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

Re: air-l posting policy
by eszterlists＠netscape.net 23 Mar '02

23 Mar '02

Thanks to AoIR Exec for writing up the guidelines. I wanted to make one point about reference to the US Constitution because there have been a few posts regarding the First Amendment that I found a bit confusing. I'm referring to this section of the guidelines: > * While AoIR supports freedom of expression, it does not simply > do so within the framework of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment > or other countries' legal frameworks. AoIR (and particularly air-l) The US Constitution First Amendment states the following: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." (quoted from http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html ) The focus here is on: _Congress_ shall make no law - so it is the US _Government_ that will not limit freedom of speech. There is no comment here about organizations that are not affiliated with the US Government. In so far as AoIR is not a branch of the US Government, AoIR has every right to set limits on people's expression. Given that people do tend to misunderstand this sometimes, I understand why the Exec decided to include that bit in the guidelines. Nonetheless, I thought perhaps it was worth clarifying. Eszter http://www.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: [Air-l] RE: plagiarism
by Kendall, Lori 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Eszter wrote: > One method I use to try to track down sources is to type into Google > (using quotes) one of the more complex sentences in the paper. Since > Google now indexes MSWord and PDF in addition to HTML, this is often > helpful. I recommend leaving off the first few words of a sentence before searching for it, and pick sentences buried in paragraphs. If the student bothers to edit anything at all, beginnings and endings are the most likely. Lori

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RE: plagiarism
by eszterlists＠netscape.net 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Hi, Lori, thanks for sharing how you try to curtail plagiarism via your assignments, those were helpful suggestions. For schools where students take the honor code seriously, I think it may be worth reminding them of it at the time of each assigment (and reminding students the ramifications of plagiarism). But I realize that only works when this is taken very seriously. Here are some online resources for those who are not familiar with the services to which some people had referred: The Plagiarism Resource Center http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/ Plagiarism prevention service http://www.turnitin.com Explanation of how the service works http://www.plagiarism.org Anti-Plagiarism Experts Raise Questions About Services With Links to Sites Selling Papers http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm One method I use to try to track down sources is to type into Google (using quotes) one of the more complex sentences in the paper. Since Google now indexes MSWord and PDF in addition to HTML, this is often helpful. Eszter --- Eszter's List: http://www.eszter.com/elist -- __________________________________________________________________ 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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FW: Graduate WebShop at the University of Maryland
by Ellis Godard 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

-----Original Message----- Graduate WebShop: The Impact of the Internet on Society June 3-14, 2002 University of Maryland-College Park Application deadline for best consideration: April 8, 2002 The Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is hosting the 2nd annual graduate student workshop--or WebShop. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, 30-50 leading scholars and experts who study the behavioral aspects of information technology will discuss current issues and research. Student participants will receive up to $750 as a support grant as well as room and board. Students will develop original research projects as the basis for their thesis, dissertation, or other publication. Topics include, but are not limited to: Inequality/Digital Divide, Public Access and Usage, Navigational Skills, Social Networks, Time/Activity Displacement, and Social Capital Implications. Please access the WebShop web page for the latest information about the WebShop and the invited participants. Please find application information at: www.webuse.umd.edu For more information: Graduate WebShop Department of Sociology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-1315 Email: webuse(a)socy.umd.edu Phone: 301.405.6421 Fax: 301.314.6892

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Internet stories, plagiarism
by Sherri Condon 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

I hope I won't offend netiquette sensibilities by responding to two threads in the same post. As someone who grew up with threats of the cold war turning into a nuclear holocaust, my most memorable moment of internet history was the day that those brave comrades stood up to the tanks in Red Square, and their manifesto, demanding freedom, appeared in my e-mail, having been posted to an academic listserve I was subscribed to. I printed it out and displayed it on my office door, recognizing that government-controlled television and newsmedia would not have permitted the document to circulate within, let alone beyond, the borders of the USSR. But the Internet had made it possible for their voices to be heard worldwide instantaneously, and whether the effects were large or small, all of our lives were changed that day. This story combines several of the themes that weave through I-history: transformation and dissemination, revolution and autonomy, communion and solidarity. Probably because they extend so well to language, I enjoy the biological/ecological metaphors: meme, virus, rhizome, cyborg, but like any metaphor, they highlight some properties while hiding others (just as my story ignores the ways that the Internet is abused and subverted). I look forward to other people's responses to Jeremy's provocative post. And a quick second of Lori Kendall's methods for avoiding plagarism. A research project that involves data collection or any other assignment that requires at least one draft turned in prior to the final version is not only pedagogically sound, but also impossible to complete by downloading a finished product from the Web. Cheers, Sherri -- Sherri L. Condon, Ph.D. The MITRE Corporation 11493 Sunset Hills Road Reston, Virginia 20190-5214 Phone: 703-883-5522 E-mail: scondon(a)mitre.org

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Re: [Air-l] hmm,thinking about internet stories
by Charlie Hendricksen 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Friends, The use of the word canon in this thread rang a big bell for me. My work involves WWW installations that facilitate research among distributed teams. A critical part of the process is the development of canonical documents about objects and processes in the issue domain. Early on it became obvious that a means of criticism was essential. To that end I developed (in 1996) a software system (DocReview) that allows the critics to make critical annotations on author- or editor-selected chunks of the text, or on the document as a whole. This architecture allows each "review segment" to become a thread in its own right. To make a long story short, if "stories" were mounted in DocReview anyone with some knowledge about the story, then they can add their observations in a separate commentary file devoted to the review segment. From time-to-time, the original author can revise the basic document to allow another round of commentary. A reader-accessible archiving facility retains the past versions with all their commentary. This tool has proven to be valuable for its intended use, and the empirical studies of the results form an important part of my dissertation. There is a demo version that is allows use of every part of the system except the actual posting of commentary. http://students.washington.edu/~veritas/DocReview/review30.cgi?name=DrDemo -- Charlie Hendricksen veritas(a)u.washington.edu "Information technology structures human relationships." "Models relate concepts."

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hmm, thinking about internet stories
by jeremy hunsinger 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

being somewhat of an interpretivist( at times), i was sitting here last night considering the net.legends faq http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/legends.html and what it meant for the wider community of usenet, and then i thought about the tropes and narratives that so many of us use to illustrate our points, so I thought I'd open up the discussion a bit. What do you use to illustrate your conceptualizations of the Net, some of us use classic examples like muds and moos, I tend to use Irc and web stories gained from my experiences, but have used the more acceptedly historical examples from time to time, but what do you use? what stories make sense of the internet for you? if any? do you have any really good stories, I participate in the community memory list about the history of the internet at least as lurker, to find some of these stories, but surely there is a broader set or are we already tending toward a set of canonical stories? opinions? insights? share your stories:) jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com

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RE: [Air-l] hmm, thinking about internet stories
by Kendall, Lori 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Rob Furr wrote: > On the other hand, I guess I don't believe that my experiences, or, > honestly, any of the semi-legendary events I've seen, are really any > more worthy of being made part of a canon of net history than any other, > equally instructive story. I don't think it's so much a matter of what's "worthy" of being part of a canon -- what's interesting to me is what things do pop up repeatedly for whatever reason. For instance, how many times have you seen the "male psychologist pretends to be disabled woman" story? I don't tend to use that story in classes (unless I'm using a reading that discusses it), because I have other masquerade stories, but I would certainly say it's part of the history of the Internet "canon." Another example is the rec.pets.cats invasion, which I do discuss in classes (and in print). Yes there are other stories of the destruction of online social spaces, but rec.pets.cats is also instructive concerning changes in online demographics, the expansion of the Internet, and gender issues online. Some of the other stories I use: hostility towards AOL users when AOL first connected to the Internet (especially on Usenet); and AOL's introduction of a list of forbidden words (especially the word "breast"). That's all I can think of at the moment in terms of "events" online. _________________________________ Lori Kendall Assistant Professor of Sociology Purchase College-SUNY lori.kendall(a)purchase.edu

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Re: [Air-l] hmm, thinking about internet stories
by radhika gajjala 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Jeremy - this is actually more along the lines of what I'm looking for too - thankyou for articulating it :). In such an cross-disciplinary and cross-theoretical forum as this we may get some very interesting stories indeed. Thanks to everyone else who posted relevant cites - I know some of those but not all. r At 08:00 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote: >being somewhat of an interpretivist( at times), i was sitting here last >night considering the net.legends faq >http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/legends.html and what it meant >for the wider community of usenet, and then i thought about the tropes >and narratives that so many of us use to illustrate our points, so I >thought I'd open up the discussion a bit. What do you use to illustrate >your conceptualizations of the Net, some of us use classic examples like >muds and moos, I tend to use Irc and web stories gained from my >experiences, but have used the more acceptedly historical examples from >time to time, but what do you use? what stories make sense of the >internet for you? if any? do you have any really good stories, I >participate in the community memory list about the history of the >internet at least as lurker, to find some of these stories, but surely >there is a broader set or are we already tending toward a set of >canonical stories? opinions? insights? share your stories:) > > >jeremy hunsinger >jhuns(a)vt.edu >on the ibook >www.cddc.vt.edu >www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy >www.dromocracy.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > >

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Positions at Information and Media Studies, Aarhus, Denmark
by Rune Dalgaard 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

Hi I just want to inform you about some open positions in the field Information Technology Studies at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University Denmark. See further descriptions on the web. There is one full professorship: Professorship in Information Technology Studies Closing date: 15 August 2002, before noon http://www.hum.au.dk/stilling/2002-211-1-1-UK.htm And then there are two associate or assistant professor positions: 1) Associate or Assistant Professor in Information Technology Studies Closing date: 13 June 2002, before noon http://www.hum.au.dk/stilling/2002-212-1-8-uk.htm http://www.hum.au.dk/stilling/2002-212-1-7-uk.htm While apointees are expected to learn Danish in a couple of years, all academics and students in Denmark (and most other people) have no problems communicating in English. Best, Rune ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rune Dalgaard, MA, Pre-doc Scholar Dept. of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University E-mail: runed(a)imv.aau.dk / Web: http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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