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Cyber-Synchronicity: the Concurrence of the Virtual
Cyber-Synchronicity: The Concurrence of the Virtual and the Material via Text-Based Virtual Reality A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Scripps College of Communication of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Jeffrey S. Smith March 2010 © 2010 Jeffrey S. Smith. All Rights Reserved. This dissertation titled Cyber-Synchronicity: The Concurrence of the Virtual and the Material Via Text-Based Virtual Reality by JEFFREY S. SMITH has been approved for the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Scripps College of Communication by Joseph W. Slade III Professor of Media Arts and Studies Gregory J. Shepherd Dean, Scripps College of Communication ii ABSTRACT SMITH, JEFFREY S., Ph.D., March 2010, Mass Communication Cyber-Synchronicity: The Concurrence of the Virtual and the Material Via Text-Based Virtual Reality (384 pp.) Director of Dissertation: Joseph W. Slade III This dissertation investigates the experiences of participants in a text-based virtual reality known as a Multi-User Domain, or MUD. Through in-depth electronic interviews, staff members and players of Aurealan Realms MUD were queried regarding the impact of their participation in the MUD on their perceived sense of self, community, and culture. Second, the interviews were subjected to a qualitative thematic analysis through which the nature of the participant’s phenomenological lived experience is explored with a specific eye toward any significant over or interconnection between each participant’s virtual and material experiences. An extended analysis of the experiences of respondents, combined with supporting material from other academic investigators, provides a map with which to chart the synchronous and synonymous relationship between a participant’s perceived sense of material identity, community, and culture, and her perceived sense of virtual identity, community, and culture. -
Collaboration and Social Media-2008
Research Report Collaboration and Social Media-2008 Taking Stock of Today’s Experiences and Tomorrow’s Opportunities Geoffrey Bock Steve Paxhia The Gilbane Group June 9, 2008 Gilbane Group Inc. 763 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Tel: 617.497.9443 Fax: 617.497.5256 [email protected] http://gilbane.com With Thanks to Our Sponsors Platinum Gold Silver ©2008 Gilbane Group, Inc. i http://gilbane.com Collaboration and Social Media — 2008 Table of Contents With Thanks to Our Sponsors .................................................................................. i Our Perspective ................................................................................. vi How American Companies Use Social Media ....................................... i Tracking Social Media ............................................................................................. 2 Adopting Social Media .............................................................................................. 5 Social Media Profiles .............................................................................................. 10 A Social Media Roadmap ....................................................................................... 30 Customer Stories ............................................................................. 32 Awareness at Earth Knowledge ............................................................................. 33 EMC Documentum eRoom at Bechtel ................................................................... 36 EMC Documentum eRoom -
Liminality and Communitas in Social Media: the Case of Twitter Jana Herwig, M.A., [email protected] Dept
Liminality and Communitas in Social Media: The Case of Twitter Jana Herwig, M.A., [email protected] Dept. of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna 1. Introduction “What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever found?” Mac (Peter Riegert) asks Ben, the beachcomber (Fulton Mackay), in the 1983 film Local Hero. ”Impossible to say,” Ben replies. “There’s something amazing every two or three weeks.” Substitute minutes for weeks, and you have Twitter. On a good day, something amazing washes up every two or three minutes. On a bad one, you irritably wonder why all these idiots are wasting your time with their stupid babble and wish they would go somewhere else. Then you remember: there’s a simple solution, and it’s to go offline. Never works. The second part of this quote has been altered: Instead of “Twitter”, the original text referred to “the Net“, and instead of suggesting to “go offline”, author Wendy M. Grossman in her 1997 (free and online) publication net.wars suggested to “unplug your modem”. Rereading net.wars, I noticed a striking similarity between Grossman’s description of the social experience of information sharing in the late Usenet era and the form of exchanges that can currently be observed on micro-blogging platform Twitter. Furthermore, many challenges such as Twitter Spam or ‘Gain more followers’ re-tweets (see section 5) that have emerged in the context of Twitter’s gradual ‘going mainstream’, commonly held to have begun in fall 2008, are reminiscent of the phenomenon of ‘Eternal September’ first witnessed on Usenet which Grossman reports. -
Usenet News HOWTO
Usenet News HOWTO Shuvam Misra (usenet at starcomsoftware dot com) Revision History Revision 2.1 2002−08−20 Revised by: sm New sections on Security and Software History, lots of other small additions and cleanup Revision 2.0 2002−07−30 Revised by: sm Rewritten by new authors at Starcom Software Revision 1.4 1995−11−29 Revised by: vs Original document; authored by Vince Skahan. Usenet News HOWTO Table of Contents 1. What is the Usenet?........................................................................................................................................1 1.1. Discussion groups.............................................................................................................................1 1.2. How it works, loosely speaking........................................................................................................1 1.3. About sizes, volumes, and so on.......................................................................................................2 2. Principles of Operation...................................................................................................................................4 2.1. Newsgroups and articles...................................................................................................................4 2.2. Of readers and servers.......................................................................................................................6 2.3. Newsfeeds.........................................................................................................................................6 -
Metrics That Matter Social Software for Business Performance Metrics That Matter
Metrics that Matter Social Software for Business Performance Metrics that Matter Contents Introduction: When will social software prove itself? | 1 Current approaches to social software will likely fail | 2 Creating and retaining leaders | 3 Social software is essential to meet the challenge of constant change | 6 Extreme performance improvement is achievable | 9 Companies must focus to move the needle on business performance | 12 Long-term benefits of social software are transformative | 20 Conclusion: Social software is worth your time | 23 Appendix | 24 Note: Social software tools considered in this paper include wikis, blogs, microblogs, discussion forums, social networks, social book- marks, tagging, crowdsourcing, and prediction markets. Only internal-facing solutions (Socialcast, Socialtext, Traction, etc.) were in scope, excluding their external-facing equivalents (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Social Software for Business Performance Introduction: When will social software prove itself? ENIOR executives are skeptical of the that business performance improvements are Svalue of social software. Their reluctance is possible: OSIsoft1 realized a 22% improvement understandable but self-defeating. Social soft- in average time to issue resolution through ware has the potential to address operational the customer support team’s use of Socialtext2 “pain points” and significantly wikis. Alcoa Fastening enhance business perfor- Systems3 experienced a 61% mance in the short–term and reduction in time spent transform it in the long–term. Companies that on compliance activities Companies that embrace embrace this through the use of Traction this opportunity will have a opportunity will Software.4 Both companies distinct advantage over their have a distinct believe these improvements competitors; skeptics will would have been impossible likely finish last. -
Sending Newsgroup and Instant Messages
7.1 LESSON 7 Sending Newsgroup and Instant Messages After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Send and receive newsgroup messages Create and send instant messages Microsoft Outlook offers some alternatives to communicating via e-mail. With instant messages, you can connect with a client who is also using instant messaging to ask a simple question and get the answer immediately. On the other hand, Newsgroups allow you to communicate with a larger audience. When considering the purchase of a new graphics program, for example, you can solicit advice and recommendations by posting a message to a newsgroup for people interested in graphics. You don’t need any practice files to work through the exercises in this lesson. Sending and Receiving Newsgroup Messages A newsgroup is a collection of messages related to a particular topic that are posted by individuals to a news server . Newsgroups are generally focused on discussion of a particular topic, like a sports team, a hobby, or a type of software. Anyone with access to the group can post to the group and read all posted messages. Some newsgroups have a moderator who monitors their use, but most newsgroups are not overseen in this way. A newsgroup can be private, such as an internal company newsgroup, but there are newsgroups open to the public for practically every topic. You gain access to newsgroups through a news server maintained either on your organization’s network or by your Internet service provider (ISP). You use a newsreader program to download, read, and reply to news messages. -
Online Research Tools
Online Research Tools A White Paper Alphabetical URL DataSet Link Compilation By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Executive Director – Virtual Private Library [email protected] Online Research Tools is a white paper link compilation of various online tools that will aid your research and searching of the Internet. These tools come in all types and descriptions and many are web applications without the need to download software to your computer. This white paper link compilation is constantly updated and is available online in the Research Tools section of the Virtual Private Library’s Subject Tracer™ Information Blog: http://www.ResearchResources.info/ If you know of other online research tools both free and fee based feel free to contact me so I may place them in this ongoing work as the goal is to make research and searching more efficient and productive both for the professional as well as the lay person. Figure 1: Research Resources – Online Research Tools 1 Online Research Tools – A White Paper Alpabetical URL DataSet Link Compilation [Updated: August 26, 2013] http://www.OnlineResearchTools.info/ [email protected] eVoice: 800-858-1462 © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Online Research Tools: 12VPN - Unblock Websites and Improve Privacy http://12vpn.com/ 123Do – Simple Task Queues To Help Your Work Flow http://iqdo.com/ 15Five - Know the Pulse of Your Company http://www.15five.com/ 1000 Genomes - A Deep Catalog of Human Genetic Variation http://www.1000genomes.org/ -
Ultra-Large-Scale Sites
Ultra-large-scale Sites <working title> – Scalability, Availability and Performance in Social Media Sites (picture from social network visualization?) Walter Kriha With a forword by << >> Walter Kriha, Scalability and Availability Aspects…, V.1.9.1 page 1 03/12/2010 Copyright <<ISBN Number, Copyright, open access>> ©2010 Walter Kriha This selection and arrangement of content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ online: www.kriha.de/krihaorg/ ... <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/de/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type"> Building Scalable Social Media Sites</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="wwww.kriha.de/krihaorg/books/ultra.pdf" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Walter Kriha</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany License</a>.<br />Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="www.kriha.org" rel="cc:morePermissions">www.kriha.org</a>. Walter Kriha, Scalability and Availability Aspects…, V.1.9.1 page 2 03/12/2010 Acknowledgements <<master course, Todd Hoff/highscalability.com..>> Walter Kriha, Scalability and Availability Aspects…, V.1.9.1 page 3 03/12/2010 ToDo’s - The role of ultra fast networks (Infiniband) on distributed algorithms and behaviour with respect to failure models - more on group behaviour from Clay Shirky etc. -
Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software
Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software June 2013 INDUSTRY REPORT INSIDE THIS ISSUE Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software 1. Introduction INTRODUCTION 2. Market Trends This report focuses on technologies for collaboration and socialization within the enterprise. A number of forces are currently playing out in the enterprise IT 3. Competitive Landscape environment that are creating an inflection in the adoption and deployment of social and collaboration technologies. This significant uptrend has provided strong 4. M&A Activity growth for the sector and is driving a substantial amount of M&A and investment activity. This report includes a review of the recent M&A and private investing 5. Private Financings activities in enterprise social and collaboration software, particularly within the areas of group collaboration & workspaces, private social platforms, project and 6. Valution Trends social task management, event scheduling, web collaboration, white boarding & diagramming, and other related technologies. We have also profiled about 50 emerging private players in these subcategories to provide an overview of the 7. Emerging Private Companies breadth and diversity of the players targeting this sector. OVERVIEW Socialization and collaboration technologies are currently reshaping the established enterprise collaboration market as well as creating whole new categories of offerings, especially around private social platforms. In addition, many other enterprise applications such as CRM and unified communications are heavily transformed through the incorporation of new technologies including group messaging & activity feeds, document collaboration, and analytics. Much of this change is being driven by the consumerization of IT and the incorporation of social technologies. As businesses look to leverage the benefits of improved “connecting” and “network building” that employees have experienced with Facebook and other social solutions, a convergence is occurring between the enterprise social software and collaboration markets. -
Feed Your ‘Need to Read’ – an Explanation of RSS
by Jen Sharp, jensharp.com Feed your ‘Need To Read’ – an explanation of RSS here exists a useful informational tool so powerful that provides feeds. For example, USA Today has separate that the government of China has completely feeds in its different sections. You know that a page has the banned its use since 2007. Yet many people have capabilities for RSS subscriptions by looking for the orange Tnot even heard about it, despite its juxtaposition in chicklet in the toolbar of your browser. Clicking on the logo front of our attention during our experiences on the web. will start you in the process of seeing what the feed for that Recently I was visiting with my dad, who is well-informed page looks like. Then you can choose how to subscribe. and somewhat technically savvy. I asked him if he had ever Choosing a reader can seem overwhelming, as there are heard of RSS feeds. He hadn’t, so when I pointed out the thousands of readers available, most of them for free. To ever-present orange “chicklet,” he remarked, “Oh! I thought start, decide how you what to view the information. RSS that was the logo for Home Depot!” feeds can be displayed in many ways, including: Very simply, RSS feeds are akin to picking up your ■ sent to your email inbox favorite newspaper and scanning the headlines for a story ■ as a personal browser start page like igoogle.com or you are interested in. Items are displayed with a synopsis and my.yahoo.com links to the full page of information. -
RE-SONANCE---Inov-Em---Be-R-1-9
GENERAL I ARTICLE Web Search Engines How to Get What You Want from the World Wide Web T B Rajashekar The world wide web is emerging as an all-in-one infonnation source. Tools for searching web-based information includes search engines, subject directories and meta search tools. We take a look at the key features of these tools and suggest-practical hints for effective web searching. Introduction T B Rajashekar is with the National Centre for We have seen phenomenal growth in the quantity of published Science Information information (books, journals, conferences, etc.) since the (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. industrial revolution. Varieties of print and electronicindices His interests include text have been developed to retain control over this growth and to retrieval, networked facilitate quick identification of relevant information. These information systems and include library catalogues (manual and computerised), services, digital collection development abstracting and indexing journals, directories and bibliographic and managment and databases. Bibliographic databases emerged in the 1970's as an electronic publishing. outcome ofcomputerised production of abstracting and indexing journals like Chemical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts and Physics Abstracts. They grew very rapidly, both in numbers and coverage (e.g. news, commercial, business, financial and technology information) and have been available for online access from database host companies like Dialog and STN International, and also delivered on electronic media like tapes, diskettes and CD-ROMs. These databases range in volume from a few thousand to several million records. Generally, content of these databases is of high quality, authoritative and edited. By employing specially developed search and retrieval programs, these databases could be rapidly scanned and relevant records extracted. -
April 2006 Volume 31 Number 2
APRIL 2006 VOLUME 31 NUMBER 2 THE USENIX MAGAZINE OPINION Musings RIK FARROW OpenSolaris:The Model TOM HAYNES PROGRAMMING Code Testing and Its Role in Teaching BRIAN KERNIGHAN Modular System Programming in MINIX 3 JORRIT N. HERDER, HERBERT BOS, BEN GRAS, PHILIP HOMBURG, AND ANDREW S. TANENBAUM Some Types of Memory Are More Equal Than Others DIOMEDIS SPINELLIS Simple Software Flow Analysis Using GNU Cflow CHAOS GOLUBITSKY Why You Should Use Ruby LU KE KANIES SYSADMIN Unwanted HTTP:Who Has the Time? DAVI D MALONE Auditing Superuser Usage RANDOLPH LANGLEY C OLUMNS Practical Perl Tools:Programming, Ho Hum DAVID BLANK-EDELMAN VoIP Watch HEISON CHAK /dev/random ROBERT G. FERRELL STANDARDS USENIX Standards Activities NICHOLAS M. STOUGHTON B O OK REVIEWS Book Reviews ELIZABETH ZWICKY, WITH SAM STOVER AND RI K FARROW USENIX NOTES Letter to the Editor TED DOLOTTA Fund to Establish the John Lions Chair C ONFERENCES LISA ’05:The 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference WORLDS ’05: Second Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems FAST ’05: 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies The Advanced Computing Systems Association Upcoming Events 3RD SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS 2ND STEPS TO REDUCING UNWANTED TRAFFIC ON DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION (NSDI ’06) THE INTERNET WORKSHOP (SRUTI ’06) Sponsored by USENIX, in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM JULY 6–7, 2006, SAN JOSE, CA, USA and ACM SIGOPS http://www.usenix.org/sruti06 MAY 8–10, 2006, SAN JOSE, CA, USA Paper submissions due: April 20, 2006 http://www.usenix.org/nsdi06 2006