Month: October 2010

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-10-24

  • #ir11 is officially over for me, as I left my friends and colleagues and am now focused on prepping for an earlier than realistic flight. #
  • I think the entire remnants of #ir11 are crushed together at Incontro at the Gothia Towers. #
  • A group of us are in the 23rd Floor of the Gothia Towers, and another group are having dinner at Incentro in the Gothia Towers. #ir11 #
  • #ir11 is now over. Nice job, everyone. Next step is to process all this. #
  • Finally, live Tweets are being projected. Cool. #ir11 #
  • Cool. #ir11 #
  • Wonder if starting to play social network games would improve my social skills? How would my imaginary friends feel? #ir11 #
  • Friends are resources in these FB games. Hmm. #ir11 #
  • Alas, I have never played any of these FB games. smfh #ir11 #
  • Attending the final session of #ir11 – From Friending to Gaming: Game Culture on Social Network Sites. #
  • "Appropriation is new citation." #ir11 #
  • Interesting findings that small organizations struggle more with employee adoption than with large organizations. #ir11 #
  • Some resources around e-Research: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer/publications/ & http://bit.ly/bSSAd7 #ir11 #
  • Listening to some research about Friendfeed. Seems like a powerful tool, yet it requires all my colleagues to use it as well? #ir11 #
  • "e-Research is the distributed and collaborative use of digital tools and data in the production of scientific knowledge." #ir11 #
  • Attending the session Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, and Attribution in Catella #ir11 #
  • Yes, nothing is as difficult to change as the status quo. #ir11 #
  • Yes, I LOVE to Tweet, too. #ir11 #
  • Yes, that is called Shiny Object Syndrome. Ooh, what is that shiny thing? #ir11 #
  • Really interesting comment about stealing of music; how is it stolen if the electronic file is still there afterward? #ir11 #
  • Love that image of the coins in the tree #ir11 #
  • This interactive audience and keynote would make for an amazing performative study. #ir11 #
  • Love those black and white copied charts. Classic. #ir11 #
  • This #ir11 Twitter feed is moving so quickly, I wonder how much @nancybaym is still being focused upon? #
  • Love that @nancybaym is actively addressing those who are Tweeting about her at #ir11 #
  • Nancy Baym is delivering the final keynote. #ir11 #
  • What a great title: Research-based online presentation of web design history – the case of webmuseum.dk #ir11 #
  • I just presented my paper (very quickly due to time limitations). Attendees are always so affirming and polite (thankfully!). #ir11 #
  • My paper session was just changed to Palmstedt #ir11 #
  • They focused only on those communities that support good and community (though did not define what that meant). #ir11 #
  • I asked the digital storytelling panel about using stories to reinforce member social control and to support alternative communities. #ir11 #
  • BTW, the 10:20-11:40 Approaches to Internet Research is a paper session, not a panel (I hope!) #ir11 #
  • #ir11 CHANGE — The session on Approaches to Internet Research was moved to Palmstedt #ir11 #
  • The digital storytelling presentation focused on positive community, though it was not mentioned this can also be used for control #ir11 #
  • That final storytelling piece was so complicated and advanced that without visual cues, I struggled to keep up. Honestly, I was lost #ir11 #
  • The last presenter is not using slides. Challenging to only listen to very complicated theory about stories for us visual folks. #ir11 #
  • Chuckles in the room when the Catholic Church's 50+ year old policy toward using media for communication was mentioned. Irony? #ir11 #
  • Interesting presentation of digital storytelling to demonstrate community identity formation of religious communities. #ir11 #
  • Interesting affordances for self-representation comparing digital storytelling and Facebook. #ir11 #
  • Attending the session Constructing Narratives of Self and Community in the Age of the Internet (Catella) #ir11 #
  • I present at the second session this morning. I completed my notes and slides before I left NYC; let's see if they still make sense #ir11 #
  • Seems I got less sleep than even I normally get, though in some way I still have high energy this morning. The joys of presenting today. #

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From Friending to Gaming: Game Culture on Social Network Sites

Here is the final session of the conference. What a light way with a serious subject to end a very full AoIR IR11. I wonder how people have the time for this, and I wonder what the effect would be if I tried one or more of these?

Moreover, I wonder too what extent people who research the area of gaming in turn play games? That seemed answered at one point.

Perhaps I should try one of these?

Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, and Attribution

e-Research is the distributed and collaborative use of digital tools and data in the production of scientific knowledge. Interesting definition; wonder who developed it? Some really interesting researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute. Eric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder, and Lucy Power.

Discussion of accessing files from Friendfeed, specifically about Friendfeed groups that can be highly specific. Seems like a powerful opportunity to develop a communication network.

I want their work around e-Research; was told it was online (search for Eric T. Meyer).

Christiano Orsi Pio (originally was from Brazil) is now speaking about Corporate portals as tools for information sharing within organizations. Hmm, I have used many a corporate portal, and while some are fantasic, those are among the more expensive ones. Interesting  that his research showed more struggles with small organizational adoption than large ones using portals.

Roger Altizer from Entertainment Arts and Engineering at the University of Utah (the Master Games Studio) is speaking on Sustaining Participation through citation, or gaming attribution. My first game-based presentation I have attended. Struggling to keep up with aspects (names, companies, etc.). Well, as there were so many presentations at ir11 about games, glad I have finally been able to make at least one of them.

When Internet is not Sustainable Platform for Knowledge Sharing: The (Rise and) Fall of Google Lively is the final paper in the session by Isto Huvila. I have heard of this, though never saw it before the screenshot that Isto just showed. Interesting research around how a virtual world chat space ended and what the fans and users did, at first to protest and then beg and finally to move to other locations.

Nancy Baym: This Song’s for You (Keynote)

Nancy Baym  is about to deliver the final keynote for AoIR IR11. Rather humorous, and from sitting in the next to last row (like the Church of the Internet), I can see and hear computers and Twitter back-channel specs so much that I wonder how much Nancy is being listened to. I Tweeted about this as a matter of fact.

This interactive audience and keynote would make for an amazing performative study.

Anyway, I am Tweeting about this along the way, and will leave most of my comments there.

Approaches to Internet Research (& My Paper)

This is the session where I will also present my paper, Public Transformations: Adult Learners Who  Use Social Media to Express and Understand Their Identities as Developing Researchers.

Alas, the room was just changed, and I fear many people do not know it was changed as not everybody looks on the notification board or follow Twitter. That is ok, we will go with the flow.

As my paper is not about liveblogging, and I need to get into the frame for this presentation, I will not liveblog my own session, sign off, and focus on my research at hand.