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Virtual methods seminar, 19th April
by Christine Hine 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

Apologies for cross-posting There are a few places left on this seminar, to be held at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK on April 19th. The subject of the seminar is Research Relationships and Online Relationships, focusing on opportunities and problems arising from the the use of computer mediated communication in research relationships, particularly issues of trust. The seminar is the second in a series of 6 funded by ESRC. For further details see http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmesrc.htm To reserve a place please email Sarah.Harkness(a)brunel.ac.uk giving your electronic and postal contact details and a short biographical statement for the Virtual Methods web site (Biographies will be displayed at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmbiog.htm) Please also indicate if you require a list of local accommodation. If you are interested in the topic but unable to attend the seminar, please return to the web site after the event, as summaries of the papers will be posted there. Christine Hine

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Fwd: Shaping the Network Society -- Our turn!
by Michel J. Menou 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

Sorry for cross posting This event is partcularly interesting not only because of its scope and content but also because of the innovative use of "patterns" as the basic structure for the presentations. Best regards Michel J. Menou mail to: Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr This is a forwarded message From: Doug Schuler <douglas(a)scn.org> To: cpsr-cn-wg(a)cpsr.org <cpsr-cn-wg(a)cpsr.org> Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 7:44:33 PM Subject: Shaping the Network Society -- Our turn! ===8<==============Original message text=============== /// Please forward to appropriate people and lists. Thank you! ///// Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02 University of Washington HUB, Seattle, May 16-19, 2002 Save money and register before April 21! Tomorrow's information and communication infrastructure is being shaped today -- But by whom and to what ends? If you believe that our current communication systems aren't meeting community and civic needs you're not alone! Millions of people from around the world are asking these questions -- Will communication systems meet the needs of all people? Will they help people address current and future issues? Will they promote democracy, social justice, a healthy environment? Will appropriate research be conducted? Will equitable policies be enacted? Millions of people throughout the world are working to create systems which meet humankind's crucial needs. Join us at CPSR's eighth biannual "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing" (DIAC) symposium to address these critical questions, build our community and develop plans for action. A partial list of confirmed speakers includes: Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago professor and author. "A New Politics of Places on Global Networks" Naaperori Shirampari Ashenika Mino, Ashanika Indigenous community, Peru Stevan Harnad, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, "Open Research Access for an Open Society" Abdul Alkalimat, chair African American Studies, University of Toledo Stuart Cowan, Conservation Economy Research Director, Ecotrust Myoung-joon Kim, Labor & Media Activist, Seoul, Korea DeeDee Halleck, University of California at San Diego, media activist Phil Bereano, University of Washington, privacy and biotech activist Gilson Schwartz, Knowledge City Sao Paulo, Brazil Sheri Herndon, Independent Media Center, Seattle Raul Nakasone, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Sergei Stafeev, Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia In addition to distinguished guests we plan to welcome 500 researchers, practitioners, activists, journalists, educators, artists, policy-makers and citizens from around the world. A variety of events are planned ranging from invited speakers, panel discussions, and pattern presentations to a "Lakes, Locks, and Lively" reception cruise and informal working sessions -- both planned and spontaneous. We are also planning open space sessions devoted to the development of a new "pattern language" that describes our work (see the postscript below). Symposium topics will likely include the digital divide, human rights and privacy, open content research, pattern language development, media activism, community networks, wireless community networking, developing a civil society charter for the UN World Summit on the Information Society, independent media centers, virtual communities and online activism, cross-border collaborations, and MORE! And, as with previous DIAC symposia, we'll do our best to bring in some surprises as well... Join us this May in Seattle for this exciting and important event! Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02 Save money and register by April 20! Sponsored by: Public Sphere Project of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) National Communication Association Task Force on the Digital Divide For more information, contact symposium coordinator, Doug Schuler, douglas(a)scn.org PS. Our ongoing Pattern Language project to capture and publicize our collective wisdom is attracting worldwide attention. Whether or not you attend the symposium, please consider adding your pattern to our online pattern system (http://diac.cpsr.org/cgi-bin/diac02/pattern.cgi) which now includes over 160 patterns. The pattern language will only be as good as the patterns you submit! ===8<===========End of original message text===========

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Conference Report: Grounding Internet Regulation in Lived Experience
by Christian Sandvig 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

Dear AIR Colleagues, Attached is a brief conference report that may be of interest. Please feel free to forward it where it might be helpful. With this I have tried to sketch the areas of some agreement -- themes found across more than one presentation and developed in the discussion -- but ethnography is one of the harder things to generalize about. For this brevity I oversimplified, with these words I speak only for myself. I would welcome any comments you might have about my comments. Regards, Christian -- Grounding Internet Regulation in Lived Experience: A Conference Report by Christian Sandvig (christian.sandvig(a)csls.ox.ac.uk) Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy Oxford University On March 8th, Oxford hosted leading Internet researchers, policymakers, and industry representatives from the on-line media to discuss the present state of the art in ethnographic Internet research and its implications for the many attempts to regulate the Internet. Forty-two people presented case studies or expertise from seventeen countries, considering settings both public and private, at home and work, urban and rural. (*) Further products will be forthcoming from this conference, but I would like to take a moment to briefly relate the lessons I learned as conference chair. These fall into six areas: INTERNET ACCESS. Even where Internet infrastructure is very poor, people find ways to use the Internet -- often through novel forms of sharing. Public access centers succeed in allowing the pooling of limited computer expertise among strangers. Relying on them is difficult without stable, neutral, portable email provision and file storage. The physical placement of the computer in a room at home or in a public place is one of the most important (and most often overlooked) factors that influence how the Internet will be used. INTERNET AND CHILDREN. Children (especially young children) do not use the Internet to find pornography nearly as often as policy discourse and news stories suggest. Children (even young children) are aware of so-called 'stranger-danger,' and they are often savvy in selectively releasing information about themselves, and minimizing their risk. They are equally skilled at circumventing both the technical and social restrictions of parents and teachers, and such circumvention is commonplace (e.g., time limits, 'educational' use only, prohibitions on chat). Children often know more about computers than parents and teachers. Content rating and filtering mechanisms are currently far too complicated for most intended users. INTERNET CENSORSHIP. Efforts by non-democratic states to 'selectively' liberalize ICTs are only partially successful - the Internet seems to allow at least some new opportunities for political action wherever Internet use is encouraged, even if only policies related to economic development are liberalized. In its present form the Internet is not inherently liberating, but it may tend to shift state control from ex ante to post hoc. INTERNET AND POLICY MECHANISMS. The recent emergence of complex regulatory schemes (e.g., in e-commerce) mixing state and non-state actors, co- or self-regulation, and a diverse package of incentives and/or penalties may reduce transparency and accountability, while creating policies that fail because they are incomprehensible. Co- and self- regulatory schemes in the area of Internet content were received with skepticism. In conditions of criminal harm, well-publicized prosecution in selective instances may be more effective and is almost certainly more efficient (e.g., in cases of child pornography and hate speech) despite the jurisdictional problems of national criminal laws. A considerable amount of Internet use is not easily interpretable in utilitarian terms, while policy discourse is usually restricted to utilitarian reasoning. This precipitates conflict with parents, employers, and the state about concepts such as 'economic value' and 'educational content.' PERCEPTIONS OF INTERNET. The present policy concern in the industrialized world with the dangers of the Internet (pornography and predation) is overstated, as are the benefits promised in the developing world. There may be an emergent public interest role similar to the UK tradition of public service broadcasting for Internet Service providers. The Internet is globally understood as a location of anxiety, pitting people against technology, adults against children, or individuals against the state. Despite the arrival of the 'mundane Internet' in some advanced democracies, people still hold strong beliefs about the emancipatory 'nature' of the network even while seeing few of these benefits or working at cross-purposes to them. INTERNET POLICY AND ETHNOGRAPHY. Ethnographic studies with methodological rigor and extended fieldwork are needed to understand the Internet, but they remain rare. The abstracts submitted to this conference indicate much current academic concern with the home and the 'everyday.' A wide range of methods use the term 'ethnography,' which is itself contentious. There is a new need in policy circles for more nuanced, 'on the ground' research, yet ethnographers have been reluctant to fill (or had difficulty filling) this role: chiefly because policy work usually assumes sequential causation and research objectivity. In addition, policy timelines are much shorter than ethnographic research timelines. Finally, the researchers that do wish to shape policy often wish to engage with an overly romantic notion of the policy process. Still, many of the ethnographic researchers came away appreciating the difficulties of achieving consensus on policy and a renewed sense that their work is worth presenting in an accessible manner to policy-making audiences. Many of the policymakers came away with some appreciation for the value of qualitative research - for some this conference was their first exposure to Ethnography as a research method. This meeting was hosted by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy (PCMLP), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. A brief rationale for this meeting, the agenda, and the complete list of participants is available here: <http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/Ethnographies/>. Information about future written products of the conference will be available soon from the PCMLP Web site. (*) Participants presented case studies or expertise from: Singapore, Malaysia, India, China, Japan, Russia, Croatia, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Trinidad, New Zealand, Canada, the US, and the UK. ------------------------ Christian Sandvig christian.sandvig(a)csls.oxford.ac.uk http://www.niftyc.org/

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campus computer confiscated
by david silver 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Folks, Here's an article from today's Chronicle detailing a truly disturbing development. Martha McCaughey is an associate professor and director of women's studies at Virginia Tech. (Full disclosure: She's also a good friend of mine and someone whose work has influenced me.) http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002040901t.htm david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/

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Writers and responders to this list need to understand readability
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

This is the worst list I have ever seen for reading. Little is comprehensible because folks are replying to replies which means there are nested parens within nested parens and trying to figure out who said what is near to impossible, never mind giving thought and consideration to what is actually said. I realize it is very easy to just press the 'r' key but I think you need to give thought to readability and comprehension and approach posting in the same fashion you might have once approached simple letter writing. Remember the goal is informing and only clearly written thoughts will do this. The option is to press the 'd' key as soon as air-l appears in the From line. Sincerely, Thom

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University of Toronto: Hatch Chair in Technology Management (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

fyi Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Forwarded message: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:49:02 -0400 From: Hugh Gunz <hugh.gunz(a)utoronto.ca> Subject: University of Toronto: Hatch Chair in Technology Management With the usual apologies for cross-posting: The University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto have established a Hatch Chair in the Management of Technology. The Hatch Chair will develop new programs designed to teach students how to manage technology-based organization, preparing them for management positions in the IT, Biotechnology and Engineering Technology sectors. The Chair will also assemble a team to assist him/her in conducting research in the field, and will establish linkages with local and national organizations, helping to build a critical mass of knowledge about the management of technology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Applications are invited from highly qualified individuals for this tenure track/tenured senior position starting July 1, 2002. Candidates must have a PhD in a related discipline, an outstanding research record, and demonstrated expertise in an appropriate area relating to the Management of Technology. In addition, the candidate will have demonstrated excellence in teaching at a variety of levels including executive teaching. Excellent academic credentials, superior teaching qualifications, and the ability to build an active research team in this area will be major factors in the selection of this Hatch Chair. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. The deadline for submission of applications is May 31, 2002, although the search will remain open until a successful candidate is found. More details about the position can be found at http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/academicjobs/display_job_detail_public.cfm?J… Applications should include a Curriculum Vitae and evidence of excellence in research and teaching. Candidates should also arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted under separate cover. All correspondence should be sent to: Professor Gary Crawford, Associate Dean, Social Sciences Division, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT MISSISSAUGA, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario CANADA L5L 1C6 Hugh P Gunz Professor of Organizational Behaviour Joseph L Rotman School of Management, and University of Toronto at Mississauga Kaneff Centre 3359 Mississauga Road North Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6 Canada Phone: 905-828-5461 Fax: 905-569-4302 Email: hugh.gunz(a)utoronto.ca

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presentation opportunity at Sociology Meetings, August in Chicago
by Philip Howard 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

>Dear AIR & friends: I have agreed to coordinate a roundtable for Social >Movements section of the American Sociological Association meetings in >Chicago coming up in mid-August (www.asanet.org) We had several >proposals on "Internet-Based Protest" but we need a couple more to make it >a sustainable roundtable. Does anybody want in? Consider it social movements broadly defined and write me if interested in the chance to present. Phil Philip Howard ph. (773) 274-6817 / c. (202) 271-7170 / p-howard(a)northwestern.edu Sociology, Northwestern University - http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~pho442/ Survey2001 Project - http://survey2001.nationalgeographic.com Pew Internet & American Life Project - http://www.pewinternet.org **Beginning September 2002** Department of Communication, University of Washington http://www.com.washington.edu/

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re: graduate programs
by Cheryl E. Ball 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

While the program is called Rhetoric and Technical Communciation, students in Michigan Technological University's Humanities Department can focus on new media studies and/or CMC studies. http://www.hu.mtu.edu --Cheryl.

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unsubscribe
by tbrown 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

unsubscribe At 12:01 PM 4/8/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Send Air-l mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)aoir.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." > > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Graduate programs (T.L.Taylor) > 2. Archives? (Mark D. Johns) > 3. CFP: Couch Internet Research Award (Mark D. Johns) > 4. Re: Archives? (jeremy hunsinger) > 5. Re: Graduate programs (jeremy hunsinger) > 6. RE: Graduate programs (Matthew Allen) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:11:10 -0400 >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >From: "T.L.Taylor" <tltaylor(a)ncsu.edu> >Subject: [Air-l] Graduate programs >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > >Hi folks. I am trying to compile a list of graduate programs in the >humanities or social sciences with an explicit focus on CMC/new >media/Internet studies. Discipline doesn't matter - just want to try and >get some data on places that are putting an emphasis on this type of work. >Maybe there is something like this out there already I haven't yet stumbled >upon... Anyway, if you happen to know of any such programs please drop me >a line. I'd be happy to share whatever final list I come up with. Thanks >much! > > TL > > >--------------------------------------------------- >T.L. Taylor, Assistant Professor >North Carolina State University, Dept. of Communication >Box 8104, 201 Winston Hall >Raleigh, NC 27695-8104 >919.515.9738 / 919.515.9456 (fax) >tltaylor(a)ncsu.edu / ICQ: 2079193 >http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/~ttaylor/ > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 18:12:44 -0500 >From: "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar(a)luther.edu> >Organization: Luther College, Decorah, Iowa >To: AoIR <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-l] Archives? >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >Please pardon the bandwidth, but could someone contact me >off list to refresh my memory concerning how to access >archives of this list? I don't find them on the web site, >and I tried sending an INDEX command but it bounced -- I >must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to get back to >some discussion of online research ethics that took place >here on the list about a year and a half ago. Thanks much! >-- >Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. >Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, >Luther College, Decorah, Iowa >http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ >----------------------------------------------- >"Get the facts first. You can distort them later." > ---Mark Twain > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 18:15:59 -0500 >From: "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar(a)luther.edu> >Organization: Luther College, Decorah, Iowa >To: AoIR <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-l] CFP: Couch Internet Research Award >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS > >Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award > >Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet >Research http://www.cccsir.org/ > >The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for >student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch >Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both >theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic >interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) >demonstrate interactive relationships between social >interaction and communication technologies as advocated by >Couch, (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new >directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality >of (1) mastery of Symbolic Interactionist approaches and >concepts and Couch's theses, (2) originality, (3) >organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of >knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review >Committee of four: > > Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College > Dr. Katherine M. Clegg, University of Illinois, Chicago > Dr. Lori Kendall, SUNY-Purchase > Dr. Shing-Ling S. Chen, University of Northern Iowa > >Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of >all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for >publication are not eligible for award consideration. The >top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented >at the 2002 International Conference of the Association of >Internet Researchers at the University of Maastricht (the >Netherlands), International Institute of Infonomics. The >top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of >$150, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize >of $100, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a >cash prize of $50. All three authors will have the >opportunity to present their work at a session of the 2002 >A.o.I.R. conference. > >Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a >100-word abstract, electronically to Mark Johns at >johnsmar(a)luther.edu . Application deadline is July 15, >2002. Notification of award will be sent out by September >1. > >Questions and comments about Couch Award application, please >contact: > >Mark D. Johns >Dept. of Communication/Linguistics >Luther College >Decorah, IA 52101 >Tel: (563) 387-1347 >E-mail: johnsmar(a)luther.edu > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:37:56 -0400 >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Archives? >From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 07:12 PM, Mark D. Johns wrote: > > > Please pardon the bandwidth, but could someone contact me > > off list to refresh my memory concerning how to access > > archives of this list? I don't find them on the web site, > > and I tried sending an INDEX command but it bounced -- I > > must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to get back to > > some discussion of online research ethics that took place > > here on the list about a year and a half ago. Thanks much! > > -- > > Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. > > Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, > > Luther College, Decorah, Iowa > > http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ > > ----------------------------------------------- > > "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." > > ---Mark Twain > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > >jeremy hunsinger >jhuns(a)vt.edu >on the ibook >www.cddc.vt.edu >www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy >www.dromocracy.com > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:39:47 -0400 >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Graduate programs >From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >did you check the archives, there are quite a few threads on this, but >there are new programs starting all the time also. once you get a list, >if you send it back to the list, then we'd have a message number to >refer people to:) >On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 07:11 PM, T.L.Taylor wrote: > > > > > Hi folks. I am trying to compile a list of graduate programs in the > > humanities or social sciences with an explicit focus on CMC/new > > media/Internet studies. Discipline doesn't matter - just want to try and > > get some data on places that are putting an emphasis on this type of > > work. > > Maybe there is something like this out there already I haven't yet > > stumbled > > upon... Anyway, if you happen to know of any such programs please drop > > me > > a line. I'd be happy to share whatever final list I come up with. Thanks > > much! > > > > TL > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > T.L. Taylor, Assistant Professor > > North Carolina State University, Dept. of Communication > > Box 8104, 201 Winston Hall > > Raleigh, NC 27695-8104 > > 919.515.9738 / 919.515.9456 (fax) > > tltaylor(a)ncsu.edu / ICQ: 2079193 > > http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/~ttaylor/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > >jeremy hunsinger >jhuns(a)vt.edu >on the ibook >www.cddc.vt.edu >www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy >www.dromocracy.com > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >From: Matthew Allen <M.Allen(a)exchange.curtin.edu.au> >To: "'T.L.Taylor '" <tltaylor(a)ncsu.edu>, > "'air-l(a)aoir.org '" <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Subject: RE: [Air-l] Graduate programs >Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:59:32 +0800 >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Dear all > >Internet Studies, in the School of Media and Information, Curtin University >of Technology runs the following graduate programs, noting some translation >needed between different academic cultures... > >Graduate Certificate in Internet Studies (1 semester) >Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies (2 semesters) >Masters of Internet Studies (3 semesters) > >(coursework, entry qualification 3-year bachelors degree; for direct entry >to Masters, 70+ average is appropriate; alternatively begin Diploma then >transfer to Masters; all courses are articulated - ie first 1/2 of Diploma >= Certificate; first 2/3 of Masters = Diploma; majors at diploma, masters >level are: policy and practices; design; content management; training and >development - major appears on testamur thus... Master of Internet Studies >(major) > >Master of Arts >Doctor of Philosophy > >(research, no coursework, entry via 4-year honours degree with at least 2A >honours; or relevant graduate coursework - ie Master of Internet Studies - >with equivalent to 2A honours results) > >visit > >http://smi.curtin.edu.au/internet and click JOIN for more details > >Matt > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > >End of Air-l Digest Thomas W. Brown Global Grid Forum 630.252.9370

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RE: [Air-l] Graduate programs
by Matthew Allen 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

Dear all Internet Studies, in the School of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology runs the following graduate programs, noting some translation needed between different academic cultures... Graduate Certificate in Internet Studies (1 semester) Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies (2 semesters) Masters of Internet Studies (3 semesters) (coursework, entry qualification 3-year bachelors degree; for direct entry to Masters, 70+ average is appropriate; alternatively begin Diploma then transfer to Masters; all courses are articulated - ie first 1/2 of Diploma = Certificate; first 2/3 of Masters = Diploma; majors at diploma, masters level are: policy and practices; design; content management; training and development - major appears on testamur thus... Master of Internet Studies (major) Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy (research, no coursework, entry via 4-year honours degree with at least 2A honours; or relevant graduate coursework - ie Master of Internet Studies - with equivalent to 2A honours results) visit http://smi.curtin.edu.au/internet and click JOIN for more details Matt

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