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

Confused re this list !!
by denisecarter＠denisecarter.net 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Am I the only person who is confused about this list? I have subscribed to this list for two years and have been a member of the aoir for the last year. I have always found this list to be useful and informative ... sometimes in the area of my own research...but often instructive in the directions other peoples research is taking. Occasionally I have asked for clarification of particular concepts with which I was struggling. Sometimes I have eagerly read other message strings, and followed the links and readings that they have suggested. In my own research I have used the aoir research committee's paper on the ethics of internet research as my guide. Inthe past if I haven't had the time to read the air-list messages I have saved them in a file to read later in case I missed something important. But now.... Well I am finding that at least 50% (and rising) messages are not worth the effort of reading ... and I am not complaining about the odd personal messages or friendly banter because that helps me to see you as people ... its just that I have this odd feeling that we (the list members) are being provoked. I don't know why and I'm not going to name names. But I want to know why I feel as if I'm being provoked ... and I don't want the reasons wrapped up in pseudo-academic speech ! It would be nice for the aoir list to return to it's reason for existing, and the reason that I and many others subscribed in the first place ... I have cut and pasted that raison-d'etre here from the aoir web site:- "The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic 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." Anyone care to lessen my confusion? Denise Carter DOCTORAL STUDENT CASS UNIVERSITY OF HULL EMAIL: d.m.carter(a)cas.hull.ac.uk OR: denisecarter(a)denisecarter.net

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trans-national diasporic communities
by Piet Bakker 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Dear all On the Virtual Nations website, some research and links about diasporic communities is available. http://home.pscw.uva.nl/bakker/VN/ -- Piet Bakker - Communicatiewetenschap - Universiteit van Amsterdam Kloveniersburgwal 48 1012 CX Amsterdam work: http://edu.pscw.uva.nl/cw/propedeuse home: http://home.pscw.uva.nl/bakker/

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Re: Warning
by Lachlan Brown 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Jeremy, Caught this before logging off... >laclan, >it was not a warning. That's OK then. Just making sure. Lachlan -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

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RE: [Air-l] My intervention in AoIR
by Matthew Allen 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Dear all Lachlan wrote: "I am encouraged by responses and by coments from AoIR members as well as people on other lists, people in the community, as well as colleagues. <snip> It is refreshing to see a turnabout in AoIR around questions of social inclusion and it is clear that my intervention has been successful to the degree that areas that should have been subject to research are now being considered. There remain large areas of internet not yet referenced and there are some keys to what these may be in some of the posts since my intervention. I look forward to teasing reaction out further." My apologies, I have completely missed Lachlan's intervention and the turnaround in AoIR that it generated. I've been too busy researching, educating ppl, administering programs, recruiting students, organising funding.... Could someone please provide me (not the list) with a concise summary of what's happened since I won't have time to go through the substantial archive of messages that, until now, I've had to delete without reading. Many thanks Matthew Allen

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My intervention in AoIR
by Lachlan Brown 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Jeremy, Thanks for your note. And what appears to be a warning. I am encouraged by responses and by coments from AoIR members as well as people on other lists, people in the community, as well as colleagues. I intervened in an thread concerning revision to email archives, and a remarkable comment by my former colleague Sean Cubitt. 'one day the world will mourn the loss of my juvenilia' in the context of the revision of email archives. It is refreshing to see a turnabout in AoIR around questions of social inclusion and it is clear that my intervention has been successful to the degree that areas that should have been subject to research are now being considered. There remain large areas of internet not yet referenced and there are some keys to what these may be in some of the posts since my intervention. I look forward to teasing reaction out further. What I am doing is necessary. I suggest you help highlight abuses in scholarship and in the industry otherwise people will wonder what your motives are in not doing so. I am hardly a 'newbie'. I employ strategies and tactics contingent to the lists response and lack of it. Did you read my introduction to AIR-L in January 2002? Lachlan Brown > > > > > you may want to refrain from doing the personal material via the list re > > your last barry comment. While i think doing it does satisfy a certain > > point of theory, it also probably undermines the point of that theory, > > the 'newbie' appearance... it causes people to ignore. I am pretty sure > > that you are against being ignored. > > jeremy hunsinger > > jhuns(a)vt.edu > > on the ibook > > www.cddc.vt.edu > > www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy > > www.dromocracy.com > > > > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

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Does anyone need a Thesaurus?
by Lachlan Brown 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

There seems to be a little confusion over the nature of my intervention in AoIR. It hinges on the meaning of the word Juvenilia in the context of revision of email archives [Jan 2002] Consult your Thesaurus. End a culture of Internet do not seek to perpetuate it. There are a number of reactions to my intervention that I will reply to later this week. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

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Moderator comment re my intervention.
by Lachlan Brown 14 Mar '02

14 Mar '02

Jeremy, Thanks for your note. And what appears to be a warning. I am encouraged by responses and by coments from AoIR members as well as people on other lists, people in the community, as well as colleagues. I intervened in an thread concerning revision to email archives, and a remarkable comment by my former colleague Sean Cubitt. 'one day the world will mourn the loss of my juvenilia' in the context of the revision of email archives. It is refreshing to see a turnabout in AoIR around questions of social inclusion and it is clear that my intervention has been successful to the degree that areas that should have been subject to research are now being considered. There remain large areas of internet not yet and there are some keys to what these may be in some of the posts since my intervention. I look forward to teasing reaction out further. What I am doing is necessary. I suggest you help highlight abuses in scholarship and in the industry otherwise people will wonder what your motives are in not doing so. I am hardly a 'newbie'. Did you read my introduction to AIR-L in January 2002? Lachlan Brown > you may want to refrain from doing the personal material via the list re > your last barry comment. While i think doing it does satisfy a certain > point of theory, it also probably undermines the point of that theory, > the 'newbie' appearance... it causes people to ignore. I am pretty sure > that you are against being ignored. > jeremy hunsinger > jhuns(a)vt.edu > on the ibook > www.cddc.vt.edu > www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy > www.dromocracy.com > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

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Re: [Air-l] trans-national diaspora networks
by John Daly 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

You could look at the Three Pomegranate Network (Armenia). I think there is an evaluation done by Joanne Capper of an education project which they run to be found on the infoDev web site. As I recall they have funding from the Narod Foundation. There was a "Knowledge Assessment" done for El Salvador with World Bank sponsorship, which looked at the use of the Internet to support linkages with the Salvadoran expatriate community. Michel Menou was involved I think. You might look at the Irish Emigrant and the Irish Research Scientists Association and IrishAbroad.com as examples of the use of the Internet by and for the Irish diaspora community. There is shortly to be published a seminar on ICTs in Africa sponsored by the National Intelligence Council last October which has annecdotal information on the effect of the Internet communication of West Africans in their home country's elections. > I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to their (or others') work about > how the Internet links trans-national diasporic communities where some > folks have migrated from the home country and others haven't. I'm mostly > interested in email, but also Internet phone, web boards, Usenet, et al. -- John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant/

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Fundraising on the Web
by Kate Westrich 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

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Toronto
by Lachlan Brown 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

Barry, These are very good developments. Let's do coffee. Lachlan Brown VM (416) 822 1123 C (416) 823 6937 lachlan(a)london.com Thirdnet Ltd Difference.ca >I want to thank the at least a dozen people who sent me great info about diasporas and the Net today. I will summarize it when I get a chance, which may not be till March, because of 2 deadlines. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/…

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