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

Question about research on migrant networks
by C. Courtright 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

Greetings, Does anyone have knowledge of ongoing or published scholarly work regarding Internet use by migrant networks, either 1) among expatriates/emigrants, or 2) between expatriates/emigrants and home country? I have personal knowledge of many such networks, and the topic was discussed in Miller & Slater (2000) _The Internet: An ethnographic approach_. However, I haven't found anything else in the literature beyond the occasional reference to Internet use as part of transnational networking. I am thinking about future empirical research on this topic. Thank you for your help, Christina Courtright SLIS-Indiana University ccourtri(a)indiana.edu http://php.indiana.edu/~ccourtri/home.html

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #121 - 5 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the Office)
by Maryrose Larkin 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

I am out of the office until Tuesday, October 2nd. If you need assistance, please contact Zach Kronser X55225 >>> air-l 09/22/01 09:01 >>> Today's Topics: 1. Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #120 - 7 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the Office) (Maryrose Larkin) 2. civil defense origins of the internet (Barry Wellman) 3. Jobs at UCSD (Frederick Turner) 4. FW: [Ethics] public mailing list (Charles Ess) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:01:13 -0700 From: "Maryrose Larkin" <Larkin(a)mail.pdx.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #120 - 7 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the Office) Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org I am out of the office until Tuesday, October 2nd. If you need assistance, = please contact Zach Kronser X55225 >>> air-l 09/21/01 09:01 >>> =20 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Music and the internet (neice(a)kw.igs.net) 2. some notes about 09.11 and the Internet (aurelija dagilyte) 3. Self-description and platform for Open Seat (Barry Wellman) 4. International Nominations (Charlie Breindahl) 5. Re: Self-description and platforms (jeremy hunsinger) 6. Web Archiving (w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk) 7. Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia = (D. Silver) -- __--__-- Message: 1 From: neice(a)kw.igs.net To: air-l(a)aoir.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:50:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Air-l] Music and the internet Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hi Jens, A useful discussion of music and digital technology is found in=20 Chapter 2 (Music: Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital Coal=20 Mine) of the citation noted below. This book most assuredly does=20 not use ANT, but it still offers a solid analysis.=20 National Research Council (2000), The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual=20 Property in the Information Age, Washington DC: National=20 Academy Press. Please write me off-line about your work as I have done some work=20 on file sharing that may be relevant.=20 Cheers, david neice=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David C. Neice =20 digital-literacy.com :-) =20 Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/ Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2 Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- __--__-- Message: 2 From: "aurelija dagilyte" <naunetka(a)takas.lt> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:20:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] some notes about 09.11 and the Internet Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hello, I wanted to share some impressions about the well-known events and some tendencies I've noticed in Russian and other post-soviet countries = Internet. As an anthropologist I was interested what do the ordinary people of these countries really think about what happened, while their governments speak nice phrases supporting the US and the war against the terrorism. The = result was interesting - while all TV channels, radio stations were speaking how that was terrible and bad, on the Internet I've found very wide scale of opinions and emotions. It seems so, that in post-soviet countries is a difference between the Internet and other media. I had an impression that = TV channels and radio programs presented more or less censored view and on = the Internet almost all expressed opposite position to the official. These tendencies had even more increased when US started to talk about the war = in the Afghanistan. I think a lot of people still remember the Russian war in = that country and it's useless. Another interesting thing is the fact that = politic discussions still dominates in the chat rooms and web pages which usually are not interested in the politics. I'm not sure if the opinions presented on the net had some influence on the other media, but after some time more skeptic view started to appear on the Russian TV too. I'm very curios what will be next. Regards, Aurelija Dagilyte -- __--__-- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:36:41 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu>, Keith Hampton <knh(a)MIT.EDU>, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ukans.edu>, Steve Jones <sjones(a)uic.edu> Subject: [Air-l] Self-description and platform for Open Seat Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org As the norm in the AOIR governance process seems to be evolving towards public statements by/about candidates, here's mine. I was nominated by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Keith Hampton for an open council seat on AOIR. I was asked by AOIR (via Jeremy Hunsigner) to prepare a 250-word self-description and platform. I present it below.=20 For more details, see my website. Cheers, Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman =20 Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:30:52 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir office nominations <nominate(a)aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Subject: Self-description and platform for Open Seat As a keynote speaker at our founding conference, I want to keep the momentum going. Research: I believe in systematic, quality research. I've been studying the Internet and its precursors since the 1970s. I've (co)-authored more than 160 scholarly articles and (co)-edited three books, including The Internet in Everyday Life and Networks in the Global Village. Organization: Let's pioneer new ways to keep connected. In 1976, I founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, quite similar to AOIR. I've served on the Sociology and Computing section Council of the American Sociological Association, and the International Sociologists' Community Council. I just co-founded a new journal as head of the ASA's Community section. Breadth: At AOIR, I will work to foster skill-expanding workshops. My research encompasses a wide range of interests: how people find community online, how people work together online, knowledge management, and the rise of the networked society. I've collaborated in the design of new communication systems. Interdisciplinary: I've collaborated with computer scientists, educators, engineers, historians, information scientists, lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists, and I'm an ICA member. I've been a board member of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute, McLuhan Program, and Structural Analysis Program. International: A Canadian, I've lived and worked in Europe and Asia. I've collaborated with scholars in 8 countries in Europe, Asia and America. My work has been translated into 8 languages. I've lectured and given workshops in 16 countries in South and North America; Eastern and Western Europe; Western, Southern and Eastern Asia.=20 Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman =20 Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ -- __--__-- Message: 4 From: "Charlie Breindahl" <hitch(a)hum.ku.dk> To: "Air-L" <air-l(a)aoir.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:44:38 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] International Nominations Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org I think many good names have come up already and I support those, = especially Steve and Nancy for a second term. My motivation is primarily to make room for non-americans in the executive committee. In my opinion, this is important to ensure that AoIR has credibility as an _international_ organisation. (I think it is self-explaining why AoIR in particular should have such credibility.) To achieve this is harder than you might think. More than half our members are American. And most of us would like to vote for someone we know. If = all Americans vote for Americans, well... So when voting, please consider international candidates as well. And for you guys from .il, .nz, .jp, = etc.: Please come forward with your nominations :) My nominees are: Jenny Sund=C8n (Sweden) jensu(a)tema.liu.se Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext(a)fragment.nl Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved(a)hum.ku.dk Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup(a)it-c.dk Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman(a)bi.no Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan(a)pop.xs4all.nl Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk(a)uni-muenster.de (I will not run for an open seat myself, but will be happy to serve a = second term as Information Officer, if the new executive committee decides it.) Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen Web: http://computer.media.ku.dk/breindahl/ E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk PGP: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray -- __--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:52:42 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Self-description and platforms Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org fyi I will be posting the descriptions and platforms in the members area of=20 the website on sunday afternoon. > --=20 Jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy CDDC/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 virginia tech blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 -- __--__-- Message: 6 From: w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk To: Air-l(a)aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:17:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-l] Web Archiving Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Dear all,=20 I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the=20 September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org) and=20 downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best=20 quality: technical, scholarly and moral. On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the=20 sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see=20 http://www.ipop.org.uk) Does anybody on the list have knowledge /=20 experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software?=20 Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for=20 faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable:=20 web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc. We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists,=20 but no joy. Can anybody help? Many thanks Wainer Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, political organisations and participation project ESRI - University of Salford United Kingdom http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Tel: 0161 295 5654=20 -- __--__-- Message: 7 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "D. Silver" <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a = Race-Free Utopia Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Folks, In my mind, Jeff Young, a writer for the Chronicle for Higher Education, is by far one of the best journalists covering our beat. I'm including the first few paragraphs and URL of an article on race and cyberspace he wrote for the Chronicle. Lots of AIR'ers mentioned! david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Friday, September 21, 2001 Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia By JEFFREY R. YOUNG The Internet has often been touted as a utopia where racial differences are erased and people are judged by their ideas rather than their skin color. But rather than curbing racism, cyberspace may be perpetuating racial stereotypes for some users, a growing number of scholars say. And until recently, they say, few researchers have studied issues of racial identity online -- even though so much attention has been paid to economic studies of the "digital divide." A recent batch of conferences and books are helping to fill the research gap, however. http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092101t.htm -- __--__-- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l End of Air-l Digest --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:04:42 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] civil defense origins of the internet Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org At this time of civil defense crisis in the US, it is interesting to recall that an important precursor of the Internet was the computerized conferencing system that Murray Turoff and others developed in the early 1970s (and perhaps earlier) for the US civil defense system. The idea was to foster coordination among dispersed people and groups. This path-breaking system allowed for both email-like messages and easy setup of computerized conferences. The system became civilianized as EIES in the 1970s as Murray became a prof at New Jersey Institute of Technology (and still is). I remember being an early, delighted user of it in the mid-1970s, and was a member of a National Science Foundation funded field trial of using EIES to foster scholarly community. One fun feature: It was easy to use pseudonyms whenever you wanted. I was "Alvey Singer" as an _Annie Hall_ fan. Of course, the technology wasn't the same then. Everything ran off a single server in New Jersey, and we used an 800 number to dial-in. Speed was 110 bits per second (which is a lot different than 110K). It came over a printing modem. Whenever I got a message, I knew I had time to go get a cup of coffee, sometimes two. Text only of course. But EIES ran, it was fun, and it was useful. [See Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff's _The Network Nation_ for a fuller account: I'm proud that they named their book after my even-earlier "Network City" article.] Now things have come full circle. I assume US Civil Defense folks are using similar systems today, and certainly we all have relied on the Internet to convey thoughts, argue positions, and obtain information. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:06:30 -0400 To: air-l(a)aoir.org, CYBERCULTURE(a)LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU, CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK From: Frederick Turner <fturner(a)MIT.EDU> Subject: [Air-l] Jobs at UCSD Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >The University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication is >seeking to fill several full-time, tenure-track positions at the Assistant >Professor level, beginning Fall 2002: > >Production >The practice and theory of production. The department seeks Ph.D. or >M.F.A. degree holders who can provide an imaginative blend of creative >work and research in new or traditional media. The department's needs are >weighted toward documentary video, non-linear editing, and non-fiction >multimedia design, but innovative work in radio, web design, or other >media will be considered. Send sample(s) of creative work (on VHS tape) >and evidence of research and/or critical writing skills to the attention >of Professor Ellen Seiter. > >Communication as a Social Force >The political economy or institutional analysis of communication. Special >areas of interest include cultural industries, globalization, comparative >media systems, law and policy, new information technologies (including >digital divide and access issues), and research on the intersection >between the political economy of communication and race, gender and/or >nationalism. Send materials to the attention of Professor Dan Hallin. > >California Cultures >Race, ethnicity and communication. Part of a new, interdisciplinary >cluster hire in the social sciences and humanities addressing race and >ethnicity in California. Applicants should have research interests that >speak to communication and questions of racial and ethnic formations >primarily, but not exclusively, in California. Areas of particular >interest are open. Possibilities could include: immigration, changing >media markets, and new forms of representation; the role of communication >media in forming ideas about social identity; border culture; patterns of >access to and use of information technology; communication and >California's multicultural classrooms; communication networks and patterns >of migration and settlement; the articulation of race and ethnicity >through music, television, film, video, or other media productions. Send >materials to the attention of Professor Vicente Rafael. > >Salaries are in strict accordance with UC pay scales. If non-citizen, >state immigration status. UCSD is an equal opportunity/affirmative action >employer committed to excellence through diversity. Applicants are invited >to preview campus diversity resources and programs at the campus website >for Diversity (http://diversity.ucsd.edu/) > >To assist applicants who may have concerns regarding employment >opportunities for spouses/partners, please consider the UCSD website for >the Academic Job Opportunities Bulletin, the Staff Employment Opportunity >Bulletin or our links to employment opportunities at other education and >research institutions in San Diego. > > >Send vita, statement of research and teaching interests, and names, >addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three references >supporting the applicant's teaching qualifications by November 16, 2001, >however, we will review applications until the positions are filled. > >http://communication.ucsd.edu/ > >Please send materials to: > > Recruitment Committee > Department of Communication (0503), > Univ. Calif. San Diego > 9500 Gilman Drive, > La Jolla CA 92093-0503. --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:56:50 -0500 From: Charles Ess <cmess(a)lib.drury.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] FW: [Ethics] public mailing list Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org I happily pass this on from Amy Bruckman... Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi ---------- From: "Amy S. Bruckman" <asb(a)cc.gatech.edu> Reply-To: ethics(a)aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:32:21 -0400 To: ethics(a)aoir.org Subject: [Ethics] public mailing list If anyone's interested, I've set up a new public mailing list for discussion of these issues. (If someone could please forward this to the AoIR public lists, I'd appreciate it--I'm not on any of those lists.) -- Amy ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:20:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New mailing list: online-research-ethics If you're interested in joining the new online-research-ethics mailing list: mail: majordomo(a)cc.gatech.edu place in the message body: subscribe online-research-ethics A quick intro to the issue: I've been doing some work on trying to development guidelines for ethical research online. I'm part of working groups from APA and AoIR to develop formal policies. There are lots of thorny issues. Here's an example of a controversial situation: studying discourse in chatrooms. View 1: "A chat room is like a public square" Linguists reserve the right to record dialog in public places and study its formal properties. They can take notes or even tape record conversations say in a park. They don't need consent for this. Identity of subjects is disguised. Many linguists argue that open Internet chatrooms are an analogous situation, and they can record whatever they like and analyze it without acknowledging their presence. View 2: "A chat room is like my living room" Others argue that because chat rooms are normally not recorded, participants have a reasonable expectation that discourse there is ephemeral. You can't record it without permission. You can't make individuals be subjects in an experimental study without their freely-given informed consent. Messy, no? Join the mailing list for more. The list is open to anyone. Especially welcome are: * Individuals seeking advice on their own research * Members or IRBs struggling to handle research proposals The list is "off the record"--you may not quote postings from it without written permission of the author. I hope this will help foster free discussion. Please feel free to forward this message to interested people, and post it to appropriate lists. - -- Amy ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Ethics mailing list Ethics(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/ethics --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l End of Air-l Digest

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Nomination acknowledgement
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

Colleagues: Nancy kindly mentioned my name in her nominations, and I would be happy to serve in an open seat on the AOIR board. A few words on what you might get: INTERDISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND I trained in English language and literature, but soon turned toward media and communication studies, spending time as a graduate student and postdoc at US research institutions, including the Annenberg School of Communications in Los Angeles. In the Nordic and European context, I have been an advocate of integrating humanistic and social-scientific approaches to communication and culture, initially in audience and reception studies, more recently in computer media studies. NETWORKS - International Association of Media and Communication Research: President of Audience and Reception Studies Section - 'Changing Media, Changing Europe': Participant in 5-year project with 60+ researchers from around Europe on the social and cultural implications of media developments - Editorial Board member for a number of media journals, including in the past the Journal of Communication, and currently the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Journalism - Theory, Practice, Critism; Social Semiotics. PLATFORM Since participating in (one of) the first meeting(s) of AOIR at the International Communication Association conference in San Francisco 1999, I have attended AOIR 1, and have served on its Ethics Committee. On the board, I would like to work with colleagues from around the world on consolidating the association. Three areas of activity, in particular, come to mind: - ensuring a worldwide representation of AOIR, including conferences outside North America - enhancing the web resources of AOIR as an arena for information exchange and research collaboration - exploring the interfaces of AOIR with related professional organizations, perhaps through joint seminars and other formats. -- ____________________________________ Klaus Bruhn Jensen Associate Professor, dr.phil. Department of Film and Media Studies University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj(a)hum.ku.dk http://www.ifm.ku.dk ____________________________________

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FW: [Ethics] public mailing list
by Charles Ess 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

I happily pass this on from Amy Bruckman... Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi ---------- From: "Amy S. Bruckman" <asb(a)cc.gatech.edu> Reply-To: ethics(a)aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:32:21 -0400 To: ethics(a)aoir.org Subject: [Ethics] public mailing list If anyone's interested, I've set up a new public mailing list for discussion of these issues. (If someone could please forward this to the AoIR public lists, I'd appreciate it--I'm not on any of those lists.) -- Amy ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:20:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New mailing list: online-research-ethics If you're interested in joining the new online-research-ethics mailing list: mail: majordomo(a)cc.gatech.edu place in the message body: subscribe online-research-ethics A quick intro to the issue: I've been doing some work on trying to development guidelines for ethical research online. I'm part of working groups from APA and AoIR to develop formal policies. There are lots of thorny issues. Here's an example of a controversial situation: studying discourse in chatrooms. View 1: "A chat room is like a public square" Linguists reserve the right to record dialog in public places and study its formal properties. They can take notes or even tape record conversations say in a park. They don't need consent for this. Identity of subjects is disguised. Many linguists argue that open Internet chatrooms are an analogous situation, and they can record whatever they like and analyze it without acknowledging their presence. View 2: "A chat room is like my living room" Others argue that because chat rooms are normally not recorded, participants have a reasonable expectation that discourse there is ephemeral. You can't record it without permission. You can't make individuals be subjects in an experimental study without their freely-given informed consent. Messy, no? Join the mailing list for more. The list is open to anyone. Especially welcome are: * Individuals seeking advice on their own research * Members or IRBs struggling to handle research proposals The list is "off the record"--you may not quote postings from it without written permission of the author. I hope this will help foster free discussion. Please feel free to forward this message to interested people, and post it to appropriate lists. - -- Amy ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Ethics mailing list Ethics(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/ethics

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Jobs at UCSD
by Frederick Turner 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

> >The University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication is >seeking to fill several full-time, tenure-track positions at the Assistant >Professor level, beginning Fall 2002: > >Production >The practice and theory of production. The department seeks Ph.D. or >M.F.A. degree holders who can provide an imaginative blend of creative >work and research in new or traditional media. The department's needs are >weighted toward documentary video, non-linear editing, and non-fiction >multimedia design, but innovative work in radio, web design, or other >media will be considered. Send sample(s) of creative work (on VHS tape) >and evidence of research and/or critical writing skills to the attention >of Professor Ellen Seiter. > >Communication as a Social Force >The political economy or institutional analysis of communication. Special >areas of interest include cultural industries, globalization, comparative >media systems, law and policy, new information technologies (including >digital divide and access issues), and research on the intersection >between the political economy of communication and race, gender and/or >nationalism. Send materials to the attention of Professor Dan Hallin. > >California Cultures >Race, ethnicity and communication. Part of a new, interdisciplinary >cluster hire in the social sciences and humanities addressing race and >ethnicity in California. Applicants should have research interests that >speak to communication and questions of racial and ethnic formations >primarily, but not exclusively, in California. Areas of particular >interest are open. Possibilities could include: immigration, changing >media markets, and new forms of representation; the role of communication >media in forming ideas about social identity; border culture; patterns of >access to and use of information technology; communication and >California's multicultural classrooms; communication networks and patterns >of migration and settlement; the articulation of race and ethnicity >through music, television, film, video, or other media productions. Send >materials to the attention of Professor Vicente Rafael. > >Salaries are in strict accordance with UC pay scales. If non-citizen, >state immigration status. UCSD is an equal opportunity/affirmative action >employer committed to excellence through diversity. Applicants are invited >to preview campus diversity resources and programs at the campus website >for Diversity (http://diversity.ucsd.edu/) > >To assist applicants who may have concerns regarding employment >opportunities for spouses/partners, please consider the UCSD website for >the Academic Job Opportunities Bulletin, the Staff Employment Opportunity >Bulletin or our links to employment opportunities at other education and >research institutions in San Diego. > > >Send vita, statement of research and teaching interests, and names, >addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three references >supporting the applicant's teaching qualifications by November 16, 2001, >however, we will review applications until the positions are filled. > >http://communication.ucsd.edu/ > >Please send materials to: > > Recruitment Committee > Department of Communication (0503), > Univ. Calif. San Diego > 9500 Gilman Drive, > La Jolla CA 92093-0503.

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civil defense origins of the internet
by Barry Wellman 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

At this time of civil defense crisis in the US, it is interesting to recall that an important precursor of the Internet was the computerized conferencing system that Murray Turoff and others developed in the early 1970s (and perhaps earlier) for the US civil defense system. The idea was to foster coordination among dispersed people and groups. This path-breaking system allowed for both email-like messages and easy setup of computerized conferences. The system became civilianized as EIES in the 1970s as Murray became a prof at New Jersey Institute of Technology (and still is). I remember being an early, delighted user of it in the mid-1970s, and was a member of a National Science Foundation funded field trial of using EIES to foster scholarly community. One fun feature: It was easy to use pseudonyms whenever you wanted. I was "Alvey Singer" as an _Annie Hall_ fan. Of course, the technology wasn't the same then. Everything ran off a single server in New Jersey, and we used an 800 number to dial-in. Speed was 110 bits per second (which is a lot different than 110K). It came over a printing modem. Whenever I got a message, I knew I had time to go get a cup of coffee, sometimes two. Text only of course. But EIES ran, it was fun, and it was useful. [See Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff's _The Network Nation_ for a fuller account: I'm proud that they named their book after my even-earlier "Network City" article.] Now things have come full circle. I assume US Civil Defense folks are using similar systems today, and certainly we all have relied on the Internet to convey thoughts, argue positions, and obtain information. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #120 - 7 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the Office)
by Maryrose Larkin 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

I am out of the office until Tuesday, October 2nd. If you need assistance, please contact Zach Kronser X55225 >>> air-l 09/21/01 09:01 >>> Today's Topics: 1. Re: Music and the internet (neice(a)kw.igs.net) 2. some notes about 09.11 and the Internet (aurelija dagilyte) 3. Self-description and platform for Open Seat (Barry Wellman) 4. International Nominations (Charlie Breindahl) 5. Re: Self-description and platforms (jeremy hunsinger) 6. Web Archiving (w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk) 7. Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia (D. Silver) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: neice(a)kw.igs.net To: air-l(a)aoir.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:50:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Air-l] Music and the internet Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hi Jens, A useful discussion of music and digital technology is found in Chapter 2 (Music: Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital Coal Mine) of the citation noted below. This book most assuredly does not use ANT, but it still offers a solid analysis. National Research Council (2000), The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, Washington DC: National Academy Press. Please write me off-line about your work as I have done some work on file sharing that may be relevant. Cheers, david neice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David C. Neice digital-literacy.com :-) Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/ Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2 Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "aurelija dagilyte" <naunetka(a)takas.lt> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:20:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] some notes about 09.11 and the Internet Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hello, I wanted to share some impressions about the well-known events and some tendencies I've noticed in Russian and other post-soviet countries Internet. As an anthropologist I was interested what do the ordinary people of these countries really think about what happened, while their governments speak nice phrases supporting the US and the war against the terrorism. The result was interesting - while all TV channels, radio stations were speaking how that was terrible and bad, on the Internet I've found very wide scale of opinions and emotions. It seems so, that in post-soviet countries is a difference between the Internet and other media. I had an impression that TV channels and radio programs presented more or less censored view and on the Internet almost all expressed opposite position to the official. These tendencies had even more increased when US started to talk about the war in the Afghanistan. I think a lot of people still remember the Russian war in that country and it's useless. Another interesting thing is the fact that politic discussions still dominates in the chat rooms and web pages which usually are not interested in the politics. I'm not sure if the opinions presented on the net had some influence on the other media, but after some time more skeptic view started to appear on the Russian TV too. I'm very curios what will be next. Regards, Aurelija Dagilyte --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:36:41 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu>, Keith Hampton <knh(a)MIT.EDU>, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ukans.edu>, Steve Jones <sjones(a)uic.edu> Subject: [Air-l] Self-description and platform for Open Seat Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org As the norm in the AOIR governance process seems to be evolving towards public statements by/about candidates, here's mine. I was nominated by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Keith Hampton for an open council seat on AOIR. I was asked by AOIR (via Jeremy Hunsigner) to prepare a 250-word self-description and platform. I present it below. For more details, see my website. Cheers, Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:30:52 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir office nominations <nominate(a)aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Subject: Self-description and platform for Open Seat As a keynote speaker at our founding conference, I want to keep the momentum going. Research: I believe in systematic, quality research. I've been studying the Internet and its precursors since the 1970s. I've (co)-authored more than 160 scholarly articles and (co)-edited three books, including The Internet in Everyday Life and Networks in the Global Village. Organization: Let's pioneer new ways to keep connected. In 1976, I founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, quite similar to AOIR. I've served on the Sociology and Computing section Council of the American Sociological Association, and the International Sociologists' Community Council. I just co-founded a new journal as head of the ASA's Community section. Breadth: At AOIR, I will work to foster skill-expanding workshops. My research encompasses a wide range of interests: how people find community online, how people work together online, knowledge management, and the rise of the networked society. I've collaborated in the design of new communication systems. Interdisciplinary: I've collaborated with computer scientists, educators, engineers, historians, information scientists, lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists, and I'm an ICA member. I've been a board member of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute, McLuhan Program, and Structural Analysis Program. International: A Canadian, I've lived and worked in Europe and Asia. I've collaborated with scholars in 8 countries in Europe, Asia and America. My work has been translated into 8 languages. I've lectured and given workshops in 16 countries in South and North America; Eastern and Western Europe; Western, Southern and Eastern Asia. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ --__--__-- Message: 4 From: "Charlie Breindahl" <hitch(a)hum.ku.dk> To: "Air-L" <air-l(a)aoir.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:44:38 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] International Nominations Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org I think many good names have come up already and I support those, especially Steve and Nancy for a second term. My motivation is primarily to make room for non-americans in the executive committee. In my opinion, this is important to ensure that AoIR has credibility as an _international_ organisation. (I think it is self-explaining why AoIR in particular should have such credibility.) To achieve this is harder than you might think. More than half our members are American. And most of us would like to vote for someone we know. If all Americans vote for Americans, well... So when voting, please consider international candidates as well. And for you guys from .il, .nz, .jp, etc.: Please come forward with your nominations :) My nominees are: Jenny SundΘn (Sweden) jensu(a)tema.liu.se Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext(a)fragment.nl Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved(a)hum.ku.dk Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup(a)it-c.dk Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman(a)bi.no Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan(a)pop.xs4all.nl Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk(a)uni-muenster.de (I will not run for an open seat myself, but will be happy to serve a second term as Information Officer, if the new executive committee decides it.) Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen Web: http://computer.media.ku.dk/breindahl/ E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk PGP: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:52:42 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Self-description and platforms Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org fyi I will be posting the descriptions and platforms in the members area of the website on sunday afternoon. > -- Jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy CDDC/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 virginia tech blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 --__--__-- Message: 6 From: w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk To: Air-l(a)aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:17:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-l] Web Archiving Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Dear all, I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org) and downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best quality: technical, scholarly and moral. On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see http://www.ipop.org.uk) Does anybody on the list have knowledge / experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software? Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable: web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc. We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists, but no joy. Can anybody help? Many thanks Wainer Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, political organisations and participation project ESRI - University of Salford United Kingdom http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Tel: 0161 295 5654 --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "D. Silver" <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Folks, In my mind, Jeff Young, a writer for the Chronicle for Higher Education, is by far one of the best journalists covering our beat. I'm including the first few paragraphs and URL of an article on race and cyberspace he wrote for the Chronicle. Lots of AIR'ers mentioned! david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Friday, September 21, 2001 Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia By JEFFREY R. YOUNG The Internet has often been touted as a utopia where racial differences are erased and people are judged by their ideas rather than their skin color. But rather than curbing racism, cyberspace may be perpetuating racial stereotypes for some users, a growing number of scholars say. And until recently, they say, few researchers have studied issues of racial identity online -- even though so much attention has been paid to economic studies of the "digital divide." A recent batch of conferences and books are helping to fill the research gap, however. http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092101t.htm --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l End of Air-l Digest

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Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia
by D. Silver 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

Folks, In my mind, Jeff Young, a writer for the Chronicle for Higher Education, is by far one of the best journalists covering our beat. I'm including the first few paragraphs and URL of an article on race and cyberspace he wrote for the Chronicle. Lots of AIR'ers mentioned! david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Friday, September 21, 2001 Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia By JEFFREY R. YOUNG The Internet has often been touted as a utopia where racial differences are erased and people are judged by their ideas rather than their skin color. But rather than curbing racism, cyberspace may be perpetuating racial stereotypes for some users, a growing number of scholars say. And until recently, they say, few researchers have studied issues of racial identity online -- even though so much attention has been paid to economic studies of the "digital divide." A recent batch of conferences and books are helping to fill the research gap, however. http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092101t.htm

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Web Archiving
by w.lusoli＠salford.ac.uk 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

Dear all, I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org) and downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best quality: technical, scholarly and moral. On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see http://www.ipop.org.uk) Does anybody on the list have knowledge / experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software? Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable: web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc. We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists, but no joy. Can anybody help? Many thanks Wainer Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, political organisations and participation project ESRI - University of Salford United Kingdom http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Tel: 0161 295 5654

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International Nominations
by Charlie Breindahl 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

I think many good names have come up already and I support those, especially Steve and Nancy for a second term. My motivation is primarily to make room for non-americans in the executive committee. In my opinion, this is important to ensure that AoIR has credibility as an _international_ organisation. (I think it is self-explaining why AoIR in particular should have such credibility.) To achieve this is harder than you might think. More than half our members are American. And most of us would like to vote for someone we know. If all Americans vote for Americans, well... So when voting, please consider international candidates as well. And for you guys from .il, .nz, .jp, etc.: Please come forward with your nominations :) My nominees are: Jenny Sundén (Sweden) jensu(a)tema.liu.se Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext(a)fragment.nl Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved(a)hum.ku.dk Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup(a)it-c.dk Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman(a)bi.no Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan(a)pop.xs4all.nl Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk(a)uni-muenster.de (I will not run for an open seat myself, but will be happy to serve a second term as Information Officer, if the new executive committee decides it.) Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen Web: http://computer.media.ku.dk/breindahl/ E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk PGP: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray

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