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

RE: [Air-l] Internet Modes of Experience
by amarkham 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Hi Chris, Your question is a good one: I am guessing that because of >these technological developments more people are >perceiving the Internet as a place or a state of >being. > Has the perception of the medium >begun to change due to technological developments that >have increased accessibility ? > I don't have the answer, but it raises interesting discussion. My early morning thoughts drift this way: The cause/effect is not easily determined. One's perception of the medium as Tool or Place or Way of Being may be due to the technology, or it may be due to the interactions/relationships that develop, or it may be due to a combination of both and other factors. The typically academic thought, "it depends" pops into my head. If the technology one uses is apparent or present, one's experience of the medium will be different than for someone for whom the technology is transparent. And the technology may be more *present* in some contexts versus others; take for example students in online classes who might find internet technologies completely transparent in their everyday conversations with friends, but when they perceive the context to be a classroom, find the technology rushing into the foreground, interfering with their ability to communicate. One's experience depends on the frame of reference, the context, and multiple other factors.....from my perspective, it is impossible to generalize the experiential frame or the causal agent for current frames. Having said that, I believe it's still useful to ask the question. What is the context in which you're thinking about the shift in access and associated perception of the medium? Annette Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication (M/C 132) 1007 W. Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607-7137

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NYTimes.com Article: Mississippi Students Build Their Own PC's
by hitch＠hum.ku.dk 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by hitch(a)hum.ku.dk. Mississippi Students Build Their Own PC's December 19, 2002 By MICHEL MARRIOTT Mississippi couldn't afford to put PC's in every classroom. So students are building them as part of an ambitious effort to add computer engineering to the curriculum. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/technology/circuits/19buil.html?ex=104129… HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales(a)nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company

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Call for Papers - BlogTalk Conference
by Thomas Burg 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Dear Group-Members, I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year in advance. Besides I'd like to bring a conference to you knowledge and ask you for your possible particiaption. BlogTalk - A European Weblog Conference: Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use. http://blogtalk.net The primary goal of BlogTalk is to inventory the current and emerging uses of blogs. Active bloggers as well as people from all professional fields are invited to attend. Paper submissions are being invited on all subjects relevant to the theme of the conference, including, but not limited to topics such as: Definition and scope of blogs Case study of a blog in a professional or private environment Collaboration and community building Mobile applications Influence of blogs on software products and vice versa Influence of blogs on mass media and vice versa The blog as a special interest publication Blog aided self-reflection or self-portrayal Knowledge management Business models Thomas

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Air-l digest, Vol 1 #579 - 7 msgs
by caidi＠fis.utoronto.ca 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

I will not be reading my mail until Dec 30. Your mail will be read when I return. Thank you. Nadia Caidi

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Digital Art in NYC -- LISTENING POST at the Whitney Museum
by Gina Neff 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

A digital art project of interest to AoIRers, especially those of you who might be coming through New York in the next few months. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Rubin" <benrubin(a)earstudio.com> To: <dEARfriends(a)earstudio.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:14 AM Subject: LISTENING POST at the Whitney Museum Starting today and continuing through March 9, LISTENING POST will be presented on the first floor of the Whitney Museum as part of their Contemporary Series. The size and scope of the piece have been extended since its brief run at the BAM Next Wave festival a year ago. Please come see it! Ben ----------------- More information: http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningPost.html Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin: Listening Post on view December 17, 2002 March 9, 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street Listening Post is a biorhythmic visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication. This collaborative multimedia installation is composed of a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens that display fragments of texts culled in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, the project presents the texts according to the frequency of randomly selected words, topics emerging and changing from hour to hour and day to day. A coordinated audio component alternates between musical passages and sections that vocalize certain messages, underscoring the text on the screens. General Information: (212) 570-3676 Ticketing: 1 (877) WHITNEY http://www.whitney.org ------------------------ Ben Rubin http://www.earstudio.com (212) 334-9969 ------------------------

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Re: [Air-l] The History of that "Other" Internet: PLATO
by Art McGee 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Quite scary that this just popped up: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/yourmoney/01BOSS.html New York Times December 1, 2002 Speaking Mind to Mind By Ray Ozzie [Written with Glenn Rifkin] There's no question that right from birth, I was a nerd. My grandfather was a sheet-metal worker for the Illinois Central Railroad, and he had this great workshop in our house. I was fascinated watching him bend sheet metal into things like a pot for my grandmother. I got the entrepreneur's bug from my father. He founded his own insurance agency, and as a kid I would hang out at the office, stuffing envelopes, doing odd jobs. My father taught me: if you have a passion, go with it. He loved people, talking to clients. But he said to me: "Never become an insurance broker. I know you. You're not the type." Instead, he encouraged my love of technology. He brought home chemistry sets, dry cells, light bulbs, switches and things like that. I built signaling devices around the house. We built a crystal radio set together. I had my career-defining moment in college, in the early 1970's. I was an electrical engineering major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and had a job as an electronic technician. On my way to work, I kept passing this building that had a strange orange glow emanating from the windows. I looked in and saw people sitting at rows and rows of terminals. The system was called Plato, a computer system built in the late 1960's by Don Bitzer, Paul Tenczar and an amazing team of bright, eccentric, creative individuals. It was unique and way ahead of its time. Of course, I wangled myself a job as a systems programmer on Plato. There were a thousand terminals connected to the mainframe, half on campus and the other half at universities around the world. It was amazing. It had instant messaging, e-mail, online discussions, interactive games. Remember, this was 1974! I was assigned to work on a project online with a programmer in a different part of Urbana-Champaign. We worked for months without meeting. We'd use instant messaging, which on Plato displayed a message in real time, keystroke by keystroke. My partner was obviously brilliant but an incredibly bad typist. It was excruciating, waiting for each letter. He constantly made mistakes. When I finally met him, I was stunned: he was a quadriplegic and had been typing with a stick held in his lips. I realized at that moment that the computer was a medium that enabled communication with people mind to mind, regardless of their physical well-being. You can work with someone without prejudice, and their true talents will be shown. And from then on, I started to focus on how computers could help people work together more effectively. After graduation, I said to myself, "By hook or crook, I am going to build software to recreate the interactive environment I'd used with Plato." That thought led to the creation of Lotus Notes, which sits on nearly 100 million desktops, as well as everything else I've done. --- Ray Ozzie is chief executive of Groove Networks, a software company in Beverly, Mass. Copyright (c) New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved. -end- Art McGee Communications & Technology Consultant amcgee(a)freeshell.org (510) 967-9381 Circuit Riders International <http://npogroups.org/lists/info/riders> NPO/NGO Media & Technology Calendar <http://amcgee.freeshell.org/mtcalendar.html> Critical Issues in Pan-African Life and Culture <http://lists.aas.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/afroam-l> Black People Love Us! <http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com> APC ActionApps <http://www.apc.org/actionapps> Information Awareness Office <http://www.darpa.mil/iao>

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Fwd: [CIRASI-LISTE:4073] Poste Informatique et societe a Namur (Belgique)
by jeremy hunsinger 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

> from our friends at cirasi, particularly Prof. Lévy > > Bonjour la liste du CIRASI ! > L'ancien titulaire du poste, Jacques Berleur, qui part en retraite, me > demande de faire circuler cette offre d'emploi. Avis aux amateurs !!! > Pierre Lévy > > > Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix - Ouverture de poste > > Poste de chargé de cours > > Les Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix ouvrent un poste de > chargé de cours à temps plein dans le domaine de l'interdisciplinarité > " Philosophie, Informatique et Société ". L'enseignement est donné aux > étudiants en informatique. > > Fonction > > Le titulaire assurera un enseignement et des recherches notamment dans > les domaines de l'épistémologie de l'informatique et des relations > 'Informatique et Société', en ce compris les questions d'éthique de > l'informatique. Les enseignements incluront aussi des éléments de > philosophie des sciences et d'histoire de l'informatique. > Il aura à lancer et conduire des projets de recherche, aux niveaux > tant national qu'international. > > Qualifications > > Le candidat sera docteur avec thèse ou ingénieur avec une expérience > de recherche équivalente au doctorat. Il aura une connaissance établie > de la science informatique. Il aura contribué activement à des > recherches de niveau international dans un des domaines mentionnés > ci-dessus. Il aura, si possible, une double qualification lui > permettant de travailler de manière interdisciplinaire. > L'usage de la langue française est requis. > > Délai > > L'entrée en fonction se fera au plus tard en septembre 2003. > Conformément aux dispositions légales belges, le poste est attribué > pour une période probatoire de deux ans, au terme de laquelle la > nomination définitive est normalement acquise. > > Candidatures > > Les candidatures seront envoyées au Recteur des Facultés > Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 > Namur. Les formulaires de candidature sont disponibles au Service du > Personnel des FUNDP, rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur (Tél. : +32 > (0)81-72 40 42). Une version électronique peut être obtenue auprès du > Directeur de l'Institut d'Informatique (bdi(a)info.fundp.ac.be) > La clôture des candidatures est fixée au 6 janvier 2003. > > Environnement > > L'Institut d'Informatique : près de 500 étudiants, 80 personnes dont > 16 professeurs à temps plein et 55 chercheurs; première création > universitaire belge en informatique, en 1970, l'Institut a formé > depuis 1973 plus de 1.200 diplômés informaticiens de haut niveau > (http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/) > Les Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix : plus de 4.300 > étudiants, 200 professeurs, 400 chercheurs, 440 administratifs, > techniques ou ouvriers (http://www.fundp.ac.be/) > Namur : 100.000 habitants, capitale de la Wallonie, à 60 km au sud de > Bruxelles (http://www.namur.be/) > > 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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Re: Sociedad digital
by Michel J. Menou 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

If I am not mistaken this is not the first time that this communique is sent to our list. And to many others, and to individuals (I just get one, again, although I protested several times). It does not present the latest news about this endeavour but is a basic promotional pamphlet whose distribution is close to Spam. As I stressed after earlier postings, the claim of this group to be "the first forum to portuguese and spanish speaking specialists, under the structure of an internet gate", even with the mention of a particular technical platform, is inexact, if it points to chronology, and excessive, not to say more, if it points to importance. It is also intriguing that a portal open to all so conspicuoulsy avoids links to other regional endeavours in the same area (e.g. http://funredes.org/mistica) Even though the latter are conducting for quite a while investigations that are only contemplated by "Sociedad Digital". The latter is however offering courses to the business community, though not for profit and claiming to reinvest the return into the yet to be launched investigation programme. The choice of material presented is not less intriguing than the list of sponsors is impressive. The apparent contradictions in the picture of this organization makes one wonder what it is really about and trying to achieve. And perhaps also points to the ease with which "cyberempires" can be built. Michel J. Menou Thursday, December 12, 2002, 6:01:02 PM, you wrote: alrao> Message: 4 alrao> From: "Charlie Breindahl" <charlie(a)aoir.org> alrao> To: "Air-L" <air-l(a)aoir.org> alrao> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:53:42 +0100 alrao> Subject: [Air-l] Digital Society Project alrao> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> Versi=F3n espa=F1ol al frente, versi=F3n portuguesa a continuaci=F3n, alrao> versi=F3n inglesa al final. alrao> ________________________________________________________________ snip alrao> Scientific message to the Internet Community and to the Information alrao> Society Community. alrao> The Digital Society =96 www.sociedaddigital.org / alrao> www.asociedadedigital.org=20 alrao> This message has the objective of informing the Internet Community alrao> and the Information Society Community the latest news about The alrao> Digital Society Project. alrao> The Digital Society is a project open mainly to the Internet alrao> Community and the Information Society Community in Latin American, alrao> however without restrictions to any other countries or regions in alrao> the world. It is about the creation of the first forum to portuguese alrao> and spanish speaking specialists, under the structure of an internet alrao> gate (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org) alrao> The structure of this space is divided, in its first level, into alrao> areas considered of extreme importance to the development of the alrao> Information Society, such as language, (brechas digitais), alrao> e-Government, special studies, legislation and country information. alrao> On a second level, there are interactive elements such as news, alrao> special projects and information centres designed to promote alrao> interchanges and synergy between regional specialists, always alrao> searching for new models, applications and research results, alrao> benefiting all users and paving the road between the Information alrao> Society and the Knowledge Society. alrao> Therefore, we invite everyone to visit the Internet site, integrate alrao> yourself in the community, contribute with your knowledge and use alrao> all free available resources. alrao> Our address : (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org) alrao> Please send any queries and comments to info(a)sociedaddigital.org.=20 alrao> All comments, queries and contributions are welcome. alrao> Cordially, alrao> President of the Digital Society Board of Directors alrao> Ricardo Petrissans de Aguilar, MSc, PhD. alrao> ricardo(a)sociedaddigital.org alrao> This message will only be sent once, since it is intended to be alrao> directed to the members of the Latin America Scientific Community. alrao> If it is not of your interest, please delete it. Thank you for your alrao> time and attention. alrao> --__--__-- alrao> _______________________________________________ alrao> Air-l mailing list alrao> Air-l(a)aoir.org alrao> http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l alrao> End of Air-l Digest --

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tir web
by swiss＠uiowa 15 Dec '02

15 Dec '02

Aoir Folks- One of many projects by aoir-connected folks that grew directly or indirectly out of the Drake conference a few years back on The Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory. This, following, on the lit/art side of things, fyi.....: ===== TIR WEB A journal of New Media and experimental writing and art, The Iowa Review Web is published at the University of Iowa with support from the Department of English and in collaboration with The International Writing Program and the Iowa Review. Volume 4, Number 9 (December 2002) <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/> ************************************* New Work: Motomichi Nakamura's "BCC." <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/motomichi/index.html> Nakamura's new media work has been featured at the Sundance Online Film Festival 2001 and 2002; South by Southwest; and the Beaubourg Contemporary Art Center. His work has won many awards in both the U. S. and Europe. ++ About the soundtrack from "BCC:" "The musician who made this track is called DJ Tampopo. He named himself after the movie "Tampopo," directed by a Japanese movie director named Juzo Itami. The movie is actually about a woman who struggles to establish a noodle (ramen) restaurant by a highway." ...from the interview with Motomichi Nakamura by YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/motomichi/index.html#> ******************** New Work: Jody Zellen's "Crowds and Power" <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/zellen/index.html> Jody Zellen : her many exhibitions include a recent solo show at The Sesnon Gallery, University of Calfornia, Santa Cruz. She has been included in group exhibitions at the SF Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The California Museum of Photography, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a new project called Disembodied Voices. ++ Read the interview with Jody Zellen at: <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/zellen/index.html#> ********************** Scanner: New Sound Art and an Interview + "Listening at the Pictures" Scanner's diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific intermedia installations. He has performed in and created works for many art spaces, including San Francisco MOMA (USA), Hayward Gallery (London), Pompidou Centre (Paris), Tate Modern (London) and the Modern Museum (Stockholm). <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/scanner/index.html> + Read "Experimental Literature Was Really The First Kick:" An Interview with Scanner by Rebekah Farrugia. <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/scanner/index.html> **************************************** FROM 91 MERIDIAN All at: <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/91/nov/index.html> ************************************* FROM THE IOWA REVIEW All at <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/ir/nov/index.html> ***************************** Coming up: Interviews, criticism and New Media work by Stuart Moulthrop, Diana Slattery, Talan Memmott, Brian Kim Stefans, and others. ------------------------

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Ethics statement adoption
by Steve Jones 15 Dec '02

15 Dec '02

Colleagues: We are very pleased to announce that the ethics committee document on Internet research ethics was unanimously approved by voting members at the close of the vote on midnight, Wednesday, November 27, 2002. For the first time, there now exists a relatively complete ethics statement tailored to the distinctive venues and methodologies of Internet research, one which - like the professional ethics codes of other disciplinary organizations - reflects the considered ethical judgments, insights, and practices of those active in the multiple fields of Internet research. Researchers, students, ethicists, and related institutional bodies and academic organizations in the domain of Internet research may now turn to the ethics document as at least a starting point for their inquiries and reflection. This starting point reflects not only nearly two years of collaborative effort of the ethics working committee, as composed of ethicists and researchers from 11 different countries - but also the endorsement of aoir members at large. Of course, as we noted in the pre-vote discussion of the document, while the document stands as something of a milestone in the development of Internet research ethics - it is by no means the final word. Rather, the ethics working committee will continue to explore and debate how new experiences, issues and insights affiliated with Internet research evoke ethical challenges and demand ethically justifiable resolutions. Just as the current document was immeasurably enriched by comments and contributions from aoir members - we very much hope that the aoir membership will continue to call attention to issues and resources in Internet research ethics for debate and deliberation by the ethics working committee. As the ethics working committee thus elaborates and refines the current document, it will be returned to aoir members in updated form for your review, comment, and, where appropriate, endorsement. Our thanks, finally, not only to the many aoir members who contributed in a variety of ways to the document - but also to the members of the ethics working committee who have worked for nearly two years to develop an ethics statement with a daunting job description: * it must reflect the wide diversity of disciplinary approaches - in both the social sciences and the humanities - to Internet research; * it must take in and, where possible, coherently synthesize the diverse ethical approaches and cultural traditions represented among the global community of Internet researchers; * it must address a wide audience - researchers, ethicists, students, and professionals engaged in Internet research in a variety of capacities - in ways that are both well-grounded in philosophical ethics and immediately practical for researchers and others with varying degrees of familiarity with ethics as a discipline; and * it must meet the approval of aoir members! The members of the ethics committee have undertaken this task with unstinting generosity, insight, and spirited but collegial debate. If you ever find the ethics document to be useful, it is these people you will want to thank: Poline Bala - Malaysia; Amy Bruckman - USA; Sarina Chen - USA; Brenda Danet - Israel/USA; Dag Elgesem - Norway; Andrew Feenberg - USA; Stine Gotved - Denmark; Christine M. Hine - UK; Soraj Hongladarom - Thailand; Jeremy Hunsinger - USA; Klaus Jensen - Denmark; Storm King - USA; Chris Mann - UK; Helen Nissenbaum - USA; Kate O'Riordan - UK; Paula Roberts - Australia; Wendy Robinson - USA; Leslie Shade - Canada; Malin Sveningson - Sweden; Leslie Tkach - Japan; John Weckert - Australia. With gratitude and all best wishes, Steve Jones President, Association of Internet Researchers Professor of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago/USA Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ PS: My special thanks go to Charles Ess for his leadership, effort and time guiding the ethics committee. -Sj

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