November 2001 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Interpretation in newsgroups
by arpo＠joyx.joensuu.fi 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

Hi all, I´m writing doctoral dissertation on collective processes of interpretation and construction of meaning in Internet-newsgroups (Usenet, BBs, Web-boards) and I´d like to know more about research made on cultural aspects of newsgroups. I´d appreciate a lot to get names of researchers and their relevant publications. best regards, Robert Arpo ***************************************** Robert Arpo, M.A Researcher ETNICA-Joensuu Centre for Ethnic Studies University of Joensuu P.O.Box 111 FIN-80101 JOENSUU tel: +358-13-251-5253 fax: +358-13-251-5275 email:Robert.Arpo@joensuu.fi http://www.joensuu.fi/etnica http://cc.joensuu.fi/~arpo ****************************************

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position announcement
by Tricia Quitmeyer 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY School of Justice Studies Assistant Professor The interdisciplinary School of Justice Studies seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 16, 2002. The position is Information Technology, Society, and Justice. We seek someone whose scholarly background combines skills in computing and related technologies with the critical study of justice in society. The successful candidate must be interested in the transformative and progressive aspects of information technology, as well as its possibilities for exacerbating injustice. Responsibilities for this position include conducting an active program of research and scholarly publication, teaching alone and in teams with colleagues in the field of Justice Studies, and service to the University, the profession, and the community. This position involves: 1. Working with current faculty to enhance their capacity to use IT resources in their teaching and research; 2. Developing and teaching two new courses, one framed around evaluating IT as a social resource, and the other focusing on constructing justice through information technology; 3. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of the candidate's expertise. Qualifications required: Demonstrated potential for excellence in research and teaching and completion of the Ph.D. or doctorate in the social or behavioral sciences or the humanities by the date of appointment. Background or expertise in IT and society. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with faculty and students. Qualifications desired: Demonstrated ability to work with and critically appraise web-based sources for justice research, including a variety of data sets and sources, and to teach advanced information technology skills that could include graduate statistics, qualitative data analysis, or other analytic tools. The School of Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary department in law and the social sciences with areas of theoretical and empirical concentration in social and economic justice; race, ethnicity, and marginalized groups; American Indians and Justice; disputing and conflict management; criminal and juvenile justice; and gender and justice. The School is the principal sponsor of the University-wide Ph.D./J.D. program in justice studies, law and the social sciences, and administers the M.S. program in justice studies, servicing approximately 100 graduate students of diverse national origins. There are more than 800 undergraduate Justice Studies majors. Faculty backgrounds include but are not limited to Anthropology, Criminology, History, Law, Political Science and Sociology. For further details about this program see http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/ <http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/> To apply, please send a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, a sample of your research, and three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Search Committee, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, PO Box 870403, Tempe, AZ 85287-0403. Deadline for applications: January 15, 2002. AA/EOE

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Re: [Air-l] Re: Survey Methodology on the WWW
by Frank Schaap 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

John wrote: > In terms of anecdotes, I'm curious about how/why many of us begain using > the internet as a methodology or even to study. In my own case, I was <snip> Although this book doesn't really go into the "dirty nasty details" of failing tech and other research horrors, it's very interesting to read how the authors of this autobiographical volume ended up in the 'internet scene': Henwood, Flis & Helen Kennedy & Nod Miller (eds.) (2001) Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies. York, UK: Raw Nerve Books Ltd. Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Teaching Survey Methodology on the WWW [developing the thread]
by Matthew Allen 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Dear all Am very interested in these questions of methodology. At Curtin University we are currently developing a unit (course in US-speak) entitled Internet Studies 306/506 - Cyberanalytics It aims to teach both some practical techniques of online survey methodology, and some more conceptual knowledge about the problems/advantages of surveying. It's part of our attempt to created a fused currriculum in which there is sufficient responsiveness to the demands (in Australia at least) for 'practical' studies, as well as a commitment to the critical, analytical positions traditionally associated with the humanities old and new. The most likely 6 areas of concentration are... (1) online survey design (focusing on the items, etc rather than the technical implementation) (2) online focus groups (analysing the debate for and against them) (3) analysis of website server logs (hence the name cyberanalytics) (4) research design - how to formulate hypotheses, testability, method selection etc (5) virtual ethnography and (6) critical analysis of the differences and overlaps offline / online with special reference to ethical issues I'll happily share the final currriculum when finished...anyone care to contribute further by suggesting... what we've missed or underemphasised what business/industry needs from graduates in Internet Studies how we might teach these in innovative ways whether these kinds of courses are valuable or not Matt

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NEW THINKING Newsletter
by Ken Friedman 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Dear Colleagues, For those of you who may not know it, I'd like to recommend Gerry McGovern's fine newsletter, New Thinking. Subscriptions are free. All information below in a recent issue. Best regards, Ken Friedman -- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:00:04 +0000 Reply-To: gerry(a)GERRYMCGOVERN.COM From: The New Thinking Newsletter <NEW-THINKING(a)LIST.ADVENTIVE.COM> Subject: Email: too much of a good thing? To: NEW-THINKING(a)LIST.ADVENTIVE.COM You are subscribed as: ken.friedman(a)BI.NO ****************************************************************** NEW THINKING NEW THINKING NEW THINKING NEW THINKING NEW THINKING By Gerry McGovern - Email: gerry(a)gerrymcgovern.com ****************************************************************** November 05, 2001 - Volume 6 Number 43 ****************************************************************** MAKE BETTER USE OF YOUR WEB CONTENT Help your organization get the right content to the right person at the right time at the right cost. A professional content management strategy will save your organization money, while delivering real value from your content. For more information, please send an email to: mailto:info@gerrymcgovern.com Or, visit the website: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/services.htm ****************************************************************** HAVE YOU ENJOYED NEW THINKING? If you have, Gerry McGovern would like to hear about it. (Constructive criticism is welcome too!) If you have a minute, please send a brief accolade (max: 100 words), describing what you like about the publication. This may then be published on Gerry=92s website, or in other promotional material for Gerry McGovern. Please also include your name, title and organization (if appropriate). Please send accolades to: mailto:gerry@gerrymcgovern.com Also, you might pass the word on to someone else, and encourage them to subscribe. Thank you. Gerry McGovern ****************************************************************** EMAIL: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? Email is regarded as a primary tool of the new economy. It has become a critical means of communication for a great many organizations and individuals. Email is used because it makes communication more efficient and cost effective. However, there are signs that email aids unnecessary communication. Is email becoming a productivity drain, rather than a productivity gain? Last week I received an email from a friend who was commenting on my piece on the technology productivity paradox. He mentioned a conversation he had had with an executive from Aldi, a very successful discount retailer chain. To quote from his email: "None of their senior managers (or lower levels) are allowed to have email. Phone and fax is what runs the company. Why are they like this? Email does not aid productivity." My immediate response to this statement was: How could that be? I live by email. Without it, I would be totally cut off. But that's obviously not the case for Aldi. The view that email does not aid productivity is backed up by a number of studies and reports: * In September 2001, IDC predicted that there will be 1.2 billion email mailboxes by 2005, up from 505 million in 2000. It also predicted that by 2005 there will be 36 billion person-to-person emails sent worldwide every day. * In July 2001, Ferris Research predicted that 2001 would see a 50 percent rise in the number of emails business users would receive, with further growth of between 35-50 percent during 2002. * In July 2001, a Gartner study stated that business users receive an average of 22 email messages a day, and spend an average of 49 minutes every day managing their email. Gartner stated that much email is not relevant. It compared unproductive email to, "being killed by friendly fire. It's like carbon monoxide. It's colorless, odorless". * In May 2001, Support.com published a survey of IT professionals globally which found that email software caused the more problems than any other software application. Has the Internet become the Trojan Horse of information overload? Millions embrace email and the Web, believing that greater productivity will be achieved. Yet, it looks like millions have become unwilling participants in a great productivity swindle. The root cause of the problem is a counter-productive thinking about content and communication. Deep down, many of us fundamentally believe that more and bigger is better. How come when you ask 100 people to write 1,000 words on a subject, 80 will write more than 1,000 words, 18 will write just 1,000 words and only 2 will write less than 1,000 words? Communication and content are not commodities. More communication can harm rather than aid productivity. More content can mean more wasted time. The world realized that it couldn't sustain 20 billion people and measures were taken to slow population growth. The business world can't sustain 36 billion email messages a day. It's time for some form of limit, some form of penalty for those who clog up the information arteries. Gerry McGovern <mailto:gerry@gerrymcgovern.com> WEBSITE LINK FOR THIS ISSUE: <http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2001/nt_2001_11_05_email.htm> ****************************************************************** MAKE BETTER USE OF YOUR WEB CONTENT Help your organization get the right content to the right person at the right time at the right cost. A professional content management strategy will save your organization money, while delivering real value from your content. For more information, please send an email to: mailto:info@gerrymcgovern.com Or, visit the website: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/services.htm ****************************************************************** HAVE YOU ENJOYED NEW THINKING? 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e-democracy
by Ken Friedman 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Dear Colleagues, Steven Clift asks, "I am on the look out for other government-led "e-democracy" efforts (at any level) similar to the recent UK announcements..." A few years ago, I explored this issue in a paper titled, "Cities in the Information Age: A Scandinavian Perspective." The Danish government has been especially good on this kind of project. If anyone wishes an electronic offprint of the paper, send me an email with the word "Cities" in the subject header. Best regards, Ken Friedman -- Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Technology and Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University

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AW: UK Government's Major E-Democracy Push - Reference to Europea n Forum Alpbach 2001
by Rudolf.Lichtmannegger＠wko.at 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

if able to read/listen to German, you may be interested in presentations in the eGovernment working group at the European Forum Alpbach, August 2001, Alpbach/Austria. Presentations and videostreams (RealVideo) available at http://wko.at/alpbach/bm/start-e.htm#AK5. Sincerely, Rudolf Lichtmannegger Economic Policy Department Austrian Economic Chamber Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63 1045 Vienna Austria ph: ++43 1 50105 4411 fax: ++43 1 50105 298 e-mail: Rudolf.Lichtmannegger(a)wko.at http://wko.at/wp -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Steven Clift [mailto:slc@publicus.net] Gesendet am: Freitag, 26. Oktober 2001 18:34 An: pubpol-l(a)tc.umn.edu; huridocs-tech(a)hrea.org; eacn(a)ukco.org.uk; ispo(a)www.ispo.cec.be; Globalcn2000(a)yahoogroups.com; ElectronicGovernment(a)yahoogroups.com; E-DEMOKRATI(a)MAILINGLIST.STATSKONTORET.SE; communityinformatics(a)vcn.bc.ca; politech(a)politechbot.com; CARR-L(a)LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU; apple(a)apnic.net; rohrpost(a)mikrolisten.de; nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net; gkd(a)phoenix.edc.org; air-l(a)aoir.org; cyberculture(a)zacha.org; civilsoc(a)vhost1.partners-intl.net; cpi-ua(a)vcn.bc.ca; list(a)ukpress.org; link(a)www.anu.edu.au; DIGITALDIVIDE(a)OWA.BENTON.ORG; FOI-L(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU; CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM Betreff: UK Government's Major E-Democracy Push - Articles, Releases, Key Speech (A BIG DEAL) I am on the look out for other government-led "e-democracy" efforts (at any level) similiar to the recent UK announcements (see below). If you are interested in this issue, join my 2200 person Democracies Online Newswire e-mail annoucement list <http://www.e-democracy.org/do> for updates on this new e-government trend. Thanks, Steven Clift Democeracies Online Newswire *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** The "e-democracy" shot heard around the world. The UK government has just announced a major e-democracy policy. Yes, a government-led e-democracy agenda. In my opinion, e-government will succeed only if it stands on two equal legs - service and democracy. I expect that many leading governments around the world will take up the UK's call and launch their own e-democracy initiatives to build a more balanced and successful approach to e-government. This is a completely new phase in the evolution of thought about government's democratic role in the information age - that of an initiator and actor and not simply a reactor to political and civic uses of the Internet that wash over their old forms of decision- making while elected and appointed officials feel helpless without the online tools required to be better representatives. Think of this new movement as "Representative E-Government," where the two-way Internet is integrated into the governance and representation process on par with the provision of online transaction services. The alternative is a services first approach that automates the government services that people no longer want in a way the increases the power of administration over elective representatives and citizens. What the UK government has done is break through the narrow notion that e-democracy is about outsiders pushing for online voting about everything. Instead, building e-democracy is a fundamental responsibility of a legitimate democratic nation in the information age. Hooray. Below are links to some news coverage, a press release from the UK Prime Minister's office, the major speech given by Douglas Alexander the Minister for E-commerce and Competitiveness, and another more detailed press release from the Department of Trade and Industry. Steven Clift Democracies Online http://www.e-democracy.org/do Press coverage about the e-democracy policies announced by the UK government: E-democracy moves up the agenda http://www.ukauthority.com/articles/story378.asp UK Govt calls for e-democracy http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22477.html Some semi-related coverage: Blair 'big bang' theory to delay freedom act (Not all rosey) http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,9061,581045,00.html Labour MP calls for e-mail democracy (Oct 22, related) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001364829,00.html

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #202 - 4 msgs
by Michel J. Menou 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Hi If you can manage with Spanish, though some bits are in English http://funredes.org/olistica In this projet we focus at empowering civil society organizations toward making sens of ICT policies and becoming active players. There is another project by APC in this arena with regional i.e. Europe, Africa, Latin America versions, seeking ways for advocacy www.apc.org See also what GIPI is doing. Michel Saturday, November 03, 2001, 6:01:02 PM, you wrote: alrao> Message: 2 alrao> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:45:09 -0500 alrao> From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> alrao> Organization: Virginia Tech alrao> To: air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Intersections: Internet research, policy practice, and issue advocacy alrao> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> I'm interested in this, especially if theory is included in the practice alrao> and research parts:) alrao> rglentz(a)mail.utexas.edu wrote: >> Dear colleagues: I'm eager to find a group of AOIRers who might be >> interested in pursuing scholarly work that explores the possible >> intersections between/among Internet research, policy practice, and >> issue advocacy. Please feel free to email me privately, off list. >> Thanks, RG Lentz, UT-Austin (rglentz(a)mail.utexas.edu) >>

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NYT article on Washington State Anti-Spam Law
by Ken Friedman 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

Dear Colleagues, You may wish to look at the NYT article on the Washington State Anti-Spam Law. Many interesting issues. Ken Friedman --snip-- Ruling Sets Stage for E-Mail Trial November 2, 2001 By CARL S. KAPLAN Earlier this week the United States Supreme Court declined to review a Seattle case involving a state's ability to enforce its own Internet law in borderless cyberspace. As a practical matter, the decision set the stage for what's sure to be an interesting trial in Washington's King County later this year. Jason Heckel, an entrepreneur from Salem, Oregon, has been accused by Washington's attorney general of sending unsolicited commercial e-mail in violation of a local law designed to prevent such "spamming." But the impact of the high court's action might have wider implications, lawyers say -- though how much is a matter of debate. --snip-- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/technology/02CYBERLAW.html?ex=3D10058= 03900&ei=3D1&en=3D99eabf288e94e7a0

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Air-l digest, Vol 1 #202 - 4 msgs
by msrdssg＠fs1.ec.man.ac.uk 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

Sarah Green is out of the office until Monday, November 5th. If your query is urgent, please contact the Social Anthropology Office on 0161 275-4000.

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