[Air-L] Utility of listserv vs. Facebook board?

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Dear Nicholas, Nadia and others:
I entirely agree that it would be at odds with the openness 
principles of AoIR (or any other academic community) to force its 
members into communicating via a proprietary network.

Further, e-mail/listserv has a wider reach than social media/Facebook.
And yes, it ain't broken.

Down the road, if AoIR decides to move communications to an open 
source social network, then you may want to consider Social Lab 
(http://sociallab.es). Our related publication just went in press:
Garaizar, P. & Reips, U.-D. (in press). Build your own social network 
laboratory with Social Lab: a tool for research in social media. 
Behavior Research Methods.
Happy to send preprints, if anyone is interested.

Cheers
Ulf

At 11:20 Uhr +0200 5.8.2013, Prof. Dr. Nadia Kutscher wrote:
>Dear Nicholas,
>
>thanks for this suggestion. As a person critical to the digital 
>enclosure of Facebook etc. I would suggest if there should be 
>something like that at all to set up a structure not based on a 
>system such as Facebook but being open without contributing to data 
>mining etc.
>
>Best regards
>
>Nadia Kutscher
>
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>
>  Nicholas Bowman <Nicholas.Bowman at mail.wvu.edu> hat geschrieben:
>
>AoIR pals!
>
>As a new member to the organization, I had wondered perhaps if this 
>e-mail listserv really is the best space for many of the 
>transactional-type discussions that happen between members. On the 
>one hand, it's very cool (and inspiring) to see such a vibrant 
>discussion between motivated and intelligent people, but on the 
>other hand there are days in which I will receive as many as 20 
>different AoIR e-mails - often a chronology of a conversation 
>between a few members that I might or might not be specifically 
>involved in (besides my tangential connection to both as an AoIR 
>member).
>
>To this end, I wonder if the organization has (or might) consider 
>using a different channel for these transactional-type discussions, 
>such as a closed Facebook page, that provides members an "opt-in" 
>and persistent space for more detailed discussions. As the Web and 
>Publications Editor for the Mass Communication of NCA (National 
>Communication Association), I have facilitated such a page for our 
>1200+ members for the better half of three years, and we've seen 
>quite a few members (about 500 currently "following" the page) log 
>in and share research and scholarly opinions in the space - which 
>has taken quite a bit of pressure off of our listserv. I realize of 
>course there are likely many reasons why we don't have such a space, 
>but I'm just wondering if using the current AoIR listserv as a 
>bulletin board and discussion place is the most functional use of 
>the technology; as a new member, it can often times be overwhelming.
>
>Of course, should there be any interest in such a project - using 
>Facebook, or some other technology that is more easily 
>assessible/less likely to see us all anti-aging cream on a daily 
>basis - I'd be more than happy to assist. Or, I'll just continue to 
>acclimate to the AoIR listserv, as I go find it generally useful.
>
>Just a few thoughts from a new member - I do not mean to shake the 
>apple tree so please to not take this note as anything more than an 
>"outside looking in" observation. Glad to be a member, and eager for 
>my first AoIR this Fall in Denver. =)
>
>
>~nick
>
>Nicholas David Bowman, Ph.D.
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>West Virginia University
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