Ein neues Verständnis von Öffentlichkeit

Wieder mal eine nettes Beispiel für die Verschiebung der Wahrnehmung von privat und öffentlich - mit der sich unsere Forschungsgruppe ja immer wieder beschäftigt - ist dieses Posting in valleywag.com:

A Comcast customer in Pittsburgh is not amused that Comcast cares. As Twitter user gpk3, he wrote “Comcast sucks,” causing Frank Eliason, Comcast’s Customer Outreach manager who keeps tabs on Twitter to respond “Welcome to Twitter. How can I change your perception?” The customer was not amused, accusing Comcast of invading his “personal space.” And by “personal space” he seems to mean “messages publicly available to the world on the Internet,” causing a few Twitterers to come to Comcast’s defense.

Ein paar weitere, ganz öffentliche, Gedanken habe ich mir dazu bei mir zu Hause gemacht

Call for Papers - MyYouth.com: Identitäten, Kommunikation und Vernetzung in jugendlichen Online-Welten

Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008
9.00 - 17.00 Uhr
AK Bildungszentrum
1040 Wien, Theresianumgasse 16-18

Jugendliche bewegen sich zunehmend selbstverständlich in Online-Welten und schaffen sich eigene virtuelle Räume. Im Rahmen des Symposiums werden diese Räume beforscht und dabei wird folgenden Fragen auf den Grund gegangen: Wie sehen diese Welten aus? Wie unterscheiden sie sich von der “realen” Welt? Wer bewegt sich in diesen Welten? Wie real sind Online-Welten? Welche Identitäten werden online entwickelt? Welche Überschneidungen gibt es zwischen Online- und Offline-Welten?

Das Symposium umfasst eine große Bandbreite von Online-Kommunikation und Online-Gemeinschaften: Online-Spiele, Blogs (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) und andere Web 2.0 Nutzungsarten, Chatforen, Community-Boards etc. Zum einen werden ein Überblick und eine Einführung in die unbekannten Welten geboten und zum anderen werden einzelne Bereiche genauer betrachtet. Jugendliche Identitäten und soziale Netzwerke stehen dabei im Zentrum der Präsentationen. Das Phänomen “jugendliche Online-Welten” wird von internationalen und nationalen ExpertInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen umfassend (soziologisch, pädagogisch, medienwissenschaftlich, psychologisch) dargestellt.

Neben mehreren Plenarvorträgen von eingeladenen ExpertInnen werden Beiträge (Papers) in Parallel Sessions präsentiert. Für die Parallel Sessions sind Abstracts (max. 250 Wörter) bis 18. Mai 2008 willkommen! Eingereichte Abstracts müssen in deutscher Sprache abgefasst sein und einen Titel aufweisen. Mehrere Vortragende/AutorInnen pro Paper sind möglich und müssen alle angeführt werden. Erwartet werden sowohl wissenschaftliche (theoretische und empirische) Präsentationen als auch Präsentationen aus der Praxis. Bei der Präsentation von empirischen Arbeiten muss das Abstract folgendes enthalten: Fragestellung, Methode und Datengrundlage, Ergebnisse. Für Präsentationen aus der Praxis wird die Beschreibung des Ziels, der Zielgruppe, des methodischen Ansatzes und der Umsetzung erwartet.

Abstracts mit kurzem Lebenslauf und Kontaktdaten (max. 1 Seite) bis 18. Mai schicken an: oeij@oeij.at

Die eingereichten Abstracts werden begutachtet und die BewerberInnen bis 12. Juni 2008 über die Auswahl informiert.

Blog als Kaffeehaus

Gerade lese ich in Axel Bruns Uses of Blogs, und dass Blogs gewissermassen als Kreuzung zwischen Notizbuch einerseits und Kaffeehaus, in denen informeller geistiger Austausch stattfindet, verstanden werden können, da stolpere ich über das Wissenschafts-Cafe und Wissenswerkstatt u.a. mit folgenden Beiträgen:

Was sollen, was können Wissenschaftsblogs leisten? - Blogs als Instrument der (internen) Wissenschaftskommunikation

Wissenschaftsblogs in Deutschland » Status quo und die Professionalisierung der wissenschaftlichen Blogszene 

Die populärsten wissenschaftlichen Blogs » Wissenschaftsblog-Charts 03|2008

zu erwähnen wäre vielleicht auch der Patenonkel deutschsprachiger Wissenschaftsblogs: Hard Bloggin’ Scientist

und deren Manifest V0.1.

Research Journals

Ich habe jetzt die Links zu Research Journals (es werden immer mehr) in der Spalte rechts zusammengefasst.

Gruss Sigrid

Media Anthropology Workshop bei der 10. EASA Konferenz, 26.-30. Aug., Ljubljana, Slovenia

Auch wenn Papers nur von EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Mitgliedern eingereicht werden können, ist die Information trotzdem interessant:

Workshop: MEDIA,TECHNOLOGY, AND KNOWLEDGE CULTURES: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ISSUES OF DIVERSITY, MUTUALITY AND EXCLUSION

Convenors:
Cora Bender (University of Bremen)
Ian Dent (University of Cambridge)
Discussant:
Dorle Dracklé (University of Bremen)

Abstract

In the recent years, many scholars in the field of media anthropology have pointed out the necessity to study media as technology, in order to further decenter the textual content of media in favor of their social context. However, what do we mean by technology? This workshop intends to inspire the reception of recent debates in anthropology and related neighboring disciplines which have expanded the perspectives on technology vastly. Science and technology studies, material culture studies, ecology and environmentalism, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of cyberspace and technoscience, contribute to a much better understanding of technologies not only as sets of material devices, but as complex, negotiated arrangements of agents, social practices, cultural imaginations, and circulating things. Abandoning older ‘ballistic’ concepts of technologies as physical tools having an ‘impact’ on cultures, research into the dynamics of technoscience suggests that much of what constitutes technology in a given situation is the outcome of politically interested media discourse producing models of diversity, mutuality and exclusion…

Mehr auf: http://media-anthropology.net/events.htm

open-access is the future?

in the spirit of the recent AOIR mailing list discussion (see links) on open-access vs. locked-down academic journals i highly recommend two famous - and interesting! - open access journals in “the field” (whatever this may mean!?):

journal of computer-mediated communication (JCMC): http://jcmc.indiana.edu/

first monday: http://www.firstmonday.dk/

- both of them are peer-reviewed, read and cited as far as i know! maybe a first step towards the future…

Habermas blows off question about the Internet and the Public Sphere

By Howard Rheingold:

I recently asked Jurgen Habermas in a public forum what his current opinion is about the state of the public sphere, now that the broadcast era has been supplanted by the many-to-many media that enable so many people to use the Internet as a means of political expression. He blew off the question without explanation, and a little further investigation into the very sparse pronouncements he has made in this regard has led me to understand that he simply does not understand the Internet. His ideas about the relationship between public opinion and democracy and the role of communication media, and the commodification and manipulation of political opinion via public relations, are still vitally important. But I think it’s important now to build new theories and not simply to rely on Habermas, who is signalling his ignorance of the meaning of the changes in the infosphere that have taken place in recent decades. He did his part in his time, but the ideal public sphere he described — a bourgeois public sphere dominated by broadcast media — should not be taken as the model for the formation of public opinion in 21st century democracies. Some background on my interest in this subject and Habermas’ personal opinion follows. And then I’ll briefly describe my recent encounter with the man himself.

more…

Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations

eine Zusammenfassung und Übersicht über Grundbegriffe und grundlegende Fragestellungen findet sich in dem Beitrag von David Beer and Roger Burrows (University of York; York St John University) online abrufbar auf Sociological Research Online, Volume 12, Issue 5, .

Abstract:

This paper introduces the idea of Web 2.0 to a sociological audience as a key example of a process of cultural digitization that is moving faster than our ability to analyse it. It offers a definition, a schematic overview and a typology of the notion as part of a commitment to a renewal of description in sociology. It provides examples of wikis, folksonomies, mashups and social networking sites and, where possible and by way of illustration, examines instances where sociology and sociologists are featured. The paper then identifies three possible agendas for the development of a viable sociology of Web 2.0: the changing relations between the production and consumption of internet content; the mainstreaming of private information posted to the public domain; and, the emergence of a new rhetoric of ‘democratisation’. The paper concludes by discussing some of the ways in which we can engage with these new web applications and go about developing sociological understandings of the new online cultures as they become increasingly significant in the mundane routines of everyday life.

AoIR Conference - Call for Papers Extended!

Call for Papers
* Submission deadline for papers and panels extended to Friday, February 22nd. *

the theme for the Internet Research 9.0 conference is Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place, but we welcome submissions on all topics related to internet research in a broad sense. Find more information and deadlines on the Call for Papers page

When planning the conference trip and submission: don’t forget to check out the affiliated conference: Web_site_ Histories, taking place in Århus on Tuesday October 14th. More information and cfp here.

Fibreculture Journal

Ich habe gerade dieses australische Journal zu Internetforschung entdeckt: Fibreculture Journal

Hier sind die ersten 10 Ausgaben online abrufbar :

Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages 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. Other broad topics of interest include the cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of:

:: information and creative industries
:: national and international strategies for innovation, research and development
:: education
:: media and culture, and
:: new media arts

Fibreculture Journal encourages submissions that extend research into critical and investigative networked theories, knowledges and practices.

Noch ein neues Internet Research Journal

Die erste Ausgabe von
International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE).

Inhalt:

Small Talk
Annette Markham

Ethical Approaches to Robotic Data Gathering in Academic Research
Gove Allen, Dan Burk, and Charles Ess

Data as Representation: Beyond Anonymity in e-Research Ethics
Annamaria Carusi

Researching the Researchers: Market Researchers, Child Subjects and the
Problem of ?Informed? Consent
Sara M. Grimes

Emerging Legal Issues in the Collection and Dissemination of Internet-
Sourced Research Data: Part I, Basic Tort Law Issues and Negligence
Tomas A. Lipinski

Creating a Web of Attribution in the Feminist Blogosphere
Erin Hvizkak

IR 9.0 - Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place (Copenhagen)

The annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers is one of the premier opportunities for scholars and researchers of all things Internet, as well as related new media technologies and practices. It is a forum to meet, present research, network and share ideas in a cooperative, multidisciplinary environment. IR 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place, will be in Copenhagen this year, and build on the work of the previous conferences.

October 15 (Wednesday) is the pre-conference workshop and tour day, the conference itself gets going on the 16th and runs through the 18th (Saturday).

The conference organisers are:

Conference Chair - Lisbeth Klastrup (IT University of Copenhagen)
Program Chair - Brian Loader (University of York)

The Call for Papers and other information about the conference may be found at http://conferences.aoir.org

BarCamp Austria

Ein BarCamp ist eine Ad-Hoc-Zusammenkunft entstanden aus dem Wunsch, in einer offenen Umgebung zu lernen und Wissen zu teilen. Es ist ein intensiver Event mit Diskussionen, Software-Demos und Vorträgen. Es gibt keine Zuhörer, nur Teilnehmer.

Nächster BarCamp Termin in Wien : 26. Februar 2008

mehr dazu auf bei ritchie auf datenschmutz 

4th International Conference on e-Social Science

Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008

Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading
international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/
cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual
awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to
accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research
methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

We invite contributions from members of the social science,
e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with
experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new
methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies -
such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research;
and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.