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School of Library and Information Science; Indiana University slisweb@indiana.edu no School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2012/rkcsi_3_23_2012.mov - RKCSI Spring Speaker Series (video): The recent withdrawal of two bills before Congress designed to prevent the illegal hosting of copyrighted content by companies operating outside the United States provides an important example of the power of Internet-based political campaigns that are backed by large numbers of Internet users. The bills were backed primarily by content-owning firms in the film and recording industries who were looking for new ways to prevent the illegal use (which they call piracy) of their intellectual property via digital file sharing. It looked at first that the bills would sail through Congress with little opposition. But it turned out that a well-organized campaign by a wide variety of interests opposed to the legislation was successful to the surprise of many observers. This talk explores the origins of the controversy and attempts to explain the outcome. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2012/rkcsi_3_23_2012.mov Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2012/rkcsi_2_24_2012.mov - RKCSI Spring Speaker Series (video): Emerging research on the role of media in social and political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East reminds us that newer networked media tools, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the mobile Web, are not inherently transformative. What matters is how people select and use these tools and in what cultural contexts. However, this does not mean that a search for generalizable patterns of transformation is futile. In this talk, I discuss a work-in-progress that explores how activists in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan use newer networked media tactically. I begin by drawing on my past work in Kyrgyzstan and on more recent research to discuss how newer media have opened up opportunities for alternative forms of expression, participation, and learning in Kyrgyzstan. I then discuss and seek feedback on a study I am designing that investigates an information technology activist culture and its influence in Kyrgyzstan. Considerable evidence suggests that this small group may be playing a role in spreading awareness and in connecting otherwise separate domestic and international people that can lead to new ideas, new identities, and new opportunities for group actions, as well as new tensions and entrenchment. Finally, I suggest that this small group of IT activists may be filling an information and community-building void left by the increasingly irrelevant news media in Kyrgyzstan http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2012/rkcsi_2_24_2012.mov Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_12_05.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): The spatial turn in the humanities has been heavily premised on the use of GIS and geospatial technologies in project-based applications. This focus on GIS has come to the humanities after having made much earlier and successful inroads into the sciences and social sciences, not least because its algorithmic and positivist scientific architecture would initially appear to be at odds with the predominantly text-based and qualitative world of the humanities. Yet the humanities, far from being the recipients of a colonizing technology, have the potential to assimilate, shape, and refashion the technology to suit the somewhat unique characteristics of its own methodological traditions. This presentation explores the assumptions inherent in the adoption of a spatial scientific methodology and proposes ways in which the broader science of geographic information may be appropriately harnessed in the spatial humanities. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_12_05.mp3 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_11_21.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): We discuss general theory behind deterministic annealing and illustrate with applications to mixture models (including GTM and PLSI), clustering and dimension reduction. We cover cases where the analyzed space has a metric and cases where it does not. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_11_21.mp3 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_11_14.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Fall 2011 Talk Series on Networks and Complex Systems (audio): The current project aimed to identify intervention components that activate family network systems to exchange social resources among network members and how these new resource exchanges influenced health behavior. Specifically, Project Risk Assessment for Mexican Americans (RAMA) investigated the impact of Family health history (FHH)-based risk feedback on the risk communication and screening encouragement pathways in families of Mexican origin. All 465 participants from 161 households received a FHH pedigree. Households were randomized to one of four feedback conditions defined by two factors: 1) all or one participating household member received supplemental, personalized FHH-based risk assessments and 2) whether or not behavioral recommendations accompanied these personalized risk assessments. Personalized risk assessments and behavioral recommendations for heart disease and diabetes were generated using the CDC's Family Healthware. Outcomes included enumerated family members with whom participants shared feedback and discussed family risk of heart disease and diabetes at 3-month follow-up and from whom they received encouragement to engage in risk reducing behaviors at 10-month follow-up. Participants from households in which all members received supplemental RAs were more likely to initiate new communication pathways regarding family risk of heart disease, but not diabetes, at 3-month follow-up. At 10-month follow-up, participants from households in which everyone received a RA and behavioral recommendations were more likely to enumerate new encouragers of blood pressure and blood glucose testing. With respect to encouragement of lifestyle factors, participants in households in which all members received supplemental RAs were more likely to enumerate new encouragers of increased fruit and vegetable consumption at 10-month follow-up, while provision of behavioral recommendations improved encouragement for maintaining a healthy weight. Results suggest that a family-centered FHH-based feedback approach was more effective than an individual level approach in activating risk communication and behavioral encouragement pathways within family network systems. Next steps will examine how these social processes influence health behavior. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_11_14.mp3 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_10_24.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): We present insights from analyzing the eigenvalues of the adjacency, normalized Laplacian, unnormalized Laplacian, and modularity matrices of a range of real-world graph and network models. This includes finding complete spectra for graphs with hundreds of thousands of nodes. In particular, we explore the origin for a few distinctive features, of the spectrum, including the presence of a large null-space of the adjacency matrix as well as a characteristic dip in the spectrum of the normalized Laplacian around the eigenvalue 1. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_10_24.mp3 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_10_10.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): The popularity of photo-sharing websites has created immense collections of images online, with Flickr and Facebook alone hosting over 50 billion images. Each of these photos is an observation of what a small part of the world looked like at a particular point in time and space, as well as a record of where its photographer was and what he or she was paying attention to. When aggregated together and combined with the non-visual metadata available on photo sharing sites (including timestamps, geo-tags, and captions), these billions of photos are a rich source of information about the world and about human activity. In this talk I'll discuss some of our recent work in data mining and computer vision that aims to unlock this latent information from photo-sharing sites. In particular, I'll focus on two recent lines of work: reconstructing maps and 3-d models of the world from online photos, and studying how patterns of human travel are correlated with (and predictive of) social connections. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_10_10.mp3 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_01_14.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Scientific studies of information/computer security have been going on now since the early days of computers. In the earliest period (roughly 1954-1980), most studies were concerned with the IT artifact itself, how to build systems so there was an inviolable security kernel. Cryptography fit neatly into this general interest and encryption algorithms became a small industry. Interest in behavioral issues lagged and even today represents only a fraction of the intellectual fervor in technical issues that has dominated the academy. How would one go about enhancing our understanding of how and why black hats attack systems and the effectiveness of the responses of the white hat protectors? We review a few recent research publications to identify gaps in the literature and discuss why we need to change and improve our data about this critical phenomenon. There is certainly a need to design and create new IT security artifacts, and intriguing new approaches are outlined in this domain, but these overall gaps in research call out for new studies of hackers and anti-social terrorists. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_01_14.mov Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_04_15.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): This paper outlines a set of guidelines for conducting a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study in IS research. Given the increased interest in using neuroimaging tools in the IS discipline, this study aims at specifying the key steps needed to conduct an fMRI study and ensure that enough detail is provided to evaluate the methods and results. The outline of an fMRI study consists of four key steps: (1) formulating the research question, (2) designing the fMRI protocol, (3) analyzing fMRI data, and (4) presenting and interpreting fMRI results. The fMRI study is illustrated with a comparative study between self-reported measures of two primary dimensions of trust (credibility and benevolence) and of distrust (discredibility and malevolence) with the corresponding brain activations while subjects responded to psychometric measures of trust and distrust while their brain activity was measured in an fMRI scanner. The results show that the correlations between the behavioral and the corresponding brain activations are lower for the more emotional (affective) areas of the brain than the more cognitive (calculative) areas. Besides, the correlations are higher in women than in men for the more emotional brain areas, while they are higher in men than women in the more cognitive areas. Finally, the levels of brain activations have a higher predictive power on a common dependent variable (price premium) than the self-reported data, particularly the women’s brain activations that helped explain a higher degree of the variance than men. The paper contributes to the literature by (a) providing a set of guidelines for designing and conducting fMRI studies in IS research, (b) specifying methodological details that must be included in fMRI studies in IS journals, and (c) illustrating these practices with a comparative study between behavioral and brain data for two IS constructs across genders. Implications for designing high-quality fMRI studies in IS research and for the descriptive and predictive validity of psychometric and brain data are discussed. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_04_15.mov Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_28.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): The field of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) engages groups to explore collaborative decision making with the use of simulation-optimization models and decision support systems. Of particular interest is the implementation of IWRM approaches to groundwater systems. Groundwater, which makes up 98% of total available freshwater on Earth, is notably absent in formal education curricula and public communication about water resource availability. The result is a public that is unacquainted with one of society’s most precious resources. Melding informatics with collaborative modeling, poses opportunities to educate an informed citizenry with the capacity to visually explore complex scientific topics and participate in substantive dialogue. This work presents results of topical analysis using management and policy texts as compared with modeled outputs from a Groundwater Decision Support System (GWDSS). A conceptual meta-model, or schema, has been developed to overlay policy objectives with feasible sets of groundwater response. The resultant network presents an interface with the capacity to span knowledge domains between planning contexts and scientific computation. Informatics visualizations provide a socio-technical interface to activate generative dialog and catalyze science-based deliberation. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_28.mp3 Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_18.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Until very recently, few paid attention to the extent to which the social dynamics and cultural “grooves” of specific communities enabled or inhibited their capacity to recognize changing economic imperatives, integrate new knowledge into their understanding of their economic horizons, and develop effective strategies to renew or transform their economies. Emerging research on social networks and boundary spanning organizations suggests they are vital to the ability of communities to successfully build more nimble and innovative approaches to economic growth and job creation. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_18.mp3 Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_11.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Evaluations of programs and policies don’t occur in isolation. They are typically embedded in hierarchical systems of organizations (funders, administrative management, program management, program delivery) and the networks of models that guide evaluations can be usefully construed as interconnected conceptual systems encompassing program logic, research literature and evidence, measurement alternatives, etc. Increasingly the field of evaluation has been exploring systems approaches (evolutionary and ecological theories, network analysis, conceptual mapping, causal pathway modeling, etc.) to organize and represent evaluation models and plans and to network programs and people so they can more effectively function as a collective learning community. This talk presents work being conducted under an NSF grant to develop a general protocol for planning, implementing and utilizing an evaluation that connects such an effort to a broader ecosystem of evaluations. A key component of this work is the development of a complementary web-based cyberinfrastructure called the Netway that connects or networks causal pathway models from separate evaluations and enables identification of and communication between programs that share model features and evaluation needs. The evaluation protocol is briefly introduced, along with some of the systems thinking that is central to it. Then the Netway cyberinfrastructure is presented and some of the major challenges in designing it are introduced. In the general discussion, we hope to consider some of the possible directions that development of this approach and technology might take. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_11.mp3 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_04.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): This talk will explore the use of academic genealogy networks to explore the formation, maturation, and intersection of disciplines. Using LIS as a case study, this presentation will explore the potential applications of these networks for providing empirical evidence to describe the development of disciplines. The talk focus on issues of maturation and interdisciplinarity and will review potential sources and tools for collecting and analyzing academic genealogy networks. Future research and broad applications for this topic will be discussed. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_04_04.mp3 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_03_24.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Based on a representative online survey of 1,012 adult Americans conducted in February 2011, we will investigate whether exposure to news about China is associated with the way people think about China. Our presentation will first focus on perceptions of China as an emerging political and economic competitor of the United States, how Americans think about China and the Chinese people overall, and how much people actually know about China. We will then analyze the potential relationship between these perceptions and respondents’ exposure to various types of news. While the analysis of our data is not complete, we expect to find that respondents with more exposure to news about China have a more positive image of China and the Chinese people in general. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2011/rkcsi_03_24.mov Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_21.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Brief Presentations and Panel with: Kevin W. Boyack, SciTech Strategies Inc. (http://mapofscience.com) André Skupin, SDSU (http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/skupin) Filippo Menczer, SOIC (http://scholarometer.indiana.edu) Johan Bollen, SOIC (http://informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/Research.html) Cassidy Sugimoto, SLIS (http://www.ibiblio.org/mpact) Stasa Milojevic, SLIS (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/smilojev) Katy Börner, SLIS, SOIC, Statistics (http://scimaps.org,http://cns.iu.edu) Also in the Audience: Selma Sabanovic, SOIC (http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/selmas/) Scott Long, Sociology and Statistics (http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc) Bruce Herr, chalklabs.com (http://app.nihmaps.org) Member of the Mapping Science exhibit advisory board (http://scimaps.org/flat/advisory_board) http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_21.mp3 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_07.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Much of the research presently conducted in the biomedical domain relies on the induction of correlations and interactions from data. Because we ultimately want to increase our knowledge of the biochemical and functional roles of genes and proteins in organisms, there is a clear need to integrate the associations and interactions among biological entities that have been reported and accumulate in the literature and databases. Biomedical literature mining is an important informatics methodology for large scale information extraction from repositories of textual documents, as well as for integrating information available in various domain-specific databases and ontologies, ultimately leading to knowledge discovery. It helps us tap into the biomedical collective knowledge, and uncover relationships and interactions buried in the literature and databases, and even those inferred from global information but unreported in individual experiments. Our approach to literature mining is based on bottom-up, data-driven or bio-inspired methods, which we have applied to automatic discovery, classification and annotation of protein-protein and gene-disease interactions, pharmacokinetic data, protein sequence family and structure prediction, functional annotation of transcription data, enzyme annotation publications, and so on. In this talk I will focus on the lightweight Variable Trigonometric Threshold (VTT) linear classifier we developed for biomedical text classification, and which we have applied successfully to the protein-protein interaction literature. The latest version of this method utilizes a number of features obtained via Named Entity Recognition (NER) and dictionary tools. We will discuss our results with this classifier in the recent BioCreative challenges where it has performed very well. We will also contrast this method with ongoing research in our group to develop biologically-inspired methods for biomedical text classification. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_03_07.mp3 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_02_28.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Folklore collections are generally indexed according to the dictum, "one story, one classifier." This approach to collection indexing was generally serviceable as long as the research questions aligned with indexing practices, and as long as the collections were relatively small. As research questions changed and collections became much larger—including stories from thousands or tens of thousands of storytellers, and constituting tens of thousands of pages or hours of recording—these simple finding-aids were revealed to be inadequate for addressing even the simplest needs of researchers. Using a 19th century collection of Danish folklore, we explore the use of network analysis tools for search and discovery. We show how a tuned Markov Clustering (MCL) algorythm can be (a) used to discover stories needed to address research questions not considered by the initial indexing scheme and (b) find previously unrecognized affinities among stories that can lead to new research questions. A second part of the presentation focuses on how to visualize geographic relations between individuals and their story repertoires. The audience is reminded not to present clothing to the house elf accompanying the lecturer. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_02_28.mp3 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_02_07.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute was founded three years ago to initiate a strategic translational approach to health care research across the State of Indiana. The Institute is a novel partnership of IU, Purdue, and Notre Dame along with hospitals, industry, government, and community organizations. Drs. Hetrick and Barnett will discuss the specific CTSI programs for basic and clinical research, funding, education, and community outreach. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2011/ncs_02_07.mp3 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_12_03.mov Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Although there has been a lot of work on cyberinfrastructure (the data and modeling subtending work in the natural and social sciences and the humanities), there has been relatively little written about the nature of academic output. We are still generically using the computer as an unwieldy typewriter. In this talk, I explore the twin needs of generating new questions to ask and of producing new forms of academic presentation. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_12_03.mov Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_11_12.mov Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Visual media have been the most prominent stimuli used in research on cognitive processing of media. However, a career as a radio announcer and commercial producer served as a springboard into my own scientific investigations exploring how the brain processes audio messages. Taking this "road less travelled" has resulted in a series of studies which provide the focus of the talk. I will begin by briefly arguing in favor of the presumption that the human cognitive system evolved in such a way as to produce a reflexive cognitive response to auditory changes in the immediate environment. This established, I will then present experimental data showing that this system, which evolved as a result of survival benefits in a concrete/physical world, has modern day consequences on how we processing auditory information in modern mediated environments. The first results are from experiments designed to identify the precise auditory structural features of media capable of eliciting this reflexive cognitive response. A second series of studies will be presented where the primary experimental variation consisted of changing the number of these structural features in audio messages. The talk will conclude with results from my most current scholarly audio adventure, one where hypotheses are tested concerning not merely the number of auditory changes that occur within a message, but also the relative cognitive load that these changes impose on the listener. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_11_12.mov Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_10_29.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): In 2006, a major telecommunications bill failed because it did not include guarantees for something called “net neutrality.” Republicans strongly opposed including these guarantees, while Democrats strongly favored them. The debate over net neutrality continued during the long campaign leading up to the 2008 presidential election. When the Obama Administration took office in 2009, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski revived the idea of codifying net neutrality rules. In April 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the FCC’s attempt to prevent Comcast from restricting certain types of file sharing applications on its network. The FCC adopted a new strategy because of the Court’s action. It opted not to undertake a major revision of the Telecommunication Act of 1996, but instead to attempt to regulate Internet service provision under modified “common carriage” rules just as basic telephone services had been previously. An attempt will be made here to explain these choices. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_10_29.mov Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_10_08.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Increasing globalization has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for organizations and societies. Consequently, a broad range of information technologies to better support the collaboration of diverse and increasingly distributed sets of participants is ever more utilized. Arguably, the success of such technology-mediated collaboration is dependent upon the quality of each individual’s contributions; however, while individuals’ motivations to do their best could be significantly influenced by the design of a system’s human-computer interface, this area has received little attention within the context of group collaboration environments. We fill this gap by integrating research from human-computer interaction, motivation, and technology supported group work to theoretically derive mechanisms for increasing each individual’s motivation within a collective setting. Specifically, we manipulate the interface of a computer-mediated idea generation system (a widely used collaboration tool) to enhance the system’s motivational affordance, i.e., the system's properties that fulfill users’ motivational needs. Results from two studies demonstrate that by embedding the theoretically derived mechanisms “providing feedback” and “designing for optimal challenge” into the collaboration environment, significant performance gains were realized. The results suggest that even slight manipulations of the human-computer interface can contribute significantly to the successful design of a wide variety of group collaboration environments. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_10_08.mov Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_09_24.mov - The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series (video): Drawing on her experiences working for nearly 2 years in rural parts of Kentucky and in small towns along its borders, this talk discusses how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat the marginalization they contend in their own communities and the erasure they face in popular representations of gay and lesbian life and the agendas of national gay and lesbian advocacy groups. Against a backdrop of both increasing privatization of information access and government-mandated censoring of information at educational institutions in the rural United States, LGBTQ youth and their allies visibly and often vibrantly work the boundaries of the public and media spaces available to them. This talk explores how boundary publics—visibility strategies that blur offline/online experience—act as responses to “digital inequality.” Rural LGBTQ youth rely on the blurring of offline/online performances of social visibility to combat digital inequalities that structure their access to media and information and the broader politics of visibility that frame LGBTQ rural youth as necessarily out-of-place. The case of rural LGBTQ youth reworking binary boundaries of public space draws into relief how deeply our experiences of media hinge not simply on access to digital technologies but just as critically on the contexts that shape our relationship to it. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/rkcsi_2010/rkcsi_09_24.mov Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2010/ncs_09_27.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Indiana University researchers Katy Börner and Ying Ding are leading visualization and ontology efforts respectively for the NIH-funded project, “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists.” The Indiana University Digital Library team lead by Robert McDonald is implementing the VIVO software for the project using data from IUs system of records such as the IU Adress book, Human Resources, and Sponsored Research. In this talk, two of the original developers of VIVO at Cornell University will discuss the creation of VIVO at Cornell, its development as a Semantic Web application, the challenges faced expanding a tool for a single discipline to the scope of a major university and beyond, and the opportunities for VIVO as an open-source project in the increasingly exciting arena of Linked Open Data (http://linkedata.org). http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2010/ncs_09_27.mp3 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval School of Library and Information Science http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2010/ncs_09_20.mp3 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States - Networks and Complex Systems Talk (audio): Mendeley is social software for academics - as free and cross-platform reference management software Mendeley helps researchers and research groups to work smarter. Usage and article information is then anonymously aggregated on Mendeley Web, enabling researchers to discover real-time usage statistics, articles, and like-minded academics, thus making academic knowledge more transparent and accessible. Mendeley is on track to become the world's largest open research database, and everyone can access this data via Mendeley's API, to freely re-use the data and build applications on top of it. Is this model a new "face of science"? http://www.slis.indiana.edu/media/net_sci_2010/ncs_09_20.mp3 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 no School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, information architecture, Information Science, information systems, information technology, library science, librarian, library school, information retrieval