Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog. I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory. 1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right. 2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff. It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc. Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience. Good luck, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
Hello all, This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online graffiti" as a communication method. Thank you very much, Sigal -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:01 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] what can/'t you say on a blog Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog. I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory. 1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right. 2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff. It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc. Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience. Good luck, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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 Sigal - On 4/19/06, Sigal <sigalz@shaw.ca> wrote:
This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online graffiti" as a communication method.
Are you asking about where you can find/see/study online graffiti? Or about existing research about it? Some examples of the former http://www.drawball.com/ http://worm.bluesfear.com/index2.html As for the latter -- I remember a CHI poster or paper a few years ago about it... found it. Carter, S., Churchill, E., Denoue, L., Helfman, J., Nelson, J. (2004). Digital graffiti: public annotation of multimedia content. CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Vienna, Austria. pp 1207 - 1210. - Cameron Jones
There were graffiti wall programs far, far, far back in our online history. I can remember seeing them in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and am quite certain that they were around long before that. The Citadel BBS system, birthed in about 1980, was very graffiti-ish. [Something about having "rooms" lends itself to having "walls"...] I can also remember a strong tendency for Renegade and Telegard BBSes to have graffiti wall doors..... --e
Subject: [Air-l] Online graffiti
Hello all,
This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online graffiti" as a communication method.
Thank you very much, Sigal
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:01 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] what can/'t you say on a blog
Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog.
I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory.
1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right.
2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff.
It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc.
Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience.
Good luck,
Barry _____________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162
You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
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I wonder if you would include defacing web sites? Can someone refute my claim in an undergrad computer crime paper that someone defaced the White house web site and faced or was sentenced to ten years in jail? Peter Timusk MA applicant student of computer crime. . On 19-Apr-06, at 6:28 PM, Sigal wrote:
Hello all,
This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online graffiti" as a communication method.
Thank you very much, Sigal
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:01 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] what can/'t you say on a blog
Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog.
I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory.
1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right.
2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff.
It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc.
Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience.
Good luck,
Barry _____________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162
You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
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Not a university, but a large company: about a year ago, Waterstone's booksellers here in the UK sacked a member of staff because of their personal blog: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/waterstones_blog/. ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Barry Wellman Sent: Wed 4/19/2006 21:01 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] what can/'t you say on a blog Shani Orgad asks what can/can't you say on a personal blog. I can give you two sides to this, both true even if contradictory. 1. If it is at all maintained by the university, the university can have a right to say No. (Warning: I don't know UK law.) Even if you're using a university computer, they have a right. 2. OTOH, in my 40 years of experience, many university administrators don't know the law -- or even their university ethics codes -- and just assert stuff. So you can always ask them to show you where the law and code forbids stuff. It's always better to have a trusted representative working for you on such matters, especially if they are a knowledgeable greivance officer of your faculty union or an experienced lawyer in the area -- libel, labour, etc. Having given my 2 shillings worth of advice, I must cut and run off to a conference until May 1. And it is too painful for me even now to discuss any more the details of my own experience. Good luck, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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/
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