January 2002 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-l] New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture
by noci 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

cristian- at first i'd like to note that i am not a researcher, but i have a lot of experience with "online people" and their behaviour- so here's my quick opinion: > Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the > cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics? i think your assumption is right. from my experience, most people who devote a lot of their time to online chats develop a defined self. i.e, in the IRC, the channels are the social space, in which people interact. in a specific channel, especially the regular users create a picture of themselves that is then projected to the others. they become edgy, defined characters, just like in real life, because the need to be an individual also exists online. the interesting questions there: is the "online self" different from the "real" self? > Seems to be extremelly interesting that, a new environment like the > cuyberspace might let a human being put his "self" into virtual space and > express elements of his personality that are well hidden in the real world, > up to the point to configure a new "self". i've witnessed many different approaches- what you say is perfectly underlined by one prominent example: online sex, be it ASCII or via videoconferencing systems. the new "self" of an online sex consumer (and i mean voyeurism/exhibitionism, NOT the relatively passive consumption of online porn) is defined by the person's sexual needs/drive. in real life, the sexual preferences might be well hidden under layers of "decency"- but online, the social restraints don't apply. therefore, you might want to consider the resulting characters as being a single, deformed facet of the actual character. that's only one side of online communication, though. still, I daresay that in most cases, the online character is a more or less modified replica of the offline self. the grade of modification makes the difference. regards, max doelling

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Re: [Air-l] Re: techology in Hollywood
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Rambo: First Blood. Rambo/Stallone making traps out of tree branches with his knife. Heh. Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Re: [Air-l] Re: this list as a SPAM addr source
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Valdis wrote: > Most lists with archives are mined for email addresses... IMHO we should > remove > all personal email addresses off this list or display our addresses like yeah... but what Jeremy said, we don't live in a perfect world and unless we trash the archives we need to find someone with a lot of time on their hands or someone willing to spend a lot of money on it. best advice I can give you (partly from a recently forwarded message to the Cyberculture list, I believe originally from Cybermind): - set up a free e-mail account that you then use to do your public online business with, and when it starts gathering too much spam, just kill the account and start over. - keep your primary e-mail account for friends and business contacts only, never give it out anywhere, never post it on a website. - never and I'll say that again, never reply to a spam mail, especially not if it says click or go here to get off this list, because this will only confirm that your account is live and being read - if you have to give out some e-mail address to get in somewhere, it might pay to set up several dummy accounts, so you can see which services actually cause you to receive spam. - use Spamcop.net to report spam; make sure you remove all unique identifiers that spammers attach these days (like the XR15HYYYY in the subject line or some such code at the end of the message, often outside of the HTML), before you report the spam to the upstream providers. that should take care of some of the problem. main point: separate public and private/business accounts. Cheers, Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Re: [Air-l] New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Cristian wrote: > Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the > cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics? > Seems to be extremelly interesting that, a new environment like the > cuyberspace might let a human being put his "self" into virtual space and > express elements of his personality that are well hidden in the real > world, up to the point to configure a new "self". > If I am through the right track, pls let me know as I belong to a > psychologists network and many would be very interested into the topic. well, you could of course start with Sherry Turkle's 1995 book, _Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet_, that kinda seems up your alley. most of the stuff out there on MUDs (including my thesis) and some of the stuff on IRC deals with performing or playing with identity and/or aspects of identity, including gender. Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Re: this list as a SPAM addr source
by Valdis 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Most lists with archives are mined for email addresses... IMHO we should remove all personal email addresses off this list or display our addresses like this: meREMOVETHIS(a)mydomain.com That way an intelligent human will know to send the email to me(a)mydomain.com and a SPAM bot will find an email address that will get an auto response for a bad address. Just looking at the last digest I received [Air-l digest, Vol 1 #276] there were easily over a dozen personal emails 'for harvesting'... we should not make the SPAMmers job so easy!!! Valdis Krebs valdisSPAMTHIS(a)orgnet.com ;-) air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > > > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:52:43 +0100 [SNIP] > Subject: [Air-l] Air-L list or archive raided for e-mail addresses by spammer?! [SNIP] > > Hi all, > > The other day I received a spam mail, the headers of which you can find below. > > It was send to the non-existant username <air-l> at my domain. I received the > same spam message also at the account I normally use for mailing lists. > > This leads me to conclude that either the list itself or the archives of the > list have been pilfered by a spammer. >

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Re: [Air-l] Air-L list or archive raided for e-mail addresses by spammer?!
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

jeremy wrote: > yes, it happens quite frequently that either we or google get scanned > for e-mail addressed in the archives. not much actually nothing can be > done other than not having archives. the archives are set to remove > addressed from the headers, but because some people respond to digests > that contain e-mail addresses in them, the archives contain many > addresses and there is not much that can be done about that other than > deleting a large section of the archives. even turning them to private, > which I would not like to see happen, does not prevent a bot from > getting to them by joining and unjoining, which good bots can do. we've been over this before, but thinking about solutions for publicly archiving a mailinglist, you might actually have to parse the archive files, filter out e-mail addresses both in headers and in the body of the message, then substitute with an ID that links back to a password protected file containing corresponding e-mail addresses. visitors can read the archives but only officially approved members of the list can reply. joining and unjoining by bots would not yield them anything because they'd have to first pay their membership before getting access. of course a bot could join the list and suck up the ongoing e-mail messages, but since the posters are a relative minority on any list, this is not so very interesting I'd guess. this would probably mean scripting the hell out of your archival system and not something that I would want to do... but it might be a solution. Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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CI Researchers Network
by Michael Gurstein 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

At the recent Global Community Networking Congress in Buenos Aires, an international group of Community Informatics (CI) researchers met and agreed to establish an informal network linked to an email list and a website. Wal Taylor <w.taylor(a)cqu.edu.au> of Central Queensland University volunteered to establish a website, Annie Chéneau-Loquay [loquay(a)regards.cnrs.fr] volunteered to establish a database of CI Researchers, I volunteered to establish an e-list for CI Researchers with Spanish language assistance from Luciano Leiva [lleiva(a)ar.inter.net]of Argentina. You are welcome to subscribe to the elist or communicate to any of the above concerning their activities. The CIResearchers elist is expected to be a low volume list primarily concerned with matters related to CI Research and particularly professional/academic issues--conferences, publications, courses and so on. to subscribe send an email to: majordomo(a)vcn.bc.ca message: subscribe CIResearchers Archive: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/lists/ciresearchers (Feel free to forward this message to other lists or individuals as appropriate.) Mike Gurstein Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. (Visiting) Professor: School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ

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RE: [Air-l] Fwd: The University Degree Program
by John Williams 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

>> Am I misunderstanding or this is an offer for forged diplomas? > >Not forged, just worthless. Yeah, the operative term/phrase here is "prestigious non-accredited universities." When it comes to degrees, non-accredited and prestigious don't really go together. Prestigious in this case means nicest looking diploma. ;-) -john- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Air-L list or archive raided for e-mail addresses by spammer?!
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Hi all, The other day I received a spam mail, the headers of which you can find below. It was send to the non-existant username <air-l> at my domain. I received the same spam message also at the account I normally use for mailing lists. This leads me to conclude that either the list itself or the archives of the list have been pilfered by a spammer. Slightly edited headers below, did anyone else receive this particular spam? Frank. --- Return-Path: <g_williams_55(a)yahoo.com> Delivered-To: <deleted> Received: by surreal.nl (Postfix, from userid 666) id A73197FEA2; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 03:00:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from web14912.mail.yahoo.com (web14912.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.225.248]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A9479EEB5 for <air-l@<mydomainname_deleted>.nl>; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 03:00:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20020119020053.92436.qmail(a)web14912.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.110.31.12] by web14912.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:00:53 PST Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:00:53 -0800 (PST) From: george williams <g_williams_55(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Assistance Needed To: FILE <g_williams_55(a)yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by surreal.binity.net (amavis-perl-11) Status: FROM: BARRISTER GEORGE WILLIAMS OKEAYA INEH & CO. LEGAL PRACTITIONERS. NIGERIA. <rest of message body deleted> -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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CFP: Panel at Crossroads Conference
by K.S.O-Riordan＠sussex.ac.uk 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES Fourth International Conference June 29 - July 2, 2002, Tampere, Finland Accepted Panel Session: New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture This panel explores issues and arguments that have polarized studies of new media technologies over the turn of the millennium. It draws on inter-disciplinary research in media and communication studies, internet research and cultural studies. We are concerned to explore issues of cyber-subjectivity, taking as our starting point a re-examination of the connections between the virtual and substantial self. Understanding that the virtual self can be released from separate categorization and regarded instead as both less and more than body, text, or narrative, opens the way to re-examine where the self ends¹ and begins¹ in an informational world. This raises critical, epistemological and ethical issues. We invite panellists who can contribute in this area. Accepted papers include work on metaphor, narrative identity, and research ethics. Organiser: Maren Hartmann Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Belgium E-mail: Maren.Hartmann(a)vub.ac.be Kate O'Riordan Arts C304 CCE University of Sussex Falmer Brighton BN1 9RG Tel: 01273 877774 Email: k.s.o-riordan(a)sussex.ac.uk

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