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

21 Jan '02

Jonathan wrote: > Slightly off topic, but I've noticed that in a lot of action/thriller-type > films, there's some kind of important scene where a character has to do > something on a computer. The convention was clearly developed in the > 1980s > because you always hear the nonstop sound of . . . TYPING. Not a single > mouse-click. Pick any recent Hollywood scene of this type, and I > guarantee > you'll hear what I mean. <snip> probably on Slashdot I once almost died laughing when reading a discussion of developing a GUI (Graphic User Interface) that would actually look like the interfaces in Hollywood movies. this developed quickly into how to make an Operating System that would meet the requirements of average computer use in a Hollywood movie. needless to say that this would involved oversized fonts and indeed, typing sounds as characters typed by a remote party appear on screen, etc. as for technology in movies: Hackers <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113243> These hacker kids DON'T look like nerds (featuring a young(er) Angelina Jolie) and features a scene of Crash Override and Acid Burn waxing lyrically about the specs of Acid's top of the line notebook. Also neat/crappy in this movie are the visualizations of Gibsonesque cyberspace and Plague's love-affair with his mainframe. Sneakers <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105435> Not a bad movie really, plus it has Robert Redford in it ;) Kind of neat scenes where the workings of the Universal Key Generator are discussed and the scene where they observe through a telescope (often telescopes, nightscopes etc. are overlooked as indispensible Hollywood technology) the location where the device is hidden (in an answering machine). Frank. -- The Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources ==> http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Re: [Air-l] Fwd: The University Degree Program
by Zunt＠aol.com 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

In a message dated 1/21/2002 12:19:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, cristianberrioz(a)hotmail.com writes: > Am I misunderstanding or this is an offer > for forged diplomas? Not forged, just worthless.

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Fwd: The University Degree Program
by Cristian Berrio 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

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Porn spam
by Phil Graham 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

At 12:01 PM 20/01/2002 -0500, Ken wrote: >Message: 3 >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:48:45 +0100 >To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> >From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman(a)bi.no> >Subject: [Air-l] And I thought I was kidding ... >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >Dear Colleagues, > >In the recent thread on unsolicited porn spam, I sent a playful response >to Marj Kibby's note. I thought you were serious, Ken, because it wasn't outside my own experience. I am noticing a marked increase in the level of spam. The stuff doesn't seem to be terribly well targeted either. I get spam trying to sell me breast enlargements, a recurring one from various sources that says "add inches to your penis", porn of various and hitherto unthought of (at least by me) inclinations, innumerable get-rich-quick schemes (by far the biggest bulk), both male and female viagra substitutes, life insurance, "easy" credit and credit cards, spying software, get-out-of-debt-quick schemes, the originally "Nigerian" send-me-your-bank-account-details-and-I'll-send-you-16-million-dollars scheme (innumerable), pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, etc ect etc --- you name it. It mostly comes through my geocities account. Best to all. Phil ...................................................................................................... Opinions expressed in this email are my own unless otherwise stated. If you have received this in error, please ignore and delete it. Phil Graham Senior Lecturer UQ Business School www.uq.edu.au/~uqpgraha ......................................................................................................

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CFP: Discourse Architectures
by Susan Herring 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

Internet researchers and designers, If you're interested in participating in this workshop, (short) position papers are due by the end of this week. Hope to see you at CHI, Susan CALL FOR PARTICIPATION A CHI 2002 WORKSHOP Discourse Architectures: Designing and Visualizing Computer-Mediated Conversation AT A GLANCE - What: A Workshop on Designing and Visualizing CMC - Where: CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota - When: * Submission: Position paper and profile by January 25, 2002 * Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by February 22, 2002 * Workshop: Monday, April 21, 2002 - Organizers: Tom Erickson, Susan Herring, Warren Sack ORGANIZERS - Thomas Erickson, snowfall(a)acm.org IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Susan Herring, herring(a)indiana.edu School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University - Warren Sack, sack(a)sims.berkeley.edu School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The goal of this workshop is to examine the issue of coherence in computer-mediated (text-based) conversation (CMC), and how it can be visualized graphically. Coherence, broadly defined, is that which in a discourse connects utterances with utterances, utterances with people, and people with other people. It is, in short, the "glue" of text and conversation. Coherence is manifested in and through patterns of message exchange (including turn-taking, threading, and cross-posting), citation and other forms of intertextual reference, and social networks. Visualizations of coherence phenomena take the form of graphical user interfaces and graphical representations produced by quantitative and/or qualitative analyses. In this workshop, we will approach the issue of coherence from two perspectives: design and analysis. As designers of CMC systems, we often sense that computer-mediated conversation has a tendency towards drift, dissolution and chaos, and that participants in CMC have to do extra work to 'stay on course.' Therefore, we solicit approaches to designing CMC systems that aim to support participants in achieving coherence in their conversational interactions. We especially encourage reports of novel CMC system designs that support coherence, as well as analyses that visualize ways in which participants have developed practices that support the achievement of coherence in conventional CMC systems. At the same time, as analysts, we recognize that computer-mediated conversations are often not as chaotic as they appear to the untrained eye. Coherence lurks below the surface, and we have developed a wide range of analytical techniques for uncovering and explicating it. Often these techniques involve diagrams or other graphical representations of structure (among utterances, persons, groups, or some combination of these). We solicit descriptions and demonstrations of analytical techniques for representing coherence in CMC. We use the phrase 'Discourse Architectures' as a rubric for both of these perspectives. That is, we are interested both in the structure or architecture *of* discourse (the ways in which the utterances which form a conversation interrelate and build upon one another), and in architectures *for* discourse (the ways in which CMC systems can be designed to shape the conversation that takes place within them). The basic premise underlying the workshop is that the understandings of coherence developed by designers and researchers can usefully inform one another. Analytical representations based on discourse research and/or theory might, suitably modified, serve as interface designs, and the interplay between graphical user interfaces and the achievement of coherence by users might advance research understandings. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS By January 25th, submit the following (preferably electronically): 1. Submit a position paper of no more than six pages. The paper should include (a) A discussion of your understanding of "coherence", as a theoretical or analytical construct, or as a practical result of the use of a CMC system. (b) A description of your approach to analyzing or designing to support coherence, applied to a specific CMC system or data set. (c) Examples of the graphical representations produced by your approach, and some discussion of what they reveal about or how they support coherence. 2. The position paper should include, as an appendix, a profile of yourself consisting of: (a) a short biography (no more than 250 words) (b) the discipline(s) you are situated in (c) a brief description of your relevant analytical and/or design work, with references (URLs preferred) (d) a pointer to someone else's design or analysis that you think is interesting (URLs preferred) 3. Those from outside of the HCI community should note that you are NOT required to pay the conference registration fee if you only want to attend the workshop. First-time attendees are most welcome. FOR MORE INFORMATION - On the workshop: contact the organizers - On CHI 2002: http://www.acm.org/chi2002/ - For a web-based version of this CFP: http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/DiscourseArch02CFP.html # # # ===========================================

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And I thought I was kidding ...
by Ken Friedman 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

Dear Colleagues, In the recent thread on unsolicited porn spam, I sent a playful response to Marj Kibby's note. I thought I was kidding, but the world of empirical research seem to contain far more than is dreamt of in all my philosophy. This morning, I received a spam under this header: --snip-- FURRY NAKED BARNYARD FRIENDS!!!!! --snip-- If anything, my fantasy of "young mammals in steamy bipedal locomotion" seems modest. These people don't stop with mammals: --snip-- ZOOS! is offering exclusive content what you will never find anywhere else. Huge breeds, Horses, STALLIONS, Snakes, Exotic animals... --snip-- This gives new meaning to that sign we used to see at airports, "NO jokes, please!" The principle behind the sign was that certain kinds of jokes may be mistaken for or confused with reality. Perhaps AIR-L is being monitored by pornographers who are harvesting our addresses while using post content to segment their markets. Unless something new and astonishing arrives, my research on the subject of spam will end here. This demonstrates that the AIR-L list remains a source of "exclusive content what you will never find anywhere else." Best regards, Ken -- 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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Re: techology in Hollywood
by Jonathan Sterne 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

Hi All, Slightly off topic, but I've noticed that in a lot of action/thriller-type films, there's some kind of important scene where a character has to do something on a computer. The convention was clearly developed in the 1980s because you always hear the nonstop sound of . . . TYPING. Not a single mouse-click. Pick any recent Hollywood scene of this type, and I guarantee you'll hear what I mean. It's as predictable as the loaf of french bread in the grocery bag (any time someone comes home with groceries in a Hollywood film or advertisement, there's a loaf of french bread). Best, --J

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Re: technology in hollywood
by Cheryl E. Ball 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

For a look at older movies using technology (besides Bond stuff), i always like the *quick* scene in the original Thomas Crown Affair where McQueen is in his office and walks by a *computer* (at least it looks like one) and, he looks at it as it spits out numbers relating to his company earnings, or starts typing on it. It's from 1968... Cheryl.

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RE: [Air-l] Technology in Hollywood
by Laurel Ralston 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

"The Net" - Sandra Bullock as a serious "net-head" whose identity gets "erased." Some of it is a bit fantastic, but a LOT of it hits home... Laurie Ralston -----Original Message----- From: Bunz, Ulla K [mailto:ulla@ukans.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:32 AM To: 'air-l(a)aoir.org' Subject: [Air-l] Technology in Hollywood Later this semester, I'm planning on doing a "Technology in Hollywood" movie session with my students in "Communication and New Technology." The purpose is to show how popular movies have integrated technology into the everyday lives of the movie characters - technology that maybe we have become accustomed to, but that was brand new (and ultimately cool) only two, five, or ten years ago. I am *not* planning on showing a whole movie. Instead, I will show multiple short scenes, followed by in-class discussion. I have collected a few examples (see below), and am looking for more. Can you help? I do not want to include James Bond like movies, or science fiction/special effects type movies. I don't want to show what someone has dreamt up as technology possibly being able to do in some obscure scenario. I want to show "real" scenes with everyday technology. Also, the movies don't have to be Hollywood movies, but they should be fairly familiar to US undergraduates, because their understanding will be greater that way. Thanks for suggestions directly to ulla(a)ku.edu. I will post a summary to the entire list. ulla Examples: - "Office Space" - any of the fax machine scenes; the dramatic set-up of installing a virus on a computer, which actually only consists of copying a file from a floppy disk - "Pretty Woman" - the very brief scene when Julia Roberts goes shopping in Beverly Hills and a father and son drive by in a car, holding big fat cell phones, and being very proud of them - "Bowfinger" - the scene where Steve Martin is trying to impress someone, and since he doesn't own a cell phone, he just ripped off a regular phone, and while he pretends to talk on it, the cord dangles in the air - "Topsy Turvey" - the scene where the phone is introduced as a new technology, and people scream into the receivers to hear each other, upon which an elderly gentleman remarks one might as well just open the window and scream out of that - "Jumping Jack Flash" - one of the scenes in which Whoopi Goldberg "chats" on her computer (with blue and red underlain lines) with the supposedly lost spy Peter _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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RE: Social Impact of Internet on Teenagers
by Piet Bakker 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Some information on teens on the Internet at http://www.cme.org/teenstudy/ (download report in pdf) -- _____________________________________________________ => http://home.pscw.uva.nl/bakker/webresearch.html <=

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