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

Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #368 - 4 msgs
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > From: Yvonne Waern <waern(a)dsv.su.se> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Visual communication on the web? > > I was probably not enough specific - sorry! What I meant is: how can > people express themselves on the web, visually? NOT web-page design, > nor html - code! I have heard about chats with visual components - > do you know any research on such? Or anything similar? We have a project in the MIME program to allow folks to do just that www.bubblebubblecomics.com This project is just beginning but there are all sorts of plans for the equivalent of visual chat/comic design. last year we had a project described as 'open source animation' which would also give users/readers/interactors the opportunity to visually design even if they couldn't visually design www.zonecomics.com Might also examine the way the tool 'painter' is constructed with playback capabilities. I think you can 'study' this concept but you will always be 'behind' the concept. the only way to actually study this concept effectively is to learn to design yourself or associate with the folks who are building the future, the designers. --Thom \\\\//// tHoM gIllEsPiE, maitre d'Igital, CafeTechnos(a)ait.net /ww ww\ Indiana University, Telecommunications Dept 6 (*][*) ? 1229 E 7th St Radio & TV Bldg \ .7 / Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 USA ( --') thom(a)indiana.edu 812-855-3254 (v) WWWW The MIME Program in newMedia Design / WW \ www.mime.indiana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since permanent change is here to stay, to accomplish anything bold and beautiful in the firmament of time we must learn to change directions and fall gracefully -- Sam Keen in Learning To Fly

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question on cellular phones
by Mete Yildiz 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there are any studies out there about the use of cellular phones for increasing the Internet access of citizens, bridging the digital gap, etc. Thanks in advance, Mete Yildiz Ph.D. student in Public Affairs Indiana University, Bloomington

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Friendship/Kinship Articles
by denisecarter＠denisecarter.net 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Does anyone know of any articles on friendship particularly (or kinship also). I am 'doing ethnography' in an online community (from a Social Anthropological viewpoint) and my data is driving me to look at friendship as perhaps a more flexible bond than kinship. In some cases friendship seems to be the precursor to the adoption of familial roles' as in ..."she's my cybermom". Strong friendship ties appear to be a major part of the social relations that are being negotiated in this particular online community. I didn't want to lose myself in trawling through all the kinship literature. thanks a lot Denise

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CGDC early registration closes
by Frans Mäyrä 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

** CGDC early registration closes ** This is a reminder that the early registration (with special discount prices) to the Computer Games and Digital Cultures conference is closing in Tuesday, the 30th of April. See: http://www.gamesconference.org/registration.html CGDC conference is organised by the Hypermedia Laboratory of University of Tampere, Finland, in co-operation with the leading Nordic universities and industry partners. The three-day event serves both academic research community and developers interested in exploring various games design issues. It also includes a national event aimed at the general audience. For the lecture and research paper programme, see http://www.gamesconference.org/programme.html The design-oriented workshop programme is available in http://www.gamesconference.org/pf_workshop.html The keynote presentations are given by Warren Spector (Ion Storm, USA, designer of Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex), games critic, expert and designer Greg Costikyan (Unplugged Games, USA) and Eric Zimmerman (gamelab, USA). Welcome to Tampere in June 6-8, 2002! - Frans Mäyrä, professor, programme committee (chair)

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aoir.org, appropriation/spam
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Hi, recently, I've been noticing that i've been getting spam from AoIR.org, and I've had some reports of a virus distributed here. However, after investigation, I can confirm that none of these events have actually been disseminated from our servers. Instead, they have been, appropriated and distributed as originating from aoir.org, even though they have not. This, of course, is quite easy to do with open relays(aoir.org is not open) and should be summarily ignored by you. But if you do receive something that you think is of dubious origin but claiming to be aoir.org, please feel free to send it to postmaster(substitute(a))aoir.org and I will investigate it, remember to send full headers if possible. Thanks, -- jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com virginia tech -under construction blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 this email was sent from my office

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Re: Friendship
by Barry Wellman 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Denise Carter asked about studies of friendship on and off line, I've been writing about friendship for 35 years. Perhaps the best recent summaries are in the intro chapter to my Networks in the Global Village book (Westview Press) "The Network Community", and my article in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2001, Physical Place and Cyber Place. Both are review pieces packed with references. Almost final versions of each are on my website. The American Behavioral Scientist, Nov 2001, has 10 articles about the Internet in Everyday Life, and another 10 articles are added to these in Wellman & Haythornthwaite, eds, The Internet in Everyday Life (Blackwell, fall 2002). Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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How do you use the Web for research?
by Francois Coulombe 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

The company I work for is working closely with the developers of a new Web-browser called Browse3D. One of the many claims we make is that it makes Web surfing and searching 'more efficient' because it visually shows where you are, where you were and where you can go on the Web. Often, we'd have people asking what we mean by 'more efficient' and there was no quantitative explanation for that. Doing a demo would prove it but still, we didn't have numbers to back up the claim. I recently did a quick test taking a specific task (going to a list of 30 newspapers on the Web and visiting the cover of each to determine if there were ads) and doing it with a 'regular' browser (IE) and also with our product. It took 8 minutes versus 6. 25% time saving to do the same task. Now, we'd like to do more tests like that but with a research/education spin. Take typical ways the Web can be used in research and see if and how using Browse3D will save time and make the task easier. If you can provide examples of 'tasks' or usages of the Web that are typical of what you do for research, it would be greatly appreciated. I could try to reproduce them with different browsers and see the outcome. Thanks in advance! Francois ======================================= Sunergia Group, Inc. Distributor of Browse3D for the Education Field www.SunergiaGroup.com/browse3D ======================================= Quickly and Easily Find, Organize, Save & Exchange Web-based information with the Browse3D browser. ======================================= 11703 Bowman Green Drive Reston, VA 20190 USA Tel: 703.464.7007 Fax: 703.464.7385 =======================================

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Internet Health Information
by Ronald E. Rice 24 Apr '02

24 Apr '02

In response to the earlier queries about accuracy of medical information on the net, let me immodestly suggest Rice, R.E. & Katz, J.E. (Eds.) (2001). The Internet and Health Communication: Experiences and Expectations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The first, long review chapter covers this topic as of late 2000. Even then there were some very good studies (some reported in JAMA) on this issue. Some other chapters also discuss accuracy and validity, as well as web design evaluations, of online health sites. ============================================================ Ronald E. Rice Professor, Chair of Department of Communication School of Communication, Information & Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 w: 732-932-7500, ext 8122; f: 732-932-6916; e: rrice(a)scils.rutgers.edu home page: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~rrice ============================================================

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Dialogue on CA Education Master Plan
by Laurie Maak 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

Hello all, I'm new to this list and wanted to share information on a project that might be of interest to some researchers. Information Renaissance, a non-profit non-partisan organization, produces an online public policy dialogues. From June 3-14 we will be conducting a dialogue on the draft Master Plan for California's Kindergarten-University education. The plan is being developed by an 18 member Joint Legislative Committee and is based on the recommendations of seven working groups that have involved over 300 people during the last year. This is the first time a Master Plan for the state's education has been created. The two-week moderated dialogue will focus on selected recommendations in the draft plan. Each day a panel of policy and subject experts will join the discussion. Members of the Joint Committee, Working Groups and representatives of the Governors' office, the Department of Education and the Board of Education are being invited to join the dialogue. Participants are being recruited through many channels-online and traditional media. We are announcing the discussion through the state League of Women Voters, PTA, major education organizations, and many other groups. Staff for the Joint Committee is handling relations with the press. We anticipate there will be a great deal of interest in the dialogue. A registration form will gather demographics on participants. Discussion summaries will provide an overview of the main points covered each day. Daily survey forms based on the summaries will capture the views of the larger group, both discussants and observers. Info Ren has conducted six similar dialogues, on the E-Rate, Social Security Reform, Money and Politics, and two for the U.S. EPA. The last discussion for the US EPA was on the agency's revision of its Public Involvement Policy. EPA recently won an E-Gov 2002 Explorer Award in recognition of that effort. The dialogue on the CA Education Master Plan will be a great opportunity to learn more about online communication from the perspectives of leadership and collaboration, public policy, public participation, group dynamics, etc. The Web site will be open after May 1st: http://www.network-democracy.org/camp Please contact me if you are interested in more information about the dialogue for research purposes. Laurie Maak Dialogue Producer Information Renaissance 510-527-6474

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Fwd: online propaganda
by Steve Jones 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

>Delivered-To: sjones(a)tigger.cc.uic.edu >From: "Kanaley, Reid" <Reid.Kanaley(a)phillynews.com> >To: sjones(a)uic.edu >Subject: online propaganda >Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:46:23 -0400 > >Steven, >Hi. I'm a writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, doing a story about the use >of the Web and email for propaganda-like activity by people or groups on >both sides of the Middle East conflict. I'd like to talk with anyone on your >list that may be studying this specific subject, as well as folks who can >provide anecdotes about being deluged with (or being the source, or remailer >of) partisan material about the conflict. Anyone can call me, or respond by >email with a voice number and good time to call in the next day. Thanks so >much. >Yours, >Reid Kanaley >staff writer, Philadelphia Inquirer >215-854-5026 >rkanaley(a)phillynews.com

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