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Invitation to Communication and Technology Conference in Finland
by Susan B. Kretchmer 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

** Please pass this message on to colleagues and lists to whom it would be of interest. Thank you! ** 2003 International Summer Conference on Communication and Technology in Finland The Informing Science Institute, the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide, the National Communication Association, and the Pori Unit of the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration will be sponsoring an International Summer Conference on communication and technology in Pori, Finland, June 24-27, 2003. The purpose of the conference is to spur debate and increase understanding to meet the challenges and explore the opportunities posed by the new Information Age, and to reach out in innovative ways to seek partnerships and solutions that bridge gaps in knowledge, expertise, and interdisciplinary cooperation. The topic areas to be considered range from the digital divide to misinforming and misinformation. Further details are available at the conference web site: http://www.is2003.org. In addition to lunches, coffee, tea, and snack breaks, and guided walking tours of the city during the day, the conference features an informal welcoming reception, a banquet with music at a traditional Finnish restaurant by the river, and a reception at City Hall hosted by the City of Pori. The conference will be held at the Pori Unit of the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration. Pori is on the West coast of Finland, about 120 km (or 75 miles) north of Turku and 240 km (or 150 miles) north-west of Helsinki. The main part of Pori, a peaceful city of 75,000, is about eight blocks square, so it is easy to walk almost everywhere. Traffic is light, and many people ride bicycles. It is easy to reach Pori from either Helsinki or Turku by air, bus, train, or rental car, or even ferry from Sweden via Turku. A trip is planned on Saturday, the day after the conference, to nearby Yyteri Beach, a sandy beach known as the "Finnish Riviera," with a water slide and a hiking trail along the shore, and/or Reposaari, a small fishing village unspoiled by tourism. Convention attendees will also be able to participate in a post-conference study trip to the University of Lapland above the Arctic Circle, land of the Midnight Sun and Northern Lights. You can learn more about Finland at http://www.genealogia.fi/finnlinks/ and http://virtual.finland.fi/. Submission Instructions The language of the conference is English. All submissions should be original and not currently under review by any other publication or conference since the author(s) will need to transfer copyright to the organizers before the paper can be published. All submissions will undergo blind review by three or more referees. It may be useful to review papers presented at IS2002, which can be found at http://2002.insite.nu. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and selected papers will appear in the journal _Informing Science: International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline_ or the _Journal of Information Technology Education_. Quality papers on the special conference topics of Misinforming/Misinformation and Bias will be fast tracked for inclusion in a special issue of Informing Science and/or a book. Below are the specific requirements for each type of submission, followed by the general requirements for all submissions. Research Papers--Research papers should be submitted as complete papers. Papers should include a description of the context of use, the relevant publics involved, the problem, and the proposed solution, if appropriate. Original thinking is valued. Papers typically are less than 20 pages long (about 5000 words). Research papers must be original and unpublished. Interactive Papers, Discussion Papers, and Practical Papers--Shorter papers (at least 8 pages) of Research-in-Progress, Interactive, Discussion, and Practical matters are also welcome. These let you share the progress you have had to date and receive constructive feedback midstream in your research. Panel Discussions--Proposals for panels that synthesize and orient work in the area are encouraged, especially those that cross disciplinary boundaries. Panel proposals should define an issue, list proposed panel members, their backgrounds, and their basic positions. Panel proposals should be written as extended abstracts that are approximately two pages long. Panels should provide for interaction among members and with the audience and should not consist of a series of independent mini-papers. Submissions will be accepted via the web at http://submit.insite.nu (or email, if your web access is limited). Please review http://www.is2003.org for complete details on submission, including formatting instructions. If you would like to be part of a panel submission, but cannot put one together, we will try to match up presenters with similar interests and submit the resulting panels. To participate, please email a Word attachment containing a 75-word abstract of your topic, a 50-word bio, and your complete contact information by 5 p.m. ET on November 26, 2002 to both docrod99(a)hotmail.com and susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com. Authors may appear at most on two papers, or one paper and one panel. For an accepted paper to appear on the program and in the proceedings, at least one author must register by the presenters' registration deadline. All members of panels must register by the presenters' registration deadline. Volunteer to Review Submissions Please volunteer your expertise as a paper reviewer for the 2003 International Summer Conference and, thereby, become a member of the Conference Program Committee. Sign up at: http://volunteer.InSITE.nu. Sponsorships Various levels of Academic Departmental Sponsorship are available beginning at $500. All sponsors will be acknowledged in the conference literature and websites. Higher levels of support will also be acknowledged on the Conference Carry Case. Interested institutions should contact both Susan Kretchmer (susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com) and Rod Carveth (docrod99(a)hotmail.com) Important Dates Abstract or paper submission November 30, 2002 Author notification February 15, 2003 Final paper due (MS Word or RTF) & presenter's registration deadline March 15, 2003 Conference Period June 24-27, 2003 Study Trip to the Artic Circle June 29-July 3, 2003 Further details about the conference are available at the IS2003 web site: http://www.is2003.org. Please contact both Susan Kretchmer (susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com) and Rod Carveth (docrod(a)hotmail.com) with any questions. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com

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Re: [Air-l] orality and textuality
by Irene Berkowitz 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Hi Frank, You may also want to look at: Author Standage, Tom. Title The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers / Tom Standage. Imprint New York : Walker and Co., 1998. A very quick and informative read. It only deals with snail mail tangentially, but certainly looks at what happened between postal mail and the telegraph and the change in communication patterns and draws comparisons with the internet. IB >>> frank.thomasftr(a)free.fr 11/14/2002 3:54:21 PM >>> Hi, I start to think about the fact that ICTs are well embedded in our cultures of text and voice communications. SMS, for instance, is a very interesting sort of written speech. To understand email communication we have first to better understand postal letter exchanges. I am no cultural anthropologist so I have no immediate knowledge of that area of research. Would someone on the list be so kind to point me to a good start for reading, for books, articles, online texts, market research, I dont know what ... Thank you Frank ---------------------------- Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 321, boulevard de la Boissière 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France tél. 0033.1.48.94.36.90 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l 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

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apsa panels
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

the apsa is having its annual, you can see some of its i.t. panels and get the drafts below Information, Technology and Politics http://apsaproceedings.cup.org/Site/panels/040/D040.htm Chair: Micah Altman, Harvard University 1 Online Surveys: Assessing the Usefullness of New Methods for Measuring Public Opinion 2 Evil, Telecommunications, and the Internet 3 Organizing and Participating Online 4 Internet Policymaking and E-Merging Research: E-Governance, E-Competitiveness, and E-Security 5 The Internet and Civic Culture 6 Technology and Education 7 Technology, Communities, and Participation jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: Second post in Britain
by Kartik Pashupati 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

I am a long-time lurker on this list, and I have followed this thread with interest. While I was in London this summer, there was much hand-wringing in traditional circles about the decision by Consignia (the "corporation" that has now renamed itself "Royal Mail!") to drop the second mail delivery starting 2002. A sample news story (from the Telegraph): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/14/npost14.xml People in favor of the decision to drop the "second post" questioned the need for this time-honored tradition in an era of fax and Internet communication.

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messengers and networks
by Barry Wellman 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Re Naomi Baron's point on past-generation messenger boys, in 1970, the head of the sociology dept at the Univ of Ghana Legon had a @boy@ (really a man) squatting next to his desk all the time I was there. To deliver handwritten messages across campus. And unlike email, the receipt of the message was confirmed. Re Frank Thomas' point on long distance ties documented by community social network analysts, see a bunch of my papers from the 1970s thru early 1990s. Summarized in my @The Network Community" - intro chapter to my Networks in the Global Village, and in draft form (for those who want something for nothing) on my website. 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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You Got Mail (before Internet)
by Naomi Susan Baron 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Nancy Baym's right: multiple daily mail deliveries were common in 19th c London (not to mention in other parts of the world, such as the large cities in India, well into the 20th c). It's also important to remember that besides such "public" mail deliveries, it was quite common to have servants, messenger boys, and the like (a street urchin would do in a pinch) deliver letters across town quite regularly. As the telegraph was introduced (and then became increasingly affordable and accessible), telegrams were sent across town, from business to business, or from business to home (for those wealthy enough to have home access) for many of the same sorts of reasons we send emails to local recipients. Naomi Naomi Baron Professor of Linguistics American University Washington, DC 20016-8045

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #547 - you got mail
by Michel J. Menou 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

My 2 Eurocents to the debate. Mail was reaching the Assyrian Emperors in their capital from the remotest border of the empire in 7 days (don't ask me for the exact reference, I've heard that on an archeology documentary). And although in strange caracters there was no html text and in extenso quotes of the earlier messages to make them inintelligible :-) Let's give up the Cray's and go back to the clay! Another interesting point to stress, IMHO, is that 2 mail deliveries per day are more than enough to allow for effective work as opposed to instant messaging that spoils our lives non stop. Michel

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Re: mail delivery in 19th-century London, Brownings' courtship
by Brenda Danet 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Nancy Baym wrote: >A related note I've seen mentioned but can't remember where (Naomi >Baron, are you here? you must know, it was probably you) is 19th >century London where mail was delivered several times daily. >Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning apparently carried out >their famed courtship through this mail in a way that parallels >email. Nancy I referred to all this in my paper, reference below. In mid- to late Victorian London, mail was delivered once every hour for 12 hours of the day (source: Asa Briggs, Victorian Things, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988). Danet, Brenda. 1997. "Books, Letters, Documents: the Changing Aesthetics of Texts in Late Print Culture." Journal of Material Culture 2:5-38. You have a good memory, Nancy! Brenda Danet

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Teenage Courtship Online
by dca4＠georgetown.edu 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

There is an emerging phenomena of teenage courtship and CMC. My friends with 12-14 year olds talk about it all the time. One of my graduate student is having difficulty finding published academic studies on the subject for her thesis work. If anyone does know of publications or individuals she might contact could you please email Maggie Malone at malonem2(a)hotmail.com. Thanks, Dorine Dorine Andrews Research Professor - CCT Program Georgetown University 202-784-4338 410-366-0994 www.georgetown.edu/faculty/dca4

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Re: [Air-l] weak ties, great good place, & cyberspace
by Irene Berkowitz 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Concepts such as these may exist in other areas, such as quantum physics. See the work of Murray Gell-mann as it whether it might have relevance for your thought. 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 >>> sgz01570(a)nifty.ne.jp 11/11/2002 6:51:44 PM >>> Hi everyone, Does somebody know of publications that apply the notions of weak ties (Granovetter) and/or third place (Oldenburg) to understand ephemeral yet meaningful ties created in and around cyberspace? I began using these concepts to make sense of forms of sociality observed in communities (both "virtual" and offline) I am studying. I read a few papers that make reference to these concepts, But I do not know anything really good. Other than suggestions for readings, I appreciate your thoughts on this matter as well. Whoami> I am a doctoral student of sociology. I am working on a dissertation about uses of the Internet in Japan, I am particularly interested in the ways in which everyday people adopt and adapt to the Internet to maintain their personal communities. Thank you in advance, Mito Akiyoshi Department of Sociology The University of Chicago _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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