From bethanvjones at hotmail.com Fri Aug 1 04:33:05 2014 From: bethanvjones at hotmail.com (bethanvjones) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:33:05 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fan Studies Network Conference Registration Message-ID: Dear all,? We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above.? The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conference-draft-schedule-2014.pdf Any questions, please email us at?fsnconference at gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team From bertha.chin at gmail.com Fri Aug 1 06:52:59 2014 From: bertha.chin at gmail.com (Bertha Chin) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 14:52:59 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] REGISTRATION OPEN: Fan Studies Network Conference 2014, London Message-ID: Dear all, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above. The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conference-draft-schedule-2014.pdf Any questions, please email us at fsnconference at gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team -- Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar @bertha_c Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/) From jung at uib.no Fri Aug 1 17:16:35 2014 From: jung at uib.no (Daniel Jung) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:16:35 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects Message-ID: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> Hi all, I have a question, or a request for literature. Short version: Is there a general taxonomy, or model, of text/image-relationships for web design? Long version: In his excellent book "Information Design : An Introduction" (John Benjamins 2002), p. 40, Rune Pettersson postulates four relationships between text and media objects, such as images or film. - redundant (similar information conveyed, such as sub-titles for TV) - relevant (supplementing information) - irrelevant (pictures and text and probably sound in TV programmes dealing with different things) - contradictory (disastrous in information design, but possibly beneficial for persuasion) This book describes a general framework and not specific design areas. The preface states explicitly that modern web design is not included. I have been looking for a kind of general taxonomy of relationships between text and images in web design, but haven't found anything really satisfactory. I have found some novel-, or work-specific articles. One of the most interesting articles is Thomas Wartenberg, 'Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics' in Meskin's "The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach" (2011). In a critique of Scott McCloud, he claims four functions of text in comics: thought or speech; narration; pictorial element; sonic event. But this is too specifically targetted on comics. I would like to see a model like Pettersson's, but more fleshed out, newer, and, above all, applied to (or coming from) web design. Does anyone have a pointer for me? Thank you very much! - Daniel From jetlistserv at gmail.com Sat Aug 2 10:44:59 2014 From: jetlistserv at gmail.com (Jim T) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 10:44:59 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Final CFP: Revisiting Critical GIS - short meeting at Friday Habor Message-ID: Hi all, Again, apologies for cross-posting. Also, to reiterate, this meeting is *very much* meant to appeal to a diverse set of scholars working on related topics in interesting ways. Please feel encouraged to apply or pass the CFP along to those who might be interested. Best, Jim Revisiting Critical GIS The rapid development and dissemination of digital geospatial technologies, datasets, and practices raise questions about how various arguments of 'critical GIS' remain as relevant as ever, require rejuvenation, or have run their course. Drawing in part on such developments, but also on enthusiasm for the digital humanities and on new materialist and even speculative realist currents of thought within social and cultural theory, the prospects for a renewed engagement between critical human and quantitative geographies appears more hopeful today than they have for some time (Barnes 2009). This forum provides a venue within which participants can think through these and other issues collaboratively, emerging with fresh ideas and perspectives to bring to research and teaching. To this end, the 2+ day format will blend pre-planned and collaboratively organized sessions. Four sessions have been organized around broad themes that touch upon recent discussions in the cognate literatures. Each participant will be associated with one of these planned sessions and will co-organize its content and format with others. Additionally, there are three periods scheduled for collaboratively formed sessions (collective or break-out) that emerge from the discussions at the conference. The event will be held from later on Friday, October 17th to the morning of Monday, October 20th at the University of Washington?s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island . Day 0 (Friday) Afternoon / evening arrivals, welcome event Dinner Note: Ferry/flight schedules tend to be such that one needs to arrive at this time in order to be present for the critical first sessions in the morning. Day 1 (Saturday) Breakfast Session 1: Getting to know one another: who we are, why we?re here, and what we want to do Session 2: The story so far: critical GIS, GIScience, and 'not only... but also' Lunch Session 3: Hybrids: Critical Quantification and Digital Humanities Session 4: Collaborative session I (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 2 (Sunday) Breakfast Session 5: Corporatization of spatial information and our response Session 6: What tools? What theory? Lunch Session 7: Collaborative session II (Collective or break-out) Session 8: Collaborative session III (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 3 (Monday) Breakfast Session 9: Concluding Session: Paths Forward Departure Given the nature of this event, the number of participants will be limited to fewer than thirty, with a firm aim towards inclusivity (including, but not limited to academic seniority; students, early career faculty, and #alt-ac are strongly encouraged to participate). Would-be participants should submit a short prospectus (300 word maximum). The prospectus should address what the participant hopes to do at the gathering and muse about what s/he hopes might emerge in the time beyond--a forward-looking aspirational piece, rather than a description of previous works. Prospectuses are due August 1, 2014 and successful applicants will be informed by September 1, 2014. Please submit your prospectus via email to revisitingcritgis at gmail.com. The cost of attendance is estimated to be approximately $345 for faculty and $225 for students, meals and shared accommodations included. Confirmation of costs will be provided at time of acceptance. Limited support may be available to assist graduate student attendance. Please apply and we will try to make a solution work. Organizing Committee Luke Bergmann, University of Washington Jim Thatcher, University of Washington - Tacoma David O?Sullivan, University of California - Berkeley Jeremy Crampton, University of Kentucky Sarah Elwood, University of Washington Reuben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser Matt Wilson, University of Kentucky References Barnes TJ. 2009. Not Only... But Also: Critical and Quantitative Geography. The Professional Geographer 61, 1442-54. From zemmels at loyno.edu Sat Aug 2 12:34:57 2014 From: zemmels at loyno.edu (David Zemmels) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:34:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CALL FOR PANELISTS - Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015 Message-ID: <94575C82-FA52-482F-8F5C-0D431BB42ADC@loyno.edu> CALL FOR PANELISTS ============================================================= Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015 http://www.hichumanities.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 15th, 2014 Acceptance notifications: 2-3 weeks later FORMAT OF PRESENTATION Panel sessions will last 90 minutes and it is the presenters? choice how that time is split between panelists. PANEL DESCRIPTION Identity and Play: Playing with Self in Digital Games and Social Media Play with self and personal identity can vary over time, across media, and as a consequence of psychological and social context. Our focus in this panel will be to investigate how digital media designs and services affect the construction and maintenance of self. The panel discussion will examine specific examples of self construction in virtual environments and how existing media designs -- including, prominently, digital game designs -- engage, facilitate, and, potentially, inhibit play with self. We are positioning this panel as a review of existing research. Questions we would like to address include: Is there a ?networked? self? What is consistent and what is incongruous in the presentation of self across social media? Is the construction of self in game-based media designs more or less gratifying than the construction of self in other (non-game-based) media designs? What game design components are most critical to the construction of self? E. g.: Avatar personalization/customization? Use of ?alts?? Anonymity? Guilds and/or other multiplayer components? How important are traditional ?social presence? features to the construction of self? How have digital media design technologies influenced the self construction process? To what extent can the construction of self be algorithmized and automated? Are self construction ?apps? feasible? We would like panel participants to address broad questions such as these with reference to existing media designs and services (though accompanying theoretical speculation will also be desired and valued). CONTACT If interested in participating in this panel session, please contact before Aug. 15: David Zemmels, PhD, MFA zemmels at loyno.edu +1 (504) 865-3632 School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans 6363 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 ============================================================= ____________________________________ David Zemmels, PhD, MFA School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans From mwhite at michelewhite.org Sat Aug 2 18:52:02 2014 From: mwhite at michelewhite.org (Michele White) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:52:02 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1407030722.96217.YahooMailNeo@web164001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Hi Daniel, ? I have been teaching a course in the textual analysis of Internet and related technologies that addresses some of your research questions. We mainly build our analysis from humanities forms of close reading rather than web design or HCI texts. I have also been building arguments based on the reoccurring aspects of Internet sites in my previous and developing research and have an article on the use of textual analysis in Internet settings on my ?to do? list. I have an outline of some Internet analysis methods that I could send to the listerv if there is any interest. Some of the following might be of use to you because they outline key textual and visual features of the web (and other aspects of the Internet and new media): ? Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. ? Menon, Elizabeth K. ?Virtual Realities, Technoaesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture,? In The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age, ed. Damian Sutton, Susan Brind, and Ray McKenzie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007: 151-161. ? Wakeford, Nina. ?Developing Methodological Frameworks for Studying the World Wide Web,? In Web Studies, 2nd. ed., ed. David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley. London: Arnold, 2004: 34-50. ? Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ? I think this key chapter on textual analysis might also be highly useful: Johnson, Barbara. ?Teaching Deconstructively,? Writing and Reading Differently, ed. G.Douglas Atkins and M. L. Johnson (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1986), 140-48. ? Thanks, Michele Professor Michele White Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Author of: Producing Women in Internet Sites: Traditional Femininity, Queer Engagements, and Creative Practices (Routledge, 2015). Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (Duke University Press, 2012) The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (MIT Press, 2006) From anterobot at gmail.com Sun Aug 3 22:03:30 2014 From: anterobot at gmail.com (Antero Garcia) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:03:30 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] 2 Week Reminder - CFP: Alternate Reality Games Message-ID: *Hello everyone, just a quick, final note that chapter proposals for the CFP below are due on 8/15 - please get in touch if you have any questions.* *Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay* Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies, Bloomsbury Editors: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University & Greg Niemeyer, University of California, Berkeley Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as ?real.? Though prominent examples of ARGs have persisted over the past two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between the ?real? and the ?virtual.? We seek chapter proposals for a proposed collection that explores and defines the possibilities of ARGs. With ARGs continuing to be an important and blurred space between digital and physical gameplay, this collection offers clear analysis of game design, implementation, and ramifications for game studies. Divided into three distinct sections (noted below), this collection emphasizes first hand accounts by leading ARG creators, scholarly analysis of the meaning behind ARGs from noted critics and researchers, and explication of emerging visualization and data collection methodologies. We are particularly interested in cultivating research from various disciplinary perspectives; by balancing the voices of designers, players, and researchers, this work highlights how the Alternate Reality Game genre is transforming the ways we play and interact today. We seek chapter proposals that fit within one of the following three book sections: *Section One ? Development and Execution* Chapters in this section of the book detail the design and implementation of ARGs. Authors pay attention to specific fictions, audiences, and goals within these ARGs and offer a clear step-by-step behind the scenes look at how these game designers engineer new modes of play and participation. *Section Two ? Alternating Reality ? how ARGs are changing games and society* These chapters focus on analysis and critique of ARGs. While some chapters may focus on specific games, other chapters in this section invoke larger trends in ARGs. *Section Three ? Data Visualization and Collection* As the ARG genre is dependent on responding to the ways participants interact with one another and with a story?s content, this section of the book looks at how we interpret and construct data. In particular, the genre of digital games is reinventing new data visualization methodologies and this section should illuminate ways games display information during play and as synopsis after a game concludes. This edited volume has received initial interest from the Digital Game Studies series editors and we are currently seeking additional chapters to share with the editors and secure a book contract. *The deadline for proposals of 300-500 words is August 15, 2014. Please email your abstract and a 100 word biography to anterobot at gmail.com (please indicate to which section of the book your proposal is directed). All authors will be notified of acceptance by September 2nd and full chapter manuscripts would be due in April, 2015. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at the above address.* -- Follow my exploits digitally at: www.theamericancrawl.com From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Sun Aug 3 23:04:26 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 06:04:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Online Communities and Networks workshop: registration and programme Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F1F802E81@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Registration is open for the Concepts and Methods workshop: Structural approaches to Online Communities and Networks The workshop is organised by the News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Date: Wednesday 27th August 2014 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra The workshop is divided in two parts. In the morning sessions, early-career researchers present their work and confirmed researchers provide feedback and suggest key arguments. The morning's discussions inform the afternoon sessions, which consist in a structured democratic dialogue process seeking to answer the following triggering question: "what are the most promising areas for future research into online communities and networks?". Registration is free, but please note that attendance at the afternoon session is limited to 20 people. For the full programme and registration information please go here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/research/research-centres/news-and-media-research-centre/events/concepts-and-methods-workshop The workshop will be the inaugural event of the Canberra Networks Public and Organisations research group. From jutta.haider at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 02:37:26 2014 From: jutta.haider at gmail.com (Jutta Haider) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:37:26 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound. Message-ID: Dear colleagues! We are happy to announce the publication of the thematic section "Changing orders of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in transition", part of Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 6, 2014. Please find the section here: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html#block3 *Table of Contents: * Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin: Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition. - Research Articles: Katharine Schopflin: What do we think an Encyclopaedia is? Seth Rudy: Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of Encyclopedic Reading. Siv Fr?ydis Berg & Tore Rem: Knowledge for Sale: Norwegian Encyclopaedias in the Marketplace Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina: Reviewing Encyclopaedia Authority . Ulrike Spree: How readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with Wikipedia (2002-2013). Kim Osman: The Free Encyclopaedia that Anyone can Edit: The Shifting Values of Wikipedia Editors. Simon Lindgren: Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research. *Tales from the field:* Georg Kj?ll and Anne Marit Godal: Store Norske Leksikon: Defining a New Role for an Edited Encyclopaedia. Lennart Guldbrandsson: Wikipedia. Molly Huber: Land of 10,000 Facts: Minnesota?s New Digital Encyclopedia. Michael Upshall: What future for Traditional Encyclopedias in the Age of Wikipedia? (Download as pdf: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v6/cul14v6_Changing_Orders_of_Knowledge.pdf ) Kind regards, Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin --- Jutta Haider Assistant professor Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University Sweden E: jutta.haider at kultur.lu.se From R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk Mon Aug 4 03:50:19 2014 From: R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk (Deller, Ruth A) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:50:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researh Associate Opportunity Message-ID: With apologies for cross-posting (PS email Farida, not me, if interested!) **We're looking for an RA for our new ESRC Transformative Research grant!** Deadline: 11 August Interviews: 2 September Start date: 1 December (15 months at 0.8FTE) The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Picturing the Social explores the social impact of the wide range of images now shared across different social media platforms and apps. The research involves an interdisciplinary team from four universities as well as industry. The project is led by Dr Farida Vis, who is based in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. The role will require the post holder to carry out a 12-month digital ethnography of social media users and their image sharing practices. You will be required to produce summary reports of ethnographic notes to share with the project team. You will also offer research assistance in identifying key literature, including material from industry, media commentary, and policy documents, and produce summaries of these. You will work closely with the whole project team and will assist in the organisation of project events as well as contribute to the Visual Social Media Lab. The successful candidate will hold a PhD in a relevant discipline (or equivalent experience) and have proven ability in using methods associated with the project such as digital ethnography. They will have excellent interpersonal skills and the experience in writing for publication and dissemination, and preferably knowledge or interest in visual culture and social media research. Full job advert: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJD895/research-associate/ More info on the project: bit.ly/PtS_pressrelease Project proposal: http://bit.ly/PicturingtheSocial_proposal -- Dr Farida Vis Faculty Research Fellow Information School | University of Sheffield E: f.vis at sheffield.ac.uk T: @flygirltwo New ESRC Transformative Research grant: http://www.visualsocialmedialab.org From anders.fagerjord at media.uio.no Mon Aug 4 04:23:01 2014 From: anders.fagerjord at media.uio.no (Anders Fagerjord) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:23:01 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> References: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> Message-ID: <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> Hi, Daniel These relations keep cropping up in literature under different names. I suggested using the terms ?consonance?, ?dissonance', ?polyphony?, and ?accompaniment' in a 2010 chapter dealing with web documentaries. I have later learned that I was far from the first to give these relations a name, but I don?t think there is any established consensus. Fagerjord, Anders. ?Multimodal Polyphony: Analysis of a Flash Documentary?. Inside Multimodal Composition Ed. Andrew Morrison. New York: Hampton Press, 2010. (Preprint: http://fagerjord.no/downloads/polyphony_preprint.pdf) Best, ?anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr.art. Associate professor Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Norwegian Media Technology Lab, Gj?vik University College P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no 2. aug. 2014 kl. 02:16 skrev Daniel Jung >: Hi all, I have a question, or a request for literature. Short version: Is there a general taxonomy, or model, of text/image-relationships for web design? Long version: In his excellent book "Information Design : An Introduction" (John Benjamins 2002), p. 40, Rune Pettersson postulates four relationships between text and media objects, such as images or film. - redundant (similar information conveyed, such as sub-titles for TV) - relevant (supplementing information) - irrelevant (pictures and text and probably sound in TV programmes dealing with different things) - contradictory (disastrous in information design, but possibly beneficial for persuasion) This book describes a general framework and not specific design areas. The preface states explicitly that modern web design is not included. I have been looking for a kind of general taxonomy of relationships between text and images in web design, but haven't found anything really satisfactory. I have found some novel-, or work-specific articles. One of the most interesting articles is Thomas Wartenberg, 'Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics' in Meskin's "The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach" (2011). In a critique of Scott McCloud, he claims four functions of text in comics: thought or speech; narration; pictorial element; sonic event. But this is too specifically targetted on comics. I would like to see a model like Pettersson's, but more fleshed out, newer, and, above all, applied to (or coming from) web design. Does anyone have a pointer for me? Thank you very much! - Daniel _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 4 06:50:18 2014 From: mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk (Mark Graham) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:50:18 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?AAG_2015_CFP_=E2=80=93_From_Online_Sweat_Shops_?= =?utf-8?q?to_Silicon_Savannahs=3A_Geographies_of_Production_in_Dig?= =?utf-8?q?ital_Economies_of_Low-Income_Countries?= Message-ID: *From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries* AAG Annual Meeting , Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 *Organizers:* Mark Graham , Nicolas Friederici , and Isis Hjorth University of Oxford Throughout the early 21st century, Internet and mobile phone access in developing countries has skyrocketed, and today the majority of people on the planet are connected through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Yet, while basic ICT access is increasingly level across income groups and geographies, production in the global digital economy is still, and maybe increasingly, dominated by incumbent multinational technology corporations or fast-scaling web startups. These businesses tend to roll out their products (with some local adaptation) across the globe, but maintain their coordinating and creative activities in places like Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, or London, exploiting both agglomeration and dispersion economies in digital production (Malecki & Moriset, 2007; Moriset & Malecki, 2009). How does digital production in low-income countries fare in the face of this dominance? Policymakers and the private sector in several low-income countries (especially in Sub-Saharan Africa) have set out to transform their economies through ICTs, explicitly emphasizing local digital production. Two sectors that are often seen as promising are (1) low-skill/cost-competition, such as business process outsourcing and digital microwork, and (2) high-skill/entrepreneurial innovation, such as startups developing and commercializing mobile and online applications. However, what are the concrete and realistic potentials and possibilities for low-income countries to become important hubs for digital production? What are palpable economic outcomes of Kenya?s status as the ?Silicon Savannah? or Lagos as the ?Silicon Lagoon,? and who are the winners and losers of local ICT entrepreneurship and innovation? Do ICTs really deliver economic inclusion and employment to remote geographies and low-income groups, or are we witnessing the rise of online sweatshops that further enhance exploitation of vulnerable populations? This session will explore these themes, encouraging contributions from a variety of perspectives. We invite authors to consider digital production in low-income/developing countries through lenses such as: - Empirical or theoretical perspectives on digital production and its (uneven) geographies - Discourse around digital production and its promises and risks - Distributions of value creation and extraction across actor groups (winners/losers) - Tensions of scaling versus local adaptation in digital production, in application to geography and inclusion/exclusion effects - Uneven production geographies within countries, in particular, differences and divides between rural/peri-urban/urban clusters - Socio-demographic analyses of economic actors engaging in digital production - Case studies of low-skill/cost-competition digital production (e.g., business process outsourcing, microwork, etc.) - Case studies of high-skill/entrepreneurial innovation in digital production (e.g., mobile/online applications startups, technology innovation hubs) - Analyses and recommendations for local and international policy pertaining to digital production *Submission Procedure:* To be considered for the session, please send your abstract of 250 words or fewer, to: mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk, nicolas.friederici at oii.ox.ac.uk, and isis.hjorth at oii.ox.ac.uk The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 1 2014. Notification of acceptance will be before October 7. All accepted papers will then need to register for the AAG conference at aag.org. Accepted papers will be considered for a special issue or edited volume edited by the organizers. Malecki, E. J., & Moriset, B. (2007). The paradox of a ?double-edged? geography: local ecosystems of the digital economy. In The Digital Economy: Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments (pp. 174?198). New York, NY: Routledge. Moriset, B., & Malecki, E. J. (2009). Organization versus Space: The Paradoxical Geographies of the Digital Economy. Geography Compass, 3(1), 256?274. ------------------------------------------ Dr Mark Graham Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Research Fellow Green Templeton College University of Oxford Visiting Research Associate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham | geospace.co.uk | Information Geographies | wikichains.org | @geoplace | zerogeography blog | Connectivity, Inclusion and Inequality Group From charles.ess at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 10:17:26 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:17:26 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From pimple at indiana.edu Mon Aug 4 10:23:24 2014 From: pimple at indiana.edu (Pimple, Kenneth) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:23:24 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7BA46AD8A23CD24BAA778D986CF2E7AD42F265C6@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu> Charles - I have only an inadequate and partial response: What does the publishing journal have to say on this? Ken ===== Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D. Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions Editor, Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies (PICT): Ethical Challenges, Opportunities and Safeguards (Springer) http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-94-007-6832-1 Indiana University 618 East Third Street Bloomington IN 47405-3602 (812) 856-4986 FAX 855-3315 pimple at indiana.edu http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/ Blog: http://ethicalpait.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @Ethical_PICT - https://twitter.com/Ethical_PICT -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From sharon at trebcon.com Mon Aug 4 10:50:50 2014 From: sharon at trebcon.com (Sharon Haleva Amir) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 20:50:50 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <006c01cfb00c$a6b59d50$f420d7f0$@trebcon.com> Dear Charles, I'm an e-Politics researcher and have been working with these materials for more than a few years now. As long as you're citing / screen shooting public posts (meaning you don't have to friend these personas to follow their activity. It is a different thing if it is a personal FB account or a Twitter account which requires permission from its holder in order to follow its activity) there is no ethical issue. Regarding copyrights - as long as the screenshots are for teaching and research, to the best of my knowledge, there is no copyrights violation. Only my 2 cents. Sharon Best Wishes, Sharon Haleva Amir, School of Governance and Social Policy, Beit Berl College, HCLT Fellow, (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, ISRAEL.? -------------------------------------------------- http://haifa.academia.edu/SharonHalevaAmir http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1227022 -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: 04 August 2014 20:17 To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From ku26 at drexel.edu Mon Aug 4 10:53:09 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:53:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> Hi Charles, Your email prompted me to turn to the US copyright page. My feeling is that using these materials would fall under "fair use." I'm sure you are well area of Section 107, but here is a quote from the Copyright webpage http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html : Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted work The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work Since you are using materials that are available in the public sphere and the journal is most likely for research and educational purposes, I think using them without obtaining copyright is allowed. Kris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 ?| ?Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From peterotimusk at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 11:12:13 2014 From: peterotimusk at gmail.com (Peter Timusk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:12:13 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Charles there is a new decision from the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v Spencer that states that Internet users have an expectation of privacy. While I am not answering directly because I am not a lawyer you may find this interesting to consider. Here is the case and it is not long to read. The court I think decides that the child porn distributor is committing a serious crime so his privacy can be invaded.. There are in the decision statements about an Internet user's privacy expectations that are quite clear and I welcome the courts statements. http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14233/index.do?r=AAAAAQAjSW50ZXJuZXQgYW5kIHByaXZhY3kgYW5kIGluZGl2aWR1YWwAAAAAAQ On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Charles Ess wrote: > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a > screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in > 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity > in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an > approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially > embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting > protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice > and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what > [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in > journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians > in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures > were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there > is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical > dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing > something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish > the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices > included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From ellis.godard at csun.edu Mon Aug 4 11:52:12 2014 From: ellis.godard at csun.edu (Ellis Godard) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:52:12 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> References: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> Message-ID: <034201cfb015$37b90d70$a72b2850$@godard@csun.edu> The last 2 of those 4 bullets are particularly germane: You aren't impeding any pecuniary interests such as through either re-appropriation of the work or market confusion about the producer. I'm with Kristene - you're likely fine! -eg -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Unsworth,Kristene Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 10:53 AM To: Charles Ess Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Hi Charles, Your email prompted me to turn to the US copyright page. My feeling is that using these materials would fall under "fair use." I'm sure you are well area of Section 107, but here is a quote from the Copyright webpage http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html : Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted work The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work Since you are using materials that are available in the public sphere and the journal is most likely for research and educational purposes, I think using them without obtaining copyright is allowed. Kris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 ?| ?Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 13:28:27 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 22:28:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry Message-ID: Dear Professors and colleagues, I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. Data needed include: - posts; - comments; - date &time of posts and comments; and - some information about people that post and comment (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* I appreciate your advice/comments, Thank you all, Yours, *Noha A.Nagi* Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University From dburk at uci.edu Mon Aug 4 14:31:46 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:31:46 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Charles: You are asking two (at least two) different questions. The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the politicians. In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as you have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, and in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a personal right to control their images. Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most democratic jurisdictions, but YMMV. The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright does not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless of course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you would need to check. Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions will have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing perjury/spoliation). Best, DLB > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a > screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in > 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity > in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an > approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially > embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting > protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice > and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what > [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in > journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians > in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures > were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there > is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical > dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing > something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish > the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices > included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From charlie at balch.org Mon Aug 4 14:47:21 2014 From: charlie at balch.org (Charlie Balch) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:47:21 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? Charles Balch PhD Faculty, Department of Business & Administration Northern Arizona University - Yuma Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 Skype: NAUCharlie Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu ??? -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. Burk Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM To: Charles Ess Cc: Air list Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear Charles: You are asking two (at least two) different questions. The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the politicians. In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as you have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, and in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a personal right to control their images. Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most democratic jurisdictions, but YMMV. The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright does not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless of course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you would need to check. Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions will have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing perjury/spoliation). Best, DLB > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) > and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for > office in 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public > activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at > least an approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as > potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially > warranting protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in > practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, > based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and > privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the > politicians in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and > pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, > however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an > ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: > am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe > ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no > copyright notices included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From dburk at uci.edu Mon Aug 4 15:00:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:00:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> References: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Message-ID: Maybe. For some purposes, not necessarily for others. It is probably non-profit. Which is not necessarily the same as non-commercial (as my accountant friends like to say, non-profit doesn't mean you can't run a surplus). If it is like most journals, it may be running a deficit and/or requiring support from other sources of revenue. So money is changing hands, but there may not be any left over. There are at least a couple of places where this is relevant in the fair use analysis: first, the purpose for which you are using the work. You are better off there if your purpose is something other than profit, so a showing of production at or below cost is useful. The factor is more likely to favor you if the purpose seems to be scholarship rather than revenue. The second is in factor four, the extent to which you are displacing the rights holder's market. There it doesn't really matter if you are making money or losing money, or giving the work away for free. The question is whether the owner is losing, or potentially losing money. DLB > Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? > > Charles Balch PhD > Faculty, Department of Business & Administration > Northern Arizona University - Yuma > > Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 > Skype: NAUCharlie > Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu > ??? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. > Burk > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM > To: Charles Ess > Cc: Air list > Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two > > Dear Charles: > > You are asking two (at least two) different questions. > > The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the > politicians. > In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as > you > have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, > and > in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust > discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a > personal right to control their images. > > Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so > autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will > tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. > > I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most > democratic > jurisdictions, but YMMV. > > The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright > does > not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless > of > course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from > Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied > permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you > would need to check. > > Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair > use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently > Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions > will > have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in > Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a > patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. > > However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a > politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the > defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation > between > the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of > Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized > here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . > Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing > perjury/spoliation). > > Best, DLB > >> Dear AoIRists, >> >> I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two >> screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) >> and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for >> office in 2014, including their pictures and names. >> These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public >> activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at >> least an approximation thereof). >> There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as >> potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially >> warranting protection as private. >> >> >> I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in >> practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, >> based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and >> privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), >> it is permissible to publish these without permission from the >> politicians in question. >> >> At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians >> aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and >> pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, >> however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. >> >> Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an >> ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: >> am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe >> ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no >> copyright notices included? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> - charles ess >> >> Professor in Media Studies >> Department of Media and Communication >> University of Oslo >> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern >> NO-0317 >> Oslo Norway >> email: charles.ess at media.uio.no >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> > > > -- > School of Law > University of California, Irvine > 4500 Berkeley Place > Irvine, CA 92697-8000 > Voice: (949) 824-9325 > Fax: (949)824-7336 > bits: dburk at uci.edu > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From jung at uib.no Mon Aug 4 15:34:36 2014 From: jung at uib.no (Daniel Jung) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:34:36 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> References: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> Message-ID: <53E00A7C.1070001@uib.no> Le 04/08/2014 13:23, Anders Fagerjord a ?crit : > Fagerjord, Anders. ?Multimodal Polyphony: Analysis of a Flash > Documentary?. /Inside Multimodal Composition/ Ed. Andrew Morrison. New > York: Hampton Press, 2010. (Preprint: > http://fagerjord.no/downloads/polyphony_preprint.pdf) Wonderful! I will use it in my class. Thanks, - Daniel From malee at csu.edu.au Mon Aug 4 15:58:15 2014 From: malee at csu.edu.au (Lee, Mark) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:58:15 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook Available for Download Message-ID: <70DE45B3-806E-4C1F-9EAC-5BFE34E27456@csu.edu.au> Dear colleagues, In 2011-2013 the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) provided funding for a project aimed at exploring Blended Synchronous Learning, which entails bringing together on-campus and distributed learners to partake in shared, real-time experiences. The project focused on three technologies?videoconferencing, web conferencing and 3D virtual worlds?as well as learning designs involving the use of these technologies to simultaneously engage students and teachers in collaborative activities irrespective of their location. An Australia and New Zealand-wide scoping survey was conducted, and seven case studies were followed and investigated through participatory evaluation. The Blended Synchronous Learning project team is pleased to announce that the OLT has approved the Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook without condition and it is now freely available for download from: - http://blendsync.org/handbook The Handbook includes a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework that offers pedagogical, technological and logistical recommendations for teachers attempting to design and implement blended synchronous learning lessons (see Chapter 14). It also includes a Rich-Media Synchronous Technology Capabilities Framework to support the selection of technologies for different types of learning activities (see Chapter 4), as well as a review of relevant literature, a summary of the Blended Synchronous Learning Scoping Study results, detailed reports of each of the seven case studies, and a cross-case analysis. For those who are interested, the BlendSync Final Report and External Evaluation Report are also from the OLT website at the following URLs: - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_2014.pdf - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_evaluation_2014.pdf A list of academic papers and links to recordings of presentations that have arisen out of the project is posted at http://blendsync.org/publications . The project team would also like to take this opportunity to invite all those with an interest in area to join the Blended Synchronous Learning Collaborator Network to abreast of events and updates in the future. Instructions on how to do this can be found at http://blendsync.org/network . There is not a lot of traffic from the network mailing list (usually less than one message a month), and those who are on the list can unsubscribe at any stage. Best wishes, The BlendSync Team: Matt Bower (Macquarie University) Gregor Kennedy (The University of Melbourne) Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University) Web: http://blendsync.org Email: info at blendsync.org From malee at csu.edu.au Mon Aug 4 16:01:56 2014 From: malee at csu.edu.au (Lee, Mark) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:01:56 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook Available for Download Message-ID: <70693B2F-149D-4CF9-A3FE-01E63EEC3C1A@csu.edu.au> Dear colleagues, In 2011-2013 the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) provided funding for a project aimed at exploring Blended Synchronous Learning, which entails bringing together on-campus and distributed learners to partake in shared, real-time experiences. The project focused on three technologies?videoconferencing, web conferencing and 3D virtual worlds?as well as learning designs involving the use of these technologies to simultaneously engage students and teachers in collaborative activities irrespective of their location. An Australia and New Zealand-wide scoping survey was conducted, and seven case studies were followed and investigated through participatory evaluation. The Blended Synchronous Learning project team is pleased to announce that the OLT has approved the Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook without condition and it is now freely available for download from: - http://blendsync.org/handbook The Handbook includes a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework that offers pedagogical, technological and logistical recommendations for teachers attempting to design and implement blended synchronous learning lessons (see Chapter 14). It also includes a Rich-Media Synchronous Technology Capabilities Framework to support the selection of technologies for different types of learning activities (see Chapter 4), as well as a review of relevant literature, a summary of the Blended Synchronous Learning Scoping Study results, detailed reports of each of the seven case studies, and a cross-case analysis. For those who are interested, the BlendSync Final Report and External Evaluation Report are also from the OLT website at the following URLs: - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_2014.pdf - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_evaluation_2014.pdf A list of academic papers and links to recordings of presentations that have arisen out of the project is posted at http://blendsync.org/publications . The project team would also like to take this opportunity to invite all those with an interest in area to join the Blended Synchronous Learning Collaborator Network to abreast of events and updates in the future. Instructions on how to do this can be found at http://blendsync.org/network . There is not a lot of traffic from the network mailing list (usually less than one message a month), and those who are on the list can unsubscribe at any stage. Best wishes, The BlendSync Team: Matt Bower (Macquarie University) Gregor Kennedy (The University of Melbourne) Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University) Web: http://blendsync.org Email: info at blendsync.org From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 17:46:29 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 20:46:29 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Noha, DiscoverText captures time signatures. http://www.discovertext.com/ This 4-minute video describes how it works http://www.screencast.com/t/5kiMyIQH ~Stu On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Noha Nagi wrote: > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > Data needed include: > - posts; > - comments; > - date &time of posts and comments; and > - some information about people that post and comment > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > Thank you all, > Yours, > *Noha A.Nagi* > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitterhttps://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From charles.ess at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 23:51:19 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:51:19 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, First of all, a thousand thanks to all who have responded both on-list and off-list: all most helpful as I continue to work through these issues. Because of various logistical considerations, I will need another week or so to garner more of some of the relevant information as suggested by both on-list and off-list responses. Presuming I thereby gain some clarity that can further be appropriately reported on this list, as I anticipate will be the case, I will most happily do so. (In addition, this would seem to make for a good case study to append to the AoIR ethics guidelines 2.0 - with any luck, will be able to write this up one of these days.) Again, a thousand thanks and I hope to have something useful soon as a return favor for all of the excellent responses and helpful suggestions. Best in the meantime, - c. On 05/08/14 00:59, "McLaughlin, Lisa" wrote: >It seems to me that the compelling argument for 'fair use' is that the >individuals being represented in the article are public persons who >clearly have made public statements or created artifacts meant to >circulate publicly. > >As for the question of 'commercial' v. 'non-commercial' use, of course >publishers such as Taylor and Francis and Elvevier are making commercial >uses of the contents of journals. Taylor and Francis Ltd was bought in >2004 by Informa plc, a multi-national conglomerate that specializes in >pub- lishing and conferences in areas that include maritime and >transport, yacht shows, finance, real estate, health insurance, telecoms, >and law. As a former editor for a T&F/Routledge journal, I can attest to >the fact that publishing is a commercial activity for such journals >(journals which fail to produce a profit after a few years are no longer >published). Most definitely, it helps to turn a profit when a publisher >is able to rely on the unpaid labor of editors, reviewers, and authors. > >However, there is a fuzzy area when it comes to authors and >commercialization. If the journal is not open access, I assume that >Charles will have to assign ownership of the article to the journal. But, >Charles has no commercial interest in the article (or so I assume;-) and >will not benefit financially after the publication of the article. >Following the embargo period, however, he has more ownership rights over >the article--for example, Charles can re-publish it in his own edited >collection. > >Regardless, I continue to think that the bottom line is that the twitter >feeds and FB pages were made available by public figures for public >consumption and are being used for educational purposes. > >Regards, > >Lisa > > > >On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Charlie Balch wrote: > >Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? > >Charles Balch PhD >Faculty, Department of Business & Administration >Northern Arizona University - Yuma > >Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 >Skype: NAUCharlie >Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. >Burk >Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM >To: Charles Ess >Cc: Air list >Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two > >Dear Charles: > >You are asking two (at least two) different questions. > >The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the >politicians. >In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as >you >have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, >and >in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust >discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a >personal right to control their images. > >Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so >autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will >tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. > >I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most >democratic >jurisdictions, but YMMV. > >The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright >does >not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless >of >course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from >Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied >permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you >would need to check. > >Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair >use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently >Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions >will >have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in >Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a >patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. > >However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a >politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the >defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation >between >the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of >Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized >here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . >Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing >perjury/spoliation). > >Best, DLB > >> Dear AoIRists, >> >> I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two >> screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) >> and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for >> office in 2014, including their pictures and names. >> These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public >> activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at >> least an approximation thereof). >> There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as >> potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially >> warranting protection as private. >> >> >> I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in >> practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, >> based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and >> privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), >> it is permissible to publish these without permission from the >> politicians in question. >> >> At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians >> aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and >> pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, >> however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. >> >> Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an >> ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: >> am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe >> ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no >> copyright notices included? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> - charles ess >> >> Professor in Media Studies >> Department of Media and Communication >> University of Oslo >> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern >> NO-0317 >> Oslo Norway >> email: charles.ess at media.uio.no >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> > > >-- >School of Law >University of California, Irvine >4500 Berkeley Place >Irvine, CA 92697-8000 >Voice: (949) 824-9325 >Fax: (949)824-7336 >bits: dburk at uci.edu > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at 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/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > >-- >For MJF course waitlist, go to this site: http://units.miamioh.edu/mjf/ > > >Please note that my e-mail address has changed to mclauglm at miamioh.edu. >Messages sent to my former address will no longer be forwarded after May >31, 2014. > > >Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. > >Associate Professor, Department of Media, Journalism & Film and Women's, >Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program >Miami University-Ohio >USA > >Contact: >Department of Media, Journalism & Film >Williams Hall >Miami University >Oxford, OH 45056 >USA >Tele: 513-529-3547 >Fax: 513-529-1835 >Email: mclauglm at miamioh.edu > > > > > From anjabechmann at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 01:30:15 2014 From: anjabechmann at gmail.com (Anja Bechmann) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:15 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> Hi Noha and others, try www.digitalfootprints.dk - we have free access for small scale studies now. Best, Anja Anja Bechmann Associate Professor, PhD Aarhus University, Denmark +45 5133 5138 .....this message is sent from my iPhone .... > Den 04/08/2014 kl. 22.28 skrev Noha Nagi : > > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > Data needed include: > - posts; > - comments; > - date &time of posts and comments; and > - some information about people that post and comment > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > Thank you all, > Yours, > *Noha A.Nagi* > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From norman.pena at paulus.net Tue Aug 5 01:56:56 2014 From: norman.pena at paulus.net (Norman Pena) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:56:56 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] SNS quote search Message-ID: Dear AOIRst, "In social media network you cannot really control what people will say, but you can suggest what people will talk about". I have been desperately trying to search for the article with this quote which I have read two or three years ago. Unfortunately then I did not took note of the title of the article which I like to include in a research. Has anyone come across it (or something similar)? I will really be very grateful for the trace route! Thanks Norman Pena UPS (Phd Candidate) Rome, Italy From khansson at dsv.su.se Wed Aug 6 00:11:09 2014 From: khansson at dsv.su.se (Karin Hansson) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:11:09 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] GROUP '14 Workshop on Crowdwork || Nov 9, 2014 || Sanibel Island, FL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Extended deadline: August 31, 2014 CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS GROUP 2014 - ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork Sanibel Island, Florida, USA - November 9, 2014 The Morphing Organization: Rethinking Groupwork Systems in the Era of Crowdwork Workshop website: http://morph.wp.horizon.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 01, 2014 Workshop Date: November 09, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web 2.0 has provided organizations remarkable opportunities to improve productivity, gain competitive advantage, and increase participation by engaging crowds to accomplish tasks at scale. However, establishing and integrating crowd-based systems into organizations is still an open question. The systems and the collaborative processes they enable appear diametrically in dissonance with the norms and culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing in traditional organizations. They require mechanisms for articulation of work, coordination, cooperation, and knowledge co-creation that are fundamentally different from those in current groupwork systems and processes. This workshop will bring together researchers investigating issues related to crowdsourcing, social computing and collaborative technologies, organizational science, and workplace research, work in industry, government and voluntary sectors, to discuss the future of groupwork systems in the era of crowdwork. We invite position papers that seek to address the following questions that are of interest to the workshop: What is the future of groupwork systems in the era of crowdwork? How do emerging trends in crowdwork, such as organizational collaboration with an undefined network of people, affect how we conceptualize groupwork? What are the implications for the design of groupwork systems? How can groupwork research contribute to crowdwork research? What can be learned from the success stories and failures of groupwork systems of more than two decades to inform the design of effective organizational crowdwork systems? Can the research and design principles of traditional groupware, workflow systems, and CSCW applications be extended to support organizational collaborative work with the crowd? How can collaboration ?in the crowd? be motivated and sustained, while promoting openness and mutual knowledge co-creation, safeguarding organizational intellectual capital, and ensuring maximum job satisfaction and career growth for the crowd worker? What are the underlying ideology and principles in the socio-technical architectures of tools for supporting collaboration and knowledge sharing? What are the norms and cultures of collaboration in organizations, and how and when do they work for or against the involvement of crowds? How do we understand the participatory processes at stake in crowdwork, ensure equal representation, and design sustainable hybrid economic systems from an organizational perspective? What functions should the next generation of groupwork systems embody to make them viable as an organizational work tool in the era of crowdwork? Submissions should be sent by email to: group14crowdwork at gmail.com We recommend that position papers: Are between 2-4 pages long and formatted to ACM GROUP guidelines; Include title, your name, affiliation, and email address; Has an abstract (up to 200 words); Provide a short biography with your background and area(s) of expertise (up to 150 words); Specify your main interest in the workshop (up to 50 words); Workshop Organizers Obinna Anya (IBM Research) Laura Carletti (University of Nottingham) Tim Coughlan (University of Nottingham) Karin Hansson (Stockholm University) Sophia B. Liu (US Geological Survey) For any questions, please contact us by email: group14crowdwork at gmail.com From jaysonharsin at yahoo.com Wed Aug 6 03:05:07 2014 From: jaysonharsin at yahoo.com (jayson harsin) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:05:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times Message-ID: <1407319507.10437.YahooMailNeo@web171901.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Hello, this CFP may be of possible interest to some of you on the list. best wishes, Jayson Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times Populars: ?A resurgence of populism in Europe?; the ?economic populism? of Latin America; ?a populist, business-minded Hindu nationalist...at once India's most popular and most divisive politician?; ?populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an ?un-African?, alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists?; ?a populist feminist movement was ignited this spring when Rush Limbaugh's vitriol more than backfired? as well as ?what was known in Latin America as ?popular feminism??; #bringbackourgirls and #notyourrescueproject; Taksim and Tahir; the Pirate Party and the Tea Party; the French National Front, and the Zanzibar Civic Union Front. ?This list is only a partial survey of the numerous social and political movements that have been described as giving voice to the needs and desires of ?the people? over the past decade. What is at stake in the noisy return of ?the people? to contemporary social and political debates? What are the languages and media that these popular movements use to communicate? This two-day colloquium will provide a forum in which scholars are able to share research on the role that media and communication technology are playing in contemporary populist movements. Not very long ago, it was thought that the populist movements of the twentieth century, organized around charismatic leaders and the actions of undifferentiated masses, had been displaced by the rise of networked media and communication platforms that allowed for open access. Yet, the events of the past decade have witnessed the rise of political movements that echo traditional forms of populism while incorporating the non-hierarchical characteristics of networked communication media. The goal of this colloquium is to bring together research that explores the changing relationship between populism and popular democratic movements globally as well as the contemporary significance of ?the popular? more broadly as a category of analysis in critical communication and media studies scholarship. To this end, this meeting hopes to bring together scholars whose work draws upon the traditions of cultural studies and critical theory in order to make sense of the relationship between the people, media and political institutions in the contemporary moment. This colloquium calls upon scholars to present material that engages with the following questions: *What is the role that communication and media play in the formation of these new populist movements as well as in attempts to contain or preempt them? *What is the relationship between these movements and established or emergent forms of political organization and institutionalization? *How do these movements intersect with processes of economic globalization, the politics of gender and sexuality, as well as ethnic, religious, caste, tribal or other social formations and modes of collective identification? We are seeking contributions from scholars based in Communication and Media Studies or any other related field interested in discussing a variety of movements, contexts and communication practices. Please send 300-word proposals to theglobalpopular at gmail.combefore September 1st, 2014. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, there will be an opportunity to circulate beforehand where possible. The conference will be held at Baruch College, City University of New York, New York City, with support from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences on October 24-25, 2014. The conference is organized by Jayson Harsin (Baruch College) and Mark Hayward (York University). From stu at texifter.com Wed Aug 6 06:00:49 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:00:49 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality Message-ID: Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the substantive comments and surface key themes: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public Quoting the FCC: "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to use." Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we downloaded yesterday: + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site + 300,172 items after de-duplication + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that say: "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wiobyrne at gmail.com Wed Aug 6 06:44:57 2014 From: wiobyrne at gmail.com (Ian O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:44:57 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Stu, Thanks for the quick work on this. I'm spreading it through my social networks as we speak. I pulled the link from your blog post to expedite the process. For others that are interested...the link is here: http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2014/08/06/open-data-on-net-neutrality-help-crowd-source-analysis-of-comments-to-the-fcc/ Please share this far and wide. Great analysis. Thanks again. -Ian _________________________ W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. wiobyrne.com University of New Haven Department of Education *"Feet on the Ground and Eyes to the Sky"* 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, CT 06516 (203) 479-4272 On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Shulman, Stu wrote: > Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: > > http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm > > The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the > substantive comments and surface key themes: > > > http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public > > Quoting the FCC: > > "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to > build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public > will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the > record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the > technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to > use." > > Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to > search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a > CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and > started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for > crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to > join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and > visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly > with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate > comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. > To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note > in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. > > https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial > > You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we > downloaded yesterday: > > + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site > + 300,172 items after de-duplication > + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that > say: > > "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that > Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet > user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its > Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for > truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political > failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and > choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs > will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some > services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and > quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up > favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to > rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy > your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, > family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work > and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are > attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. > We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy > the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled > last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, > legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > http://people.umass.edu/stu > > Founder and CEO, Texifter > http://texifter.com > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman > > Twitter > https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Wed Aug 6 07:22:44 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:22:44 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53E23A34.9060006@gmail.com> Thanks Stu for sharing. Very nice. Made me think back to the media ownership proceedings, too, where we saw a similar surge of comments from the lay public and FCC reactions. (Not to mention Sherry Arnstein's work on "participating in participation.") One of the (diss') interviews I conducted with an FCC staffer back then seems relevant to the net neutrality proceedings: " [T]he whole point for us is to try and say, okay, we have, you know, sixty thousand pieces of paper here, fifty-eight thousand of them basically say, 'We?re against this because we don?t like this consolidation, and we want more diversity. We don?t like people to buy up everything in our market.' But they aren?t usually very deep or analytical or, you know, substantiated by evidence, documentary or otherwise. They?re usually expressions of opinion. And, you know, we take account of those. We say... there are a whole lot of people who don?t like this. And we would basically have people look at them to decide that that?s, in fact, what they were. Then summarize what they were...there were forty-eight thousand sixty whatever comments that essentially made the following two points. And, you know, so it was really a very short summary that you ended up with." Seeta Pe?a Gangadharan On 8/6/14 9:44 AM, Ian O'Byrne wrote: > Hi Stu, > > Thanks for the quick work on this. I'm spreading it through my social > networks as we speak. I pulled the link from your blog post to expedite the > process. For others that are interested...the link is here: > > http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2014/08/06/open-data-on-net-neutrality-help-crowd-source-analysis-of-comments-to-the-fcc/ > > Please share this far and wide. Great analysis. Thanks again. > -Ian > > _________________________ > W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. > wiobyrne.com > > University of New Haven > Department of Education > *"Feet on the Ground and Eyes to the Sky"* > 300 Boston Post Road > West Haven, CT 06516 > (203) 479-4272 > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Shulman, Stu wrote: > >> Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm >> >> The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the >> substantive comments and surface key themes: >> >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public >> >> Quoting the FCC: >> >> "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to >> build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public >> will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the >> record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the >> technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to >> use." >> >> Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to >> search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a >> CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and >> started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for >> crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to >> join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and >> visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly >> with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate >> comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. >> To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note >> in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. >> >> https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial >> >> You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we >> downloaded yesterday: >> >> + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site >> + 300,172 items after de-duplication >> + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that >> say: >> >> "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that >> Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet >> user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its >> Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for >> truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political >> failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and >> choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs >> will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some >> services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and >> quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up >> favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to >> rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy >> your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, >> family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work >> and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are >> attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. >> We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy >> the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled >> last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, >> legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." >> >> -- >> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman >> http://people.umass.edu/stu >> >> Founder and CEO, Texifter >> http://texifter.com >> >> LinkedIn >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman >> >> Twitter >> https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From wfg568 at hum.ku.dk Wed Aug 6 07:54:07 2014 From: wfg568 at hum.ku.dk (Taina Bucher) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:54:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on theory of science for communication and computing.. Message-ID: <3960D53783ABB9459C92FD64192BDC4F2EDD9ABF@exmbx1.hum2005.hum.ku.dk> Dear AoIRists, I'm looking for some readings for an undergraduate class on the theory of science in communication and IT. I am particularly looking for readings that concern the disciplinary overlaps, differences and boundaries between media and communications and computer science. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions for articles or chapters dealing with the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges between these fields from a philosophy of science perspective? Some context on the course and study programme: The syllabus already contains some basic philosophy of science (logical positivism, critical rationalism, critical realism etc), communication theory as a field, traditions of computing, and some STS. The course is part of the BA in Communication and IT, an interdisciplinary programme between the Humanities (media and communications) and Computer science (HCI, CSCW). The readings I'm looking for would be for the very last class, which aims to offer some kind of synthesis and alternative perspectives on the theory of science in communication and IT. Many thanks! -- Taina Bucher Assistant Professor Centre for Communication and Computing Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S From m-wysocki at juno.com Wed Aug 6 12:53:36 2014 From: m-wysocki at juno.com (Matthew Wy.) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:53:36 GMT Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapter, Book on Video Game Sex and Sexuality Message-ID: <20140806.155336.21447.0@webmail09.vgs.untd.com> Call for Completed Chapter, Book Project on Video Games ?Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games? We are looking for a single completed chapter for our edited collection. We have a signed contract with a publisher and a delivery date of January of 2015 but have lost one of our submissions due to unforeseen circumstances. So we need to replace it with a completed or mostly completed submission. The focus of the collection, as can be seen in the title, is Sex and Sexuality in Video Games. Our three sections: The (R)Evolution of Video Games and Sex - Chapters on the history of sex and sexuality in video games, including censorship, translation, and production Video Games and Sexual (Dis)Embodiment - Analyses of the body, player interaction, and sexual identity and performance in gameplay Systems/Spaces of Sexual (Im)Possibilities - Analyses and close-readings of game spaces and mechanics, with attention to sexuality and sex as mechanics, representative features, or spatial dimensions of play" If you have something you feel would fit in with one of these themes, please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki at flagler.edu) or Evan W. Lauteria (ewlauteria at ucdavis.edu). We are looking for submission around 5600 words. From charles.ess at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 03:49:04 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. Message-ID: Dear all, I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand historical / cultural / political caveats). As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of expression (among others). The course includes: A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in its own right; B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others as the primary / usual suspects; E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example from the Arabic-speaking world). WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or optional? For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good material is "out there" to be considered 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So specific resources here would be helpful - As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - again, useful resources would be appreciated - But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be very pertinent and lively for the students. With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any suggestions you may have to offer - - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From fiskn at rpi.edu Thu Aug 7 15:57:50 2014 From: fiskn at rpi.edu (Nathan Fisk) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:57:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Charles, For an easier/shorter/supplemental read, I would suggest chapter 8 out of Kimmel?s ?Guyland? (Kimmel, M. S. (2008). Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men. New York: Harper.). He does a good job of setting up pornography consumption as a performance of masculinity for (white, college educated) 18-24 year olds. Softcore/lad magazines (Maxim, Sports Illustrated) become a form of reassurance, violent pornography becomes a form of compensation/revenge fantasy in the wake of civil rights movements. More generally, he notes the ways in which different demographic groups consume pornography for different, and culturally situated reasons. Has sparked a number of uncomfortable and interesting discussion in my undergraduate courses. -Nate Fisk On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l at listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis > pornography / privacy etc. (Charles Ess) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 > From: Charles Ess > To: Air list > Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation > vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Dear all, > > I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is > centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge > questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated > communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., > pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. > (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand > historical / cultural / political caveats). > > As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation > as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic > polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of > expression (among others). The course includes: > > A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on > freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical > observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as > legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in > its own right; > > B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention > to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual > self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; > a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as > brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children > in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); > > C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The > Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of > efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication > media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such > efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and > telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as > challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; > > D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from > national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially > in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of > public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media > - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private > companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, > and others as the primary / usual suspects; > > E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to > define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts > to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and > > F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary > work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of > countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example > from the Arabic-speaking world). > > WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... > 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or > optional? > For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working > through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ > (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. > side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current > readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good > material is "out there" to be considered > > 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? > For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent > study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit > spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call > attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' > rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic > regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So > specific resources here would be helpful - > As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited > especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. > Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - > again, useful resources would be appreciated - > But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be > very pertinent and lively for the students. > > With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any > suggestions you may have to offer - > > - charles ess > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations > > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations > > > My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: > http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 > > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 8 > ************************************* > From braman at uwm.edu Fri Aug 8 01:51:51 2014 From: braman at uwm.edu (Sandra Braman) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:51:51 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] re porn, rights, emancipation course In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1407487912637.50243@uwm.edu> Charles, Patrick Burkart's book PIRATE POLITICS (MIT Press 2014), on the Pirate Party, might provide a good course reading for its unique look at how what started as copyright battles turned into an actual political party active at the European Union level precisely because those involved took a liberatory stance towards their rights. Sounds like a great class; thanks for sharing so much detail about it. One could actually address much, if not all, of communication law through the lens of pornography. You could find cases involving not only what you've listed so far, but also defamation, antitrust, and so on. The dimension of pornography that makes it particularly valuable as a focus for a course encouraging people to think about their communication rights from a liberation perspective is that, in US law at least, "community standards" are relied upon to determine when something should be considered unacceptably obscene rather than acceptably pornographic for adults. It is thus the one opening in the law for discussion of how to determine just what a speech community should be deemed to be and for the rights of what we might think of as speech communities. It would be great to see someone fully develop that side of pornography law through the kind of lenses you are using in this course. The other issue worth looking at re porn would be not just the jurisdictional problem when it comes to what happens online (which country's laws should govern), but the fact that so much of the law is becoming globalized itself. When laws are harmonized, which can happen through many different kinds of processes, they become like each other across state lines irrespective of differences in national legal systems or political forms. To what extent has pornography law become globalized? Don't know if anyone has addressed that question yet, but one would expect this area of communication law to be among those most resistant to globalization because cultural differences here are so profound. Sandra Braman From jo.zylinska at gmail.com Fri Aug 8 01:58:04 2014 From: jo.zylinska at gmail.com (Joanna Zylinska) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:58:04 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Drone selfies, a Google challenge and the horrors of visuality: Photomediations Machine Message-ID: <53E4911C.5050605@gmail.com> We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - IOCOSE investigate what a drone would do if war and terror were over: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/drone-selfies/ - Jack Carvosso?s images of spontaneous feats of balance cast a new light on the everyday: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/sorry-i-was-miles-away/ - Google takes on the challenge to respond to artist Guido Segni?s 'Pics or it didn't happen' request: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/pics-or-it-didnt-happen/ - The visual corruption of the idea of Terra Australis by Perth-based artist Mike Gray: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/07/31/corrupt/ - An investigation of how science and art have attempted to capture human thought in images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/digital-thought-imaging/ - Pasi V?liaho?s video essay explores a secret behind a photograph from a concentration camp: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/stills-from-a-film-that-was-never-made/ - An artist 'grows' images in a petri dish, using liquid colours and materials: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-petri-dish-project/ - Rob Coley argues that current mechanisms of omnipresent control demand a new study of visuality: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-horrors-of-visuality/ ************************************************ PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of mediations past and a site of production of media as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, non-profit and fully open access. Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa Cartwright, Alberto L?pez Cuenca, Asbj?rn Gr?nstad, Richard Grusin, Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net), established in 1999. Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Follow us on Twitter: @Photomediations Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photomediations.machine Submissions invited: http://photomediationsmachine.net/submissions/ -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net Curator of Photomediations Machine http://www.photomediationsmachine.net From loriken at illinois.edu Sun Aug 10 11:58:49 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:58:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Book Award Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year?s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: ?In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic?s book. The book?s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of ?big data? in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.? As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! Lori Kendall AoIR President From sjones at uic.edu Sun Aug 10 13:32:19 2014 From: sjones at uic.edu (Steve Jones) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:32:19 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Book Award In-Reply-To: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> References: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Message-ID: <7FFD191B-7B77-4653-B5B7-7C518E7168AB@uic.edu> Congratulations to Nancy and to Mark on this well deserved recognition! Steve On Aug 10, 2014, at 1:58 PM, "Kendall, Lori" wrote: > I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. > > Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year?s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: > > ?In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic?s book. The book?s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of ?big data? in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.? > > As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! > > Lori Kendall > AoIR President > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From a.bruns at qut.edu.au Sun Aug 10 16:58:15 2014 From: a.bruns at qut.edu.au (Axel Bruns) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:58:15 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue In-Reply-To: <7349073c-e772-474d-b66c-155e02f69996@qutexhub02.qut.edu.au> References: <7349073c-e772-474d-b66c-155e02f69996@qutexhub02.qut.edu.au> Message-ID: G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor at media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 11 August 2014 9:44 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 Aug. 2014 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'counterculture' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'counterculture' Edited by Rob Garbutt, Jacqueline Dutton, and Johanna Kijas The seeds of the global counterculture sprouted in the 1960s, flourished into the 1970s and for some the counterculture continues to frame their daily lives. Its challenge to the functionalist culture characterised by formal education, career, marriage and mortgage yielded a range of experiments, some failures and short-lived and others long-lasting and now almost mainstream. Whatever the outcome, the intent was not one possible future for one's life but a future of possibilities, along with a commitment to social and environmental sustainability. The counterculture was, therefore, intensely biopolitical in the sense that it was and is a politics of life, one's own life and life on planet earth more generally. The counterculture was also contested from the beginning. The "counter" has been absorbed into consumer culture and commodified with ease. The love of transgression often saw the politics of power-relations overlooked. And despite being "counter", a relationship with the "mainstream" has always been necessary. In the 1970s and 80s, the counterculture was alive in academic discussions, but recently it has been relatively dormant. This issue is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion of the counterculture in Australia and beyond. Areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: * indigenous peoples and the counterculture * urban and rural countercultures * countercultural festivals * back to the land movements * utopian experiments * media and the counterculture * alternative: food, medicine, energy, architecture, childbirth, spirituality, sexuality, lifestyles ? * the mainstream and the counterculture * contemporary manifestations of the counterculture * intentional communities * the counterculture and consumption * competition, cooperation and the counterculture * global and peripheral countercultures * the "counter" in counterculture * the counterculture and environmental movements * hippies Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to counterculture at journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 10 Oct. 2014 Issue release date: 10 Dec. 2014 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at . All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor at media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ From aoir.z3z at danah.org Sun Aug 10 17:12:06 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:12:06 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] are you teaching "It's Complicated"? Message-ID: Many of you have mentioned in passing that you're teaching my new book in your fall classes (*thank you*!!!). If you are, I was wondering if you'd be willing to send me a copy of your syllabus? One other question: If you are teaching my book, are you encouraging students to buy it or are you sending them to the free version? (I'm fine either way but, as you can imagine, folks are asking me how giving away my book is impacting classroom adoption and I have _zero_ clue.) danah From luishestres at gmail.com Mon Aug 11 10:36:01 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:36:01 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? Message-ID: Hi all, Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. Thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? From ragnedda at gmail.com Mon Aug 11 10:55:55 2014 From: ragnedda at gmail.com (Massimo Ragnedda) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:55:55 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] MECCSA: Theorizing Digital Divide. Extended deadline Message-ID: Glenn W. Muschert and I are proposing a panel on ?Theorizing Digital Divides? for the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA) conference that will be hold at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), in January 2015. We have now extended the deadline for proposal submission to the 1st September 2014. We plan to propose one or more panel session(s) at MECCSA on the topic of ?Theorizing Digital Divides,? which we intend to use as point(s) of departure for an edited volume on the same topic. The intention is to create panels as an opportunity for colleagues to present their papers, and of course to have the opportunity to meet in person. We intend the panel(s) not merely as sets of talks with limited interaction among panelists, but rather as interactive opportunities for us to examine our common theme. The aim is to promote lively dialogue among experts, and to offer a venue for fruitful and satisfying discussion of how we theorize digital divides. Each session is 90 minutes, and in order to increase the interaction with the audience, we will make every attempt to limit the number of participants for each session. The final number of sessions will depend on the number of participant, and we will try to avoid parallel session in order to increase the interactivity and the discussion. As we mention, we also plan an edited volume on the topic of Theorizing Digital Divides, and we anticipate the conference sessions on this theme as a point of departure for that project. The deadline for us to propose a panel at the conference is the 15 September 2014. Therefore, if you would like to participate in the MECCSA this conference, we request that you please send us the details of the authors/participants and a brief abstract of 150-200 words. We would need to receive proposals to contribute to the MCCSA by the *1**st** September 2014* at the latest (emailed to Massimo Ragnedda ? ragnedda at gmail.com and Glenn Muschert ? muschegw at MiamiOH.edu). One point that might be obvious, however which perhaps bears clarification, is that participation in the MCCSA conference panel does not imply, nor is it contingent upon, final acceptance of a manuscript for the proposed volume on theorizing digital divides. While the MECCSA panels and the planned volume may complement one another, they are nonetheless separate projects. In particular, acceptance for publication in the edited volume will require successful peer and editorial review prior to publication. We mention this simply to be clear, and to avoid any potential confusion. In organizing a number of session at the same conference, it is ultimately our intention to provide venues for those interested in digital divide studies. In all, we hope to have a number of sessions which will be of interest to you and other scholars, and we will be happy to bring together numerous innovative and dynamic scholars. For now, please feel welcome to be in contact if you have any questions or concerns. -- Massimo Ragnedda Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda Twitter: @massimoragnedda From soates at umd.edu Mon Aug 11 11:02:23 2014 From: soates at umd.edu (Sarah Ann Oates) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:02:23 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47FB8A10-96B5-4963-9B03-DAB6AB54DE97@umd.edu> I?ve used Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, edited by Mary Joyce and available for free in full download here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/digiact10all.pdf Many good chapters ? less on the theory and bit more on practice in places, but students relate well ? I particularly like the way the chapter by Dave Karpf talks about strategy versus tactics in online political advocacy. Sarah Oates On Aug 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Luis E. Hestres > wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. Thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. More about me at luishestres.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Aug 11 11:10:35 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:10:35 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Seminal Works Message-ID: Looking for suggestions on seminal works in any of the following areas. I'm sure there are tons of readings, and I'm happy to receive suggestions on good articles, but I'm specifically looking for those handful of works that would be considered core to the concepts: - pre-internet comparisons of efficacy between traditional (face-to-face) and courses offered in others modes (correspondence, television, etc...) - the digital divide - "no significant difference" - characteristics of online students (especially if comparing to face-to-face students) thx aj -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu Mon Aug 11 11:17:16 2014 From: jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu (Jeanine Finn) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:17:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I like The Myth of Digital Democracy. It has some good history and background of the ?mechanics? of the web too: Hindman, Matthew. The myth of digital democracy. Princeton University Press, 2008. And this is a pretty interesting case study on the role of Twitter in the Egyptian revolution (and ties into some framing theory): Meraz, Sharon, and Zizi Papacharissi. "Networked gatekeeping and networked framing on# Egypt." The international journal of press/politics (2013): 1940161212474472. -jeanine <----------------------------------------------------> Jeanine Finn Doctoral Student School of Information University of Texas at Austin jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jefinn/ On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Luis E. Hestres wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. > > Thanks, > > Luis > > > - - - - - > Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. > More about me at luishestres.com > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From n.john at huji.ac.il Wed Aug 13 02:37:24 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:37:24 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Private BitTorrent trackers - history, analysis, knowledge? Message-ID: I was wondering whether anyone on the list has written (or has read) anything about the history of BitTorrent as a technological artefact? I?m especially interested in private trackers. Which was the first one to be set up, I wonder? Thanking you in advance, Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john From christian.katzenbach at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 02:44:34 2014 From: christian.katzenbach at gmail.com (Christian Katzenbach) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:44:34 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] EXTENDED 2nd Call for Participation: Berlin Erly Stage Reearchers Colloquium 2014 Message-ID: <01A8940C-627B-46BF-AD08-C8B9B61AD9EB@gmail.com> == apologies for cross-posting == EXTENDED Hereby the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society announces the annual colloquium held in Berlin, 9 October 2014. We wish to gather early stage researchers (Ph.D. candidates and post-docs) from all disciplines in order to drive forward the discussion on topics in the field of Internet research. The colloquium provides a stage for new perspectives on current issues of Internet and society. =================== BERLIN EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS COLLOQUIUM 2014 =================== Early stage researchers (Ph.D. candidates and post-docs) from all disciplines are invited to push ahead with the discussion revolving around Internet research. Conference: 09 October 2014 in Berlin EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 17 August 2014: Online submission via: http://colloquium.hiig.de/index.php/esrc/esrc2014/schedConf/cfp *********************************************************************************************************************** TOPICS 2014 This year?s colloquium will consist of two thematically focused tracks. We cordially invite you to submit your research projects on one of the following two topics: 1. PAY PER PIXEL In the near future, we will be paying for movies according to the size of the screen that it is displayed on, as stated by Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation. Whether that will actually happen remains to be seen, however it is clear that business models are changing rapidly due to the digital switch and correspondingly changing user expectations and behaviours. In the ESRC we will talk about how audiovisual media (e.g. film, animation, games, television etc) can cope with these dynamic circumstances. In specific on how new business models occur that adjust to the changing viewing behavior of users. What implications does this have on copyright legislation and on data protection as well as on the norms and regulations that emerge outside the legal realm? We regard this theme from a multidisciplinary perspective, and welcome contributions from the area of media studies, law, social sciences and economics. During the session, academics and people working in the field will participate in the discussion and provide a practical angle. ? MORE 2. PRIVATE INFORMATION ? OPEN DEBATES Privacy debates in the age of the Internet are prominent focal points of all the challenges arising from increased network connection, new data generation and collection techniques and conflicting cultural values. In the ESRC, we want to explore the governance of privacy works on a global scale. What are the global governance challenges of privacy? How is privacy understood and perceived in different fora and what does that mean for governing privacy? We welcome perspectives from all disciplines and from theoretical and empirical backgrounds to contribute to our debate on governance and privacy. During the session there will be very brief five-minute inputs by the authors of the papers and ample of room for discussion and the generation of new ideas. ? MORE ******************************************************************************************************************* PARTICIPANT GUIDELINES You can apply for two types of participation at the colloquium: 1. Paper presentation Please feel invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work. We kindly ask you to follow these submission guidelines: # An abstract outlining the relevance of the topic, the research method and questions. Max. 300 words/1800 characters with spaces (possibly printed in the programme) # A short paper providing more detailed information about your research. 2 to max. 8 pages; File type: PDF # Short CV. Max. 2 pages; File type: PDF 2. Participation only Please state, why you would like to join the discussion and briefly describe your research or working background: # A short statement outlining your personal motivation, your connection to the topic and your working background. Max. 300 words/1800 characters with spaces (possibly printed in the programme) # Optional: Articles or papers that may underline your motivation or tell us more about your background. More documents possible. Possible file types: PDF, PNG or JPG # Optional: Short CV. Max. 2 pages; File type: PDF The submission process closes on 1 August 2014. Please note that you need to register in order to submit a proposal. ******************************************************************************************************************* SIDE EVENT Alongside the Colloquium a thematically focused meeting on Internet Governance will take place on 09 and 10 October 2014, approaching governance in the dimensions of actors, technology and content and including a panel discussion on "Multi stakeholder approach: Legitimate self-regulation or simply lobbyism". We warmly invite you to join us and our guests during these two days to gain insight into this key issue within the I&S research community. ******************************************************************************************************************* More information on the event can be found online on www.colloquium.hiig.de. For questions please contact Larissa Wunderlich (colloquium at hiig.de). ================================ COLLOQUIUM.HIIG.DE =============================== -- Christian Katzenbach | Project Lead Policy & Governance katzenbach at hiig.de Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Berlin, Germany http://www.hiig.de/en/research/internet-policy-governance/ PGP Key: http://data.katzenbach.info/publickey-hiig.asc From ajk407 at nyu.edu Wed Aug 13 06:34:43 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:34:43 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] recommendation for readings Message-ID: Hello fellow listers. I'm resending this message from a couple of days ago because I'm certain that there are folks out there who can make a recommendation on an article or two that s/he might be familiar with. To clarify, I'm looking for readings in any or each of these areas, not all of them combined. Looking for suggestions on seminal works in any of the following areas. I'm sure there are tons of readings, and I'm happy to receive suggestions on good articles, but I'm specifically looking for those handful of works that would be considered core to any of each of these concepts: - pre-internet comparisons of efficacy between traditional (face-to-face) and courses offered in others modes (correspondence, television, etc...) - the digital divide - "no significant difference" - characteristics of online students (especially if comparing to face-to-face students) thx aj From shira.chess at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 09:16:59 2014 From: shira.chess at gmail.com (shira chess) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:16:59 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question Message-ID: Hi everyone, Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Shira Shira Chess Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of Georgia From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 10:40:27 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:40:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Shira, It's not a clearly delineated issue. But you might take a look at the excellent ICA best practice for use for scholarship in communication. http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/reports/fairuse.pdf I have used this document (successfully) as grounds to support my fair use claims for using screenshots of various websites and videos in published reports. In a blog post, I mention the specific aspects of this document I've found useful. http://www.markham.internetinquiry.org/2012/02/fair-use-of-images-in-scholarly-publishing/ There are many issues, of course, including restrictions and specifications by country, journal or book publisher, university, etc.....I think you might find more info in archives of this mailing list where previous conversations have addressed similar questions. Cheers, annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:16 PM, shira chess wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 11:31:00 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:31:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Shira, Pat Aufderheide from the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University (where I just finished my PhD) has done lots of work on fair use codes and best practices for academics, librarians, artists, journalists, and other comms professionals. They have a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication? you can check out here: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication ~Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? On August 13, 2014 at 11:17:08 AM, shira chess (shira.chess at gmail.com) wrote: Hi everyone, Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Shira Shira Chess Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of Georgia _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From luishestres at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 11:45:14 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:45:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks to everyone who replied. In addition to the suggestions shared with the whole list, here are some I received off-list: Brouwer, D. & Hess, A. (2007). Making sense of ?God hates fags? and ?Thank God for 9/11?: A thematic analysis of milbloggers? responses to Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.?Western Journal of Communication, 71, 69-90. Croeser, S. (2012).?Contested technologies: The emergence of the digital liberties movement.?First Monday, 17(8).?http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4162 Delany, C. (2014). How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014:?http://www.epolitics.com/winningin2014/ Delany, C. (2011). Online Politics 101:?http://www.epolitics.com/download-online-politics-101/ Delany, C. (2009). Learning from Obama:?http://www.epolitics.com/learning-from-obama/ Hess, A. (2010). Democracy through the lens of the camcorder: Argumentation and vernacular spectacle on YouTube in the 2008 election. Argumentation & Advocacy, 47, 106-122.? Hess, A. (2009). Resistance up in smoke: Analyzing the limitations of deliberation on YouTube. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26, 411-434.? If you have more please share. Thanks! ~Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? From aguzma31 at uic.edu Wed Aug 13 15:45:51 2014 From: aguzma31 at uic.edu (Andrea Guzman) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:45:51 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, This is a response to Shira's question: "If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications?" I would say that there is not enough information to make a determination. As someone who teaches copyright, and here I am talking about copyright in the U.S., one misconception of copyright that I routinely encounter is that if there is no copyright mark or claim, then there is no copyright. This is false. Copyright attaches once a work is produced and published regardless of whether a copyright symbol/claim accompanies it. Now regarding Fair Use, multiple factors are weighed with one of the chief components being how the copyright material is being used. I assume you are using it as part of analysis and/or commentary, and this can be allowed under Fair Use; however, creative works also tend to have stricter protections on them. (Insert standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do I play one while teaching or on the AoIR listserv.) To add to the resources already provided by others, I also suggest these websites: U.S. Copyright Office: http://copyright.gov EFF's FAQ on Fair Use: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq (This is more for teaching, but it gives a general overview). Also, for anyone who wants an interesting read on copyright gone sideways I suggest the following: "The $8,000 Mistake that All Bloggers Should Beware." Now this example is of a for-profit company, and not germane to your question, but it highlights some of the misconceptions of copyright. http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/ Best of luck! Andrea -- Andrea L. Guzman, M.A. PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago aguzma31 at uic.edu From uo at ryanean.es Wed Aug 13 15:57:50 2014 From: uo at ryanean.es (Ryan S Eanes) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:57:50 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53EBED6E.5020103@ryanean.es> I must have missed the previous inquiry but I wanted to chime in on this by providing a link to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, as provided by American University's Center for Media and Social Impact: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education The entire library of fair use codes through CMSI is worth browsing through, as well: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices Profs. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi have written a great book called Reclaiming Fair Use (more info at http://www.cmsimpact.org/reclaiming-fair-use-how-put-balance-back-copyright) which explains the embrace of these "codes of best practices" for various groups, among other arguments. I heard Prof. Aufterheide speak on campus here at UO and she made some excellent points regarding fair use--she is of the opinion that we have tip-toed around fair use for too long as academics, and made the point that no academic has ever been successfully prosecuted for using materials for educational purposes. Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I do agree with the principles that she puts forth. -- Ryan S Eanes Media Studies PhD Candidate & Graduate Teaching Fellow University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication 1275 University of Oregon, 210 Allen Hall Eugene, Oregon 97403-1275 rse at uoregon.edu . www.ryanean.es > Andrea Guzman > August 13, 2014 at 3:45 PM > Hello all, > > This is a response to Shira's question: "If a YouTube video does not have > any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair > use for scholarly publications?" > > I would say that there is not enough information to make a determination. > As someone who teaches copyright, and here I am talking about copyright in > the U.S., one misconception of copyright that I routinely encounter is > that if there is no copyright mark or claim, then there is no copyright. > This is false. Copyright attaches once a work is produced and published > regardless of whether a copyright symbol/claim accompanies it. > > Now regarding Fair Use, multiple factors are weighed with one of the chief > components being how the copyright material is being used. I assume you > are using it as part of analysis and/or commentary, and this can be > allowed under Fair Use; however, creative works also tend to have stricter > protections on them. (Insert standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do > I play one while teaching or on the AoIR listserv.) > > To add to the resources already provided by others, I also suggest these > websites: > > U.S. Copyright Office: http://copyright.gov > EFF's FAQ on Fair Use: > http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq (This is more for > teaching, but it gives a general overview). > > Also, for anyone who wants an interesting read on copyright gone sideways > I suggest the following: "The $8,000 Mistake that All Bloggers Should > Beware." Now this example is of a for-profit company, and not germane to > your question, but it highlights some of the misconceptions of copyright. > http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/ > > Best of luck! > > Andrea > From vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu Wed Aug 13 16:34:09 2014 From: vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu (Nancy Van House) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:34:09 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question Message-ID: ?I can't speak for this person's grasp of the law, but this is a really useful graphic for answering questions about images including screen shots from social media. http://visual.ly/can-i-use-picture ? ?The conclusion from this would be yes, if the video was initially intended for public viewing. -- *********************************************************************************** Nancy Van House Professor Emerita, School of Information 102 South Hall #4600 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse --------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 307A South Hall **************************************************** From rtrejo at unam.mx Wed Aug 13 16:57:44 2014 From: rtrejo at unam.mx (Raul Trejo Delarbre) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:57:44 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] are you teaching "It's Complicated"? Message-ID: <616BFEDB-23D2-49B3-84E4-E0E1DAA875FA@unam.mx> Dear Danah: This semester we are going to read your book in our Post Graduate seminary in the National University in Mexico. The students can choose the free or the Amazon version. Here you can see our reading program: http://rtrejo.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/enfoques-sobre-las-tecnologias-de-informacion-y-comunicacion/ Best regards Ra?l Trejo Delarbre Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM Ciudad de la Investigaci?n en Humanidades Circuito Mario de la Cueva Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoac?n, 04510, M?xico D.F. M?xico http//rtrejo.wordpress.com http://mediocracia.wordpress.com http://sociedad.wordpress.com http://lared.wordpress.com trejoraul at gmail.com rtrejo at unam.mx Facebook: rtrejo Twitter: @ciberfan Tel: 55-34-44-45 Fax: 55-24-13-92 From pooley at muhlenberg.edu Wed Aug 13 17:00:41 2014 From: pooley at muhlenberg.edu (Jefferson Pooley) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:00:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College Message-ID: <7C15EA1E-195C-48E0-ADA5-6A736F9806E7@muhlenberg.edu> Media and Communication - Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2015. Our curriculum emphasizes the relationships between communication, democracy, and social justice, and seeks to integrate theory and practice. It provides students with a critical approach to the analysis of media forms, institutions, practices, and effects. We seek a generalist with a strong commitment to teaching in a liberal arts environment. Areas of specialization are open, but expertise in the sociology of media, the political economy and social impact of digital media, and / or global media studies will complement current departmental initiatives. The new colleague must be able to teach major requirements such as Media and Society, Documentary Research and / or Media Theory and Methods, and other elective courses in their area of expertise. The successful candidate must combine teaching excellence with a strong commitment to Muhlenberg's general education curriculum, including diversity and global engagement, along with an intellectually compelling research agenda. Three courses per semester load. More information is available on the department website: www.muhlenberg.edu/mediacom. Ph.D. preferred; exceptional ABDs considered. To apply, candidates should email a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, and contact information for three references as a single PDF file to Dr. Jeff Pooley, Associate Professor and Chair of Media and Communication, at pooley at muhlenberg.edu. Application review begins on October 1, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Muhlenberg College is a highly selective liberal arts college of 2200 students with a strong tradition of excellence in undergraduate teaching. Muhlenberg is located in Allentown, PA, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 90 miles west of Manhattan. Muhlenberg College is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the College's research and teaching missions. From shira.chess at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 17:15:49 2014 From: shira.chess at gmail.com (shira chess) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:15:49 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you all for your thoughtful answers and well-documented advice. I think I have a better idea of where I stand now. Best, Shira On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Luis E. Hestres wrote: > Shira, > > Pat Aufderheide from the Center for Media & Social Impact at American > University (where I just finished my PhD) has done lots of work on fair use > codes and best practices for academics, librarians, artists, journalists, > and other comms professionals. They have a "Code of Best Practices in Fair > Use for Scholarly Research in Communication? you can check out here: > > http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication > > ~Luis > > - - - - - > Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. > More about me at luishestres.com > > On August 13, 2014 at 11:17:08 AM, shira chess (shira.chess at gmail.com) > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > From alemtor at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 18:41:56 2014 From: alemtor at gmail.com (Alejandro Tortolini) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:41:56 -0300 Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology Message-ID: Dear AoIRlisters: a journalist friend of mine is looking for authors / authorities about hatred towards technology, to send her/him some questions. Can you recommend me somebody? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini Buenos Aires - Argentina From nick.lalone at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 20:01:42 2014 From: nick.lalone at gmail.com (Nick Lalone) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:01:42 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ah, thank you for this. Was looking for it but couldn't remember who made it! Nick LaLone Penn State University Information Science and Technology ist.psu.edu www.nicklalone.com www.beforegamedesign.com On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Nancy Van House < vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote: > ?I can't speak for this person's grasp of the law, but this is a really > useful graphic for answering questions about images including screen shots > from social media. > http://visual.ly/can-i-use-picture > ? > ?The conclusion from this would be yes, if the video was initially intended > for public viewing. > > > > -- > > *********************************************************************************** > Nancy Van House > Professor Emerita, School of Information > 102 South Hall #4600 > University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 > http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Office: 307A South Hall > **************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From dburk at uci.edu Wed Aug 13 20:16:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:16:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1e059a3590b1a5736e350756ace36a0c.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> Pardon, but when you say "does not have any copyright on them" do you mean that there is no copyright notice on them, or that you know that they are in the public domain (i.e., something published before 1929, a publication of the U.S. federal government, etc.)? If the latter, you needn't worry about fair use. Unfortunately the former (lack of notice) is irrelevant to the presence or absence of current copyright. DLB > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Wed Aug 13 22:59:30 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:59:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F26EB3674@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Hi Not sure if "hate" is the right word but anyway... Ted Kaczinsky is a pretty good authority on the subject, though he may be hard to reach. Otherwise, John Zerzan. cheers Mathieu -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2014 11:42 AM To: List Aoir Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology Dear AoIRlisters: a journalist friend of mine is looking for authors / authorities about hatred towards technology, to send her/him some questions. Can you recommend me somebody? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini Buenos Aires - Argentina _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From ilonagrzywinska at gmail.com Thu Aug 14 06:00:33 2014 From: ilonagrzywinska at gmail.com (Ilona GRZYWINSKA) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:00:33 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Online reputation and information share Message-ID: Hello everyone, I am conducting a research on active public within convergent media ecosystem and wanted to ask you if you came across any empirical studies on how the care of online reputation affects the type of content that users share in social media including the possibility that some content is not passed at all cause would affect the personal image a person wants to create for themselves. I would appreciate any hints on that. Thank you so much in advance:-) -- Best Regards Ilona Grzywi?ska PhD Candidate University of Warsaw Tel: +48 501 985 516 Twitter: @igrzywinska Skype: ilona.grzywinska Web: www.webkomunikacja.pl http://about.me/ilona.grzywinska From loriken at illinois.edu Thu Aug 14 08:52:00 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:52:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Best Student Paper Award Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A754BFB@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The IR15 Conference Committee is pleased to announce that this year?s Best Student Paper award goes to Rodrigo Davies from MIT for his paper ?Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding.? Davies' paper takes a thoughtful approach to considering crowdfunding strategies and their implications for civic and political participation. The reviewers appreciated the way the paper advances our ways of understanding crowdfunding rather than merely rehashing old debates. We had many high quality student submissions this year. Congratulations to Davies and all our student authors. We look forward to seeing your paper presentations in Korea in October. Lori Kendall President, AoIR From loriken at illinois.edu Thu Aug 14 15:50:10 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:50:10 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15: Hotel Registrations Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A754EC9@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Hey folks! I had hoped that we would have our hotel registration system up by now but it is taking longer than expected. I do want to reassure you that we have reserved blocks of rooms at each the four hotels previously described (see here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=247, here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=274, and here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=311 for more information about these hotels). In addition, we now have about 20 rooms reserved at The Grand Hotel Daegu as well. The Grand Daegu Hotel is just a few blocks from the conference venue, the Saint Western Hotel Beomeo. We do hope to have news shortly about how to place your hotel reservations, and there will still be plenty of available rooms once we do. Thank you for your patience, Lori Kendall President, AoIR From loriken at illinois.edu Fri Aug 15 08:00:41 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:00:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Statement of Inclusivity Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7556B8@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> I am pleased to announce that the AoIR Executive Committee has adopted a new Statement of Inclusivity for the organization. You can find it on our website here: http://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/ We have also updated our Statement of Principles to conform it to the new Inclusivity Statement. I would like to particularly thank Anna Lauren Hoffmann, the AoIR student representative, for spearheading and shepherding this initiative. Also assisting in formulating the statement were Jenny Korn, Anne Pasek, Pip Shea, as well as several members of AoIR who provided feedback on a draft of the Statement. Lori Kendall President, AoIR From humer at udk-berlin.de Fri Aug 15 08:01:27 2014 From: humer at udk-berlin.de (Dr. Stephan Humer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:01:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] CfP: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age Message-ID: <53EE20C7.5030003@udk-berlin.de> Call for Papers 2nd Symposium and 15th Workshop of the Terrorism Research Network (Netzwerk Terrorismusforschung e.V.) Main topic: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age Place and time: Our 2nd Symposium and our 15th Workshop is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and will take place in Wesseling near Cologne, Germany on October 15 ? 17, 2014 We are looking for scientific Workshop presentations on October 16 and 17! The main topic: Terrorism is neither a new nor a static phenomenon. Terrorism and Extremism are in constant, sometimes rapid change, which does not always make definitions and boundaries very easy. Are definitions of the current state and foreseeable development fair and suitable? What role, for example, play organized crime and war crimes? Are there symbioses with other phenomena? Are there special cases of terrorism, beyond the existing definitions and boundaries? And what does all this mean for science, authorities and organizations with security tasks in a more and more digitized world? The Symposium and the Workshop offer the possibility to explore the changes of Terrorism and its links with other crime phenomena in the Digital Age on an usual level. To emphasize and deepen transdisciplinarity this event is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Traditionally a large part of our workshop (October 17) is not limited to the main topic. It should also provide space for other terrorism-related lectures and discussions. In particular, we especially invite PhD candidates to present their projects! Abstracts and Deadline: Please send abstracts for a lecture of about 30 minutes. There will be room for discussions after every single presentation (30 mins). Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and can be send to stephan.humer at netzwerk-terrorismusforschung.org The deadline for abstracts/presentations - in German language is August 31, 2014 - in English language is September 7, 2014 Please remember that we are not able to pay for travel costs, but for the entrance fee and an overnight stay (if applicable). You can of course attend the Symposium and the Workshop without a presentation, but not for free. Please check our website for updates on this issue. -- Dr. Stephan G. Humer Research Director and Founder, Internet Sociology Department; Principal Investigator, Digital Security Research Digital Class, Berlin University of the Arts Phone: +49 (0) 176 6719 3413 Phone: +49 (0) 30 3185 1284 Mail: humer at udk-berlin.de Website: www.humer.de Twitter: @netsociology From zimmerm at uwm.edu Fri Aug 15 08:11:46 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:11:46 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award Announcement Message-ID: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Argil Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her dissertation is an ethnographic case study of the diffusion and appropriation of information & communication technologies, such as mobile phones and computers, among rural Chinese residents and migrant workers. The abstract is provided below. There were also two honorable mentions: "A Multi-method Examination of Race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Motivations for Participation in the YouTube-based ?It Gets Better Project?? by Dr. Laurie Phillips (UNC-Chapel Hill) "YouTube Shakespeares: Encountering Ethical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges in Researching Online Performance? by Dr. Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) As chair of the Dissertation Award committee, I would also like to extend my deep appreciation to the committee members: Kath Albury, Ben Light, Alice Marwick, and Katrin Weller. We received twenty-six submissions to review, and were quite impressed with the high quality and great variety of the dissertations that is indicative of the strength (and the future) of Internet studies. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Oreglia, Phillips and Fazel! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia http://gradworks.umi.com/36/16/3616383.html In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ?informatize? the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ?less,? compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China?s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ?invent? themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization. From zimmerm at uwm.edu Fri Aug 15 08:22:06 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:22:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award Announcement (correction) In-Reply-To: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> References: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> Message-ID: Drat, autocorrect. Below is a corrected announcement with Dr. Elisa Oreglia?s name properly indicated. Apologies. -MZ ==== I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her dissertation is an ethnographic case study of the diffusion and appropriation of information & communication technologies, such as mobile phones and computers, among rural Chinese residents and migrant workers. The abstract is provided below. There were also two honorable mentions: "A Multi-method Examination of Race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Motivations for Participation in the YouTube-based ?It Gets Better Project?? by Dr. Laurie Phillips (UNC-Chapel Hill) "YouTube Shakespeares: Encountering Ethical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges in Researching Online Performance? by Dr. Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) As chair of the Dissertation Award committee, I would also like to extend my deep appreciation to the committee members: Kath Albury, Ben Light, Alice Marwick, and Katrin Weller. We received twenty-six submissions to review, and were quite impressed with the high quality and great variety of the dissertations that is indicative of the strength (and the future) of Internet studies. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Oreglia, Phillips and Fazel! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia http://gradworks.umi.com/36/16/3616383.html In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ?informatize? the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ?less,? compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China?s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ?invent? themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization. From ku26 at drexel.edu Fri Aug 15 09:03:04 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:03:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] 2nd CfP and scholarship announcement Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314E562@MB1.drexel.edu> In addition to posting the 2nd CfP for ASIS&T SIG-IFP/SIG-III workshop; I want to announce three scholarship opportunities. We are pleased to offer 2 workshop fee waivers to current students working in the areas of information policy, information ethics, legal issues of information, surveillance studies etc. We will also offer 1 workshop fee waiver to a professional in the field. This individual should be working outside of the university. These awards will be based on reviews of submitted extended abstracts or position papers by the workshop planning committee: due September 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ASIS&T SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: ? How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? ? How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? ? Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? ? When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? ? What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? ? How does policy design build/undermine trust? ? What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens?s to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Fees Early-bird: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $190, Members $200, Non-members $220 Regular: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $210, Members $220, Non-members $240 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth at drexel.edu) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell at uw.edu). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci From ilg1953 at gmail.com Sun Aug 17 07:17:38 2014 From: ilg1953 at gmail.com (ilg1953 at gmail.com) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:17:38 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] From: ilg1953@gmail.com Message-ID: <90037DEC-3004-4036-8933-C6A609E32F7B@4makeup.pl> Greetings air http://ligurianautica.tv/catch.php?vpmsk2572wyn ilg1953 at gmail.com From n.john at huji.ac.il Sun Aug 17 08:05:57 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:05:57 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? Message-ID: Hello all, I had some helpful responses to my recent query about early private BitTorrent trackers - thanks to all those who wrote to me. I?ve now got a follow-up question: does anyone here know anything about ratio FTP servers? I feel like I?m getting into some fairly obscure corners and would certainly love it if someone could help shed some light in them. Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john From Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU Sun Aug 17 08:44:30 2014 From: Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU (Lovaas,Steven) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:44:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, Nik I'm not sure how much detail you're seeking... The general notion is that setting a download/upload ratio should encourage people to contribute rather than just freeloading. Or, in slightly more positive language, to maintain the flow of fresh content. In practice, it tends to annoy people and drive them to other services ;) Here's a thread from 2001 showing community resistance to the notion: http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?26703-Need-ftp-server-for-ratio-site I've also seen it used as a sort of group initiation threshold for sites specializing in "warez", the notion being that you have to prove that you're in the game before you benefit from the group's work. Steve ======================== Steven Lovaas IT Security Manager Colorado State University Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.edu 970-297-3707 ======================== -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas John Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 9:06 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? Hello all, I had some helpful responses to my recent query about early private BitTorrent trackers - thanks to all those who wrote to me. I've now got a follow-up question: does anyone here know anything about ratio FTP servers? I feel like I'm getting into some fairly obscure corners and would certainly love it if someone could help shed some light in them. Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From e.tonkin at bath.edu Sun Aug 17 10:12:23 2014 From: e.tonkin at bath.edu (Em Tonkin) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:12:23 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53F0E277.2020004@bath.edu> Hello Nik, As Steven notes, ratios function as a way of ensuring that members contribute as well as leech -- or even just think before they go ahead and download everything in sight. The practicalities of content distribution (bandwidth use, content provision, legalities etc) limit choices to, for example: a) sustaining a closed community of trusted individuals with a high barrier to entry - maybe 'initiation ceremonies' such as those Stephen mentions. b) opening to the public, but changing the bandwidth equation by exploiting someone else's resources (see the 'pubstro' paper below) c) using a distributed protocol (bittorrent etc) 'The pubstro phenomenon: Robin Hoods of the Internet' by Richard Braithwaite explores a group of individuals engaged in exploiting servers in order to create 'pubstros' ('computers that have been cracked into and had an FTP server installed'). One rule enforced within the group stipulated the need to 'do something to remain [a] member and not only leech'. The rules for a certain project included that 'Prospective members must establish a pub or pubstro of at least 1.5 Gigabytes in order to be granted membership', must 'post [at least] 2.5 Gigabytes per month to maintain membership' etc. That said, the code of ethics of this group also included 'Equity: Never post a pub or pubstro that isn't ratio free! Warez should be free for everyone.' Another report on the activities of warez groups, including discussion of access to FTP servers as reward for services rendered, appears in Basamanowicz and Bouchard (2012). Overcoming the Warez Paradox: Online Piracy Groups and Situational Crime Prevention. Policy and Internet, Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 1?25, May 2011. DOI: 10.2202/1944-2866.1125 'Of the court cases examined, 16 individuals had the primary role of supplying content to the group (Table 1). Successful suppliers are rewarded with accounts on lavish FTP sites and peer approval, while failures or lack of contribution can be punished by removal of FTP accounts or banishment from the group. For example, Jeffery Lerman, a supplier for the group Kalisto, a subsidiary of Fairlight, was granted with access to at least eight FTP servers controlled by the group as a reward for his contributions to the group (USA v. Lerman, Case Number 3:05CR50. D. CT, 2007); in contrast, Christopher Eaves, a supplier for the group aPC, was threatened with banishment from the group because of his lack of contribution (USA v. Eaves, Case Number 1:07CR00140, E.D. VA, 2007).' Also see discussion of 'top sites' on p. 16, which talks directly about the use of ratios in distribution of warez. There's also Lang, D. (2004). Musik im Internet: MP3: Empirische Befunde und motivationstheoretische Rechtfertigung, which talks a bit about the use of ratio FTP servers in MP3 music sharing. Although there is, as Steven notes and the pubstro example shows, community resistance to the enforcement of ratios, the same idea still shows up in the weirdest of places. As recently as 2009, Scribd implemented a fairly similar concept: http://mayank.name/2009/06/20/want-to-download-a-file-from-scribd-upload-one/ Cheers, Emma On 2014-08-17 16:44, Lovaas,Steven wrote: > Hello, Nik > > I'm not sure how much detail you're seeking... > > The general notion is that setting a download/upload ratio should > encourage people to contribute rather than just freeloading. Or, in > slightly more positive language, to maintain the flow of fresh > content. In practice, it tends to annoy people and drive them to > other services ;) Here's a thread from 2001 showing community > resistance to the notion: > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?26703-Need-ftp-server-for-ratio-site > > > I've also seen it used as a sort of group initiation threshold for > sites specializing in "warez", the notion being that you have to > prove that you're in the game before you benefit from the group's > work. > > Steve > > ======================== Steven Lovaas IT Security Manager Colorado > State University Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.edu 970-297-3707 > ======================== > From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Sun Aug 17 17:40:46 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:40:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Public Lecture, National Library of Australia: Working with the Crowd Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F26EB3EA6@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> The News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), University of Canberra, presents a Public Lecture: WORKING WITH THE CROWD: ENGAGING PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE CROWDS AND COMMUNITIES Ferguson Room, National Library of Australia Tuesday August 26, 5.30PM-7PM The lecture will be delivered by the N&MRC's Visiting International Scholar Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite About the Speaker Caroline Haythornthwaite is the Director and Professor of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Her research areas explore the way interaction, via computer media, supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction, primarily from a social-network-analysis perspective. Lecture Abstract The organization of work is changing. The change began with the first move to online communication and has accelerated with each new innovation in social media and social networking. The latest challenge entails harnessing the crowd - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowd creativity, and more - to address work needs. This focus promises the contributory power of many without the obligation to plan for long-term maintenance of the workforce. The turn to the crowd represents a marked change from earlier attention to communities. What have we gained and lost in focusing on the crowd over the community? What do we know about each form of organizing that can help in matching tasks and goals to crowd and community options? How can we harness the power of crowds as well as the commitment of communities? This presentation outlines two models for design and analysis of contributory practice: a lightweight model that draws on a crowd perspective to address tasks and rewards from discrete contributors, and a heavyweight model that draws on a community perspective to address contributions from connected contributors. The future of crowdsourcing entails multiple models of contributory practice, some of which entail full commitment to the goals of the work, trust in the use of contributions, and payoffs - however near or far - for society, the environment, and the next generation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Sun Aug 17 22:37:50 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:37:50 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final reminder: CFP - Entanglements: Activism and Technology (Fibreculture Journal) Message-ID: Call For Papers- June 2014_Entanglements: Activism and Technology (PDF) http://fibreculturejournal.org/ http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp_entanglements/ ?- Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) Article deadline: November 3 2014 Publication aimed for: February 2015 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea at qub.ac.uk This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in tension, conflict and hostility. By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements ? through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept of an activist politics within technology ? this special issue will elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, international development, community arts and cultural development. Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist philosophies of technology. Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture ? between openness and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, usability and availability. We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements through the following themes: * Alternative technology versus appropriate technology * Pragmatism and technology choice * The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies * Activist cultures and the proprietary web * Digital privacy and security breaches and errors * Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities * Technology and e-waste * The philosophies of long/short term impact * Authenticity and evidence Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word biographies, emailed to p.shea at qub.ac.uk and t.notley at uws.edu.au References: Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/), that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Aug 17 22:44:09 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:44:09 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? Message-ID: Hi all, Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are not exact or complete.) My comment was something along the lines of: The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess From seda at nyu.edu Sun Aug 17 21:09:01 2014 From: seda at nyu.edu (Seda Gurses) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:09:01 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2842A379-AD0D-4526-BBC8-A390F507D301@nyu.edu> dear charles, i don?t know what happened in your case, but during the gezi protests local activists were following the way fb censors political content. what we could observe without further sophisticated analysis was that if somebody makes a complaint or fb decides on some other basis (e.g., agreements with states) that a content should be removed, then all copies of the content get removed, including "re-shares" from other people?s walls. this used to be absolutely intransparent to the users whose re-postings/shares were deleted (simple disappearance). they do by now have a mechanism for making their complaint and removal process more transparent, but i am not sure if that includes notifying people who re-share information: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/more-transparency-in-reporting/397890383565083 maybe you can check. if not, i hope this is something other people on this list have looked into more systematically and i would love to hear more. s. On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Charles Ess wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered > that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding > events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the > alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local > police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are > not exact or complete.) > > My comment was something along the lines of: > The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm > not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and > over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk > from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker > underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it > claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). > > I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not > someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? > > In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / > quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's > part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my > upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, > including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. > > Many thanks in advance, > > - charles ess > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From luxiaoist at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 06:02:37 2014 From: luxiaoist at gmail.com (Lu Xiao) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:02:37 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium - Context in Information Behavior Research: Call for Participation Message-ID: Sorry for cross-posting. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation (i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks). Proposals for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk. Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in information behavior research" (See below). ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research" Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA The importance of context in human information behavior research has been well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information behavior research. This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to: ? Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research, papers may explore questions such as the following: What does ?context? really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level) affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts? ? Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information behavior in a particular context? ? Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user characteristics)? ? Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information systems/services, etc.) and in what way? Submission guidelines for Lightning talk proposals: - Author?s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at the top of the proposal. - Proposal text must be 500-1000 words. - Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as ?2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName". - Submission should be done by sending your draft to sigusesym2014 at gmail.com (Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor?sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by midnight Hawaii Time on September 1, 2014. - Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium. - Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. - If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still required. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides REGISTRATION FEES: * SIG-USE Members: $90 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100 * Non-Members: $120 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Please forward any questions that you have to Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca) or K.-Sun "Sunny" Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu). Lu Xiao & K.-Sun Kim 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs Lu Xiao Assistant Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Canada http://hii.fims.uwo.ca Recent JASIST publications: The Effects of Rationale Awareness in Iterative Human Computation Processes What Influences Online Deliberation? A Wikipedia Study From zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Aug 18 07:08:02 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:08:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> Hi Charles - My Occam's razor reaction to this is that your text triggered some kind of automated comment screening algorithm designed to prevent spam or other unapproved content. I suspect it wasn't that your comment was about Ferguson or Anonymous per se, but that it included text deemed spammy or hazardous (perhaps mention of doxing?). A classic false positive. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Charles Ess wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered > that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding > events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the > alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local > police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are > not exact or complete.) > > My comment was something along the lines of: > The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm > not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and > over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk > from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker > underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it > claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). > > I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not > someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? > > In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / > quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's > part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my > upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, > including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. > > Many thanks in advance, > > - charles ess > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From rodgers_scott at hotmail.com Mon Aug 18 07:50:34 2014 From: rodgers_scott at hotmail.com (Scott Rodgers) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:50:34 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (http://geomedia.se/) New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces By no means have media production spaces been ignored in academic research. Analyses of media production have often been anchored to specific settings, for example the studio in television production studies, the newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in creative industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily alongside the sorts of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media in terms of ?practices?. The value of work on media practices has been to emphasize the highly contingent interweaving of media into ?everyday life?, a process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work has overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media production spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off, strategically coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media production, in other words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different level of analysis. This thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that trouble the dichotomy between the geographies of media production and everyday mediation, and particularly how the former is often seen as institutionalized while the latter mundane. To begin with, what counts as media production is up for grabs, for example in the erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the loosening of medium specificity in the wake of digitalization, or in the dispersal of media production sites. At the same time, there are conceptual reasons to challenge the idea that media production spaces are centers of power. This session will explore the indeterminate spaces of media ?production? and their contingent negotiation with, anticipation of and even subjugation to the spaces, values and sensibilities of everyday life. Papers might address the above themes via the following topics: ? Affective/emotional dimensions of media production spaces/places ? The social spaces of professionalized media fields and their material geographies ? Localized geographies of film/television/music/gaming production and post-production ? Code/software spaces and media production ? Sport spaces and media production ? The urban habitus of media professionals and semi-professionals ? Site-specific encounters of media and non-media people ? Spaces of ?produsers?, ?prosumers?, ?citizen journalists? and other non-professional media contributors ? Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm and media production spaces ? Media producer anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies ? Architectural/infrastructural environments of media production ? Cultural policy and the governance of media production ? The body as site of media production ? Practices of media space branding ? Below the line media production spaces The above list is indicative rather than exhaustive ? proposals on other topics still within the above broad session theme will be gratefully received. If you are interested in proposing a paper for this panel, please send an abstract between 200-250 words to both Helen Morgan Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett at wwu.edu) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers at bbk.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2014. Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to propose the papers from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special theme issue in a refereed journal in media and cultural studies. From jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 18 10:32:48 2014 From: jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca (Jonathan Sterne, Dr.) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:32:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Professionalization Website Message-ID: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for crossposting. Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find the materials useful as well. In recent years, I have added material on other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so. You can find it at: http://sterneworks.org/Academe New this year: links on disability and the PhD, peer review ethics, and campus rape culture. I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been circulated in other fora. If you have a suggestion for a link or a document worth archiving, or a correction to a typo or missing or expired link, please email me at jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca. Please note that I do not post or keep track of job ads, nor am I interested in promoting commercial services or people's websites. I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions for other areas to cover would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, --Jonathan -- Jonathan Sterne Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology Acting Director, Media at McGill (2014-15) Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org | http://media.mcgill.ca | http://mcgill.ca/ahcs MP3: The Meaning of a Format From pamkirk at westga.edu Mon Aug 18 12:16:26 2014 From: pamkirk at westga.edu (Dr. Pam Kirk) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:16:26 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Survey Research Being Collected on Second Life Avatar Usage Message-ID: My graduate student is collecting data for a new study about avatar usage in Second Life. If you use this virtual world software and would like to participate in the approximately 10-minute survey, please click on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marxweber Thanks for helping a fellow educator and researcher! Pam Hunt Kirk (professor) & Danny V. Sherman (graduate student) University of West Georgia -- ____________ Pam Hunt Kirk, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology University of West Georgia From bloomforyou5 at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 20:54:15 2014 From: bloomforyou5 at gmail.com (Jie Qin) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:54:15 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Professionalization Website In-Reply-To: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> References: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> Message-ID: Dear Dr. Sterne, Thank you for sharing. I'd like to share your collection with the Internet researchers and students in China. By the way, I have also been collecting resources for academic jobs on my site. You can find it at: http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/qinjie/resources/job-resources/ Best regards, Jie *Jie Qin* | Department of Media and Communication | City University of Hong Kong 2014-08-19 1:32 GMT+08:00 Jonathan Sterne, Dr. : > Dear Colleagues, > > Apologies for crossposting. > > Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides > links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in > communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find > the materials useful as well. In recent years, I have added material on > other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so. You can > find it at: > > http://sterneworks.org/Academe > > New this year: links on disability and the PhD, peer review ethics, and > campus rape culture. > > I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, > and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been > circulated in other fora. If you have a suggestion for a link or a > document worth archiving, or a correction to a typo or missing or expired > link, please email me at jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca>. Please note that I do not post or keep track > of job ads, nor am I interested in promoting commercial services or > people's websites. I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions > for other areas to cover would be appreciated. > > Thanks for reading. > > Sincerely, > --Jonathan > > -- > > Jonathan Sterne > Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology > Acting Director, Media at McGill (2014-15) > Department of Art History and Communication Studies > McGill University > > http://sterneworks.org | http://media.mcgill.ca | http://mcgill.ca/ahcs > > MP3: The Meaning of a Format< > http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47544> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no Tue Aug 19 00:04:26 2014 From: Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no (Jill Walker Rettberg) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:04:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> References: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> Charles and others, An MA student of mine wrote her thesis a couple of years ago on how the Kurdish diaspora use Facebook. Her informants talked about cases like these where the deletion was very clearly political - things like posting images of the Kurdish flag, but also things they hadn't expected to be seen as political. She also cited the manual for Facebook moderators that went around a few years back, which has a list of stuff to delete or block. Jacob, Kurdin. 2013. ??Facebook is my second home??. The Kurdish Diaspora?s Use of Facebook in Shaping a Nation. MA thesis in digital culture, University of Bergen. https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/7629 Charles' post being deleted could be a false positive as Michael suggests but given Twitter deleted that Anonymous account pretty swiftly after they publicized the (wrong) name of the shooter I'd say it's entirely possible Facebook also deleted anything with keywords related to the anonymous post - actually, if Facebook allowed people to repost the falsely accused police officer's name, they might be used for slander or libel, right? And the post I saw on Twitter before @anonmessage or whatever the account was called was deleted included a screenshot of the alleged killer's Facebook page, so FB was very directly involved and no doubt aware of the situation. Jill Sent from my phone On 18. aug. 2014, at 16:08, Michael T Zimmer > wrote: Hi Charles - My Occam's razor reaction to this is that your text triggered some kind of automated comment screening algorithm designed to prevent spam or other unapproved content. I suspect it wasn't that your comment was about Ferguson or Anonymous per se, but that it included text deemed spammy or hazardous (perhaps mention of doxing?). A classic false positive. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Charles Ess > wrote: Hi all, Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are not exact or complete.) My comment was something along the lines of: The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From clara.fernandez at nyu.edu Tue Aug 19 08:26:37 2014 From: clara.fernandez at nyu.edu (Clara Fernandez-Vara) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:26:37 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Book announcement: Introduction to Game Analysis Message-ID: Dear all, If you'll excuse the self-promoting email, I'd like to announce that my book Introduction to Game Analysis is now for sale at your usual outlets. 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Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London, W1T 3JH. We respect your privacy and will not disclose, rent or sell your email address to any outside organizations. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Tue Aug 19 10:09:41 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:09:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Message-ID: Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Contact: ClosedandOpenBook at gmail.com Deadline for pr?cis: 15 September 2014 Edited by: Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade. As such the worlds and their anima/animus are socially constructed fictions where authors/creators/users, both above and below the actions are sometimes in concert, yet often in conflict with the space and intentions of the originators. This book seeks critically engaged scholars who want to risk the possibility of change in the face of closed systems. 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Faculty in the department study and teach the meanings and effects of communication in an age of evolving technologies and cultures, using a variety of methodological approaches. We seek applicants whose research addresses the contemporary media landscape, with an emphasis upon interactive media broadly defined (e.g., social media, gaming, big data). Preference will be given to candidates that have completed a post-doctorate and can teach both theoretical and applied courses in interactive media, and hence practical experience in the field will be considered an advantage. Only candidates that are expected to have completed their Ph.D. by October 2015 will be considered. While a Ph.D. in communication is preferred, excellent candidates in related fields will also be considered. The language of instruction at the University of Haifa is Hebrew, but a period of adjustment is an option. Applications should be submitted by email no later than October 7, 2014 to: Prof. Yariv Tsfati, (ytsfati at com.haifa.ac.il ) with the heading "Interactive Media Faculty Search" and should include the following documents: 1) A complete curriculum vitae, including an academic biography that describes the candidate's current research interests and future research plan; 2) A brief description of three potential courses in the field of interactive media; 3) A list of three references. (Please do not send letters until requested by the committee.); 4) Copies of selected recent publications. Applicants will be informed by October 30, 2014 as to the status of their submission. Candidates who qualify can expect a final decision by the end of January. The appointment will begin on October 1, 2015. * Pending funding. Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. Chair, Dept. of Communication University of Haifa, Israel, 31905 Phone: +972-4-8249602 Fax: +972-4-8249120 http://com.haifa.ac.il/~rribak/ From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Wed Aug 20 01:05:29 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:05:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Handbook on Mediatization of Communication Message-ID: <4FE43497-1ED7-4995-8CC8-E761685BCC3F@media.uio.no> The handbook on Mediatization of Communication is out, edited by Knut Lundby. Several chapters are of great relevance to Internet scholars. The volume offers 31 contributions in 738 pages by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings.The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. See table of contents under "Supplementary information" here: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180158?format=G The book is vol. 21 of the Handbooks of Communication Science (HoCS) published by De Gruyter Mouton. It is available in hardcover and as eBook in pdf and epub formats. See the link above. From has502 at york.ac.uk Wed Aug 20 04:21:28 2014 From: has502 at york.ac.uk (Holly Steel) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:21:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Symposium: Streets to Screens, Goldsmiths, 7 November 2014 Message-ID: Dear All, Colleagues may be interested in a symposium run by the Department of Sociology at the University of York and the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, on mediating conflict through digital networks. Apologies for cross-posting. *Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks* *7th November 2014* *Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01* *Goldsmiths, University of London* >From Gaza to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Syria, social media is being used by people within conflict zones to organise, document and communicate their lives and struggles from the streets to our screens. As these pieces of content travel through time and space, they come into contact with various actors ? from activists, to NGOs, news agencies, and global audiences ? who attempt to claim purchase on the narrative of those events as they unfold. Over the course of the last decade, we have seen the emergence of forms of reportage that seek to navigate the diverse and fractured media ecology. These mediations are said to challenge the ways in which the mainstream media cover conflicts and global publics are invited to bear witness. This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating conflicts today, and will address some of the following questions: - What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists play in conflict communication today? - What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online? - In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations? - What are the implications of these forms of reportage for eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs, journalists, news media, audiences and global publics? Speakers Include Stuart Allan, *Cardiff University* Malachy Browne, *Storyful* Lilie Chouliaraki, *LSE* Andrew Hoskins, *University of Glasgow* Ben O'Loughlin, *Royal Holloway* Sam Gregory, *WITNESS* Liam Stack, *New York Times* Claire Wardle, *UNHCR* And many more! Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information please visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/streets-to-screens/ *For more information, please contact Holly Steel at has502 at york.ac.uk * -- Holly Steel Doctoral Researcher Department of Sociology University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Tel: 01904 323578 From adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com Wed Aug 20 06:32:27 2014 From: adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com (Adi Kuntsman) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:32:27 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] MA in International Relations and Global Communication (with focus on the Internet and digital media) In-Reply-To: <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2EB@exmb2> References: <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B270@exmb2>, <0229621E64A2044D86133AEF70F0FE650999A166@EXMB5.ad.mmu.ac.uk> <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2A6@exmb2>, <0229621E64A2044D86133AEF70F0FE650999A198@EXMB5.ad.mmu.ac.uk> <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2EB@exmb2> Message-ID: <1408541547.81883.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Dear AoiRs, This migbht be of interest to some of your students - please bring it to their attention Places available on the new MA programme in International Relations and Global Communicaitons which will start at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) this Autumn Course details are here http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/2014/12261/ ***************** This programme combines the study of contemporary international relations with that of key developments in global communications and ICTs. In so doing it adds an extra dimension to the study of international relations which provides graduates with deeper insights and a wider range of knowledge and skills than those doing traditional MAs in International Relations. We live in a communications-saturated world where 24-hour news coverage, access to the internet and the use of social media have become the norm for millions of people. Global events are instantly reported by the news media and analysed and interpreted by them and millions of ordinary citizens. These developments challenge the traditionally secretive practices of international diplomacy and the ability of governments to control information whilst also creating powerful new tools for propaganda; they enhance the importance of cultural or `soft? power in international relations and they have also transformed the nature of warfare. The objective of this exciting new programme is to equip students with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary international relations and key developments in ICTs and of the impact of the latter upon the former along with the skills to analyse those developments effectively. --- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Lecturer in Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton, Room 437 Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com From skyc at riseup.net Wed Aug 20 09:04:09 2014 From: skyc at riseup.net (sky c) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:04:09 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Interactive media faculty search In-Reply-To: <05ba01cfbc45$31174e50$9345eaf0$@com.haifa.ac.il> References: <05ba01cfbc45$31174e50$9345eaf0$@com.haifa.ac.il> Message-ID: <1408550649.6052.77.camel@ada> Those applying for positions in Israel may want to consider the ongoing call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, which specifically requests an academic boycott: http://www.bdsmovement.net/activecamps/academic-boycott The University of Haifa has been criticised in particular for allegedly disciplining academics working on the history of Israel (more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions ) and continues to provide important support to the Hasbara Fellowships (see, for example: http://www.hasbarafellowships.org/cgblog/430/45/Hasbara-Fellowships-H1-Day-2). Decisions are, of course, entirely in the hands of potential applicants, but this information may be relevant in considerations. On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 10:05 +0300, Rivka Ribak wrote: > The Department of Communication at the University of Haifa invites > applications from outstanding candidates for an open-rank position in the > field of interactive media.* The Department of Communication currently > offers single and double major B.A. programs in theoretical communication > studies, a research M.A. and Ph.D. programs, as well as a M.A. in strategic > communications. Faculty in the department study and teach the meanings and > effects of communication in an age of evolving technologies and cultures, > using a variety of methodological approaches. > > We seek applicants whose research addresses the contemporary media > landscape, with an emphasis upon interactive media broadly defined (e.g., > social media, gaming, big data). Preference will be given to candidates > that have completed a post-doctorate and can teach both theoretical and > applied courses in interactive media, and hence practical experience in the > field will be considered an advantage. > > Only candidates that are expected to have completed their Ph.D. by October > 2015 will be considered. While a Ph.D. in communication is preferred, > excellent candidates in related fields will also be considered. The > language of instruction at the University of Haifa is Hebrew, but a period > of adjustment is an option. > > Applications should be submitted by email no later than October 7, 2014 to: > Prof. Yariv Tsfati, (ytsfati at com.haifa.ac.il ) with the heading "Interactive > Media Faculty Search" and should include the following documents: > > 1) A complete curriculum vitae, including an academic biography that > describes the candidate's current research interests and future research > plan; > > 2) A brief description of three potential courses in the field of > interactive media; > > 3) A list of three references. (Please do not send letters until requested > by the committee.); > > 4) Copies of selected recent publications. > > Applicants will be informed by October 30, 2014 as to the status of their > submission. Candidates who qualify can expect a final decision by the end > of January. The appointment will begin on October 1, 2015. > > > > * Pending funding. > > > > > > Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. > > Chair, Dept. of Communication > > University of Haifa, Israel, 31905 > > Phone: +972-4-8249602 > > Fax: +972-4-8249120 > > http://com.haifa.ac.il/~rribak/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From rforno at infowarrior.org Wed Aug 20 09:56:26 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:56:26 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Maryland Cyber Challenge 2014 Message-ID: (Not exactly AIR-y but posted in case anyone's got students/clubs/kids interested......) Maryland Cyber Challenge 2014 (@MDCyberChall) registration is now open! Since 2011, the Maryland Cyber Challenge has brought together students and professionals for a series of technical challenges leading to meaningful prizes, bragging rights, and fun, motivating educational experiences. Teams of up to six players from three divisions (high school, college, & professional) will compete in a series of cybersecurity scenarios (e.g., defense, attack, forensics, CTF) that put their critical thinking, technical prowess, and teamwork skills to the test. The top teams then meet to compete in their respective division's finals in-person at the CyberMaryland conference in Baltimore on 29-30 October. All rounds will be completed online except for the finals. See complete schedule for details. ? Voluntary Practice Rounds (5 Sessions): August 12-27 ? Qualification Round 1: (Everyone): September 13-15 ? Qualification Round 2 (College & Pro ONLY): September 21-23 ? Qualification Round 2 (High School ONLY): October 3-5 ? 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Forno Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity cybersecurity.umbc.edu Co-founder & GameMaster, Maryland Cyber Challenge --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From ben.light at qut.edu.au Wed Aug 20 22:19:39 2014 From: ben.light at qut.edu.au (Ben Light) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 05:19:39 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowships in Digital Media Message-ID: Hi Folks, We are looking for Vice Chancellor?s Research Fellows in the area of Digital Media Studies. These fellowships are a great opportunity to focus purely on research for 3 years and as a bonus you get to work alongside great people like Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, Peta Mitchell and Patrik Wikstrom! You?ll also be part of a vibrant Social Media Research Group and get to participate in the broader agenda of our aim to progress cultural studies approaches to digital media more generally. The closing date for applications is 16 September 2014. The competition is tough with a requirement for clear evidence of a publication track record, but we are happy to work with people to support application development. The details of the scheme are here: https://www.qut.edu.au/research/scholarships-and-funding/vice-chancellors-research-fellowships Please do get in touch if this is something would like to explore further. Best wishes, Ben Ben Light PhD MSc BA(Hons) Professor of Digital Media Studies Creative Industries Faculty School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3138 8280 Twitter: @doggyb QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb Open Access Publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html Personal Site: http://www.benlight.org From Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no Thu Aug 21 05:05:01 2014 From: Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no (Jill Walker Rettberg) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:05:01 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project Message-ID: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Aug 21 05:27:32 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:27:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <3164A139-89D2-4D0C-9F61-EF5E522B8617@lancaster.ac.uk> Hi Jill, Just off the top of my head, I'm not sure an advisor's feelings about whether they'd feel comfortable participating should necessarily determine whether the research should go ahead - otherwise we'd have very little research into contentious social issues like drug abuse, criminality, etc., never mind medical research. However, I think you're perfectly right to raise possible concerns. In my view these could be mitigated by very clear information about the project when consent is sought, and the introduction of some "exit routes" for participants. For instance, participants could be asked to specify if there is any information that, if found, would lead them to be automatically excluded as participants. As an example, a participant could say that if the researcher found that there was evidence of underage drinking / some other minor misdemeanour (or major misdemeanour for that matter), their participation in the project would end and all data about them would be deleted from the researcher's records. This could also apply at the interview stage, whereby a participant could indicate if they are feeling uncomfortable at any point. Another option might be to involve the participants in the research process more - in other words, invite them to sit with the researcher while the googling/searching is happening. They could then say if they felt anything was making them uncomfortable, and ask the researcher to stop. Of course if this interaction was recorded, this could also lead to valuable data. The downside is this would be quite time consuming... I think the key question for me would be, given there is a risk of harm to the participants (embarrassment, distress etc.), what are the benefits that could/would accrue, either to individual participants or more broadly to society? If there is no clear answer to this question, the research should probably not go ahead. I would think many of us on this list can think of potential benefits, but if one of my students were interested in doing this type of research I would ask them to think this through carefully. Best, Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger On 21 Aug 2014, at 13:05, "Jill Walker Rettberg" > wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From mjohns at luther.edu Thu Aug 21 05:36:14 2014 From: mjohns at luther.edu (Mark D. Johns) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:36:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: Your gut is a good guide, but probably informed consent is sufficient, as you mention, so long as the "stalking" is limited to openly accessible information. Some questions to consider, however: How will the data be safeguarded? How much of the data will be revealed in the paper? What will happen to the data after the project ends? How will the participants be involved, and to what degree will they be allowed to "own" their own data after it has been collected? [Note: I am a member of the AoIR Ethics Committee, but this email is not intended to speak for that group.] -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Acting Department Head, Fall 2014 Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no> wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about > privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five > informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to > find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. > Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, > asking things like "did you know this information about you was > accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information > people think is available about them, what is actually available about > them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them > and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out > there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me > online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I > shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project > might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed > consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like > this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a > student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small > scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from > September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Thu Aug 21 06:12:33 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (Kevin R. Guidry) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:12:33 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F5F041.7080701@mistakengoal.com> On 8/21/2014 8:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology > like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would > you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student > to do a small scale research project on this topic? I agree that this proposal raises interesting questions. If circumstances - available time, course and program objectives, your comfort level and patience - allow then it may be worth letting this student go forward with this proposed project even if it may not get through your institution's ethics board or find any willing participants. I imagine that your student would learn quite a bit if they have to struggle through those issues e.g., why might an ethics board be uncomfortable with this line of research, why wouldn't anyone acquiesce to participating in this research. You may have to work a bit harder with this student to get through these possible barriers and come up with alternatives but it may be worthwhile work that meets your learning objectives. Kevin From stolero at gmail.com Thu Aug 21 06:16:04 2014 From: stolero at gmail.com (Nathan Stolero) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:16:04 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: Dear Jill and all, Your question reminds me an article published in The Chronicle, in April. Here's the article . It starts with a description of a similar activity, conducted by Prof. Eszter Hargittai from Northwestern U with her students. In the first lesson she starts with a "gut check", telling the class everything she knows about them, just from online information in the public sphere. Therefore, these things are done and it might be a good idea to ask her advice about the ethical concerns (as far as I understand, she used this "gut check" without letting her students know before that she is going to do so). I myself never had the gut to do it to my students, although I think it is a brilliant idea (but not to a class of 100+ students, which is the case in my situation). Since we are talking about a research conducted by an undergraduate student, with a limited scope, I'd suggest one precaution in addition to previous suggestions: First, the interviews should not be with other people whom the student knows personally. They must be complete strangers to him. The advantage of this precaution, in my view, is that it replicates the conditions of the internet-sphere, where you are well aware that the information is public, but yet still don't have the notion that you are exposing yourself to familiar people. It also prevents awkward situations that the student will reveal something about a person he knows, that might embarrass them both in the situation of the interview. These are my two pennies, Nathan Stolero Instructor and PhD Candidate The Department of Communication Tel Aviv University Israel On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no> wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about > privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five > informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to > find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. > Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, > asking things like "did you know this information about you was > accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information > people think is available about them, what is actually available about > them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them > and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out > there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me > online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I > shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project > might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed > consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like > this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a > student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small > scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from > September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From klang at ituniv.se Thu Aug 21 06:23:41 2014 From: klang at ituniv.se (Mathias Klang) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:23:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From soates at umd.edu Thu Aug 21 06:40:37 2014 From: soates at umd.edu (Sarah Ann Oates) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:37 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Message-ID: <55145F68-81C3-44C7-A29F-1AA7D7126C5F@umd.edu> This thread sparks a broader issue for me (I think the discussion here has been reasoned and thoughtful) and that is that I worry we are not communicating to students or to the broader public that there is no privacy online. Our data is constantly mined and used by corporations and governments in ways that would appall any research ethics board. How can we, as academics who can see the constant violation of privacy, make people more aware? I know this is a big issue, but just felt moved to say this. SAO On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Mathias Klang > wrote: Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Thu Aug 21 07:44:01 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:44:01 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F605B1.9000008@reagle.org> On 08/21/2014 08:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology > like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would > you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student > to do a small scale research project on this topic? Bruckman mentions an incident like this when a subject was surprised about their online exposure by way of a researcher [1]. [1]: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/asb/papers/journal/bruckman-information-ethics06.pdf From cpd at epolitics.com Thu Aug 21 09:24:16 2014 From: cpd at epolitics.com (Colin Delany) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Air-L] digital politics guide for fall classes In-Reply-To: <1640705619.15145593.1408638048415.JavaMail.root@his.com> Message-ID: <1574892185.15146228.1408638256432.JavaMail.root@his.com> Hi folks, Luis Hestres mentioned my ebook (the digital campaigning guide I wrote last year and updated in April) in his publications list a couple of weeks ago, but I just found out about another digital politics/advocacy grad-level class (at George Washington University in DC) that's using it. I thought I'd toss this out as a reminder -- the book is a comprehensive overview of the strategies, tactics and tools of internet politics in our current environment, and while it's written to be accessible to beginners, many political and advocacy campaigns inside the U.S. and around the world are using it as a roadmap to campaigning in 2014. It's on Amazon as an ebook and also as a pay-what-you-want download at Epolitics.com. The latter may be a good fit for faculty who want to distribute it as a PDF to students. "How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" http://www.epolitics.com/WinningIn2014 I hope this turns out to be useful for folks on the list! --cpd Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd at epolitics.com @epolitics From G.Meikle at westminster.ac.uk Thu Aug 21 12:53:06 2014 From: G.Meikle at westminster.ac.uk (Graham Meikle) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:53:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <55145F68-81C3-44C7-A29F-1AA7D7126C5F@umd.edu> Message-ID: Hi Perhaps rather than the student investigating their respondents, it would be a better solution to have the student get their respondents to research themselves before the student interviews them about what they found. For years now, in teaching privacy/visibility issues in social media classes, I've had the students stalk themselves before class, find out just how much information about them is available online, and consider how much of it is under their control. It always makes for a lively week's discussion and means what they have to say is informed by their own experience ? so a similar approach would perhaps lead to some thoughtful and considered interviews for Jill's student. Cheers, gm ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 3506 8381 LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/gmeikle From: Sarah Ann Oates > Date: Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:40 To: Mathias Klang > Cc: AOIR > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project This thread sparks a broader issue for me (I think the discussion here has been reasoned and thoughtful) and that is that I worry we are not communicating to students or to the broader public that there is no privacy online. Our data is constantly mined and used by corporations and governments in ways that would appall any research ethics board. How can we, as academics who can see the constant violation of privacy, make people more aware? I know this is a big issue, but just felt moved to say this. SAO On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Mathias Klang > wrote: Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Thu Aug 21 16:48:18 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:48:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project Message-ID: First time responding to this list, hopefully I?m obeying any conventions, good manners, etc. I?m replying to a thread I read from the digest, so hopefully this does not get out of sync. In regards to the experiment (which seems pretty cool) I would point out that when the data resides externally (on google, facebook, etc) those entities are the guardians and keepers of that data. They may, depending on jurisdiction, have means to remove data at the request of a subject and while they hold it are liable for keeping it secure. Once the researcher copies this information, she or he are now the guardian and keeper of the subject?s data, and therefore are responsible for data security. Data security, done correctly, is not difficult these days, but neither is it trivial. Learning how to do it well is good training for the student if she or he has an interest in privacy. I recommend the researcher take precautions that the data used is collected within a defined scope (ie excluding credit reports for example), the data is locally stored in an encrypted virtual machine, and the encrypted data is subsequently destroyed. I suggest using the following free software to accomplish this. First, create a virtual Ubuntu Linux [1] machine using VirtualBox [2]. When installing Ubuntu, you must set up disk encryption [3], meaning that if the device is stolen, the data is unreadable. Within this ?virtual? computer the researcher can do whatever they like, surf the web, keep records, etc. - it functions like a normal computer, it just ?lives? inside your main one. When the experiment is over simply delete the virtual machine file - as it is encrypted to start out with you don?t need to worry about much else. This may sound difficult, but given a weekend, some persistence, and creativity, it is doable. The Internet is full of guides on how to do this. It is also fun. Key point for me is that while the study will teach the student a lot about the research question, learning about privacy also means about learning about how to handle private data and picking up some basic opsec. [INSERT HERE: whatever disclaimers are necessary to prove that I am not anybody?s lawyer and my advice may not meet the standards required when dealing with at-risk groups, etc.] Again, I?m only on the digest list, so may miss an immediate reply, but feel free to follow up directly: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu - tim libert, phd student, university of pennsylvania [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/ [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ [3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/privacy-ubuntu-1210-full-disk-encryption [4] https://www.torproject.org/ From dburk at uci.edu Thu Aug 21 18:25:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:25:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Message-ID: <9d3cd12d1042a37715cb030f9379d2d1.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> There was in interesting dust-up over a similar class project at Fordham a couple of years ago -- this was reported in quite a few papers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/internet/18link.html?_r=0 DLB > Hi Jill, > I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the > class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible > about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could > not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The > goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had > to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At > the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less > of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage > in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and > most students had fun with it. > > One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit > reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't > expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this > in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can > impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). > > I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover > the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is > difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. > > Mathias > > On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: >> One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about >> privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five >> informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order >> to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online >> methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and >> interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about >> you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what >> information people think is available about them, what is actually >> available about them, and how people feel about all the information out >> there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and >> what is in fact out there. >> >> My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me >> online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I >> shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the >> project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, >> informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. >> >> But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like >> this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a >> student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small >> scale research project on this topic? >> >> Jill >> >> >> Jill Walker Rettberg >> Professor of Digital Culture >> Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies >> University of Bergen >> Postboks 7800 >> 5020 Bergen >> >> + 47 55588431 >> >> Blog - http://jilltxt.net >> Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt >> >> My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from >> September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mathias Klang, > Associate Professor, University of G?teborg > Website: http://klangable.com > US Cell: 215 882 0989 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au Thu Aug 21 19:34:46 2014 From: Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au (Jonathan Marshall) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:34:46 +1000 Subject: [Air-L] special issue In-Reply-To: <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> References: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu>, <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <55808B8F7ED4BF49AF3482E6263CD6108624A17365@MAILBOXCLUSTER2.adsroot.uts.edu.au> Announcing a Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol 25. No 2 Communication technology and social life: Jonathan Paul Marshall and Tanya Notley "Communication technology and social life: Transformation and continuity, order and disorder", pp.127-37. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12084 Alexandra Crosby and Tanya Notley "Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua", pp138-54. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12085 Heather A. Horst and Erin B. Taylor "The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic", pp 155-170. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12086 Inge Kral "Shifting perceptions, shifting identities: Communication technologies and the altered social, cultural and linguistic ecology in a remote indigenous context", 171-189. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12087 Jonathan Paul Marshall "The social (dis)organisation of software: Failure and disorder in information society", pp190-206. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12088 Makiko Nishitani "Kinship, gender, and communication technologies: Family dramas in the Tongan diaspora", pp 207-222. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12089 Borut Telban and Daniela V?vrov? "Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society", 223-38. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12090 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel "Pointing the Phone: Transforming Technologies and Social Relations among Warlpiri", 239-55. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12091 For anyone who is interested there is a related collection of papers, more aimed at social life on the internet, at Global Media Journal Australian Edition http://www.hca.uws.edu.au/gmjau/?issues=volume-7-issue-1-2013 Notely, Marshall, & Salazar "Guest Editorial" Crystal Abidin "Cyber-BFFs: Assessing women's 'perceived interconnectedness' in Singapore's commercial lifestyle blog industry". Rebekah Cupitt "Phantasms collide: Navigating video-mediated communication in the Swedish workplace". Elaine Lally "Creative interactions and improvable digital objects in cloud-based musical collaboration". Theresa Lynn Petray "Self-writing a movement and contesting indigeneity: Being an Aboriginal activist on social media". Rhian Morgan "Death in Space and the Piracy Debate: Negotiating ethics and ontology in Entropia Universe". Tanya Notley, Juan Salazar & Alexandra Crosby "Online video translation and subtitling: examining emerging practices and their implications for media activism in South East Asia". Jonathan Paul Marshall "The Mess of Information and the Order of Doubt". UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. 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See it at http://youtu.be/mDzNHwyiGc0 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From n.john at huji.ac.il Fri Aug 22 05:18:45 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:18:45 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6D2A69B3-6EE5-4664-9AED-086D7FA4CD4F@huji.ac.il> Hi Jill and others, Your student raises some interesting issues, but I think there is no need for ?stalking? at all. First of all, there are pretty clear answers around to some of the things that interest him: we know that people don?t know what is accessible about them and that there is a disconnect between their knowledge and the actual state of affairs. Joe Turrow has done work on this. This doesn?t mean that your student can?t discuss this with informants, but it could perhaps be at a more general level. If what interests the student is how people feel about all the information that is out there, that?s quite a different question, and one that would justify presenting the informants with information they didn?t know was out there, but, like Johnny Unger suggested, this could - and probably should - be done together with the the informants. I think that going away and compiling a dossier which is then presented to the informant is not the way to advance research of this kind. In fact, perhaps the right way to proceed would be to present the informants with the tools for finding out the information that?s out there about themselves, and then interviewing them to ask about the process. Or even sitting with them - but on the other side of the screen - as they carry out the process. The extent to which they share with the research information that they have found out is online is then controlled by the informants, while the researcher is enable to probe them as to their feelings about these discoveries. Picking up on another thread, I would also like to register my discomfort with tasking students to find out what they can about their teachers. This is not about us (as teachers) having nothing to hide. It is partly to do with other people in our lives who have not given their consent to be included in the exercise (especially minors), but it is also to do with the proper distance between teachers and students (and between any two people, really), however fraught this notion might be. This takes us back to Jill?s student, who doesn?t actually need to know anything about the informants in order to study their responses to learning that there is far more information out there about them than they thought. It also implies that if we want to teach students about the wealth of information about them out there, that the best, and maybe only, case study they should work on is themselves. Nik > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:05:01 +0000 > From: Jill Walker Rettberg > To: Air list > Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project > Message-ID: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4 at lle.uib.no> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > From loriken at illinois.edu Fri Aug 22 08:50:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:50:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15: Hotel Reservations Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A766C4E@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> At long last, we have a system in place for hotel reservations for the IR15 conference. Getting this system in place, with several hotels, has been a complicated process and I appreciate your patience. You can find instructions and links for making hotel reservations on the conference website here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=359. The process will be a bit different from what you're probably used to for other conferences, so please read the instructions carefully. If you run into problems, we have a special help email set up on that page. Also, don't forget to register for the conference now to take advantage of the early bird rates. There's only a bit more than a week left before those rates expire! I look forward to seeing you in Daegu in October! Lori Kendall President, AoIR From pimple at indiana.edu Fri Aug 22 10:35:59 2014 From: pimple at indiana.edu (Pimple, Kenneth) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:35:59 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <7BA46AD8A23CD24BAA778D986CF2E7AD42F87109@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu> I am impressed by the wide, thoughtful, and good advice provided already. I don't think anyone asked about the maturity of the student. I'm sure I would be uncomfortable allowing SOME upper-level undergraduate students to do this research. My first thought was to have your student be his own informant first - that is, find out as much as he can about himself on the Internet. That could be eye-opening and inform or change his approach to this research. I am especially grateful for the security suggestions from Tim Libert. I also like Nik's suggestion to have the informants to collect their own data while the student-researcher is present, but can't see the screen. An image jumped into my mind: The researcher asking the informant to search for information on [fill in the blank], and the reaction the researcher might see - obvious shock? Shame? Pride? Befuddlement? Without even knowing the content of the search, observation and a question or two might well uncover the reaction quite accurately. I have to say that the image in my mind is so entertaining that my judgment on the ethics of this approach is clouded. Human subjects research should not be intended to entertain the researcher! Ken -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jill Walker Rettberg Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:05 AM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Fri Aug 22 13:40:03 2014 From: artur.lugmayr at tut.fi (Artur Lugmayr) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:40:03 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [Air-L] Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Award - 31st August 2014 - THE competition for pervasive/ubiquitous/ambient 'minded'... Message-ID: <837764579.15.1408740003919.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43> ============================================================================== NEO UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD 2014 CALL FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES THE award for the pervasive, ubiqutious, and ambient intelligent community Award submission DEADLINE: 31st August 2014 4th-6th November, Tampere Finland http://www.numa.fi, http://www.mindtrek.org Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/ In cooperation with MindTrek Association, Internatinal Ambient Media Association (iAMEA), and the AIS SIG-eMedia ============================================================================== NUMA 2014 - THE award for pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient technologies, media, services, user experience, concepts, and applications. We refurbished the competition for 2014 after having received over 220 competition entries over the past seven years. We want to integrate all the latest trends in the world of smart media, as we want to see incredible re-interpretations of the original notion of ubimedia, pervasive media, and ambient media. Any new fresh idea is welcome in this area! The vision of ubimedia today spreads in smart city concepts, smart cards, and smart phones - and starts to become mainstream - there are still many more exciting, seamless, and unobtrusive experiences that need to be discovered. We still seek for cutting edge tech innovations, and look for makers that single-handedly engineer fascinating new ubimedia services and devices on a shoestring budget. We welcome all ubimedia masterminds, pervasive computation enthusiasts, and ambient intelligent researchers to participate in writing the next chapter for the most innovative, inspiring, and sometimes slightly mad competition in ubimedia's history and seek projects, applications, services, technological solutions, concepts, or new media environment as competition entry. Note, there will be also a price sum giving to the very best three entries. Possible themes, topics, and areas where your application could contribute to: - smart environments (smart cars, smart houses, smart devices, smart cities) - cyber, social, and physical computing - human computer interaction in the era of ubiquitous computation - smart robots, interaction with robots, and robotic applications - new interaction devices (Google glasses, Pebble, ?) - big data concepts for pervasive computation - the ?quantified? self and the digital human - sensor data, context awareness, and intelligence - mobile phone applications, NFC technologies, and embedded systems (e.g. Arduino) - wearable technologies, smart watches, smart glasses, and smart gadgets - cyber physical systems (CPS) - urban informatics and smart transportation - security and safety of environments - smart saving of energy, and sustainable environments - production and industrial applications that are smart - information systems and management in smart environments - entertainment applications (e.g. pervasive games, ambient television, ...) - artisic works, apps, and creative designs - ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and consumer experience - software, hardware, and middleware frameworks NUMA is looking for your bold, irritating and mind-opening ideas, no matter if you are a student, seasoned researcher, entrepreneur or artist. Whether thesis, project or product - our only condition is: you must be able to demo it, otherwise you are out! You will have to prove your idea with a working prototype, and if you are nominated you will need to demonstrate your work during MindTrek. As we are a cross-disciplinary competition, we created the following categories, to cope with all the latest trends: - ?NUMA-TEC? - You have been pushing the boundaries of sensors and ubiquitous computing or invented some incredible new pervasive hardware? This award focuses on advances in ?Technology?. - ?NUMA-KERS? - You have mastered the odds of physical computing and rapid prototyping and want to expose your devices beyond the maker community? This award focuses on the community of ?Makers?. - ?NUMA-UX? - You are an interaction, experience designer, or artist and have gone where no content has been seen before? This award focuses on the ?Experience?. - ?NUMA-CONTENT? - You are a content creator, application developer, designer, artist, game designer, or new media developer? This award focuses on new ambient, ubiquitous, and pervasive content. NUMA 2014 gives all of you the chance to show your work to an interdisciplinary international jury and win a the award! Winners will also be invited to become part of the great MindTrek 2014 event and community with travel costs covered. To submit your entry, please go to http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open). If you would like to get more information or have questions, please send your email to: chairs at lists.numa.fi. Subscribe to our email list on: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa. The competition is organized in cooperation with the MindTrek Association (http://www.mindtrek.org) and the International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA) (http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org), the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and part of the MindTrek Festival. The chairs of the competition are Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND; Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY; and Timothy Merritt, Aarhus School of Architecture, DENMARK. Website: http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open) Contact Email: chairs at lists.numa.fi EMAIL List: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/ From artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Fri Aug 22 14:03:46 2014 From: artur.lugmayr at tut.fi (Artur Lugmayr) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:03:46 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [Air-L] SAME 2014@NORDCHI - Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies - 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014 (extended) Message-ID: <837764579.15.1408741426577.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43> ============================================================================== NordiCHI 2014 Workshop Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies 6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME 2014) SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED!!!): 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014 NordiCHI Website: http://nordichi2014.org/ Workshop Website: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameanew/same2014 Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/ NOTE! The workshop series is indexed by Scopus, and we plan to have a special journal issue... Publications The Workshop proceedings will be published in the International Series on Information Systems & Management in Creative eMedia (indexed by Scopus!): https://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Journal/ The workshop is in-corporated with the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and iAMEA ? The International Association for Ambient Media (www.ambientmediaassociation.org) Workshop Chairs Estefan?a Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium, estefania.serralasensio at kuleuven.be Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, University of Hanover, Germany, risse at L3S.de Artur Lugmayr, University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc, Finland, artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, Germany, bjoern.stockleben at gmail.com Emilija Stojmenova, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, emilija.stojmenova at ltfe.org ============================================================================== 1 Motivation and Objectives of the Workshop ============================================================================== Ambient (aka pervasive, ubiquitous) media environments offer a plethora of context data as well as opportunities for context-related content production and consumption. They are the perfect environments for providing users with highly contextualized data-driven services and data-driven visual and additive content. To build such ambient media environments, semantics play an essential role to deal with a seamless integration of the urban context as well as the digital services to be provided. The application areas range from smart cars, urban informatics, smart homes, ambient assisted living, smart media environments, and new interaction devices. We aim to bring together communities involved in different semantic applications needed for the creation of ambient media environments, like: digital services, media interoperability, open data, user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user-centred and interaction design, user experience, business modelling, knowledge management, etc. This will allow identifying common themes between the participant's current work and research agenda, and, eventually, leading to the discovery of new insights and opportunities. The primary research goal is to assess new trends for applying semantics in digital services for urban contexts and the disciplines involved in the creation of these services. The workshop organizers have extensive experiences in organizing high level workshops through the non-profit International Ambient Media Association (AMEA) they founded. The organizers have also established an own free open access series and journal within the association, attracted large audiences, and disseminated the results through high level journal special issues as e.g. Springer-Verlag?s Multimedia Tools & Applications. 2 Topics of the Workshop ============================================================================== In line with the above, contributions to the workshop should propose applications of applications and services in the domain of ubiquitous media centering on usability, interaction, and intelligent interaction focused on, but not limited to ubiquitous/ambient usability: - Ambient Intelligent Semantics & Technologies o Vocabularies, ontologies & linked data for urban environments o Context-data aggregation and context awareness o Semantics of usage contexts and sensor data o Context adaptive services o Service interoperability o Implementation and evaluation of urban services o Ambient and ubiquitous devices - Ambient Intelligent Presentation and Interaction o Service interoperability o Usage of ambient media for increasing application usability o Methods and best practices for urban service design o Usability in ubiquitous smart systems o Ubiquitous human-computer interaction o User experience, needs and user studies o New smart media based user interfaces - Emerging Ambient Services & Applications o Smart cars, smart cities, smart urban environments o Big data, opened data, and linked data applications o New smart media based interfaces o User-driven content and semantic data generation o Smart media environments o Unobtrusive mobile applications o Non-screen based user interfaces o Trust and security 3 Target Audience ============================================================================== The target audiences to be addressed by this workshop are communities involved in the creation of ambient intelligence systems for urban environments, digital services, media interoperability, open data, user interaction design, business modelling, knowledge management, etc. As the workshop organizers are from different institutions and research perspectives, and from academic and from industry, a high number of attendees is expected. We expect approx. 15-25 attendees to allow a reasonable number of working groups (see Section 4 ?Workshop Format?). 4 Workshop Format and Activities ============================================================================== The workshop is part of a larger set of initiatives and is supported and incorporated with: * iAMEA ? International Association of Ambient Media Ry (www.ambientmediaassociation.org) * the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group (SIG) SIG-eMedia (aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) * iAMEA established an open access journal and series (indexed in Scopus, and within the Finnish publication ranking system) o International Journal on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia o International Series on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia The workshop will be a full-day workshop grouped into several sessions. We allow the submission of papers up to 10 pages which will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. After the workshop, it is planned that the results of the group work are consolidated in a journal paper to be published in the special issue of the Springer journal on ?Multimedia Tools and Applications?. Also the authors of the best accepted papers of SAME workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the special issue. Respective arrangements with Springer are on the way for the proposed workshop. 5 Submission Guidlines ============================================================================== Please follow the submission guidlines for NordiCHI papers on: http://nordichi2014.org/submissions/papers/. Workshop papers can be 5-10 pages long, however, they need to fulfill the submission guidelines of NordiCHI. Please submit your papers on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/ From aoir.z3z at danah.org Sat Aug 23 11:11:04 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:11:04 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Urgent: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF References: <53F66E18.10807@eff.org> Message-ID: <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> Do any of you know (or are any of you) a Texas-based social media expert who would be willing to offer testimony on this case? If so, please contact Amul directly - they are seeking help urgently. (And Amul gave me permission to post this request here.) danah PS: I removed the attachments because of AOIR's configuration, but feel free to write to Amul for copies of them. Begin forwarded message: > From: Amul Kalia > Subject: Fwd: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF > Date: August 21, 2014 at 6:09:28 PM EDT > To: danah at danah.org > > Dear danah, > > My name is Amul Kalia and I am the Intake Coordinator at EFF. Cindy Cohn gave me your contact information. > > The reason I'm writing to you is because the attorneys representing Justin Carter, you may remember him from this: > http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/tech/social-media/facebook-jailed-teen/, reached out to us asking if we know a social media expert who will be able to offer testimony on August 26th. > > The attorneys believe that the judge does not understand social media at all, especially Facebook, and they need a general expert to put things in context. To better understand what they are looking for, their motion to dismiss is attached to this email. The case is in Comal County, Texas, which is about 30 miles south of Austin. > > We were wondering if you know someone in the area who may be able to help with this. The attorneys are unable to pay as they are doing this representation pro bono. > > Please let me know. > > Thanks! > Amul Kalia > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:51:49 -0500 > From: Jonathan Chavez > To: amul at eff.org > > Hi Amul, > > we spoke on the phone last night about locating a social media expert for the Justin Carter Case. I'm attaching two of the motions that we'll be discussing in the hearing on August 26th. I hope that will be able to help out with pointing you all in the right direction for what we need out of the social media expert. > > In addition, the lead attorney on the case, Don Flanary, wanted to know if the EFF would be willing to offer additional support in the form of writing an amicus curiae for the court to explain the effect that this case can have on First Amendment rights in the digital world. > > Again, we appreciate all the help. > From angelacdaly at gmail.com Sun Aug 24 23:01:29 2014 From: angelacdaly at gmail.com (Angela Daly) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:01:29 +1000 Subject: [Air-L] JoPP special issue: Peer production, disruption and the law - call for debates, essays and interviews Message-ID: Peer production, disruption and the law - call for debates, essays and interviews We are now inviting contributions to this special edition of the Journal of Peer Production in the form of short essays of between 1000 and 3000 words to complement the longer peer reviewed articles that will appear in this edition of the journal, due to be published in December 2014 The contributions can be testimonies, working papers and critical essays by researchers and practitioners. Debates are essays by several authors expressing clearly contrasting viewpoints about a relevant issue. The deadline for these contributions is 24 October 2014 and should be sent to disruptlawissue at peerproduction.net. The contributions will be reviewed by the editors - Steve Collins (Macquarie) and Angela Daly (Swinburne/European University Institute) - and so will not be peer-reviewed. Please see here for more details on JoPP submissions and style: http://peerproduction.net/about/submissions/ Special edition description The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice with powerful interests. Experience from the ?disruptions? of the late 20th century has shown that the response from incumbent industries can lead to a period of intense litigation and lobbying for laws that will maintain the status quo. For example, following its ?Napster moment?, the music industry fought to maintain its grip on distribution channels through increased copyright enforcement and the longer copyright terms it managed to extract from the legislative process. The newspaper industry has similarly seen its historical revenue stream of classified ads disrupted by more efficient online listings, and responded to its own failure to capitalise on online advertising by launching legal campaigns against Google News in various European countries. Though the law as it stands may not be well-equipped to deal with disruptive episodes, the technological innovations of the last twenty years have created an environment that generates disruption. The Internet, the Web and networked personal computers have converged into the ubiquitous post-PC media device, leaving twentieth century paradigms of production, consumption and distribution under considerable threat. The latest technology to be added to this group of disruptive innovations may be 3D printing, which in recent times has become increasingly available and accessible to users in developed economies, whilst the manufacturing capacity of 3D printers has dramatically grown. Although current offerings on the market are far from a Star Trek-like ?replicator?, the spectre of disruption has once again arrived, with the prospect of 3D printed guns inspiring a moral panic and raising questions of gun control, regulation, jurisdiction and effective control. In addition, 3D printing raises a number of issues regarding intellectual property, going far beyond the copyright problems that file-sharing brought about due to its production of physical objects. This special issue of the Journal of Peer Production calls for contributions that deal with the intersection of peer production, disruptive technologies and the law. Potential topics include, but are not restricted to: - The threat posed by peer production to legacy industries - The regulation of disruptive technologies through the rule of law or embedded rights management - Lobbying strategies of incumbent players to stymie disruptive technologies - Emergent economies or practices as a result of disruptive technologies - Extra-legal norm formation in peer production communities around disruptive technologies - Historical perspectives on the legal status of collaborative projects - Critical legal approaches to technology, disruption and peer production - The role and ability of the law (which differs across jurisdictions) in regulating autonomous production - The resilience of law in the face of social and technological change - The theories and assumptions which continue to underpin laws rendered obsolete by social and technological change From amarwick at gmail.com Mon Aug 25 07:46:46 2014 From: amarwick at gmail.com (Alice E. Marwick) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:46:46 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Problems logging into AOIR website/registering Message-ID: Is anyone else having problems logging in? I must have used a really obscure password because none of my standard ones work, and the Forgot Password? link has not mailed anything to me and I've tried it like six times now. Help! Alice, not usually technologically challenged -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Director, McGannon Center Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick at fordham.edu http://www.tiara.org Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity & Branding in the Social Media Age available from Yale Press http://bit.ly/StatusUpdateBook From aoir.z3z at danah.org Mon Aug 25 14:02:39 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:02:39 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Urgent: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF In-Reply-To: <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> References: <53F66E18.10807@eff.org> <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> Message-ID: <4622C883-59AA-4B65-96D0-EC6664841A63@danah.org> I just wanted to followup to say thank you to all who responded or pointed the EFF to folks. They were super grateful for folks' generosity on such a timely issue. Apparently AOIR sourced the people they need. So thank you! danah On Aug 23, 2014, at 2:11 PM, danah boyd wrote: > Do any of you know (or are any of you) a Texas-based social media expert who would be willing to offer testimony on this case? If so, please contact Amul directly - they are seeking help urgently. (And Amul gave me permission to post this request here.) > > danah > > PS: I removed the attachments because of AOIR's configuration, but feel free to write to Amul for copies of them. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Amul Kalia >> Subject: Fwd: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF >> Date: August 21, 2014 at 6:09:28 PM EDT >> To: danah at danah.org >> >> Dear danah, >> >> My name is Amul Kalia and I am the Intake Coordinator at EFF. Cindy Cohn gave me your contact information. >> >> The reason I'm writing to you is because the attorneys representing Justin Carter, you may remember him from this: >> http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/tech/social-media/facebook-jailed-teen/, reached out to us asking if we know a social media expert who will be able to offer testimony on August 26th. >> >> The attorneys believe that the judge does not understand social media at all, especially Facebook, and they need a general expert to put things in context. To better understand what they are looking for, their motion to dismiss is attached to this email. The case is in Comal County, Texas, which is about 30 miles south of Austin. >> >> We were wondering if you know someone in the area who may be able to help with this. The attorneys are unable to pay as they are doing this representation pro bono. >> >> Please let me know. >> >> Thanks! >> Amul Kalia >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert >> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:51:49 -0500 >> From: Jonathan Chavez >> To: amul at eff.org >> >> Hi Amul, >> >> we spoke on the phone last night about locating a social media expert for the Justin Carter Case. I'm attaching two of the motions that we'll be discussing in the hearing on August 26th. I hope that will be able to help out with pointing you all in the right direction for what we need out of the social media expert. >> >> In addition, the lead attorney on the case, Don Flanary, wanted to know if the EFF would be willing to offer additional support in the form of writing an amicus curiae for the court to explain the effect that this case can have on First Amendment rights in the digital world. >> >> Again, we appreciate all the help. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ ------ My New Book: "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" "taken out of context / i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.danah.org/ || @zephoria From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Tue Aug 26 07:48:36 2014 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:48:36 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers/Abstracts: ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely! Call for Papers Understanding Web search engine users Workshop at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) October 31, 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ Organized by Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, USA Dirk Lewandowski, Professor, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist, Microsoft, USA INTRODUCTION Many researchers are interested in internet search behaviour, both as a primary action and as a secondary source of data that reflects the what, how, and why of information seeking. But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow at search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert at microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim ********* From mcstay at bangor.ac.uk Tue Aug 26 09:13:46 2014 From: mcstay at bangor.ac.uk (Andrew McStay) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:13:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: Political Studies Association Media & Politics Group Annual Conference Message-ID: <1409069625671.55547@bangor.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, A reminder. The extended deadline for abstracts for the Political Studies Association Media & Politics Group Annual Conference is fast approaching: 29th Aug 2014. We welcome papers on any aspect of Media and Politics, or on this year's conference theme of Media, Persuasion and Human Rights. Reflecting our theme, our confirmed keynote speakers are: * Prof. Sue Clayton (Goldsmiths University), an award-winning film-maker whose practice interrogates alternative forms of media presentation of human rights, asylum and identity issues. * Prof. Jon Silverman (University of Bedfordshire), an award-winning former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, who is currently working on the influence of the media's reporting of war crimes trials in West African civil society. Call for Papers **extended deadline 29 Aug 2014** Early bird registration rates: until 12th Sep 2014. Conference Date: Mon. 10th - Tues. 11th Nov. 2014 You can ... 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Don Heider Dean, School of Communication Loyola University Chicago From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Aug 26 15:05:08 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:05:08 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Teaching Aid for you to steal: My student workbook for class on Cultural/Media Studies Research Approaches Message-ID: Well, hi, Pals. I finally put together the whole 67 page student workbook for my class on Cultural and Media studies Research Approaches.It is on my site, here: http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Approaches-Student-Workbook_Senft_Current-as-of-March-26.14.pdf Note: This is a PDF document that includes all the student exercises tailored to my particular class. I will email you an MS Word copy if you want to mess around with it and make it suit your own needs. Just send a mail my way asking, and throw out a thanks or a howdy somewhere on your doc, and I'm happy :) Btw, I have another workbook for Senior Thesis projects that includes a bit of the stuff in the Approaches doc, but also includes a section on writing formal research proposals and literature reviews that will be in that one. That should be ready by the weekend, I think. Excelsior! T -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From dvoelker at stanford.edu Tue Aug 26 23:57:13 2014 From: dvoelker at stanford.edu (Dave Voelker) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:57:13 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis Message-ID: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm unable to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David Voelker, Ph.D. Department of Communication Stanford University http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ From alexleavitt at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 00:07:43 2014 From: alexleavitt at gmail.com (Alex Leavitt) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:07:43 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: At the point you hit >1 GB, you probably want to invest time in setting up an actual database and using programmatic means to analyze the data. I recommend checking out PostgreSQL, which has great features for text search and analysis. --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Candidate USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt On Aug 26, 2014 11:57 PM, "Dave Voelker" wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 00:41:45 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:41:45 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: Hello all, I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but previously I need to extract the content. I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). Any other suggestions? Many thanks! *Cristina Aced * PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp From david.herold at polyu.edu.hk Wed Aug 27 02:07:34 2014 From: david.herold at polyu.edu.hk (Herold, David [APSS]) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:07:34 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Generous PhD stipends on offer in Hong Kong Message-ID: Dear all, Please pass this on to any students who might be interested: Hong Kong Universities are looking for PhD students with evidence of academic excellence, research ability and potential, and good communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities for full-time PhD study in Hong Kong within the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. The scheme pays for: - Full 3 year tuition scholarship - Monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - Annual book and equipment allowance of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - not at all universities !!! - Annual Conference Funding of HK$10,000 (approx. US$1,300) - not at all universities !!! THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS VERY COMPETITIVE! DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 1, 2014 for a September 2015 start. HOW TO APPLY: General information: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html - Identify and approach potential supervisors as soon as possible (see below); - Develop a research proposal with interested supervisor; - Submit application forms (incl. references) and research proposals by the deadline. University websites to start looking for departments and supervisors: Hong Kong University - http://www.hku.edu.hk/ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - http://www.ust.edu.hk/ Chinese University of Hong Kong - http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ City University of Hong Kong - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Polytechnic University - http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Baptist University - http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/ Lingnan University - http://www.ln.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Institute of Education - http://www.ied.edu.hk/ My own info for interested students: Dr. David Kurt Herold, Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), HK Polytechnic University Email: David.Herold at polyu.edu.hk Research interests: - Internet in China; Internet users and their practices (=culture?); online/offline crossovers - Cross-cultural comparisons; cross-cultural (mis-)communication - Qualitative Research Methods, online research methods - Social Theory, Theories of knowledge, Theories of society FROM EXPERIENCE, THE FOLLOWING ARE EXPECTED OF APPLICANTS: - Undergraduate degree and postgraduate degree from different universities, preferably in different countries; - Good universities, very good GPA; - Very good research proposal (incl. literature review, interesting and doable project, etc.); - There is a preference for non-Chinese (there are different programs for Chinese students) to increase their ratio among Hong Kong students. Additional information: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ro/hkphd-fellowship/ Best, David ==================== Dr. David Kurt Herold Assistant Professor Department of Applied Social Sciences HK Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong Phone: (+852)-3400 3015 Email: David.Herold at polyu.edu.hk ==================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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But in case you want to collect communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API. Good luck! *Jos? Manuel Mart?n* Phd in Applied Linguistics Universitat de Valencia UVEG 2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > Hello all, > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > previously I need to extract the content. > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > Any other suggestions? > > Many thanks! > > *Cristina Aced * > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From mpstevenson at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 02:19:08 2014 From: mpstevenson at gmail.com (Michael Stevenson) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:19:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] WebCultures: a new mailing list for web history and allied fields Message-ID: <0FE39AFF-D966-4E4B-BE44-543290E5EB23@gmail.com> *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, Please consider subscribing to WebCultures, a new mailing list for web history and allied fields. http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/webcultures_listcultures.org WebCultures aims to bring together a growing number of researchers in the fields of web and internet history as well as the many archivists, artists, theorists, ethnographers, social scientists, critics and practitioners whose work intersects with the history of the web and new media culture. Ideally, the list will provide relevant announcements as well as a space for rich discussion and collaboration, for example around the following topics and questions: Mapping the field What are established and emerging themes in web and internet history? Is it already possible to map a web historiography, in the sense of an overview of canonical questions, approaches and knowledge? How does existing work address the range of possible histories of web cultures, producers and users, media and communication forms, websites and platforms, web aesthetics, standards and protocols, software and programming languages, groups and institutions? Education Where do web and internet history fit in existing media studies and communications programs? What kinds of digital media history courses are being developed? Should students born in the 1990s learn about Gopher or the development of RSS - and if so, what are the best ways to interest and motivate them? Resources and methods What on- and offline archives related to web and internet history are available, and how else is this history being preserved? What methods and tools are available for web archiving and for mining existing web archives? How can knowledge of the specific problems involved in doing web history be pooled? Relationship to other domains How can web history build on existing work in media and communications history? What does it have to offer research focused on newer objects of study such as social media platforms and the Whatsapp generation of communication apps? Conversely, how does the appearance of these new objects affect how we view and research web history? Institutionalization What is the discipline?s status? What conferences, journals, funding opportunities and jobs are out there, or should be out there? Of course, this list of topics may prove to be too ambitious, or not ambitious enough. Hopefully, at the very least, the mailing list will provide a better sense of who?s working in this fast-growing field. For any questions or subscription issues, please contact the list administrator (me) at michael [at] webcultures.org. Michael Stevenson Assistant Professor New Media & Digital Culture Dept. of Journalism Studies University of Groningen http://www.webcultures.org/ http://twitter.com/_mstevenson From tijana.milosevic at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 02:42:15 2014 From: tijana.milosevic at gmail.com (Tijana Milosevic) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:42:15 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Cristina, Prof. Deen Freelon at American University, see here, used to have a free tool called "F-grab" which extracted Facebook data. I cannot seem to find a link to it now, but you might want to contact him , it worked really well. Good luck! Tijana On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:18 AM, JM Mart?n wrote: > Hi Cristina! > > If you are trying to extract information from social networks, first thing > you should know is that Facebook is not so easy to harvest as Twitter is, > due to a question of software. But in case you want to collect > communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in > order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you > mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API. > > Good luck! > > *Jos? Manuel Mart?n* > Phd in Applied Linguistics > Universitat de Valencia UVEG > > > > > 2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > > > Hello all, > > > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > > previously I need to extract the content. > > > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it > is > > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > Many thanks! > > > > *Cristina Aced * > > PhD Candidate > > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > > | caced at uoc.edu > > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Tijana Milosevic, PhD Candidate School of Communication American University, Washington DC 202-907-91-91 www.tijanamilosevic.com From stu at texifter.com Wed Aug 27 03:52:50 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:52:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly via an API - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a peer network - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to 'clean' social data sets - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning - free for the first 30 days https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research lab specifically to improve measurement. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > previously I need to extract the content. > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > Any other suggestions? > > Many thanks! > > *Cristina Aced * > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Wed Aug 27 04:16:04 2014 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:16:04 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Rankings of Universities and Research Centers Message-ID: <53FDBDF4.1060306@cchs.csic.es> The new editions of the Rankings Web of Universities (now in its 11th year) and Research Centers have been published with data collected during July 2014. 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Antivirus est? activa. http://www.avast.com From mcambre at ualberta.ca Wed Aug 27 05:46:53 2014 From: mcambre at ualberta.ca (MC Cambre) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:46:53 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a software like that for corpus analysis. cc On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- -- Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ From guozhang at indiana.edu Wed Aug 27 05:56:19 2014 From: guozhang at indiana.edu (Guo Zhang Freeman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:56:19 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)? http://www.liwc.net/ On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:46 AM, MC Cambre wrote: > I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a > software like that for corpus analysis. > cc > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker > wrote: > > > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing > a > > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big > data. > > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > > unable > > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > David Voelker, Ph.D. > > Department of Communication > > Stanford University > > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > > -- > > -- > Carolina Cambre PhD > Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University > http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About > > http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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: > > From N.Harrower at ria.ie Wed Aug 27 06:08:25 2014 From: N.Harrower at ria.ie (Natalie Harrower) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:08:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu>, Message-ID: <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top program for qualitative data analysis a while back. http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx _______ Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education & Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 www.dri.ie Twitter: @dri_ireland www.ria.ie The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [mcambre at ualberta.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM To: Dave Voelker Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a software like that for corpus analysis. cc On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- -- Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie From klang at ituniv.se Wed Aug 27 06:51:18 2014 From: klang at ituniv.se (Mathias Klang) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:51:18 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Teaching Aid for you to steal: My student workbook for class on Cultural/Media Studies Research Approaches In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53FDE256.5030809@ituniv.se> Hi Terri, Nice workbook! Thanks for sharing. Mathias On 26/08/14 18:05 pm, Terri Senft wrote: > Well, hi, Pals. I finally put together the whole 67 page student workbook > for my class on Cultural and Media studies Research Approaches.It is on my > site, here: > > http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Approaches-Student-Workbook_Senft_Current-as-of-March-26.14.pdf > > Note: This is a PDF document that includes all the student exercises > tailored to my particular class. I will email you an MS Word copy if you > want to mess around with it and make it suit your own needs. Just send a > mail my way asking, and throw out a thanks or a howdy somewhere on your > doc, and I'm happy :) > > Btw, I have another workbook for Senior Thesis projects that includes a bit > of the stuff in the Approaches doc, but also includes a section on writing > formal research proposals and literature reviews that will be in that one. > That should be ready by the weekend, I think. > > Excelsior! > T > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 27 06:57:02 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:57:02 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <381-22014832713572703@LEN-dick-2011> ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting See http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ for full information and to register October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA Come to Seattle for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme for this year?s conference is Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - we chose this theme to celebrate the breadth of information science, its historical roots, its user-centeredness, and its unique aim of bringing people together around ideas, thoughts, and the exchange of information and knowledge. The program includes 42 papers, 26 panels, 102 posters, 12 workshops, and many opportunities for socializing at receptions. All in all this conference is packed with intellectually stimulating sessions, lots of opportunities to network and meet new people, and engage in the health and well-being of this wonderful association. We are delighted to present two excellent and accomplished keynote speakers: Kris M. Kutchera is Vice President, Information Technology for the Alaska Air Group Alessandro Acquisti is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:45:55 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:45:55 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> Message-ID: Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! *Cristina Aced Toledano* PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp 2014-08-27 15:08 GMT+02:00 Natalie Harrower : > NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top > program for qualitative data analysis a while back. > > http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx > > _______ > > Dr. Natalie Harrower > Manager, Education & Outreach > Digital Repository of Ireland > Royal Irish Academy > 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 > www.dri.ie > Twitter: @dri_ireland > > www.ria.ie > The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann > Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities > > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [ > mcambre at ualberta.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM > To: Dave Voelker > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis > > I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a > software like that for corpus analysis. > cc > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker > wrote: > > > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing > a > > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big > data. > > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > > unable > > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > David Voelker, Ph.D. > > Department of Communication > > Stanford University > > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > > -- > > -- > Carolina Cambre PhD > Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University > http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About > > http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 > & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts > 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:47:50 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:47:50 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! Cristina Aced 2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu : > DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the > Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for > collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: > > - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser > - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly > via an API > - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a > peer network > - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater > reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) > - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities > - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering > - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to > 'clean' social data sets > - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning > - free for the first 30 days > https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration > > We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 > historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth > more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free > historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and > then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. > > These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research > lab specifically to improve measurement. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of >> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are >> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but >> previously I need to extract the content. >> >> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs >> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it >> is >> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> *Cristina Aced * >> >> PhD Candidate >> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society >> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >> | caced at uoc.edu >> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> > > > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > http://people.umass.edu/stu > > Founder and CEO, Texifter > http://texifter.com > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman > > Twitter > https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:48:52 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:48:52 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> Message-ID: Sorry, my last message was not in connection with this thread. Cristina 2014-08-27 16:45 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all > the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share > which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! > > *Cristina Aced Toledano* > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > > > 2014-08-27 15:08 GMT+02:00 Natalie Harrower : > > NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top >> program for qualitative data analysis a while back. >> >> http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx >> >> _______ >> >> Dr. Natalie Harrower >> Manager, Education & Outreach >> Digital Repository of Ireland >> Royal Irish Academy >> 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 >> www.dri.ie >> Twitter: @dri_ireland >> >> www.ria.ie >> The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann >> Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [ >> mcambre at ualberta.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM >> To: Dave Voelker >> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis >> >> I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a >> software like that for corpus analysis. >> cc >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker >> wrote: >> >> > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any >> > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying >> > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases >> representing a >> > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to >> traditional, >> > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data >> > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big >> data. >> > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware >> > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm >> > unable >> > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. >> > >> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> > David Voelker, Ph.D. >> > Department of Communication >> > Stanford University >> > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > The Air-L at 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/ >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> Carolina Cambre PhD >> Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University >> http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About >> >> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> >> The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts >> 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection >> Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> > > From patyrossini at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:53:51 2014 From: patyrossini at gmail.com (Patricia Rossini) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:53:51 -0300 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cristina, please do ;) I'm also looking/testing a few tools to see what would be better for my research. Add digital footprints to your list: very nice, but has data limitations :( Enviada do meu iPad > Em 27/08/2014, ?s 11:47, Cristina Aced escreveu: > > Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the > messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share > which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! > > Cristina Aced > > > 2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu : > >> DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the >> Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for >> collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: >> >> - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser >> - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly >> via an API >> - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a >> peer network >> - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater >> reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) >> - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities >> - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering >> - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to >> 'clean' social data sets >> - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning >> - free for the first 30 days >> https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration >> >> We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 >> historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth >> more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free >> historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and >> then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. >> >> These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research >> lab specifically to improve measurement. >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of >>> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are >>> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but >>> previously I need to extract the content. >>> >>> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs >>> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it >>> is >>> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). >>> >>> Any other suggestions? >>> >>> Many thanks! >>> >>> *Cristina Aced * >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society >>> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >>> | caced at uoc.edu >>> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at 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/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman >> http://people.umass.edu/stu >> >> Founder and CEO, Texifter >> http://texifter.com >> >> LinkedIn >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman >> >> Twitter >> https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Wed Aug 27 08:06:27 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:06:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). - tim, phd student, upenn From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Wed Aug 27 08:29:11 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:29:11 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] text analysis -nostalgia Message-ID: The discussion for Corpus Analysis reminds me of the General Inquirer, created (almost solely) by the late great Philip J Stone III. It was a major basis for my 1969 dissertation, analyzing "Who Am I?" statements of 9th graders in Pittsburgh. Did a few early papers on it too. There's a book on the GI that some libraries may have. While Phil is gone, supposedly there is a Foundation. I was initially asked to be on the board, but I never heard anything. So everything old is new again Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From slc at publicus.net Wed Aug 27 11:08:30 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:08:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Due Today Aug 27 - GovLab's Academy Course Online Participation - Solving Public Problems with Technology Message-ID: This crossed my radar today just in time for you to apply - by Aug 27: http://bit.ly/govlabacademycourse The GovLab Academy?s new course can help you solve problems that matter. 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Follow us on Twitter @TheGovLab Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 From anu.harju at aalto.fi Wed Aug 27 11:26:50 2014 From: anu.harju at aalto.fi (Harju Anu) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:26:50 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Hi everyone, and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. Best, Anu Anu Harju Doctoral Candidate Aalto University Helsinki Finland Sent from my iPhone On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > - tim, phd student, upenn > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From seda at nyu.edu Wed Aug 27 11:35:52 2014 From: seda at nyu.edu (Seda Gurses) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:35:52 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists Message-ID: <6D585C2F-A5E8-4A3C-BDEB-D84B74DE13B5@nyu.edu> hey airers, this year the internet governance forum (igf) is taking place in istanbul, which has raised some eyebrows given the government?s track record also with respect to the internet over the last 4 years. alternatif bilisim dernegi, a local association, is organizing the internet ungovernance forum in parallel to this year?s igf in istanbul (https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org). in preparation of the ungovernance forum, we also put together a workshop which may be of interest to those of you who plan to be there and are asking similar questions about the future of internet governance. please see details below and feel free to spread widely in your networks. thank you, s. Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists 3rd of September, 2014 at MMO [1] Istanbul, Turkey https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html * Are you confused about all the complicated and overlapping institutions that claim to be working on Internet governance? * Are you unsure about how activists concerned with local censorship and surveillance fit into these global structures? * Are you wondering how the IGF, ICANN, IETF, the ITU, the CSTD, Net Mundial are relevant to your collective engagements? If these are questions you are asking yourself and you would like to think together with other people asking similar questions, then please join us at our strategy workshop for Internet activists! In preparation for the Internet Ungovernance Forum[2], the half-day workshop will provide an an opportunity for activists working towards a free, secure and open Internet to get to know Internet governance processes and to explore strategies for collective action. While topics abound, the focus of this workshop will be on matters of surveillance, privacy, the securitization of the Internet, and censorship. Together with invited guests, we plan to spend an afternoon developing strategies to address these problems through national and transnational Internet governance institutions, and/or through organizing outside of these structures. The participants will be expected to report important outcomes of the workshop at the final session of the Internet Ungovernance Forum. The workshop will consist of three parts: * A mapping and diagnosis of existing Internet governance processes that may be relevant to activists. This will include an overview of current shifts in internet governance and exploration of immediate points of intervention. * A discussion of levels of governance, especially the relative merits of participating in local, national, or transnational institutions. We will work through strategies available to activists to address the selected topics through transnational and national institutions that make up the current Internet governance landscape. * A discussion of initiatives and topics that the activists are currently involved in, and a mapping of their potential strategies for collective action within or outside of the Internet governance structures. Format: The workshop will consist of three discussion sessions structured and moderated by invited guests with experience in internet activism or in internet governance structures. Participation: This workshop is for activists that want to collectively develop strategies for action at the local or international level on the topics of surveillance, privacy, the securitization of the Internet and censorship. We expect activists from all disciplinary/non-disciplined backgrounds to join us. A commitment to collective action and curiosity about Internet governance processes is a plus. We ask those interested in participating to send an email to ungovWorkshop at alternatifbilisim.org by 1st of September 2014. Please include in the email a short biography and a list of topics you would like to see discussed at the workshop. Invited Guests: Melih Kirlidog, Alternatif Bilisim Dernegi, Marmara University Milton Mueller, Syracuse University, Internet Governance Project Robin Gross, IP Justice Meryem Marzouki, CNRS Reading Materials: We recommend reading the following materials and studying the following websites in preparation for the workshop: * Internet Governance Project blog [3] * The Citizen Lab [4] * Paper: Finding a Formula for Brazil: Representation and Legitimacy in Internet Governance [5] Schedule: 3. of September, 2014. 13.00 - 18.00 hours Location: Makina Muhensidleri Odasi Istanbul Subesi (Beyoglu/Taksim) Katip Mustafa Celebi Mahallesi Ipek Sokak No: 9 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Language: The workshop will take place in English. We encourage those who have reservations attending the workshop due to their command of the English language to couple up with other participants who can support them throughout the meeting. Please visit the Workshop webpage for updates.[6] [1] MMO Beyoglu Ofice http://www.mmo.org.tr/genel/bizden_detay.php?kod=26967&tipi=2&sube=10 [2] Internet Ungovernance Forum https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org [3] http://internetgovernance.org [4] https://citizenlab.org/ [5] http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MiltonBenWPdraft_Final.pdf [6] https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html From craig.boman at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 13:46:06 2014 From: craig.boman at gmail.com (craig boman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:46:06 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Depending on your coding knowledge, you may be able to configure a screen scraper like Scrapy (http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/) to get what you need. I don't have much experience with it yet, but it is open source. All the best, Craig Boman Ph.D Student On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a > paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering > if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very > laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a > coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially > thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for > quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > > > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting > fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so > depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you > an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. > 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for > processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content > dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, > etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML > you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing > instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the > actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this > is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that > solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready > for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an > automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > > > - tim, phd student, upenn > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Wed Aug 27 15:41:59 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:41:59 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: <1409175696685.68238@uw.edu> References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu>, <1409175696685.68238@uw.edu> Message-ID: I once figured out a way to get the youtube to spit out all of the comments at once by tweaking an ajax request, but I can?t figure out how to do it again on quick inspection. it was possible though, you may have to bribe your coder friend with some club mate. ;-) shawn is totally on the mark re: rate-limiting, google in particular is strict on scraping/botishness; anything you set against their properties needs some built-in politeness, I think a random interval of 5-15 seconds was working for me at one time. another way is to just pay somebody on amazon turk to copy/paste for you - could be the cheapest route time- and resource-wise and not requiring new tools. - t On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Hi Anu, > > To extract YouTube comments, consider TubeKit (http://tubekit.org/). I've used it in a few projects to extract YouTube video metadata, videos, and comment data with great success. > > Another consideration with respect to the discussion of these tools for FB or Twitter data collection is to evaluate what APIs each tool uses. Depending on the API, you might only receive a small sample of data or may be rate limited with others. So, it's important to understand how any tool you use works and what implications or limitations that might have on your research. Historical data is notoriously difficult to get -- purchasing historical data is an option, but adds in a new set of limitations too (deleted accounts, posts, URL decay, etc.). > > These issues need to be discussed more openly and critically addressed. :) > > -- > Shawn Walker > PhD Candidate > Information School > University of Washington > stw3 at uw.edu ? students.washington.edu/stw3 > SoMe Lab @ UW - somelab.net > > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L on behalf of Harju Anu > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:26 AM > To: Tim Libert > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter > > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > >> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). >> >> - tim, phd student, upenn >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 22:57:23 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:57:23 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Hi Anu, I suggest you try NodeXL . It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. Good Luck ! On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a > paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering > if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very > laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a > coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially > thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for > quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > > > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting > fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so > depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you > an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. > 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for > processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content > dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, > etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML > you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing > instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the > actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this > is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that > solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready > for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an > automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > > > - tim, phd student, upenn > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- *Noha A.Nagi* From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 23:06:44 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:06:44 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> References: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions. Thanks Anja, Stu, Jacob, Lauri and Joan ! I have tried and looked at all your suggestions. What fits most to my research requirements is DiscoverText and NodeXL. I am still doing some trials with both of them to decide the best one for me but I have a good understanding now of their functionality and of other software tools. I would love to help anyone with this if you ask. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Anja Bechmann wrote: > Hi Noha and others, try www.digitalfootprints.dk - we have free access > for small scale studies now. > > Best, Anja > > Anja Bechmann > Associate Professor, PhD > Aarhus University, Denmark > +45 5133 5138 > > .....this message is sent from my iPhone .... > > > Den 04/08/2014 kl. 22.28 skrev Noha Nagi : > > > > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area > and > > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > > > Data needed include: > > - posts; > > - comments; > > - date &time of posts and comments; and > > - some information about people that post and comment > > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not > the > > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > > Thank you all, > > Yours, > > *Noha A.Nagi* > > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > -- *Noha A.Nagi* From anu.harju at aalto.fi Thu Aug 28 00:14:45 2014 From: anu.harju at aalto.fi (Harju Anu) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:14:45 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> , Message-ID: Hi everyone, thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I will try them out as soon as I have the time. I suppose they work on Mac, too. Noha, thanks for the offer of help, I might take you up on that if I run into any problems. I'm flying out to a conference today so won't be able to do anything in this regard for a week, but thanks again, much appreciated :) Best, Anu Sent from my iPhone On 28.8.2014, at 8.57, "Noha Nagi" > wrote: Hi Anu, I suggest you try NodeXL. It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. Good Luck ! On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu > wrote: Hi everyone, and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. Best, Anu Anu Harju Doctoral Candidate Aalto University Helsinki Finland Sent from my iPhone On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" > wrote: > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > - tim, phd student, upenn > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- Noha A.Nagi From berno.rieder at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 01:49:08 2014 From: berno.rieder at gmail.com (Bernhard Rieder) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:49:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> , Message-ID: <82EBAEF9-EB3F-4E7A-B6E8-D86262C3ACF8@gmail.com> Hi, Just to add to the list, I develop Netvizz (https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/), which extracts data from personal networks, groups and pages on Facebook. I also think that Facepager (https://github.com/strohne/Facepager) is an awesome tool. best, Bernhard -- Bernhard Rieder | Associate Professor | New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://thepoliticsofsystems.net | http://rieder.polsys.net | https://www.digitalmethods.net | @RiederB On 28 Aug 2014, at 9:14 , Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I will try them out as soon as I have the time. I suppose they work on Mac, too. > > Noha, thanks for the offer of help, I might take you up on that if I run into any problems. I'm flying out to a conference today so won't be able to do anything in this regard for a week, but thanks again, much appreciated :) > > Best, > Anu > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28.8.2014, at 8.57, "Noha Nagi" > wrote: > > Hi Anu, > > I suggest you try NodeXL. It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. > > Good Luck ! > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" > wrote: > >> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). >> >> - tim, phd student, upenn >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > -- > Noha A.Nagi > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From bbakiogl at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 01:57:23 2014 From: bbakiogl at gmail.com (Burcu Bakioglu) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:57:23 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF Message-ID: Hi all, I would like to alert those of you who are attending the Internet Governance Forum 2014 in Istanbul to the following IRP panels/events. Human Rights for the Internet: From Principles to Action Sept 2, 11:00-12:30PM, WS83 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/3e25d63b87b9c4dd41bb3000026b806b#.U_7UdEj-SYo Anonymity by Design: Protecting While Connecting Sept 4, 11:00-12:30PM, WS146 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/b78a96b68de216dd4eb856751658c729?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7bHkj-SYo Online Freedoms and Access to Information Online Sept 5, 9:00-10:30AM, WS225 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/108673c90f772a94e889c94a72651104?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7SVEj-SYo Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles: The IRPC Charter of Human rights and Principles for the Internet: 5 years on Sept 4, 4:30-6:00PM http://igf2014.sched.org/event/6351f1d8c02523edc26c9274e6bb82ff?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7TB0j-SYo Thank you. -- Thanks, Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University http://www.palefirer.com -- "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." Lon Chaney From blogocorp at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 04:11:49 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:11:49 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter (some conclusions) Message-ID: Hi everyone! and thank you for your suggestions!! Many thanks Jos? Manuel, Noha, Tijana, Stu, Tobias, Patricia, Harju, Craig, Tim & Bernhard! As promised, here you have my first impressions of the options you have suggested to extract data from Facebook. As I explained in previous messages, I need to gather the content published by companies on blogs, Twitter and Facebook (posts, tweets, status) with their date information and all the feedback received: number of comments/ RT/ mentions/ likes /shares and so on. After considering all your suggestions and trying some of them: ? I'm using *OutWit Hub* (the free version is very complete) to scrape blogs and Twitter accounts. It is necessary to create scrapers to gather the data you want but it is easy to learn how it works and you can personalize the scraping. It's a great tool but it doesn't work properly with Facebook due to Facebook's API limitations :( ? *NodeXL* is a useful tool specially for analyzing connections between users/ contents on social media and for creating amazing graphs. It also downloads status updates but the way it shows the information is a little bit chaotic (i.e. it is not easy to connect the status update with the comments it has received). Another interesting option: it is possible to get demographic information about FB's users (genre, location...). ? *NVivo* is fantastic to work with Facebook and Twitter. Very easy to extract FB's status updates, date & time, comments and number of likes. To sum up: I have decided to use OutWit Hub to work with blogs and Twitter and NVivo to work with Facebook. If you have any doubt about this topic, maybe I can help you, so feel free to send your doubts and I'll try to answer them! *Cristina Aced * PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp From ierick at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 05:14:07 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:14:07 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] iConference Deadline Reminder Message-ID: <53FF1D0F.2010903@gmail.com> Deadline Alert: iConference 2015// iConference 2015: Create-Collaborate-Celebrate Newport Beach, CA, USA; March 24-27, 2015 Conference Site: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Submission System: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/__ */ALERT: Submission deadlines for iConference 2015 are approaching fast, with papers due September 5./* The following submissions are invited: Papers : Due Friday, September 5, 2014, midnight PDT Workshops _:_Due Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT Doctoral Colloquium _:_Due Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT__ Posters _:_Due Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT__ Interactive Sessions _:_Due Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT__ Social Media Expo _:_Commitment letter due October 14, 2014; student team submissions due December 15, 2014.__ Dissertation Award _:_Due Wednesday, October 15, 2014, midnight PDT iConference 2015 takes place March 24-27 in Newport Beach, CA. It is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. The Champion Sponsor is Microsoft Research. All information researchers and scholars are welcome---affiliation with an iSchool is not required. IMPORTANT LINKS Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Call for Participation: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/call-for-participation/__ Submissions: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/__ Facebook: iConference Twitter: @iConf | #iconf15 From nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca Thu Aug 28 05:51:51 2014 From: nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca (Nicole Cohen) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:51:51 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?Two_positions_at_the_University_of_Toron?= =?windows-1252?q?to_Mississauga_=97_Culture_and_New_Media=2C_Media_Theory?= Message-ID: <10D9C1534D4CA94DA8D21770349A4774315050A0@arborexmbx4.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> We would like to bring your attention to a new Assistant Professor of Culture and New Media position in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. You will find the posting below and online at: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401667 Assistant Professor ? Culture and New Media Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a tenure-stream position in the area of Culture and New Media at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2015. We seek a candidate to build on the strengths of the Institute through research that examines the intersection of culture and new media in relation to the social, political, and economic dimensions of life in both Canada and abroad. We are particularly interested in individuals doing work in areas like digital culture, surveillance studies, and globalization. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. degree by the appointment start date (or shortly thereafter) in a related field and have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching and research. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on culture and new media and s/he will have a graduate appointment in one of the University?s tri-campus graduate departments. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga focuses on teaching and research excellence in its four undergraduate programs: Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT), Interactive Digital Media (IDM), Digital Enterprise Management (DEM), and Professional Writing and Communication (PWC). Currently, ICCIT is building a research complement in social networking and communication, interactive and immersive digital media and culture, and the theory and practice of design, with an emphasis on all aspects of digital media. ICCIT is also actively engaged with the community and profit and non-profit organizations. All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking on the link below. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word files in the following format: 1) Letter, CV, and research & teaching statements 2) Publications Applicants must have three referees send signed letters directly to Professor Anthony Wensley, Director, ICCIT, University of Toronto Mississauga via email to iccit.utm at utoronto.ca by the closing date, November 21, 2014. For more information on the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, please visit our website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit To apply online please click: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401667 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. --- We would like to bring your attention to a new Associate Professor of Media Theory position in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. You will find the posting below and online at: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401669 Associate Professor ? Media Theory Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications in the area of Media Theory at the rank of Associate Professor. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2015. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field and must demonstrate a record of excellence in research and teaching, have an established reputation in the field, and have an active record of publication in the area of critical communication studies. We seek scholars from a wide range of analytical approaches to media theory, including communication studies, information studies, science and technology studies, cultural studies, queer/feminist theory, political economy, political science, and policy studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in her/his area of specialization and must be experienced in educating and mentoring graduate students, junior researchers and/or professionals. The successful candidate?s graduate appointment will be in one of the University?s tri-campus graduate departments. Previous administrative experience, and experience in developing new curricula at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, would be assets. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga focuses on teaching and research excellence in its four undergraduate programs: Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (CCIT), Interactive Digital Media (IDM), Digital Enterprise Management (DEM), and Professional Writing and Communication (PWC). Currently, the ICCIT is building a research complement in social networking and communication, interactive and immersive digital media and culture, and the theory and practice of design, with an emphasis on all aspects of digital media. ICCIT is also actively engaged with the community and profit and non-profit organizations. All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking on the link below. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word files in the following format: 1) Letter, CV, and research & teaching statements 2) Publications Applicants should also provide the names and contact details of three referees in their application. All application materials must be submitted online by the closing date, October 17, 2014. For more information on the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, please visit our website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit To apply online please click: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401669 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. Nicole S. Cohen, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology (UTM) & Faculty of Information nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca || 905-828-3906 || CCT 3004 From eden.medina at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 05:53:08 2014 From: eden.medina at gmail.com (Eden Medina) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:53:08 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Book Announcement: Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America Message-ID: Dear all, This publication may be of interest to list readers, especially the two chapters by Anita Chan and Morgan Ames on the XO laptop created by the One Laptop per Child program. The book has been structured so that each chapter stands alone and can be used for teaching. More information about the book is available at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-imported-magic. Apologies for cross postings. Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America Edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes Foreword by Marcos Cueto MIT Press, 2014, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780262526203 (paperback) Also available in hardback and Kindle Amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Magic-Science-Technology-Society/dp/0262526204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409104674&sr=8-1&keywords=beyond+imported+magic The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South -- the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors? explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present. The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. Contributors: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiar?n, Jo?o Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana D?az del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Mar?a Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania P?rez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodr?guez-Giralt, Edna Su?rez D?az, Hern?n Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic// Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes SECTION I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society 2 Who Invented Brazil? // Henrique Cukierman 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective // Mariano Fressoli, Rafael Dias, and Hern?n Thomas 4 Working with Care: Experiences of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia // Tania P?rez-Bustos, Mar?a Fernanda Olarte Sierra, and Adriana D?az del Castillo H. 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges // Ivan da Costa Marques 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Select English-Language Journals // Michael Lemon and Eden Medina SECTION II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation 7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State In Turn of the Twentieth Century Argentina // Julia Rodriguez 8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba // Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Alonso 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery // Anita Chan 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of OLPC's XO Laptop in Paraguay // Morgan G. Ames 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How has an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America? // Noela Invernizzi, Matthieu Hubert, and Dominique Vinck 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions // Amy Cox Hall SECTION III: Science, Technology and Latin American Politics 13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina // Jonathan Hagood 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico // Gisela Mateos and Edna Su?rez D?az 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy and Democracy in Chile // Manuel Tironi and Javiera Barandiar?n 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict on Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil // Ana Delgado and Israel Rodriguez-Giralt 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts // Jo?o Biehl Endorsements: At one level the term 'beyond imported magic' situates this collection as a contribution to the critique of the traditional North-South diffusionist stories of science and technology, but at another level the essays take the reader beyond the 'imported magic' of Northern theories of STS. By connecting us with the reflexive and critical voices of Latin American STS scholarship, this book is a great introduction to contemporary modes of rethinking STS from Latin American perspectives." -David J. Hess, Sociology, Vanderbilt University This astonishing collection provides for both science and technology studies and postcolonial students and scholars valuable new pathways for thinking and illuminatingly different conceptual approaches. These authors usher in a much-needed expansive era for historians, philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, and ethnographers of science as well as for readers in other fields. I can't wait to teach it. -Sandra Harding, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Education and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Distinguished Affiliate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University; and author of Sciences from Below In this enchanting book, leading scholars conjure up surprising and gripping new configurations of science and technology in Latin America. These essays reveal brilliantly how local and regional histories haunt so-called global scientific projects. Beyond Imported Magic brings Latin America into contemporary conversations about what makes technoscience appear so worldly and cosmopolitan, even as it is experienced as situated and place-bound in practice. This book will cast a spell on anyone who wants to understand the multiple ways in which we try, and often fail, to be both modern and global. -Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney, author of The Collectors of Lost Souls This exciting and thought-provoking volume shows how analyzing Latin America through an STS lens allows us to peer more closely at known histories and uncover new and in some cases existing but understudied connections. Once we divest ourselves of outdated adjectives such as 'peripheral' to explain the role of Latin America in science we invariably begin to see the region as a center with a long history of scientific production and with the many complexities that this entails. By placing Latin America into longer narratives of (redefined or reemphasized) scientific research, the authors crucially demonstrate science as ever-present and not a relatively new, imported phenomena of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries. -Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill From S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk Thu Aug 28 07:09:17 2014 From: S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk (S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:09:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7AA30240B873EA4EB6E632F32538771B0A068D7C@EXMBOXC2.lse.ac.uk> And for researchers interested in human rights issues as they specifically apply to the world's children (half the population in much of the global South...), you are very welcome to join this session: http://igf2014.sched.org/event/ca06aad1d8caeef6ed1fde3764bc5d13#.U_83wfldVZs cheers, Sonia Livingstone -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Burcu Bakioglu Sent: 28 August 2014 09:57 To: AoiR list Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF Hi all, I would like to alert those of you who are attending the Internet Governance Forum 2014 in Istanbul to the following IRP panels/events. Human Rights for the Internet: From Principles to Action Sept 2, 11:00-12:30PM, WS83 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/3e25d63b87b9c4dd41bb3000026b806b#.U_7UdEj-SYo Anonymity by Design: Protecting While Connecting Sept 4, 11:00-12:30PM, WS146 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/b78a96b68de216dd4eb856751658c729?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7bHkj-SYo Online Freedoms and Access to Information Online Sept 5, 9:00-10:30AM, WS225 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/108673c90f772a94e889c94a72651104?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7SVEj-SYo Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles: The IRPC Charter of Human rights and Principles for the Internet: 5 years on Sept 4, 4:30-6:00PM http://igf2014.sched.org/event/6351f1d8c02523edc26c9274e6bb82ff?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7TB0j-SYo Thank you. -- Thanks, Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University http://www.palefirer.com -- "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." Lon Chaney _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer From joly at punkcast.com Thu Aug 28 07:56:07 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:56:07 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Aberystwyth Internet Jurisdiction Symposium - Sep 10-11 Message-ID: It has come to my attention that Aberystwith U. (Wales) are holding an Internet Jurisdiction Symposium on Sep 10-11 http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/internet-jurisdiction/ They are going to stream it live to a couple of other Universities, and are actively recruiting more locations. http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/internet-jurisdiction/participation/. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From Russell.Carpenter at eku.edu Thu Aug 28 18:48:24 2014 From: Russell.Carpenter at eku.edu (Carpenter, Russell) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:48:24 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder - CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development on Social Media Message-ID: Colleagues, I hope you$B!G(Bll consider submitting to the special issue below. There$B!G(Bs still time! Call for Papers May 2015 Special Issue of Journal of Faculty Development Guest Edited by: Russell Carpenter, Eastern Kentucky University Theme: Social Media in Pedagogy and Practice: Networked Teaching and Learning While many forms of social media are no longer considered $B!H(Bnew,$B!I(B their instructional uses continue to both inspire and challenge faculty and students. A variety of social media permeate the classroom whether used for pedagogical or personal purposes. Many instructors also use social media in their personal lives, but its role and potential in the classroom are still evolving. While the dynamic nature of social media provides a number of pedagogical opportunities to engage students in productive ways, integrating social media into class sessions and projects also presents new challenges not faced with other instructional technologies. This special issue invites scholars to highlight the most successful and promising strategies for integrating social media into the classroom while also considering the challenges these technologies present for teaching and learning. Authors might consider the best practices for integrating social media into the classroom for instructional purposes, theories and principles that support the decision to incorporate social media into classroom settings, challenges faced and approaches for overcoming these challenges, and projects that incorporate social media along with learning outcomes. Submissions might also explore, theorize, and assess innovative concepts, approaches, and strategies for classroom instruction using social media. Framing questions can include but are not limited to: $B!|(B What classroom activities are best suited for implementing social media? What specific projects might incorporate social media and how were these projects assessed? $B!|(B What are the best practices for using social media for instruction? $B!|(B How might various forms of social media engage student learning outcomes? What factors should instructors consider when deciding whether to employ social media? $B!|(B What are the theoretical frameworks for teaching with social media and how might they inform instruction? What training or professional development might benefit instructors exploring social media for classroom instruction? $B!|(B What issues and challenges arise when incorporating social media into the classroom, including political, social, and institutional contexts and expectations? What boundaries, parameters, or guidelines are necessary for classroom use of social media and how might they present challenges, if at all? $B!|(B What are the goals for incorporating social media into the classroom and how were these goals achieved, adapted, or revised? How might students contribute to these goals as they use social media in their own learning? Please send 500-word proposals and questions to Russell Carpenter at [1]russell.carpenter at eku.edu. Authors of accepted proposals will receive detailed guidelines for manuscript submission. Deadlines September 1, 2014: 500-word proposals due November 15, 2014: Authors notified of review results January 15, 2015: Full articles of 3,000 - 5,000 words returned to guest editor February 15, 2015: Article revisions sent to authors March 30, 2015: Final submissions due to guest editor -- Russell G. Carpenter, Ph.D. Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity Program Director, Minor in Applied Creative Thinking Assistant Professor of English Eastern Kentucky University 859.622.7403 russell.carpenter at eku.edu www.studio.eku.edu | @noelstudio References 1. mailto:atrussell.carpenter at eku.edu From rforno at infowarrior.org Thu Aug 28 19:32:11 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:32:11 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Netflix open-sources some data tools Message-ID: <74ED323A-5671-4DEA-8284-ABD296B5C375@infowarrior.org> FYI, Netflix released (open-source) some data-mining tools that its security team uses for Internet monitoring. They may have some applicability for internet researchers, so I'm passing the link along as an FYI. See more @ Announcing Scumblr and Sketchy - Search, Screenshot, and Reclaim the Internet http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/08/announcing-scumblr-and-sketchy-search.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From gpanger at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 11:18:39 2014 From: gpanger at gmail.com (Galen Panger) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:18:39 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] #longread on Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science Message-ID: Posted a piece up on Medium yesterday that I think could make for some good weekend reading, if you're interested. Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science *Facebook is grappling with its impact on our social and emotional lives ? and that?s a good thing. But it has to get the research right. Why Facebook did the experiment, and how to make it better.* A ton has been written about the Facebook experiment, but for me, there were still a number of things left unsaid. Chief among these was why Facebook did the experiment in the first place. A major motivation was to address the widespread fear that Facebook makes us unhappy; the study specifically mentions social comparison, making people feel "left out," and the "alone together" theory. So the study uses emotional contagion to fight back against these notions, and claims to have shown that happy posts on Facebook really do make people feel happier (as opposed to sad or depressed). But as my piece says in great detail, the study's research design is quite flawed on this?and is biased precisely where it counts most for what Facebook is trying to prove. Though Facebook posts have a number of social biases, Facebook uses posts as an unbiased representation of how we feel as a result of emotions in News Feed. This is problematic. There's evidence, for example, that posts have a bias toward high-arousal emotions (excitement, anger) and a bias away from low-arousal emotions (sadness, depression, calm). Meaning if people are feeling sad because of Facebook, it's not going to show up in their Facebook posts. Anyway, that is one big point in a number of points I make. I also make a bunch of suggestions for how Facebook could improve the research design. It's a long piece, so if you make it even part of the way through the piece, I thank you.... and want to know what you think (good or bad). cheers, galen -- galen at ischool.berkeley.edu From julian.kilker at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 14:57:18 2014 From: julian.kilker at gmail.com (J. Kilker) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:57:18 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Position at Univ of Nevada - Las Vegas - New and Emerging Media Message-ID: <97FE7C0A-EB8E-4DFA-A029-8AB67F79923D@gmail.com> Colleagues-- We've recently posted a new Assistant Professor of New and Emerging Media position in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas. This Assistant Professor will teach and conduct research relevant to trends and innovations in media, journalism, and integrated marketing communication, including mobile devices, data journalism, and visual media, and the use of technology to engage with community. We are looking for the right person to explore the future of our field through innovative research and collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community stakeholders in a dynamic technology, entertainment, and marketing environment. The full announcement and application process is located at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu/current_vacancies.asp (search for position 15252). I've pasted the text below as well. Thank you for sharing this with potential candidates! Regards, -- J. Kilker, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies School of Journalism and Media Studies Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas Main e-mail: kilker at unlv.nevada.edu Voice mail: 702/895-3729 Web: http://faculty.unlv.edu/jkilker ====== The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Search number: 15252 PROFILE of the UNIVERSITY UNLV is a comprehensive research university of approximately 28,000 students and 2,900 faculty and staff dedicated to teaching, research, and service. The university has internationally recognized programs in hotel administration and creative writing; professional degrees in law, architecture, and dental medicine; and leading programs in fine arts, sciences and education. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in dynamic Southern Nevada. For more information, visit us on-line at: http://www.unlv.edu. ROLE of the POSITION The Assistant Professor will teach and conduct research relevant to trends and innovations in media, journalism, and integrated marketing communication, including mobile devices, data journalism, and visual media, and the use of technology to engage with community. We are looking for the right person to explore the future of our field through innovative research and collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community stakeholders in a dynamic technology, entertainment, and marketing environment. QUALIFICATIONS This position requires a Ph.D. from a regionally accredited college or university. Only candidates receiving their degree during or before August 2015 will be considered. Active research agendas and college-level teaching experience are required. SALARY RANGE Salary competitive with those at similarly situated institutions. Position is contingent upon funding. APPLICATION DETAILS Submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. Also submit evidence of effective and innovative teaching and course design and samples of published research. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference to each of the minimum and preferred qualifications because this is the information on which the initial review of materials will be based. Although this position will remain open until filled, review of candidates' materials will begin on October 15, 2014 and best consideration will be gained for materials submitted prior to that date. Materials should be addressed to Julian Kilker, Search Committee Chair, and are to be submitted via on-line application at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu. For assistance with UNLV's on-line applicant portal, contact UNLV Employment Services at (702) 895-2894 or hrsearch at unlv.edu. Application Information Contact: University of Nevada Las Vegas Online App. Form: https://hrsearch.unlv.edu UNLV is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity educator and employer committed to excellence through diversity. From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Sat Aug 30 09:52:50 2014 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:52:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 500 years of the images of the world's books now on flickr Message-ID: For those interested in images, especially the evolution of visual themes over time, you might find of interest my latest collaboration with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract the images of the Archive's 600 million pages of digitized books dating back 500 years from over 1,000 of the world's libraries, 2.7M of which are now available on Flickr (the rest will be uploaded over the coming months to ensure a constant dynamically updated stream), browseable and searchable by the book metadata and the text surrounding each image on the page. There's a breathtaking range of topics, events, locations covered in the collection, but one humorous theme that the BBC article notes is that even 100 years ago people were dressing up their cats and publishing pictures of them ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidkittenscatsbooko00grov ). http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28976849 http://blog.archive.org/2014/08/29/millions-of-historic-images-posted-to-flickr/ http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/08/29/welcome-the-internet-archive-to-the-commons/ ~Kalev Yahoo! Fellow Georgetown University http://kalevleetaru.com/ From peterotimusk at gmail.com Sat Aug 30 18:42:22 2014 From: peterotimusk at gmail.com (Peter Timusk) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:42:22 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being Message-ID: This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal well-being. Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental health. more on the link. From scott at scottmacleod.com Sat Aug 30 21:30:57 2014 From: scott at scottmacleod.com (Scott MacLeod) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:30:57 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Peter and AoIR friends, Thanks for this: Here's the actual MIT Technology Review article about this study: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/ In its comments' section, I asked: Are there any comparable or comparative studies asking similar questions concerning TV watching, say pre-Graphical User Interface (GUI) internet in the 1980s, or even concerning book reading, on subjective well being, both of which might be similarly isolating? ... It seems like any hypothetical comparative studies might examine and emphasize the increase in the sociality in Italy thanks to social media relative to TV watching or book reading, and now with emergent Google + group video Hangouts and Adobe Connect, etc. and face-to-face sociality will re-emerge in new ways, generating data for important studies ahead. Professor Manuel Castells ("The Rise of the Network Society") casts these questions in different contexts, sociologically, and concludes from the sociological studies of the internet on alienation and sociality from the 1990s that, in the aggregate, social media increased sociality, - but he didn't examine rigorous sociological studies of self-reported well being. Thanks for this study. Scott (http://scottmacleod.com) I'm teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + group video Hangouts a free open course online this autumn, which in the first half will examine, among many questions about how the information technology revolution came about, a) the related sociological literature that precedes the study above, and in the second half b) problematize the development of wiki MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is planning free CC online accrediting university in large languages (and I.B. degrees in UN langs), and wiki schools in all 7,106 languages among much else: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundews-drosera-prolifera-planning-to.html Come join the conversation in the course. Best, Scott http://scottmacleod.com On 8/30/14 6:42 PM, Peter Timusk wrote: > This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies > does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? > > http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 > > A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of > face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social > networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal > well-being. > > Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental > health. > > > more on the link. _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > - -- - - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - - 415 480 4577 - - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUAqUBAAoJEGXWPCwOJYCofQgH/iZX/KJnlpoaTXhrxY41F4iu nAx1roj3wL0wYuei1g9JjfMD4pSIiBD+2ENHJaoPfAM3ib5MWzGZLErfq8P+SpIA gJ04ush/ys1iAGYf64OZhj/8Qf+9U4ZTgAK6JY+yEmTipNT6NAVUaKVCGmwbLWjT zFTi/U+p0AgmAFbzt5ZPmvmQjFPJH/9uNMgqyUkAL4F/qNaxfKh9WGuKM6r942Lp W2nv5qZxwgwq/I3xMnPU0Ix/3nF7wesg+CeCiuFr4fw5fhj3ePIonAWPwHKSG9PG j+QUBtFVIgqoPIb4EUc3wqlBDW4Hwx0TpiHx/A6/ukBcPGN/YZeVI2U1JCXaIpI= =v9R4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From javier at socialmediasociology.com Sun Aug 31 03:52:10 2014 From: javier at socialmediasociology.com (Javier de Rivera) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:52:10 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being In-Reply-To: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> References: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> Message-ID: <5402FE5A.20102@socialmediasociology.com> Also, another question that we should ask ourselves is whether is not the "medium" (social media, tv, books, etc.) what matters alone, but also the content and the the way it works. In this sense, the dynamics of any media are different at its beginning than when it's a mature technology. The original TV educational programing of the 50s to 70s, cannot produced the same effects as the commercial-entertainment paradigm from then. In the internet there is a similar process going on, towards the commercialization of the spaces of interaction (the actual social media) in comparison with the rudimentary almost-self-made web of the 90's. Javier de Rivera. On 08/31/2014 06:30 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote: > Peter and AoIR friends, > > Thanks for this: > > Here's the actual MIT Technology Review article about this study: > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/ > > In its comments' section, I asked: > Are there any comparable or comparative studies asking similar questions > concerning TV watching, say pre-Graphical User Interface (GUI) internet > in the 1980s, or even concerning book reading, on subjective well being, > both of which might be similarly isolating? ... It seems like any > hypothetical comparative studies might examine and emphasize the > increase in the sociality in Italy thanks to social media relative to TV > watching or book reading, and now with emergent Google + group video > Hangouts and Adobe Connect, etc. and face-to-face sociality will > re-emerge in new ways, generating data for important studies ahead. > Professor Manuel Castells ("The Rise of the Network Society") casts > these questions in different contexts, sociologically, and concludes > from the sociological studies of the internet on alienation and > sociality from the 1990s that, in the aggregate, social media increased > sociality, - but he didn't examine rigorous sociological studies of > self-reported well being. Thanks for this study. Scott > (http://scottmacleod.com) > > I'm teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + group > video Hangouts a free open course online this autumn, which in the > first half will examine, among many questions about how the > information technology revolution came about, a) the related > sociological literature that precedes the study above, and in the > second half b) problematize the development of wiki MIT OCW-centric > World University and School, which is planning free CC online > accrediting university in large languages (and I.B. degrees in UN > langs), and wiki schools in all 7,106 languages among much else: > > http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundews-drosera-prolifera-planning-to.html > > Come join the conversation in the course. > > Best, > Scott > > http://scottmacleod.com > > > > On 8/30/14 6:42 PM, Peter Timusk wrote: > > This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies > > does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? > > > http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 > > > A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of > > face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social > > networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal > > well-being. > > > Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental > > health. > > > > more on the link. _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From mpbakardjieva at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 08:53:58 2014 From: mpbakardjieva at gmail.com (Maria Bakardjieva) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:53:58 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [Faculty-l] 2 Positions at U of C In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please spread around the following announcement. Maria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues Attached are ads for two positions in Communications Studies in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary starting July 1, 2015. One is at the assistant professor level, the other at the associate professor with tenure level. The application deadline for both is October 31, 2014. Links to the position advertisements: https://prdcgw.ehs.ucalgary.ca/uc_cg.html?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=6876&SiteId=2&JobPostSeq=1 https://prdcgw.ehs.ucalgary.ca/uc_cg.html?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=6879&SiteId=2&JobPostSeq=1 Please contact me if you have any questions. Barbara Schneider Interim Head Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary [To unsubscribe from the CCA list, please contact us at acc.cca.ca at gmail.com] _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of faculty-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: faculty-L at mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/faculty-l From aschmitz at mail.sdsu.edu Sun Aug 31 11:42:15 2014 From: aschmitz at mail.sdsu.edu (Amy Schmitz Weiss) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:42:15 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] tenure-track journalism position in San Diego Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University is hiring. We are seeking a candidate for an assistant professor of journalism tenure-track position. If you know of anyone interested, please feel free to spread the word. Information follows below. SDSU Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Journalism Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be able to teach across the undergraduate journalism curriculum, including both skills-based and theory courses, as well as graduate seminars in mass communication theory, advanced research methods, and journalism topics. Tenure-track faculty members are expected to have a scholarly research agenda in journalism and also provide service to the school, college and professional journalism communities. The ideal candidate should have a track record of teaching college-level journalism courses, such as news writing and reporting, mobile reporting, digital and social media, investigative reporting, data journalism, web design and programming, data visualization, digital news production, photojournalism, multimedia reporting and storytelling. Applicants should be familiar with (a) the latest digital journalism applications, such as but not limited to, FinalCut Pro, Dreamweaver, and the Adobe Creative Suite; (b) social media platforms and tools such as Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Twitter, and Facebook, among others; and (c) the latest mobile and digital tools for news gathering and reporting. Fluency in both English and another language (e.g., Spanish) would be a plus. Required Qualifications: Candidates should have a demonstrated commitment to excellence in both teaching and research, in line with SDSU?s teacher-scholar model. An earned doctorate in journalism, mass communication or a related field is required by the position start date. Relevant professional work experience in journalism is required. Evidence or promise of a strong research agenda in journalism is required. Applications: Review of application materials will begin September 15, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. For more information about the position and how to apply, visit: http://affiliated.sdsu.edu/ColPSFA/journalism.htm Thanks so much! Cheers, Amy -- Cheers, Amy Schmitz Weiss Associate Professor JMS Graduate Adviser Journalism Area Coordinator School of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University From luxiaoist at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 19:03:15 2014 From: luxiaoist at gmail.com (Lu Xiao) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:03:15 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium- DEADLINE EXtended! Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting... ********************************************************************** 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participation (Proposals due: Sept. 10. 2014) All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation (i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks) at the 2014 SIG-USE Symposium. Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. Proposals for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk. Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in information behavior research" (See below). ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research" Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Johnson, Professor and former Dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky The importance of context in human information behavior research has been well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information behavior research. This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to: ? Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research, papers may explore questions such as the following: What does ?context? really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level) affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts? ? Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information behavior in a particular context? ? Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user characteristics)? ? Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information systems/services, etc.) and in what way? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR LIGHTNING TALK PROPOSALS: - Author?s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at the top of the proposal. - Proposal text must be 500-1000 words. - Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as ?2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName". - Submission should be done by sending your proposal to sigusesym2014 at gmail.com (Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor?sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by midnight Hawaii Time on September 10, 2014. - Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium. - Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. - If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still required. IMPORTANT DATES: September 10, 2014: *NEW* Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 25, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides REGISTRATION FEES: * SIG-USE Members: $90 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100 * Non-Members: $120 Workshop Planning Committee Members: Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Please forward any questions that you have to Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca) or K.-Sun Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu). Lu Xiao & K.-Sun Kim 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs Lu Xiao Assistant Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Canada http://hii.fims.uwo.ca Recent JASIST publications: The Effects of Rationale Awareness in Iterative Human Computation Processes What Influences Online Deliberation? A Wikipedia Study From andymcstay at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 21:17:15 2014 From: andymcstay at gmail.com (andymcstay) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2014 04:17:15 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?9/1/2014_4=3A17=3A15_AM?= Message-ID: http://www.rostrenen-histoire.com/vjkizf/zwdkgztvqvtabaivebyutszjpyzop.toupqrzrzrdtbwwyd From bethanvjones at hotmail.com Fri Aug 1 04:33:05 2014 From: bethanvjones at hotmail.com (bethanvjones) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:33:05 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Fan Studies Network Conference Registration Message-ID: Dear all,? We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above.? The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conference-draft-schedule-2014.pdf Any questions, please email us at?fsnconference at gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team From bertha.chin at gmail.com Fri Aug 1 06:52:59 2014 From: bertha.chin at gmail.com (Bertha Chin) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 14:52:59 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] REGISTRATION OPEN: Fan Studies Network Conference 2014, London Message-ID: Dear all, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Fan Studies Network Conference 2014 is now open. The event will take place on 27-28 September at Regent's University, London. You can register on the conference webpage here: http://www.regents.ac.uk/events/the-fan-studies-network-conference.aspx There are very limited spaces for the event, so we urge you to register as soon as possible. Full information about prices and location can be found via the link above. The current draft schedule is available to view online here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fan-studies-network-conference-draft-schedule-2014.pdf Any questions, please email us at fsnconference at gmail.com We think this will be a very exciting conference - we hope to see you there! The FSN conference team -- Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar @bertha_c Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/) From jung at uib.no Fri Aug 1 17:16:35 2014 From: jung at uib.no (Daniel Jung) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:16:35 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects Message-ID: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> Hi all, I have a question, or a request for literature. Short version: Is there a general taxonomy, or model, of text/image-relationships for web design? Long version: In his excellent book "Information Design : An Introduction" (John Benjamins 2002), p. 40, Rune Pettersson postulates four relationships between text and media objects, such as images or film. - redundant (similar information conveyed, such as sub-titles for TV) - relevant (supplementing information) - irrelevant (pictures and text and probably sound in TV programmes dealing with different things) - contradictory (disastrous in information design, but possibly beneficial for persuasion) This book describes a general framework and not specific design areas. The preface states explicitly that modern web design is not included. I have been looking for a kind of general taxonomy of relationships between text and images in web design, but haven't found anything really satisfactory. I have found some novel-, or work-specific articles. One of the most interesting articles is Thomas Wartenberg, 'Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics' in Meskin's "The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach" (2011). In a critique of Scott McCloud, he claims four functions of text in comics: thought or speech; narration; pictorial element; sonic event. But this is too specifically targetted on comics. I would like to see a model like Pettersson's, but more fleshed out, newer, and, above all, applied to (or coming from) web design. Does anyone have a pointer for me? Thank you very much! - Daniel From jetlistserv at gmail.com Sat Aug 2 10:44:59 2014 From: jetlistserv at gmail.com (Jim T) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 10:44:59 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Final CFP: Revisiting Critical GIS - short meeting at Friday Habor Message-ID: Hi all, Again, apologies for cross-posting. Also, to reiterate, this meeting is *very much* meant to appeal to a diverse set of scholars working on related topics in interesting ways. Please feel encouraged to apply or pass the CFP along to those who might be interested. Best, Jim Revisiting Critical GIS The rapid development and dissemination of digital geospatial technologies, datasets, and practices raise questions about how various arguments of 'critical GIS' remain as relevant as ever, require rejuvenation, or have run their course. Drawing in part on such developments, but also on enthusiasm for the digital humanities and on new materialist and even speculative realist currents of thought within social and cultural theory, the prospects for a renewed engagement between critical human and quantitative geographies appears more hopeful today than they have for some time (Barnes 2009). This forum provides a venue within which participants can think through these and other issues collaboratively, emerging with fresh ideas and perspectives to bring to research and teaching. To this end, the 2+ day format will blend pre-planned and collaboratively organized sessions. Four sessions have been organized around broad themes that touch upon recent discussions in the cognate literatures. Each participant will be associated with one of these planned sessions and will co-organize its content and format with others. Additionally, there are three periods scheduled for collaboratively formed sessions (collective or break-out) that emerge from the discussions at the conference. The event will be held from later on Friday, October 17th to the morning of Monday, October 20th at the University of Washington?s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island . Day 0 (Friday) Afternoon / evening arrivals, welcome event Dinner Note: Ferry/flight schedules tend to be such that one needs to arrive at this time in order to be present for the critical first sessions in the morning. Day 1 (Saturday) Breakfast Session 1: Getting to know one another: who we are, why we?re here, and what we want to do Session 2: The story so far: critical GIS, GIScience, and 'not only... but also' Lunch Session 3: Hybrids: Critical Quantification and Digital Humanities Session 4: Collaborative session I (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 2 (Sunday) Breakfast Session 5: Corporatization of spatial information and our response Session 6: What tools? What theory? Lunch Session 7: Collaborative session II (Collective or break-out) Session 8: Collaborative session III (Collective or break-out) Dinner Collaboration and creativity Day 3 (Monday) Breakfast Session 9: Concluding Session: Paths Forward Departure Given the nature of this event, the number of participants will be limited to fewer than thirty, with a firm aim towards inclusivity (including, but not limited to academic seniority; students, early career faculty, and #alt-ac are strongly encouraged to participate). Would-be participants should submit a short prospectus (300 word maximum). The prospectus should address what the participant hopes to do at the gathering and muse about what s/he hopes might emerge in the time beyond--a forward-looking aspirational piece, rather than a description of previous works. Prospectuses are due August 1, 2014 and successful applicants will be informed by September 1, 2014. Please submit your prospectus via email to revisitingcritgis at gmail.com. The cost of attendance is estimated to be approximately $345 for faculty and $225 for students, meals and shared accommodations included. Confirmation of costs will be provided at time of acceptance. Limited support may be available to assist graduate student attendance. Please apply and we will try to make a solution work. Organizing Committee Luke Bergmann, University of Washington Jim Thatcher, University of Washington - Tacoma David O?Sullivan, University of California - Berkeley Jeremy Crampton, University of Kentucky Sarah Elwood, University of Washington Reuben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser Matt Wilson, University of Kentucky References Barnes TJ. 2009. Not Only... But Also: Critical and Quantitative Geography. The Professional Geographer 61, 1442-54. From zemmels at loyno.edu Sat Aug 2 12:34:57 2014 From: zemmels at loyno.edu (David Zemmels) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:34:57 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] CALL FOR PANELISTS - Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015 Message-ID: <94575C82-FA52-482F-8F5C-0D431BB42ADC@loyno.edu> CALL FOR PANELISTS ============================================================= Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January 10-13, 2015 http://www.hichumanities.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 15th, 2014 Acceptance notifications: 2-3 weeks later FORMAT OF PRESENTATION Panel sessions will last 90 minutes and it is the presenters? choice how that time is split between panelists. PANEL DESCRIPTION Identity and Play: Playing with Self in Digital Games and Social Media Play with self and personal identity can vary over time, across media, and as a consequence of psychological and social context. Our focus in this panel will be to investigate how digital media designs and services affect the construction and maintenance of self. The panel discussion will examine specific examples of self construction in virtual environments and how existing media designs -- including, prominently, digital game designs -- engage, facilitate, and, potentially, inhibit play with self. We are positioning this panel as a review of existing research. Questions we would like to address include: Is there a ?networked? self? What is consistent and what is incongruous in the presentation of self across social media? Is the construction of self in game-based media designs more or less gratifying than the construction of self in other (non-game-based) media designs? What game design components are most critical to the construction of self? E. g.: Avatar personalization/customization? Use of ?alts?? Anonymity? Guilds and/or other multiplayer components? How important are traditional ?social presence? features to the construction of self? How have digital media design technologies influenced the self construction process? To what extent can the construction of self be algorithmized and automated? Are self construction ?apps? feasible? We would like panel participants to address broad questions such as these with reference to existing media designs and services (though accompanying theoretical speculation will also be desired and valued). CONTACT If interested in participating in this panel session, please contact before Aug. 15: David Zemmels, PhD, MFA zemmels at loyno.edu +1 (504) 865-3632 School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans 6363 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 ============================================================= ____________________________________ David Zemmels, PhD, MFA School of Mass Communication Loyola University New Orleans From mwhite at michelewhite.org Sat Aug 2 18:52:02 2014 From: mwhite at michelewhite.org (Michele White) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:52:02 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1407030722.96217.YahooMailNeo@web164001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Hi Daniel, ? I have been teaching a course in the textual analysis of Internet and related technologies that addresses some of your research questions. We mainly build our analysis from humanities forms of close reading rather than web design or HCI texts. I have also been building arguments based on the reoccurring aspects of Internet sites in my previous and developing research and have an article on the use of textual analysis in Internet settings on my ?to do? list. I have an outline of some Internet analysis methods that I could send to the listerv if there is any interest. Some of the following might be of use to you because they outline key textual and visual features of the web (and other aspects of the Internet and new media): ? Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. ? Menon, Elizabeth K. ?Virtual Realities, Technoaesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture,? In The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age, ed. Damian Sutton, Susan Brind, and Ray McKenzie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007: 151-161. ? Wakeford, Nina. ?Developing Methodological Frameworks for Studying the World Wide Web,? In Web Studies, 2nd. ed., ed. David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley. London: Arnold, 2004: 34-50. ? Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ? I think this key chapter on textual analysis might also be highly useful: Johnson, Barbara. ?Teaching Deconstructively,? Writing and Reading Differently, ed. G.Douglas Atkins and M. L. Johnson (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1986), 140-48. ? Thanks, Michele Professor Michele White Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Author of: Producing Women in Internet Sites: Traditional Femininity, Queer Engagements, and Creative Practices (Routledge, 2015). Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (Duke University Press, 2012) The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (MIT Press, 2006) From anterobot at gmail.com Sun Aug 3 22:03:30 2014 From: anterobot at gmail.com (Antero Garcia) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:03:30 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] 2 Week Reminder - CFP: Alternate Reality Games Message-ID: *Hello everyone, just a quick, final note that chapter proposals for the CFP below are due on 8/15 - please get in touch if you have any questions.* *Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay* Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies, Bloomsbury Editors: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University & Greg Niemeyer, University of California, Berkeley Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as ?real.? Though prominent examples of ARGs have persisted over the past two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between the ?real? and the ?virtual.? We seek chapter proposals for a proposed collection that explores and defines the possibilities of ARGs. With ARGs continuing to be an important and blurred space between digital and physical gameplay, this collection offers clear analysis of game design, implementation, and ramifications for game studies. Divided into three distinct sections (noted below), this collection emphasizes first hand accounts by leading ARG creators, scholarly analysis of the meaning behind ARGs from noted critics and researchers, and explication of emerging visualization and data collection methodologies. We are particularly interested in cultivating research from various disciplinary perspectives; by balancing the voices of designers, players, and researchers, this work highlights how the Alternate Reality Game genre is transforming the ways we play and interact today. We seek chapter proposals that fit within one of the following three book sections: *Section One ? Development and Execution* Chapters in this section of the book detail the design and implementation of ARGs. Authors pay attention to specific fictions, audiences, and goals within these ARGs and offer a clear step-by-step behind the scenes look at how these game designers engineer new modes of play and participation. *Section Two ? Alternating Reality ? how ARGs are changing games and society* These chapters focus on analysis and critique of ARGs. While some chapters may focus on specific games, other chapters in this section invoke larger trends in ARGs. *Section Three ? Data Visualization and Collection* As the ARG genre is dependent on responding to the ways participants interact with one another and with a story?s content, this section of the book looks at how we interpret and construct data. In particular, the genre of digital games is reinventing new data visualization methodologies and this section should illuminate ways games display information during play and as synopsis after a game concludes. This edited volume has received initial interest from the Digital Game Studies series editors and we are currently seeking additional chapters to share with the editors and secure a book contract. *The deadline for proposals of 300-500 words is August 15, 2014. Please email your abstract and a 100 word biography to anterobot at gmail.com (please indicate to which section of the book your proposal is directed). All authors will be notified of acceptance by September 2nd and full chapter manuscripts would be due in April, 2015. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at the above address.* -- Follow my exploits digitally at: www.theamericancrawl.com From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Sun Aug 3 23:04:26 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 06:04:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Online Communities and Networks workshop: registration and programme Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F1F802E81@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Registration is open for the Concepts and Methods workshop: Structural approaches to Online Communities and Networks The workshop is organised by the News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Date: Wednesday 27th August 2014 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Ann Harding Conference Centre, Building 24, University of Canberra The workshop is divided in two parts. In the morning sessions, early-career researchers present their work and confirmed researchers provide feedback and suggest key arguments. The morning's discussions inform the afternoon sessions, which consist in a structured democratic dialogue process seeking to answer the following triggering question: "what are the most promising areas for future research into online communities and networks?". Registration is free, but please note that attendance at the afternoon session is limited to 20 people. For the full programme and registration information please go here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/research/research-centres/news-and-media-research-centre/events/concepts-and-methods-workshop The workshop will be the inaugural event of the Canberra Networks Public and Organisations research group. From jutta.haider at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 02:37:26 2014 From: jutta.haider at gmail.com (Jutta Haider) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:37:26 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound. Message-ID: Dear colleagues! We are happy to announce the publication of the thematic section "Changing orders of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in transition", part of Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 6, 2014. Please find the section here: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html#block3 *Table of Contents: * Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin: Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition. - Research Articles: Katharine Schopflin: What do we think an Encyclopaedia is? Seth Rudy: Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of Encyclopedic Reading. Siv Fr?ydis Berg & Tore Rem: Knowledge for Sale: Norwegian Encyclopaedias in the Marketplace Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina: Reviewing Encyclopaedia Authority . Ulrike Spree: How readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with Wikipedia (2002-2013). Kim Osman: The Free Encyclopaedia that Anyone can Edit: The Shifting Values of Wikipedia Editors. Simon Lindgren: Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research. *Tales from the field:* Georg Kj?ll and Anne Marit Godal: Store Norske Leksikon: Defining a New Role for an Edited Encyclopaedia. Lennart Guldbrandsson: Wikipedia. Molly Huber: Land of 10,000 Facts: Minnesota?s New Digital Encyclopedia. Michael Upshall: What future for Traditional Encyclopedias in the Age of Wikipedia? (Download as pdf: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v6/cul14v6_Changing_Orders_of_Knowledge.pdf ) Kind regards, Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin --- Jutta Haider Assistant professor Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University Sweden E: jutta.haider at kultur.lu.se From R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk Mon Aug 4 03:50:19 2014 From: R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk (Deller, Ruth A) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:50:19 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Researh Associate Opportunity Message-ID: With apologies for cross-posting (PS email Farida, not me, if interested!) **We're looking for an RA for our new ESRC Transformative Research grant!** Deadline: 11 August Interviews: 2 September Start date: 1 December (15 months at 0.8FTE) The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Picturing the Social explores the social impact of the wide range of images now shared across different social media platforms and apps. The research involves an interdisciplinary team from four universities as well as industry. The project is led by Dr Farida Vis, who is based in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. The role will require the post holder to carry out a 12-month digital ethnography of social media users and their image sharing practices. You will be required to produce summary reports of ethnographic notes to share with the project team. You will also offer research assistance in identifying key literature, including material from industry, media commentary, and policy documents, and produce summaries of these. You will work closely with the whole project team and will assist in the organisation of project events as well as contribute to the Visual Social Media Lab. The successful candidate will hold a PhD in a relevant discipline (or equivalent experience) and have proven ability in using methods associated with the project such as digital ethnography. They will have excellent interpersonal skills and the experience in writing for publication and dissemination, and preferably knowledge or interest in visual culture and social media research. Full job advert: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJD895/research-associate/ More info on the project: bit.ly/PtS_pressrelease Project proposal: http://bit.ly/PicturingtheSocial_proposal -- Dr Farida Vis Faculty Research Fellow Information School | University of Sheffield E: f.vis at sheffield.ac.uk T: @flygirltwo New ESRC Transformative Research grant: http://www.visualsocialmedialab.org From anders.fagerjord at media.uio.no Mon Aug 4 04:23:01 2014 From: anders.fagerjord at media.uio.no (Anders Fagerjord) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:23:01 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> References: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> Message-ID: <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> Hi, Daniel These relations keep cropping up in literature under different names. I suggested using the terms ?consonance?, ?dissonance', ?polyphony?, and ?accompaniment' in a 2010 chapter dealing with web documentaries. I have later learned that I was far from the first to give these relations a name, but I don?t think there is any established consensus. Fagerjord, Anders. ?Multimodal Polyphony: Analysis of a Flash Documentary?. Inside Multimodal Composition Ed. Andrew Morrison. New York: Hampton Press, 2010. (Preprint: http://fagerjord.no/downloads/polyphony_preprint.pdf) Best, ?anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr.art. Associate professor Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Norwegian Media Technology Lab, Gj?vik University College P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no 2. aug. 2014 kl. 02:16 skrev Daniel Jung >: Hi all, I have a question, or a request for literature. Short version: Is there a general taxonomy, or model, of text/image-relationships for web design? Long version: In his excellent book "Information Design : An Introduction" (John Benjamins 2002), p. 40, Rune Pettersson postulates four relationships between text and media objects, such as images or film. - redundant (similar information conveyed, such as sub-titles for TV) - relevant (supplementing information) - irrelevant (pictures and text and probably sound in TV programmes dealing with different things) - contradictory (disastrous in information design, but possibly beneficial for persuasion) This book describes a general framework and not specific design areas. The preface states explicitly that modern web design is not included. I have been looking for a kind of general taxonomy of relationships between text and images in web design, but haven't found anything really satisfactory. I have found some novel-, or work-specific articles. One of the most interesting articles is Thomas Wartenberg, 'Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics' in Meskin's "The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach" (2011). In a critique of Scott McCloud, he claims four functions of text in comics: thought or speech; narration; pictorial element; sonic event. But this is too specifically targetted on comics. I would like to see a model like Pettersson's, but more fleshed out, newer, and, above all, applied to (or coming from) web design. Does anyone have a pointer for me? Thank you very much! - Daniel _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 4 06:50:18 2014 From: mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk (Mark Graham) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:50:18 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] =?utf-8?q?AAG_2015_CFP_=E2=80=93_From_Online_Sweat_Shops_?= =?utf-8?q?to_Silicon_Savannahs=3A_Geographies_of_Production_in_Dig?= =?utf-8?q?ital_Economies_of_Low-Income_Countries?= Message-ID: *From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries* AAG Annual Meeting , Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 *Organizers:* Mark Graham , Nicolas Friederici , and Isis Hjorth University of Oxford Throughout the early 21st century, Internet and mobile phone access in developing countries has skyrocketed, and today the majority of people on the planet are connected through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Yet, while basic ICT access is increasingly level across income groups and geographies, production in the global digital economy is still, and maybe increasingly, dominated by incumbent multinational technology corporations or fast-scaling web startups. These businesses tend to roll out their products (with some local adaptation) across the globe, but maintain their coordinating and creative activities in places like Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, or London, exploiting both agglomeration and dispersion economies in digital production (Malecki & Moriset, 2007; Moriset & Malecki, 2009). How does digital production in low-income countries fare in the face of this dominance? Policymakers and the private sector in several low-income countries (especially in Sub-Saharan Africa) have set out to transform their economies through ICTs, explicitly emphasizing local digital production. Two sectors that are often seen as promising are (1) low-skill/cost-competition, such as business process outsourcing and digital microwork, and (2) high-skill/entrepreneurial innovation, such as startups developing and commercializing mobile and online applications. However, what are the concrete and realistic potentials and possibilities for low-income countries to become important hubs for digital production? What are palpable economic outcomes of Kenya?s status as the ?Silicon Savannah? or Lagos as the ?Silicon Lagoon,? and who are the winners and losers of local ICT entrepreneurship and innovation? Do ICTs really deliver economic inclusion and employment to remote geographies and low-income groups, or are we witnessing the rise of online sweatshops that further enhance exploitation of vulnerable populations? This session will explore these themes, encouraging contributions from a variety of perspectives. We invite authors to consider digital production in low-income/developing countries through lenses such as: - Empirical or theoretical perspectives on digital production and its (uneven) geographies - Discourse around digital production and its promises and risks - Distributions of value creation and extraction across actor groups (winners/losers) - Tensions of scaling versus local adaptation in digital production, in application to geography and inclusion/exclusion effects - Uneven production geographies within countries, in particular, differences and divides between rural/peri-urban/urban clusters - Socio-demographic analyses of economic actors engaging in digital production - Case studies of low-skill/cost-competition digital production (e.g., business process outsourcing, microwork, etc.) - Case studies of high-skill/entrepreneurial innovation in digital production (e.g., mobile/online applications startups, technology innovation hubs) - Analyses and recommendations for local and international policy pertaining to digital production *Submission Procedure:* To be considered for the session, please send your abstract of 250 words or fewer, to: mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk, nicolas.friederici at oii.ox.ac.uk, and isis.hjorth at oii.ox.ac.uk The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 1 2014. Notification of acceptance will be before October 7. All accepted papers will then need to register for the AAG conference at aag.org. Accepted papers will be considered for a special issue or edited volume edited by the organizers. Malecki, E. J., & Moriset, B. (2007). The paradox of a ?double-edged? geography: local ecosystems of the digital economy. In The Digital Economy: Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments (pp. 174?198). New York, NY: Routledge. Moriset, B., & Malecki, E. J. (2009). Organization versus Space: The Paradoxical Geographies of the Digital Economy. Geography Compass, 3(1), 256?274. ------------------------------------------ Dr Mark Graham Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Research Fellow Green Templeton College University of Oxford Visiting Research Associate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham | geospace.co.uk | Information Geographies | wikichains.org | @geoplace | zerogeography blog | Connectivity, Inclusion and Inequality Group From charles.ess at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 10:17:26 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:17:26 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Message-ID: Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From pimple at indiana.edu Mon Aug 4 10:23:24 2014 From: pimple at indiana.edu (Pimple, Kenneth) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:23:24 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7BA46AD8A23CD24BAA778D986CF2E7AD42F265C6@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu> Charles - I have only an inadequate and partial response: What does the publishing journal have to say on this? Ken ===== Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D. Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions Editor, Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies (PICT): Ethical Challenges, Opportunities and Safeguards (Springer) http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-94-007-6832-1 Indiana University 618 East Third Street Bloomington IN 47405-3602 (812) 856-4986 FAX 855-3315 pimple at indiana.edu http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/ Blog: http://ethicalpait.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @Ethical_PICT - https://twitter.com/Ethical_PICT -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From sharon at trebcon.com Mon Aug 4 10:50:50 2014 From: sharon at trebcon.com (Sharon Haleva Amir) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 20:50:50 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <006c01cfb00c$a6b59d50$f420d7f0$@trebcon.com> Dear Charles, I'm an e-Politics researcher and have been working with these materials for more than a few years now. As long as you're citing / screen shooting public posts (meaning you don't have to friend these personas to follow their activity. It is a different thing if it is a personal FB account or a Twitter account which requires permission from its holder in order to follow its activity) there is no ethical issue. Regarding copyrights - as long as the screenshots are for teaching and research, to the best of my knowledge, there is no copyrights violation. Only my 2 cents. Sharon Best Wishes, Sharon Haleva Amir, School of Governance and Social Policy, Beit Berl College, HCLT Fellow, (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, ISRAEL.? -------------------------------------------------- http://haifa.academia.edu/SharonHalevaAmir http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1227022 -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: 04 August 2014 20:17 To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From ku26 at drexel.edu Mon Aug 4 10:53:09 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:53:09 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> Hi Charles, Your email prompted me to turn to the US copyright page. My feeling is that using these materials would fall under "fair use." I'm sure you are well area of Section 107, but here is a quote from the Copyright webpage http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html : Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted work The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work Since you are using materials that are available in the public sphere and the journal is most likely for research and educational purposes, I think using them without obtaining copyright is allowed. Kris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 ?| ?Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From peterotimusk at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 11:12:13 2014 From: peterotimusk at gmail.com (Peter Timusk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:12:13 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Charles there is a new decision from the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v Spencer that states that Internet users have an expectation of privacy. While I am not answering directly because I am not a lawyer you may find this interesting to consider. Here is the case and it is not long to read. The court I think decides that the child porn distributor is committing a serious crime so his privacy can be invaded.. There are in the decision statements about an Internet user's privacy expectations that are quite clear and I welcome the courts statements. http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14233/index.do?r=AAAAAQAjSW50ZXJuZXQgYW5kIHByaXZhY3kgYW5kIGluZGl2aWR1YWwAAAAAAQ On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Charles Ess wrote: > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a > screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in > 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity > in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an > approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially > embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting > protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice > and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what > [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in > journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians > in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures > were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there > is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical > dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing > something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish > the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices > included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From ellis.godard at csun.edu Mon Aug 4 11:52:12 2014 From: ellis.godard at csun.edu (Ellis Godard) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:52:12 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> References: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314924F@MB1.drexel.edu> Message-ID: <034201cfb015$37b90d70$a72b2850$@godard@csun.edu> The last 2 of those 4 bullets are particularly germane: You aren't impeding any pecuniary interests such as through either re-appropriation of the work or market confusion about the producer. I'm with Kristene - you're likely fine! -eg -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Unsworth,Kristene Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 10:53 AM To: Charles Ess Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Hi Charles, Your email prompted me to turn to the US copyright page. My feeling is that using these materials would fall under "fair use." I'm sure you are well area of Section 107, but here is a quote from the Copyright webpage http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html : Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted work The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work Since you are using materials that are available in the public sphere and the journal is most likely for research and educational purposes, I think using them without obtaining copyright is allowed. Kris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 ?| ?Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 1:17 PM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear AoIRists, I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in 2014, including their pictures and names. These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an approximation thereof). There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting protection as private. I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians in question. At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices included? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 13:28:27 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 22:28:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry Message-ID: Dear Professors and colleagues, I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. Data needed include: - posts; - comments; - date &time of posts and comments; and - some information about people that post and comment (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* I appreciate your advice/comments, Thank you all, Yours, *Noha A.Nagi* Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University From dburk at uci.edu Mon Aug 4 14:31:46 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:31:46 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Charles: You are asking two (at least two) different questions. The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the politicians. In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as you have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, and in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a personal right to control their images. Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most democratic jurisdictions, but YMMV. The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright does not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless of course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you would need to check. Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions will have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing perjury/spoliation). Best, DLB > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and a > screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for office in > 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public activity > in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at least an > approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as potentially > embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially warranting > protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in practice > and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, based on what > [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and privacy issues in > journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the politicians > in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and pictures > were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, however, there > is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an ethical > dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: am I missing > something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe ground to publish > the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no copyright notices > included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From charlie at balch.org Mon Aug 4 14:47:21 2014 From: charlie at balch.org (Charlie Balch) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:47:21 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? Charles Balch PhD Faculty, Department of Business & Administration Northern Arizona University - Yuma Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 Skype: NAUCharlie Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu ??? -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. Burk Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM To: Charles Ess Cc: Air list Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two Dear Charles: You are asking two (at least two) different questions. The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the politicians. In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as you have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, and in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a personal right to control their images. Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most democratic jurisdictions, but YMMV. The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright does not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless of course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you would need to check. Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions will have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing perjury/spoliation). Best, DLB > Dear AoIRists, > > I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two > screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) > and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for > office in 2014, including their pictures and names. > These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public > activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at > least an approximation thereof). > There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as > potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially > warranting protection as private. > > > I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in > practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, > based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and > privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), > it is permissible to publish these without permission from the > politicians in question. > > At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians > aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and > pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, > however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. > > Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an > ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: > am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe > ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no > copyright notices included? > > Many thanks in advance, > - charles ess > > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From dburk at uci.edu Mon Aug 4 15:00:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:00:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> References: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Message-ID: Maybe. For some purposes, not necessarily for others. It is probably non-profit. Which is not necessarily the same as non-commercial (as my accountant friends like to say, non-profit doesn't mean you can't run a surplus). If it is like most journals, it may be running a deficit and/or requiring support from other sources of revenue. So money is changing hands, but there may not be any left over. There are at least a couple of places where this is relevant in the fair use analysis: first, the purpose for which you are using the work. You are better off there if your purpose is something other than profit, so a showing of production at or below cost is useful. The factor is more likely to favor you if the purpose seems to be scholarship rather than revenue. The second is in factor four, the extent to which you are displacing the rights holder's market. There it doesn't really matter if you are making money or losing money, or giving the work away for free. The question is whether the owner is losing, or potentially losing money. DLB > Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? > > Charles Balch PhD > Faculty, Department of Business & Administration > Northern Arizona University - Yuma > > Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 > Skype: NAUCharlie > Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu > ??? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. > Burk > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM > To: Charles Ess > Cc: Air list > Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two > > Dear Charles: > > You are asking two (at least two) different questions. > > The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the > politicians. > In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as > you > have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, > and > in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust > discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a > personal right to control their images. > > Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so > autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will > tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. > > I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most > democratic > jurisdictions, but YMMV. > > The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright > does > not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless > of > course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from > Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied > permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you > would need to check. > > Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair > use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently > Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions > will > have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in > Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a > patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. > > However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a > politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the > defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation > between > the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of > Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized > here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . > Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing > perjury/spoliation). > > Best, DLB > >> Dear AoIRists, >> >> I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two >> screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) >> and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for >> office in 2014, including their pictures and names. >> These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public >> activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at >> least an approximation thereof). >> There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as >> potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially >> warranting protection as private. >> >> >> I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in >> practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, >> based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and >> privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), >> it is permissible to publish these without permission from the >> politicians in question. >> >> At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians >> aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and >> pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, >> however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. >> >> Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an >> ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: >> am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe >> ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no >> copyright notices included? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> - charles ess >> >> Professor in Media Studies >> Department of Media and Communication >> University of Oslo >> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern >> NO-0317 >> Oslo Norway >> email: charles.ess at media.uio.no >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> > > > -- > School of Law > University of California, Irvine > 4500 Berkeley Place > Irvine, CA 92697-8000 > Voice: (949) 824-9325 > Fax: (949)824-7336 > bits: dburk at uci.edu > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From jung at uib.no Mon Aug 4 15:34:36 2014 From: jung at uib.no (Daniel Jung) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:34:36 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Relationships between text and media objects In-Reply-To: <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> References: <53DC2DE3.2050809@uib.no> <3B922717-96D5-45AF-ADBF-250249308121@media.uio.no> Message-ID: <53E00A7C.1070001@uib.no> Le 04/08/2014 13:23, Anders Fagerjord a ?crit : > Fagerjord, Anders. ?Multimodal Polyphony: Analysis of a Flash > Documentary?. /Inside Multimodal Composition/ Ed. Andrew Morrison. New > York: Hampton Press, 2010. (Preprint: > http://fagerjord.no/downloads/polyphony_preprint.pdf) Wonderful! I will use it in my class. Thanks, - Daniel From malee at csu.edu.au Mon Aug 4 15:58:15 2014 From: malee at csu.edu.au (Lee, Mark) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:58:15 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook Available for Download Message-ID: <70DE45B3-806E-4C1F-9EAC-5BFE34E27456@csu.edu.au> Dear colleagues, In 2011-2013 the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) provided funding for a project aimed at exploring Blended Synchronous Learning, which entails bringing together on-campus and distributed learners to partake in shared, real-time experiences. The project focused on three technologies?videoconferencing, web conferencing and 3D virtual worlds?as well as learning designs involving the use of these technologies to simultaneously engage students and teachers in collaborative activities irrespective of their location. An Australia and New Zealand-wide scoping survey was conducted, and seven case studies were followed and investigated through participatory evaluation. The Blended Synchronous Learning project team is pleased to announce that the OLT has approved the Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook without condition and it is now freely available for download from: - http://blendsync.org/handbook The Handbook includes a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework that offers pedagogical, technological and logistical recommendations for teachers attempting to design and implement blended synchronous learning lessons (see Chapter 14). It also includes a Rich-Media Synchronous Technology Capabilities Framework to support the selection of technologies for different types of learning activities (see Chapter 4), as well as a review of relevant literature, a summary of the Blended Synchronous Learning Scoping Study results, detailed reports of each of the seven case studies, and a cross-case analysis. For those who are interested, the BlendSync Final Report and External Evaluation Report are also from the OLT website at the following URLs: - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_2014.pdf - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_evaluation_2014.pdf A list of academic papers and links to recordings of presentations that have arisen out of the project is posted at http://blendsync.org/publications . The project team would also like to take this opportunity to invite all those with an interest in area to join the Blended Synchronous Learning Collaborator Network to abreast of events and updates in the future. Instructions on how to do this can be found at http://blendsync.org/network . There is not a lot of traffic from the network mailing list (usually less than one message a month), and those who are on the list can unsubscribe at any stage. Best wishes, The BlendSync Team: Matt Bower (Macquarie University) Gregor Kennedy (The University of Melbourne) Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University) Web: http://blendsync.org Email: info at blendsync.org From malee at csu.edu.au Mon Aug 4 16:01:56 2014 From: malee at csu.edu.au (Lee, Mark) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:01:56 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook Available for Download Message-ID: <70693B2F-149D-4CF9-A3FE-01E63EEC3C1A@csu.edu.au> Dear colleagues, In 2011-2013 the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) provided funding for a project aimed at exploring Blended Synchronous Learning, which entails bringing together on-campus and distributed learners to partake in shared, real-time experiences. The project focused on three technologies?videoconferencing, web conferencing and 3D virtual worlds?as well as learning designs involving the use of these technologies to simultaneously engage students and teachers in collaborative activities irrespective of their location. An Australia and New Zealand-wide scoping survey was conducted, and seven case studies were followed and investigated through participatory evaluation. The Blended Synchronous Learning project team is pleased to announce that the OLT has approved the Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook without condition and it is now freely available for download from: - http://blendsync.org/handbook The Handbook includes a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework that offers pedagogical, technological and logistical recommendations for teachers attempting to design and implement blended synchronous learning lessons (see Chapter 14). It also includes a Rich-Media Synchronous Technology Capabilities Framework to support the selection of technologies for different types of learning activities (see Chapter 4), as well as a review of relevant literature, a summary of the Blended Synchronous Learning Scoping Study results, detailed reports of each of the seven case studies, and a cross-case analysis. For those who are interested, the BlendSync Final Report and External Evaluation Report are also from the OLT website at the following URLs: - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_2014.pdf - http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/ID11_1931_Bower_Report_evaluation_2014.pdf A list of academic papers and links to recordings of presentations that have arisen out of the project is posted at http://blendsync.org/publications . The project team would also like to take this opportunity to invite all those with an interest in area to join the Blended Synchronous Learning Collaborator Network to abreast of events and updates in the future. Instructions on how to do this can be found at http://blendsync.org/network . There is not a lot of traffic from the network mailing list (usually less than one message a month), and those who are on the list can unsubscribe at any stage. Best wishes, The BlendSync Team: Matt Bower (Macquarie University) Gregor Kennedy (The University of Melbourne) Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) Mark J. W. Lee (Charles Sturt University) Web: http://blendsync.org Email: info at blendsync.org From stuart.shulman at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 17:46:29 2014 From: stuart.shulman at gmail.com (Stuart Shulman) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 20:46:29 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Noha, DiscoverText captures time signatures. http://www.discovertext.com/ This 4-minute video describes how it works http://www.screencast.com/t/5kiMyIQH ~Stu On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Noha Nagi wrote: > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > Data needed include: > - posts; > - comments; > - date &time of posts and comments; and > - some information about people that post and comment > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > Thank you all, > Yours, > *Noha A.Nagi* > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulmanhttp://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitterhttps://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From charles.ess at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 23:51:19 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:51:19 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] an ethical question or two In-Reply-To: References: <067c01cfb02d$ac2cd570$04868050$@balch.org> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, First of all, a thousand thanks to all who have responded both on-list and off-list: all most helpful as I continue to work through these issues. Because of various logistical considerations, I will need another week or so to garner more of some of the relevant information as suggested by both on-list and off-list responses. Presuming I thereby gain some clarity that can further be appropriately reported on this list, as I anticipate will be the case, I will most happily do so. (In addition, this would seem to make for a good case study to append to the AoIR ethics guidelines 2.0 - with any luck, will be able to write this up one of these days.) Again, a thousand thanks and I hope to have something useful soon as a return favor for all of the excellent responses and helpful suggestions. Best in the meantime, - c. On 05/08/14 00:59, "McLaughlin, Lisa" wrote: >It seems to me that the compelling argument for 'fair use' is that the >individuals being represented in the article are public persons who >clearly have made public statements or created artifacts meant to >circulate publicly. > >As for the question of 'commercial' v. 'non-commercial' use, of course >publishers such as Taylor and Francis and Elvevier are making commercial >uses of the contents of journals. Taylor and Francis Ltd was bought in >2004 by Informa plc, a multi-national conglomerate that specializes in >pub- lishing and conferences in areas that include maritime and >transport, yacht shows, finance, real estate, health insurance, telecoms, >and law. As a former editor for a T&F/Routledge journal, I can attest to >the fact that publishing is a commercial activity for such journals >(journals which fail to produce a profit after a few years are no longer >published). Most definitely, it helps to turn a profit when a publisher >is able to rely on the unpaid labor of editors, reviewers, and authors. > >However, there is a fuzzy area when it comes to authors and >commercialization. If the journal is not open access, I assume that >Charles will have to assign ownership of the article to the journal. But, >Charles has no commercial interest in the article (or so I assume;-) and >will not benefit financially after the publication of the article. >Following the embargo period, however, he has more ownership rights over >the article--for example, Charles can re-publish it in his own edited >collection. > >Regardless, I continue to think that the bottom line is that the twitter >feeds and FB pages were made available by public figures for public >consumption and are being used for educational purposes. > >Regards, > >Lisa > > > >On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Charlie Balch wrote: > >Is publication in an academic journal "non-commercial"? > >Charles Balch PhD >Faculty, Department of Business & Administration >Northern Arizona University - Yuma > >Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906 >Skype: NAUCharlie >Google+: cvb23 at nau.edu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. >Burk >Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 2:32 PM >To: Charles Ess >Cc: Air list >Subject: Re: [Air-L] an ethical question or two > >Dear Charles: > >You are asking two (at least two) different questions. > >The first is about the right of publicity and/or privacy of the >politicians. >In the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, they have very little: as >you >have pointed out, they are public figures, acting in the public sphere, >and >in a democratic society there is a much stronger interest in robust >discussion and examination of their actions than there is in maintaining a >personal right to control their images. > >Stated differently, they chose to place themselves in elected office, so >autonomously chose to place themselves under public scrutiny. That will >tend to negate their personal interest in controlling the images. > >I would hope that this analysis would play out similarly in most >democratic >jurisdictions, but YMMV. > >The second question, regarding copyright, is much trickier. Copyright >does >not lie with the subject of the photo, but with the photographer (unless >of >course it is a selfie). You indicated that the photos were drawn from >Facebook and Twitter, which suggests that there may be some implied >permission for public use, but this is only a supposition and to know you >would need to check. > >Several people have now suggested that the use would be fair. First, fair >use exists only in a handful of jurisdictions (the U.S., and more recently >Israel, and to some extent Korea and Taiwan). Some other jurisdictions >will >have exemptions (such as "fair dealing" which is NOT fair use, although in >Canada it is creeping closer) that might allow the use. The EU is a >patchwork, with exemptions varying from country to country. > >However you should not assume that non-commercial use of a photo of a >politician is necessarily fair, even in jurisdictions that recognize the >defense (witness, for example, the famous and protracted litigation >between >the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey for unauthorized use of a photo of >Barak Obama that formed the basis for Fairey's "Hope" poster -- summarized >here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster . >Admittedly, Fairey did not help his case any by committing >perjury/spoliation). > >Best, DLB > >> Dear AoIRists, >> >> I am editing a piece for a forthcoming journal issue; it includes two >> screenshots of tweets from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) >> and a screenshot of the Facebook page of a politician running for >> office in 2014, including their pictures and names. >> These are public figures very intentionally engaged in a public >> activity in a medium that functions as a de facto public sphere (or at >> least an approximation thereof). >> There is nothing in the screenshots that could be construed as >> potentially embarrassing, much less libelous, much less potentially >> warranting protection as private. >> >> >> I have gained the impression over the past few years that both in >> practice and in emerging guidelines codes, and law (specifically, >> based on what [little] I know of law surrounding freedom of speech and >> privacy issues in journalism in the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), >> it is permissible to publish these without permission from the >> politicians in question. >> >> At most, if these were tweets and FB pages posted by U.S. politicians >> aimed at U.S. voters, we would have to note that the tweets and >> pictures were de facto copyright by their authors; to my knowledge, >> however, there is no parallel requirement on this side of the pond. >> >> Of course, it's usually when I think I know a good response to an >> ethical dilemma that I turn out to be missing something crucial - so: >> am I missing something crucial, or are we indeed on reasonably safe >> ground to publish the screenshots as is, no permissions required, no >> copyright notices included? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> - charles ess >> >> Professor in Media Studies >> Department of Media and Communication >> University of Oslo >> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern >> NO-0317 >> Oslo Norway >> email: charles.ess at media.uio.no >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> > > >-- >School of Law >University of California, Irvine >4500 Berkeley Place >Irvine, CA 92697-8000 >Voice: (949) 824-9325 >Fax: (949)824-7336 >bits: dburk at uci.edu > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at 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/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > >-- >For MJF course waitlist, go to this site: http://units.miamioh.edu/mjf/ > > >Please note that my e-mail address has changed to mclauglm at miamioh.edu. >Messages sent to my former address will no longer be forwarded after May >31, 2014. > > >Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. > >Associate Professor, Department of Media, Journalism & Film and Women's, >Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program >Miami University-Ohio >USA > >Contact: >Department of Media, Journalism & Film >Williams Hall >Miami University >Oxford, OH 45056 >USA >Tele: 513-529-3547 >Fax: 513-529-1835 >Email: mclauglm at miamioh.edu > > > > > From anjabechmann at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 01:30:15 2014 From: anjabechmann at gmail.com (Anja Bechmann) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:15 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> Hi Noha and others, try www.digitalfootprints.dk - we have free access for small scale studies now. Best, Anja Anja Bechmann Associate Professor, PhD Aarhus University, Denmark +45 5133 5138 .....this message is sent from my iPhone .... > Den 04/08/2014 kl. 22.28 skrev Noha Nagi : > > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area and > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > Data needed include: > - posts; > - comments; > - date &time of posts and comments; and > - some information about people that post and comment > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not the > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > Thank you all, > Yours, > *Noha A.Nagi* > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From norman.pena at paulus.net Tue Aug 5 01:56:56 2014 From: norman.pena at paulus.net (Norman Pena) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:56:56 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] SNS quote search Message-ID: Dear AOIRst, "In social media network you cannot really control what people will say, but you can suggest what people will talk about". I have been desperately trying to search for the article with this quote which I have read two or three years ago. Unfortunately then I did not took note of the title of the article which I like to include in a research. Has anyone come across it (or something similar)? I will really be very grateful for the trace route! Thanks Norman Pena UPS (Phd Candidate) Rome, Italy From khansson at dsv.su.se Wed Aug 6 00:11:09 2014 From: khansson at dsv.su.se (Karin Hansson) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:11:09 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] GROUP '14 Workshop on Crowdwork || Nov 9, 2014 || Sanibel Island, FL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Extended deadline: August 31, 2014 CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS GROUP 2014 - ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork Sanibel Island, Florida, USA - November 9, 2014 The Morphing Organization: Rethinking Groupwork Systems in the Era of Crowdwork Workshop website: http://morph.wp.horizon.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 01, 2014 Workshop Date: November 09, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web 2.0 has provided organizations remarkable opportunities to improve productivity, gain competitive advantage, and increase participation by engaging crowds to accomplish tasks at scale. However, establishing and integrating crowd-based systems into organizations is still an open question. The systems and the collaborative processes they enable appear diametrically in dissonance with the norms and culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing in traditional organizations. They require mechanisms for articulation of work, coordination, cooperation, and knowledge co-creation that are fundamentally different from those in current groupwork systems and processes. This workshop will bring together researchers investigating issues related to crowdsourcing, social computing and collaborative technologies, organizational science, and workplace research, work in industry, government and voluntary sectors, to discuss the future of groupwork systems in the era of crowdwork. We invite position papers that seek to address the following questions that are of interest to the workshop: What is the future of groupwork systems in the era of crowdwork? How do emerging trends in crowdwork, such as organizational collaboration with an undefined network of people, affect how we conceptualize groupwork? What are the implications for the design of groupwork systems? How can groupwork research contribute to crowdwork research? What can be learned from the success stories and failures of groupwork systems of more than two decades to inform the design of effective organizational crowdwork systems? Can the research and design principles of traditional groupware, workflow systems, and CSCW applications be extended to support organizational collaborative work with the crowd? How can collaboration ?in the crowd? be motivated and sustained, while promoting openness and mutual knowledge co-creation, safeguarding organizational intellectual capital, and ensuring maximum job satisfaction and career growth for the crowd worker? What are the underlying ideology and principles in the socio-technical architectures of tools for supporting collaboration and knowledge sharing? What are the norms and cultures of collaboration in organizations, and how and when do they work for or against the involvement of crowds? How do we understand the participatory processes at stake in crowdwork, ensure equal representation, and design sustainable hybrid economic systems from an organizational perspective? What functions should the next generation of groupwork systems embody to make them viable as an organizational work tool in the era of crowdwork? Submissions should be sent by email to: group14crowdwork at gmail.com We recommend that position papers: Are between 2-4 pages long and formatted to ACM GROUP guidelines; Include title, your name, affiliation, and email address; Has an abstract (up to 200 words); Provide a short biography with your background and area(s) of expertise (up to 150 words); Specify your main interest in the workshop (up to 50 words); Workshop Organizers Obinna Anya (IBM Research) Laura Carletti (University of Nottingham) Tim Coughlan (University of Nottingham) Karin Hansson (Stockholm University) Sophia B. Liu (US Geological Survey) For any questions, please contact us by email: group14crowdwork at gmail.com From jaysonharsin at yahoo.com Wed Aug 6 03:05:07 2014 From: jaysonharsin at yahoo.com (jayson harsin) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:05:07 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times Message-ID: <1407319507.10437.YahooMailNeo@web171901.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Hello, this CFP may be of possible interest to some of you on the list. best wishes, Jayson Whose voice?: Global Populisms, Media and Political Institutions in Uncertain Times Populars: ?A resurgence of populism in Europe?; the ?economic populism? of Latin America; ?a populist, business-minded Hindu nationalist...at once India's most popular and most divisive politician?; ?populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an ?un-African?, alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists?; ?a populist feminist movement was ignited this spring when Rush Limbaugh's vitriol more than backfired? as well as ?what was known in Latin America as ?popular feminism??; #bringbackourgirls and #notyourrescueproject; Taksim and Tahir; the Pirate Party and the Tea Party; the French National Front, and the Zanzibar Civic Union Front. ?This list is only a partial survey of the numerous social and political movements that have been described as giving voice to the needs and desires of ?the people? over the past decade. What is at stake in the noisy return of ?the people? to contemporary social and political debates? What are the languages and media that these popular movements use to communicate? This two-day colloquium will provide a forum in which scholars are able to share research on the role that media and communication technology are playing in contemporary populist movements. Not very long ago, it was thought that the populist movements of the twentieth century, organized around charismatic leaders and the actions of undifferentiated masses, had been displaced by the rise of networked media and communication platforms that allowed for open access. Yet, the events of the past decade have witnessed the rise of political movements that echo traditional forms of populism while incorporating the non-hierarchical characteristics of networked communication media. The goal of this colloquium is to bring together research that explores the changing relationship between populism and popular democratic movements globally as well as the contemporary significance of ?the popular? more broadly as a category of analysis in critical communication and media studies scholarship. To this end, this meeting hopes to bring together scholars whose work draws upon the traditions of cultural studies and critical theory in order to make sense of the relationship between the people, media and political institutions in the contemporary moment. This colloquium calls upon scholars to present material that engages with the following questions: *What is the role that communication and media play in the formation of these new populist movements as well as in attempts to contain or preempt them? *What is the relationship between these movements and established or emergent forms of political organization and institutionalization? *How do these movements intersect with processes of economic globalization, the politics of gender and sexuality, as well as ethnic, religious, caste, tribal or other social formations and modes of collective identification? We are seeking contributions from scholars based in Communication and Media Studies or any other related field interested in discussing a variety of movements, contexts and communication practices. Please send 300-word proposals to theglobalpopular at gmail.combefore September 1st, 2014. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, there will be an opportunity to circulate beforehand where possible. The conference will be held at Baruch College, City University of New York, New York City, with support from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences on October 24-25, 2014. The conference is organized by Jayson Harsin (Baruch College) and Mark Hayward (York University). From stu at texifter.com Wed Aug 6 06:00:49 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:00:49 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality Message-ID: Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the substantive comments and surface key themes: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public Quoting the FCC: "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to use." Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we downloaded yesterday: + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site + 300,172 items after de-duplication + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that say: "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From wiobyrne at gmail.com Wed Aug 6 06:44:57 2014 From: wiobyrne at gmail.com (Ian O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:44:57 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Stu, Thanks for the quick work on this. I'm spreading it through my social networks as we speak. I pulled the link from your blog post to expedite the process. For others that are interested...the link is here: http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2014/08/06/open-data-on-net-neutrality-help-crowd-source-analysis-of-comments-to-the-fcc/ Please share this far and wide. Great analysis. Thanks again. -Ian _________________________ W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. wiobyrne.com University of New Haven Department of Education *"Feet on the Ground and Eyes to the Sky"* 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, CT 06516 (203) 479-4272 On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Shulman, Stu wrote: > Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: > > http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm > > The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the > substantive comments and surface key themes: > > > http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public > > Quoting the FCC: > > "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to > build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public > will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the > record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the > technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to > use." > > Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to > search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a > CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and > started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for > crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to > join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and > visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly > with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate > comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. > To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note > in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. > > https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial > > You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we > downloaded yesterday: > > + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site > + 300,172 items after de-duplication > + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that > say: > > "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that > Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet > user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its > Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for > truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political > failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and > choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs > will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some > services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and > quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up > favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to > rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy > your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, > family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work > and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are > attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. > We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy > the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled > last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, > legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > http://people.umass.edu/stu > > Founder and CEO, Texifter > http://texifter.com > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman > > Twitter > https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com Wed Aug 6 07:22:44 2014 From: seeta.gangadharan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?U2VldGEgUGXDsWEgR2FuZ2FkaGFyYW4=?=) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:22:44 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Open Data on Net Neutrality In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53E23A34.9060006@gmail.com> Thanks Stu for sharing. Very nice. Made me think back to the media ownership proceedings, too, where we saw a similar surge of comments from the lay public and FCC reactions. (Not to mention Sherry Arnstein's work on "participating in participation.") One of the (diss') interviews I conducted with an FCC staffer back then seems relevant to the net neutrality proceedings: " [T]he whole point for us is to try and say, okay, we have, you know, sixty thousand pieces of paper here, fifty-eight thousand of them basically say, 'We?re against this because we don?t like this consolidation, and we want more diversity. We don?t like people to buy up everything in our market.' But they aren?t usually very deep or analytical or, you know, substantiated by evidence, documentary or otherwise. They?re usually expressions of opinion. And, you know, we take account of those. We say... there are a whole lot of people who don?t like this. And we would basically have people look at them to decide that that?s, in fact, what they were. Then summarize what they were...there were forty-eight thousand sixty whatever comments that essentially made the following two points. And, you know, so it was really a very short summary that you ended up with." Seeta Pe?a Gangadharan On 8/6/14 9:44 AM, Ian O'Byrne wrote: > Hi Stu, > > Thanks for the quick work on this. I'm spreading it through my social > networks as we speak. I pulled the link from your blog post to expedite the > process. For others that are interested...the link is here: > > http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2014/08/06/open-data-on-net-neutrality-help-crowd-source-analysis-of-comments-to-the-fcc/ > > Please share this far and wide. Great analysis. Thanks again. > -Ian > > _________________________ > W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. > wiobyrne.com > > University of New Haven > Department of Education > *"Feet on the Ground and Eyes to the Sky"* > 300 Boston Post Road > West Haven, CT 06516 > (203) 479-4272 > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Shulman, Stu wrote: > >> Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality: >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/files/ecfs/14-28/ecfs-files.htm >> >> The FCC has asked the public to help make "visualizations" to help find the >> substantive comments and surface key themes: >> >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-makes-open-internet-comments-more-accessible-public >> >> Quoting the FCC: >> >> "We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical skills to >> build visualizations and analyze raw XML data. (Members of the public >> will, of course, still have the option of reviewing and searching the >> record via ECFS). However, we?re hoping that those who do have the >> technical know-how will develop and share these tools for the public to >> use." >> >> Texifter has tools to allow anyone not versed in raw XML extraction to >> search and code this data, among other things, then export the results as a >> CSV file, including the relevant metadata. We have loaded the data and >> started a project using DiscoverText, which was built specifically for >> crowd-source public comment review by US federal agencies. We invite you to >> join our collaborative, web-based effort to find substantive comments and >> visualize what the public said about Net Neutrality. You can work directly >> with me and others to crowd source the review of the non-duplicate >> comments, or you can conduct your own parallel project with the same data. >> To get involved, sign up for the free trial DiscoverText account and note >> in the comment box that you want to work with the FCC data. >> >> https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial >> >> You might be interested in these preliminary stats based on what we >> downloaded yesterday: >> >> + 446,667 items posted to the FCC web site >> + 300,172 items after de-duplication >> + The largest group of exact duplicates is 105,320 identical items that >> say: >> >> "Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet, the principle that >> Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data equally. As an Internet >> user, net neutrality is vitally important to me. The FCC should use its >> Title II authority to protect it. Most Americans have only one choice for >> truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. This is a political >> failure, and it is an embarrassment. America deserves competition and >> choice. Without net neutrality, a bad situation gets even worse. These ISPs >> will now be able to manipulate our Internet experience by speeding up some >> services and slowing down others. That kills choice, diversity, and >> quality. It also causes tremendous economic harm. If ISPs can speed up >> favored services and slow others, new businesses will no longer be able to >> rely on a level playing field. When ISPs can slow your site and destroy >> your business at will, how can any startup attract investors? My friends, >> family, and I use the Internet for conversation and fun, but also for work >> and business. When you let ISPs mess with our Internet experience, you are >> attacking our social lives, our entertainment, and our economic well being. >> We won'tstand for it. ISPs are opposing Title II so that they can destroy >> the FCC's net neutrality rules in court. This is the same trick they pulled >> last time. Please, let's not be fooled again. Title II is the strong, >> legally sound way to enforce net neutrality. Use it." >> >> -- >> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman >> http://people.umass.edu/stu >> >> Founder and CEO, Texifter >> http://texifter.com >> >> LinkedIn >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman >> >> Twitter >> https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From wfg568 at hum.ku.dk Wed Aug 6 07:54:07 2014 From: wfg568 at hum.ku.dk (Taina Bucher) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:54:07 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on theory of science for communication and computing.. Message-ID: <3960D53783ABB9459C92FD64192BDC4F2EDD9ABF@exmbx1.hum2005.hum.ku.dk> Dear AoIRists, I'm looking for some readings for an undergraduate class on the theory of science in communication and IT. I am particularly looking for readings that concern the disciplinary overlaps, differences and boundaries between media and communications and computer science. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions for articles or chapters dealing with the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges between these fields from a philosophy of science perspective? Some context on the course and study programme: The syllabus already contains some basic philosophy of science (logical positivism, critical rationalism, critical realism etc), communication theory as a field, traditions of computing, and some STS. The course is part of the BA in Communication and IT, an interdisciplinary programme between the Humanities (media and communications) and Computer science (HCI, CSCW). The readings I'm looking for would be for the very last class, which aims to offer some kind of synthesis and alternative perspectives on the theory of science in communication and IT. Many thanks! -- Taina Bucher Assistant Professor Centre for Communication and Computing Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S From m-wysocki at juno.com Wed Aug 6 12:53:36 2014 From: m-wysocki at juno.com (Matthew Wy.) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:53:36 GMT Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapter, Book on Video Game Sex and Sexuality Message-ID: <20140806.155336.21447.0@webmail09.vgs.untd.com> Call for Completed Chapter, Book Project on Video Games ?Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games? We are looking for a single completed chapter for our edited collection. We have a signed contract with a publisher and a delivery date of January of 2015 but have lost one of our submissions due to unforeseen circumstances. So we need to replace it with a completed or mostly completed submission. The focus of the collection, as can be seen in the title, is Sex and Sexuality in Video Games. Our three sections: The (R)Evolution of Video Games and Sex - Chapters on the history of sex and sexuality in video games, including censorship, translation, and production Video Games and Sexual (Dis)Embodiment - Analyses of the body, player interaction, and sexual identity and performance in gameplay Systems/Spaces of Sexual (Im)Possibilities - Analyses and close-readings of game spaces and mechanics, with attention to sexuality and sex as mechanics, representative features, or spatial dimensions of play" If you have something you feel would fit in with one of these themes, please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki at flagler.edu) or Evan W. Lauteria (ewlauteria at ucdavis.edu). We are looking for submission around 5600 words. From charles.ess at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 03:49:04 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. Message-ID: Dear all, I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand historical / cultural / political caveats). As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of expression (among others). The course includes: A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in its own right; B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others as the primary / usual suspects; E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example from the Arabic-speaking world). WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or optional? For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good material is "out there" to be considered 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So specific resources here would be helpful - As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - again, useful resources would be appreciated - But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be very pertinent and lively for the students. With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any suggestions you may have to offer - - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess at media.uio.no From fiskn at rpi.edu Thu Aug 7 15:57:50 2014 From: fiskn at rpi.edu (Nathan Fisk) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:57:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Charles, For an easier/shorter/supplemental read, I would suggest chapter 8 out of Kimmel?s ?Guyland? (Kimmel, M. S. (2008). Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men. New York: Harper.). He does a good job of setting up pornography consumption as a performance of masculinity for (white, college educated) 18-24 year olds. Softcore/lad magazines (Maxim, Sports Illustrated) become a form of reassurance, violent pornography becomes a form of compensation/revenge fantasy in the wake of civil rights movements. More generally, he notes the ways in which different demographic groups consume pornography for different, and culturally situated reasons. Has sparked a number of uncomfortable and interesting discussion in my undergraduate courses. -Nate Fisk On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l at listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. request for suggestions - Internet regulation vis-a-vis > pornography / privacy etc. (Charles Ess) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:49:04 +0200 > From: Charles Ess > To: Air list > Subject: [Air-L] request for suggestions - Internet regulation > vis-a-vis pornography / privacy etc. > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Dear all, > > I teach a MA course titled "Pornography, Protection, Power" which is > centrally focused on questions of who / what _should_/_could_ (both huge > questions, of course) attempt to regulate Internet-facilitated > communication vis-a-vis _possible_ limits to free expression, e.g., > pornography, libel, "clear and present danger" tests in the U.S. > (especially since 9/11), and so on (and, rest assured, with a thousand > historical / cultural / political caveats). > > As I've come to structure the course, I focus on the theme of emancipation > as a core norm - one that underlies primary justifications of democratic > polity and correlative norms of equality, privacy, and freedom of > expression (among others). The course includes: > > A) a good dose of readings on pornography - as a "classical" limit on > freedom of expression - including diverse cultural and historical > observations, with a particular focus on the now long debate over porn as > legitimately protected either free expression and/or as emancipatory in > its own right; > > B) a good dose of readings on democratic polity, with specific attention > to the central importance of freedom of expression for both individual > self-development and democratic debate and processes more broadly; > a particular focus here is on the rights of children in all of this, as > brilliantly exposited by my colleague Elisabeth Staksrud in her _Children > in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights_ (2013); > > C) a very strong dose of readings (primarily from Mansell and Raboy, The > Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy) on the history of > efforts (initially in "Western" countries) to regulate communication > media, beginning with print - and highlighting the contrasts between such > efforts as new media technologies emerge, beginning with the telegraph and > telephone / broadcast media / and then the rise of the Internet as > challenging / blurring earlier definitions and regimes; > > D) a large theme here is the broad shift, starting ca. 1970s away from > national-state centered support and control of broadcast media (especially > in the European and Scandinavian contexts with their strong traditions of > public service broadcasting) towards neo-liberal de/re-regulation of media > - leading to an ever increasing ownership and control of media by private > companies and multinational corporations, with Google, Apple, Facebook, > and others as the primary / usual suspects; > > E) some readings on copyright, copying, and creativity (where efforts to > define and protect patents and copyright inspire [largely futile] efforts > to regulate / control file-sharing, etc.); and > > F) a small unit on "liberation technology," as reflected in contemporary > work on circumventing state censorship of the Internet in any number of > countries (using Walid Al-Saqaf's _alkasir_ software as a primary example > from the Arabic-speaking world). > > WHAT I'M ASKING HELP WITH ... > 1) any additional readings that you might suggest, as either primary or > optional? > For example, in the direction of policy readings, I've been working > through Sandra Braman's _Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power_ > (MIT: 2012), which is just terrific, especially for articulating the U.S. > side of things, and will add some selections to supplant the current > readings as more E.U./Scandinavian-oriented. But I'm sure more good > material is "out there" to be considered > > 2) suggestions for case-studies, especially suited for in-class debate? > For example, I am thinking of beginning with Facebook - both the recent > study on 600,000+ users, coupled with the upcoming class-action lawsuit > spearheaded by the Austrian law student Max Schrems. The idea is to call > attention to a current, real-world conflict between (perceived) users' > rights (as articulated and, ideally, defended by liberal-democratic > regimes) and corporately-owned Internet-based communication venues. So > specific resources here would be helpful - > As would suggestions for other case-studies that would be suited > especially for in-class analysis, discussion, and debate. > Edward Snowden's case is an obvious candidate, along with Wiki-leaks - > again, useful resources would be appreciated - > But I'm sure there are other, more country-specific cases that would be > very pertinent and lively for the students. > > With a thousand thanks in advance for reading this far and for any > suggestions you may have to offer - > > - charles ess > Professor in Media Studies > Department of Media and Communication > Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations > > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations > > > My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: > http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 > > University of Oslo > P.O. Box 1093 Blindern > NO-0317 > Oslo Norway > email: charles.ess at media.uio.no > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 8 > ************************************* > From braman at uwm.edu Fri Aug 8 01:51:51 2014 From: braman at uwm.edu (Sandra Braman) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:51:51 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] re porn, rights, emancipation course In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1407487912637.50243@uwm.edu> Charles, Patrick Burkart's book PIRATE POLITICS (MIT Press 2014), on the Pirate Party, might provide a good course reading for its unique look at how what started as copyright battles turned into an actual political party active at the European Union level precisely because those involved took a liberatory stance towards their rights. Sounds like a great class; thanks for sharing so much detail about it. One could actually address much, if not all, of communication law through the lens of pornography. You could find cases involving not only what you've listed so far, but also defamation, antitrust, and so on. The dimension of pornography that makes it particularly valuable as a focus for a course encouraging people to think about their communication rights from a liberation perspective is that, in US law at least, "community standards" are relied upon to determine when something should be considered unacceptably obscene rather than acceptably pornographic for adults. It is thus the one opening in the law for discussion of how to determine just what a speech community should be deemed to be and for the rights of what we might think of as speech communities. It would be great to see someone fully develop that side of pornography law through the kind of lenses you are using in this course. The other issue worth looking at re porn would be not just the jurisdictional problem when it comes to what happens online (which country's laws should govern), but the fact that so much of the law is becoming globalized itself. When laws are harmonized, which can happen through many different kinds of processes, they become like each other across state lines irrespective of differences in national legal systems or political forms. To what extent has pornography law become globalized? Don't know if anyone has addressed that question yet, but one would expect this area of communication law to be among those most resistant to globalization because cultural differences here are so profound. Sandra Braman From jo.zylinska at gmail.com Fri Aug 8 01:58:04 2014 From: jo.zylinska at gmail.com (Joanna Zylinska) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:58:04 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Drone selfies, a Google challenge and the horrors of visuality: Photomediations Machine Message-ID: <53E4911C.5050605@gmail.com> We have the pleasure to announce eight new contributions to the curated online space Photomediations Machine: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net - IOCOSE investigate what a drone would do if war and terror were over: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/drone-selfies/ - Jack Carvosso?s images of spontaneous feats of balance cast a new light on the everyday: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/sorry-i-was-miles-away/ - Google takes on the challenge to respond to artist Guido Segni?s 'Pics or it didn't happen' request: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/08/06/pics-or-it-didnt-happen/ - The visual corruption of the idea of Terra Australis by Perth-based artist Mike Gray: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/07/31/corrupt/ - An investigation of how science and art have attempted to capture human thought in images: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/digital-thought-imaging/ - Pasi V?liaho?s video essay explores a secret behind a photograph from a concentration camp: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/stills-from-a-film-that-was-never-made/ - An artist 'grows' images in a petri dish, using liquid colours and materials: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-petri-dish-project/ - Rob Coley argues that current mechanisms of omnipresent control demand a new study of visuality: http://photomediationsmachine.net/2014/06/30/the-horrors-of-visuality/ ************************************************ PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of mediations past and a site of production of media as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, non-profit and fully open access. Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa Cartwright, Alberto L?pez Cuenca, Asbj?rn Gr?nstad, Richard Grusin, Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine (http://www.culturemachine.net), established in 1999. Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net Follow us on Twitter: @Photomediations Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photomediations.machine Submissions invited: http://photomediationsmachine.net/submissions/ -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net Curator of Photomediations Machine http://www.photomediationsmachine.net From loriken at illinois.edu Sun Aug 10 11:58:49 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:58:49 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Book Award Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year?s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: ?In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic?s book. The book?s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of ?big data? in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.? As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! Lori Kendall AoIR President From sjones at uic.edu Sun Aug 10 13:32:19 2014 From: sjones at uic.edu (Steve Jones) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:32:19 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Book Award In-Reply-To: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> References: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7533B2@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Message-ID: <7FFD191B-7B77-4653-B5B7-7C518E7168AB@uic.edu> Congratulations to Nancy and to Mark on this well deserved recognition! Steve On Aug 10, 2014, at 1:58 PM, "Kendall, Lori" wrote: > I am delighted to announce two things concerning the AoIR book award. First, in light of her generous and various contributions to the Association of Internet Researchers, we are naming our book award for Nancy Baym. > > Second, I would like to announce that the 2014 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award will go to Dr. Mark Andrejevic for "Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing What We Think and Know" (Routledge). The following is from this year?s book award committee, Andrew Herman (chair), Jean Burgess, and Susanna Paasonen: > > ?In a year when the committee was blessed with a cornucopia of many fine books that were well worth reading, the members were unanimous and unambiguously enthusiastic in their decision to give the award to Dr. Andrejevic?s book. The book?s virtues are many, but the committee was particularly impressed by the nuanced theoretical sophistication, analytical originality, rhetorical clarity, and political commitment that Dr. Andrejevic brought to bear on the extremely important and timely issue of ?big data? in a variety of forms and practices. There are, no doubt, many books being written at this moment on the topic of big data, but we feel that Infloglut will help set the theoretical agenda for critical internet scholars working in this area for some time to come.? > > As part of the award, we look forward to a featured presentation by Dr. Andrejevic at IR15 in Daegu in October. Meanwhile, please join me in congratulating him on his award! > > Lori Kendall > AoIR President > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From a.bruns at qut.edu.au Sun Aug 10 16:58:15 2014 From: a.bruns at qut.edu.au (Axel Bruns) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:58:15 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue In-Reply-To: <7349073c-e772-474d-b66c-155e02f69996@qutexhub02.qut.edu.au> References: <7349073c-e772-474d-b66c-155e02f69996@qutexhub02.qut.edu.au> Message-ID: G'day ! This may be of interest to some of you: > -----Original Message----- > From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor at media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Monday, 11 August 2014 9:44 > To: Axel Bruns > Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 Aug. 2014 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'counterculture' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'counterculture' Edited by Rob Garbutt, Jacqueline Dutton, and Johanna Kijas The seeds of the global counterculture sprouted in the 1960s, flourished into the 1970s and for some the counterculture continues to frame their daily lives. Its challenge to the functionalist culture characterised by formal education, career, marriage and mortgage yielded a range of experiments, some failures and short-lived and others long-lasting and now almost mainstream. Whatever the outcome, the intent was not one possible future for one's life but a future of possibilities, along with a commitment to social and environmental sustainability. The counterculture was, therefore, intensely biopolitical in the sense that it was and is a politics of life, one's own life and life on planet earth more generally. The counterculture was also contested from the beginning. The "counter" has been absorbed into consumer culture and commodified with ease. The love of transgression often saw the politics of power-relations overlooked. And despite being "counter", a relationship with the "mainstream" has always been necessary. In the 1970s and 80s, the counterculture was alive in academic discussions, but recently it has been relatively dormant. This issue is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion of the counterculture in Australia and beyond. Areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: * indigenous peoples and the counterculture * urban and rural countercultures * countercultural festivals * back to the land movements * utopian experiments * media and the counterculture * alternative: food, medicine, energy, architecture, childbirth, spirituality, sexuality, lifestyles ? * the mainstream and the counterculture * contemporary manifestations of the counterculture * intentional communities * the counterculture and consumption * competition, cooperation and the counterculture * global and peripheral countercultures * the "counter" in counterculture * the counterculture and environmental movements * hippies Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to counterculture at journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 10 Oct. 2014 Issue release date: 10 Dec. 2014 M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal is online at . All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor at media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ From aoir.z3z at danah.org Sun Aug 10 17:12:06 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:12:06 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] are you teaching "It's Complicated"? Message-ID: Many of you have mentioned in passing that you're teaching my new book in your fall classes (*thank you*!!!). If you are, I was wondering if you'd be willing to send me a copy of your syllabus? One other question: If you are teaching my book, are you encouraging students to buy it or are you sending them to the free version? (I'm fine either way but, as you can imagine, folks are asking me how giving away my book is impacting classroom adoption and I have _zero_ clue.) danah From luishestres at gmail.com Mon Aug 11 10:36:01 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:36:01 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? Message-ID: Hi all, Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. Thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? From ragnedda at gmail.com Mon Aug 11 10:55:55 2014 From: ragnedda at gmail.com (Massimo Ragnedda) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:55:55 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] MECCSA: Theorizing Digital Divide. Extended deadline Message-ID: Glenn W. Muschert and I are proposing a panel on ?Theorizing Digital Divides? for the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA) conference that will be hold at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), in January 2015. We have now extended the deadline for proposal submission to the 1st September 2014. We plan to propose one or more panel session(s) at MECCSA on the topic of ?Theorizing Digital Divides,? which we intend to use as point(s) of departure for an edited volume on the same topic. The intention is to create panels as an opportunity for colleagues to present their papers, and of course to have the opportunity to meet in person. We intend the panel(s) not merely as sets of talks with limited interaction among panelists, but rather as interactive opportunities for us to examine our common theme. The aim is to promote lively dialogue among experts, and to offer a venue for fruitful and satisfying discussion of how we theorize digital divides. Each session is 90 minutes, and in order to increase the interaction with the audience, we will make every attempt to limit the number of participants for each session. The final number of sessions will depend on the number of participant, and we will try to avoid parallel session in order to increase the interactivity and the discussion. As we mention, we also plan an edited volume on the topic of Theorizing Digital Divides, and we anticipate the conference sessions on this theme as a point of departure for that project. The deadline for us to propose a panel at the conference is the 15 September 2014. Therefore, if you would like to participate in the MECCSA this conference, we request that you please send us the details of the authors/participants and a brief abstract of 150-200 words. We would need to receive proposals to contribute to the MCCSA by the *1**st** September 2014* at the latest (emailed to Massimo Ragnedda ? ragnedda at gmail.com and Glenn Muschert ? muschegw at MiamiOH.edu). One point that might be obvious, however which perhaps bears clarification, is that participation in the MCCSA conference panel does not imply, nor is it contingent upon, final acceptance of a manuscript for the proposed volume on theorizing digital divides. While the MECCSA panels and the planned volume may complement one another, they are nonetheless separate projects. In particular, acceptance for publication in the edited volume will require successful peer and editorial review prior to publication. We mention this simply to be clear, and to avoid any potential confusion. In organizing a number of session at the same conference, it is ultimately our intention to provide venues for those interested in digital divide studies. In all, we hope to have a number of sessions which will be of interest to you and other scholars, and we will be happy to bring together numerous innovative and dynamic scholars. For now, please feel welcome to be in contact if you have any questions or concerns. -- Massimo Ragnedda Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda Twitter: @massimoragnedda From soates at umd.edu Mon Aug 11 11:02:23 2014 From: soates at umd.edu (Sarah Ann Oates) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:02:23 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47FB8A10-96B5-4963-9B03-DAB6AB54DE97@umd.edu> I?ve used Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, edited by Mary Joyce and available for free in full download here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/digiact10all.pdf Many good chapters ? less on the theory and bit more on practice in places, but students relate well ? I particularly like the way the chapter by Dave Karpf talks about strategy versus tactics in online political advocacy. Sarah Oates On Aug 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Luis E. Hestres > wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. Thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. More about me at luishestres.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com From ajk407 at nyu.edu Mon Aug 11 11:10:35 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:10:35 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Seminal Works Message-ID: Looking for suggestions on seminal works in any of the following areas. I'm sure there are tons of readings, and I'm happy to receive suggestions on good articles, but I'm specifically looking for those handful of works that would be considered core to the concepts: - pre-internet comparisons of efficacy between traditional (face-to-face) and courses offered in others modes (correspondence, television, etc...) - the digital divide - "no significant difference" - characteristics of online students (especially if comparing to face-to-face students) thx aj -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton From jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu Mon Aug 11 11:17:16 2014 From: jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu (Jeanine Finn) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:17:16 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I like The Myth of Digital Democracy. It has some good history and background of the ?mechanics? of the web too: Hindman, Matthew. The myth of digital democracy. Princeton University Press, 2008. And this is a pretty interesting case study on the role of Twitter in the Egyptian revolution (and ties into some framing theory): Meraz, Sharon, and Zizi Papacharissi. "Networked gatekeeping and networked framing on# Egypt." The international journal of press/politics (2013): 1940161212474472. -jeanine <----------------------------------------------------> Jeanine Finn Doctoral Student School of Information University of Texas at Austin jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jefinn/ On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Luis E. Hestres wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend some good readings for college seniors on online political advocacy? Ideally they would tie some of the most well-known communication or collective action theories like framing, agenda setting, resource mobilization, etc. to case studies of how activists have used social media and other online tools. > > Thanks, > > Luis > > > - - - - - > Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. > More about me at luishestres.com > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From n.john at huji.ac.il Wed Aug 13 02:37:24 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:37:24 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Private BitTorrent trackers - history, analysis, knowledge? Message-ID: I was wondering whether anyone on the list has written (or has read) anything about the history of BitTorrent as a technological artefact? I?m especially interested in private trackers. Which was the first one to be set up, I wonder? Thanking you in advance, Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john From christian.katzenbach at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 02:44:34 2014 From: christian.katzenbach at gmail.com (Christian Katzenbach) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:44:34 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] EXTENDED 2nd Call for Participation: Berlin Erly Stage Reearchers Colloquium 2014 Message-ID: <01A8940C-627B-46BF-AD08-C8B9B61AD9EB@gmail.com> == apologies for cross-posting == EXTENDED Hereby the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society announces the annual colloquium held in Berlin, 9 October 2014. We wish to gather early stage researchers (Ph.D. candidates and post-docs) from all disciplines in order to drive forward the discussion on topics in the field of Internet research. The colloquium provides a stage for new perspectives on current issues of Internet and society. =================== BERLIN EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS COLLOQUIUM 2014 =================== Early stage researchers (Ph.D. candidates and post-docs) from all disciplines are invited to push ahead with the discussion revolving around Internet research. Conference: 09 October 2014 in Berlin EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 17 August 2014: Online submission via: http://colloquium.hiig.de/index.php/esrc/esrc2014/schedConf/cfp *********************************************************************************************************************** TOPICS 2014 This year?s colloquium will consist of two thematically focused tracks. We cordially invite you to submit your research projects on one of the following two topics: 1. PAY PER PIXEL In the near future, we will be paying for movies according to the size of the screen that it is displayed on, as stated by Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation. Whether that will actually happen remains to be seen, however it is clear that business models are changing rapidly due to the digital switch and correspondingly changing user expectations and behaviours. In the ESRC we will talk about how audiovisual media (e.g. film, animation, games, television etc) can cope with these dynamic circumstances. In specific on how new business models occur that adjust to the changing viewing behavior of users. What implications does this have on copyright legislation and on data protection as well as on the norms and regulations that emerge outside the legal realm? We regard this theme from a multidisciplinary perspective, and welcome contributions from the area of media studies, law, social sciences and economics. During the session, academics and people working in the field will participate in the discussion and provide a practical angle. ? MORE 2. PRIVATE INFORMATION ? OPEN DEBATES Privacy debates in the age of the Internet are prominent focal points of all the challenges arising from increased network connection, new data generation and collection techniques and conflicting cultural values. In the ESRC, we want to explore the governance of privacy works on a global scale. What are the global governance challenges of privacy? How is privacy understood and perceived in different fora and what does that mean for governing privacy? We welcome perspectives from all disciplines and from theoretical and empirical backgrounds to contribute to our debate on governance and privacy. During the session there will be very brief five-minute inputs by the authors of the papers and ample of room for discussion and the generation of new ideas. ? MORE ******************************************************************************************************************* PARTICIPANT GUIDELINES You can apply for two types of participation at the colloquium: 1. Paper presentation Please feel invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work. We kindly ask you to follow these submission guidelines: # An abstract outlining the relevance of the topic, the research method and questions. Max. 300 words/1800 characters with spaces (possibly printed in the programme) # A short paper providing more detailed information about your research. 2 to max. 8 pages; File type: PDF # Short CV. Max. 2 pages; File type: PDF 2. Participation only Please state, why you would like to join the discussion and briefly describe your research or working background: # A short statement outlining your personal motivation, your connection to the topic and your working background. Max. 300 words/1800 characters with spaces (possibly printed in the programme) # Optional: Articles or papers that may underline your motivation or tell us more about your background. More documents possible. Possible file types: PDF, PNG or JPG # Optional: Short CV. Max. 2 pages; File type: PDF The submission process closes on 1 August 2014. Please note that you need to register in order to submit a proposal. ******************************************************************************************************************* SIDE EVENT Alongside the Colloquium a thematically focused meeting on Internet Governance will take place on 09 and 10 October 2014, approaching governance in the dimensions of actors, technology and content and including a panel discussion on "Multi stakeholder approach: Legitimate self-regulation or simply lobbyism". We warmly invite you to join us and our guests during these two days to gain insight into this key issue within the I&S research community. ******************************************************************************************************************* More information on the event can be found online on www.colloquium.hiig.de. For questions please contact Larissa Wunderlich (colloquium at hiig.de). ================================ COLLOQUIUM.HIIG.DE =============================== -- Christian Katzenbach | Project Lead Policy & Governance katzenbach at hiig.de Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Berlin, Germany http://www.hiig.de/en/research/internet-policy-governance/ PGP Key: http://data.katzenbach.info/publickey-hiig.asc From ajk407 at nyu.edu Wed Aug 13 06:34:43 2014 From: ajk407 at nyu.edu (AJ Kelton) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:34:43 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] recommendation for readings Message-ID: Hello fellow listers. I'm resending this message from a couple of days ago because I'm certain that there are folks out there who can make a recommendation on an article or two that s/he might be familiar with. To clarify, I'm looking for readings in any or each of these areas, not all of them combined. Looking for suggestions on seminal works in any of the following areas. I'm sure there are tons of readings, and I'm happy to receive suggestions on good articles, but I'm specifically looking for those handful of works that would be considered core to any of each of these concepts: - pre-internet comparisons of efficacy between traditional (face-to-face) and courses offered in others modes (correspondence, television, etc...) - the digital divide - "no significant difference" - characteristics of online students (especially if comparing to face-to-face students) thx aj From shira.chess at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 09:16:59 2014 From: shira.chess at gmail.com (shira chess) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:16:59 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question Message-ID: Hi everyone, Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Shira Shira Chess Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of Georgia From amarkham at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 10:40:27 2014 From: amarkham at gmail.com (Annette Markham) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:40:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Shira, It's not a clearly delineated issue. But you might take a look at the excellent ICA best practice for use for scholarship in communication. http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/reports/fairuse.pdf I have used this document (successfully) as grounds to support my fair use claims for using screenshots of various websites and videos in published reports. In a blog post, I mention the specific aspects of this document I've found useful. http://www.markham.internetinquiry.org/2012/02/fair-use-of-images-in-scholarly-publishing/ There are many issues, of course, including restrictions and specifications by country, journal or book publisher, university, etc.....I think you might find more info in archives of this mailing list where previous conversations have addressed similar questions. Cheers, annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept of Aesthetics & Communication, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham at gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:16 PM, shira chess wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From luishestres at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 11:31:00 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:31:00 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Shira, Pat Aufderheide from the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University (where I just finished my PhD) has done lots of work on fair use codes and best practices for academics, librarians, artists, journalists, and other comms professionals. They have a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication? you can check out here: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication ~Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? On August 13, 2014 at 11:17:08 AM, shira chess (shira.chess at gmail.com) wrote: Hi everyone, Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Shira Shira Chess Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of Georgia _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From luishestres at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 11:45:14 2014 From: luishestres at gmail.com (Luis E. Hestres) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:45:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Readings on online advocacy? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks to everyone who replied. In addition to the suggestions shared with the whole list, here are some I received off-list: Brouwer, D. & Hess, A. (2007). Making sense of ?God hates fags? and ?Thank God for 9/11?: A thematic analysis of milbloggers? responses to Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.?Western Journal of Communication, 71, 69-90. Croeser, S. (2012).?Contested technologies: The emergence of the digital liberties movement.?First Monday, 17(8).?http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4162 Delany, C. (2014). How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014:?http://www.epolitics.com/winningin2014/ Delany, C. (2011). Online Politics 101:?http://www.epolitics.com/download-online-politics-101/ Delany, C. (2009). Learning from Obama:?http://www.epolitics.com/learning-from-obama/ Hess, A. (2010). Democracy through the lens of the camcorder: Argumentation and vernacular spectacle on YouTube in the 2008 election. Argumentation & Advocacy, 47, 106-122.? Hess, A. (2009). Resistance up in smoke: Analyzing the limitations of deliberation on YouTube. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26, 411-434.? If you have more please share. Thanks! ~Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres,?Ph.D. More about me at?luishestres.com? From aguzma31 at uic.edu Wed Aug 13 15:45:51 2014 From: aguzma31 at uic.edu (Andrea Guzman) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:45:51 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, This is a response to Shira's question: "If a YouTube video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair use for scholarly publications?" I would say that there is not enough information to make a determination. As someone who teaches copyright, and here I am talking about copyright in the U.S., one misconception of copyright that I routinely encounter is that if there is no copyright mark or claim, then there is no copyright. This is false. Copyright attaches once a work is produced and published regardless of whether a copyright symbol/claim accompanies it. Now regarding Fair Use, multiple factors are weighed with one of the chief components being how the copyright material is being used. I assume you are using it as part of analysis and/or commentary, and this can be allowed under Fair Use; however, creative works also tend to have stricter protections on them. (Insert standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do I play one while teaching or on the AoIR listserv.) To add to the resources already provided by others, I also suggest these websites: U.S. Copyright Office: http://copyright.gov EFF's FAQ on Fair Use: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq (This is more for teaching, but it gives a general overview). Also, for anyone who wants an interesting read on copyright gone sideways I suggest the following: "The $8,000 Mistake that All Bloggers Should Beware." Now this example is of a for-profit company, and not germane to your question, but it highlights some of the misconceptions of copyright. http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/ Best of luck! Andrea -- Andrea L. Guzman, M.A. PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago aguzma31 at uic.edu From uo at ryanean.es Wed Aug 13 15:57:50 2014 From: uo at ryanean.es (Ryan S Eanes) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:57:50 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 121, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53EBED6E.5020103@ryanean.es> I must have missed the previous inquiry but I wanted to chime in on this by providing a link to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, as provided by American University's Center for Media and Social Impact: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education The entire library of fair use codes through CMSI is worth browsing through, as well: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices Profs. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi have written a great book called Reclaiming Fair Use (more info at http://www.cmsimpact.org/reclaiming-fair-use-how-put-balance-back-copyright) which explains the embrace of these "codes of best practices" for various groups, among other arguments. I heard Prof. Aufterheide speak on campus here at UO and she made some excellent points regarding fair use--she is of the opinion that we have tip-toed around fair use for too long as academics, and made the point that no academic has ever been successfully prosecuted for using materials for educational purposes. Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I do agree with the principles that she puts forth. -- Ryan S Eanes Media Studies PhD Candidate & Graduate Teaching Fellow University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication 1275 University of Oregon, 210 Allen Hall Eugene, Oregon 97403-1275 rse at uoregon.edu . www.ryanean.es > Andrea Guzman > August 13, 2014 at 3:45 PM > Hello all, > > This is a response to Shira's question: "If a YouTube video does not have > any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that video fall under fair > use for scholarly publications?" > > I would say that there is not enough information to make a determination. > As someone who teaches copyright, and here I am talking about copyright in > the U.S., one misconception of copyright that I routinely encounter is > that if there is no copyright mark or claim, then there is no copyright. > This is false. Copyright attaches once a work is produced and published > regardless of whether a copyright symbol/claim accompanies it. > > Now regarding Fair Use, multiple factors are weighed with one of the chief > components being how the copyright material is being used. I assume you > are using it as part of analysis and/or commentary, and this can be > allowed under Fair Use; however, creative works also tend to have stricter > protections on them. (Insert standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do > I play one while teaching or on the AoIR listserv.) > > To add to the resources already provided by others, I also suggest these > websites: > > U.S. Copyright Office: http://copyright.gov > EFF's FAQ on Fair Use: > http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq (This is more for > teaching, but it gives a general overview). > > Also, for anyone who wants an interesting read on copyright gone sideways > I suggest the following: "The $8,000 Mistake that All Bloggers Should > Beware." Now this example is of a for-profit company, and not germane to > your question, but it highlights some of the misconceptions of copyright. > http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/ > > Best of luck! > > Andrea > From vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu Wed Aug 13 16:34:09 2014 From: vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu (Nancy Van House) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:34:09 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question Message-ID: ?I can't speak for this person's grasp of the law, but this is a really useful graphic for answering questions about images including screen shots from social media. http://visual.ly/can-i-use-picture ? ?The conclusion from this would be yes, if the video was initially intended for public viewing. -- *********************************************************************************** Nancy Van House Professor Emerita, School of Information 102 South Hall #4600 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse --------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 307A South Hall **************************************************** From rtrejo at unam.mx Wed Aug 13 16:57:44 2014 From: rtrejo at unam.mx (Raul Trejo Delarbre) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:57:44 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] are you teaching "It's Complicated"? Message-ID: <616BFEDB-23D2-49B3-84E4-E0E1DAA875FA@unam.mx> Dear Danah: This semester we are going to read your book in our Post Graduate seminary in the National University in Mexico. The students can choose the free or the Amazon version. Here you can see our reading program: http://rtrejo.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/enfoques-sobre-las-tecnologias-de-informacion-y-comunicacion/ Best regards Ra?l Trejo Delarbre Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM Ciudad de la Investigaci?n en Humanidades Circuito Mario de la Cueva Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoac?n, 04510, M?xico D.F. M?xico http//rtrejo.wordpress.com http://mediocracia.wordpress.com http://sociedad.wordpress.com http://lared.wordpress.com trejoraul at gmail.com rtrejo at unam.mx Facebook: rtrejo Twitter: @ciberfan Tel: 55-34-44-45 Fax: 55-24-13-92 From pooley at muhlenberg.edu Wed Aug 13 17:00:41 2014 From: pooley at muhlenberg.edu (Jefferson Pooley) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:00:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College Message-ID: <7C15EA1E-195C-48E0-ADA5-6A736F9806E7@muhlenberg.edu> Media and Communication - Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2015. Our curriculum emphasizes the relationships between communication, democracy, and social justice, and seeks to integrate theory and practice. It provides students with a critical approach to the analysis of media forms, institutions, practices, and effects. We seek a generalist with a strong commitment to teaching in a liberal arts environment. Areas of specialization are open, but expertise in the sociology of media, the political economy and social impact of digital media, and / or global media studies will complement current departmental initiatives. The new colleague must be able to teach major requirements such as Media and Society, Documentary Research and / or Media Theory and Methods, and other elective courses in their area of expertise. The successful candidate must combine teaching excellence with a strong commitment to Muhlenberg's general education curriculum, including diversity and global engagement, along with an intellectually compelling research agenda. Three courses per semester load. More information is available on the department website: www.muhlenberg.edu/mediacom. Ph.D. preferred; exceptional ABDs considered. To apply, candidates should email a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, and contact information for three references as a single PDF file to Dr. Jeff Pooley, Associate Professor and Chair of Media and Communication, at pooley at muhlenberg.edu. Application review begins on October 1, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Muhlenberg College is a highly selective liberal arts college of 2200 students with a strong tradition of excellence in undergraduate teaching. Muhlenberg is located in Allentown, PA, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 90 miles west of Manhattan. Muhlenberg College is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the College's research and teaching missions. From shira.chess at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 17:15:49 2014 From: shira.chess at gmail.com (shira chess) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:15:49 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you all for your thoughtful answers and well-documented advice. I think I have a better idea of where I stand now. Best, Shira On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Luis E. Hestres wrote: > Shira, > > Pat Aufderheide from the Center for Media & Social Impact at American > University (where I just finished my PhD) has done lots of work on fair use > codes and best practices for academics, librarians, artists, journalists, > and other comms professionals. They have a "Code of Best Practices in Fair > Use for Scholarly Research in Communication? you can check out here: > > http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication > > ~Luis > > - - - - - > Luis E. Hestres, Ph.D. > More about me at luishestres.com > > On August 13, 2014 at 11:17:08 AM, shira chess (shira.chess at gmail.com) > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > From alemtor at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 18:41:56 2014 From: alemtor at gmail.com (Alejandro Tortolini) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:41:56 -0300 Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology Message-ID: Dear AoIRlisters: a journalist friend of mine is looking for authors / authorities about hatred towards technology, to send her/him some questions. Can you recommend me somebody? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini Buenos Aires - Argentina From nick.lalone at gmail.com Wed Aug 13 20:01:42 2014 From: nick.lalone at gmail.com (Nick Lalone) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:01:42 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ah, thank you for this. Was looking for it but couldn't remember who made it! Nick LaLone Penn State University Information Science and Technology ist.psu.edu www.nicklalone.com www.beforegamedesign.com On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Nancy Van House < vanhouse at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote: > ?I can't speak for this person's grasp of the law, but this is a really > useful graphic for answering questions about images including screen shots > from social media. > http://visual.ly/can-i-use-picture > ? > ?The conclusion from this would be yes, if the video was initially intended > for public viewing. > > > > -- > > *********************************************************************************** > Nancy Van House > Professor Emerita, School of Information > 102 South Hall #4600 > University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 > http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Office: 307A South Hall > **************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From dburk at uci.edu Wed Aug 13 20:16:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:16:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Image/ Fair Use Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1e059a3590b1a5736e350756ace36a0c.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> Pardon, but when you say "does not have any copyright on them" do you mean that there is no copyright notice on them, or that you know that they are in the public domain (i.e., something published before 1929, a publication of the U.S. federal government, etc.)? If the latter, you needn't worry about fair use. Unfortunately the former (lack of notice) is irrelevant to the presence or absence of current copyright. DLB > Hi everyone, > > Quick question regarding fair use of images in publications: If a YouTube > video does not have any copyright on them, would a screen shot of that > video fall under fair use for scholarly publications? > > Thanks in advance for any advice! > > Best, > Shira > > Shira Chess > Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts > Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication > The University of Georgia > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Wed Aug 13 22:59:30 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:59:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F26EB3674@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Hi Not sure if "hate" is the right word but anyway... Ted Kaczinsky is a pretty good authority on the subject, though he may be hard to reach. Otherwise, John Zerzan. cheers Mathieu -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2014 11:42 AM To: List Aoir Subject: [Air-L] About hatred towards technology Dear AoIRlisters: a journalist friend of mine is looking for authors / authorities about hatred towards technology, to send her/him some questions. Can you recommend me somebody? Thanks in advance, -- Alejandro Tortolini Buenos Aires - Argentina _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From ilonagrzywinska at gmail.com Thu Aug 14 06:00:33 2014 From: ilonagrzywinska at gmail.com (Ilona GRZYWINSKA) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:00:33 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Online reputation and information share Message-ID: Hello everyone, I am conducting a research on active public within convergent media ecosystem and wanted to ask you if you came across any empirical studies on how the care of online reputation affects the type of content that users share in social media including the possibility that some content is not passed at all cause would affect the personal image a person wants to create for themselves. I would appreciate any hints on that. Thank you so much in advance:-) -- Best Regards Ilona Grzywi?ska PhD Candidate University of Warsaw Tel: +48 501 985 516 Twitter: @igrzywinska Skype: ilona.grzywinska Web: www.webkomunikacja.pl http://about.me/ilona.grzywinska From loriken at illinois.edu Thu Aug 14 08:52:00 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:52:00 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15 Best Student Paper Award Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A754BFB@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The IR15 Conference Committee is pleased to announce that this year?s Best Student Paper award goes to Rodrigo Davies from MIT for his paper ?Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding.? Davies' paper takes a thoughtful approach to considering crowdfunding strategies and their implications for civic and political participation. The reviewers appreciated the way the paper advances our ways of understanding crowdfunding rather than merely rehashing old debates. We had many high quality student submissions this year. Congratulations to Davies and all our student authors. We look forward to seeing your paper presentations in Korea in October. Lori Kendall President, AoIR From loriken at illinois.edu Thu Aug 14 15:50:10 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:50:10 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15: Hotel Registrations Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A754EC9@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Hey folks! I had hoped that we would have our hotel registration system up by now but it is taking longer than expected. I do want to reassure you that we have reserved blocks of rooms at each the four hotels previously described (see here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=247, here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=274, and here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=311 for more information about these hotels). In addition, we now have about 20 rooms reserved at The Grand Hotel Daegu as well. The Grand Daegu Hotel is just a few blocks from the conference venue, the Saint Western Hotel Beomeo. We do hope to have news shortly about how to place your hotel reservations, and there will still be plenty of available rooms once we do. Thank you for your patience, Lori Kendall President, AoIR From loriken at illinois.edu Fri Aug 15 08:00:41 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:00:41 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] AoIR Statement of Inclusivity Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A7556B8@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> I am pleased to announce that the AoIR Executive Committee has adopted a new Statement of Inclusivity for the organization. You can find it on our website here: http://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/ We have also updated our Statement of Principles to conform it to the new Inclusivity Statement. I would like to particularly thank Anna Lauren Hoffmann, the AoIR student representative, for spearheading and shepherding this initiative. Also assisting in formulating the statement were Jenny Korn, Anne Pasek, Pip Shea, as well as several members of AoIR who provided feedback on a draft of the Statement. Lori Kendall President, AoIR From humer at udk-berlin.de Fri Aug 15 08:01:27 2014 From: humer at udk-berlin.de (Dr. Stephan Humer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:01:27 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] CfP: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age Message-ID: <53EE20C7.5030003@udk-berlin.de> Call for Papers 2nd Symposium and 15th Workshop of the Terrorism Research Network (Netzwerk Terrorismusforschung e.V.) Main topic: Current dimensions of Terrorism Research: Developments and boundaries of Terrorism and other Crime phenomena in the Digital Age Place and time: Our 2nd Symposium and our 15th Workshop is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and will take place in Wesseling near Cologne, Germany on October 15 ? 17, 2014 We are looking for scientific Workshop presentations on October 16 and 17! The main topic: Terrorism is neither a new nor a static phenomenon. Terrorism and Extremism are in constant, sometimes rapid change, which does not always make definitions and boundaries very easy. Are definitions of the current state and foreseeable development fair and suitable? What role, for example, play organized crime and war crimes? Are there symbioses with other phenomena? Are there special cases of terrorism, beyond the existing definitions and boundaries? And what does all this mean for science, authorities and organizations with security tasks in a more and more digitized world? The Symposium and the Workshop offer the possibility to explore the changes of Terrorism and its links with other crime phenomena in the Digital Age on an usual level. To emphasize and deepen transdisciplinarity this event is organized together with the Federation of German Police Detectives and with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Traditionally a large part of our workshop (October 17) is not limited to the main topic. It should also provide space for other terrorism-related lectures and discussions. In particular, we especially invite PhD candidates to present their projects! Abstracts and Deadline: Please send abstracts for a lecture of about 30 minutes. There will be room for discussions after every single presentation (30 mins). Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and can be send to stephan.humer at netzwerk-terrorismusforschung.org The deadline for abstracts/presentations - in German language is August 31, 2014 - in English language is September 7, 2014 Please remember that we are not able to pay for travel costs, but for the entrance fee and an overnight stay (if applicable). You can of course attend the Symposium and the Workshop without a presentation, but not for free. Please check our website for updates on this issue. -- Dr. Stephan G. Humer Research Director and Founder, Internet Sociology Department; Principal Investigator, Digital Security Research Digital Class, Berlin University of the Arts Phone: +49 (0) 176 6719 3413 Phone: +49 (0) 30 3185 1284 Mail: humer at udk-berlin.de Website: www.humer.de Twitter: @netsociology From zimmerm at uwm.edu Fri Aug 15 08:11:46 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:11:46 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award Announcement Message-ID: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Argil Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her dissertation is an ethnographic case study of the diffusion and appropriation of information & communication technologies, such as mobile phones and computers, among rural Chinese residents and migrant workers. The abstract is provided below. There were also two honorable mentions: "A Multi-method Examination of Race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Motivations for Participation in the YouTube-based ?It Gets Better Project?? by Dr. Laurie Phillips (UNC-Chapel Hill) "YouTube Shakespeares: Encountering Ethical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges in Researching Online Performance? by Dr. Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) As chair of the Dissertation Award committee, I would also like to extend my deep appreciation to the committee members: Kath Albury, Ben Light, Alice Marwick, and Katrin Weller. We received twenty-six submissions to review, and were quite impressed with the high quality and great variety of the dissertations that is indicative of the strength (and the future) of Internet studies. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Oreglia, Phillips and Fazel! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia http://gradworks.umi.com/36/16/3616383.html In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ?informatize? the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ?less,? compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China?s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ?invent? themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization. From zimmerm at uwm.edu Fri Aug 15 08:22:06 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:22:06 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award Announcement (correction) In-Reply-To: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> References: <564AE297-848A-4597-BF45-A3AD120B4C5D@uwm.edu> Message-ID: Drat, autocorrect. Below is a corrected announcement with Dr. Elisa Oreglia?s name properly indicated. Apologies. -MZ ==== I am very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2014 AoIR Dissertation Award: "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia Dr. Oreglia received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her dissertation is an ethnographic case study of the diffusion and appropriation of information & communication technologies, such as mobile phones and computers, among rural Chinese residents and migrant workers. The abstract is provided below. There were also two honorable mentions: "A Multi-method Examination of Race, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Motivations for Participation in the YouTube-based ?It Gets Better Project?? by Dr. Laurie Phillips (UNC-Chapel Hill) "YouTube Shakespeares: Encountering Ethical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges in Researching Online Performance? by Dr. Valerie Fazel (Arizona State University) As chair of the Dissertation Award committee, I would also like to extend my deep appreciation to the committee members: Kath Albury, Ben Light, Alice Marwick, and Katrin Weller. We received twenty-six submissions to review, and were quite impressed with the high quality and great variety of the dissertations that is indicative of the strength (and the future) of Internet studies. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Oreglia, Phillips and Fazel! Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org "From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China? by Dr. Elisa Oreglia http://gradworks.umi.com/36/16/3616383.html In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ?informatize? the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ?less,? compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China?s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportunities offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ?invent? themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization. From ku26 at drexel.edu Fri Aug 15 09:03:04 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:03:04 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] 2nd CfP and scholarship announcement Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA314E562@MB1.drexel.edu> In addition to posting the 2nd CfP for ASIS&T SIG-IFP/SIG-III workshop; I want to announce three scholarship opportunities. We are pleased to offer 2 workshop fee waivers to current students working in the areas of information policy, information ethics, legal issues of information, surveillance studies etc. We will also offer 1 workshop fee waiver to a professional in the field. This individual should be working outside of the university. These awards will be based on reviews of submitted extended abstracts or position papers by the workshop planning committee: due September 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ASIS&T SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: ? How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? ? How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? ? Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? ? When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? ? What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? ? How does policy design build/undermine trust? ? What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens?s to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: https://www.asis.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_Information_Policy.html Fees Early-bird: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $190, Members $200, Non-members $220 Regular: SIG/IFP or SIG/III Members $210, Members $220, Non-members $240 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth at drexel.edu) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell at uw.edu). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci From ilg1953 at gmail.com Sun Aug 17 07:17:38 2014 From: ilg1953 at gmail.com (ilg1953 at gmail.com) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:17:38 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] From: ilg1953@gmail.com Message-ID: <90037DEC-3004-4036-8933-C6A609E32F7B@4makeup.pl> Greetings air http://ligurianautica.tv/catch.php?vpmsk2572wyn ilg1953 at gmail.com From n.john at huji.ac.il Sun Aug 17 08:05:57 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:05:57 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? Message-ID: Hello all, I had some helpful responses to my recent query about early private BitTorrent trackers - thanks to all those who wrote to me. I?ve now got a follow-up question: does anyone here know anything about ratio FTP servers? I feel like I?m getting into some fairly obscure corners and would certainly love it if someone could help shed some light in them. Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john From Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU Sun Aug 17 08:44:30 2014 From: Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU (Lovaas,Steven) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:44:30 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, Nik I'm not sure how much detail you're seeking... The general notion is that setting a download/upload ratio should encourage people to contribute rather than just freeloading. Or, in slightly more positive language, to maintain the flow of fresh content. In practice, it tends to annoy people and drive them to other services ;) Here's a thread from 2001 showing community resistance to the notion: http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?26703-Need-ftp-server-for-ratio-site I've also seen it used as a sort of group initiation threshold for sites specializing in "warez", the notion being that you have to prove that you're in the game before you benefit from the group's work. Steve ======================== Steven Lovaas IT Security Manager Colorado State University Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.edu 970-297-3707 ======================== -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas John Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 9:06 AM To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? Hello all, I had some helpful responses to my recent query about early private BitTorrent trackers - thanks to all those who wrote to me. I've now got a follow-up question: does anyone here know anything about ratio FTP servers? I feel like I'm getting into some fairly obscure corners and would certainly love it if someone could help shed some light in them. Nik ____________ Nicholas John Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-54-7906073 @nicholasajohn https://sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/people/faculty/dr-nicholas-john _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From e.tonkin at bath.edu Sun Aug 17 10:12:23 2014 From: e.tonkin at bath.edu (Em Tonkin) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:12:23 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Ratio FTP servers? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53F0E277.2020004@bath.edu> Hello Nik, As Steven notes, ratios function as a way of ensuring that members contribute as well as leech -- or even just think before they go ahead and download everything in sight. The practicalities of content distribution (bandwidth use, content provision, legalities etc) limit choices to, for example: a) sustaining a closed community of trusted individuals with a high barrier to entry - maybe 'initiation ceremonies' such as those Stephen mentions. b) opening to the public, but changing the bandwidth equation by exploiting someone else's resources (see the 'pubstro' paper below) c) using a distributed protocol (bittorrent etc) 'The pubstro phenomenon: Robin Hoods of the Internet' by Richard Braithwaite explores a group of individuals engaged in exploiting servers in order to create 'pubstros' ('computers that have been cracked into and had an FTP server installed'). One rule enforced within the group stipulated the need to 'do something to remain [a] member and not only leech'. The rules for a certain project included that 'Prospective members must establish a pub or pubstro of at least 1.5 Gigabytes in order to be granted membership', must 'post [at least] 2.5 Gigabytes per month to maintain membership' etc. That said, the code of ethics of this group also included 'Equity: Never post a pub or pubstro that isn't ratio free! Warez should be free for everyone.' Another report on the activities of warez groups, including discussion of access to FTP servers as reward for services rendered, appears in Basamanowicz and Bouchard (2012). Overcoming the Warez Paradox: Online Piracy Groups and Situational Crime Prevention. Policy and Internet, Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 1?25, May 2011. DOI: 10.2202/1944-2866.1125 'Of the court cases examined, 16 individuals had the primary role of supplying content to the group (Table 1). Successful suppliers are rewarded with accounts on lavish FTP sites and peer approval, while failures or lack of contribution can be punished by removal of FTP accounts or banishment from the group. For example, Jeffery Lerman, a supplier for the group Kalisto, a subsidiary of Fairlight, was granted with access to at least eight FTP servers controlled by the group as a reward for his contributions to the group (USA v. Lerman, Case Number 3:05CR50. D. CT, 2007); in contrast, Christopher Eaves, a supplier for the group aPC, was threatened with banishment from the group because of his lack of contribution (USA v. Eaves, Case Number 1:07CR00140, E.D. VA, 2007).' Also see discussion of 'top sites' on p. 16, which talks directly about the use of ratios in distribution of warez. There's also Lang, D. (2004). Musik im Internet: MP3: Empirische Befunde und motivationstheoretische Rechtfertigung, which talks a bit about the use of ratio FTP servers in MP3 music sharing. Although there is, as Steven notes and the pubstro example shows, community resistance to the enforcement of ratios, the same idea still shows up in the weirdest of places. As recently as 2009, Scribd implemented a fairly similar concept: http://mayank.name/2009/06/20/want-to-download-a-file-from-scribd-upload-one/ Cheers, Emma On 2014-08-17 16:44, Lovaas,Steven wrote: > Hello, Nik > > I'm not sure how much detail you're seeking... > > The general notion is that setting a download/upload ratio should > encourage people to contribute rather than just freeloading. Or, in > slightly more positive language, to maintain the flow of fresh > content. In practice, it tends to annoy people and drive them to > other services ;) Here's a thread from 2001 showing community > resistance to the notion: > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?26703-Need-ftp-server-for-ratio-site > > > I've also seen it used as a sort of group initiation threshold for > sites specializing in "warez", the notion being that you have to > prove that you're in the game before you benefit from the group's > work. > > Steve > > ======================== Steven Lovaas IT Security Manager Colorado > State University Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.edu 970-297-3707 > ======================== > From mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au Sun Aug 17 17:40:46 2014 From: mathieu.oneil at canberra.edu.au (Mathieu.O'Neil) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:40:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Public Lecture, National Library of Australia: Working with the Crowd Message-ID: <1303328F7CCDAA4996C62D32CA4F0C1F26EB3EA6@VERONA.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> The News & Media Research Centre (N&MRC), University of Canberra, presents a Public Lecture: WORKING WITH THE CROWD: ENGAGING PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE CROWDS AND COMMUNITIES Ferguson Room, National Library of Australia Tuesday August 26, 5.30PM-7PM The lecture will be delivered by the N&MRC's Visiting International Scholar Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite About the Speaker Caroline Haythornthwaite is the Director and Professor of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Her research areas explore the way interaction, via computer media, supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction, primarily from a social-network-analysis perspective. Lecture Abstract The organization of work is changing. The change began with the first move to online communication and has accelerated with each new innovation in social media and social networking. The latest challenge entails harnessing the crowd - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowd creativity, and more - to address work needs. This focus promises the contributory power of many without the obligation to plan for long-term maintenance of the workforce. The turn to the crowd represents a marked change from earlier attention to communities. What have we gained and lost in focusing on the crowd over the community? What do we know about each form of organizing that can help in matching tasks and goals to crowd and community options? How can we harness the power of crowds as well as the commitment of communities? This presentation outlines two models for design and analysis of contributory practice: a lightweight model that draws on a crowd perspective to address tasks and rewards from discrete contributors, and a heavyweight model that draws on a community perspective to address contributions from connected contributors. The future of crowdsourcing entails multiple models of contributory practice, some of which entail full commitment to the goals of the work, trust in the use of contributions, and payoffs - however near or far - for society, the environment, and the next generation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From je.burgess at qut.edu.au Sun Aug 17 22:37:50 2014 From: je.burgess at qut.edu.au (Jean Burgess) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:37:50 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Final reminder: CFP - Entanglements: Activism and Technology (Fibreculture Journal) Message-ID: Call For Papers- June 2014_Entanglements: Activism and Technology (PDF) http://fibreculturejournal.org/ http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp_entanglements/ ?- Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) Article deadline: November 3 2014 Publication aimed for: February 2015 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea at qub.ac.uk This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in tension, conflict and hostility. By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements ? through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept of an activist politics within technology ? this special issue will elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements, international development, community arts and cultural development. Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist philosophies of technology. Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics, rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building, using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture ? between openness and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness, usability and availability. We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements through the following themes: * Alternative technology versus appropriate technology * Pragmatism and technology choice * The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies * Activist cultures and the proprietary web * Digital privacy and security breaches and errors * Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities * Technology and e-waste * The philosophies of long/short term impact * Authenticity and evidence Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word biographies, emailed to p.shea at qub.ac.uk and t.notley at uws.edu.au References: Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer reviewed international journal, associated with Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/), that explores critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. From charles.ess at gmail.com Sun Aug 17 22:44:09 2014 From: charles.ess at gmail.com (Charles Ess) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:44:09 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? Message-ID: Hi all, Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are not exact or complete.) My comment was something along the lines of: The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess From seda at nyu.edu Sun Aug 17 21:09:01 2014 From: seda at nyu.edu (Seda Gurses) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:09:01 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2842A379-AD0D-4526-BBC8-A390F507D301@nyu.edu> dear charles, i don?t know what happened in your case, but during the gezi protests local activists were following the way fb censors political content. what we could observe without further sophisticated analysis was that if somebody makes a complaint or fb decides on some other basis (e.g., agreements with states) that a content should be removed, then all copies of the content get removed, including "re-shares" from other people?s walls. this used to be absolutely intransparent to the users whose re-postings/shares were deleted (simple disappearance). they do by now have a mechanism for making their complaint and removal process more transparent, but i am not sure if that includes notifying people who re-share information: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/more-transparency-in-reporting/397890383565083 maybe you can check. if not, i hope this is something other people on this list have looked into more systematically and i would love to hear more. s. On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Charles Ess wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered > that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding > events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the > alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local > police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are > not exact or complete.) > > My comment was something along the lines of: > The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm > not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and > over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk > from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker > underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it > claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). > > I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not > someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? > > In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / > quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's > part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my > upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, > including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. > > Many thanks in advance, > > - charles ess > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From luxiaoist at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 06:02:37 2014 From: luxiaoist at gmail.com (Lu Xiao) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:02:37 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium - Context in Information Behavior Research: Call for Participation Message-ID: Sorry for cross-posting. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation (i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks). Proposals for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk. Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in information behavior research" (See below). ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research" Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA The importance of context in human information behavior research has been well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information behavior research. This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to: ? Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research, papers may explore questions such as the following: What does ?context? really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level) affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts? ? Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information behavior in a particular context? ? Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user characteristics)? ? Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information systems/services, etc.) and in what way? Submission guidelines for Lightning talk proposals: - Author?s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at the top of the proposal. - Proposal text must be 500-1000 words. - Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as ?2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName". - Submission should be done by sending your draft to sigusesym2014 at gmail.com (Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor?sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by midnight Hawaii Time on September 1, 2014. - Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium. - Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. - If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still required. IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides REGISTRATION FEES: * SIG-USE Members: $90 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100 * Non-Members: $120 The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Please forward any questions that you have to Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca) or K.-Sun "Sunny" Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu). Lu Xiao & K.-Sun Kim 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs Lu Xiao Assistant Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Canada http://hii.fims.uwo.ca Recent JASIST publications: The Effects of Rationale Awareness in Iterative Human Computation Processes What Influences Online Deliberation? A Wikipedia Study From zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Aug 18 07:08:02 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael T Zimmer) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:08:02 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> Hi Charles - My Occam's razor reaction to this is that your text triggered some kind of automated comment screening algorithm designed to prevent spam or other unapproved content. I suspect it wasn't that your comment was about Ferguson or Anonymous per se, but that it included text deemed spammy or hazardous (perhaps mention of doxing?). A classic false positive. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Charles Ess wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered > that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding > events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the > alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local > police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are > not exact or complete.) > > My comment was something along the lines of: > The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm > not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and > over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk > from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker > underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it > claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). > > I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not > someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? > > In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / > quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's > part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my > upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, > including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. > > Many thanks in advance, > > - charles ess > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From rodgers_scott at hotmail.com Mon Aug 18 07:50:34 2014 From: rodgers_scott at hotmail.com (Scott Rodgers) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:50:34 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Proposed Thematic Panel for GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (http://geomedia.se/) New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces By no means have media production spaces been ignored in academic research. Analyses of media production have often been anchored to specific settings, for example the studio in television production studies, the newsroom in journalism ethnographies, or the loft-style office in creative industries research. Yet in many ways these traditions sit uneasily alongside the sorts of media spaces that emerge through recent attempts to theorise media in terms of ?practices?. The value of work on media practices has been to emphasize the highly contingent interweaving of media into ?everyday life?, a process which is fluid, indeterminate, and non-media centric. Yet, such work has overwhelmingly centered on the spaces of media consumption. Media production spaces, by contrast, are theorized as institutionalised, closed-off, strategically coherent and medium-specific. The geographies of media production, in other words, are often implicitly assumed to inhabit a different level of analysis. This thematic panel aims to offer new perspectives that trouble the dichotomy between the geographies of media production and everyday mediation, and particularly how the former is often seen as institutionalized while the latter mundane. To begin with, what counts as media production is up for grabs, for example in the erosion of producer/audience distinctions, the loosening of medium specificity in the wake of digitalization, or in the dispersal of media production sites. At the same time, there are conceptual reasons to challenge the idea that media production spaces are centers of power. This session will explore the indeterminate spaces of media ?production? and their contingent negotiation with, anticipation of and even subjugation to the spaces, values and sensibilities of everyday life. Papers might address the above themes via the following topics: ? Affective/emotional dimensions of media production spaces/places ? The social spaces of professionalized media fields and their material geographies ? Localized geographies of film/television/music/gaming production and post-production ? Code/software spaces and media production ? Sport spaces and media production ? The urban habitus of media professionals and semi-professionals ? Site-specific encounters of media and non-media people ? Spaces of ?produsers?, ?prosumers?, ?citizen journalists? and other non-professional media contributors ? Time/temporality/timeliness/rhythm and media production spaces ? Media producer anticipations/constructions of audience/user geographies ? Architectural/infrastructural environments of media production ? Cultural policy and the governance of media production ? The body as site of media production ? Practices of media space branding ? Below the line media production spaces The above list is indicative rather than exhaustive ? proposals on other topics still within the above broad session theme will be gratefully received. If you are interested in proposing a paper for this panel, please send an abstract between 200-250 words to both Helen Morgan Parmett (Helen.MorganParmett at wwu.edu) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers at bbk.ac.uk) by no later than 15 September 2014. Following the GeoMedia 2015 conference, we plan to propose the papers from this panel (or a development thereof) for a special theme issue in a refereed journal in media and cultural studies. From jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 18 10:32:48 2014 From: jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca (Jonathan Sterne, Dr.) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:32:48 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Professionalization Website Message-ID: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for crossposting. Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find the materials useful as well. In recent years, I have added material on other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so. You can find it at: http://sterneworks.org/Academe New this year: links on disability and the PhD, peer review ethics, and campus rape culture. I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been circulated in other fora. If you have a suggestion for a link or a document worth archiving, or a correction to a typo or missing or expired link, please email me at jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca. Please note that I do not post or keep track of job ads, nor am I interested in promoting commercial services or people's websites. I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions for other areas to cover would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, --Jonathan -- Jonathan Sterne Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology Acting Director, Media at McGill (2014-15) Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org | http://media.mcgill.ca | http://mcgill.ca/ahcs MP3: The Meaning of a Format From pamkirk at westga.edu Mon Aug 18 12:16:26 2014 From: pamkirk at westga.edu (Dr. Pam Kirk) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:16:26 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Survey Research Being Collected on Second Life Avatar Usage Message-ID: My graduate student is collecting data for a new study about avatar usage in Second Life. If you use this virtual world software and would like to participate in the approximately 10-minute survey, please click on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marxweber Thanks for helping a fellow educator and researcher! Pam Hunt Kirk (professor) & Danny V. Sherman (graduate student) University of West Georgia -- ____________ Pam Hunt Kirk, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Sociology University of West Georgia From bloomforyou5 at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 20:54:15 2014 From: bloomforyou5 at gmail.com (Jie Qin) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:54:15 +0800 Subject: [Air-L] Professionalization Website In-Reply-To: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> References: <90F55A92-B4C4-4986-917C-7D483F9D27AF@mcgill.ca> Message-ID: Dear Dr. Sterne, Thank you for sharing. I'd like to share your collection with the Internet researchers and students in China. By the way, I have also been collecting resources for academic jobs on my site. You can find it at: http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk/blog/qinjie/resources/job-resources/ Best regards, Jie *Jie Qin* | Department of Media and Communication | City University of Hong Kong 2014-08-19 1:32 GMT+08:00 Jonathan Sterne, Dr. : > Dear Colleagues, > > Apologies for crossposting. > > Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides > links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in > communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find > the materials useful as well. In recent years, I have added material on > other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so. You can > find it at: > > http://sterneworks.org/Academe > > New this year: links on disability and the PhD, peer review ethics, and > campus rape culture. > > I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, > and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been > circulated in other fora. If you have a suggestion for a link or a > document worth archiving, or a correction to a typo or missing or expired > link, please email me at jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca>. Please note that I do not post or keep track > of job ads, nor am I interested in promoting commercial services or > people's websites. I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions > for other areas to cover would be appreciated. > > Thanks for reading. > > Sincerely, > --Jonathan > > -- > > Jonathan Sterne > Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology > Acting Director, Media at McGill (2014-15) > Department of Art History and Communication Studies > McGill University > > http://sterneworks.org | http://media.mcgill.ca | http://mcgill.ca/ahcs > > MP3: The Meaning of a Format< > http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47544> > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no Tue Aug 19 00:04:26 2014 From: Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no (Jill Walker Rettberg) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:04:26 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] studies on the limits of "free" speech on FB? In-Reply-To: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> References: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> Charles and others, An MA student of mine wrote her thesis a couple of years ago on how the Kurdish diaspora use Facebook. Her informants talked about cases like these where the deletion was very clearly political - things like posting images of the Kurdish flag, but also things they hadn't expected to be seen as political. She also cited the manual for Facebook moderators that went around a few years back, which has a list of stuff to delete or block. Jacob, Kurdin. 2013. ??Facebook is my second home??. The Kurdish Diaspora?s Use of Facebook in Shaping a Nation. MA thesis in digital culture, University of Bergen. https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/7629 Charles' post being deleted could be a false positive as Michael suggests but given Twitter deleted that Anonymous account pretty swiftly after they publicized the (wrong) name of the shooter I'd say it's entirely possible Facebook also deleted anything with keywords related to the anonymous post - actually, if Facebook allowed people to repost the falsely accused police officer's name, they might be used for slander or libel, right? And the post I saw on Twitter before @anonmessage or whatever the account was called was deleted included a screenshot of the alleged killer's Facebook page, so FB was very directly involved and no doubt aware of the situation. Jill Sent from my phone On 18. aug. 2014, at 16:08, Michael T Zimmer > wrote: Hi Charles - My Occam's razor reaction to this is that your text triggered some kind of automated comment screening algorithm designed to prevent spam or other unapproved content. I suspect it wasn't that your comment was about Ferguson or Anonymous per se, but that it included text deemed spammy or hazardous (perhaps mention of doxing?). A classic false positive. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Charles Ess > wrote: Hi all, Apologies for a slightly irritated posting/inquiry - but I've discovered that FB recently removed a comment from my timeline that I made regarding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Anonymous, which not only "doxed" the alleged shooter, but also cut off Internet services within the local police department. (Going on memory here, sorry if all the details are not exact or complete.) My comment was something along the lines of: The is the second time I've seen Anonymous out the wrong person (and I'm not even keeping track very closely). As unhappy as I am with corrupt and over-militarized cops, etc. [really: my wife grew up some 15 minutes' walk from where the shooting took place] - I'm even less happy with a hacker underground that is neither transparent nor accountable to those of us it claims to "protect and serve" (irony intentional). I'm assuming it was FB that took this down, for whatever reason (i.e., not someone from Anonymous or elsewhere)? In any event: does anyone know of good studies - qualitative / quantitative - that attempt to document this sort of behavior on FB's part? It would be invaluable both for its own sake, as well as for my upcoming class on Internet regulation as caught between several poles, including freedom of expression as critical to democratic discourse, etc. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From clara.fernandez at nyu.edu Tue Aug 19 08:26:37 2014 From: clara.fernandez at nyu.edu (Clara Fernandez-Vara) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:26:37 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Book announcement: Introduction to Game Analysis Message-ID: Dear all, If you'll excuse the self-promoting email, I'd like to announce that my book Introduction to Game Analysis is now for sale at your usual outlets. 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Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London, W1T 3JH. We respect your privacy and will not disclose, rent or sell your email address to any outside organizations. From jhunsinger at wlu.ca Tue Aug 19 10:09:41 2014 From: jhunsinger at wlu.ca (Jeremy hunsinger) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:09:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Message-ID: Closed Systems / Open Worlds ( extended deadline: Sept. 15, 2014) Contact: ClosedandOpenBook at gmail.com Deadline for pr?cis: 15 September 2014 Edited by: Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and conduct. Code is a modulating multiple signifier, in that the interpreters of the code vary from human to machine and that our understanding of the signifier changes the worldliness in itself. The conduct of both participants and administrators of these spaces influences how they flourish and then fade. As such the worlds and their anima/animus are socially constructed fictions where authors/creators/users, both above and below the actions are sometimes in concert, yet often in conflict with the space and intentions of the originators. This book seeks critically engaged scholars who want to risk the possibility of change in the face of closed systems. 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Faculty in the department study and teach the meanings and effects of communication in an age of evolving technologies and cultures, using a variety of methodological approaches. We seek applicants whose research addresses the contemporary media landscape, with an emphasis upon interactive media broadly defined (e.g., social media, gaming, big data). Preference will be given to candidates that have completed a post-doctorate and can teach both theoretical and applied courses in interactive media, and hence practical experience in the field will be considered an advantage. Only candidates that are expected to have completed their Ph.D. by October 2015 will be considered. While a Ph.D. in communication is preferred, excellent candidates in related fields will also be considered. The language of instruction at the University of Haifa is Hebrew, but a period of adjustment is an option. Applications should be submitted by email no later than October 7, 2014 to: Prof. Yariv Tsfati, (ytsfati at com.haifa.ac.il ) with the heading "Interactive Media Faculty Search" and should include the following documents: 1) A complete curriculum vitae, including an academic biography that describes the candidate's current research interests and future research plan; 2) A brief description of three potential courses in the field of interactive media; 3) A list of three references. (Please do not send letters until requested by the committee.); 4) Copies of selected recent publications. Applicants will be informed by October 30, 2014 as to the status of their submission. Candidates who qualify can expect a final decision by the end of January. The appointment will begin on October 1, 2015. * Pending funding. Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. Chair, Dept. of Communication University of Haifa, Israel, 31905 Phone: +972-4-8249602 Fax: +972-4-8249120 http://com.haifa.ac.il/~rribak/ From knut.lundby at media.uio.no Wed Aug 20 01:05:29 2014 From: knut.lundby at media.uio.no (Knut Lundby) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:05:29 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Handbook on Mediatization of Communication Message-ID: <4FE43497-1ED7-4995-8CC8-E761685BCC3F@media.uio.no> The handbook on Mediatization of Communication is out, edited by Knut Lundby. Several chapters are of great relevance to Internet scholars. The volume offers 31 contributions in 738 pages by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings.The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. See table of contents under "Supplementary information" here: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180158?format=G The book is vol. 21 of the Handbooks of Communication Science (HoCS) published by De Gruyter Mouton. It is available in hardcover and as eBook in pdf and epub formats. See the link above. From has502 at york.ac.uk Wed Aug 20 04:21:28 2014 From: has502 at york.ac.uk (Holly Steel) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:21:28 +0100 Subject: [Air-L] Symposium: Streets to Screens, Goldsmiths, 7 November 2014 Message-ID: Dear All, Colleagues may be interested in a symposium run by the Department of Sociology at the University of York and the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, on mediating conflict through digital networks. Apologies for cross-posting. *Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks* *7th November 2014* *Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01* *Goldsmiths, University of London* >From Gaza to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Syria, social media is being used by people within conflict zones to organise, document and communicate their lives and struggles from the streets to our screens. As these pieces of content travel through time and space, they come into contact with various actors ? from activists, to NGOs, news agencies, and global audiences ? who attempt to claim purchase on the narrative of those events as they unfold. Over the course of the last decade, we have seen the emergence of forms of reportage that seek to navigate the diverse and fractured media ecology. These mediations are said to challenge the ways in which the mainstream media cover conflicts and global publics are invited to bear witness. This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating conflicts today, and will address some of the following questions: - What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists play in conflict communication today? - What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online? - In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations? - What are the implications of these forms of reportage for eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs, journalists, news media, audiences and global publics? Speakers Include Stuart Allan, *Cardiff University* Malachy Browne, *Storyful* Lilie Chouliaraki, *LSE* Andrew Hoskins, *University of Glasgow* Ben O'Loughlin, *Royal Holloway* Sam Gregory, *WITNESS* Liam Stack, *New York Times* Claire Wardle, *UNHCR* And many more! Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information please visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/streets-to-screens/ *For more information, please contact Holly Steel at has502 at york.ac.uk * -- Holly Steel Doctoral Researcher Department of Sociology University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Tel: 01904 323578 From adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com Wed Aug 20 06:32:27 2014 From: adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com (Adi Kuntsman) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:32:27 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] MA in International Relations and Global Communication (with focus on the Internet and digital media) In-Reply-To: <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2EB@exmb2> References: <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B270@exmb2>, <0229621E64A2044D86133AEF70F0FE650999A166@EXMB5.ad.mmu.ac.uk> <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2A6@exmb2>, <0229621E64A2044D86133AEF70F0FE650999A198@EXMB5.ad.mmu.ac.uk> <6717E047017E9A4BB0774089DA49670627B2EB@exmb2> Message-ID: <1408541547.81883.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Dear AoiRs, This migbht be of interest to some of your students - please bring it to their attention Places available on the new MA programme in International Relations and Global Communicaitons which will start at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) this Autumn Course details are here http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/2014/12261/ ***************** This programme combines the study of contemporary international relations with that of key developments in global communications and ICTs. In so doing it adds an extra dimension to the study of international relations which provides graduates with deeper insights and a wider range of knowledge and skills than those doing traditional MAs in International Relations. We live in a communications-saturated world where 24-hour news coverage, access to the internet and the use of social media have become the norm for millions of people. Global events are instantly reported by the news media and analysed and interpreted by them and millions of ordinary citizens. These developments challenge the traditionally secretive practices of international diplomacy and the ability of governments to control information whilst also creating powerful new tools for propaganda; they enhance the importance of cultural or `soft? power in international relations and they have also transformed the nature of warfare. The objective of this exciting new programme is to equip students with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary international relations and key developments in ICTs and of the impact of the latter upon the former along with the skills to analyse those developments effectively. --- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Lecturer in Information and Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton, Room 437 Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com From skyc at riseup.net Wed Aug 20 09:04:09 2014 From: skyc at riseup.net (sky c) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:04:09 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Interactive media faculty search In-Reply-To: <05ba01cfbc45$31174e50$9345eaf0$@com.haifa.ac.il> References: <05ba01cfbc45$31174e50$9345eaf0$@com.haifa.ac.il> Message-ID: <1408550649.6052.77.camel@ada> Those applying for positions in Israel may want to consider the ongoing call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, which specifically requests an academic boycott: http://www.bdsmovement.net/activecamps/academic-boycott The University of Haifa has been criticised in particular for allegedly disciplining academics working on the history of Israel (more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions ) and continues to provide important support to the Hasbara Fellowships (see, for example: http://www.hasbarafellowships.org/cgblog/430/45/Hasbara-Fellowships-H1-Day-2). Decisions are, of course, entirely in the hands of potential applicants, but this information may be relevant in considerations. On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 10:05 +0300, Rivka Ribak wrote: > The Department of Communication at the University of Haifa invites > applications from outstanding candidates for an open-rank position in the > field of interactive media.* The Department of Communication currently > offers single and double major B.A. programs in theoretical communication > studies, a research M.A. and Ph.D. programs, as well as a M.A. in strategic > communications. Faculty in the department study and teach the meanings and > effects of communication in an age of evolving technologies and cultures, > using a variety of methodological approaches. > > We seek applicants whose research addresses the contemporary media > landscape, with an emphasis upon interactive media broadly defined (e.g., > social media, gaming, big data). Preference will be given to candidates > that have completed a post-doctorate and can teach both theoretical and > applied courses in interactive media, and hence practical experience in the > field will be considered an advantage. > > Only candidates that are expected to have completed their Ph.D. by October > 2015 will be considered. While a Ph.D. in communication is preferred, > excellent candidates in related fields will also be considered. The > language of instruction at the University of Haifa is Hebrew, but a period > of adjustment is an option. > > Applications should be submitted by email no later than October 7, 2014 to: > Prof. Yariv Tsfati, (ytsfati at com.haifa.ac.il ) with the heading "Interactive > Media Faculty Search" and should include the following documents: > > 1) A complete curriculum vitae, including an academic biography that > describes the candidate's current research interests and future research > plan; > > 2) A brief description of three potential courses in the field of > interactive media; > > 3) A list of three references. (Please do not send letters until requested > by the committee.); > > 4) Copies of selected recent publications. > > Applicants will be informed by October 30, 2014 as to the status of their > submission. Candidates who qualify can expect a final decision by the end > of January. The appointment will begin on October 1, 2015. > > > > * Pending funding. > > > > > > Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. > > Chair, Dept. of Communication > > University of Haifa, Israel, 31905 > > Phone: +972-4-8249602 > > Fax: +972-4-8249120 > > http://com.haifa.ac.il/~rribak/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From rforno at infowarrior.org Wed Aug 20 09:56:26 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:56:26 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Maryland Cyber Challenge 2014 Message-ID: (Not exactly AIR-y but posted in case anyone's got students/clubs/kids interested......) Maryland Cyber Challenge 2014 (@MDCyberChall) registration is now open! Since 2011, the Maryland Cyber Challenge has brought together students and professionals for a series of technical challenges leading to meaningful prizes, bragging rights, and fun, motivating educational experiences. Teams of up to six players from three divisions (high school, college, & professional) will compete in a series of cybersecurity scenarios (e.g., defense, attack, forensics, CTF) that put their critical thinking, technical prowess, and teamwork skills to the test. The top teams then meet to compete in their respective division's finals in-person at the CyberMaryland conference in Baltimore on 29-30 October. All rounds will be completed online except for the finals. See complete schedule for details. ? Voluntary Practice Rounds (5 Sessions): August 12-27 ? Qualification Round 1: (Everyone): September 13-15 ? Qualification Round 2 (College & Pro ONLY): September 21-23 ? Qualification Round 2 (High School ONLY): October 3-5 ? 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Forno Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity cybersecurity.umbc.edu Co-founder & GameMaster, Maryland Cyber Challenge --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From ben.light at qut.edu.au Wed Aug 20 22:19:39 2014 From: ben.light at qut.edu.au (Ben Light) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 05:19:39 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Fellowships in Digital Media Message-ID: Hi Folks, We are looking for Vice Chancellor?s Research Fellows in the area of Digital Media Studies. These fellowships are a great opportunity to focus purely on research for 3 years and as a bonus you get to work alongside great people like Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, Peta Mitchell and Patrik Wikstrom! You?ll also be part of a vibrant Social Media Research Group and get to participate in the broader agenda of our aim to progress cultural studies approaches to digital media more generally. The closing date for applications is 16 September 2014. The competition is tough with a requirement for clear evidence of a publication track record, but we are happy to work with people to support application development. The details of the scheme are here: https://www.qut.edu.au/research/scholarships-and-funding/vice-chancellors-research-fellowships Please do get in touch if this is something would like to explore further. Best wishes, Ben Ben Light PhD MSc BA(Hons) Professor of Digital Media Studies Creative Industries Faculty School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3138 8280 Twitter: @doggyb QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb Open Access Publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html Personal Site: http://www.benlight.org From Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no Thu Aug 21 05:05:01 2014 From: Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no (Jill Walker Rettberg) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:05:01 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project Message-ID: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 From j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Aug 21 05:27:32 2014 From: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk (Unger, Johann) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:27:32 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <3164A139-89D2-4D0C-9F61-EF5E522B8617@lancaster.ac.uk> Hi Jill, Just off the top of my head, I'm not sure an advisor's feelings about whether they'd feel comfortable participating should necessarily determine whether the research should go ahead - otherwise we'd have very little research into contentious social issues like drug abuse, criminality, etc., never mind medical research. However, I think you're perfectly right to raise possible concerns. In my view these could be mitigated by very clear information about the project when consent is sought, and the introduction of some "exit routes" for participants. For instance, participants could be asked to specify if there is any information that, if found, would lead them to be automatically excluded as participants. As an example, a participant could say that if the researcher found that there was evidence of underage drinking / some other minor misdemeanour (or major misdemeanour for that matter), their participation in the project would end and all data about them would be deleted from the researcher's records. This could also apply at the interview stage, whereby a participant could indicate if they are feeling uncomfortable at any point. Another option might be to involve the participants in the research process more - in other words, invite them to sit with the researcher while the googling/searching is happening. They could then say if they felt anything was making them uncomfortable, and ask the researcher to stop. Of course if this interaction was recorded, this could also lead to valuable data. The downside is this would be quite time consuming... I think the key question for me would be, given there is a risk of harm to the participants (embarrassment, distress etc.), what are the benefits that could/would accrue, either to individual participants or more broadly to society? If there is no clear answer to this question, the research should probably not go ahead. I would think many of us on this list can think of potential benefits, but if one of my students were interested in doing this type of research I would ask them to think this through carefully. Best, Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger On 21 Aug 2014, at 13:05, "Jill Walker Rettberg" > wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From mjohns at luther.edu Thu Aug 21 05:36:14 2014 From: mjohns at luther.edu (Mark D. Johns) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:36:14 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: Your gut is a good guide, but probably informed consent is sufficient, as you mention, so long as the "stalking" is limited to openly accessible information. Some questions to consider, however: How will the data be safeguarded? How much of the data will be revealed in the paper? What will happen to the data after the project ends? How will the participants be involved, and to what degree will they be allowed to "own" their own data after it has been collected? [Note: I am a member of the AoIR Ethics Committee, but this email is not intended to speak for that group.] -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Acting Department Head, Fall 2014 Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no> wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about > privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five > informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to > find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. > Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, > asking things like "did you know this information about you was > accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information > people think is available about them, what is actually available about > them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them > and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out > there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me > online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I > shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project > might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed > consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like > this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a > student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small > scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from > September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From krguidry at mistakengoal.com Thu Aug 21 06:12:33 2014 From: krguidry at mistakengoal.com (Kevin R. Guidry) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:12:33 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F5F041.7080701@mistakengoal.com> On 8/21/2014 8:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology > like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would > you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student > to do a small scale research project on this topic? I agree that this proposal raises interesting questions. If circumstances - available time, course and program objectives, your comfort level and patience - allow then it may be worth letting this student go forward with this proposed project even if it may not get through your institution's ethics board or find any willing participants. I imagine that your student would learn quite a bit if they have to struggle through those issues e.g., why might an ethics board be uncomfortable with this line of research, why wouldn't anyone acquiesce to participating in this research. You may have to work a bit harder with this student to get through these possible barriers and come up with alternatives but it may be worthwhile work that meets your learning objectives. Kevin From stolero at gmail.com Thu Aug 21 06:16:04 2014 From: stolero at gmail.com (Nathan Stolero) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:16:04 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: Dear Jill and all, Your question reminds me an article published in The Chronicle, in April. Here's the article . It starts with a description of a similar activity, conducted by Prof. Eszter Hargittai from Northwestern U with her students. In the first lesson she starts with a "gut check", telling the class everything she knows about them, just from online information in the public sphere. Therefore, these things are done and it might be a good idea to ask her advice about the ethical concerns (as far as I understand, she used this "gut check" without letting her students know before that she is going to do so). I myself never had the gut to do it to my students, although I think it is a brilliant idea (but not to a class of 100+ students, which is the case in my situation). Since we are talking about a research conducted by an undergraduate student, with a limited scope, I'd suggest one precaution in addition to previous suggestions: First, the interviews should not be with other people whom the student knows personally. They must be complete strangers to him. The advantage of this precaution, in my view, is that it replicates the conditions of the internet-sphere, where you are well aware that the information is public, but yet still don't have the notion that you are exposing yourself to familiar people. It also prevents awkward situations that the student will reveal something about a person he knows, that might embarrass them both in the situation of the interview. These are my two pennies, Nathan Stolero Instructor and PhD Candidate The Department of Communication Tel Aviv University Israel On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no> wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about > privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five > informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to > find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. > Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, > asking things like "did you know this information about you was > accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information > people think is available about them, what is actually available about > them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them > and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out > there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me > online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I > shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project > might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed > consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like > this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a > student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small > scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from > September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From klang at ituniv.se Thu Aug 21 06:23:41 2014 From: klang at ituniv.se (Mathias Klang) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:23:41 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From soates at umd.edu Thu Aug 21 06:40:37 2014 From: soates at umd.edu (Sarah Ann Oates) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:37 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Message-ID: <55145F68-81C3-44C7-A29F-1AA7D7126C5F@umd.edu> This thread sparks a broader issue for me (I think the discussion here has been reasoned and thoughtful) and that is that I worry we are not communicating to students or to the broader public that there is no privacy online. Our data is constantly mined and used by corporations and governments in ways that would appall any research ethics board. How can we, as academics who can see the constant violation of privacy, make people more aware? I know this is a big issue, but just felt moved to say this. SAO On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Mathias Klang > wrote: Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Thu Aug 21 07:44:01 2014 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:44:01 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <53F605B1.9000008@reagle.org> On 08/21/2014 08:05 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology > like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would > you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student > to do a small scale research project on this topic? Bruckman mentions an incident like this when a subject was surprised about their online exposure by way of a researcher [1]. [1]: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/asb/papers/journal/bruckman-information-ethics06.pdf From cpd at epolitics.com Thu Aug 21 09:24:16 2014 From: cpd at epolitics.com (Colin Delany) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Air-L] digital politics guide for fall classes In-Reply-To: <1640705619.15145593.1408638048415.JavaMail.root@his.com> Message-ID: <1574892185.15146228.1408638256432.JavaMail.root@his.com> Hi folks, Luis Hestres mentioned my ebook (the digital campaigning guide I wrote last year and updated in April) in his publications list a couple of weeks ago, but I just found out about another digital politics/advocacy grad-level class (at George Washington University in DC) that's using it. I thought I'd toss this out as a reminder -- the book is a comprehensive overview of the strategies, tactics and tools of internet politics in our current environment, and while it's written to be accessible to beginners, many political and advocacy campaigns inside the U.S. and around the world are using it as a roadmap to campaigning in 2014. It's on Amazon as an ebook and also as a pay-what-you-want download at Epolitics.com. The latter may be a good fit for faculty who want to distribute it as a PDF to students. "How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" http://www.epolitics.com/WinningIn2014 I hope this turns out to be useful for folks on the list! --cpd Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd at epolitics.com @epolitics From G.Meikle at westminster.ac.uk Thu Aug 21 12:53:06 2014 From: G.Meikle at westminster.ac.uk (Graham Meikle) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:53:06 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <55145F68-81C3-44C7-A29F-1AA7D7126C5F@umd.edu> Message-ID: Hi Perhaps rather than the student investigating their respondents, it would be a better solution to have the student get their respondents to research themselves before the student interviews them about what they found. For years now, in teaching privacy/visibility issues in social media classes, I've had the students stalk themselves before class, find out just how much information about them is available online, and consider how much of it is under their control. It always makes for a lively week's discussion and means what they have to say is informed by their own experience ? so a similar approach would perhaps lead to some thoughtful and considered interviews for Jill's student. Cheers, gm ----------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Communication and Media Research Institute, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, HA1 3TP, UK Twitter: @graham_meikle Phone: +44 (0)20 3506 8381 LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/gmeikle From: Sarah Ann Oates > Date: Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:40 To: Mathias Klang > Cc: AOIR > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project This thread sparks a broader issue for me (I think the discussion here has been reasoned and thoughtful) and that is that I worry we are not communicating to students or to the broader public that there is no privacy online. Our data is constantly mined and used by corporations and governments in ways that would appall any research ethics board. How can we, as academics who can see the constant violation of privacy, make people more aware? I know this is a big issue, but just felt moved to say this. SAO On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Mathias Klang > wrote: Hi Jill, I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and most students had fun with it. One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. Mathias On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates at umd.edu www.media-politics.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Thu Aug 21 16:48:18 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:48:18 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project Message-ID: First time responding to this list, hopefully I?m obeying any conventions, good manners, etc. I?m replying to a thread I read from the digest, so hopefully this does not get out of sync. In regards to the experiment (which seems pretty cool) I would point out that when the data resides externally (on google, facebook, etc) those entities are the guardians and keepers of that data. They may, depending on jurisdiction, have means to remove data at the request of a subject and while they hold it are liable for keeping it secure. Once the researcher copies this information, she or he are now the guardian and keeper of the subject?s data, and therefore are responsible for data security. Data security, done correctly, is not difficult these days, but neither is it trivial. Learning how to do it well is good training for the student if she or he has an interest in privacy. I recommend the researcher take precautions that the data used is collected within a defined scope (ie excluding credit reports for example), the data is locally stored in an encrypted virtual machine, and the encrypted data is subsequently destroyed. I suggest using the following free software to accomplish this. First, create a virtual Ubuntu Linux [1] machine using VirtualBox [2]. When installing Ubuntu, you must set up disk encryption [3], meaning that if the device is stolen, the data is unreadable. Within this ?virtual? computer the researcher can do whatever they like, surf the web, keep records, etc. - it functions like a normal computer, it just ?lives? inside your main one. When the experiment is over simply delete the virtual machine file - as it is encrypted to start out with you don?t need to worry about much else. This may sound difficult, but given a weekend, some persistence, and creativity, it is doable. The Internet is full of guides on how to do this. It is also fun. Key point for me is that while the study will teach the student a lot about the research question, learning about privacy also means about learning about how to handle private data and picking up some basic opsec. [INSERT HERE: whatever disclaimers are necessary to prove that I am not anybody?s lawyer and my advice may not meet the standards required when dealing with at-risk groups, etc.] Again, I?m only on the digest list, so may miss an immediate reply, but feel free to follow up directly: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu - tim libert, phd student, university of pennsylvania [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/ [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ [3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/privacy-ubuntu-1210-full-disk-encryption [4] https://www.torproject.org/ From dburk at uci.edu Thu Aug 21 18:25:03 2014 From: dburk at uci.edu (Dan L. Burk) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:25:03 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> <53F5F2DD.1070503@ituniv.se> Message-ID: <9d3cd12d1042a37715cb030f9379d2d1.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> There was in interesting dust-up over a similar class project at Fordham a couple of years ago -- this was reported in quite a few papers: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/internet/18link.html?_r=0 DLB > Hi Jill, > I have done a version of this in a class exercise where I divided the > class into groups and each group had to find out as much as possible > about either me or the other instructor. The rules where that they could > not carry out any illegal acts but otherwise everything was allowed. The > goal was not the actual information but the presentations where they had > to interpret the information they found and to judge its reliability. At > the time I had a large web presence while the other instructor had less > of a web presence. Both of us had unique names, were at the same stage > in our careers and about the same age. The project was interesting and > most students had fun with it. > > One problem that we encountered was that many groups took out credit > reports on us. This didn't really bother me but I admit I wasn't > expecting this move. We also realized that we would have to prevent this > in future exercises as taking out a large number of credit reports can > impact ones credit rating (at least in Sweden). > > I think the project can be interesting and informed consent should cover > the ethical question but as the situation above illustrates it is > difficult to recognize the unforeseen consequences. > > Mathias > > On 21/08/14 08:05 am, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote: >> One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about >> privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five >> informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order >> to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online >> methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and >> interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about >> you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what >> information people think is available about them, what is actually >> available about them, and how people feel about all the information out >> there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and >> what is in fact out there. >> >> My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me >> online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I >> shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the >> project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, >> informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. >> >> But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like >> this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a >> student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small >> scale research project on this topic? >> >> Jill >> >> >> Jill Walker Rettberg >> Professor of Digital Culture >> Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies >> University of Bergen >> Postboks 7800 >> 5020 Bergen >> >> + 47 55588431 >> >> Blog - http://jilltxt.net >> Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt >> >> My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from >> September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mathias Klang, > Associate Professor, University of G?teborg > Website: http://klangable.com > US Cell: 215 882 0989 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk at uci.edu From Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au Thu Aug 21 19:34:46 2014 From: Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au (Jonathan Marshall) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:34:46 +1000 Subject: [Air-L] special issue In-Reply-To: <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> References: <8FB9F388-203D-4439-AB60-390477D9920A@uwm.edu>, <759FA466-CC98-4131-B71B-97C5E2FF7153@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <55808B8F7ED4BF49AF3482E6263CD6108624A17365@MAILBOXCLUSTER2.adsroot.uts.edu.au> Announcing a Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol 25. No 2 Communication technology and social life: Jonathan Paul Marshall and Tanya Notley "Communication technology and social life: Transformation and continuity, order and disorder", pp.127-37. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12084 Alexandra Crosby and Tanya Notley "Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua", pp138-54. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12085 Heather A. Horst and Erin B. Taylor "The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic", pp 155-170. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12086 Inge Kral "Shifting perceptions, shifting identities: Communication technologies and the altered social, cultural and linguistic ecology in a remote indigenous context", 171-189. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12087 Jonathan Paul Marshall "The social (dis)organisation of software: Failure and disorder in information society", pp190-206. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12088 Makiko Nishitani "Kinship, gender, and communication technologies: Family dramas in the Tongan diaspora", pp 207-222. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12089 Borut Telban and Daniela V?vrov? "Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society", 223-38. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12090 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel "Pointing the Phone: Transforming Technologies and Social Relations among Warlpiri", 239-55. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12091 For anyone who is interested there is a related collection of papers, more aimed at social life on the internet, at Global Media Journal Australian Edition http://www.hca.uws.edu.au/gmjau/?issues=volume-7-issue-1-2013 Notely, Marshall, & Salazar "Guest Editorial" Crystal Abidin "Cyber-BFFs: Assessing women's 'perceived interconnectedness' in Singapore's commercial lifestyle blog industry". Rebekah Cupitt "Phantasms collide: Navigating video-mediated communication in the Swedish workplace". Elaine Lally "Creative interactions and improvable digital objects in cloud-based musical collaboration". Theresa Lynn Petray "Self-writing a movement and contesting indigeneity: Being an Aboriginal activist on social media". Rhian Morgan "Death in Space and the Piracy Debate: Negotiating ethics and ontology in Entropia Universe". Tanya Notley, Juan Salazar & Alexandra Crosby "Online video translation and subtitling: examining emerging practices and their implications for media activism in South East Asia". Jonathan Paul Marshall "The Mess of Information and the Order of Doubt". UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. 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See it at http://youtu.be/mDzNHwyiGc0 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From n.john at huji.ac.il Fri Aug 22 05:18:45 2014 From: n.john at huji.ac.il (Nicholas John) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:18:45 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6D2A69B3-6EE5-4664-9AED-086D7FA4CD4F@huji.ac.il> Hi Jill and others, Your student raises some interesting issues, but I think there is no need for ?stalking? at all. First of all, there are pretty clear answers around to some of the things that interest him: we know that people don?t know what is accessible about them and that there is a disconnect between their knowledge and the actual state of affairs. Joe Turrow has done work on this. This doesn?t mean that your student can?t discuss this with informants, but it could perhaps be at a more general level. If what interests the student is how people feel about all the information that is out there, that?s quite a different question, and one that would justify presenting the informants with information they didn?t know was out there, but, like Johnny Unger suggested, this could - and probably should - be done together with the the informants. I think that going away and compiling a dossier which is then presented to the informant is not the way to advance research of this kind. In fact, perhaps the right way to proceed would be to present the informants with the tools for finding out the information that?s out there about themselves, and then interviewing them to ask about the process. Or even sitting with them - but on the other side of the screen - as they carry out the process. The extent to which they share with the research information that they have found out is online is then controlled by the informants, while the researcher is enable to probe them as to their feelings about these discoveries. Picking up on another thread, I would also like to register my discomfort with tasking students to find out what they can about their teachers. This is not about us (as teachers) having nothing to hide. It is partly to do with other people in our lives who have not given their consent to be included in the exercise (especially minors), but it is also to do with the proper distance between teachers and students (and between any two people, really), however fraught this notion might be. This takes us back to Jill?s student, who doesn?t actually need to know anything about the informants in order to study their responses to learning that there is far more information out there about them than they thought. It also implies that if we want to teach students about the wealth of information about them out there, that the best, and maybe only, case study they should work on is themselves. Nik > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:05:01 +0000 > From: Jill Walker Rettberg > To: Air list > Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project > Message-ID: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4 at lle.uib.no> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. > > My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. > > But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? > > Jill > > > Jill Walker Rettberg > Professor of Digital Culture > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies > University of Bergen > Postboks 7800 > 5020 Bergen > > + 47 55588431 > > Blog - http://jilltxt.net > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt > > My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 > From loriken at illinois.edu Fri Aug 22 08:50:12 2014 From: loriken at illinois.edu (Kendall, Lori) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:50:12 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] IR15: Hotel Reservations Message-ID: <72A7C5438AAF2B4382455117C749427D2A766C4E@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> At long last, we have a system in place for hotel reservations for the IR15 conference. Getting this system in place, with several hotels, has been a complicated process and I appreciate your patience. You can find instructions and links for making hotel reservations on the conference website here: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=359. The process will be a bit different from what you're probably used to for other conferences, so please read the instructions carefully. If you run into problems, we have a special help email set up on that page. Also, don't forget to register for the conference now to take advantage of the early bird rates. There's only a bit more than a week left before those rates expire! I look forward to seeing you in Daegu in October! Lori Kendall President, AoIR From pimple at indiana.edu Fri Aug 22 10:35:59 2014 From: pimple at indiana.edu (Pimple, Kenneth) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:35:59 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project In-Reply-To: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> References: <08E59053-552E-40DF-AAF3-E54969BD54D4@lle.uib.no> Message-ID: <7BA46AD8A23CD24BAA778D986CF2E7AD42F87109@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu> I am impressed by the wide, thoughtful, and good advice provided already. I don't think anyone asked about the maturity of the student. I'm sure I would be uncomfortable allowing SOME upper-level undergraduate students to do this research. My first thought was to have your student be his own informant first - that is, find out as much as he can about himself on the Internet. That could be eye-opening and inform or change his approach to this research. I am especially grateful for the security suggestions from Tim Libert. I also like Nik's suggestion to have the informants to collect their own data while the student-researcher is present, but can't see the screen. An image jumped into my mind: The researcher asking the informant to search for information on [fill in the blank], and the reaction the researcher might see - obvious shock? Shame? Pride? Befuddlement? Without even knowing the content of the search, observation and a question or two might well uncover the reaction quite accurately. I have to say that the image in my mind is so entertaining that my judgment on the ethics of this approach is clouded. Human subjects research should not be intended to entertain the researcher! Ken -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jill Walker Rettberg Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:05 AM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] Ethics of a student project One of our upper-level undergrads would like to write a paper about privacy using a slightly unusual methodology: he wants to find five informants who are willing to let him google them exhaustively in order to find out everything he can about them using legal, public online methods. Then he wants to show each informant the information and interview them, asking things like "did you know this information about you was accessible?" and more in order to find out something about what information people think is available about them, what is actually available about them, and how people feel about all the information out there about them and the possible disconnect between what they think and what is in fact out there. My gut reaction is that I wouldn't want to let a researcher "stalk" me online like that, and if I wouldn't want to be an informant maybe I shouldn't allow the project, right? But I'm also guessing that the project might be approved by the ethics board so long as there is clear, informed consent. And it'd be interesting to see the results. But beyond the ethics board: what do you think about a methodology like this? Do you share my gut reaction or am I overreacting? Would you let a student do it? And what might be better ways for a student to do a small scale research project on this topic? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My latest book, Blogging (2nd ed), will be available from Polity from September 20: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745663648 _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ From artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Fri Aug 22 13:40:03 2014 From: artur.lugmayr at tut.fi (Artur Lugmayr) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:40:03 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [Air-L] Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Award - 31st August 2014 - THE competition for pervasive/ubiquitous/ambient 'minded'... Message-ID: <837764579.15.1408740003919.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43> ============================================================================== NEO UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD 2014 CALL FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES THE award for the pervasive, ubiqutious, and ambient intelligent community Award submission DEADLINE: 31st August 2014 4th-6th November, Tampere Finland http://www.numa.fi, http://www.mindtrek.org Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/ In cooperation with MindTrek Association, Internatinal Ambient Media Association (iAMEA), and the AIS SIG-eMedia ============================================================================== NUMA 2014 - THE award for pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient technologies, media, services, user experience, concepts, and applications. We refurbished the competition for 2014 after having received over 220 competition entries over the past seven years. We want to integrate all the latest trends in the world of smart media, as we want to see incredible re-interpretations of the original notion of ubimedia, pervasive media, and ambient media. Any new fresh idea is welcome in this area! The vision of ubimedia today spreads in smart city concepts, smart cards, and smart phones - and starts to become mainstream - there are still many more exciting, seamless, and unobtrusive experiences that need to be discovered. We still seek for cutting edge tech innovations, and look for makers that single-handedly engineer fascinating new ubimedia services and devices on a shoestring budget. We welcome all ubimedia masterminds, pervasive computation enthusiasts, and ambient intelligent researchers to participate in writing the next chapter for the most innovative, inspiring, and sometimes slightly mad competition in ubimedia's history and seek projects, applications, services, technological solutions, concepts, or new media environment as competition entry. Note, there will be also a price sum giving to the very best three entries. Possible themes, topics, and areas where your application could contribute to: - smart environments (smart cars, smart houses, smart devices, smart cities) - cyber, social, and physical computing - human computer interaction in the era of ubiquitous computation - smart robots, interaction with robots, and robotic applications - new interaction devices (Google glasses, Pebble, ?) - big data concepts for pervasive computation - the ?quantified? self and the digital human - sensor data, context awareness, and intelligence - mobile phone applications, NFC technologies, and embedded systems (e.g. Arduino) - wearable technologies, smart watches, smart glasses, and smart gadgets - cyber physical systems (CPS) - urban informatics and smart transportation - security and safety of environments - smart saving of energy, and sustainable environments - production and industrial applications that are smart - information systems and management in smart environments - entertainment applications (e.g. pervasive games, ambient television, ...) - artisic works, apps, and creative designs - ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and consumer experience - software, hardware, and middleware frameworks NUMA is looking for your bold, irritating and mind-opening ideas, no matter if you are a student, seasoned researcher, entrepreneur or artist. Whether thesis, project or product - our only condition is: you must be able to demo it, otherwise you are out! You will have to prove your idea with a working prototype, and if you are nominated you will need to demonstrate your work during MindTrek. As we are a cross-disciplinary competition, we created the following categories, to cope with all the latest trends: - ?NUMA-TEC? - You have been pushing the boundaries of sensors and ubiquitous computing or invented some incredible new pervasive hardware? This award focuses on advances in ?Technology?. - ?NUMA-KERS? - You have mastered the odds of physical computing and rapid prototyping and want to expose your devices beyond the maker community? This award focuses on the community of ?Makers?. - ?NUMA-UX? - You are an interaction, experience designer, or artist and have gone where no content has been seen before? This award focuses on the ?Experience?. - ?NUMA-CONTENT? - You are a content creator, application developer, designer, artist, game designer, or new media developer? This award focuses on new ambient, ubiquitous, and pervasive content. NUMA 2014 gives all of you the chance to show your work to an interdisciplinary international jury and win a the award! Winners will also be invited to become part of the great MindTrek 2014 event and community with travel costs covered. To submit your entry, please go to http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open). If you would like to get more information or have questions, please send your email to: chairs at lists.numa.fi. Subscribe to our email list on: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa. The competition is organized in cooperation with the MindTrek Association (http://www.mindtrek.org) and the International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA) (http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org), the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and part of the MindTrek Festival. The chairs of the competition are Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND; Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY; and Timothy Merritt, Aarhus School of Architecture, DENMARK. Website: http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open) Contact Email: chairs at lists.numa.fi EMAIL List: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/ From artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Fri Aug 22 14:03:46 2014 From: artur.lugmayr at tut.fi (Artur Lugmayr) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:03:46 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [Air-L] SAME 2014@NORDCHI - Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies - 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014 (extended) Message-ID: <837764579.15.1408741426577.JavaMail.lugmayr@HLO-PC43> ============================================================================== NordiCHI 2014 Workshop Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies 6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME 2014) SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED!!!): 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014 NordiCHI Website: http://nordichi2014.org/ Workshop Website: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameanew/same2014 Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/ NOTE! The workshop series is indexed by Scopus, and we plan to have a special journal issue... Publications The Workshop proceedings will be published in the International Series on Information Systems & Management in Creative eMedia (indexed by Scopus!): https://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Journal/ The workshop is in-corporated with the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and iAMEA ? The International Association for Ambient Media (www.ambientmediaassociation.org) Workshop Chairs Estefan?a Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium, estefania.serralasensio at kuleuven.be Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, University of Hanover, Germany, risse at L3S.de Artur Lugmayr, University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc, Finland, artur.lugmayr at tut.fi Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, Germany, bjoern.stockleben at gmail.com Emilija Stojmenova, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, emilija.stojmenova at ltfe.org ============================================================================== 1 Motivation and Objectives of the Workshop ============================================================================== Ambient (aka pervasive, ubiquitous) media environments offer a plethora of context data as well as opportunities for context-related content production and consumption. They are the perfect environments for providing users with highly contextualized data-driven services and data-driven visual and additive content. To build such ambient media environments, semantics play an essential role to deal with a seamless integration of the urban context as well as the digital services to be provided. The application areas range from smart cars, urban informatics, smart homes, ambient assisted living, smart media environments, and new interaction devices. We aim to bring together communities involved in different semantic applications needed for the creation of ambient media environments, like: digital services, media interoperability, open data, user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user-centred and interaction design, user experience, business modelling, knowledge management, etc. This will allow identifying common themes between the participant's current work and research agenda, and, eventually, leading to the discovery of new insights and opportunities. The primary research goal is to assess new trends for applying semantics in digital services for urban contexts and the disciplines involved in the creation of these services. The workshop organizers have extensive experiences in organizing high level workshops through the non-profit International Ambient Media Association (AMEA) they founded. The organizers have also established an own free open access series and journal within the association, attracted large audiences, and disseminated the results through high level journal special issues as e.g. Springer-Verlag?s Multimedia Tools & Applications. 2 Topics of the Workshop ============================================================================== In line with the above, contributions to the workshop should propose applications of applications and services in the domain of ubiquitous media centering on usability, interaction, and intelligent interaction focused on, but not limited to ubiquitous/ambient usability: - Ambient Intelligent Semantics & Technologies o Vocabularies, ontologies & linked data for urban environments o Context-data aggregation and context awareness o Semantics of usage contexts and sensor data o Context adaptive services o Service interoperability o Implementation and evaluation of urban services o Ambient and ubiquitous devices - Ambient Intelligent Presentation and Interaction o Service interoperability o Usage of ambient media for increasing application usability o Methods and best practices for urban service design o Usability in ubiquitous smart systems o Ubiquitous human-computer interaction o User experience, needs and user studies o New smart media based user interfaces - Emerging Ambient Services & Applications o Smart cars, smart cities, smart urban environments o Big data, opened data, and linked data applications o New smart media based interfaces o User-driven content and semantic data generation o Smart media environments o Unobtrusive mobile applications o Non-screen based user interfaces o Trust and security 3 Target Audience ============================================================================== The target audiences to be addressed by this workshop are communities involved in the creation of ambient intelligence systems for urban environments, digital services, media interoperability, open data, user interaction design, business modelling, knowledge management, etc. As the workshop organizers are from different institutions and research perspectives, and from academic and from industry, a high number of attendees is expected. We expect approx. 15-25 attendees to allow a reasonable number of working groups (see Section 4 ?Workshop Format?). 4 Workshop Format and Activities ============================================================================== The workshop is part of a larger set of initiatives and is supported and incorporated with: * iAMEA ? International Association of Ambient Media Ry (www.ambientmediaassociation.org) * the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group (SIG) SIG-eMedia (aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) * iAMEA established an open access journal and series (indexed in Scopus, and within the Finnish publication ranking system) o International Journal on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia o International Series on Information Systems and Management in Creative eMedia The workshop will be a full-day workshop grouped into several sessions. We allow the submission of papers up to 10 pages which will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. After the workshop, it is planned that the results of the group work are consolidated in a journal paper to be published in the special issue of the Springer journal on ?Multimedia Tools and Applications?. Also the authors of the best accepted papers of SAME workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the special issue. Respective arrangements with Springer are on the way for the proposed workshop. 5 Submission Guidlines ============================================================================== Please follow the submission guidlines for NordiCHI papers on: http://nordichi2014.org/submissions/papers/. Workshop papers can be 5-10 pages long, however, they need to fulfill the submission guidelines of NordiCHI. Please submit your papers on: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/ From aoir.z3z at danah.org Sat Aug 23 11:11:04 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:11:04 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Urgent: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF References: <53F66E18.10807@eff.org> Message-ID: <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> Do any of you know (or are any of you) a Texas-based social media expert who would be willing to offer testimony on this case? If so, please contact Amul directly - they are seeking help urgently. (And Amul gave me permission to post this request here.) danah PS: I removed the attachments because of AOIR's configuration, but feel free to write to Amul for copies of them. Begin forwarded message: > From: Amul Kalia > Subject: Fwd: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF > Date: August 21, 2014 at 6:09:28 PM EDT > To: danah at danah.org > > Dear danah, > > My name is Amul Kalia and I am the Intake Coordinator at EFF. Cindy Cohn gave me your contact information. > > The reason I'm writing to you is because the attorneys representing Justin Carter, you may remember him from this: > http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/tech/social-media/facebook-jailed-teen/, reached out to us asking if we know a social media expert who will be able to offer testimony on August 26th. > > The attorneys believe that the judge does not understand social media at all, especially Facebook, and they need a general expert to put things in context. To better understand what they are looking for, their motion to dismiss is attached to this email. The case is in Comal County, Texas, which is about 30 miles south of Austin. > > We were wondering if you know someone in the area who may be able to help with this. The attorneys are unable to pay as they are doing this representation pro bono. > > Please let me know. > > Thanks! > Amul Kalia > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:51:49 -0500 > From: Jonathan Chavez > To: amul at eff.org > > Hi Amul, > > we spoke on the phone last night about locating a social media expert for the Justin Carter Case. I'm attaching two of the motions that we'll be discussing in the hearing on August 26th. I hope that will be able to help out with pointing you all in the right direction for what we need out of the social media expert. > > In addition, the lead attorney on the case, Don Flanary, wanted to know if the EFF would be willing to offer additional support in the form of writing an amicus curiae for the court to explain the effect that this case can have on First Amendment rights in the digital world. > > Again, we appreciate all the help. > From angelacdaly at gmail.com Sun Aug 24 23:01:29 2014 From: angelacdaly at gmail.com (Angela Daly) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:01:29 +1000 Subject: [Air-L] JoPP special issue: Peer production, disruption and the law - call for debates, essays and interviews Message-ID: Peer production, disruption and the law - call for debates, essays and interviews We are now inviting contributions to this special edition of the Journal of Peer Production in the form of short essays of between 1000 and 3000 words to complement the longer peer reviewed articles that will appear in this edition of the journal, due to be published in December 2014 The contributions can be testimonies, working papers and critical essays by researchers and practitioners. Debates are essays by several authors expressing clearly contrasting viewpoints about a relevant issue. The deadline for these contributions is 24 October 2014 and should be sent to disruptlawissue at peerproduction.net. The contributions will be reviewed by the editors - Steve Collins (Macquarie) and Angela Daly (Swinburne/European University Institute) - and so will not be peer-reviewed. Please see here for more details on JoPP submissions and style: http://peerproduction.net/about/submissions/ Special edition description The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice with powerful interests. Experience from the ?disruptions? of the late 20th century has shown that the response from incumbent industries can lead to a period of intense litigation and lobbying for laws that will maintain the status quo. For example, following its ?Napster moment?, the music industry fought to maintain its grip on distribution channels through increased copyright enforcement and the longer copyright terms it managed to extract from the legislative process. The newspaper industry has similarly seen its historical revenue stream of classified ads disrupted by more efficient online listings, and responded to its own failure to capitalise on online advertising by launching legal campaigns against Google News in various European countries. Though the law as it stands may not be well-equipped to deal with disruptive episodes, the technological innovations of the last twenty years have created an environment that generates disruption. The Internet, the Web and networked personal computers have converged into the ubiquitous post-PC media device, leaving twentieth century paradigms of production, consumption and distribution under considerable threat. The latest technology to be added to this group of disruptive innovations may be 3D printing, which in recent times has become increasingly available and accessible to users in developed economies, whilst the manufacturing capacity of 3D printers has dramatically grown. Although current offerings on the market are far from a Star Trek-like ?replicator?, the spectre of disruption has once again arrived, with the prospect of 3D printed guns inspiring a moral panic and raising questions of gun control, regulation, jurisdiction and effective control. In addition, 3D printing raises a number of issues regarding intellectual property, going far beyond the copyright problems that file-sharing brought about due to its production of physical objects. This special issue of the Journal of Peer Production calls for contributions that deal with the intersection of peer production, disruptive technologies and the law. Potential topics include, but are not restricted to: - The threat posed by peer production to legacy industries - The regulation of disruptive technologies through the rule of law or embedded rights management - Lobbying strategies of incumbent players to stymie disruptive technologies - Emergent economies or practices as a result of disruptive technologies - Extra-legal norm formation in peer production communities around disruptive technologies - Historical perspectives on the legal status of collaborative projects - Critical legal approaches to technology, disruption and peer production - The role and ability of the law (which differs across jurisdictions) in regulating autonomous production - The resilience of law in the face of social and technological change - The theories and assumptions which continue to underpin laws rendered obsolete by social and technological change From amarwick at gmail.com Mon Aug 25 07:46:46 2014 From: amarwick at gmail.com (Alice E. Marwick) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:46:46 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Problems logging into AOIR website/registering Message-ID: Is anyone else having problems logging in? I must have used a really obscure password because none of my standard ones work, and the Forgot Password? link has not mailed anything to me and I've tried it like six times now. Help! Alice, not usually technologically challenged -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Director, McGannon Center Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick at fordham.edu http://www.tiara.org Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity & Branding in the Social Media Age available from Yale Press http://bit.ly/StatusUpdateBook From aoir.z3z at danah.org Mon Aug 25 14:02:39 2014 From: aoir.z3z at danah.org (danah boyd) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:02:39 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Urgent: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF In-Reply-To: <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> References: <53F66E18.10807@eff.org> <58A54E5F-A7F1-4B55-A468-3599FA83D946@danah.org> Message-ID: <4622C883-59AA-4B65-96D0-EC6664841A63@danah.org> I just wanted to followup to say thank you to all who responded or pointed the EFF to folks. They were super grateful for folks' generosity on such a timely issue. Apparently AOIR sourced the people they need. So thank you! danah On Aug 23, 2014, at 2:11 PM, danah boyd wrote: > Do any of you know (or are any of you) a Texas-based social media expert who would be willing to offer testimony on this case? If so, please contact Amul directly - they are seeking help urgently. (And Amul gave me permission to post this request here.) > > danah > > PS: I removed the attachments because of AOIR's configuration, but feel free to write to Amul for copies of them. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Amul Kalia >> Subject: Fwd: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert - Request for help from EFF >> Date: August 21, 2014 at 6:09:28 PM EDT >> To: danah at danah.org >> >> Dear danah, >> >> My name is Amul Kalia and I am the Intake Coordinator at EFF. Cindy Cohn gave me your contact information. >> >> The reason I'm writing to you is because the attorneys representing Justin Carter, you may remember him from this: >> http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/tech/social-media/facebook-jailed-teen/, reached out to us asking if we know a social media expert who will be able to offer testimony on August 26th. >> >> The attorneys believe that the judge does not understand social media at all, especially Facebook, and they need a general expert to put things in context. To better understand what they are looking for, their motion to dismiss is attached to this email. The case is in Comal County, Texas, which is about 30 miles south of Austin. >> >> We were wondering if you know someone in the area who may be able to help with this. The attorneys are unable to pay as they are doing this representation pro bono. >> >> Please let me know. >> >> Thanks! >> Amul Kalia >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Justin Carter: Social Media Expert >> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:51:49 -0500 >> From: Jonathan Chavez >> To: amul at eff.org >> >> Hi Amul, >> >> we spoke on the phone last night about locating a social media expert for the Justin Carter Case. I'm attaching two of the motions that we'll be discussing in the hearing on August 26th. I hope that will be able to help out with pointing you all in the right direction for what we need out of the social media expert. >> >> In addition, the lead attorney on the case, Don Flanary, wanted to know if the EFF would be willing to offer additional support in the form of writing an amicus curiae for the court to explain the effect that this case can have on First Amendment rights in the digital world. >> >> Again, we appreciate all the help. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ ------ My New Book: "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" "taken out of context / i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.danah.org/ || @zephoria From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Tue Aug 26 07:48:36 2014 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:48:36 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers/Abstracts: ASIST Workshop on Understanding Web search engine users Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely! Call for Papers Understanding Web search engine users Workshop at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) October 31, 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ Organized by Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, USA Dirk Lewandowski, Professor, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist, Microsoft, USA INTRODUCTION Many researchers are interested in internet search behaviour, both as a primary action and as a secondary source of data that reflects the what, how, and why of information seeking. But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow at search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert at microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim ********* From mcstay at bangor.ac.uk Tue Aug 26 09:13:46 2014 From: mcstay at bangor.ac.uk (Andrew McStay) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:13:46 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: Political Studies Association Media & Politics Group Annual Conference Message-ID: <1409069625671.55547@bangor.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, A reminder. The extended deadline for abstracts for the Political Studies Association Media & Politics Group Annual Conference is fast approaching: 29th Aug 2014. We welcome papers on any aspect of Media and Politics, or on this year's conference theme of Media, Persuasion and Human Rights. Reflecting our theme, our confirmed keynote speakers are: * Prof. Sue Clayton (Goldsmiths University), an award-winning film-maker whose practice interrogates alternative forms of media presentation of human rights, asylum and identity issues. * Prof. Jon Silverman (University of Bedfordshire), an award-winning former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, who is currently working on the influence of the media's reporting of war crimes trials in West African civil society. Call for Papers **extended deadline 29 Aug 2014** Early bird registration rates: until 12th Sep 2014. Conference Date: Mon. 10th - Tues. 11th Nov. 2014 You can ... 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Don Heider Dean, School of Communication Loyola University Chicago From tsenft at gmail.com Tue Aug 26 15:05:08 2014 From: tsenft at gmail.com (Terri Senft) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:05:08 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Teaching Aid for you to steal: My student workbook for class on Cultural/Media Studies Research Approaches Message-ID: Well, hi, Pals. I finally put together the whole 67 page student workbook for my class on Cultural and Media studies Research Approaches.It is on my site, here: http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Approaches-Student-Workbook_Senft_Current-as-of-March-26.14.pdf Note: This is a PDF document that includes all the student exercises tailored to my particular class. I will email you an MS Word copy if you want to mess around with it and make it suit your own needs. Just send a mail my way asking, and throw out a thanks or a howdy somewhere on your doc, and I'm happy :) Btw, I have another workbook for Senior Thesis projects that includes a bit of the stuff in the Approaches doc, but also includes a section on writing formal research proposals and literature reviews that will be in that one. That should be ready by the weekend, I think. Excelsior! T -- Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net * (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft From dvoelker at stanford.edu Tue Aug 26 23:57:13 2014 From: dvoelker at stanford.edu (Dave Voelker) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:57:13 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis Message-ID: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm unable to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David Voelker, Ph.D. Department of Communication Stanford University http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ From alexleavitt at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 00:07:43 2014 From: alexleavitt at gmail.com (Alex Leavitt) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:07:43 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: At the point you hit >1 GB, you probably want to invest time in setting up an actual database and using programmatic means to analyze the data. I recommend checking out PostgreSQL, which has great features for text search and analysis. --- Alexander Leavitt PhD Candidate USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt On Aug 26, 2014 11:57 PM, "Dave Voelker" wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 00:41:45 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:41:45 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: Hello all, I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but previously I need to extract the content. I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). Any other suggestions? Many thanks! *Cristina Aced * PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp From david.herold at polyu.edu.hk Wed Aug 27 02:07:34 2014 From: david.herold at polyu.edu.hk (Herold, David [APSS]) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:07:34 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Generous PhD stipends on offer in Hong Kong Message-ID: Dear all, Please pass this on to any students who might be interested: Hong Kong Universities are looking for PhD students with evidence of academic excellence, research ability and potential, and good communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities for full-time PhD study in Hong Kong within the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. The scheme pays for: - Full 3 year tuition scholarship - Monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - Annual book and equipment allowance of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - not at all universities !!! - Annual Conference Funding of HK$10,000 (approx. US$1,300) - not at all universities !!! THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS VERY COMPETITIVE! DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 1, 2014 for a September 2015 start. HOW TO APPLY: General information: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html - Identify and approach potential supervisors as soon as possible (see below); - Develop a research proposal with interested supervisor; - Submit application forms (incl. references) and research proposals by the deadline. University websites to start looking for departments and supervisors: Hong Kong University - http://www.hku.edu.hk/ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - http://www.ust.edu.hk/ Chinese University of Hong Kong - http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ City University of Hong Kong - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Polytechnic University - http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Baptist University - http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/ Lingnan University - http://www.ln.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Institute of Education - http://www.ied.edu.hk/ My own info for interested students: Dr. David Kurt Herold, Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), HK Polytechnic University Email: David.Herold at polyu.edu.hk Research interests: - Internet in China; Internet users and their practices (=culture?); online/offline crossovers - Cross-cultural comparisons; cross-cultural (mis-)communication - Qualitative Research Methods, online research methods - Social Theory, Theories of knowledge, Theories of society FROM EXPERIENCE, THE FOLLOWING ARE EXPECTED OF APPLICANTS: - Undergraduate degree and postgraduate degree from different universities, preferably in different countries; - Good universities, very good GPA; - Very good research proposal (incl. literature review, interesting and doable project, etc.); - There is a preference for non-Chinese (there are different programs for Chinese students) to increase their ratio among Hong Kong students. Additional information: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ro/hkphd-fellowship/ Best, David ==================== Dr. David Kurt Herold Assistant Professor Department of Applied Social Sciences HK Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong Phone: (+852)-3400 3015 Email: David.Herold at polyu.edu.hk ==================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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But in case you want to collect communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API. Good luck! *Jos? Manuel Mart?n* Phd in Applied Linguistics Universitat de Valencia UVEG 2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > Hello all, > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > previously I need to extract the content. > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > Any other suggestions? > > Many thanks! > > *Cristina Aced * > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From mpstevenson at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 02:19:08 2014 From: mpstevenson at gmail.com (Michael Stevenson) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:19:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] WebCultures: a new mailing list for web history and allied fields Message-ID: <0FE39AFF-D966-4E4B-BE44-543290E5EB23@gmail.com> *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, Please consider subscribing to WebCultures, a new mailing list for web history and allied fields. http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/webcultures_listcultures.org WebCultures aims to bring together a growing number of researchers in the fields of web and internet history as well as the many archivists, artists, theorists, ethnographers, social scientists, critics and practitioners whose work intersects with the history of the web and new media culture. Ideally, the list will provide relevant announcements as well as a space for rich discussion and collaboration, for example around the following topics and questions: Mapping the field What are established and emerging themes in web and internet history? Is it already possible to map a web historiography, in the sense of an overview of canonical questions, approaches and knowledge? How does existing work address the range of possible histories of web cultures, producers and users, media and communication forms, websites and platforms, web aesthetics, standards and protocols, software and programming languages, groups and institutions? Education Where do web and internet history fit in existing media studies and communications programs? What kinds of digital media history courses are being developed? Should students born in the 1990s learn about Gopher or the development of RSS - and if so, what are the best ways to interest and motivate them? Resources and methods What on- and offline archives related to web and internet history are available, and how else is this history being preserved? What methods and tools are available for web archiving and for mining existing web archives? How can knowledge of the specific problems involved in doing web history be pooled? Relationship to other domains How can web history build on existing work in media and communications history? What does it have to offer research focused on newer objects of study such as social media platforms and the Whatsapp generation of communication apps? Conversely, how does the appearance of these new objects affect how we view and research web history? Institutionalization What is the discipline?s status? What conferences, journals, funding opportunities and jobs are out there, or should be out there? Of course, this list of topics may prove to be too ambitious, or not ambitious enough. Hopefully, at the very least, the mailing list will provide a better sense of who?s working in this fast-growing field. For any questions or subscription issues, please contact the list administrator (me) at michael [at] webcultures.org. Michael Stevenson Assistant Professor New Media & Digital Culture Dept. of Journalism Studies University of Groningen http://www.webcultures.org/ http://twitter.com/_mstevenson From tijana.milosevic at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 02:42:15 2014 From: tijana.milosevic at gmail.com (Tijana Milosevic) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:42:15 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Cristina, Prof. Deen Freelon at American University, see here, used to have a free tool called "F-grab" which extracted Facebook data. I cannot seem to find a link to it now, but you might want to contact him , it worked really well. Good luck! Tijana On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:18 AM, JM Mart?n wrote: > Hi Cristina! > > If you are trying to extract information from social networks, first thing > you should know is that Facebook is not so easy to harvest as Twitter is, > due to a question of software. But in case you want to collect > communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in > order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you > mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API. > > Good luck! > > *Jos? Manuel Mart?n* > Phd in Applied Linguistics > Universitat de Valencia UVEG > > > > > 2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > > > Hello all, > > > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > > previously I need to extract the content. > > > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it > is > > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > Many thanks! > > > > *Cristina Aced * > > PhD Candidate > > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > > | caced at uoc.edu > > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Tijana Milosevic, PhD Candidate School of Communication American University, Washington DC 202-907-91-91 www.tijanamilosevic.com From stu at texifter.com Wed Aug 27 03:52:50 2014 From: stu at texifter.com (Shulman, Stu) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:52:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly via an API - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a peer network - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to 'clean' social data sets - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning - free for the first 30 days https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research lab specifically to improve measurement. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of > Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are > using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but > previously I need to extract the content. > > I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs > and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is > due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). > > Any other suggestions? > > Many thanks! > > *Cristina Aced * > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Wed Aug 27 04:16:04 2014 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:16:04 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Rankings of Universities and Research Centers Message-ID: <53FDBDF4.1060306@cchs.csic.es> The new editions of the Rankings Web of Universities (now in its 11th year) and Research Centers have been published with data collected during July 2014. 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Antivirus est? activa. http://www.avast.com From mcambre at ualberta.ca Wed Aug 27 05:46:53 2014 From: mcambre at ualberta.ca (MC Cambre) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:46:53 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a software like that for corpus analysis. cc On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- -- Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ From guozhang at indiana.edu Wed Aug 27 05:56:19 2014 From: guozhang at indiana.edu (Guo Zhang Freeman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:56:19 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)? http://www.liwc.net/ On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:46 AM, MC Cambre wrote: > I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a > software like that for corpus analysis. > cc > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker > wrote: > > > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing > a > > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big > data. > > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > > unable > > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > David Voelker, Ph.D. > > Department of Communication > > Stanford University > > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > > -- > > -- > Carolina Cambre PhD > Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University > http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About > > http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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: > > From N.Harrower at ria.ie Wed Aug 27 06:08:25 2014 From: N.Harrower at ria.ie (Natalie Harrower) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:08:25 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu>, Message-ID: <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top program for qualitative data analysis a while back. http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx _______ Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education & Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 www.dri.ie Twitter: @dri_ireland www.ria.ie The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [mcambre at ualberta.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM To: Dave Voelker Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a software like that for corpus analysis. cc On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker wrote: > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > unable > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David Voelker, Ph.D. > Department of Communication > Stanford University > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > -- -- Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie From klang at ituniv.se Wed Aug 27 06:51:18 2014 From: klang at ituniv.se (Mathias Klang) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:51:18 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Teaching Aid for you to steal: My student workbook for class on Cultural/Media Studies Research Approaches In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53FDE256.5030809@ituniv.se> Hi Terri, Nice workbook! Thanks for sharing. Mathias On 26/08/14 18:05 pm, Terri Senft wrote: > Well, hi, Pals. I finally put together the whole 67 page student workbook > for my class on Cultural and Media studies Research Approaches.It is on my > site, here: > > http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Approaches-Student-Workbook_Senft_Current-as-of-March-26.14.pdf > > Note: This is a PDF document that includes all the student exercises > tailored to my particular class. I will email you an MS Word copy if you > want to mess around with it and make it suit your own needs. Just send a > mail my way asking, and throw out a thanks or a howdy somewhere on your > doc, and I'm happy :) > > Btw, I have another workbook for Senior Thesis projects that includes a bit > of the stuff in the Approaches doc, but also includes a section on writing > formal research proposals and literature reviews that will be in that one. > That should be ready by the weekend, I think. > > Excelsior! > T > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, University of G?teborg Website: http://klangable.com US Cell: 215 882 0989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 27 06:57:02 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:57:02 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <381-22014832713572703@LEN-dick-2011> ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting See http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ for full information and to register October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA Come to Seattle for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme for this year?s conference is Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - we chose this theme to celebrate the breadth of information science, its historical roots, its user-centeredness, and its unique aim of bringing people together around ideas, thoughts, and the exchange of information and knowledge. The program includes 42 papers, 26 panels, 102 posters, 12 workshops, and many opportunities for socializing at receptions. All in all this conference is packed with intellectually stimulating sessions, lots of opportunities to network and meet new people, and engage in the health and well-being of this wonderful association. We are delighted to present two excellent and accomplished keynote speakers: Kris M. Kutchera is Vice President, Information Technology for the Alaska Air Group Alessandro Acquisti is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:45:55 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:45:55 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> Message-ID: Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! *Cristina Aced Toledano* PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp 2014-08-27 15:08 GMT+02:00 Natalie Harrower : > NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top > program for qualitative data analysis a while back. > > http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx > > _______ > > Dr. Natalie Harrower > Manager, Education & Outreach > Digital Repository of Ireland > Royal Irish Academy > 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 > www.dri.ie > Twitter: @dri_ireland > > www.ria.ie > The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann > Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities > > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [ > mcambre at ualberta.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM > To: Dave Voelker > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis > > I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a > software like that for corpus analysis. > cc > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker > wrote: > > > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any > > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying > > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing > a > > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, > > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data > > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big > data. > > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware > > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm > > unable > > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > David Voelker, Ph.D. > > Department of Communication > > Stanford University > > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > > > > -- > > -- > Carolina Cambre PhD > Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University > http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About > > http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 > & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts > 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:47:50 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:47:50 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! Cristina Aced 2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu : > DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the > Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for > collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: > > - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser > - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly > via an API > - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a > peer network > - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater > reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) > - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities > - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering > - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to > 'clean' social data sets > - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning > - free for the first 30 days > https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration > > We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 > historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth > more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free > historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and > then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. > > These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research > lab specifically to improve measurement. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of >> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are >> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but >> previously I need to extract the content. >> >> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs >> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it >> is >> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> *Cristina Aced * >> >> PhD Candidate >> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society >> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >> | caced at uoc.edu >> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> > > > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > http://people.umass.edu/stu > > Founder and CEO, Texifter > http://texifter.com > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman > > Twitter > https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman > From blogocorp at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:48:52 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:48:52 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis In-Reply-To: References: <000801cfc1c4$21a78050$64f680f0$@stanford.edu> <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182DB95E63@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> Message-ID: Sorry, my last message was not in connection with this thread. Cristina 2014-08-27 16:45 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced : > Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all > the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share > which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! > > *Cristina Aced Toledano* > PhD Candidate > Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya > | caced at uoc.edu > www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp > > > 2014-08-27 15:08 GMT+02:00 Natalie Harrower : > > NVivo is a possibility. I haven't used it for years but it was the top >> program for qualitative data analysis a while back. >> >> http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx >> >> _______ >> >> Dr. Natalie Harrower >> Manager, Education & Outreach >> Digital Repository of Ireland >> Royal Irish Academy >> 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 >> www.dri.ie >> Twitter: @dri_ireland >> >> www.ria.ie >> The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh R?oga na h?ireann >> Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of MC Cambre [ >> mcambre at ualberta.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM >> To: Dave Voelker >> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis >> >> I am not sure what it is called but I know that linguists are using a >> software like that for corpus analysis. >> cc >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Dave Voelker >> wrote: >> >> > I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any >> > computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying >> > predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases >> representing a >> > concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to >> traditional, >> > conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data >> > mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big >> data. >> > An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware >> > Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/), but I'm >> > unable >> > to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. >> > >> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> > David Voelker, Ph.D. >> > Department of Communication >> > Stanford University >> > http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > The Air-L at 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/ >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> Carolina Cambre PhD >> Assistant Professor, King's University College @ Western University >> http://ualberta.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre/About >> >> http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> >> >> The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts >> 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection >> Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ >> > > From patyrossini at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 07:53:51 2014 From: patyrossini at gmail.com (Patricia Rossini) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:53:51 -0300 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cristina, please do ;) I'm also looking/testing a few tools to see what would be better for my research. Add digital footprints to your list: very nice, but has data limitations :( Enviada do meu iPad > Em 27/08/2014, ?s 11:47, Cristina Aced escreveu: > > Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the > messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share > which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! > > Cristina Aced > > > 2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu : > >> DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the >> Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for >> collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: >> >> - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser >> - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly >> via an API >> - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a >> peer network >> - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater >> reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) >> - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities >> - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering >> - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to >> 'clean' social data sets >> - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning >> - free for the first 30 days >> https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration >> >> We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 >> historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth >> more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free >> historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and >> then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. >> >> These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research >> lab specifically to improve measurement. >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of >>> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are >>> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but >>> previously I need to extract the content. >>> >>> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs >>> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it >>> is >>> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). >>> >>> Any other suggestions? >>> >>> Many thanks! >>> >>> *Cristina Aced * >>> >>> PhD Candidate >>> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society >>> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >>> | caced at uoc.edu >>> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Air-L at 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/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman >> http://people.umass.edu/stu >> >> Founder and CEO, Texifter >> http://texifter.com >> >> LinkedIn >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman >> >> Twitter >> https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman >> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Wed Aug 27 08:06:27 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:06:27 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter Message-ID: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). - tim, phd student, upenn From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca Wed Aug 27 08:29:11 2014 From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:29:11 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] text analysis -nostalgia Message-ID: The discussion for Corpus Analysis reminds me of the General Inquirer, created (almost solely) by the late great Philip J Stone III. It was a major basis for my 1969 dissertation, analyzing "Who Am I?" statements of 9th graders in Pittsburgh. Did a few early papers on it too. There's a book on the GI that some libraries may have. While Phil is gone, supposedly there is a Foundation. I was initially asked to be on the board, but I never heard anything. So everything old is new again Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ From slc at publicus.net Wed Aug 27 11:08:30 2014 From: slc at publicus.net (Steven Clift) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:08:30 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Due Today Aug 27 - GovLab's Academy Course Online Participation - Solving Public Problems with Technology Message-ID: This crossed my radar today just in time for you to apply - by Aug 27: http://bit.ly/govlabacademycourse The GovLab Academy?s new course can help you solve problems that matter. 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Follow us on Twitter @TheGovLab Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 From anu.harju at aalto.fi Wed Aug 27 11:26:50 2014 From: anu.harju at aalto.fi (Harju Anu) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:26:50 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Hi everyone, and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. Best, Anu Anu Harju Doctoral Candidate Aalto University Helsinki Finland Sent from my iPhone On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > - tim, phd student, upenn > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From seda at nyu.edu Wed Aug 27 11:35:52 2014 From: seda at nyu.edu (Seda Gurses) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:35:52 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists Message-ID: <6D585C2F-A5E8-4A3C-BDEB-D84B74DE13B5@nyu.edu> hey airers, this year the internet governance forum (igf) is taking place in istanbul, which has raised some eyebrows given the government?s track record also with respect to the internet over the last 4 years. alternatif bilisim dernegi, a local association, is organizing the internet ungovernance forum in parallel to this year?s igf in istanbul (https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org). in preparation of the ungovernance forum, we also put together a workshop which may be of interest to those of you who plan to be there and are asking similar questions about the future of internet governance. please see details below and feel free to spread widely in your networks. thank you, s. Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists 3rd of September, 2014 at MMO [1] Istanbul, Turkey https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html * Are you confused about all the complicated and overlapping institutions that claim to be working on Internet governance? * Are you unsure about how activists concerned with local censorship and surveillance fit into these global structures? * Are you wondering how the IGF, ICANN, IETF, the ITU, the CSTD, Net Mundial are relevant to your collective engagements? If these are questions you are asking yourself and you would like to think together with other people asking similar questions, then please join us at our strategy workshop for Internet activists! In preparation for the Internet Ungovernance Forum[2], the half-day workshop will provide an an opportunity for activists working towards a free, secure and open Internet to get to know Internet governance processes and to explore strategies for collective action. While topics abound, the focus of this workshop will be on matters of surveillance, privacy, the securitization of the Internet, and censorship. Together with invited guests, we plan to spend an afternoon developing strategies to address these problems through national and transnational Internet governance institutions, and/or through organizing outside of these structures. The participants will be expected to report important outcomes of the workshop at the final session of the Internet Ungovernance Forum. The workshop will consist of three parts: * A mapping and diagnosis of existing Internet governance processes that may be relevant to activists. This will include an overview of current shifts in internet governance and exploration of immediate points of intervention. * A discussion of levels of governance, especially the relative merits of participating in local, national, or transnational institutions. We will work through strategies available to activists to address the selected topics through transnational and national institutions that make up the current Internet governance landscape. * A discussion of initiatives and topics that the activists are currently involved in, and a mapping of their potential strategies for collective action within or outside of the Internet governance structures. Format: The workshop will consist of three discussion sessions structured and moderated by invited guests with experience in internet activism or in internet governance structures. Participation: This workshop is for activists that want to collectively develop strategies for action at the local or international level on the topics of surveillance, privacy, the securitization of the Internet and censorship. We expect activists from all disciplinary/non-disciplined backgrounds to join us. A commitment to collective action and curiosity about Internet governance processes is a plus. We ask those interested in participating to send an email to ungovWorkshop at alternatifbilisim.org by 1st of September 2014. Please include in the email a short biography and a list of topics you would like to see discussed at the workshop. Invited Guests: Melih Kirlidog, Alternatif Bilisim Dernegi, Marmara University Milton Mueller, Syracuse University, Internet Governance Project Robin Gross, IP Justice Meryem Marzouki, CNRS Reading Materials: We recommend reading the following materials and studying the following websites in preparation for the workshop: * Internet Governance Project blog [3] * The Citizen Lab [4] * Paper: Finding a Formula for Brazil: Representation and Legitimacy in Internet Governance [5] Schedule: 3. of September, 2014. 13.00 - 18.00 hours Location: Makina Muhensidleri Odasi Istanbul Subesi (Beyoglu/Taksim) Katip Mustafa Celebi Mahallesi Ipek Sokak No: 9 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Language: The workshop will take place in English. We encourage those who have reservations attending the workshop due to their command of the English language to couple up with other participants who can support them throughout the meeting. Please visit the Workshop webpage for updates.[6] [1] MMO Beyoglu Ofice http://www.mmo.org.tr/genel/bizden_detay.php?kod=26967&tipi=2&sube=10 [2] Internet Ungovernance Forum https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org [3] http://internetgovernance.org [4] https://citizenlab.org/ [5] http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MiltonBenWPdraft_Final.pdf [6] https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html From craig.boman at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 13:46:06 2014 From: craig.boman at gmail.com (craig boman) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:46:06 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Depending on your coding knowledge, you may be able to configure a screen scraper like Scrapy (http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/) to get what you need. I don't have much experience with it yet, but it is open source. All the best, Craig Boman Ph.D Student On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a > paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering > if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very > laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a > coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially > thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for > quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > > > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting > fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so > depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you > an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. > 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for > processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content > dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, > etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML > you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing > instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the > actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this > is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that > solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready > for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an > automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > > > - tim, phd student, upenn > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > From tlibert at asc.upenn.edu Wed Aug 27 15:41:59 2014 From: tlibert at asc.upenn.edu (Tim Libert) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:41:59 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: <1409175696685.68238@uw.edu> References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu>, <1409175696685.68238@uw.edu> Message-ID: I once figured out a way to get the youtube to spit out all of the comments at once by tweaking an ajax request, but I can?t figure out how to do it again on quick inspection. it was possible though, you may have to bribe your coder friend with some club mate. ;-) shawn is totally on the mark re: rate-limiting, google in particular is strict on scraping/botishness; anything you set against their properties needs some built-in politeness, I think a random interval of 5-15 seconds was working for me at one time. another way is to just pay somebody on amazon turk to copy/paste for you - could be the cheapest route time- and resource-wise and not requiring new tools. - t On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Hi Anu, > > To extract YouTube comments, consider TubeKit (http://tubekit.org/). I've used it in a few projects to extract YouTube video metadata, videos, and comment data with great success. > > Another consideration with respect to the discussion of these tools for FB or Twitter data collection is to evaluate what APIs each tool uses. Depending on the API, you might only receive a small sample of data or may be rate limited with others. So, it's important to understand how any tool you use works and what implications or limitations that might have on your research. Historical data is notoriously difficult to get -- purchasing historical data is an option, but adds in a new set of limitations too (deleted accounts, posts, URL decay, etc.). > > These issues need to be discussed more openly and critically addressed. :) > > -- > Shawn Walker > PhD Candidate > Information School > University of Washington > stw3 at uw.edu ? students.washington.edu/stw3 > SoMe Lab @ UW - somelab.net > > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L on behalf of Harju Anu > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:26 AM > To: Tim Libert > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter > > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > >> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). >> >> - tim, phd student, upenn >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 22:57:23 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:57:23 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Hi Anu, I suggest you try NodeXL . It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. Good Luck ! On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a > paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering > if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very > laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a > coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially > thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for > quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" wrote: > > > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting > fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so > depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you > an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. > 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for > processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content > dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, > etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML > you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing > instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the > actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this > is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that > solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready > for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an > automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > > > - tim, phd student, upenn > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > -- *Noha A.Nagi* From noha.a.nagi at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 23:06:44 2014 From: noha.a.nagi at gmail.com (Noha Nagi) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:06:44 +0300 Subject: [Air-L] Research inquiry In-Reply-To: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> References: <9BA15A70-84F4-43F2-9CBD-A217EB570B48@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions. Thanks Anja, Stu, Jacob, Lauri and Joan ! I have tried and looked at all your suggestions. What fits most to my research requirements is DiscoverText and NodeXL. I am still doing some trials with both of them to decide the best one for me but I have a good understanding now of their functionality and of other software tools. I would love to help anyone with this if you ask. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Anja Bechmann wrote: > Hi Noha and others, try www.digitalfootprints.dk - we have free access > for small scale studies now. > > Best, Anja > > Anja Bechmann > Associate Professor, PhD > Aarhus University, Denmark > +45 5133 5138 > > .....this message is sent from my iPhone .... > > > Den 04/08/2014 kl. 22.28 skrev Noha Nagi : > > > > Dear Professors and colleagues, > > > > I am starting a research using facebook data. I am newbie in this area > and > > looking for a software or a way to automatically extract historical > > facebook data from (Arabic) facebook pages. > > > > Data needed include: > > - posts; > > - comments; > > - date &time of posts and comments; and > > - some information about people that post and comment > > (for example: name, gender, age, location,...etc as much as we can get). > > > > I tried NodeXL. It helped me collect much of these requirements but not > the > > *date/time *of posts and comments and this is crucial for my study. I aim > > to study a social phenomenon and its evolution through time. > > > > > > *Can anyone advice or suggest another software?* > > > > > > I appreciate your advice/comments, > > Thank you all, > > Yours, > > *Noha A.Nagi* > > Lab assistant,Faculty of Economics & Political Science,Cairo University > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > -- *Noha A.Nagi* From anu.harju at aalto.fi Thu Aug 28 00:14:45 2014 From: anu.harju at aalto.fi (Harju Anu) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:14:45 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> , Message-ID: Hi everyone, thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I will try them out as soon as I have the time. I suppose they work on Mac, too. Noha, thanks for the offer of help, I might take you up on that if I run into any problems. I'm flying out to a conference today so won't be able to do anything in this regard for a week, but thanks again, much appreciated :) Best, Anu Sent from my iPhone On 28.8.2014, at 8.57, "Noha Nagi" > wrote: Hi Anu, I suggest you try NodeXL. It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. Good Luck ! On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu > wrote: Hi everyone, and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. Best, Anu Anu Harju Doctoral Candidate Aalto University Helsinki Finland Sent from my iPhone On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" > wrote: > I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). > > - tim, phd student, upenn > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ -- Noha A.Nagi From berno.rieder at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 01:49:08 2014 From: berno.rieder at gmail.com (Bernhard Rieder) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:49:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter In-Reply-To: References: <5B09CD96-9FB2-4594-BC19-09AFE8E4F32D@asc.upenn.edu> , Message-ID: <82EBAEF9-EB3F-4E7A-B6E8-D86262C3ACF8@gmail.com> Hi, Just to add to the list, I develop Netvizz (https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/), which extracts data from personal networks, groups and pages on Facebook. I also think that Facepager (https://github.com/strohne/Facepager) is an awesome tool. best, Bernhard -- Bernhard Rieder | Associate Professor | New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://thepoliticsofsystems.net | http://rieder.polsys.net | https://www.digitalmethods.net | @RiederB On 28 Aug 2014, at 9:14 , Harju Anu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I will try them out as soon as I have the time. I suppose they work on Mac, too. > > Noha, thanks for the offer of help, I might take you up on that if I run into any problems. I'm flying out to a conference today so won't be able to do anything in this regard for a week, but thanks again, much appreciated :) > > Best, > Anu > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28.8.2014, at 8.57, "Noha Nagi" > wrote: > > Hi Anu, > > I suggest you try NodeXL. It's simple and free. You will need to install first the social network importer for NodeXL to grab facebook, twitter, flicker and youtube data. > > Good Luck ! > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Harju Anu > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > and I'm also grateful for all these suggestions for various tools. For a paper for my PhD I'm looking at YouTube comment threads and I was wondering if any one of you might know a tool that can extract those? It's a very laborious process to do manually and it drives me insane. I once asked a coder friend of mine, but he said it was more complicated than he initially thought, and we left it at that. > > Thank you in advance, and thanks for a great list! I've been a lurker for quite some time now and find it very useful. > > Best, > Anu > > > Anu Harju > Doctoral Candidate > Aalto University > Helsinki > Finland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27.8.2014, at 18.06, "Tim Libert" > wrote: > >> I?d quickly point out two additional considerations when ingesting fb/twitter data: 1) APIs generally exclude ads (which are ?targeted?) - so depending on what you want to study and/or model an API will never give you an accurate view of what users really see. APIs are easy, but incomplete. 2) The trick with scraping content directly from the web is accounting for processing/executing javascript as that is how many pages pull content dynamically (there may also be other factors: redirects, iframes, canvas, etc). If your tool (e.g. Python urllib,etc). can only access static HTML you will not be able to pull the content you want as you will be accessing instruction sets of how to dynamically render content rather than the actual content. I am not sure how your tool in R works, but I imagine this is a likely issue you may be facing. I have developed some software that solves problem #2 by leveraging http://phantomjs.org/, but it?s not ready for public release quite yet; however, you may want to consider using an automation framework like selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/). >> >> - tim, phd student, upenn >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > > > > -- > Noha A.Nagi > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From bbakiogl at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 01:57:23 2014 From: bbakiogl at gmail.com (Burcu Bakioglu) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:57:23 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF Message-ID: Hi all, I would like to alert those of you who are attending the Internet Governance Forum 2014 in Istanbul to the following IRP panels/events. Human Rights for the Internet: From Principles to Action Sept 2, 11:00-12:30PM, WS83 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/3e25d63b87b9c4dd41bb3000026b806b#.U_7UdEj-SYo Anonymity by Design: Protecting While Connecting Sept 4, 11:00-12:30PM, WS146 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/b78a96b68de216dd4eb856751658c729?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7bHkj-SYo Online Freedoms and Access to Information Online Sept 5, 9:00-10:30AM, WS225 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/108673c90f772a94e889c94a72651104?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7SVEj-SYo Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles: The IRPC Charter of Human rights and Principles for the Internet: 5 years on Sept 4, 4:30-6:00PM http://igf2014.sched.org/event/6351f1d8c02523edc26c9274e6bb82ff?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7TB0j-SYo Thank you. -- Thanks, Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University http://www.palefirer.com -- "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." Lon Chaney From blogocorp at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 04:11:49 2014 From: blogocorp at gmail.com (Cristina Aced) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:11:49 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter (some conclusions) Message-ID: Hi everyone! and thank you for your suggestions!! Many thanks Jos? Manuel, Noha, Tijana, Stu, Tobias, Patricia, Harju, Craig, Tim & Bernhard! As promised, here you have my first impressions of the options you have suggested to extract data from Facebook. As I explained in previous messages, I need to gather the content published by companies on blogs, Twitter and Facebook (posts, tweets, status) with their date information and all the feedback received: number of comments/ RT/ mentions/ likes /shares and so on. After considering all your suggestions and trying some of them: ? I'm using *OutWit Hub* (the free version is very complete) to scrape blogs and Twitter accounts. It is necessary to create scrapers to gather the data you want but it is easy to learn how it works and you can personalize the scraping. It's a great tool but it doesn't work properly with Facebook due to Facebook's API limitations :( ? *NodeXL* is a useful tool specially for analyzing connections between users/ contents on social media and for creating amazing graphs. It also downloads status updates but the way it shows the information is a little bit chaotic (i.e. it is not easy to connect the status update with the comments it has received). Another interesting option: it is possible to get demographic information about FB's users (genre, location...). ? *NVivo* is fantastic to work with Facebook and Twitter. Very easy to extract FB's status updates, date & time, comments and number of likes. To sum up: I have decided to use OutWit Hub to work with blogs and Twitter and NVivo to work with Facebook. If you have any doubt about this topic, maybe I can help you, so feel free to send your doubts and I'll try to answer them! *Cristina Aced * PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced at uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp From ierick at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 05:14:07 2014 From: ierick at gmail.com (Ingrid Erickson) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:14:07 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] iConference Deadline Reminder Message-ID: <53FF1D0F.2010903@gmail.com> Deadline Alert: iConference 2015// iConference 2015: Create-Collaborate-Celebrate Newport Beach, CA, USA; March 24-27, 2015 Conference Site: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Submission System: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/__ */ALERT: Submission deadlines for iConference 2015 are approaching fast, with papers due September 5./* The following submissions are invited: Papers : Due Friday, September 5, 2014, midnight PDT Workshops _:_Due Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT Doctoral Colloquium _:_Due Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT__ Posters _:_Due Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT__ Interactive Sessions _:_Due Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT__ Social Media Expo _:_Commitment letter due October 14, 2014; student team submissions due December 15, 2014.__ Dissertation Award _:_Due Wednesday, October 15, 2014, midnight PDT iConference 2015 takes place March 24-27 in Newport Beach, CA. It is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. The Champion Sponsor is Microsoft Research. All information researchers and scholars are welcome---affiliation with an iSchool is not required. IMPORTANT LINKS Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Call for Participation: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/call-for-participation/__ Submissions: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/__ Facebook: iConference Twitter: @iConf | #iconf15 From nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca Thu Aug 28 05:51:51 2014 From: nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca (Nicole Cohen) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:51:51 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?windows-1252?q?Two_positions_at_the_University_of_Toron?= =?windows-1252?q?to_Mississauga_=97_Culture_and_New_Media=2C_Media_Theory?= Message-ID: <10D9C1534D4CA94DA8D21770349A4774315050A0@arborexmbx4.UTORARBOR.UTORAD.Utoronto.ca> We would like to bring your attention to a new Assistant Professor of Culture and New Media position in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. You will find the posting below and online at: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401667 Assistant Professor ? Culture and New Media Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a tenure-stream position in the area of Culture and New Media at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2015. We seek a candidate to build on the strengths of the Institute through research that examines the intersection of culture and new media in relation to the social, political, and economic dimensions of life in both Canada and abroad. We are particularly interested in individuals doing work in areas like digital culture, surveillance studies, and globalization. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. degree by the appointment start date (or shortly thereafter) in a related field and have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching and research. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on culture and new media and s/he will have a graduate appointment in one of the University?s tri-campus graduate departments. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga focuses on teaching and research excellence in its four undergraduate programs: Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT), Interactive Digital Media (IDM), Digital Enterprise Management (DEM), and Professional Writing and Communication (PWC). Currently, ICCIT is building a research complement in social networking and communication, interactive and immersive digital media and culture, and the theory and practice of design, with an emphasis on all aspects of digital media. ICCIT is also actively engaged with the community and profit and non-profit organizations. All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking on the link below. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word files in the following format: 1) Letter, CV, and research & teaching statements 2) Publications Applicants must have three referees send signed letters directly to Professor Anthony Wensley, Director, ICCIT, University of Toronto Mississauga via email to iccit.utm at utoronto.ca by the closing date, November 21, 2014. For more information on the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, please visit our website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit To apply online please click: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401667 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. --- We would like to bring your attention to a new Associate Professor of Media Theory position in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. You will find the posting below and online at: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401669 Associate Professor ? Media Theory Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications in the area of Media Theory at the rank of Associate Professor. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2015. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field and must demonstrate a record of excellence in research and teaching, have an established reputation in the field, and have an active record of publication in the area of critical communication studies. We seek scholars from a wide range of analytical approaches to media theory, including communication studies, information studies, science and technology studies, cultural studies, queer/feminist theory, political economy, political science, and policy studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in her/his area of specialization and must be experienced in educating and mentoring graduate students, junior researchers and/or professionals. The successful candidate?s graduate appointment will be in one of the University?s tri-campus graduate departments. Previous administrative experience, and experience in developing new curricula at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, would be assets. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga focuses on teaching and research excellence in its four undergraduate programs: Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (CCIT), Interactive Digital Media (IDM), Digital Enterprise Management (DEM), and Professional Writing and Communication (PWC). Currently, the ICCIT is building a research complement in social networking and communication, interactive and immersive digital media and culture, and the theory and practice of design, with an emphasis on all aspects of digital media. ICCIT is also actively engaged with the community and profit and non-profit organizations. All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking on the link below. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word files in the following format: 1) Letter, CV, and research & teaching statements 2) Publications Applicants should also provide the names and contact details of three referees in their application. All application materials must be submitted online by the closing date, October 17, 2014. For more information on the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, please visit our website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit To apply online please click: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1401669 All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. Nicole S. Cohen, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology (UTM) & Faculty of Information nicole.cohen at utoronto.ca || 905-828-3906 || CCT 3004 From eden.medina at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 05:53:08 2014 From: eden.medina at gmail.com (Eden Medina) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:53:08 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Book Announcement: Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America Message-ID: Dear all, This publication may be of interest to list readers, especially the two chapters by Anita Chan and Morgan Ames on the XO laptop created by the One Laptop per Child program. The book has been structured so that each chapter stands alone and can be used for teaching. More information about the book is available at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-imported-magic. Apologies for cross postings. Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America Edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes Foreword by Marcos Cueto MIT Press, 2014, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780262526203 (paperback) Also available in hardback and Kindle Amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Magic-Science-Technology-Society/dp/0262526204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409104674&sr=8-1&keywords=beyond+imported+magic The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South -- the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors? explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present. The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. Contributors: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiar?n, Jo?o Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana D?az del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Mar?a Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania P?rez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodr?guez-Giralt, Edna Su?rez D?az, Hern?n Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic// Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes SECTION I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society 2 Who Invented Brazil? // Henrique Cukierman 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective // Mariano Fressoli, Rafael Dias, and Hern?n Thomas 4 Working with Care: Experiences of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia // Tania P?rez-Bustos, Mar?a Fernanda Olarte Sierra, and Adriana D?az del Castillo H. 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges // Ivan da Costa Marques 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Select English-Language Journals // Michael Lemon and Eden Medina SECTION II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation 7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State In Turn of the Twentieth Century Argentina // Julia Rodriguez 8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba // Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Alonso 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery // Anita Chan 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of OLPC's XO Laptop in Paraguay // Morgan G. Ames 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How has an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America? // Noela Invernizzi, Matthieu Hubert, and Dominique Vinck 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions // Amy Cox Hall SECTION III: Science, Technology and Latin American Politics 13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina // Jonathan Hagood 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico // Gisela Mateos and Edna Su?rez D?az 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy and Democracy in Chile // Manuel Tironi and Javiera Barandiar?n 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict on Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil // Ana Delgado and Israel Rodriguez-Giralt 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts // Jo?o Biehl Endorsements: At one level the term 'beyond imported magic' situates this collection as a contribution to the critique of the traditional North-South diffusionist stories of science and technology, but at another level the essays take the reader beyond the 'imported magic' of Northern theories of STS. By connecting us with the reflexive and critical voices of Latin American STS scholarship, this book is a great introduction to contemporary modes of rethinking STS from Latin American perspectives." -David J. Hess, Sociology, Vanderbilt University This astonishing collection provides for both science and technology studies and postcolonial students and scholars valuable new pathways for thinking and illuminatingly different conceptual approaches. These authors usher in a much-needed expansive era for historians, philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, and ethnographers of science as well as for readers in other fields. I can't wait to teach it. -Sandra Harding, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Education and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Distinguished Affiliate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University; and author of Sciences from Below In this enchanting book, leading scholars conjure up surprising and gripping new configurations of science and technology in Latin America. These essays reveal brilliantly how local and regional histories haunt so-called global scientific projects. Beyond Imported Magic brings Latin America into contemporary conversations about what makes technoscience appear so worldly and cosmopolitan, even as it is experienced as situated and place-bound in practice. This book will cast a spell on anyone who wants to understand the multiple ways in which we try, and often fail, to be both modern and global. -Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney, author of The Collectors of Lost Souls This exciting and thought-provoking volume shows how analyzing Latin America through an STS lens allows us to peer more closely at known histories and uncover new and in some cases existing but understudied connections. Once we divest ourselves of outdated adjectives such as 'peripheral' to explain the role of Latin America in science we invariably begin to see the region as a center with a long history of scientific production and with the many complexities that this entails. By placing Latin America into longer narratives of (redefined or reemphasized) scientific research, the authors crucially demonstrate science as ever-present and not a relatively new, imported phenomena of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries. -Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill From S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk Thu Aug 28 07:09:17 2014 From: S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk (S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:09:17 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7AA30240B873EA4EB6E632F32538771B0A068D7C@EXMBOXC2.lse.ac.uk> And for researchers interested in human rights issues as they specifically apply to the world's children (half the population in much of the global South...), you are very welcome to join this session: http://igf2014.sched.org/event/ca06aad1d8caeef6ed1fde3764bc5d13#.U_83wfldVZs cheers, Sonia Livingstone -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Burcu Bakioglu Sent: 28 August 2014 09:57 To: AoiR list Subject: [Air-L] Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Panels @IGF Hi all, I would like to alert those of you who are attending the Internet Governance Forum 2014 in Istanbul to the following IRP panels/events. Human Rights for the Internet: From Principles to Action Sept 2, 11:00-12:30PM, WS83 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/3e25d63b87b9c4dd41bb3000026b806b#.U_7UdEj-SYo Anonymity by Design: Protecting While Connecting Sept 4, 11:00-12:30PM, WS146 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/b78a96b68de216dd4eb856751658c729?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7bHkj-SYo Online Freedoms and Access to Information Online Sept 5, 9:00-10:30AM, WS225 http://igf2014.sched.org/event/108673c90f772a94e889c94a72651104?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7SVEj-SYo Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles: The IRPC Charter of Human rights and Principles for the Internet: 5 years on Sept 4, 4:30-6:00PM http://igf2014.sched.org/event/6351f1d8c02523edc26c9274e6bb82ff?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U_7TB0j-SYo Thank you. -- Thanks, Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University http://www.palefirer.com -- "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." Lon Chaney _______________________________________________ The Air-L at 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/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer From joly at punkcast.com Thu Aug 28 07:56:07 2014 From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:56:07 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Aberystwyth Internet Jurisdiction Symposium - Sep 10-11 Message-ID: It has come to my attention that Aberystwith U. (Wales) are holding an Internet Jurisdiction Symposium on Sep 10-11 http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/internet-jurisdiction/ They are going to stream it live to a couple of other Universities, and are actively recruiting more locations. http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/internet-jurisdiction/participation/. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - From Russell.Carpenter at eku.edu Thu Aug 28 18:48:24 2014 From: Russell.Carpenter at eku.edu (Carpenter, Russell) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:48:24 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Reminder - CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development on Social Media Message-ID: Colleagues, I hope you$B!G(Bll consider submitting to the special issue below. There$B!G(Bs still time! Call for Papers May 2015 Special Issue of Journal of Faculty Development Guest Edited by: Russell Carpenter, Eastern Kentucky University Theme: Social Media in Pedagogy and Practice: Networked Teaching and Learning While many forms of social media are no longer considered $B!H(Bnew,$B!I(B their instructional uses continue to both inspire and challenge faculty and students. A variety of social media permeate the classroom whether used for pedagogical or personal purposes. Many instructors also use social media in their personal lives, but its role and potential in the classroom are still evolving. While the dynamic nature of social media provides a number of pedagogical opportunities to engage students in productive ways, integrating social media into class sessions and projects also presents new challenges not faced with other instructional technologies. This special issue invites scholars to highlight the most successful and promising strategies for integrating social media into the classroom while also considering the challenges these technologies present for teaching and learning. Authors might consider the best practices for integrating social media into the classroom for instructional purposes, theories and principles that support the decision to incorporate social media into classroom settings, challenges faced and approaches for overcoming these challenges, and projects that incorporate social media along with learning outcomes. Submissions might also explore, theorize, and assess innovative concepts, approaches, and strategies for classroom instruction using social media. Framing questions can include but are not limited to: $B!|(B What classroom activities are best suited for implementing social media? What specific projects might incorporate social media and how were these projects assessed? $B!|(B What are the best practices for using social media for instruction? $B!|(B How might various forms of social media engage student learning outcomes? What factors should instructors consider when deciding whether to employ social media? $B!|(B What are the theoretical frameworks for teaching with social media and how might they inform instruction? What training or professional development might benefit instructors exploring social media for classroom instruction? $B!|(B What issues and challenges arise when incorporating social media into the classroom, including political, social, and institutional contexts and expectations? What boundaries, parameters, or guidelines are necessary for classroom use of social media and how might they present challenges, if at all? $B!|(B What are the goals for incorporating social media into the classroom and how were these goals achieved, adapted, or revised? How might students contribute to these goals as they use social media in their own learning? Please send 500-word proposals and questions to Russell Carpenter at [1]russell.carpenter at eku.edu. Authors of accepted proposals will receive detailed guidelines for manuscript submission. Deadlines September 1, 2014: 500-word proposals due November 15, 2014: Authors notified of review results January 15, 2015: Full articles of 3,000 - 5,000 words returned to guest editor February 15, 2015: Article revisions sent to authors March 30, 2015: Final submissions due to guest editor -- Russell G. Carpenter, Ph.D. Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity Program Director, Minor in Applied Creative Thinking Assistant Professor of English Eastern Kentucky University 859.622.7403 russell.carpenter at eku.edu www.studio.eku.edu | @noelstudio References 1. mailto:atrussell.carpenter at eku.edu From rforno at infowarrior.org Thu Aug 28 19:32:11 2014 From: rforno at infowarrior.org (Richard Forno) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:32:11 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Netflix open-sources some data tools Message-ID: <74ED323A-5671-4DEA-8284-ABD296B5C375@infowarrior.org> FYI, Netflix released (open-source) some data-mining tools that its security team uses for Internet monitoring. They may have some applicability for internet researchers, so I'm passing the link along as an FYI. See more @ Announcing Scumblr and Sketchy - Search, Screenshot, and Reclaim the Internet http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/08/announcing-scumblr-and-sketchy-search.html --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. From gpanger at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 11:18:39 2014 From: gpanger at gmail.com (Galen Panger) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:18:39 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] #longread on Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science Message-ID: Posted a piece up on Medium yesterday that I think could make for some good weekend reading, if you're interested. Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science *Facebook is grappling with its impact on our social and emotional lives ? and that?s a good thing. But it has to get the research right. Why Facebook did the experiment, and how to make it better.* A ton has been written about the Facebook experiment, but for me, there were still a number of things left unsaid. Chief among these was why Facebook did the experiment in the first place. A major motivation was to address the widespread fear that Facebook makes us unhappy; the study specifically mentions social comparison, making people feel "left out," and the "alone together" theory. So the study uses emotional contagion to fight back against these notions, and claims to have shown that happy posts on Facebook really do make people feel happier (as opposed to sad or depressed). But as my piece says in great detail, the study's research design is quite flawed on this?and is biased precisely where it counts most for what Facebook is trying to prove. Though Facebook posts have a number of social biases, Facebook uses posts as an unbiased representation of how we feel as a result of emotions in News Feed. This is problematic. There's evidence, for example, that posts have a bias toward high-arousal emotions (excitement, anger) and a bias away from low-arousal emotions (sadness, depression, calm). Meaning if people are feeling sad because of Facebook, it's not going to show up in their Facebook posts. Anyway, that is one big point in a number of points I make. I also make a bunch of suggestions for how Facebook could improve the research design. It's a long piece, so if you make it even part of the way through the piece, I thank you.... and want to know what you think (good or bad). cheers, galen -- galen at ischool.berkeley.edu From julian.kilker at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 14:57:18 2014 From: julian.kilker at gmail.com (J. Kilker) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:57:18 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Position at Univ of Nevada - Las Vegas - New and Emerging Media Message-ID: <97FE7C0A-EB8E-4DFA-A029-8AB67F79923D@gmail.com> Colleagues-- We've recently posted a new Assistant Professor of New and Emerging Media position in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas. This Assistant Professor will teach and conduct research relevant to trends and innovations in media, journalism, and integrated marketing communication, including mobile devices, data journalism, and visual media, and the use of technology to engage with community. We are looking for the right person to explore the future of our field through innovative research and collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community stakeholders in a dynamic technology, entertainment, and marketing environment. The full announcement and application process is located at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu/current_vacancies.asp (search for position 15252). I've pasted the text below as well. Thank you for sharing this with potential candidates! Regards, -- J. Kilker, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies School of Journalism and Media Studies Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas Main e-mail: kilker at unlv.nevada.edu Voice mail: 702/895-3729 Web: http://faculty.unlv.edu/jkilker ====== The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Search number: 15252 PROFILE of the UNIVERSITY UNLV is a comprehensive research university of approximately 28,000 students and 2,900 faculty and staff dedicated to teaching, research, and service. The university has internationally recognized programs in hotel administration and creative writing; professional degrees in law, architecture, and dental medicine; and leading programs in fine arts, sciences and education. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in dynamic Southern Nevada. For more information, visit us on-line at: http://www.unlv.edu. ROLE of the POSITION The Assistant Professor will teach and conduct research relevant to trends and innovations in media, journalism, and integrated marketing communication, including mobile devices, data journalism, and visual media, and the use of technology to engage with community. We are looking for the right person to explore the future of our field through innovative research and collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community stakeholders in a dynamic technology, entertainment, and marketing environment. QUALIFICATIONS This position requires a Ph.D. from a regionally accredited college or university. Only candidates receiving their degree during or before August 2015 will be considered. Active research agendas and college-level teaching experience are required. SALARY RANGE Salary competitive with those at similarly situated institutions. Position is contingent upon funding. APPLICATION DETAILS Submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. Also submit evidence of effective and innovative teaching and course design and samples of published research. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference to each of the minimum and preferred qualifications because this is the information on which the initial review of materials will be based. Although this position will remain open until filled, review of candidates' materials will begin on October 15, 2014 and best consideration will be gained for materials submitted prior to that date. Materials should be addressed to Julian Kilker, Search Committee Chair, and are to be submitted via on-line application at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu. For assistance with UNLV's on-line applicant portal, contact UNLV Employment Services at (702) 895-2894 or hrsearch at unlv.edu. Application Information Contact: University of Nevada Las Vegas Online App. Form: https://hrsearch.unlv.edu UNLV is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity educator and employer committed to excellence through diversity. From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Sat Aug 30 09:52:50 2014 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:52:50 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 500 years of the images of the world's books now on flickr Message-ID: For those interested in images, especially the evolution of visual themes over time, you might find of interest my latest collaboration with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract the images of the Archive's 600 million pages of digitized books dating back 500 years from over 1,000 of the world's libraries, 2.7M of which are now available on Flickr (the rest will be uploaded over the coming months to ensure a constant dynamically updated stream), browseable and searchable by the book metadata and the text surrounding each image on the page. There's a breathtaking range of topics, events, locations covered in the collection, but one humorous theme that the BBC article notes is that even 100 years ago people were dressing up their cats and publishing pictures of them ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidkittenscatsbooko00grov ). http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28976849 http://blog.archive.org/2014/08/29/millions-of-historic-images-posted-to-flickr/ http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/08/29/welcome-the-internet-archive-to-the-commons/ ~Kalev Yahoo! Fellow Georgetown University http://kalevleetaru.com/ From peterotimusk at gmail.com Sat Aug 30 18:42:22 2014 From: peterotimusk at gmail.com (Peter Timusk) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:42:22 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being Message-ID: This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal well-being. Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental health. more on the link. From scott at scottmacleod.com Sat Aug 30 21:30:57 2014 From: scott at scottmacleod.com (Scott MacLeod) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:30:57 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Peter and AoIR friends, Thanks for this: Here's the actual MIT Technology Review article about this study: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/ In its comments' section, I asked: Are there any comparable or comparative studies asking similar questions concerning TV watching, say pre-Graphical User Interface (GUI) internet in the 1980s, or even concerning book reading, on subjective well being, both of which might be similarly isolating? ... It seems like any hypothetical comparative studies might examine and emphasize the increase in the sociality in Italy thanks to social media relative to TV watching or book reading, and now with emergent Google + group video Hangouts and Adobe Connect, etc. and face-to-face sociality will re-emerge in new ways, generating data for important studies ahead. Professor Manuel Castells ("The Rise of the Network Society") casts these questions in different contexts, sociologically, and concludes from the sociological studies of the internet on alienation and sociality from the 1990s that, in the aggregate, social media increased sociality, - but he didn't examine rigorous sociological studies of self-reported well being. Thanks for this study. Scott (http://scottmacleod.com) I'm teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + group video Hangouts a free open course online this autumn, which in the first half will examine, among many questions about how the information technology revolution came about, a) the related sociological literature that precedes the study above, and in the second half b) problematize the development of wiki MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is planning free CC online accrediting university in large languages (and I.B. degrees in UN langs), and wiki schools in all 7,106 languages among much else: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundews-drosera-prolifera-planning-to.html Come join the conversation in the course. Best, Scott http://scottmacleod.com On 8/30/14 6:42 PM, Peter Timusk wrote: > This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies > does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? > > http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 > > A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of > face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social > networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal > well-being. > > Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental > health. > > > more on the link. _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ > - -- - - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - - 415 480 4577 - - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUAqUBAAoJEGXWPCwOJYCofQgH/iZX/KJnlpoaTXhrxY41F4iu nAx1roj3wL0wYuei1g9JjfMD4pSIiBD+2ENHJaoPfAM3ib5MWzGZLErfq8P+SpIA gJ04ush/ys1iAGYf64OZhj/8Qf+9U4ZTgAK6JY+yEmTipNT6NAVUaKVCGmwbLWjT zFTi/U+p0AgmAFbzt5ZPmvmQjFPJH/9uNMgqyUkAL4F/qNaxfKh9WGuKM6r942Lp W2nv5qZxwgwq/I3xMnPU0Ix/3nF7wesg+CeCiuFr4fw5fhj3ePIonAWPwHKSG9PG j+QUBtFVIgqoPIb4EUc3wqlBDW4Hwx0TpiHx/A6/ukBcPGN/YZeVI2U1JCXaIpI= =v9R4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From javier at socialmediasociology.com Sun Aug 31 03:52:10 2014 From: javier at socialmediasociology.com (Javier de Rivera) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:52:10 +0200 Subject: [Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being In-Reply-To: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> References: <5402A501.6020303@scottmacleod.com> Message-ID: <5402FE5A.20102@socialmediasociology.com> Also, another question that we should ask ourselves is whether is not the "medium" (social media, tv, books, etc.) what matters alone, but also the content and the the way it works. In this sense, the dynamics of any media are different at its beginning than when it's a mature technology. The original TV educational programing of the 50s to 70s, cannot produced the same effects as the commercial-entertainment paradigm from then. In the internet there is a similar process going on, towards the commercialization of the spaces of interaction (the actual social media) in comparison with the rudimentary almost-self-made web of the 90's. Javier de Rivera. On 08/31/2014 06:30 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote: > Peter and AoIR friends, > > Thanks for this: > > Here's the actual MIT Technology Review article about this study: > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/ > > In its comments' section, I asked: > Are there any comparable or comparative studies asking similar questions > concerning TV watching, say pre-Graphical User Interface (GUI) internet > in the 1980s, or even concerning book reading, on subjective well being, > both of which might be similarly isolating? ... It seems like any > hypothetical comparative studies might examine and emphasize the > increase in the sociality in Italy thanks to social media relative to TV > watching or book reading, and now with emergent Google + group video > Hangouts and Adobe Connect, etc. and face-to-face sociality will > re-emerge in new ways, generating data for important studies ahead. > Professor Manuel Castells ("The Rise of the Network Society") casts > these questions in different contexts, sociologically, and concludes > from the sociological studies of the internet on alienation and > sociality from the 1990s that, in the aggregate, social media increased > sociality, - but he didn't examine rigorous sociological studies of > self-reported well being. Thanks for this study. Scott > (http://scottmacleod.com) > > I'm teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + group > video Hangouts a free open course online this autumn, which in the > first half will examine, among many questions about how the > information technology revolution came about, a) the related > sociological literature that precedes the study above, and in the > second half b) problematize the development of wiki MIT OCW-centric > World University and School, which is planning free CC online > accrediting university in large languages (and I.B. degrees in UN > langs), and wiki schools in all 7,106 languages among much else: > > http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundews-drosera-prolifera-planning-to.html > > Come join the conversation in the course. > > Best, > Scott > > http://scottmacleod.com > > > > On 8/30/14 6:42 PM, Peter Timusk wrote: > > This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies > > does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study? > > > http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830 > > > A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of > > face-to-face contact in interactions online?especially on social > > networks like Facebook and Twitter?reduced feelings of personal > > well-being. > > > Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental > > health. > > > > more on the link. _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L at 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L at 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/ From mpbakardjieva at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 08:53:58 2014 From: mpbakardjieva at gmail.com (Maria Bakardjieva) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:53:58 -0600 Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [Faculty-l] 2 Positions at U of C In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please spread around the following announcement. Maria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues Attached are ads for two positions in Communications Studies in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary starting July 1, 2015. One is at the assistant professor level, the other at the associate professor with tenure level. The application deadline for both is October 31, 2014. Links to the position advertisements: https://prdcgw.ehs.ucalgary.ca/uc_cg.html?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=6876&SiteId=2&JobPostSeq=1 https://prdcgw.ehs.ucalgary.ca/uc_cg.html?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=6879&SiteId=2&JobPostSeq=1 Please contact me if you have any questions. Barbara Schneider Interim Head Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary [To unsubscribe from the CCA list, please contact us at acc.cca.ca at gmail.com] _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of faculty-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: faculty-L at mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/faculty-l From aschmitz at mail.sdsu.edu Sun Aug 31 11:42:15 2014 From: aschmitz at mail.sdsu.edu (Amy Schmitz Weiss) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:42:15 -0700 Subject: [Air-L] tenure-track journalism position in San Diego Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University is hiring. We are seeking a candidate for an assistant professor of journalism tenure-track position. If you know of anyone interested, please feel free to spread the word. Information follows below. SDSU Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Journalism Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be able to teach across the undergraduate journalism curriculum, including both skills-based and theory courses, as well as graduate seminars in mass communication theory, advanced research methods, and journalism topics. Tenure-track faculty members are expected to have a scholarly research agenda in journalism and also provide service to the school, college and professional journalism communities. The ideal candidate should have a track record of teaching college-level journalism courses, such as news writing and reporting, mobile reporting, digital and social media, investigative reporting, data journalism, web design and programming, data visualization, digital news production, photojournalism, multimedia reporting and storytelling. Applicants should be familiar with (a) the latest digital journalism applications, such as but not limited to, FinalCut Pro, Dreamweaver, and the Adobe Creative Suite; (b) social media platforms and tools such as Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Twitter, and Facebook, among others; and (c) the latest mobile and digital tools for news gathering and reporting. Fluency in both English and another language (e.g., Spanish) would be a plus. Required Qualifications: Candidates should have a demonstrated commitment to excellence in both teaching and research, in line with SDSU?s teacher-scholar model. An earned doctorate in journalism, mass communication or a related field is required by the position start date. Relevant professional work experience in journalism is required. Evidence or promise of a strong research agenda in journalism is required. Applications: Review of application materials will begin September 15, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. For more information about the position and how to apply, visit: http://affiliated.sdsu.edu/ColPSFA/journalism.htm Thanks so much! Cheers, Amy -- Cheers, Amy Schmitz Weiss Associate Professor JMS Graduate Adviser Journalism Area Coordinator School of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University From luxiaoist at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 19:03:15 2014 From: luxiaoist at gmail.com (Lu Xiao) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:03:15 -0400 Subject: [Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium- DEADLINE EXtended! Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting... ********************************************************************** 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participation (Proposals due: Sept. 10. 2014) All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation (i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks) at the 2014 SIG-USE Symposium. Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. Proposals for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk. Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in information behavior research" (See below). ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM: Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research" Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Johnson, Professor and former Dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky The importance of context in human information behavior research has been well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information behavior research. This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to: ? Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research, papers may explore questions such as the following: What does ?context? really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level) affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts? ? Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information behavior in a particular context? ? Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user characteristics)? ? Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information systems/services, etc.) and in what way? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR LIGHTNING TALK PROPOSALS: - Author?s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at the top of the proposal. - Proposal text must be 500-1000 words. - Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as ?2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName". - Submission should be done by sending your proposal to sigusesym2014 at gmail.com (Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor?sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by midnight Hawaii Time on September 10, 2014. - Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium. - Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series. - If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still required. IMPORTANT DATES: September 10, 2014: *NEW* Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 25, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides REGISTRATION FEES: * SIG-USE Members: $90 * ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100 * Non-Members: $120 Workshop Planning Committee Members: Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/ Please forward any questions that you have to Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca) or K.-Sun Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu). Lu Xiao & K.-Sun Kim 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs Lu Xiao Assistant Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Canada http://hii.fims.uwo.ca Recent JASIST publications: The Effects of Rationale Awareness in Iterative Human Computation Processes What Influences Online Deliberation? A Wikipedia Study From andymcstay at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 21:17:15 2014 From: andymcstay at gmail.com (andymcstay) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2014 04:17:15 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?9/1/2014_4=3A17=3A15_AM?= Message-ID: http://www.rostrenen-histoire.com/vjkizf/zwdkgztvqvtabaivebyutszjpyzop.toupqrzrzrdtbwwyd