Hi Sylvain, Cristobal Garcia (cgarciah@uc.cl) here at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is working with Peter Gloor (MIT) and graduate students to understand the organization of the student movement in Chile. They track the movement organizers' social media activity and information networks. Here´s an abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3939 Daiane Scaraboto Assistant Professor of Marketing Escuela de Administración Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile http://uc-cl.academia.edu/DaianeScaraboto

Message: 9 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:37:30 +0200 From: Sylvain Firer-Blaess <Sylvain.firer@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Anonymous or Occupy research Message-ID: < CANDNBB5BL-2jinZwpZ7gTVirqyHmrUQHcewrOz04+BDqMdujhA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Dear all, As a Ph.d. candidate I will soon go into exchange. Part of my research will focus on the organisation of the Anonymous hacker movement and the Occupy Wall street movement. Does anyone know any scholar currently working on the subject, in any part of the world? Thank you all. Sylvain Firer-Blaess

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Message: 10 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:40:01 +0200 From: Sylvain Firer-Blaess <Sylvain.firer@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] scholars on Occupy or Anonymous Message-ID: < CANDNBB4hixzgHgqba0-VdB647-U+Ag9juwQpiwpXoNOwLQ7qAg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Dear all, As a Ph.d. candidate I will soon go into exchange. Part of my research will focus on the organisation of the Anonymous hacker movement and the Occupy Wall street movement. Does anyone know any scholar currently working on the subject, in any part of the world? Thank you all. Sylvain Firer-Blaess

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Message: 11 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:27:55 +0200 From: Oliver Leistert <leistert@mail.uni-paderborn.de> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Critical Facebook Research Asks for Crowdfunding Message-ID: <5034EC6B.7010606@mail.uni-paderborn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

(i apologize if this arrives 2 times, our mail server had technical problems today)

Dear AIR-Community,

about a year ago we published an anthology called 'Generation Facebook'. It contains ground-breaking theoretical papers and essays by leading international scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Geert Lovink and Mark Andrejevic. It is used widely in university teaching, received critical acclaim by the press and is deemed invaluable by media activists. So what's the catch? Right now, the book is only available in German.

We think that this outstanding collection deserves an international audience. We also think that the contributions should be freely available in an Open Access format. Since we don?t have the means to make this happen all by ourselves, we decided to ask you (a.k.a ?the crowd?) for support to:

a) cover the production costs for an Open Access version that is freely available right from the beginning.

b) finance translations of texts that originally were contributed in German.

If you think this is a project that is worth your attention (and maybe even your money), please take a look at our funding website:

http://www.indiegogo.com/generation-facebook

You can find more information about the German version on our German publisher?s website:

http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1859/ts1859.php

Please help us to spread the word and to turn this into a successful experiment; please forward this email to anyone potentially interested and any mailing lists you see fit.

All the best, Oliver Leistert & Theo R?hle (editors 'Generation Facebook')

-- Oliver Leistert Research Fellow Center for Media and Communication Studies Central European University Budapest Web: https://cmcs.ceu.hu/profiles/research-fellow/oliver_leistert Blog: http://nomedia.noblogs.org

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Message: 12 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:03:03 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: lee rainie <lrainie@pewinternet.org>, communication and information technology section asa <citasa@list.citasa.org>, aoir list <air-l@aoir.org>, social networks list <socnet@lists.ufl.edu>, asa com&urb section e-list <comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu> Cc: margy avery <mavery@MIT.EDU>, Colleen Lanick <colleenl@MIT.EDU>, Katie Persons <kpersons@MIT.EDU> Subject: [Air-L] The Networked (Virtual) Book Tour Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.64.1208221050280.11533948@origin.chass.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Anyone who has done a book tour know how grueling and time consuming it is.

On the one hand, the joys of meeting new people, seeing new places, communicating your ideas, and the stimulation of getting new ideas back.

On the other hand, the time-sink of travel and the 2nd circles of airport and airline hell. Plus Motel 6 purgatory.

So Lee Rainie & I are launching a virtual book tour for our beloved Networked book.

Lee's email is: lrainie@pewinternet.org> I'm wellman@chass.utoronto.ca

Here's the deal:

If you order 20+ copies for your class, you get a virtual lecture from either Lee or me. 60 minutes or so, including Q&A. Plus a set of our slides. We'll work out the details on email.

We'll forgo some of the joys of the book tour to avoid the hellish side. But we Know from our research that we will meet you in person. There ain't no Digital Dualism -- almost all online acquaintances transform into in-person relationships.

We won't make much money on this: just a few bucks for lattes. But we believe strongly in Networked and wnat it to be read and discussed.

After a while, we'll report back how this works out.

Have Skype, will vTravel.

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

Just published: NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. MIT Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/re... Hardbound $19; Kindle $16

http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/ref... _______________________________________________________________________

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Message: 13 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:11:18 -0400 From: Michael Horka <horka@ipsonet.org> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Call for Proposals - Dupont Summit 2012 Message-ID: <01095028-F2C7-402B-BE6D-8D805F502B94@ipsonet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Call for Proposals: Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) invites you to submit a proposal for the Dupont Summit 2012, to be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC on Friday, December 7, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to promote dialogue about current science, technology and environmental policy concerns, and to provide a civil forum for discussion across the political spectrum. We welcome proposals for panel discussions, round tables, individual talks, poster sessions, along with other types of presentations.

Proposals should be sent to PSO executive director Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval at dgutierrezs@ipsonet.org. A one-page summary/abstract of your topic and speaker/panelists (if applicable) is requested. Proposals will be accepted until September 30, 2012, the final deadline.

Click here for more information, along with videos and programs from past conferences.

The PSO disseminates policy scholarship through its 11 academic journals and 3 book series, conferences, and programs.

Please contact me with any questions.

Regards,

Michael Horka Policy Studies Organization Director of Programs and Communications 1527 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-349-9281 Find us online at ipsonet.org, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

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