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Early Career NSF Grant
by Bunz, Ulla K 19 Apr '02

19 Apr '02

Early career development awards-NSF The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees will be selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from new faculty at all CAREER eligible institutions. Such plans should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education. Deadlines * July 23, 2002-July 22, 2003-July 20, 2004 Biological Sciences (BIO) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Education and Human Resources (EHR) * July 24, 2002-July 23, 2003-July 21, 2004 Engineering (ENG) * July 25, 2002-July 24, 2003-July 22, 2004 Geosciences (GEO) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) For further information, go to: http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/career/start.htm

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Technology as social status symbols
by Patrick B. O'Sullivan 19 Apr '02

19 Apr '02

I have a grad student conducting a literature search for studies of technology as a status symbol to explain adoption/overadoption/reinvention as well as to better explain the social elements of technologies. Can anyone suggest studies that might be of help? Thanks Patrick

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Dutton to become director of OII
by geert lovink 19 Apr '02

19 Apr '02

William Dutton, currently Professor at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USC), will be the first Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). He takes up this new role on 1 July this year when he also becomes Oxford's first Professor of Internet Studies and a Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Dutton said: 'I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to lead and shape the Oxford Internet Institute, as it launches its ambitious and vitally important programme to increase our understanding of the way that new media influence our lives. The scale of the transformations that digital communications are enabling in every aspect of society is massive - and I believe that the work of the OII will help to ensure that we can all gain the maximum benefits from those changes over the years ahead.' For the full press release, please visit: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/OIIDirector.rtf

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April 2002 executive committee report
by Steve Jones 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

April 15, 2002 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Ulla Bunz Treasurer: Benjamin Bates Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2002 Conference Coordinator: Monica Murero 2002 Conference Program Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1 As you can tell from the below reports AoIR continues to make progress in fundamental areas. I am hopeful that we will soon have some opportunities for volunteers to join in, and that we will have some new initiatives to boot. At present we do have our hands rather full ensuring that the pieces are in place for continuity and quality when it comes to the annual conference, website and air-l. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 I've participated in the ongoing discussions. I will be meeting with Steve Jones for some face to face discussion of the issues involved in running this association. 2.3 Secretary (Bunz) 2.3.1 David Silver, Matt Allen and I are continuing to make progress on the "list of lists" project. We have almost completed our research and are discussing website design/presentation/usability issues. Transforming the information into an online format is the last step before announcing the project to the list. Except for active participation in the air-exec listserve (summary see below) I have no Aoir related business to report. Summary March 12 - April 12, 2002 This month on the executive list: * Completed preparations and charges for two volunteer work groups (election, and Internet resources). The charges have been finalized and will be distributed soon via email to Aoir members only. [Note: please notify bjbates(a)utk.edu or bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu of address and/or email address information changes] * Discussions on Netiquette, followed by the development of the Air-l posting policy. The policy was posted to Air-l on March 21, 2002 by President Steve Jones (see http://www.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l/2002-March/001661.html) Air-l now requires subscriber approval, but remains unmoderated. * Repeated discussion (once in mid March, once in early April) whether Aoir should provide feedback/rejection comments on conference submissions. Overall agreement that the final decision lies with the program chair, not the executive committee. * Evaluation of various offers for member discounts; discussion on need for guidelines/policy * Discussion on possible collaboration for the design aspect of the "list of lists" project; final decision pending * Currently debating possible sponsorship for the Maastricht conference 2.4 Treasurer (Bates) 2.4.1 I've caught up with the slight backlog, and sent out renewal notifications to members with expiring, or recently expired memberships. Will do that again before starting my round-the-world travels/travails (Ireland/Finland/NZ/LA). Will be traveling May, June, and some of July (IAMCR- Barcelona) - should be able to handle things while in NZ, but there's a couple of weeks at the front and back end while travelling that I'm not sure I'll have full net access. 2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman) 2.5.1 Silver: Contributing to conference planning. 2.5.2 Wellman: Suggested that AOIR adopt a policy that names of rejected paper-submitters not be made publiclly available. Suggested that AOIR provide reasons for rejecting papers from its conferences. 2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade) 2.6.1 Allen: No report. 2.6.2 Shade: Finished panel configuration reviews for AOIR 3.0 2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup) 2.7.1 On leave. 2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl) 2.8.1 Hunsinger: primarily technical things: server upgrades and maintenance installed calendar program for testing other things: working on eprints proposal helped Klaus worked on some conference materials for 3.0 promoted aoir at rubi-con normal activities: answered the suggestions(a)aoir.org questions or forwarded them to those who could answer them checked the members area on the website, and approved a post, we could use more activity there. 2.8.2 Breindahl: I have mostly been involved in running the lists and facilitating a more active web-site. 2.9 2002 Conference (Monica Murero, Coordinator; Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Program Chair) 2.9.1 Murero: I have been working on the conference organization details, in constant contact with Steve. Specifically we have made progresses on different issues, like invited speakers and the online registration process. Furthermore, I have been working with Klaus on the pre-conference workshops, the preliminary program. I have also worked on the conference organization steps for the next months. 2.9.2 Jensen: The past month has seen the completion of the review process, the notification of submitters, and the drafting of the preliminary program. I am grateful to the many air'ers who contributed actively to the planning of the program so far. Confirmations from conference participants are due by June 1. In the meantime, adjustments of the program will proceed, just as an announcement of preconference workshops is being prepared. 2.10 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair) 2.10.1 No report. ------------------------------------end of executive committee report------------------------------ The Association of Internet Researchers is a scholarly 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. The association's web site is at http://www.aoir.org. Membership information is available at http://aoir.org/airjoin.html

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Aoir Meet @ Cyberculture Working Group
by jeremy hunsinger 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

For those going to the Cyberculture Working Group next week @umd. I think many AoIR members will be there. If you want to get together and have a little aoir social hour one night after the conference. if you are interested, drop me a note, and I'll work on a time. -- 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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query for a friend: ebay
by Jonathan Sterne 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

Hi All, A friend writes: >I am looking >for some internet research advice and thought >you might be the man. I'm working on a paper >for SCS on "Ebay as Archive" and surprisingly >I am finding very little intellectual work on >"the world's largest marketplace." I thought that >this might be the kind of topic that gets written >about in web journals which I know next to >nothing about. Any suggestions where I might >go looking? He's in Cinema Studies -- so critical/cultural stuff would be best, but maybe he could make use of social scientific stuff as well. Offlist replies are fine. Best, --J

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History of computer
by Antonio Roversi 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

Dear all these are the references i got from many of you about the history of computing. Books and Essays: Pfaffenberger, Bryan (1988) "The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution was No Revolution". Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 61, pp 39-47 A history of modern computing; Ceruzzi, Paul E. Reckoners : the prehistory of the digital computer, from relays to the stored program concept, 1935-1945 / Paul E. Ceruzzi Peter Salus: A Quarter Century of Unix (1994) Janet Abbate: Inventing the Internet Campbell-Kelly and Aspray: Computer: A History of the Information Machine Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine (1984) Paul Edwards: The Closed World Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine Bardini, Thierry. 1995. The Social Construction of the Personal Computer User. Journal of Communication, Summer. =97=97=97. 2000. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Edwards, Paul N. 1996. The closed world: computers and the politics of = discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. 1998. Where wizards stay up late: the = origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone. Rheingold, Howard. 2000. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of = Mind-Expanding Technology. 2nd Rev. ed: MIT Press. Smith, Douglas K., and Robert C. Alexander. 1988. Fumbling the Future: = How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer. New York: = William Morrow and Company, Inc. Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 2001. The Dream Machine. J. C. R. Licklider and = the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. New York: Penguin. Winston, Brian. 1998. Media technology & society: a history from the = telegraph to the internet. London: Routledge Online Resources: The Triumph of the Nerds http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ Nerds 2.01 http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ http://www.ucalgary.ca/~bakardji/COMS380/schedule.html Week 9 http://www.ucalgary.ca/~bakardji/computing/revolution.html http://www.hum.au.dk/ckulturf/pages/publications/nof/tsm/abstract.html http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/ Usenet group alt.folklore.computers A PowerPoint presentation: http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/historyofcomputers_files/v3_document.htm Hope it helps Antonio

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RE: [Air-l] Re: eBay research
by Vishwanath, Arun 18 Apr '02

18 Apr '02

Jonathan I have done some work recently on data from eBay. 2 of my papers seem to fit your query, 1."COMPARING ONLINE INFORMATION EFFECTS: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Information and Uncertainty Avoidance."- This paper explores information effects on online eBay auctions across 3 cultures, USA, Germnay, and Japan; 2."MANIFESTATIONS OF INTERPERSONAL TRUST IN ONLINE INTERACTION: A Cross Cultural Study Comparing The Differential Utilization Of Seller Ratings By eBay Auction Participants In Canada, France, And Germany." In addition I have some papers that explore the discriminant effect of prices such as reserve price and initial (minimum) price in bidding etc. The above 2 papers are under review, however I would be more that willing to email them to you if you need them. Hope that helps, Arun -----Original Message----- From: Michael Shohat To: air-l(a)aoir.org Sent: 4/17/2002 11:48 AM Subject: [Air-l] Re: eBay research Dear Jonathan, a good place to start looking for eBay research is David Lucking-Reiley's Homepage - he has some interesting working papers on eBay that include good references: http://eller.arizona.edu/~reiley/cv.html#workingpapers Also very interesting, but in German, is Brinkmann, U., & Seifert, M. (2001). "Face to Interface": Zum Problem der Vertrauenskonstitution im Internet am Beispiel von elektronischen Auktionen ["Face to interface": On the problem of constituting trust in the internet, as for example in electronic auctions]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 30, 23-47. Published work on the subject also include: Houser, D., & Wooders, J. (2001). Reputation in auctions: Theory, and evidence from eBay. University of Arizona Working Paper #00-1. Retrieved December 30, 2001, from http://bpaosf.bpa.arizona.edu/~jwooders/ebay.pdf and Lucking-Reiley, D. (2000). Auctions on the internet: What's being auctioned, and how? The Journal of Industrial Economics, 48, 227-252. Hope to have helped, Michael At 12:01 17.04.02 -0400, you wrote: > > >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >Subject: [Air-l] query for a friend: ebay >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >Hi All, > >A friend writes: > > >I am looking > >for some internet research advice and thought > >you might be the man. I'm working on a paper > >for SCS on "Ebay as Archive" and surprisingly > >I am finding very little intellectual work on > >"the world's largest marketplace." I thought that > >this might be the kind of topic that gets written > >about in web journals which I know next to > >nothing about. Any suggestions where I might > >go looking? _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: History of computer
by Antonio Roversi 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

Dear Aoirs let me thank all the list members who gave me help and suggestions in my research about history of computing. I hope to be able to collect all the references you sent to me and post it in the list. Thanks again you all Antonio

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Utopianism in the Information Age
by Merav Katz 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

Greetings, I organize a panel at the coming SUS (Society for Utopian Studies) conference. Some of you might be interested. Please contact me off-list. Merav CALL for PROPOSALS SUS 2002, Orlando, Florida, 24-27 October 2002 Utopianism in the Information Age: The Rise of the Internet and Cyberculture Nowadays, in the Information Age, utopianism still seems a relevant cultural trope, concerned with current praxis and with some trends in the discourse surrounding the Internet and Cyberculture. The goals of this panel are to explore the current utopian movements, ideas, and discourses that have accompanied the rise of the Internet and Cyberculture. Suggested topics: Internet, Cyberculture, virtual communities, Internet Time, Cybertopia, etc. Please contact Merav Katz at: meravka(a)post.tau.ac.il for more details. Panel-proposal deadline: 30 April 2002 SUS deadline: 15 May 2002 ------------------------ Merav Katz Doctoral Student Graduate Program for History and Philosophy of Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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