Re: Multi-modal communications comparisons? Chris My name is Rachel and I am a grad student at UNLV, my area of research is tending towards CMC and more specifically looking closely at privacy concerns and admitted self-disclosure within CMC forums. As for user expectations I am looking to online dating circuits to help me determine when and how users disclose information, or if they are generally distrusting of the concept. I'm not totally affluent yet, but I am very interested in CMC and was captured by your email. I would be happy to exchange ideas. Quoting air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org:

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1. Submissions for mGovernment. mDevelopment and mSociety Conferences (Prof. I Kushchu) 2. CfP: Making Links 2009 - Sustaining Communities in Tough Times (Marcus Foth) 3. Multi-modal communications comparisons? (c-soc-aoir@dagnon.net)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 00:45:33 +0100 From: "Prof. I Kushchu" <ik@mgovernment.org> Subject: [Air-L] Submissions for mGovernment. mDevelopment and mSociety Conferences To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <E405214A-6679-47B9-BB9E-3BC651D4A48C@mgovernment.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

Dear Colleagues,

Submission deadline to Mobile Life 2009 conferences is approaching fast. The organization committee is looking for

-- research submissions, -- practice talk proposals, and proposals for special sessions, workshop and tutorials -- demos of mobile devices, content, applications and services as well as posters and company showcases.

Online submissions are now open.

An early draft program is also posted:

-- 6 plenary talks -- 27 separate sessions -- 3 interaction sessions for demos and exhibitions

Please see the brief info below and visit the conferences web site for more www.m4life.org

Looking forward to your research submissions...

Cheers Kushchu ---------------

mLife 2009: Three Conferences and Exhibitions ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2 - 3 - 4 September 2009, Barcelona, Spain, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.m4life.org conf@mlife.org

-- mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society -- EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government -- mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development

Practice talk proposals :as soon as possible Research Paper Submission dead line : 10th of June 2009

mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part in, and shape the development of the social impact of the mobile revolution. They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed about cutting edge applications, services,

Covering all aspects of mobile business, mobile society, m/e- government and mDevelopment. mLife Organisation invites research, practice and policy presentations; exhibitions and demos; tutorials and special sessions.

For more on submissions please visit: http://www.m4life.org

------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik@mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853

------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik@mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853

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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:41:57 +1000 From: Marcus Foth <m.foth@qut.edu.au> Subject: [Air-L] CfP: Making Links 2009 - Sustaining Communities in Tough Times To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <250C8FF1-C769-43C8-BC9C-EB7453046D8B@qut.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes

MAKING LINKS 2009

Sustaining Communities in Tough Times

17 - 18 November 2009 University of Melbourne

http://www.makinglinks.org.au/

Call for papers

Two major challenges face the world today: the global economic crisis and environmental sustainability. Both are already having an impact on peoples? lives and livelihoods. Community organisations have already expressed concern that the most vulnerable in our societies will be hardest hit.

Community organisations also face the challenge of keeping their operations going in tough financial times, and at the same time trying to be part of the environmental solution, rather than part of the problem.

Making Links Conference 2009 asks: how are non-profit organisations meeting these twin challenges?

We are seeking presentations that address issues such as:

? Technology as a tool to improve communication, increase productivity and retain staff ? Disaster response / management / relief ? Financing your organisation and its programs in tight economic times ? Engaging with communities online ? Green ICT projects (from recycling computers to green design to green office to campaigning and more) ? Corporate social responsibility - building partnerships to support our communities ? Strengthening marginalised communities and constituencies ? Research supporting action ? The rapidly changing interface of online communication ? Community arts and media

Making Links is a peer-based conference. We invite you to present a paper on your learning and experiences with ICT, your projects, case studies or research, or lead a practical workshop that introduces useful tools and concepts.

The structure of the conference will be based on:

? Case studies ? Practical workshops ? Panel discussions ? Networking opportunities ? Film festival ? Social and satellite events

Submit a proposal online at: http://www.makinglinks.org.au/papers.shtml

Who should attend?

The conference attracts delegates and presenters from many fields including health, environment, education, charities, business, government, philanthropy, human services and non-profits working with marginalised groups (e.g. e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, youth at risk, unemployed, rural and remote, disability).

Registrations open 10 June.

Keep up to date

To keep in touch, sign up for Making Links updates at http://www.makinglinks.org.au/ and join our Facebook group to find out what's going on, contribute ideas, etc., at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7075421142

-- Dr Marcus Foth Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:55:21 -0700 (PDT) From: c-soc-aoir@dagnon.net Subject: [Air-L] Multi-modal communications comparisons? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <941315a149a5eb64ea0f556493dffd6d.squirrel@webmail.dagnon.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

Hello all,

This is my first foray into publicly attempting to ask this question, so please bear with my wandering hither and yon.

I would like to provide new and/or differing communication mechanisms through the Internet, though I realize that I should really know how and why and by whom current mechanisms are being utilized in order to have a chance at coming up with more useful tools. However simply comparing and contrasting existing modalities seems like a herculean effort.

Do such comparisons exist? The few things Google has lead me to are pretty limited in scope either in modalities covered, aspects being compared, or the details of comparing them. I would like comparisons including but not limited to CMC. Preferably it would compare communication mediums or processes including face-to-face, postal mail, phone, cell, texting, web cams, MUDs/MOOs/MMOGs, bulletin boards (physical and digital), ad-hoc meetings, conferences, and possibly anything else from hieroglyphs, papyrus scrolls, and sign language to websites, wikis, blogs, forums, and tweets.

In particular I would love to see comparisons (whether backed up by statistics, surveys, or at least well-reasoned and explained arguments) of many aspects though at the moment users' expectations about the other users' usage patterns seems key as, aside from the technology's interface and reliability the other person/people seem like the largest hurdle to a good user experience. For example: I am emailing this to the listserv, hoping for some well reasoned questions, constructive criticisms on the topic/question/examples, and suggested (freely available) readings to help me on my way as I'm making this request in honest earnestness, yet this message carries only some if any of that to you. I've considered facilitating explicit definitions of the expected content and timing responses included with a communication, though lack of a mechanism or awareness to define them may not be the reason they're left implicit within the communication streams.

Also simply the differences in usage patterns varies drastically: some people almost never use a phone of any kind, others flow freely between calling, texting, photos, video, and emailing from their cells. However people can carry heavy- or no-expectations of getting a response instantaneously. And the toll of having/not having all those (implicit) expectations met (dependency, anger, ?).

Other interesting aspects may include: any measurements or classifications comparing informativeness, expressiveness, understandability, immediacy, reliability, accuracy, interactiveness, ease-of-use, ease-of-adoption, circles of popularity, moderation (self, peer, superior, IT, corporate, law/gov't, morality), fail over, redundancy, etc. Still the differences between sender and receiver (and if/how those are negotiated or negotiable), side effects of the modality or other influences including business or cultural (eg. cell phones are much more popular in Israel because they're cheaper than in the U.S.) including new cultural effects or sub-cultures, and how much the communication itself is shaped by the medium or process seem like significant realms needing at least summarization if not exploration.

Are the best (communication) technologies the ones you don't realize are there? Or the ones that call for your attention every minute?

Bonus points for including different historical versions of the same modality within the comparison (eg. initial telephones required human-operators to connect calls, vs voice-operated cellphones). Lastly may be cause-and-effect of imposed limitations after the initial technological pushes: many large companies now forbid any social networking at work and any critical messages ever, DMCA/other take down notices for BitTorrent sites, YouTube videos, and company-criticizing websites, the DMCA itself, electronic spam, many networking ports have been shut down by organizations because they're additional attack vectors for security breeches - resulting in most programs working over port 80, DTV signals are more fragile than analog signals so they cause more outages vs degradation, and President Obama needing permission (and security hardening) to have a Blackberry...

Is that too much to ask? 8)

Highly curious, hoping I don't have to do all this work myself, and willing to carry on this conversation in other modalities.

Chris Dagnon Collaborative Communication, LLC Madison, WI U.S.A.

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