The C&T 2007 Program


Wednesday, June 27th
6:30pm -8:30pm Welcome Reception, Kellogg Center
Thursday, June 28th
8:00am-9:00am Coffee/Continental Breakfast
9:00am-1:00pm Full and half day workshops, morning sessions
coffee break and box lunch included

Full day, morning part

Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments
Organizers: Marcus Foth and Fiorella De Cindio
9 am to 5 pm, John Willy Room, Kellogg

Communities of Practice in Highly Computerized Work Settings
Aditya Johri and Volker Wulf
9 am to 5 pm, Conference Room 62, Kellogg

ICT for Business Clusters in Emerging Markets
Organizers: Soumya Roy, Shantanu Biswas, and Kurt DeMaagd
9 am to 5 pm, Conference Room 61, Kellogg

Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop
Elisabeth Davenport and Howard Rosenbaum
9 am to 5 pm, Room 110, Kellogg

Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics
Organizers: danah boyd, Nicole Ellison, and Scott Golder
9 am to 5 pm, Heritage Room, Kellogg

Half day, morning only
The paradox of communication: Towards a society of inattention?
Organizer: Filippo Dal Fiore
9 am to 1 pm, Room 107, Kellogg

Coaching community leaders on community cultivation and technology integration
Organizers: John D. Smith and Lauren B. Klein
9 am to 1 pm, Vista Room, Kellogg

Implicit Online Communities
Organizers: Mu Xia and Wenjing Duan
9 am to 1 pm, Room 102, Kellogg

1:00pm-5:00pm Full and half day workshops - afternoon sessions
coffee break included

Full Day, afternoon part

Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments
Organizers: Marcus Foth and Fiorella De Cindio
9 am to 5 pm, John Willy Room, Kellogg

Communities of Practice in Highly Computerized Work Settings
Aditya Johri and Volker Wulf
9 am to 5 pm, Conference Room 62, Kellogg

ICT for Business Clusters in Emerging Markets
Organizers: Soumya Roy, Shantanu Biswas, and Kurt DeMaagd
9 am to 5 pm, Conference Room 61, Kellogg

Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop
Elisabeth Davenport and Howard Rosenbaum
9 am to 5 pm, Room 110, Kellogg

Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics
Organizers: danah boyd, Nicole Ellison, and Scott Golder
9 am to 5 pm, Heritage Room, Kellogg (accepted participants only)

Half day, afternoon only (participants' lunches available 12 - 1pm)
BOF - Between Ontologies and Folksonomies: Tools and Architectures for Managing and Retrieving Emerging Knowledge in Communities
Organizers: Dario Maggiorini, Alessandro Provetti, and Laura Anna Ripamonti
1 pm to 5 pm, Room 107, Kellogg

Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Communication Technologies on Healthcare Communities
Organizers: Pamela Whitten, Michael Mackert, and Lorraine Buis
1 pm to 5 pm, Room 102, Kellogg

Studying Interaction in Online Communities: From Data Sources to Research Results
Organizers: Thomas Lento, Howard Welser, Eric Gleave, and Marc Smith
1 pm to 5 pm, Michigamme, Kellogg

5:30pm-6:30pm Invited Workshop/Keynote
Location: Auditorium

Marc Smith, Microsoft Research, Community Technologies Group
Illustrating Digital Traces: Visualizations of patterns generated by computer-mediated collective action systems

7:00pm-9:00pm Reception/dinner, Cowles House, Michigan State University Campus
Friday, June 29th
8:00am-9:00am Coffee/Continental Breakfast
9:00am-9:20am Conference Opening/Welcome
9:20am-10:20am Keynote Talk
Location: Auditorium

Rob Malda and Jeff Bates, Slashdot
The Life, Times and Tribulations of Slashdot

10:20am-10:40am Morning coffee break
10:40am-12:00pm Top Paper Session 1
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Joe Walther (Michigan St U)

Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles
Catalina Toma (Cornell), Jeff Hancock (Cornell) and Nicole Ellison (Michigan St U)

Everything in Moderation: The Effects of Adult Moderators in Online Youth Communities
Meg D. Cramer, Debbie Zutty, Brooke Foucault, David Huffaker, and Justine Cassell (Northwestern U)

Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Strategies that Elicit Response in Online Communities
Moira Burke (Carnegie Mellon), Elisabeth Joyce (Edinboro U), Tackjin Kim (Carnegie Mellon), Vivek Anand (Carnegie Mellon), and Robert Kraut (Carnegie Mellon U)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch
 
Parallel Sessions
1:30pm-2:50pm Session A1: Measuring Online Community Structure and Dynamics
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Susan Herring (Indiana U)

Rhythms of social interaction: messaging within a massive online network
Scott A. Golder, Dennis M. Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman (HP labs)

A Noun Phrase Analysis Tool for Mining Online Community Conversations
Caroline Haythornthwaite and Anatoliy Gruzd (U of Illinois)

Reflections and Reactions to Social Accounting Meta-Data
Eric Gleave (U of Washington) and Marc Smith (Microsoft Research)

Session B1: Facilitating Community
Location: Lincoln Room, Session Chair: Peter van den Besselaar (Rathenau Inst.)

Modes of Social Science Engagement in Community Infrastructure Design
David Ribes and Karen Baker (U of Michigan)

Workplace Connectors as Facilitators for Work
Norman Makoto Su (UC Irvine), Gloria Mark (UC Irvine) and Stewart A. Sutton (The Aerospace Corporation)

Online and Offline Integration in Virtual Communities of Patients - an Empirical Analysis
Achim Dannecker and Ulrike Lechner (U of Bundeswehr Munich)

2:50pm-3:10pm Afternoon coffee break
3:10pm-4:30pm Session A2: Analyzing Behavior in Online Communities
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Cliff Lampe (Michigan St U)

Life in the Times of Whypox: A Virtual Epidemic as a Community Event
Yasmin Kafai (UCLA), David Feldon (U of South Carolina), Deborah Fields (UCLA), Michael Giang (UCLA) and Maria Quintero (UCLA)

Communities of Practice in MMORPGs: an entry point into addiction?
Karsten D. Wolf (U of Bremen)

Factors Affecting User Participation in Video UCC (User-Created Contents) Services
Seongcheol Kim, Eun-Kyung Na, and Minho Ryu (Information and Communication U, Korea)

Session B2: Technology and Collaboration in Online Communities
Location: Lincoln Room, Session Chair: Brian Pentland (Michigan St U)

A Socio-Technical Approach for Topic Community Member Selection
Aldo de Moor (CommunitySense) and Anjo Anjewierden (U of Twente)

Tracking online collaborative work as representational practice: Analysis and Tool
Johann Ari Larusson and Richard Alterman (Brandeis U)

Implicit Many-to-One Communication in Online Communities
Mu Xia (U of Illinois), Yun Huang (U of Texas), Wenjing Duan (George Washington U), and Andrew B. Whinston (U of Texas)

4:30pm-6:00pm Invited Panel: Connected Lives: ICTs in Everyday Life
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Barry Wellman (U of Toronto)

Solitude, participation, or engagement - on or offline? Unraveling the American myth of social isolation and networking in the digital age
Helen Wang (USC), Barry Wellman (U of Toronto), Jeffrey Cole (USC), and Michael Suman (USC)

Media Use in context: A rural and urban comparison
Bernie Hogan, Paul Glavin, Dean Behrens and Barry Wellman (all U of Toronto)

Integrating distance, travel and the mode of contact: The Connected Lives Study
Juan-Antonio Carrasco (U Concepcion, Chile), Diana Mok (U of Western Ontario), and Barry Wellman (U of Toronto)

University students' local and distant social ties: Using and integrating modes of communication on campus
Anabel Quan-Haase (U of Western Ontario)

How a network of scholars and practitioners really works: The case of a national centre of excellence
Dimitrina Dimitrova (U of Toronto)

7:00pm-9:00pm Conference dinner, Kellogg Center
Saturday, June 30th
8:00am-9:00am Coffee/Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:20am Top Paper Session 2
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Mark Ackerman (U of Michigan)

Sharing Wireless Internet in Urban Neighbourhoods
Matthew Wong and Andrew Clement (U of Toronto)

Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Semi-Public Spaces
Keith N. Hampton and Neeti Gupta (U of Penn)

CommunityNetSimulator: Using Simulations to Study Online Community Network Formation and Implications
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada Adamic (U of Michigan)

10:20am-11:20am Keynote Talk
Location: Auditorium

Judith Donath, MIT Media Lab, Social Media Group
Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals

11:20am-11:40am Morning coffee break
 
Parallel Sessions
11:40am-1:00pm Session A3: Knowledge, Practice, Technologies, and Community
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Marleen Huysman (Free U of Amsterdam)

Technology and community behavior in online environments
Anita Blanchard (U of North Carolina Charlotte) and M. Lynne Markus (Bentley)

Dyadic Trust in Electronic Networks of Practice: An Integrative Model
Wei Zhang (UMass Boston)

Embeddedness and Media use in Networks of Practice
Bart van den Hooff, Marlous Agterberg, and Marleen Huysman (Free U of Amsterdam)

Session B3: E-Government and Approaches to Community Design
Location: Lincoln Room, Session Chair: Andrew Clement (U of Toronto)

Enriching community networks by supporting deliberation
Fiorella De Cindio, Antonio De Marco, and Laura Anna Ripamonti (U of Milan)

Models of Local Government Blogging: Design Trade-offs in Civic Participation
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, H. N. Kim, Manuel Perez, and Philip Isenhour (Virginia Tech)

Tuning In: Challenging Design for Communities Through a Field Study of Radio Amateurs
Cristian Bogdan and John Bowers (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

1:00pm-2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm-3:50pm Session A4: Social Networks, Communities, and Technologies
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Marcus Foth (Queensland U of Tech)

Analyzing the Dynamics of Community Formation using Brokering Activities
Matthias Trier and Annette Bobrik (Technical U Berlin)

A Relational Scaffolding Model of Hybrid Communication
Jens O. Meissner (Lucerne School of Business) and Harald Tuckermann (U of St. Gallen)

Advice Networks and Local Diffusion of Technological Innovations
Juan Carlos Barahona and Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT)

Session B4: Communities, Technologies and Bridging Social and Economic Divides
Location: Lincoln Room, Session Chair: Ulrike Lechner (U of Bundeswehr Munich)

World Wide Webs: Crossing the Digital Divide through promotion of Public Access
Liezl Lambrecht Coetzee (U of Stellenbosch, S. Africa)

Lateral Connectivity in Development Projects: Correcting the Long-Distance Bias
Harmeet Sawhney and Venkata Ratnadeep Suri (Indiana U)

High Tech Programmers in Low-income Communities: Creating a Computer Culture in a Community Technology Center
Yasmin Kafai (UCLA), Kylie Peppler (UCLA), and Grace Chiu (Harvard)

3:50pm-4:10pm Afternoon coffee break
4:10pm-5:30pm Invited Panel: Enabling Communities - and Research on Communities - with Cyberinfrastructure
Location: Auditorium, Session Chair: Hank Green (U of Illinois)

Digital Traces: New Opportunities for Social Science
Michael Macy (Cornell U)

Collaboration, Multi-Modal Data, and Informatics for the Social Sciences
Mark Hereld (Argonne National Labs and Computation Institute and U of Chicago)

CI-KNOW: Cyberinfrastructure Tools to Enable Knowledge Networks
Hank Green (NCSA/U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

NSF's Cyber Discovery and Innovation
Wayne Lutters (National Science Foundation)

5:30pm-6:00pm Closing comments and announcing the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Location: Auditorium
7:00pm-9:30pm Reception/Dinner, State of Michigan Historical Museum
Busses depart at 6:45pm from Kellogg