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Internet file sharing boosts music sales
by Randy Kluver 07 May '02

07 May '02

Here is an interesting report from Reuters which undercuts many of the intellectual property arguments related to online file sharing... Internet File-sharing Boosts Music Sales, Report Says May 03, 2002 16:20:35 (ET) WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Internet users who download songs for free from unauthorized "peer to peer" services are more likely to increase their music purchases than regular Internet users, according to a report released on Friday. While file-sharing services like Kazaa and Morpheus enable anyone with an Internet connection to access a huge library of music for free, experienced file sharers are more likely to actually increase the amount of money they spend on CDs, the report by research firm Jupiter Media Metrix said. Thirty four percent of all peer-to-peer users said they spent more money on music than before they used such services, the report said, while 15 percent said they spent less. One-half said the amount of money they spent remained the same. Online music fans who did not use file-sharing services were less likely to report increased spending. Nineteen percent said they spent more money on music, while 10 percent said they spent less and 71 percent said they spent the same amount. Other technologies, such as recordable CD drives and high-speed Internet connections, had no impact on consumer spending, the report said. Music companies say Internet piracy is partially responsible for a 5 percent drop in sales last year, and the industry has aggressively pursued file-sharing companies in court. Napster, the first such service, has been offline since last July as it struggles with a court order to keep copyrighted music off its system. But the survey suggests that file sharing could provide a boost to the industry, said report author Aram Sinnreich. "The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the music industry, and they're just missing out on cashing in on it," Sinnreich told Reuters. Peer-to-peer users tend to be avid music fans who already spend more money than average on music. Rather than shutting down peer-to-peer services, music companies should cultivate these fans, Sinnreich said. The five major recording companies -- Sony Music ((6758.T)), Warner Music (AOL </cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+ResearchStock?cmenu=DetQ&prod=AOL:US:EQ> ,Trade </cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+OrderForm?Symbol=AOL> ), EMI Group Plc ((EMI.L)), Vivendi Universal ((EAUG.PA)), and BMG ((BTGGga.D)) - have introduced file sharing services of their own that, for a fee, allow users limited access to portions of their catalogs. So far, the services have met with limited success. Some companies have turned to copy-protected CDs, which cannot be played on computers and some other devices. Universal is currently considering whether to release best-selling rap artist Eminem's new release in copy-protected form. The report was based on a June 2001 survey of 1,911 online music fans, 305 of whom were experienced peer-to-peer users. (c) Copyright 2001 Reuters. Click Here for Limitations and Restrictions on Use. <JavaScript:etWin('/e/t/applogic/Attribution?gxml=ReutersDisc.html', 'Attribution','','','','','','','','','')> Randy Kluver Information and Communication Management FASS 3, #04-16 National University of Singapore Singapore, 117570 (65) 874-8755, fax (65) 779-4911

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vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology
by Joseph Nechvatal 07 May '02

07 May '02

For Immediate Release Joseph Nechvatal vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology May 22nd July 3rd 2002 Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 22nd (6-8pm) Universal Concepts Unlimited announces the opening of new media pioneer Joseph Nechvatal¹s exhibition "vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology". This exhibition consists of recent computer-robotic assisted paintings on canvas and a complimentary custom real-time operative artificial-life viral computer application which consumes the file images on which the paintings are based. There will be an opening party on Wednesday, May 22nd from 6-8 PM. Since 1986, Joseph Nechvatal has been making computer-robotic assisted paintings which allow the tradition of canvas painting to integrate into our present digital times. In this sense he has been creating an interface between the virtual and the actual - what Nechvatal calls the "viractual". It is through this exploration of viractuality which has brought Nechvatal to the creation of complex numeric viractual images which typically consist of a mixture of drawing, digital-photography, painting, written language, and externalized computer code - all of which is submitted to computational manipulations (including viral attacks). His current work, called "vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology" (1) stems from a computer virus program developed by the artist in 1991 as a Louis Pasteur artist-in-residence in Arbois, France. Nechvatal's featured paintings translate intimate body images of both sexes into basic pictorial units which he and his computer-virus mutate and metamorphose. "vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology" makes use of what Gilles Deleuze has called pornology¹ (2) for here representations of the intimate body associated with sexuality (of both sexes) undergo an intricate re-combination and subsequent intermixture with flowers. Of crucial interest to "vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology" is the origin of the hermaphroditic androgyny image. This hybrid image first appears in Ovid¹s classic text Metamorphoses¹ - and perhaps this emergence is well worth recounting here. The hermaphrodite initially occurs in Western culture as a son of Hermes and Aphrodite named Hermaphroditus. Hermaphroditus was a typical, if exceptionally handsome, young male with whom the water nympth Salmacis fell madly in love. When Hermaphroditus rejected her sexual advances, Salmacis voyeuristicly observed him from afar while desiring him fiercely. Finally, one spring day Hermaphroditus stripped nude and dove into the pool of water which was Salmacis¹s habitat. Salmacis immediately dove in after him - embracing him and wrapping her body around his, just as, Ovid says, ivy does around a tree. She then prayed to the gods that she would never be separated from him a prayer that they answered favorably. Consequently, Hermaphroditus emerged from the pool both man and woman. As the tale of Hermaphroditus suggests, "vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology" is a show of androgyny eroticism married to flowery virtuality (3), incomprehensible transformation and immersive excess. It aims to depict an imagined realm of political-spiritual chaosmos where new forms of sexual order arise such that any form of order is only temporary and provisional. Obviously this sphere is attained through an emergent operation, and, indeed, Nechvatal takes abundant pleasure in the forms of pan-order that arise within his continuously swelling processes. The point is that within the "vOluptuary" all sexual signs are subject to boundless semiosis - which is to say that they are translatable into other signs. Here, of course, it is possible to find resonances and affinities between sexual opposites. Here a chameleon-like sexual attitude is being built from the virtual abyss. Within the realm of the "vOluptuary" no one fathoms whether they are female or male. All rest between male and female, between straight and gay, between dominant and submissive - nothing but curves and clefts. All is in a matrix of possibilities, self-assembled out of a flowery excess of erogenous organs. notes: (1) The word voluptuary¹ generally means devoted to pleasure¹. It comes from a Late-Latin variant of the Latin voluptarius / voluptas. (2) Pornology is aimed at confronting an idea with its own limits. The idea is rendered precise in Deleuze¹s essay Klossowski or Bodies-Language¹ which is found in his book The Logic of Sense¹. Here Deleuze develops the term "pornology" so as to describe the dynamic of a transcendental empiricism in the circuit Klossowski establishes between theology, as a divine belief structure, and pornography, as a perverse expression of the body. (3) One here thinks of Alan Turing (the grandfather of computing) and his horrid endurance of a quack treatment for his homosexuality where he was overdosed with female hormones to the point where he developed breasts. Joseph Nechvatal has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United States, both in private and public venues. He is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum, the Moderna Musset in Stockholm and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His work was included in Document 8. His web-site, with full CV, collected writings, and various essays on his work can be found at : http://www.nechvatal.net For downloadable digital images of the computer-robotic assisted paintings in "vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology" and/or to see the artist statement concerning this show see: http://www.eyewithwings.net/nechvatal/algorithic.html -- Universal Concepts Unlimited 507 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 http://www.U-C-U.com Tel: 212.727.7575 Fax: 212.727.7676 Email: ucu1(a)rcn.com *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*

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Research ethics recap
by david_eddy_spicer＠harvard.edu 07 May '02

07 May '02

My thanks to all who responded to my query about ethical guidelines for online discussion research. Below is a compilation of the sources mentioned in the 5 replies, two of which were posted to the list as a whole. (I've noted contributors' names at the end of this message, along with a key to their contributions.) * Discussions within AoIR * Web resources * Publications ===================== * Discussions within AoIR Charles Ess posted a helpful summary of the state of play within AoIR, mentioning the Ethics Working Committee preliminary report of October, 2001, (see web resources) and a forthcoming matrix of the kinds of questions that should be considered by "researchers and relevant oversight bodies". Charles notes that he expects to post a draft to the list for comments once the Spring term wraps up. Charles and two others also mentioned the discussion that took place around the preliminary report at the October 2001 AoIR conference. A summary of this discussion, "Research Ethics in a Virtual World: Some Guidelines and Illustrations," was written by Nicholas Jankowski and Martine van Selm: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmpapers/nick.htm One of the central debates, as Charles notes in his message, has to do with the nature of informed consent, confidentiality and how one weighs participant protections alongside the quality and potential impact of the research. The debate here is between those who would advocate a more "deontological" approach--in Charles's words "one less inclined to override subjects' protections in the name of research goals and its ostensible benefits"--and the "utilitarian" orientation that takes into consideration factors that might, in some ways, take a less strict interpretation of participant protections for the sake of research. During the October conference, papers by Amy Bruckman, "Ethical guidelines: a strict interpretation," and Susan Herrig, "Ethical challenges to doing research on the Internet: the CMDA perspective" came to stand for the two ends of this spectrum. Amy Bruckman's guidelines can be found at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/ethics/ [CE] Several also mentioned the guidelines developed by Storm A. King, published in the issue of "Information Society" cited below, which take a more utilitarian approach than the above. Vincent Dwyer sent the link below to an abstract of the article, which includes an email link to King to request the full article: http://webpages.charter.net/stormking/eth-abs.html [VD] * Web resources AoIR Ethics Working Committee preliminary report http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.html The preliminary report includes a very helpful annotated bibliography in Addendum IV. AoIR Ethics Working Group http://cddc.vt.aoir/ethics This site, supported by AoIR member Jeremy Hunsinger, serves as the Ethics Working Group repository. It includes pdfs of 6 articles and helpful links to other web resources compiled by the group leading up to the preliminary report. * Publications Yvonne Waern posted this reference to the list and offered to make her report available to anyone interested: Waern, Y. "Ethics in Global Internet Research." Report from the Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, 2001:3 [YW] e-mail: yvonne.waern(a)tema.liu.se Charles Ess and Lois Ann Scheidt mentioned the special issue of _The Information Society_, vol. 12, issue 2, 1996. Specific articles noted in that issue included (in order of appearance): Thomas, Jim (1996a). Introduction: A debate about the ethics of fair practices for collecting social science data in cyberspace. The Information Society 12(2), 107-117. [LS] King, Storm A. (1996). Researching internet communities: Proposed ethical guidelines for the reporting of results. The Information Society 12(2), 119-127. [LS] [CE] Waskul, Dennis and Mark Douglass (1996). Considering the electronic participant: Some polemical observations on the ethics of on-line research. The Information Society 12(2), 129-139. [LS] Boehlefeld, Sharon Polancic. (1996). Doing the right thing: Ethical cyberspace research. The Information Society 12(2), 141-152. [LS] Herring, Susan C. (1996). Linguistic and critical analysis of computer-mediated communication: Some ethical and scholarly considerations. The Information Society 12(2), 153-168. [LS] Reid, Elizabeth M. (1996). Informed consent in the study of on-line communities: A reflection on the effects of computer-mediated social research. The Information Society 12(2), 169-174. [LS][CE] Thomas, Jim (1996b). When cyber research goes awry: The ethics of the Rimm "Cyberporn" study. The Information Society 12(2), 189-198. [LS] Lois Ann Scheidt sent a bibliography from a paper she had done, which included the following in addition to those mentioned above: Association for Computing Machinery. (1992, October 16). ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Available at: http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html [LS] Frankel, Mark S. and Siang, Sanyin. (1999). Ethical and legal aspects of human subjects research in cyberspace: Report of a Workshop. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Available at: http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.html [LS] Saunders, Kurt M. (2000). Human subjects research in cyberspace. Computer Freedom and Privacy 2000. Available at: http://www.cfp2000.org/news/student_reports/humansub-saunders.html [LS] Suler, John (2000). Ethics in Cyberspace Research. In Psychology of Cyberspace. Available at: http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/ethics.html [LS] Amanda Lenhart sent the following, an interesting utilitarian-oriented perspective for medical practitioners using social science methods: Eysenback, G., & Till, J. E. (2001). Ethical issues in qualitative research in internet communities. British Medical Journal(323), 1103-1105. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7321/1103 [AL] Lynne Schrum, "Ethical Research in the Information Age: Beginning the Dialog," _Computers in Human Behavior_, Vol. 13 (2), pp. 117-125. [CE] Charles Ess comments: >really excellent for its discussion of the qualitative research tradition >and its connecting extant guidelines with research on listservs. >Schrum develops a list of ten guidelines that stress >that the authors of listserv >postings are the owners of that material; e-mail should be treated as >private correspondence "that is not to be forwarded, shared, or used as >research data unless express permission is given"; and she likewise stresses >the importance of informed consent and protecting the confidentiality of >listserv members." Sharf, B. F. (1999). Beyond netiquette: the ethics of doing naturalistic discourse research on the internet. In S. Jones (Ed.), Doing internet research (pp. 243-256). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. {This is the only cite I had in my pocket 4 days ago!} Once again, my thanks for all these valuable contributions. Contributors: [YW] Yvonne Waern <Yvowa(a)tema.liu.se> [LS] Lois Ann Scheidt <lscheidt(a)indiana.edu> [VD] Vincent Dwyer <vdwyer(a)arrakis.es> [AL] Amanda Lenhart <alenhart(a)pewinternet.org> [CE] Charles Ess <cmess(a)lib.drury.edu>

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Internet & Mass Media: conference schedule
by Nicholas Jankowski 07 May '02

07 May '02

Dear all: The conference program below on the impact of the internet on the mass media, is to be held in Tromso, Norway, 21-22 June 2002. Anyone interested in attending should contact Borghild Gramstad (borghild.gramstad(a)media.uib.no) for further particulars. Nick Jankowski THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON THE MASS MEDIA A conference organised by the COST A20 network June 21 - 22 2002 conference Programme humanistiske fakultet Institutt for dokumentasjonsvitenskap Universitetet I Tromsø Breivika N-9037 Tromsø Norway Welcome to the first conference of the COST Action A20 - The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media. There are nearly fifty papers on the conference agenda. Together, they cover the main issues in television and film, print media, music and radio, as well as issues that affect all of them together. The aim of this programme is to give you a brief guide to finding your way around Tromsø, to help you select which papers you want to hear, and to inform you about social events at the conference. Arrival in Tromsø Most conference delegates will arrive by air. The arrival hall of Tromsø airport has a tourist information office and an exchange bureau. The Norwegian Kroner currently exchanges at around 7.5 to the ?uro. There is a bus to the centre of the city from immediately outside the arrival hall. There are bus stops within easy walking distance of all of the main hotels. The fare is NKr 40 and you pay the driver before boarding. Alternatively, there are taxis available from the airport. They charge about 120NKr to the centre of the city. The journey should take a maximum of about 20 minutes. If you are lucky enough to come by boat, you will land in the centre of the city anyway. All of the hotels are in the centre of the city, and they are all within about five minutes walking distance of each other and of the social events on the programme. There are banks and cash machines in the city centre. Getting to the Conference The conference is in the E-wing of the building of the Social Sciences Faculty and School of Humanities (Hum Fak) at the University, which is in the suburb of Breivika, a short bus ride away from the city centre. There are three buses from the centre to the University, #20, #32 and #34. Only the #20 runs to and from the University on both Friday and Saturday. It takes about 10 minutes each way. Other buses can take substantially longer. Your hotel reception will tell you where the nearest bus stop is, and give you the departure times that will get you to the conference punctually. Alternatively, you can order a taxi from your hotel to the University, which will cost around NKr100. You can get a taxi back to the centre from the University hospital, which is very near the conference venue. If you are travelling on the bus, get off at the Planetarium. If you are travelling by taxi, ask for the main entrance to the Social Sciences Faculty and School of Humanities. The street address of the building is on the cover of this programme. We hope to be able to have some "guides" at strategic points on the Friday morning to help you, but in any case the way to the conference rooms will be clearly signposted. Conference timings The conference will open at 09.30 on Friday in the lecture theatre on the basement level of E Wing, Room E0.101. The individual papers will be presented in the seminar Rooms E0.103, E0.104 and E0.105. There is a computer lab, where you can access your email, in Room E0.102. Coffee and lunch will served in the building on both days. The price of these meals and refreshments is included in the registration fee that you have already paid. Your paper has been allocated to one of four strands: Film and Television, Print Media, Music and Radio, and Cross Media Issues. We have made every effort to produce a coherent programme, but of course we have not managed a perfect grouping of papers. You can find out when and where your paper is scheduled in the section titled "The working groups in detail." Three strands will be running most of the time. There is no obligation to follow the strand in which your paper has been placed. You can expect 30 minutes for consideration of your paper. Prior experience suggests to us that it will be best if you plan to introduce your work for 20 minutes and then take ten minutes of discussion. The programme is very crowded. Chairs will have instructions to enforce time limits strictly. That is the only way for everyone to get a fair and equal opportunity to present and discuss their ideas. The organisers regret that it will not be possible to provide mass photocopying facilities at the conference itself. You are strongly advised to bring copies of your paper with you, since other participants are bound to want to see copies. We will provide a table in the conference area where you can leave copies so that others can see them. The social programme We have organised three social events in the evenings, one on each day. On Thursday evening, there is a reception, hosted by the University of Tromsø. It will be held at the Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b in the centre of the city, starting at 19.00. It is at most a ten-minute walk from any of the hotels. The reception is open to everyone attending the conference. On the Friday evening there is a boat trip down the fjord. There will be an opportunity for those who wish to do some fishing. A fish supper will be served on the boat. Unfortunately, participation is limited by the size of the boat to 35 people. Places have been allocated on a "first come, first served" basis, and we are sorry that some people may not be able to participate. The fishing boat will leave at 20.00 from the quay opposite the Comfort Hotel With, which is in the centre of the city. There are plenty of bars and restaurants for those who don't go fishing. On the Saturday evening, we have reserved space in the Tromsø Student House between 19.00 and 23.00. The House serves drinks and food, and there will be space and time for informal social interaction at the close of the conference. COST sessions Those people who are members of the COST Action have Working Group meetings at 16.00 on the Thursday evening. The Groups will meet in Rooms E0.103 (Television and Film), E0.104 (Print Media) and E0.105 (Music and Radio). The conference will finish its formal programme on Saturday afternoon. There will be a meeting of the COST Action Management Committee in the Lecture Theatre, E0.101, after the close of business. People who are not members of these bodies are very welcome to attend the sessions as observers. To find out more about the Action, visit our web site: http://cost-a20.iscte.pt A practical note The tourist brochures stress that Tromsø is in the land of the midnight sun. This is true, but you might like to remember two things when packing. Tromsø faces the Atlantic Ocean and is exposed to westerly winds carrying a lot of moisture. It sometimes rains. Tromsø is also well north of the Arctic Circle. Even when it is sunny for 24 hours, it is likely still to be quite cool. CONFERENCE OUTLINE Thursday 20 June 16.00 17.30 Meeting of the three Working Groups at the University 19.00 23.00 Reception hosted by the University of Tromsø Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b Friday 21 June 09.30 Welcoming addresses Lecture Theatre E0.101 Professor Jarle Aarbakke (Rektor of Tromsø University) Professor Niels Windfeld Lund (Head of the Department of Documentation Studies) 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Cross Media Issue One Print Media One Television and Film One 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Presentation by the Department of Documentation Studies University of Tromsø Lecture Theatre E0.101 14.00 Cross Media Issues Two Print Media Two Television and Film Two 15.30 Coffee 16.00 Music and Radio Print Media Three Television and Film Three 18.00 Close of Business 20.00 23.00 Fishing Boat Trip Saturday 22 June 09.30 Cross Media Issue Three Print Media Four Television and Film Four 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Cross Media Issues Four Print Media Five Television and Film Five 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Cross Media Issues Five Print Media Six 15.00 Round Table: The Future of Online Media Lecture Theatre E0.101 Farrel Corcoran, Lucy Küng, Robert Picard, Ruth Towse 16.00 Coffee 16.30 COST A20 Management Committee 18.00 Close of Business 19.00 23.00 Informal Social Gathering Tromsø Student House Søndre Tollbodgate 3b THE WORKING GROUPS IN DETAIL Working Group One Television and Film Room E0.103 Friday 11.00 Television and Film One Chair: Charo Sádaba Peter Goodwin (University of Westminster) Digital television, interactivity and the Internet: lessons from the UK Farrel Corcoran (Dublin City University) The Irish information society and the non-arrival of digital television Lucy Küng (University of St Gallen) Redefining the public service broadcasting model for the Internet Age 14.00 Television and Film Two Chair: Mihaly Galik Charo Sádaba (University of Navarre) Digital television in Spain: stimulating the advertisers' interest (and money!) Hagi Shein (Concordia International University Tallinn) Estonian digital television 16.00 Television and Film Three Chair: Farrel Corcoran Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo) The changing relationship between television and its publics Lars Holmgaard Christensen (Aalborg University) Letting a viewer loose on the television screen real estate is not painless Eugenia Siapera (University of Amsterdam) From couch potatoes to cybernauts? The expanding notion of the "audience" in television channels web sites Espen Ytreberg (University of Oslo) Continuity in environments: television scheduling as a pre-history of new media design Saturday 09.30 Television and Film Four Chair: Trine Syvertsen Mihaly Galik & Ildiko Kovats (Budapest University of Economics) Online video services: a report on a VOD pilot project in Hungary Piermarco Aroldi & Fausto Colombo (Catholic University of Milan) TV audiences and web users: a report of research on four generations of Italians 11.30 Television and Film Five Chair: Fausto Colombo Anders Henten & Reza Tadayoni (Technical University of Denmark) Internet TV: the articulation of markets Joss Hands (Anglia Polytechnic University) Identity in the Matrix: the Internet on film and the intensification of the bourgeois subject Peter Flood (Dublin Institute of Technology) Internet TV/Webcasting Working Group Two Print Media Room E0.104 Friday 11.00 Print Media One Chair: Leopoldina Fortunati Eric Maigret (University of Paris 3) When everything changes, nothing changes: Internet and the newspaper industry in the French context Tim Rathman (University of Amsterdam) Determinants of online newspaper use: the relationship between reading a local print newspaper and its online equivalent Constanze Hess & Edmund Lauf (University of Amsterdam) Virtual success? How publishers' Internet activities affect newspaper circulation 14.00 Print Media Two Chair: Eric Maigret Marc Lits (Catholic University of Louvain) Journalism on the web and polyphonic enunciation Gary Quinn (Dublin City University) Evidence of an emerging model in online news delivery Donald Matheson (University of Wales Cardiff) News weblogs: an invitation to abandon the craft? 16.00 Print Media Three Chair: Marc Lits John O'Sullivan (Dublin City University) Delivering Ireland: online newspapers search for a role Dimitra Dimitrakopolou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) The factor of time on the Internet and its impact on journalistic practice Gerd Kopper (University of Dortmund) Effects of the Internet on the work of foreign correspondents and the use of rationalisation options in the media industry Steve Paulussen (University of Ghent) Online journalism and new media in Flanders: examining interactivity, hypertext and multimedia in online news production Saturday 09.30 Print Media Four Chair: Richard van der Wurff Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Trieste) The adventures of newspapers online: the Italian case Ramon Salaverría (University of Navarre) An immature medium: strengths and weaknesses of the online newspapers on 11 September 2001 Maria Bella Palomo Torres (University of Malaga) The impact of the Internet on Spanish newsrooms Working Group Two Print Media Room E0.104 Continued 11.30 Print Media Five Chair: John O'Sullivan Carol MacKeogh and Barbara O'Connor (Dublin City University) Online/offline -- women's magazines finding their niche Richard van der Wurff (University of Amsterdam) The impact of the Internet on trade journal markets Edgardo Garcia (University of Westminster) Online newspapers in Argentina: a study of Clarín and La Nación 14.00 Print Media Six Chair: Ramon Salaverría Tanja Oblak (University of Ljubljana) Slovenian newspapers and the online public sphere Colin Sparks (University of Westminster) What works online? British news sites and the public sphere Working Group Three Music and Radio Room E0.105 Friday 16.00 Music and Radio One Chair: Colin Sparks Piet Bakker (University of Amsterdam) Online music distribution - treat or challenge? Gunn Enli (University of Oslo) From radio station to digital media house? An analysis of the Norwegian commercial radio broadcaster P4 Radio Hele Norge and its strategies for technological convergence Des Freedman (Goldsmiths College University of London) A "world wide web of theft and indifference"? The "problem" of music and the Internet Ruth Towse (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Rewarding creators through copyright Special Working Group Cross Media Issues Room E0.105 Friday 11.00 Cross Media Issues One Chair: Anders Fagerjord Robert Picard and Mikko Grönlund (Turku School of Economics) The impact of the Internet on media advertising expenditure in the EU Kieran Kelly (University of the West of England) What if the Internet does not have any recognisable impact on new media? Elvira Garcia de Torres (Cardinal Herrera University Valencia) Spanish multimedia groups go to cyberspace 14.00 Cross Media Issues Two Chair: Robert Picard Anders Fagerjord (University of Oslo) A model for describing web media Niels Windfeld Lund (University of Tromsø) The notion of the "document" as an analytical tool in mass media studies Harald Pfannhauser (London School of Economics) From Gutenberg to Marconi: why electronic media are still a secondary source of information Saturday 09.30 Cross Media Issues Three Chair: Ruth Towse Lilia Raycheva (St Kliment Ohridsky University Sofia) Overcoming the digital divide in the process of social transformation Aukse Balcytiene (Vytautus Magnus University) Shaping the Internet: a perspective from Lithuania Dominic Busch (Viadrina University) Initiations of intercultural mediation discourse in the mass media via the Internet: reflections from a teaching project in South Eastern Europe 11.30 Cross Media Issues Four Chair: Des Freedman Pilar Guerrero (London School of Economics) The Internet usages of students in everyday life Laura Wolf (London School of Economics) Beyond access: an alternative understanding of social exclusion and new media 14.00 Cross Media Issues Five Chair: Lilia Raycheva Jeff Taylor (University of Lapland) Potentials and hazards for authentic cultural representation through new media for indigenous and other minority cultures Ivan Zassursky (Moscow State University) Portals as interactive media

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Fw: [Air-l] Internet file sharing boosts music sales
by Hugh Brown 07 May '02

07 May '02

Internet file sharing boosts music salesHI all, To introduce myself: I'm not, strictly speaking, an Internet researcher, but I greatly value the work you all do and I have a particular interest in this topic (being a musician of sorts). I edit an on-line journal devoted to Australian public policy, which we view as an exercise in e-democracy (see www.onlineopinion.com.au) To get back to the point, I get tired of seeing these reports about research conducted by "professional" research firms, often financed by one side of the debate or the other, which are essentially based on self-reported behaviour (rather akin to the old tobacco industry-financed studies showing that smoking did not *cause* cancer). These studies are highly methodologically unreliable, and seldom provide a thorough account of the methods used. They are also highly politically senstive and almost always used to beat up one side of the debate or the other. Does anyone know of any rigorous academic research into this question? I'd love to get my hands on some as part of a literature review I'm doing for an informal (ie not attached to any university) study I'm undertaking in my spare time (such as it is), using my own music, web-design skills and hypotheses. Please let me know of anything that might help. Cheers, Hugh Brown Editor, On Line Opinion, www.onlineopinion.com.au Ph +61 7 3852 2138 Fax +61 7 3252 9818 Mob +61 409 622 395 ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy Kluver To: 'Air-l(a)aoir.org' Cc: Govindan Parayil Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 12:16 PM Subject: [Air-l] Internet file sharing boosts music sales Here is an interesting report from Reuters which undercuts many of the intellectual property arguments related to online file sharing... Internet File-sharing Boosts Music Sales, Report Says May 03, 2002 16:20:35 (ET) WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Internet users who download songs for free from unauthorized "peer to peer" services are more likely to increase their music purchases than regular Internet users, according to a report released on Friday.

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Re: [Air-l] learning in internet-based networks
by hans＠fs.is.uni-sb.de 06 May '02

06 May '02

Joyce, there are several frameworks available: 1. Formative (during) / Summative (at the end) evaluation (how can it be improved?). It is more the evaluation of the tools and the tools' impact. It is less adequate to determine the learning. 2. Effectiviness evaluation (Where the goals accomplished?) Often this approach is used to measure the long-term outcome. 3. Impact evaluation (What impact did it have?): this is more combining the other two approaches The assessment will also depend on the instructional goals/needs assessment, your partners have done before. If this community system is a document delivery system, it will be differently assessed than if it includes communication tools or case-based or problem-based scenarios. Some literature: Parry, S. 1997. Evaluating the impact of training. American Society for Training and Development. Some links: http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/evaluating.htm http://www.east.asu.edu/elearning/assessment.html http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/ let me know, if you need more specific hints Johannes -- Johannes Strobel PhD student School of Information Science and Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia jse09(a)mizzou.edu > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:21:28 +0200 > From: Joyce.Lamerichs(a)Alg.VLK.WAU.NL > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] learning in internet-based networks > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Dear all, > > On behalf of a colleague of mine, I would like to post the following request > for information: > > I've been asked to help two regional internet-based networks that operate > throughout Latin America to assess the extent to which they are stimulating > > learning in rural development. What frameworks exist that can help networks > > undertake the monitoring and evaluate of their impact - in terms of learning > - > among the network members? > > many thanks, > > Joyce Lamerichs > Communication and Information Studies > Wageningen University and Research Centre

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ethics of 'net discourse research
by david_eddy_spicer＠harvard.edu 05 May '02

05 May '02

I'm new to the list, and I'm sure this question has come up before. I'm interested in articles that elaborate ethical guidelines for doing naturalistic studies of online discussions. The one very helpful piece I've found so far is Barbara Sharf's chapter in _Internet Research_: "Beyond netiquette: the ethics of doing naturalistic discourse research on the internet". What other sources would you recommend, either in print or on the web? Please reply to me directly at the address below. I'll compile whatever information I get and post it back to the list. My thanks, David david_eddy_spicer(a)harvard.edu Doctoral Candidate Harvard Graduate School of Education Cambridge, Mass.

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Re: [Air-l] ethics of 'net discourse research
by martin schiller 04 May '02

04 May '02

A message from david_eddy_spicer(a)harvard.edu on 5/3/02 10:52 AM contained... >I'm new to the list, and I'm sure this question has come up before. I'm >interested in articles that elaborate ethical guidelines for doing >naturalistic studies of online discussions. I'm also new to the list and I would like to see a brief definition for a naturalistic study of online (or otherwise) discussion. Or perhaps a definition for an online discussion. Also, I'm an outsider to academic professional discourse but I am familiar with media studies - ala Michael Moore - that being a sense of popular culture via attendance to popular media channels. One of the recent rewards of my attendance were last years Citibank primetime public relations ads that portrayed a background of buildings being demolished and the demolition foreman explaining to the reporter that '...we had some extra explosives and the people love it...'. At the time I wondered how a financial giant like Citibank could relate the ad to developing it's business. Anyway, Martin uncredentialled

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new theories of law and property in the media age
by jeremy hunsinger 03 May '02

03 May '02

sure most of this is about tv, you've probably seen the article it refers to elsewhere, but I can't resist a good rant. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=198 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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Summer Computer Institute at Michigan Tech, June 17-28
by Cheryl E. Ball 03 May '02

03 May '02

Colleagues: We have a limited number of seats left in our annual summer institute on computers--Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC), 17-28 June 2002. We cordially invite interested faculty and graduate students to apply as soon as possible to ensure a reservation for this summer. Guest speakers for this year's institute include Gail Hawisher, Jim Porter, Pam Takayoshi, Scott DeWitt, Ellen Cushman, Kris Blair, Sean Williams, Jeff Grabill, and Johndan Johnson Eilola. In its seventeenth year of continuous operation, CIWIC provides a space for individuals to explore the meaningful integration of technology and new media into composition programs and classrooms. During the two-weeks of this institute, participants can · enhance the range and scope of their own digital/electronic literacy and their departmental leadership in this area; · formulate computer-rich assignments that retain humanistic goals and scope; · design and evaluate computer-supported writing facilities that support a range of faculty and students, explore a range of lab-management issues; · shape curricula that make effective use of computer technology without ignoring the needs of human beings; · use synchronous and asynchronous composition and conferencing software, web design tools, digital still and video cameras, image and video editing software, audio recorders, and the World Wide Web to support effective instruction; · explore current scholarship and define research projects in computers and composition; gain critical theoretical and practical perspective in this area. The CIWIC institute consists of 10 six-hour days with optional lunch and evening sessions. Tuition for the institute is $1250.00 (meals and lodging not included). A limited number of partial scholarships ($750) are available for scholars from under-represented groups. The institute is conducted in a state-of-the-art computer facility (Michigan Tech's Center for Computer-Assisted Language Instruction--CCLI). In addition to attending regularly scheduled sessions, participants have 24-hour access to the lab/classroom for additional explorations and practice. Cynthia Selfe, Gail Hawisher, Anne Wysocki, Richard Selfe, and a team of knowledgeable student consultants provide one-on-one instruction-on both Macintosh and IBM platforms-in developing and using applications suited for participants' own classrooms and Writing/English programs. All participants receive three semester-hours of graduate credit. Participants need have no previous computer knowledge; individualized instruction will be provided. At the same time, participants who do have extensive experience with computers will find plenty of challenges and room to explore within the framework of the workshop. Participants from all educational levels are encouraged to attend. For additional information, please visit our web site at <http://www.hu.mtu.edu/ciwic/aic/contents.html>, print out the registration form <http://www.hu.mtu.edu/ciwic/registration.pdf>, and/or call Cheryl Ball (906-487-3272 or 906-487-2582) or Cindy Selfe (906-487-2447). Please forward this message to interested colleagues or lists. Thank you, Cheryl E. Ball

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