chris Greenhow Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:28 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; hu@tcnj.edu Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies(Especially SNSs) in Teaching Hi Yifeng, We have done a fairly extensive review of the educational research literature databases and table of contents scans in a dozen leading educational research journals looking for published empirical work on the incorporation of Web 2.0 technologies, especially SNSs into teaching and learning. In our experience, most of the current scholarship focuses on the integration of blogs and wikis and, to a lesser extent, podcasting. There are few studies that focus on the integration of SNSs in education or study SNSs from educational perspectives; that said, there are some studies that focus on SNSs as they are being used on college campuses. See for example this latest ECAR study 2008 with chapter on SNSs: http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/4 7485 In addition, the Digital Youth Project focuses on young people's use of SNSs and other digital media outside of schools -- http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/ You might also be interested in Aleman & Wartman (2009) Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture. New York: Routledge -- came out Jan, 09 Finally, my colleagues and I have a few articles coming out that you may be interested in that deal with high school students' learning with SNSs/development of 21st century competencies. Moreover, we will have a draft of the literature review I mention this spring, if you're interested. Best wishes, Christine ************************************************************************ * Christine Greenhow, Ed.D. Learning Technologies College of Education and Human Development University of Minnesota 125J Peik Hall 159 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (651) 226-4015 greenhow@umn.edu Skype: christine.greenhow Youth and Social Media Study www.newscloud.com/research Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Research Group: www.socialnetresearch.org Networks and Neighborhoods Symposium: www.networksincyberspace.org Program Affiliations: www.admissionpossible.org Link to my profile at www.linkedin.com or www.facebook.com ************************************************************************ * -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Yifeng Hu Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:56 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies (Especially SNSs) in Teaching Hi All, This is my first time posting an inquiry to this list. I am wondering if anyone knows any literature/research about incorporating Web 2.0 technologies (especially Social Networking Sites) in teaching. Any relevant references/sources would be appreciated. Thanks! Yifeng -- Yifeng Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Kendall Hall 244 The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Rd. Ewing, NJ 08628 Telephone: 609-771-2373 Fax: 609-637-5187 Email: hu@tcnj.edu Homepage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/

Hi all, It is also my first time writing in the list. This week I have started a course on International Accounting where I am using a SNS to connect around 100 people in the class. I have prepared an "emerging paper" on this experience and looking forward to getting the results by the end of May. I would be very interested to keep in contact with other researchers working on this. My field is finance and accounting, but my PhD research is based on Webometric techniques. I am trying also to explore Web 2.0 tools in the class and report on the experience. Dear Christine I would also be very interested to read your literature review when it is ready. Best, Esteban Romero Frías Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty of Economics and Business Studies University of Granada (Spain) C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n BOX 18071 Granada (Spain) email: erf@ugr.es / eromerofrias@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Chris Greenhow <greenhow@umn.edu> wrote:

Hi Yifeng,

We have done a fairly extensive review of the educational research literature databases and table of contents scans in a dozen leading educational research journals looking for published empirical work on the incorporation of Web 2.0 technologies, especially SNSs into teaching and learning. In our experience, most of the current scholarship focuses on the integration of blogs and wikis and, to a lesser extent, podcasting. There are few studies that focus on the integration of SNSs in education or study SNSs from educational perspectives; that said, there are some studies that focus on SNSs as they are being used on college campuses. See for example this latest ECAR study 2008 with chapter on SNSs:

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/47485

In addition, the Digital Youth Project focuses on young people's use of SNSs and other digital media outside of schools -- http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/

You might also be interested in Aleman & Wartman (2009) Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture. New York: Routledge -- came out Jan, 09

Finally, my colleagues and I have a few articles coming out that you may be interested in that deal with high school students' learning with SNSs/development of 21st century competencies. Moreover, we will have a draft of the literature review I mention this spring, if you're interested.

Best wishes,

Christine

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-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Yifeng Hu Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:56 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies (Especially SNSs) in Teaching

Hi All,

This is my first time posting an inquiry to this list.

I am wondering if anyone knows any literature/research about incorporating Web 2.0 technologies (especially Social Networking Sites) in teaching. Any relevant references/sources would be appreciated. Thanks!

Yifeng

-- Yifeng Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Kendall Hall 244 The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Rd. Ewing, NJ 08628 Telephone: 609-771-2373 Fax: 609-637-5187 Email: hu@tcnj.edu Homepage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/ <http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Ehu/>

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