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

RE: Medium Theory + orality and textuality
by Rune Dalgaard 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

Hi Nathan (and Frank) I am working with "medium theory" too - wrote my masters thesis on the subject in relation to the computer as a medium (in danish only however). Concerning the term 'medium theory', I think it is more fair to say that it is Meyrowitz's term for a perspective, which he shares with many others - it does not in and of itself represent another perspective than McLuhans' (who is counted as a medium theorist by Meyrowitz), although their position on the determining nature of technology differ. It is also referred to as 'media ecology' (check the website and maillist), the Canadian tradition or the Toronto School. Some key figures of "1st" generation are Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan, Eric Havelock, Jack Goody, Elizabeth Eisenstein. Many others are omitted here but a good place to start for anyone interested is the Media Ecology website: http://www.media-ecology.org/ Following their work are different people such as Neil Postman, Joshua Meyrowitz and others who have concentrated on television. Other people such as Michael Heim and Jay Bolter have focused on the computer as a digital medium. As to Franks 'orality and textuality' I think this tradition has a lot to offer in a general historical perspective, since the relation of what is called oral and literate cultures is a basic starting point in many works of this tradition (Ong's 'orality and literacy' 1982 is a good starting point). Best, Rune ________________________________________________ Rune Dalgaard | MA, Ph.D. Candidate | Information and Media Studies | Aarhus University | Denmark runed(a)imv.au.dk | http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Medium Theory (Nathan Koenigsfeld) > 2. RE: Medium Theory/Media Ecology (Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)) > > Help > > I am currently doing some research regarding Medium Theory which was > originated by Joshua Meyrowitz in his 1985 book No Sense of Place. I > am looking for information about those whom have engaged this theory in > their research today, whether to critique it or to further advance the > theory. For those unfamiliar with the theory, it is very McLuhanesque > in nature. It states that media are simply not channels for conveying > information between two environments, but rather are environments in > and of themselves. Unlike McLuhan (Technological Determinism), this > theory states that media don't wholly shape culture and society, but > changes in communication patterns are one very important contribution. > Any information or leads into scholars who address Meyrowitz's work > would be greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Nate Koenigsfeld > Virginia Tech University > Communication Studies

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Re: [Air-l] Medium Theory
by Irene Berkowitz 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

HI Nathan, You might want to ask your question on the mediaecology listserv at: mediaecology(a)ube.ubalt.edu Many people in this group do work along these lines. Meyrowitz's work is well known among that group (as it McLuhan's) and I believe he is a member of that group. Good luck, IB Irene Berkowitz Coordinator for Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu >>> qgjones(a)acm.org 11/17/2002 2:19:08 PM >>> To some extent this work guided my PhD thesis research. When I return from CSCW you can email me and I can send you a copy of the relevant chapters. Regards Quentin Nathan Koenigsfeld wrote: > > Help > > I am currently doing some research regarding Medium Theory which was > originated by Joshua Meyrowitz in his 1985 book No Sense of Place. I > am looking for information about those whom have engaged this theory in > their research today, whether to critique it or to further advance the > theory. For those unfamiliar with the theory, it is very McLuhanesque > in nature. It states that media are simply not channels for conveying > information between two environments, but rather are environments in > and of themselves. Unlike McLuhan (Technological Determinism), this > theory states that media don't wholly shape culture and society, but > changes in communication patterns are one very important contribution. > Any information or leads into scholars who address Meyrowitz's work > would be greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Nate Koenigsfeld > Virginia Tech University > Communication Studies > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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incidence of term 'e-commerce'
by Hamilton, Stuart 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Dear all Greetings from a new poster to the list. I am a second year doctoral student at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen investigating barriers to accessing information resources on the Internet, from the perspective of the international library community. I'm sorry if this post seems a bit vague but I appear to have mislaid an article I read recently on the changing discourse relating to the internet, most especially the rising incidence of the term e-commerce (or e-business, I believe) over the past decade as business and commodification of information have become ever more present on the web. Does research of this kind ring any bells to people? the article was seeking to demonstrate the growing importance of business related activities on the web while other uses (education, communication) received less attention as time went on. Does anyone know anything about research of this type?! Can't believe I've mislaid the article... Cheers, Stu

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November 2002 AoIR Executive Committee Report
by Steve Jones 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

November 17, 2002 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Ulla Bunz Treasurer: Benjamin Bates Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2002 Conference Coordinator: Monica Murero 2002 Conference Program Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen 2003 Conference Chair: Liss Jeffrey 2003 Conference Program Co-Chairs: Matthew Allen and David Mitchell Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess Elections Working Group Chair: Mia Consalvo Net Resources Working Group Chair: Charlie Breindahl 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. If you aren't reading this...well, you ought to be. I know it can get lengthy, and it can get detailed, but it's the single best way to know what AoIR is up to, and to find ways to get involved with it (in any number of ways from contacting the people who report to volunteering to work on something you see mentioned to making suggestions to...). 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1 Maastricht was a blast - one more round of thank-yous to Monica, Klaus, and the myriad others who made it happen, as well as the myriad who attended. Next up is the meeting in Toronto, October 16 - 19, 2003. Planning is well under way, and to join in on it here is the information to sign on for the discussion: List-Help: <mailto:air-meet-request@aoir.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:air-meet@aoir.org> List-Subscribe: <http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-meet>, <mailto:air-meet-request@aoir.org?subject=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-meet>, <mailto:air-meet-request@aoir.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.aoir.org/pipermail/air-meet/> There are a number of working groups doing their thing, too. For information about what each group is up to please contact the respective working group chair. Note that one of the working groups is helping AoIR come up with a means of streamlining the election process and ensuring representation. Elections will be coming up in a few months, and I'll take this early opportunity to encourage you to consider running for office or serving in some other capacity. Please note too that a "Call for Hosts" was recently issued for AoIR conferences in 2004 and beyond. If you are interested in hosting a future AoIR conference please contact me. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 I have been doing my small part in the preparations for next year's conference ,planning and working on publicizing the benefits of membership to air-l subscribers and members themselves. <subliminal message> join join join </subliminal message>. and otherwise keeping busy with many ongoing aoir discussions. 2.3 Secretary (Bunz) 2.3.1 Since the fabulous conference in Maastricht, I have written a variety of reports (detailed executive meeting report, summary of executive meeting report, general meeting report) and have shared them with the appropriate audiences, including air-l. I also did a quick country overview and sent an accounting of how many people of what countries participated in the conference (based on the conference listing, which didn't include on site registrants). I have been active on the air-meet list, chirping in on discussions regarding keynoters, scheduling, etc. Finally, I've been contributing to the discussions on air-exec and air-l. Summary October 18 - November 13, 2002 This month on the executive list: . Finalizing of scheduling for an executive committee meeting in April, 2003 . Discussion regarding other listserves connected to the AoIR mission, stimulated by Lisbeth Klastrup's idea to form an AoIR grad student list. Creation, discussion, amendment, and final agreement on criteria such lists would have to fulfill (posted to the website). . Discussion on amending membership fee collection scheduling (i.e., everyone renew at the same time once a year), but decision to stay with current way of doing things (rolling membership). . Conversation about member benefits and access to conference papers (for various reasons pointed out on air-l, papers are available - if presenters provide them - to members only, but everyone is welcome to contact presenters personally and request copies) . Creation and editing of various outreach email messages that will be posted to air-l and members on a regular basis . Discussion about possibly instituting a research annual out of selected AoIR conference papers. More information will be made available once final decisions have been made. . In the process of setting up a complaint list. More information available soon. 2.4 Treasurer (Bates) 2.4.1 Nothing to report. 2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman) 2.5.1 Silver: I've been staying busy with participating in various executive committee threads, and taking part in a number of discussions on the conference committee list. 2.5.2 Wellman: Continuing to work on Toronto AoIR conference. 2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade) 2.6.1 Allen: I have been devoting my time to background preparation for the program at the AoIR conference in Toronto in 2003. I have facilitated some discussion on air-meet about the structure and nature of the program (timing, type of papers etc), and have been greatly impressed by the quality of discussion and the helpful suggestions from all. Over the next month or so, following the release for the Call for Papers, I will be working with co-Chair David Mitchell and the Conference Chair Liss Jeffrey, to finalise arrangements for managing and finalising the program. I will indicate now that soon I will be asking for people who wish to be on the program committee to contact me; I will also be approaching people to be sub-chairs, responsible for areas of internet research that will form part of the program. 2.6.2 Shade: Nothing to report. 2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup) 2.7.1 Participated in discussions on the exec-list and continued networking with the graduate students I met in Maastricht. Currently setting up a graduate student list serv which will be launched very soon. 2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl) 2.8.1 Hunsinger: it has been fairly busy month, and I've been working on the lists and web primarily, but I'm also doing some conference things as they come up. I am still receiving papers at papers(a)aoir.org and am putting them up bi-weekly now. 2.8.2 Breindahl: I still read your e-mail - i.e., I monitor our mailinglists and filter out spam and unwelcome subscribers. I have done very little to improve the usability of aoir.org, mainly because I maintain two-three other sites that need my attention from time to time. One beautiful day, it will happen. 2.9 2002 Conference (Monica Murero, Coordinator; Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Program Chair) 2.9.1 Murero: Thank you all for giving me the chance to chair such a great conference in Maastricht. A fabolous experience! I have received many messages of appreciation and I'd like to thank again each one of you for it, and every single person that has contributed to this success. I am still working on conference related matters and will be happy to contribute to AoIR 's growth in the future. In other words, I'll stay around!!! I'd also like to send my best wishes to the teams that are working on the organization of AoIR 4.0 in Toronto, and in particular to Liss, Barry, Matt, David. All the best and see you soon ! 2.10 2003 Conference (Liss Jeffrey, Chair; Matthew Allen, David Mitchell, Program Co-Chairs) 2.10.1 Jeffrey (with her team: Katherine Parrish, Jason Nolan, Alex Kuskis, and steering committee chair Barry Wellman) 1. We have completed the call for papers draft, with the theme set out and explained in terms of ways IR4.0 will broaden the band of the internet research community and its topics, good input from Matt on review criteria,attention to French papers, to the use of technology to work on technology at the conference, and (Katherine Parrish leading this one) on the inclusion of creative works and presentations. 2. We have continued discussions with the Hilton Hotel, and are working with them as partners so that everyone will want to stay there and use our time most effectively by allowing the happenstance of meeting in the same environment. We are working on the room plan, rough conference program outline, cyber cafe, and other questions. 3. We submitted the Toronto committee list of potential keynotes to Air-Meet (which I convened last month) and have just confirmed the list of our first and second selections in a video conference with David Mitchell (co-program chair) from Calgary. We are very pleased with this list and guarantee that substance will be the order of the day for keynoters. The original suggestion that we had made to invite Steve Jones to be one of the keynotes is repeated and affirmed by all of us. 4. We have an events program in prep, that will include techno-artistic performances and other interventions: a preliminary list of those we have in mind include Steve Mann (Cyborg and Counter-Surveillance), David Rokeby ( major international techno artist), Cory Doctorow, and others.... 5. The SSHRC application went in on November 1st. No idea what the outcome will be , however it certainly consumed one plus days for my busy byDesign eLab and eCommons/Agora project, and I thank my office admin Graig Kent for his support. The Knowledge Media Design Institute at U of Toronto is now our lead organizer (in addition to adjunct faculty, McLuhan Program, I am a senior researcher there) and we thank Barry Wellman (my fellow steering committee member on KMDI) our steering committee chair for all of his support. 6. On Nov. 28 we will hold a volunteers meeting, after we do a visualization of the conference and a divide and conquer session on the activities we now face. The web site will get more advanced later next week <http://www.ecommons.net/aoir> 7. Finally we have plans for pre-conference events, and the Toronto committee welcomes all suggestions and ideas, so that we can start figuring out ways to place people in locations, formalize these events, and add some substantive themes as well as hands on workshops. More to come.... 2.11 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair) 2.11.1 The ethics working group has finalized its statement on Internet research ethics, revised in light of both aoir-list comments and comments received during the panel presentation on the statement at AoIR 3.0: please see <http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf>. We are placing the statement before AoIR members for their review and, we hope, their endorsement. Voting will begin soon. We will continue our work in the coming year - in part, by continuing to respond to queries and suggestions from the aoir membership on how to expand and refine the statement and its resources in ways that will be helpful. As always, my thanks to the members of the ethics committee for all their hard work, cooperative and critical discussion, insight and experience. 2.12 AoIR Elections Working Group (Mia Consalvo, Chair) 2.12.1 We are in the process of scheduling a live meeting to wrap things up, and make a final recommendation to the executive board. That should appear by the end of this month. Here's the scoop: --We believe that a better version of the nomination and voting procedure should be written up for our elections. These new procedures and guidelines should be posted to air-l before the procedure begins; they should be available as a document on the aoir web site, and they should also be printed out and available as a handout at aoir conferences. --We also support gathering more information from candidates running for various posts. We suggest having the general membership contribute ideas for questions, which could be general to all categories and/or specific for some (treasurer: how good are you with money?). --We are still debating how candidates are identified. Current ideas being tossed about include: nominations and self-nominations remaining the norm; adding to the above, a nominations committee that would identify potential candidates that have shown excellent service to the organization, but are too shy to self-nominate; finally, going to a system of nominations only by a committee, but this doesn't seem to have wide support as a system. --The voting process: we seem to be in agreement to limiting people to running for only one office-otherwise their votes can get split. Additionally, we are considering a "weighted voting" system. --We are also considering recommending expanding the executive board--particularly in the area of open seats. Alternately, the executive board has proposed (and we are talking about) having an "Advisory Board" that people could (volunteer or be named) to participate on, having more of a say in aoir business, but not burdening the exec board w/too many chefs. --Regarding elections, we are talking about having some sort of "event" for candidates- the idea of a synchronous chat was proposed, but due to our wide geographic boundaries, seems burdensome. Alternately, a specific time period for an asynchronous talk/Q&A has been floated. 2.13 AoIR Net Resources Working Group (Charlie Breindahl, Chair) 2.13.1 The AoIR Net Working Group has been dormant over the summer, but we have recently begun discussion of the future of aoir.org as content management system (audience oriented) or groupware (author oriented). ------------------------------------end of executive committee report------------------------------ The Association of Internet Researchers is a scholarly association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. The association's web site is at http://www.aoir.org. Membership information is available at http://aoir.org/airjoin.html

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RE: [Air-l] online group dynamics
by Oravec, Jo Ann 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Greetings! I am delighted that you are putting together a group blog experiment. As with the previous post, here is some shameless self-promotion... I was lucky enough to have the following articles on blogging-in-education published and would be happy to send them to you. Bookmarking the World: Weblog Applications in Education. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, April, 2002, 45(7), 2-7. Weblogs as an Emerging Genre in Higher Education, Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Spring, 2003. I'm happy that you plan to expand the academic literature on blogging! Best of luck-- Jo Ann Jo Ann Oravec Associate Professor College of Business and Economics University of Wisconsin-Whitewater -----Original Message----- From: Stephanie Jo Kent [mailto:steph@sover.net] Sent: Sun 11/17/2002 8:36 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Cc: Subject: [Air-l] online group dynamics Hello all - I just joined the list a week or so ago; I'm a first year doctoral student at UMass Amherst. I'm working on a project on surveillance technology in which I'm exploring stages of group development in a group blog. It is not an anonymous group, but an extension of a graduate course, so we all know each other and see each other face-to-face as well. I've been seeking literature on small group dynamics online - can anyone point me to anything specific? Maybe in organization/management or some other applied context? At this point, anything that seems remotely close would be a big help! Thanks in advance, steph _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Medium Theory
by Nathan Koenigsfeld 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Help I am currently doing some research regarding Medium Theory which was originated by Joshua Meyrowitz in his 1985 book No Sense of Place. I am looking for information about those whom have engaged this theory in their research today, whether to critique it or to further advance the theory. For those unfamiliar with the theory, it is very McLuhanesque in nature. It states that media are simply not channels for conveying information between two environments, but rather are environments in and of themselves. Unlike McLuhan (Technological Determinism), this theory states that media don't wholly shape culture and society, but changes in communication patterns are one very important contribution. Any information or leads into scholars who address Meyrowitz's work would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Nate Koenigsfeld Virginia Tech University Communication Studies

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Re: [Air-l] online group dynamics
by Yvonne Waern 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Hi, nice to meet you, Stephanie! I guess there is a lot on online culture, online community etc, but I do not know if the modern approach to Internet would talk about "group dynamics". Let us see what the others say! Anyhow, on this AiR-list you'll get a lot of the first mentioned concepts. Anyhow, let me shamelessly promote myself, and thereby also some approaches to "chat": Teresa Cerratto and Yvonne Waern (2000). Chatting to Learn and Learning to Chat in Collaborative Virtual Environments". M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture. Special issue on "chat". Issue Editors: Felicity Meakins & E. Sean Rintel . August 23, 2000. http://moby.curtin.edu.au/~ausstud/mc/0008/learning1.html Good luck with your search! Yvonne > > >I've been seeking literature on small group dynamics online - can >anyone point me to anything specific? Maybe in >organization/management or some other applied context? At this >point, anything that seems remotely close would be a big help! > -- Yvonne Waern Professor emerita CMC-research group Computer and System Sciences Stockholm University /KTH Forum 100, S-164 40 Kista, Sweden Phone (home): +46 8 500 307 18

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RE: [Air-l] Medium Theory/Media Ecology
by Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof) 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Nathan, there is a group of scholars doing "media ecology," and Meyrowitz is part of their essential reading list. You can see more at this website: http://www.media-ecology.org/reading_list.html. Besides Meyrowitz, the list includes Innis, McLuhan, Ong, Postman, Ellul, etc, all of whom argue along the same lines. Randy Kluver Nanyang Technological University Singapore -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Koenigsfeld [mailto:nkoenigs@vt.edu] Sent: Sat 11/16/2002 6:38 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Cc: Subject: [Air-l] Medium Theory Help I am currently doing some research regarding Medium Theory which was originated by Joshua Meyrowitz in his 1985 book No Sense of Place. I am looking for information about those whom have engaged this theory in their research today, whether to critique it or to further advance the theory. For those unfamiliar with the theory, it is very McLuhanesque in nature. It states that media are simply not channels for conveying information between two environments, but rather are environments in and of themselves. Unlike McLuhan (Technological Determinism), this theory states that media don't wholly shape culture and society, but changes in communication patterns are one very important contribution. Any information or leads into scholars who address Meyrowitz's work would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Nate Koenigsfeld Virginia Tech University Communication Studies _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Looking for interesting examples of folks teaching
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

media literacy along the lines of 'new media and social justice.' Interested in all levels but particularly interested at the grade school/junior high level. Any suggestions much appreciated. --Thom \\\\//// tHoM gIllEsPiE, maitre d'Igital, CafeTechnos(a)ait.net /ww ww\ Indiana University, Telecommunications Dept 6 (*][*) ? 1229 E 7th St Radio & TV Bldg \ .7 / Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 USA ( --') thom(a)indiana.edu 812-855-3254 (v) WWWW The MIME Program in newMedia Design / WW \ www.mime.indiana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The game lasts 90 minutes. That's a fact. Everything else is just theory." -- Run, Lola, Run

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CFP: 7th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics & Informatics SCI 2003
by Adrian S. Petrescu 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Here's a CFP that may interest some. Also, I was invited, and accepted, to try and organize an invited session on the impact of ICTs on society, economics etc. So far, I titled the session: 'New e-Social Sciences and e-Epistemology for the Internet era?' I am thinking to gather panelists that address in their work the potential impact of ICTs in general and the Internet in particular on: - the way in which disciplinary boundaries are crossed, - the way in which "new science" emerges out of the increased and speedier contact between researchers across fields - the potential way in which increased access by researchers and practitioners to resources (human or electronic, including to one another) may impact how new questions get raised in and across traditional disciplines in social sciences, or our ability to answer them more successfully, faster and with increased reliability given the cross-disciplinary approach to our inquiry efforts In the past many philosophers of science have addressed the issue of the difficulties involved in crossing disciplinary barriers. Are these difficulties reduced today and if so to what extent. Or are we simply over-optimistic? I would appreciate any suggestions as to what other lists/organizations I could disseminate this through. Please let me know if you are interested in the topic or if you may know someone that would have something interesting to say. Whether this ever works or not I don't know, but I would love to get to know those people anyway... Thank you so much, Adrian -- Adrian S. Petrescu Phone: (734) 487 3160 (o) "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy" (Sir Ernest Benn) -- CALL FOR PAPERS THE 7th WORLD MULTI CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI 2003 July 27 - 30, 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA Sheraton World http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/ Honorary Presidents of Past Conferences: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir Program Committee Chair: William Lesso General Chair: Nagib Callaos Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez MAJOR THEMES * Information Systems, Technologies and Applications * Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications * Control Systems, Technologies and Applications * Computer Science and Engineering * Optical Systems, Technologies and Applications * Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing * Applications of Informatics and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering * Systemics ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS · WOSC: World Organization of Systemics and Cybernetics (France) · The Centre for Systems Studies (UK) · System Society of Poland · Society Applied Systems Research (Canada) · Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society · Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela) · Polish System Society (Poland) · Italian Society of Systemics · ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA) · ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA) · IFSR: International Federation for Systems Research (Austria/USA) · Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics (Denmark) · Concurrency and Architecture Group of the Telematics Engineering Department of the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain) · CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University (France) · The Tunisian Scientific Society (Tunisia) · American Society for Cybernetics (Canada) · Laboratory of Research in Computacional Intelligence department of Informatica Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina) · ANS (Academy of non-linear Sciences, RUSSIA) ACADEMIC/SCIENTIFIC/PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL CO-SPONSORSHIP · Wolfram Research, Inc. (USA) TECHNICAL CO - SPONSOR · IEEE, Computer Society (Chapter: Venezuela) · Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences · National Research Council of Canada ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION Those interested in participating in: · The Organization of Invited Session(s) · The Organization of Focus Symposium · The Reviewing Process · The Conference Promotion · Recommending Scholars/Researchers in order to have an active participation and/or submit the papers · Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific Co-sponsors. Please, enter to the conference web page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/ , and fill the respective form. If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2003/ . If you have any problems linking to the conference web pages, or you need to send or receive additional information, contact: jcastellano(a)iiis.org. PARTICIPANTS Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged. Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. For this reason, the Program Committee is conformed according to the criteria given above. TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED 1. Papers · Research · Review · Position · Report 2. Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals 3. New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposals (which should include a minimum of 5 papers) 4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers) EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent taking into account the following: 1. Major theme of the paper, related to the major themes given above. 2. Paper title. 3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to 5000 words, in English. 4. Authors and/or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent to the conference web page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/ , filling the respective form and uploading the respective paper or extended abstract. If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2003/ . If the conference web pages are not accessible for you, you can also make your submission by e-mail, attaching it to the following e-mail addresses: nacallao(a)telcel.net.ve, ncallaos(a)telcel.net.ve and sciconfer(a)cantv.net. DEADLINES December 18, 2002: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper drafts (2000-5000 words). December 18, 2002: Invited session proposals. February 19, 2003: Acceptance notifications. April 09, 2003: Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and electronic versions. PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Best papers will be selected for awards and might be recommended for journal publications. Multiple author books will be published by IIIS based on, the best-invited sessions, the best focus symposia or the best mini-conferences and the topic of the papers.

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