Towards a social science of Web 2.0 conference booking
Dear colleagues, It is now possible to book places on the conference 'Towards a social science of Web 2.0' to be held at the University of York (UK) on the 5th & 6th of September 2007. The conference Wiki contains a booking form and other information about the event: http://www.eu.socialtext.net/socsciweb2conf/index.cgi?towards_a_social_scien... regards David Beer ________________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE AOL Email account with 2GB of storage. Plus, share and store photos and experience exclusively recorded live music Sessions from your favourite artists. Find out more at http://info.aol.co.uk/joinnow/?ncid=548.
Hello All, Every AoIR conference, the Graduate Student Representative is given a panel slot to address issues or potential interest or benefit to graduate student members. This year the panel is: Survivor: Graduate School When my father in-law, who got his Ph.D. in the 1950s, hears my laments he comments on how little graduate school has changed since he went through the process. Often, the experiences and lessons learned from our own experiences as graduate students are lost to those who come after us or at least filtered through subsequent experiences as faculty. This panel is an opportunity for us to share tips and advice on surviving a process that is estimated by the Chronicle of Higher Education of having a 50% non-completion rate. So, this is an invitation for current graduate students and especially recent grads in all fields to come and share their wisdom, experiences, and tips for success. This is not intended to be a "whine and cheese" event (altho it is a part of a grad students job to complain!) but a forum for sharing our collective intelligence on time and stress management, productivity strategies, faculty interaction, funding, balancing life and school, and other challenges. Please email me off list if you are interested participating in a more formal capacity, but as always, these roundtables are open discussion forums in which all are welcome. -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
Ted, will this conference be audio or video recorded? If so, will it be made available anywhere online for public access? -Chris Ted M Coopman wrote:
Hello All,
Every AoIR conference, the Graduate Student Representative is given a panel slot to address issues or potential interest or benefit to graduate student members.
This year the panel is: Survivor: Graduate School
When my father in-law, who got his Ph.D. in the 1950s, hears my laments he comments on how little graduate school has changed since he went through the process. Often, the experiences and lessons learned from our own experiences as graduate students are lost to those who come after us or at least filtered through subsequent experiences as faculty. This panel is an opportunity for us to share tips and advice on surviving a process that is estimated by the Chronicle of Higher Education of having a 50% non-completion rate.
So, this is an invitation for current graduate students and especially recent grads in all fields to come and share their wisdom, experiences, and tips for success. This is not intended to be a "whine and cheese" event (altho it is a part of a grad students job to complain!) but a forum for sharing our collective intelligence on time and stress management, productivity strategies, faculty interaction, funding, balancing life and school, and other challenges.
Please email me off list if you are interested participating in a more formal capacity, but as always, these roundtables are open discussion forums in which all are welcome.
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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usual annual question: will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference? usual annual response: 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it', which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into, 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it will not happen.' That seems to me to be the only reasonable, if somewhat surreal, response given the labor and thus cost of recording sessions. Sometimes people make personal recordings, and we do have recordings of the first conference's keynotes somewhere. I'm not speaking for anyone else, I'm merely speaking as someone who has watched this discussion balloon a few different times. Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes. I think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people can be frank and collegial.
usual annual question: will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference? usual annual response: 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it', which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into, 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it will not happen.'
folks who're interested in videoing IR should spend a couple of hours reading the blogs of the folks who have been doing the video of the Debconf series of conferences. [starting point - http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070122_debian-meetings-archive_SLUG.pdf ] they've invested SERIOUS time, hardware, and resources into making it work. it is a *hard* problem - completely nontrivial. I like video as much as the next person - probably more - but this would be a huge committment.
Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes. I think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people can be frank and collegial.
Pretty much on-board with what jeremy just said. The backchannel is particularly useful, IMHO.... --e
Indeed, audio/video of conferences is a huge commitment, easy to request but difficult to provide. Just a few weeks ago, the Media Ecology Association was extremely fortunate that various sessions of the MEA's Eighth Annual Convention in Mexico City were available online in streaming audio/video, which some folks have recorded and posted on various sites, and which may eventually be available in archives or DVD. For this convention, audio/video resources were only possible due to the incredible efforts and hard work of the host, the Department of Communication at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, which generously provided equipment and staff, and also raised substantial funding from big-name corporate sponsors. Without these major resources and financial support provided by our colleagues at TEC, audio/video capabilities would have been impossible. Much easier said than done! Janet Sternberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Associate Chair Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University | Bronx, NY 10458-9993 USA Executive Secretary, Media Ecology Association http://www.media-ecology.org elw@stderr.org wrote:
usual annual question: will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference? usual annual response: 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it', which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into, 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it will not happen.'
folks who're interested in videoing IR should spend a couple of hours reading the blogs of the folks who have been doing the video of the Debconf series of conferences. [starting point - http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070122_debian-meetings-archive_SLUG.pdf ]
they've invested SERIOUS time, hardware, and resources into making it work. it is a *hard* problem - completely nontrivial.
I like video as much as the next person - probably more - but this would be a huge committment.
Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes. I think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people can be frank and collegial.
Pretty much on-board with what jeremy just said. The backchannel is particularly useful, IMHO....
--e
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As conference chair I hadn't considered recording the sessions, although the service is available - and is very good - in our facility. They can also stream live to the internet. I will get a quote per session and then we can determine who can/should pay. If anyone is from an organization that would like to pick this up as a potential sponsorship opportunity let me (smith@sfu.ca) know. ...r On 26-Jun-07, at 12:49 PM, J Sternberg wrote:
Indeed, audio/video of conferences is a huge commitment, easy to request but difficult to provide. Just a few weeks ago, the Media Ecology Association was extremely fortunate that various sessions of the MEA's Eighth Annual Convention in Mexico City were available online in streaming audio/video, which some folks have recorded and posted on various sites, and which may eventually be available in archives or DVD. For this convention, audio/video resources were only possible due to the incredible efforts and hard work of the host, the Department of Communication at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, which generously provided equipment and staff, and also raised substantial funding from big-name corporate sponsors. Without these major resources and financial support provided by our colleagues at TEC, audio/video capabilities would have been impossible. Much easier said than done!
Janet Sternberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Associate Chair Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University | Bronx, NY 10458-9993 USA Executive Secretary, Media Ecology Association http://www.media-ecology.org
elw@stderr.org wrote:
usual annual question: will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference? usual annual response: 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it', which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into, 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it will not happen.'
folks who're interested in videoing IR should spend a couple of hours reading the blogs of the folks who have been doing the video of the Debconf series of conferences. [starting point - http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070122_debian-meetings- archive_SLUG.pdf ]
they've invested SERIOUS time, hardware, and resources into making it work. it is a *hard* problem - completely nontrivial.
I like video as much as the next person - probably more - but this would be a huge committment.
Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes. I think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people can be frank and collegial.
Pretty much on-board with what jeremy just said. The backchannel is particularly useful, IMHO....
--e
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The videos from the keynotes in Chicago are on the aior.org site: http://aoir.org/?q=node/745 though they are a bit small, they are interesting. This thanks to the efforts of several students. Also in Chicago, I audio recorded a handful of the sessions (4?), after asking permission of the speakers. I'm not sure I agree that it impedes discussion, but I am equally unsure that audio is of particular value on its own. What might work is a bit of self-archiving. Many of us now have cell phones or mp3 players that can record audio (and video, for that matter). Perhaps the best course of action is for those who are interested to record their own presentations--audio, video, photos, blog posts, slides, or what-have-you--and tag them on del.icio.us, Flickr, or technorati with "ir80". I'll pledge to do that for my presentation, and so, 1/200 of the conference is covered :). - Alex -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //
Ted, I would be happy to help out. I also think Sarah Robbins would be interested also. M -- Mark Bell PhD student in Indiana University's Telecommunications program SL: Typewriter Tackleberry http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/ http://swi.indiana.edu/ http://www.storygeek.com "The future is here...it's just not widely distributed." - Tim O'Reilly On 6/26/07, Ted M Coopman <coopman@u.washington.edu> wrote:
Hello All,
Every AoIR conference, the Graduate Student Representative is given a panel slot to address issues or potential interest or benefit to graduate student members.
This year the panel is: Survivor: Graduate School
When my father in-law, who got his Ph.D. in the 1950s, hears my laments he comments on how little graduate school has changed since he went through the process. Often, the experiences and lessons learned from our own experiences as graduate students are lost to those who come after us or at least filtered through subsequent experiences as faculty. This panel is an opportunity for us to share tips and advice on surviving a process that is estimated by the Chronicle of Higher Education of having a 50% non-completion rate.
So, this is an invitation for current graduate students and especially recent grads in all fields to come and share their wisdom, experiences, and tips for success. This is not intended to be a "whine and cheese" event (altho it is a part of a grad students job to complain!) but a forum for sharing our collective intelligence on time and stress management, productivity strategies, faculty interaction, funding, balancing life and school, and other challenges.
Please email me off list if you are interested participating in a more formal capacity, but as always, these roundtables are open discussion forums in which all are welcome.
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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Ted, I would be interested in the panel, especially if there is a slot that discusses sharing of resources across different universities, campuses, countries. Definitely count me in! Nishant On 6/26/07, Mark Bell <typewritermark@gmail.com> wrote:
Ted,
I would be happy to help out. I also think Sarah Robbins would be interested also.
M
-- Mark Bell PhD student in Indiana University's Telecommunications program SL: Typewriter Tackleberry http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/ http://swi.indiana.edu/ http://www.storygeek.com "The future is here...it's just not widely distributed." - Tim O'Reilly
On 6/26/07, Ted M Coopman <coopman@u.washington.edu> wrote:
Hello All,
Every AoIR conference, the Graduate Student Representative is given a panel slot to address issues or potential interest or benefit to
graduate
student members.
This year the panel is: Survivor: Graduate School
When my father in-law, who got his Ph.D. in the 1950s, hears my laments he comments on how little graduate school has changed since he went through the process. Often, the experiences and lessons learned from our own experiences as graduate students are lost to those who come after us or at least filtered through subsequent experiences as faculty. This panel is an opportunity for us to share tips and advice on surviving a process that is estimated by the Chronicle of Higher Education of having a 50% non-completion rate.
So, this is an invitation for current graduate students and especially recent grads in all fields to come and share their wisdom, experiences, and tips for success. This is not intended to be a "whine and cheese" event (altho it is a part of a grad students job to complain!) but a forum for sharing our collective intelligence on time and stress management, productivity strategies, faculty interaction, funding, balancing life and school, and other challenges.
Please email me off list if you are interested participating in a more formal capacity, but as always, these roundtables are open discussion forums in which all are welcome.
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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participants (10)
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Alex Halavais -
Chris Ward -
davidgbeer＠aol.com -
elw＠stderr.org -
J Sternberg -
Jeremy Hunsinger -
Mark Bell -
Nishant Shah -
Richard Smith -
Ted M Coopman