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

immersive enviornments
by Ed Lamoureux 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

this one's a little off center for the group . .. but once again, I need a little help. We'd like to visit an immersive environment or two. . . . We are particularly interested in physical places that use multimedia in documentary fashion while leveraging other digital aspects to enhance the experience. The MIT media lab is probably out . . . we've not been able to leverage a sponsor for that tour over the years (though of course if one popped up, we'd go quickly) . . . But we are open to other opportunities. Suggestions? thanks Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication: Speech Multimedia Program Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion ell(a)bradley.edu http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell

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Re: [Air-l] In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail
by Rune Dalgaard 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

Can anyone verify the story about Greek legislation forbidding electronic games - I have a hard time believing it and have only seen it quoted from one source. Thanks, Rune --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rune Dalgaard, MA, Pre-doc Scholar Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University mail: runed(a)imv.au.dk web: http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:38:48 -0400 > From: "ctimurkan" <ctimurkan(a)mail.mezun.com> > To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > An unfortunate incident from Greece, a member of European Union! > > Cem >In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail >By Matt Loney and Rupert Goodwins >Staff Writers, CNET News.com >September 3, 2002, 11:18 AM PT > > >In Greece, playing a shoot-'em-up video game could land you in jail. > >The Greek government has banned all electronic games across the >country, including those that run on home computers, on Game Boy-style >portable consoles, and on mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in >Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for >owning mobile phones or portable video games. > >Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids >electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public >and private places, and people have already been fined tens of >thousands of dollars for playing or owning games > >http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html

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Online participation in the UK - for good
by w.lusoli＠salford.ac.uk 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- usual apologies for crossposting, and for unintentional encoding ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear list members, We have just released the results of a national survey on citizen participation on the Internet in the UK, which I thought might be of interest to the members of the list. The survey deals with the digital divide, political inequality online, the Internet great political potential and the role of political organisation in fostering citizen participation through ICTs. You can find a summary of the results in the press release at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/news/september02-3.asp A copy of the research report (8 pages, pdf) is available on our site, at http://www.ipop.org.uk Best regards, Wainer ---------------------------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)161 295 5654 -----------------------------------------

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Online participation in the UK
by Lusoli,W (pgr) 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

-------------------------------------- usual apologies for crossposting -------------------------------------- Dear list members, We have just released the results of a national survey on citizen participation on the Internet in the UK, which I thought might be of interest to the the members of the list. The survey deals with the digital divide, political inequality online, the Internet great political potential and the role of political organisation in fostering citizen participation thorugh ICTs. You can find a summary of the results in the press release at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/news/september02-3.asp A copy of the research report (8 pages, pdf) is available on our site, at http://www.ipop.org.uk Best regards, Wainer ---------------------------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)161 295 5654 -----------------------------------------

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Re: Darren Wershler-Henry Re: textbook recommendation please
by JASON NOLAN 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

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Re: [Air-l] In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail
by ctimurkan 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

An unfortunate incident from Greece, a member of European Union! Cem ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:01:07 -0400 >this seems a bit draconian to me... > >In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail >By Matt Loney and Rupert Goodwins >Staff Writers, CNET News.com >September 3, 2002, 11:18 AM PT > > >In Greece, playing a shoot-'em-up video game could land you in jail. > >The Greek government has banned all electronic games across the >country, including those that run on home computers, on Game Boy-style >portable consoles, and on mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in >Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for >owning mobile phones or portable video games. > >Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids >electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public >and private places, and people have already been fined tens of >thousands of dollars for playing or owning games > >http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html > >jeremy hunsinger >jhuns(a)vt.edu >on the ibook >www.cddc.vt.edu >www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy >www.dromocracy.com >() ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail >/\ - against microsoft attachments > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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textbook recommendation please: Intellectual property in digital age
by Ed Lamoureux 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

I'm searching for a good/new textbook on Intellectual property rights/issues in the digital age. Suggestions? thanks Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication: Speech Multimedia Program Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion ell(a)bradley.edu http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell

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Now available: Dark Fiber by Geert Lovink
by geert lovink 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Dark Fiber Tracking Critical Internet Culture Geert Lovink The MIT Press September 2002 ISBN 0-262-12249-9 7 x 9, 394 pp. $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH) http://mitpress.mit.edu/

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law at the borders
by Sandra Braman 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

The Communication Law & Policy Division of the International Communication Association encourages AOIR members to submit papers and panel proposals in the following areas for the May 23-27 2003 conference in San Diego. Submission deadline is Nov. 1. Internet- related research could fall into several of these categories. Borders of the law: What happens when what has traditionally been acknowledged as law and regulation is supplemented, supplanted, or replaced by other structural forces such as the software and hardware of infrastructure design? Law of border communities: What kinds of legal and regulatory trends in the areas of information, communication, and culture are being seen in border cultures such as maquiladoras? The law as a border: How does the law serve as a border past which communications cannot flow, change cannot occur, or activities cannot be undertaken? Law in a border era: The difficulty of communication law and policy today is that it must find ways of achieving incremental change during a period of radical transitions. How does the transitional, or border, nature of the era affect the nature of law and policy? Paper submissions will be electronic; see conference website at www.icahdq.org. Warning: Submit your paper as early as possible because: (1) inevitably the server handling submissions will be overwhelmed and become unavailable the day of the deadline, and (2) there may be aspects of the process that are unfamiliar to you if you've not submitted papers electronically before. Panel submissions -- 250 word rationale for the panel, 250 word abstracts for each paper to be included, and bio for each panelist -- should go directly to the division chair at the below e-mail address. Sandra Braman Chair Communication Law & Policy Division International Communication Association braman(a)uwm.edu

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Pew Internet Report: Web use post 9-11 one year later (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

fyi 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 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:38:05 -0400 From: Tom Spooner <tspooner(a)pewinternet.org> To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Pew Internet Report: Web use post 9-11 one year later One Year Later: September 11 and the Internet More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) say the government should do everything it can to keep information out of terrorists hands, even if that means the public will be deprived of information it needs or wants. Similar percentages of Americans approve of officials steps to remove information from government Web sites that could be useful to terrorists. Even people who favor wide disclosure of information online generally support government policies to remove that information if officials argue it could aid terrorists. For instance, 60% of those who believe the government should post information about chemical plants and the chemicals they produce say that material should be removed from the Internet if the government said it could help terrorists. Though they demonstrate a willingness to cede power to officials over what to disclose online, a plurality of Americans believe that taking government information off the Internet will not make a difference in battling terrorists. In addition, citizens are sharply divided on the question of whether the government should be able to monitor peoples email and online activities. The division is this: 47% of Americans believe the government should not have the right to monitor peoples Internet use and 45% say the government should have that right. A majority of Internet users oppose government monitoring of peoples email and Web activities. These are among the findings in a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project taken between June 26 and July 26 of 2,501 American adults. The results are published in a report entitled One Year Later: September 11 and the Internet. It is a wide-ranging examination of what people feel government disclosure policies should be, how Americans online behavior has changed since 9/11, and how the Web itself changed as producers responded to the crisis. The Pew Internet Project report contains the first scholarly studies built around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the September 11 Web Archives (http://september11.archive.org/) In all, close to 30,000 sites were archived between September 11 and December 1 last year, providing the unique opportunity to document what Web producers did in response to 9/11. A copy of the report can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=69. "Please feel free to forward this email alert to colleagues, friends, or family members who might be interested in it. If you have received this message from a subscriber, you can sign up to receive your own alerts at: http://www.pewinternet.org/signup.asp" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a blank message to pewinternet-on(a)pewinternet.org To unsubscribe, send a blank message to pewinternet-off(a)pewinternet.org To change your email address, send a message to pewinternet-change(a)pewinternet.org with your old address in the Subject: line To contact the list owner, send your message to pewinternet-list-owner(a)pewinternet.org http://www.pewinternet.org/ To unsubscribe, click on the following web page. http://cgi.mail-list.com/unsub.pl?ln=pewinternet&nm=wellman@chass.utoronto.… This message was launched into cyberspace to wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca

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