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

Lachlan Brown has been unsubscribed from air-l
by Steve Jones 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Based on today's e-mails from him, and earlier ones, I have had Lachlan Brown's e-mail addresses removed from the air-l list. He will not be able to post to air-l from those addresses. Furthermore, air-l is now open to subscribers only, and subscriptions will be moderated by the air-l administrators. A comprehensive posting policy is forthcoming (hopefully in the next day or two), but in the meantime due to the personal, inappropriate and harassing nature of his recent posts I've decided to remove Lachlan from the list at this time. Thanks you, Sj

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Re: [Air-l] Learning from Lachlan
by radhika gajjala 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

golly - looks like I've missed some real fun stuff (I think I got derailed because of a bouncing account). and who decides this "broad range" might i ask? r >My interest in the Internet is that it has been, is and gives the appearance >of being a profoundly transformative technology. Determining the nature of >that transformation, its boundaries, its impacts and its limitations is for >me a very significant task, both in its own right but also and perhaps most >importantly because this can help us as teachers and as citizens influence >and guide this development in socially meaningful and useful ways. > >To be useful in those areas, as "Internet Researchers" we must I think, be >open to the broadest range of ideas (and not rush too soon to closure around >what is meaningful or valuable) and we must be willing and able to use the >full capacity of the Net to sustain and enable meaningful interactions >across wide distances both physical and social. > >Mike Gurstein > >Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. >(Visiting) Professor: School of Management >New Jersey Institute of Technology >Newark, NJ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > ___________ Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/ "I am not erudite enough to be interdisciplinary, but I can break rules" - Spivak, 1999. "Just bear in mind, darling: Write Mortal. Think Witch" - Endora from "Bewitched" _____ __________

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Disrupting lists
by Charlie Breindahl 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

I once was a subscriber to the phil-lit list started by the people behind the print magazine Philosophy and Literature. Some years ago, the hostility on this list of booklovers escalated to unbelievable levels - as some fellow AoIR members can probably testify. - Postings went from being on the subject to acerbic and then ad-hominem. - The main topic for the whole list changed from "philosophy and literature" to "list maintenance." - People were summarily and repeatedly unsubscribed and resubscribed by list management. - As a result, the list in effect ceased to function as an open and friendly venue for debate. To me, this was very instructive. Trolling and flaming are very interesting phenomena to be sure, but they can thoroughly destroy an e-mail list. I don't want this to happen to AIR-L. If research in such phenomena is needed, please carry it out elsewhere. AIR-L is a list with an agreed-upon topic: Scholarly research about the Internet itself. It is also a list started and maintained by a democratic organization. Jeremy Hunsinger and I are appointed Information Officers of this organization and have acted following clear instructions by the president of AoIR to remove a subscriber from AIR-L. The decision was made following a thorough debate in the executive committee and has been announced to AIR-L with a clear motivation (see below). I think all members of AoIR should respect this decision for now. Following the rules of a representative democracy, a member of AoIR should cast her/his vote for the next executive committee in accordance with her/his stand on this issue. I also think that non-members should leave it for members to decide - or join the association. The cost involved is not prohibitive. There is no easy way to ensure that an open e-mail list continues to function, but we have to try. In my view, it is the duty of the elected officials of AoIR to protect the open and friendly forum of AIR-L. If we fail to act when a subscriber is acting in a hostile and disruptive way, then we have failed to act as we should. Best, Charlie Breindahl Information Officer About the phil-lit list, see http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/information/lis… > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of > Steve Jones > Sent: 18. marts 2002 22:43 > To: air-l > Subject: [Air-l] Lachlan Brown has been unsubscribed from air-l > > > Based on today's e-mails from him, and earlier ones, I have had > Lachlan Brown's e-mail addresses removed from the air-l list. He will > not be able to post to air-l from those addresses. Furthermore, air-l > is now open to subscribers only, and subscriptions will be moderated > by the air-l administrators. A comprehensive posting policy is > forthcoming (hopefully in the next day or two), but in the meantime > due to the personal, inappropriate and harassing nature of his recent > posts I've decided to remove Lachlan from the list at this time. > > Thanks you, > Sj -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Copenhagen + Malmö Web: http://staff.hum.ku.dk/hitch/ http://www.creativeenvironments.mah.se/ Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 or +46 40 665 71 51 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray

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riaa hacks back?
by Mark Andrejevic 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

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Symposium information
by Bart Simon 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

_____________________________________ PLEASE POST! PLEASE FORWARD! <bold>Network Worlds: a symposium on the Internet and Society Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario May 31 and June 1 2002 </bold>featuring a public lecture by <bold>Manuel Castells (University of California at Berkeley): "The Internet: a Cultural Creation" Symposium speakers include </bold>Kong Chong Ho (National University of Singapore) Thomas Courchene (Queen's University) David Lyon (Queen's University) Vincent Mosco (Carleton University) Serge Proulx (Universite de Quebec a Montreal) Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago) Steve Woolgar (Oxford University) Elia Zureik (Queen's University) <bold>Free registration Opportunities for graduate students to meet speakers Speakers book exhibition Details at <<http://www.networkworlds.ca/>www.networkworlds.ca _______________________________________ </bold> ------------------------------------------------------ Bart Simon, Asst. Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, LB-687 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 phone: 514-848-2164 email: simonb(a)alcor.concordia.ca -------------------------------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

Colleagues, As many of you know, I am the author of a soon-to-be-released textbook- "E-Commerce Management: Text and Cases". Some of you may be interested to know that we are offering the Amazon.com case that will be featured in the book as a free download. The case is a comprehensive business history of the company including events up to Feb 2002(notably, the recent quarterly profit). To download the latest version of the case, please visit- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/textbook/Amazon.htm (If you are having problems downloading the case, try this one- http://www.swcollege.com/marketing/marketing.html) This site now includes- -The latest version of the case(in pdf format). -A teaching note for instructors. This is presented as a password-protected Word document to limit access to instructors only(the password is sandeep). -Link to a public discussion of the case. Please encourage your students to use this. They can make up any username to post a message. The book is coming along well and is expected to be out by July 2002. To see the final table of contents, please visit- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/textbook. Please leave your e-mail address at the site to be included in the textbook's learning community. Feel free to contact me with your comments and suggestions. Best, Sandeep P.S.: You may also see this announcements on other lists. Sorry for the duplication. --- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep

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public domain/copyright Fwd: <nettime> the patron saint of copyleft?
by jeremy hunsinger 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

one of those confirmable anecdotes that can help to historicize some of the ongoing arguments. sharing this from the ever-popular nettime, with the name of the cow, so goes the name of the calf. Begin forwarded message: > From: Kermit Snelson <ksnelson(a)subjectivity.com> > Date: Sun Mar 17, 2002 08:49:14 PM US/Eastern > To: nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net > Subject: <nettime> the patron saint of copyleft? > Reply-To: Kermit Snelson <ksnelson(a)subjectivity.com> > > In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, here's a reminder that one of Ireland's > other patron saints, Saint Columba, may have pioneered the > anti-copyright > movement way back in the sixth century (A.D. 555, to be exact): > > St. Columba had borrowed from the monk a fine manuscript of the > Gospels, and Columba had made a copy of the borrowed book, before > returning > it. The monk claimed the copy also as his; the saint disputed this. > His > argument in defence reads not unlike the defence made by modern > infringers > of copyright: "I confess that the book in question was copied from the > manuscript of Finnen. But it was with my own industry and toil and > burning > of the midnight oil. And it was copied with such care that Finnen's > manuscript is in no way injured by the act of copying. Moreover, my > object > was to preserve more surely the best parts of the book and employ them > for > the greater glory of God. Hence I do not admit that I have done any > injury > to Finnen; nor am liable for restitution, nor am at fault in any way." > But > Dermot, the judge, as manuscripts were then new in Ireland, had no exact > precedent, and he cast about for the nearest analogy. He found the > Brehon > maxim, "With every cow goes its calf", "Le cach boin a boinin"; and so > his > judgment was in favor of the monk, because "Le cach lebar a lebran", > "With > every book goes the young of the book". (But the saint, it is recorded, > was > very angry at this judgment, invoked the power of a rival chieftain > against > Dermot, and thrashed him well in battle.) [Wigmore, John H., _A > Panorama of > the World's Legal Systems_, Washington DC, 1936, p. 677] > > Kermit Snelson > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg > body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net > > 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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rurality and CMC
by Mary L. Gray 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

hello folks, as long as i've been posting up a storm (for me anyhow), i thought i might ask if anyone's been thinking about or knows work on rethinking U.S. non-urban or rural spaces in relation to CMC? how has the notion of rurality been affected by access and lack of access to the Net? are people in rural sociology or other disciplines thinking about rurality differently because of these technologies? i'm guessing there's some pile of literature out there i just haven't run across yet (but, it's right under my nose, yes?) any thoughts/cites would be much appreciated. best, marygray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mary L. Gray <mlgray(a)ucsd.edu> Department of Communication University of California, San Diego mail: PO Box 4004, Louisville, KY 40204 http://weber.ucsd.edu/~mgray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Conference and research course in ethics and methodology
by Janne Bromseth 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Dear collegues - just an update on the conference and research course on ethical and methodological perspectives on doing Internet-research that we are arranging in Trondheim, Norway, 1. - 6. of June (the conference/workshop is on the 1st and 2nd, and the research course from the 3rd to the 6th). The events are in particular aimed at Nordic researchers and students, butof course we warmly welcome everyone (and the conference language is English). I'd highly appreaciate it if you would help me spread it around to people who'd be interested in participating! (May I also add that there will be opportunities to mingle with the European royal elite - or oppose against it, whatever suits best - as our princess will be marrying in Trondheim the same week-end..) Thanks :) All the best, Janne Bromseth, NTNU/Norway ************* Making Common Ground: methodological and ethical challenges in Internet research A Nordic conferance and work-shop in Trondheim, Norway, June 1st and 2nd 2002 The conference will gather primarily nordic researchers and students from the humanistic and social scientific disciplines working with internet-generated material, in order to enlighten and discuss the many methodological and ethical challenges raised by researching the Internet. The conference is also the first part of a graduate course 3. - 6. of June, on Internet and ethics: (see http://www.hf.ntnu.no/fil/anvendt_etikk/eng/internet_ethics.htm for course program) The plenary lectures will adress theoretical and practical aspects the ethical challenges posed by research in net-mediated contexts. Among the questions to be discussed: - When is it necessary to obtain consent for researching net-mediated group interaction, and how can it be done? - How can net-mediated spheres be defined: are they public or private, and what methodological and ethical consequences do a certain definition imply? - The ethics of internet research in a cross-cultural perspective - Conflicts between methodology and ethics in internet research The conference will provide a unique opprtunity for researchers engaged in internet research to present and discuss their work. There will be work-shops organised around a number of themes, based on the submitted abstracts of presentations, for example: - Online etnography and participant observation - Conducting interviews and doing surveys online - Documentary analysis: Studying web-archives and web-pages For program, registration and practical information, see our web-page: http://www.huminf.uib.no/%7Edagelg/CommonGround/ Deadline for submission on presentation proposal is April 15th. Janne C.H.Bromseth Department of Communication, UiC 1007 W Harrison St, Chicago,IL 60607 312-4135497 (w) 773-9290977 (h) URL: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/itk/kv_bromseth/bromseth-index.htm

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re: the commons; the public domain, etc.
by RG Lentz 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

This might be of some interest to those AOIRers interested in cultivating linkages with scholars/advocates/practitioners/foundations looking at issues of "the commons" and the Internet: http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers.html http://www.publicknowledge.org/projects/preserving.html http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/2001/Apr01/Bollier.htm http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/ B. Lentz (UT-Austin)

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