April 2011
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IRGO seminar next week "Unmasking the Lurkers"
IRGO is pleased to announce that Dr Jocelyn Cranefield from the University of Victoria will give a seminar next week. The talk is titled “Unmasking the lurker” (abstract below) and will be held on Tuesday 19th April from 12:00 to 1:00 in room CO2.07 of the School of Business.
Here is the abstract:
Invisible members of online communities have traditionally been seen as...
November 2010
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unConference2.0:resistance&control
The Internet Research Group of Otago, with the support of InternetNZ, is proud to present unConference2.0: resistance&control. The internet has become a contested site: issues as diverse as censorship, connectivity, digital divides, hacking and hactivism, grass-root resistance in virtual worlds and even what apps you can buy from an online store all affect how people as individuals, as...
February 2010
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2010 - how is it the future already?
Welcome back to IRGO for 2010. There are a number of plans in the works for this year, including the revamped seminar series, committee elections, and even unConference 2.0! If you want to get more involved with IRGO, now is the time to volunteer!
One of the biggest events on the IRGO calendar is the unConference - in 2009, this event exceeded all our expectations, and already people are...
November 2009
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end of the unConference
In the last five minutes of the unConference, I want to make some public thankyous.
the organizing committee: Erica Baffelli, Stuart Barson and Andrew Long. Best Committee Ever.
our bloggers/podders/filmers: Adele, Sam, Prajesh and Andrew, plus all those who blogged off their own bat
our desk volunteers: Jo, Sam, Teri, Christine, Chris and Ester
the Centre for Innovation staff, particularly...
it's the final countdown (to the unConference)
The final deadline for both registration and unConference panel topic submissions is this Thursday, 5th November. The panel topic submission site is hotting up, with a panel of fandom and the internet taking the surprise lead in the voting - not what you’re into? Then go vote up other topics, such as “Copy rights, copyleft, and CreativeCommons”, “Online community...
October 2009
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Website news: Echo test page
The IRGO website has a new test page comprising JS-Kit’s new realtime community and sharing services called “Echo”. It is touted as the “next generation commenting system” providing tools to manage conversations and integrate these into Twitter, Facebook, etc.
There are a number of modules for navigation, commenting, sharing, etc. so try them all out and let us know...
September 2009
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unConference update: second guest of honour...
The Internet Research Group of Otago is pleased to announce that our second guest speaker at the inaugural IRGO unConference 2009: NZ’s Digital Futures is Rod Snodgrass, Telecom NZ’s Group Strategy Director. As Group Strategy Director, Rod Snodgrass drives the development of Telecom’s Group Strategy with the aim of optimising Telecom’s portfolio of businesses and...
Conference CfP: IFIP9.5: Virtual Technologies and...
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Please direct all inquires to the website/email links below) IFIP 9.5 WG Virtuality & Society http://www.ifip95wg.org are pleased to announce our next gathering as a part of IFIP’s 50th Anniversary conference: WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS 2010 20-23 September 2010 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane, Australia http://www.wcc2010.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS...
August 2009
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panel discussion format - clarification
There have been some queries made about the format of the panel discussions at the unConference, and how the submission system works.
In point form:
1) People post ideas for possible topics at the submission system 2) These ideas are voted up or down depending on whether people are interested in the topic 3) After submissions close, the unConference committee takes the highest-ranked topics and...
IRGO unConference registration and submission...
IRGO is pleased to be hosting the inaugural IRGO unConference on the 23 and 24th of November 2009 at the Centre for Innovation, University of Otago, Dunedin.
The topic of the unConference is “New Zealand’s Digital Futures.” Our opening address will be by Professor Greg Hearn, Director of the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT. Our closing speaker will be...
July 2009
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Invitation to GNI Project Symposium '09
Our friends on the GNI project are organising the following symposium. If these topics interest you, please feel free to submit something.
WHEN: Friday 4th September 2009, 8.30 am - 5 pm
WHERE: School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin
REGISTRATION: Online Registration - registration is due 5pm Friday 14th August
Telecommunications technologies and Internet services are ...
June 2009
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unConference news: Academic Guest of Honour
The IRGO unConference committee is pleased to announce that our opening speaker and academic GoH will be Professor Greg Hearn (QUT). Professor Hearn has an extensive and diverse history in both academia and industry. In 2005, Professor Hearn was an invited member of a working party examining the role of creativity in the innovation economy for the Australian Prime Minister’s Science...
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ECSCW'09 Workshop CFP - Academia 2.0 and beyond –... →
CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS “Academia 2.0 and beyond – How Social Software changes research and education in academia” — WORKSHOP at E-CSCW, http://www.ecscw09.org, Vienna, September 7-11, 2009
NEW: Extended Deadline for submissions: June 28th, 2009.
Organizers:
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, michael.koch@unibw.de and
Isa Jahnke, University of Technology...
May 2009
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Health IT event on 9 June
What: Technology Business in Action Current Healthcare R&D and Healthcare IT initiatives.
When: Tuesday June 9, 3-6.30pm
Where: Fullwood Room, Dunedin Centre, Octagon (enter off Harrop St)
Who: Michael Woodhouse (Dunedin MP – National) is our MC. Attendees include, health professionals, ICT Cluster members businesses, business support agencies, local politicians.
Cost: Free – supported...
State of the IRGO
This June, IRGO celebrates its second birthday. To honour our achievements, and to look forward to the future, we invite you (and any interested and interesting colleagues) to a ‘State of the IRGO’ meeting. This is a chance for you to tell us what you as a member would like to see IRGO do and be in the future. It will also be a chance for the steering committee to fill you in on...
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New edition of First Monday (Volume 14, number 5 -... →
Contents
Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data by Josh Pasek, eian more, and Eszter Hargittai
A response to reconciling a media sensation with data by Aryn C. Karpinski
Where is the cloud? Geography, economics, environment, and jurisdiction in cloud computing by Paul T. Jaeger, Jimmy Lin, Justin M. Grimes, and Shannon N. Simmons
Survival of the fittest...
April 2009
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IRGO Seminar Series 2009 - updated
Reblogged from our Events Page.
Monday, May 25th, 12-1pm: John Kaiser, Manager, ICT Strategy and Services, Division of Health Science, will be facilitating a discussion on fostering innovation in ICT in the health sciences. School of Business Boardroom CO4.20. Friday, June 12th, 12-1pm: Andrew Long, Information Science, will be speaking to the topic “Life is Tweet: Emergent Micro-narratives on...
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AoIR special issue of Information, Communication &... →
The Journal Information, Communication & Society have just released their second AoIR special issue. Contents include an introduction by Caroline Haythornthwaite and papers on LastFM friendships, music archives, racial identity online, identity and geography, moderation on Digg and more.
semester one seminar series
The shortened semester one seminar schedule:
Monday, May 25th, 12-1pm: John Kaiser, Manager, ICT Strategy and Services, Division of Health Science, facilitating a discussion on fostering innovation in ICT in the health sciences Friday, June 12th, 12-1pm: Andrew Long, Information Science, with a talk provisionally titled: “Life is Tweet: Emergent Micro-narratives on Twitter”.
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Digital Arts and Culture (DAC'09) Conference... →
This interdisciplinary conference is regarded relatively highly for the quality of the papers and participants. This year (the 8th iteration) will look at “specificities of embodiment and cultural, social and physical location with respect to digital technologies and networked communications.”
This sits easily in the IRGO family of interests so consider submitting an abstract before...
March 2009
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Lunchtime Seminar Series 2009
We polled, you replied, we make it happen. The lunchtime seminar series will resume for a shortened season this year. In a change from last year, we’ll be hosting the seminar on a different day each month, so as to minimize repeated scheduling clashes.
The steering committee will be working to bring in external speakers to some seminar months, but we are also interested in hearing from...
Promote Your Publications!
Just a reminder to all IRGO members to let us know if you get a paper published, interviewed in the media, a guest column, or anything else out there that relates to IRGOs broad interests. Think of it as us finding you readers for your brilliance :)
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UnHub →
IRGOnauts: Aggregate your online social identities to a narrow iFrame at the top of your browser. This service is free and supports most major sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, …) and less well known sites (e.g., Disqus, Diigo, …).
Cinema Journal SI: Digital Scholarship and...
Cinema Journal is not required reading for many people in internet studies, but in their latest issue they have an awesome set of papers on digital scholarship and pedagogy.
Papers:
In Focus: Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy
Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Tara McPherson Peer-to-Peer Review and the Future of Scholarly Authority Kathleen Fitzpatrick Engaging...
Don't ignore the team behind the curtain
Time for some good news! The IRGO steering committee has been hard at work over the summer, and we can now reveal to you some of the fruits of that labour:
First and foremost, may we unveil our new web portal! http://irgo.otago.ac.nz will be our online clearinghouse for all IRGO information, news and events, and supports RSS feeds to your favourite clients. The site is designed to draw upon...
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Support digital technologies in schools
I pass on an email from Garth Biggs that might be of interest…
I am working with the Ministry of Education to build strong links between industry, tertiary and secondary schools to support the Digital Technologies Guidelines (DTG) - a planning environment which enables teachers to design and deliver programmes of ICT work for Years 11-13 that give context, coherence and relevance to its...
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Doctoral Colloquium at IR10.0 (Internet: Critical) →
The 10thAoIR conference titled “IR10.0 - Internet: Critical” as just issued a call for papers. If you are a doctoral student working on internet related research, consider this opportunity to present your work (in progress) to a community of experienced researchers.
The deadline for submissions is: May 1st, 2009.
February 2009
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All Systems IRGO for 2009*
Welcome to the Internet Research Group of Otago’s shiny new blog for a shiny new year. This year promises to be a big year for IRGO members, with lots of exciting events being planned to facilitate research, teaching, and community involvement in all things internet-y!
If you have a great idea that you think IRGO can help with, please let us know. If you think there’s something we...
