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Fwd: [CSL] CFPs Communities and Technologies 2003
by jeremy hunsinger 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Begin forwarded message: > From: Joanne Roberts <joanne.roberts(a)DURHAM.AC.UK> > Date: Wed Oct 30, 2002 5:15:00 AM US/Eastern > To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [CSL] CFPs Communities and Technologies 2003 > Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society > <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > From: Huysman, M.H. (Marleen) [mailto:mhuysman@FEWEB.VU.NL] > Sent: 30 October 2002 10:06 > To: KNOW-ORG(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: call for papers C&T2003 > > > Call for Papers > > > > > FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT > > > > > > Communities and Technologies (C&T 2003) > > > International Conference, Amsterdam, 19 - 21 September 2003 > > > > More and more, the relationship between communities and technology is > a topic of major research interest. ‘C&T’ conference serves as a forum > for stimulating and disseminating research into all facets of > communities and information technology. > > The nature of the field requires multidisciplinary research efforts > involving researchers from different fields of applied computer > science (Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Computer Supported > Collaborative Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information > Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems) and social > sciences (Economics, Management Science, Psychology, Political > Science, Sociology, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis). > > Communities are social entities whose actors share common needs, > interests, or practices: they constitute the basic units of social > experience. For a number of reasons, researchers are increasingly > interested in the topic of communities. First, within a global > knowledge-based society, communities play a pivotal role. Problems > such as new forms of political participation and civic engagement, the > maintenance of cultural identities, or the integration of minorities > need to be tackled on the community level. Second, communities also > re-shape the processes of learning and sharing knowledge in and among > organizations. While earlier approaches focused on storing and > retrieving explicit knowledge represented in documents, communities > are believed to be important structures to share implicit situated > knowledge, as well. Given a new dimension by the use of electronic > networks, inter-organizational cooperation is nowadays often discussed > in terms of B2B-Marketplaces, Supply Chain Management, Virtual > Organizations, or Strategic Alliances. Many failed attempts to > implement these approaches can be attributed to inadequate attention > to the issues of communities. Finally new types of communities, e.g. > on-line communities, might change the relationships between producer > and consumer. > > Information technologies may support or hinder these and other types > of communities by enabling communication among (virtual) community > members. Research issues include trust-building, maintaining > (awareness of) social relations, increase or decrease of social > capital, visualization of social relationships, matching (unknown) > actors, bridging between physical and electronically-mediated > interaction, etc. > > > > The conference will focus on presentation and discussion of empirical > and conceptual research. Topics covered by the conference include, but > are not restricted to the following subjects: > > - (virtual) community formation and development > > - communities of practice, knowledge sharing and > organizational learning > > - appropriation of communityware > > - communities and innovation > > - communities of interest versus communities of practice > > - virtual communities versus location based communities > > - regional networks and B2B E-commerce > > - digital cities > > - communities in developmental organizations > > - return on investment in communities > > - communities and business models > > - consumer communities and electronic commerce > > - ethnographical studies of virtual communities > > - case studies of community building and development > > - social capital and communities > > - communityware: support or hindrance > > - design methods for communityware > > - innovative applications in the field of communityware > > - architectures for communityware > > - interoperability among community systems > > - innovative user interfaces for communityware > > - privacy and security issues for communityware > > > > Paper submission > > Full research papers of not more than 20 pages should be send to the > program chair: Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, > Germany: Volker.Wulf(a)fit.fraunhofer.de > > > > > Workshops > > > Workshops will take place on 19 September 2003. Workshop proposals > should be submitted to the workshop chair: Erik Andriessen, TU Delft, > The Netherlands: erika(a)tbm.tudelft.nl > > > > > Proceedings > > The proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, > Dordrecht. > > > > Important Dates: > > March 14, 2003: Submission deadline for papers > > April 22, 2003: Notification of acceptance > > May 21, 2003: Submission of camera-ready copies > > September 19 to 21, 2003: Conference held in City of Amsterdam > > > > More information > > More information about the conference is on the conference website: > www.feweb.vu.nl/C&T2003. Please check the site regular for latest > updates. > > > > Conference Chair > > Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands > > Etienne Wenger, Cp Square, San Jose, USA > > Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany > > > > Programme Committee > > Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA > > Erik Andriessen, TU Delft, The Netherlands > > Peter van Baalen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands > > Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany > > Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, The Netherlands > > John Seely Brown, Palo Alto, USA > > John Carroll, Virginia Tech, USA > > Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK > > Bente Elkjaer, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark > > Giorgio de Michelis, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy > > Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA > > Thomas Herrmann, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany > > Pamela Hinds, Stanford University, USA > > Bart van den Hooff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > Yasmin Kafai, University of California, Los Angeles, USA > > Wendy Kellogg, IBM Research, USA > > Paul Keursten, University of Twente, ‘Kessels and Smit’, The > Netherlands > > Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany > > Timothy Koschman, Southern Illinois University, Chicago, USA > > Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland > > Helmut Krmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany > > Ulrike Lechner, University of Bremen, Germany > > Dorothy Leonard, Harvard University, USA > > Henry Lieberman, MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, USA > > Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany > > Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA > > Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway > > Keiichi Nakata, University of Tokio, Tokio, Japan > > Bernhard Nett, University of Freiburg and Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany > > Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany > > Larry Prusak, IBM, Cambridge, USA > > Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany > > Markus Rohde, International Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn, > Germany > > Harry Scarbrough, Warwick Business School, UK > > Johann Schlichter, TU Munich, Munich, Germany > > Kjeld Schmidt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark > > Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Seattle, USA > > Ulrike Schultze, Cox Business School, USA > > Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich, Switzerland > > Carla Simone, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy > > Gerry Stahl, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA > > Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA > > Yao Hua Tan, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > Suzanne Weisband, University of Arizona, USA > > Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada > > > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Maastricht papers
by Walker, Steve [IES] 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi Jeremy, Your about the availability of the Maastricht papers is rather disappointing to those of us who attended & presented at the conference, but (for whatever reason(s)) aren't AoIR members. If I understand correctly I don't have access to the papers - something apparently confirmed by trying to visit the site. This approach is somewhat unusual. AoIR 3.0 is the first conference I have attended where I have not had access to the papers either at or after the event. If it is necessary to restrict access to papers to the members (though, I suspect a bigger service to members would be to maintain a site where access to their papers were open to all, but that's another discussion), can I suggest that they are also distributed on CD-ROM, at least to those conference attendees who are not AoIR members? It's a rather frustrating conclusion to what was an enjoyable event. Steve _________________________________________ Steve Walker Senior Lecturer Leeds Metropolitan University School of Information Management http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ies/im/people/swalker/

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re: [Air-l] Maastricht papers
by Anna Buchta 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Dear Jeremy, Dear all, I agree entirely with Steve. I also think making the papers available for people like me - who are at the very beginning of their research work, - would be very much useful. I'm not a full AoIR member yet (still need to find out what it's worth), I'm still looking for subjects, inspirations etc. Perhaps I could contribute next year in Toronto? Getting the access to this year's papers would let me find out more about the topics, quality, research methods, expectations of the audience etc. Let me know what you think - Greetings, Anna *************************************** Anna Buchta Research Assistant Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IT K.U.Leuven Tiensestraat 41 3000 Leuven Belgium Tel: 016/32.54.69 Fax: 016/32.54.38 E-mail: anna.buchta(a)law.kuleuven.ac.be http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi Jeremy, Your about the availability of the Maastricht papers is rather disappointing to those of us who attended & presented at the conference, but (for whatever reason(s)) aren't AoIR members. If I understand correctly I don't have access to the papers - something apparently confirmed by trying to visit the site. This approach is somewhat unusual. AoIR 3.0 is the first conference I have attended where I have not had access to the papers either at or after the event. If it is necessary to restrict access to papers to the members (though, I suspect a bigger service to members would be to maintain a site where access to their papers were open to all, but that's another discussion), can I suggest that they are also distributed on CD-ROM, at least to those conference attendees who are not AoIR members? It's a rather frustrating conclusion to what was an enjoyable event. Steve _________________________________________ Steve Walker Senior Lecturer Leeds Metropolitan University School of Information Management http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ies/im/people/swalker/ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l - - - - - - - - - - - - End of Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - -

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internet research statistics
by Enrique Molano 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hello all, I am making a research about Internet research in Latin America, and I need some statistics about Internet research... Can anybody help me ? Is someone working in the same subject ? Thanks Enrique Molano eBusiness Consultant Manager emolano(a)teleinte.com Tel/Phone 571-6102453 Fax 571-6102082 www.Teleinte.Com " Notificación automática: Este mensaje y cualquier archivo que se adjunte contiene información privilegiada y confidencial. Es para uso exclusivo del destinatario. Si usted ha recibido esta comunicación por error, por favor avísenos inmediatamente. Automatic notification: This e-mail and any file transmitted with it are confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee. If you have received this e-mail by mistake , please advise the sender immediately. "

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (november 2002)
by david silver 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

AIRers, it was great to see and meet so many of you in beautiful (and lively) maastricht. here's to toronto in 2003. david *** feel free to distribute *** New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (November 2002) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <http://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. New reviews for November 2002 (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp) include: Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. University of British Columbia Press, 2000. Reviewed by Andrea M. Matwyshyn and Randy Kluver. Flis Henwood, Helen Kennedy, and Nod Miller, eds., Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies. Raw Nerve Books, 2001. Reviewed by Lisa-Jane McGerty. Brian Winston, Media Technology and Society, A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Routledge, 1998. Reviewed by Martin Hand. 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

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Fwd: Research Associateships
by Steve Jones 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

[Note mention of new technologies in the second position. -Sj] >FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES > >FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER >A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and >Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst > >The Center invites applications for its Research Associateships for >2003-2004 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational >system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political >activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with >offices in our spacious facility, computer access, library privileges, and >the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research Associate >applications are accepted for either a semester or the academic year. The >Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they focus >centrally on women or gender. Research Associateships are non-stipendiary. >However, international applicants may apply for one of the two special >one-semester Ford Associateships for Fall 2003 or Spring 2004, which offer >a stipend of $12,000, plus a $3,000 housing/travel allowance in return for >teaching (in English) one undergraduate women's studies course at Smith >College. Ford applicants' research should focus on how the economics of >globalization regulate gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and >sexuality in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, the >former Soviet bloc, or Asia. We are searching for two Ford Associate >positions. For one position preference will be given to those whose work >focuses on sexuality in a global context, including sex work, global sex >trafficking, health issues, international gay and lesbian activism and >advocacy for sexual minorities. For the second position, preference will >be given to those whose work focuses on cultural production and >resistance, including political performance, the transformation and use of >international media, and new technologies. Ford applicants need not be >studying their own region of origin. > >Applicants for both programs should submit a project proposal (up to 4 >pages), curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and application cover >sheet. In addition, Ford applicants should submit a two-page description >of a women's studies course they are prepared to teach, which includes >their pedagogical goals and techniques. > >Submit all applications to: >Five College Women's Studies Research Center >Mount Holyoke College >50 College Street >South Hadley, MA 01075-6406 > >Deadline is February 10, 2003 > >For further information >contact the Center at >TEL 413.538.2275 >FAX 413.538.3121 >email fcwsrc(a)wscenter.hampshire.edu >website: http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/

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Re: [Air-l] teaching tool: Technology and Development
by meiwu＠umac.mo 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Very interestin stuff. WM

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RE: [Air-l] privacy and surveillance
by Anderson, Ben 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Barry: I expect you know about the Xerox and Olivetti active badge experiments? Try the CSCW/CHI literature for that eg via the hcibib: http://www.hcibib.org/gs.cgi?terms=active+badge&highlight=checked The UK's VirtualSociety? programme had a project on this - see http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/projects/mason.htm, http://www.sociology.plymouth.ac.uk/~virtsoc/ and search http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/reports/publications.htm for 'Mason' Ben -- Dr Ben Anderson www.essex.ac.uk/chimera +44 17710 187 806

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privacy and surveillance
by Barry Wellman 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

I've been doing some side studies (with Steve Mann and Jason Nolan; and with Tom Gray, Ramiro Liscano and Anabel Quan-Haase) on just how much surveillance people will accept. Or to put it in another perspective, how much privacy they want -- and under what circumstances -- in public, in organizations they work for, at home, on the Internet (e.g., cookies) (See the Mann-Nolan-Wellman Sousveillance paper on my website for some informative experimental "performances" on the subject.) I would greatly appreciate pointers to any quantitative or qualitative data on the subject. For example: People being observed on video/CCTV in stores and in streets. Active badges reporting where people are in an organization's building Group-aware software (such as Babble and IKNOW) that inform about who is connected with whom, and who is interacting with whom Buddy lists in IM that are shareable, so I know that Tom is also friends with Dick and Jane. 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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Oxford Internet Institute
by Miranda Turner 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

Appointment of Visiting Professor In E-Democracy Oxford Internet Institute would like to draw your attention to the recent appointment of Stephen Coleman as our Visiting Professor in E-Democracy: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/021028a.shtml Our work in this area can be followed, in due course, through the OII website at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk Kind regards, Miranda -- Miranda Turner Assistant to the Director Oxford Internet Institute 01865 287209

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