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RE: [Air-l] Re: something totally different
by Bunz, Ulla K 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

As a matter of fact, the Latin Magister Artium (which is used in Germany, I don't know about other countries) and which is the approximate equal to an American master's degree is also abbreviated MA. Who came first? The Romans, or the Americans? Tough one ;) ulla -----Original Message----- From: Bram Dov Abramson [] Subject: [Air-l] Re: something totally different > >>That means here in Austria we are moving > >>from national to international systems and naming. > >>Due to a lack of tradition we struggle with the meaning of MA and > >>MSc programs. >>What makes MA and MSc naming more international than, say, Magister? >the idea is - along with the Bologna declaration of the EU - that students >and faculty get mobilized thus one thinks the first step is to harmonize >the different educational systems and make them more easily comparable so >they can move from one spot to the >other. A structural shift is definentely the decision to implement >Bachelor programs, here in Austria we didn't have that. Sure. I'm just wondering how designations used mostly by the English-speaking world (MA, MSc, etc) have come to act as the de facto "international" designations. It seems kind of strange.

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Re: something totally different
by Bram Dov Abramson 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

burg(a)donau-uni.ac.at: > >>That means here in Austria we are moving > >>from national to international systems and naming. > >>Due to a lack of tradition we struggle with the meaning of MA and > >>MSc programs. >>What makes MA and MSc naming more international than, say, Magister? >the idea is - along with the Bologna declaration of the EU - that students >and faculty get mobilized thus one thinks the first step is to harmonize >the different educational systems and make them more easily comparable so >they can move from one spot to the >other. A structural shift is definentely the decision to implement >Bachelor programs, here in Austria we didn't have that. Sure. I'm just wondering how designations used mostly by the English-speaking world (MA, MSc, etc) have come to act as the de facto "international" designations. It seems kind of strange. >Anyway I think education gets commoditized in a way. Well, in a way, yeah, by definition. Goods and services become commoditised when they are easily substitutable for one another; when a commoditised good (or services) is provided by multiple vendors who compete for consumers of that good, you have a classic market. So this "harmonisation" of education -- on Anglo-American nomenclature and perhaps structure, if I understand correctly -- performs the work of commoditisation and creates a European-wide market for higher education services. Leaving providers of these services, in turn, either to compete on price, or (likelier) to attempt to escape commoditisation by distinguishing their offerings through unique programmes and research, prestige, location, and other distinguishing features. Or so, I assume, goes the thinking. cheers Bram

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ASA Sociology & Computers Section Paper Prize
by eszterlists＠netscape.net 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Please forward to graduate students. Thanks, Eszter --- American Sociological Association Section on Sociology and Computers Graduate Student Paper/Software Award This award is for an outstanding research paper, the innovative use of existing computer software, or the design and implementation of new software by one or more graduate students (in case of a joint project, all contributors must be graduate students). Research papers should address topics subsumed by the section's name. This includes but is not limited to sociological analyses that use computer systems as research tools, and analyses of the role of information technologies in contemporary society, including the economic, cultural, or political dimensions of information technologies, in either local or global contexts. Papers should be no longer than 30 typed, double-spaced pages (excluding bibliography), no smaller than 12 point font. Submissions involving new or existing software should include detailed descriptions of the project and, if possible, copies of the software. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged. Members of the prize committee are Caroline Persell, New York University; Philip Howard, Northwestern University; and Eszter Hargittai, Princeton University. Submissions must be e-mailed/postmarked by May 15, 2002. Online submissions in PDF format are strongly preferred. If sending via postal mail, please include three copies. Please send submissions to: Eszter Hargittai, Wallace Hall, Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; e-mail: asa(a)eszter.com . If you have any questions, please contact Eszter Hargittai at asa(a)eszter.com . -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Re: something totally different
by Thomas Burg 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Bram, the idea is - along with the Bologna declaration of the EU - that students and faculty get mobilized thus one thinks the first step is to harmonize the different educational systems and make them more easily comparable so they can move from one spot to the other. A structural shift is definentely the decision to implement Bachelor programs, here in Austria we didn't have that. One says the industry is very favourable about that. Anyway I think education gets commoditized in a way. thomas, austria >>> bda(a)bazu.org 06.03.02 04:37:05 >>> burg(a)donau-uni.ac.at: >I dare to ask something on the margins of this list. >We at our university have to invent Master Programs that are >internationally comparable. That means here in Austria we are moving >from national to international systems and naming. >Due to a lack of tradition we struggle with the meaning of MA and >MSc programs. Hurray for margins! I dare to ask a question, too. What makes MA and MSc naming more international than, say, Magister? A MastFre more international than a DEA? Where, one wonders, did it all start ... ? cheers Bram -- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: something totally different
by Bram Dov Abramson 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

burg(a)donau-uni.ac.at: >I dare to ask something on the margins of this list. >We at our university have to invent Master Programs that are >internationally comparable. That means here in Austria we are moving >from national to international systems and naming. >Due to a lack of tradition we struggle with the meaning of MA and >MSc programs. Hurray for margins! I dare to ask a question, too. What makes MA and MSc naming more international than, say, Magister? A Mastère more international than a DEA? Where, one wonders, did it all start ... ? cheers Bram --

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by computer fine arts 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

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salon identity article
by Nancy Baym 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Salon has an interesting article that those of you interested in identity in the age of the internet will want to read. It might also make for good course reading in the vein of Julian Dibell's article about the Lambda Moo rape and the much-told story of Julie the gender-switching psychiatrist, although this identity play is much richer. The most feared woman on the Internet By Katharine Mieszkowski Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real? March 1, 2002 | For someone who does not exist -- at least the way you or I do -- Netochka Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She's a gifted computer programmer and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer.... http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/index.html Nancy

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FW: Internet & Anthropology: Indonesian Symposium in Bali 16-19 July 2002
by Charlie Breindahl 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

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Animation from Japan
by Lachlan Brown 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

'The site isn't in English, but it is self explanatory--just keep on clicking on the question marks for more pics and animated gifs. We think its funny. The right kind of humour goes a long way.' K http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/chack/gloomy.html -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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Sean Cubitt's Juvenelia Thread...Any Developments?
by Lachlan Brown 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

How's the emergence of issues first raised by my intervention into your email archive thread concerning lapses in scholarship over abuses in the industry, which was followed up by a rather annoying displacement of issues of social inclusion coming along? Any developments? Lachlan Brown was Re: my email archives > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "archiving." <warschauer> >anyone else archived all their incoming and outgoing emails, <hunsinger> >How do we keep it secure (both in the sense of "private" and in the sense of "safe")? How do we think about it, if at all, right now? That is, I suspect we all have this sense of the "stuff" that we have on our disks and hard drives, but how does that intersect and interplay with how we feel about the box of letters we keep in the closet? Will we encrypt stuff, or keep it open? Will we erase some? <jones> >One day no doubt the world will mourn the loss of my juvenilia. <cubitt> I doubt the world will mourn, Sean, the loss of your juvenilia, as long as it did not and does not impact the rights of others. Forgive me for crashing in, but a little bird told me I should take time out of my intervention in Nettime (I think I have pitched things about right over there), to check to see what AoIR was doing under the duress of contemporary cultural events and the impact of emergency legislation. I sense unease. This e-mail archive thread reads a little like an annual general meeting of the Intellect and Imagination Temperance Society and I would remind you four of your duties and responsibilities not merely as scholars, but as members of an international intellectual community. After seven or eight years in which questions of archival, catalogue, identity, access and availability of information and knowledge, gender, ethnicity, uneven distributions of information, uneven accumulations of knowledge, new relations of distribution of media and communications and new relations of mediation in a tremendous cultural contest that cast new perspectives on the nature of governance, institution, scholarship, democracy, not to mention an economy led like a pig with a ring in its nose by the mere idea of Internet, youd think wed have got a little further along in an understanding of technology in contemporary culture. What, one wonders, have you all been doing? Yes, I kept all of my files and email communications 1993-present. Saved, time-locked, stored, periodically. I thought this was a simple matter of research scholarship, quite in line with the Social Sciences Methods and Approaches course I took at Goldsmiths College as a requirement in undertaking PhD work. Given the intense contests already apparent in 1993-94 perhaps rather more apparent then than they are now -- around the meanings and governance of the technology, I would have been remiss in my scholarship to not do so. Lachlan Lachlan Brown Thirdnet Ltd Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College University of London Toronto: M.(416) 826 6937 VM: (416) 822 1123 lachlan(a)london.com -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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