Dear Colleagues,
The Electronic Literature Directory
is a useful resource located at
http://directory.eliterature.org/
From their introduction:
"The Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable
resource for readers and writers of digital texts. It provides an
extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors,
and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction,
drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic
techniques or enhancements.
"The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and
fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new
forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other
interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works,
generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. Directory
users can also enjoy the enhancements that the new technology brings
to traditional literature, such as streaming audio readings of poetry
by masters ranging from e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas to
contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners."
The directory os published by the
Electronic Literature Organization,
located at:
http://www.eliterature.org/index2.html
--
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
Please post and distribute this call further.
Thanks,
Nick Jankowski
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
Call for Papers
EURICOM COLLOQUIUM
ELECTRONIC NETWORKS & DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT
October 9-11, 2002
The European Institute for Communication and Culture (Euricom) is hosting a
second colloquium of scholars concerned with the relation between
electronic networks and democratic engagement. This colloquium will build
on the inroads developed at the first event held in Piran, Slovenia, in
2001. A central objective of this colloquium is to lay the groundwork for
international collaborative research initiatives. Special attention is to
be given to the place of electronic networks during periods of collective
crisis such as experienced after the September 11th attacks on New York and
Washington. Contributions are welcome that are conceived within the more
general concerns of designing networks aimed at providing politically-based
information, and supporting public debate and citizen action. The arenas of
electronic community networks, digital cities, and other virtual spaces
within democratic engagement are particularly suitable for contributions to
this colloquium.
Background
Interest in and experimentation with electronic networks has been ongoing
since cable television infrastructures were constructed in the late 1960s.
This concern intensified with development of opportunities for
computer-mediated communication in the 1980s and with popularization of the
Internet in the 1990s. In 1996 the European Institute for Communication and
Culture (Euricom) sponsored a colloquium concerned with 'virtual
democracy'. Contributions to the most recent Euricom colloquium, held in
2001, continue in this tradition and are currently being prepared for
publication in the journals Javnost - The Public and Communications: The
European Journal of Communication Research.
Questions
This work, taken as a whole, reflects increasing concern about the possible
contributions of electronic networks to democratic life. Some of the
questions emerging from this work include:
· In what manner and to what degree do electronic networks contribute to a
more informed and politically active citizenry?
· How can electronic networks be designed to increase democratic engagement?
· In what ways are electronic networks utilized in collective crises?
The upcoming Euricom colloquium is intended to explore these and related
questions. An edited volume, assembled from contributions to both
colloquia, is to be published by Hampton Press.
Abstracts
Persons interested in participating in this event are invited to submit
extended abstracts (ca. 500 words) for proposed papers. The deadline for
receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2002; it is recommended, however, that
interested persons contact the organizers of the colloquium prior to that
date. The venue for the colloquium is still under negotiation, but will be
situated in The Netherlands.
Address queries to:
Nicholas Jankowski <N.Jankowski(a)maw.kun.nl> or
Slavko Splichal <slavko.splichal(a)uni-lj.si>
Further information may be found at the Euricom Project web site:
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
Folks of AIR,
*** feel free to distribute ***
New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (December 2001)
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) celebrates its 5 year
anniversary this month with a new set of book reviews. New reviews for
December 2001 (found at www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/) include:
Eric Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of
Information. Harmony Books, 1998. Reviewed by Susan Lewak and Nick Hales.
Andrew Darley, Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New
Media Genres. Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Sabrina DeTurk.
Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa, editors, CyberText Yearbook 2000.
Research Centre for Contemporary Culture, 2000. Reviewed by Jessica
Pressman with a response from Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa.
Each month, RCCS <www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes two or three
full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate
critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of
cyberculture studies. RCCS's book reviews section now includes
full-length reviews of over 100 books on cyberculture, the Internet, and
technoculture. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing
books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu>. As
always, please feel free to forward this message.
david silver
http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver
To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list
for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No
subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce
had to do some touch-up on some code, but i've linked the three sets of
pictures up to the http://aoir.org/2001/ conference archive site have
fun if anyone has anything other picture sets or conference reviews,
etc. let charlie or I know:)
--
jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu
526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com
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blacksburg, va 24061
540-231-7614
Shalom
I am building an interactive site for vocabulary.
Please, if you have lists of English words with thier Hebrew meaning, and you are interested to use them on the internet, send them to me.
thanks
yours
Ahmad
