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The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community
by Quentin Jones 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION A CSCW 2002 WORKSHOP The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community AT A GLANCE What: A Workshop on Building Virtual Community Places Where: CSCW 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA When: Saturday, November 16, 2002 Submission: Position paper and profile by Friday Sept 27th (any questions please contact us we are happy to work with people) Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by Monday Oct 14 Organizers: Quentin Jones, New Jersey Institute of Technology, qgjones(a)acm.org Christine Halverson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, krys(a)us.ibm.com The Call for Participation The adoption of modern communication technologies increasingly situates interpersonal interactions virtually. This has had an enormous impact on people's social networks as community ties shift from linking people together-in-physical-places to people-to-people-wherever-they-might-be [18]. However, these changes have not lessened the importance of place, be it virtual or physical, in shaping interaction patterns and discourse. The term place means different things to different people, and this workshop will examine these differences in relation to virtual community. In particular this workshop aims to explore the myriad of ways that: * the design of virtual or hybrid spaces / places directly provides common ground for user interactions; and * communities use public interactions in virtual spaces to create shared meaning. This exploration will in turn be used to enable an examination of various aspects of virtual community development and maintenance. THEME In recent years we have moved away from the notion that the ever increasing virtualization of interpersonal communications has simply led, as Meyrowitz's [12] describes it, to a sense of placeless-ness. Instead, it is now widely accepted among computer-mediated communication researchers that cyberspace abounds with virtual places within which vibrant interactions occur [7]. Instead of focusing on the demise of many of the physical Great Good Places [13] where unrelated people relate, many have celebrated the growth in virtual places associated with community [15]. These places where virtual community members interact are referred to by a wide variety of labels including chat rooms [14], cyber-inns [4], virtual settlements [9], commons [11], and conferences [8]. The provision of such labels highlights the role of virtual places in providing context for discourse. Of course, the context of place both affects, and is affected by associated user interactions and the nature and form of the client technologies used by members to interact. Some systems are completely open to the public, such as LambdaMoo [16], others are restricted to a membership [17], or a specific task or purpose [5]. All these points highlight the importance of gaining an understanding of the role of place in shaping virtual community discourse. This task is made even more pressing by the advent of mobile client technologies that use devices such as PDA's or cell phones, and associated communication technologies such as SMS and 3G, which complicates notions of virtual community public places. This workshop aims to explore the role of place in supporting virtual community interactions. Among the questions we hope participants will take on are the following: · Is place designed? Accreted? Or renewed through interactions on some regular basis? · Is place a physical metaphor? Or expressed through issues of behavior, understanding of presence, or discourse? · How does place provide a context for your virtual community? · When community members interact with their client technology how does place impact on their interactions? · What is the interaction between the design of user interfaces and the ability of the participants to create a place for social interaction? · What theoretical constructs have been useful to you in understanding how interactions in community places have enabled people to stays tied together? A variety of disciplines are pertinent to these explorations, including architecture, sociology, linguistic and discourse analyses, and design. Each one approaches the ideas of place and common ground for interaction from a slightly different perspective, and level of detail. Other disciplines may have pertinent insights and approaches. We would like to encourage them all. Important perspectives and issues include the notions of space and place [7], common information space [1], common ground in discourse [3], discourse architecture [10], genre theory [6], and other detailed aspects of linguistics [2]. There have been a number of past community workshops, covering formation of communities, construction of infrastructures and understanding aspects of group formation and vitality. Recently there has been more emphasis on how to study and understand active communities. We would like to expand this to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved as they relate to place. ACTIVITIES AND GOALS The full day workshop will be divided into three sections: 1) Exploration of participants' examples of how the design of virtual place provides common ground for user interactions; 2) An examination of how communities use public interactions in virtual spaces to create shared meaning; and 3) A synthesis session where participants will explore various aspects of virtual community development and maintenance. If attendance is high we may break into subgroups for more intense discussion. If this is the case then each smaller group will report back with their key ideas. By the end of the workshop participants will have a catalog of examples of existing virtual places and an accompanying critique of their strengths and weaknesses for supporting user interactions SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS By Friday Sept 27th, submit the following (preferably electronically): Proposals should be no longer than 6 pages and should include description of the following aspects. 1) An existing place used to support community (or communities); 2) An examination of how the place/s under consideration provides common ground for user interactions; and 3) Theoretical ideas or approaches that help you understand context and social interaction, or an exploration of virtual community development and maintenance. Position papers should explain how the author's work relates to the workshop theme. We are particularly interested in seeing perspectives at a variety of levels from high and meta to micro- scales. Position papers will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and the final organization will be adapted to take into account the number expected and the range of submissions. We expect about 12-15 participants, but could expand up to 20. If size approaches the maximum we will adjust the workshop organization to spend some time broken into small groups so that the quality of the discussions remains high. We look for a wide range of participants. System architects and designers who have thought about and implemented supports for social interaction, social psychologists, linguists and sociologists who have studied online interactions, and others we may not have previously considered. Those from outside of the CSCW community should note that you are NOT required to pay the conference registration fee if you only want to attend the workshop. However, first-time attendees are most welcome, and we encourage you to look over the array of offerings on the conference program. REFERENCES 1. Bannon, L., and Bodker, S. Constructing Common Information Space. Proceedings of the Fifth ECSCW. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands , 1997. 2. Brennan, S.E. and J.O. Ohaeri. Why do electronic conversations seem less polite: the costs and benefits of hedging. in WACC '99. 1999. San Francisco, CA : ACM.. 3. Clark , H. Arenas of language use. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992. 4. Coate, J., 1992. Innkeeping in Cyberspace, In: Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC-92), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Palo Alto, CA. http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Community/innkeeping. 5. Erickson, T., et al. Socially Translucent Systems: Social Proxies, Persistent Conversation, and the Design of Babble. in Human Factors in Computing: The Proceedings of CHI 99. 1999. Pittsburgh, PA : ACM Press. 6. Erickson, T. Making Sense of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Conversations as Genres, CMC Systems as Genre Ecologies. In the Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. January, 2000. IEEE Press. 7. Harrison, S. and P. Dourish, 1996. Re-place-ing space: The roles of place and space in collaborative systems, In: Computer Supported Collaborative Work, ACM, Cambridge, MA pp. 67-76. 8. Hiltz, S.R. and M. Turoff, 1981. The evolution of user behavior in a computerized conferencing system, Communications of the ACM, 24 (11 November): 739-751. 9. Jones Q. 1997. Virtual-communities, virtual-settlements & cyber-archaeology: A theoretical outline. J of Comp Mediated Communication 3(3). 10. Jones Q., and S. Rafaeli 2000. Time to Split, Virtually: 'Discourse Architecture' and 'Community Building' as means to Creating Vibrant Virtual Publics. Electronic Markets: The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media. 10(4) 214-223. 11. Kollock, P. and M. Smith, 1994. Managing the virtual commons: Cooperation and conflict in computer communities. In: Computer-Mediated Communication, (Ed. S. Herring), John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 12. Meyrowitz, J., 1985. No sense of place, Oxford University Press Inc., New York. 13. Oldenburg, R., 1989. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through The Day., Paragon House, New York. 14. Reid, E. M., 1991. Electropolis: Communications and community on Internet Relay Chat, Honors, History, University of Melbourne. http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/papers/emr/work.html. 15. Rheingold, H., 1993. The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. 16. Schiano, D.J. and S. White. The first noble truth of CyberSpace: People are People (even when they MOO). in CHI 98. 1998. Los Angeles CA : ACM. 17. Schlager, M. and P. Schank. TAPPED IN: A New On-line Teacher Community Concept for the Next Generation of Internet Technology. in CSCL '97, The Second International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. 1997. Toronto : ACM. 18. Wellman, B., "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25, 2 (2001): 227-52. ORGANIZERS Christine Halverson is a researcher at IBM Research. She is involved with the development and analysis of systems to help work groups interact collaboratively over networks. Her analytic approaches have included visualizations, linguistic analysis, online participation and observations among others. Her research group has designed and deployed a number of online systems including BABBLE & Loops. http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/ Quentin (Gad) Jones is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to his current position, Quentin was a researcher at AT&T labs research, New Jersey . Before living in the United States he was a doctoral student in Information Systems at Hebrew and Haifa Universities Israel. Quentin research focus is on understanding mass interaction ecologies that result in thriving virtual communities. His current community projects include ContactMap, and GeoMemory. RELATED PAST WORKSHOPS * - Erickson T., Herring S., Sack W., Discourse Architectures: The Design and Analysis of Computer-Mediated Conversation. CHI 2002. * - Erickson T., and Herring S., "Persistent Conversation" workshops at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) from 1999-2002. * - Farnham S., Smith M., et. al. Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces. CHI 2001. * - Bruckman A., Erickson T., et. al. Dealing with Community Data, CSCW 2000. * - Muller M., and Friedman J., Electronic Communities: Places and Spaces, Contents and Boundaries. CHI 2000. * - Barbesino et. al. Designing Across Borders: The Community Design of Community Networks. CSCW 1998. * - Toomey L., Tang J., Adams L., and Gloria Mark Designing Virtual Communities for Work. CSCW 1998. * - Bruckman A., Erickson T., et. al. Workshop on Research Issues in the Design of Online Communities. CHI 1999.

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AoIR 2004 & 2005 - Call For Hosts
by Steve Jones 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

CALL FOR HOSTS CONFERENCES of the ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS (2004 and 2005) Association Web site: http://aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers (A.(o).I.R.) invites applications from sites willing to host the association's annual conference, held each year in September/October. In keeping with the association's international membership and orientation applicants from outside the U.S. are particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Sites are being sought for the 2004 and 2005 conferences. The current and previous conference web sites are linked from http://aoir.org FORMAT OF PROPOSALS All proposals should be submitted via e-mail to: sjones(a)uic.edu Proposals will be evaluated by the AoIR executive committee. Please answer all questions below in the format in which they are presented. Applications may be of any length but should be as complete as possible. The association's executive committee may ask for clarification and/or additional information. Feel free to include information and details yourself. DEADLINE First preference for 2004 sites will be given to proposals received by January 31, but all proposals will be considered until a suitable site is found. Members of the AoIR executive committee will be available at the AoIR 2002 conference in Maastricht (October 13 - 16) to meet with those intending to submit a proposal, and will be available via email at any time to answer questions. QUESTIONNAIRE Please include answers to the questions below in the site proposal: 1. What is your location's accessibility? Is it convenient for those travelling from points around the world? Is there a major airport nearby (how distant is it)? Describe the specific site (i.e. building(s)) in which the conference would be held. What number of rooms are available and what are their capacities? What technological support is available in those rooms (e.g. ethernet, projectors, etc)? Please provide indication that these rooms are actually available during the dates you propose for the conference. What is your site's maximum capacity? Has there been previous conferences at your site? If so, please list a few examples. Do you have references or reviews of those previous conferences? If so, please provide them. 2. What kind of support will your site provide? Is there a commitment for funds for the conference? If so, to what level of funding is the commitment? Is the commitment firm (evidence of commitment letters, verbal agreements, etc., should be provided)? Are there conference coordinating agencies available on whom you could draw to help manage registration and the events? 3. Is the site affordable? Will you be able to provide quality accommodations at reasonable cost? Please give an estimate of the cost of hotel rooms and meals. Provide indication that adequate hotel rooms are actually available during the proposed conference dates. How many participants will your site/hotels be able to accommodate? What is the state of local transportation at the conference site? 4. Are there special attractions, tours, locations, at which dinners/receptions might be held, or that attendees might like to visit? 5. Is there opportunity for partnerships and sponsorships that your site can uniquely provide? Please list and explain. 6. Is there a specific year for which you are proposing your site? If not chosen for next year, would your site be willing to host the conference in a subsequent year? Are there specific dates you would like to propose (typically the conference runs three full days)? 7. Is there a person you can identify as a "local host/liaison" who will serve on the local conference committee and liason with aoir? do you have a representative or set of representatives that you would like to put on the AoIR program committee? Have they had experience managing conferences before or are there people immediately available that can guide and assist them? Do you have someone in mind in AoIR from another location than the hosting location that you would like to have Chair the conference? 8. Have you read the AoIR conference guidelines? Are there any exceptions to those guidelines that are desired for you to be able to host the conference in the way that you would like? 9. Are there any special ways that your institution furthers the interdisciplinary, international nature of the Association of Internet Researchers?

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In Greece, use a Game Boy, go to jail
by jeremy hunsinger 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

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

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RE: [Air-l] standards for web sites?
by Rachel Harris 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Hi Kate I'm not sure about standards for evaluating sites, but the following provides a comprehensive list of criteria: scope, content, purpose, reviews, workability, cost - each further broken down. The paper also reviews others' views on evaluation, so provides a good starting point at least. Smith, Alastair G. "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3 (1997). Available at: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html Kind regards Rachel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Rachel A Harris Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment University of Glasgow Florentine House 53 Hillhead Street Glasgow, G12 8QQ 0141 330 2878 r.harris(a)udcf.gla.ac.uk www.scrolla.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Kate Williams Sent: 30 August 2002 17:10 To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] standards for web sites? Hello AOIR, For a colleague's project involving African American related websites: Have any standards for evaluating websites have been set or even outlined? For instance, perhaps a set of measures such as stability/permanence, depth, audience, host, etc. URLs for good African American related websites would be welcome too. thank you, kate williams katewill(a)umich.edu http://www.umich.edu/~katewill/ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (september 2002)
by david silver 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

AirFolk, (Newsflash: RCCS will launch its redesign within two weeks ...) New book reviews for September 2002 (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/) include: Thomas Swiss, editor, Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web. New York University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Kate O'Riordan with a response from Thom Swiss. Bob Johnstone, We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age. Basic Books, 1999. Reviewed by Shane Butterfield. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Fwd: book notice
by jeremy hunsinger 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice(a)scils.rutgers.edu> > Date: Wed Sep 4, 2002 12:32:37 PM US/Eastern > To: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > Subject: book notice > > AoIR members might be interested in this just-published book: > Katz, J.E. & Rice, R.E. (2002). Social consequences of Internet use: > Access, involvement and interaction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. > of contents is available at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~rrice/B9.htm > ============================================================ > Ronald E. Rice > Professor, Chair of Department of Communication > School of Communication, Information & Library Studies > Rutgers University > 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 > w: 732-932-7500, ext 8122; f: 732-932-6916; e: rrice(a)scils.rutgers.edu > home page: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~rrice > ============================================================ > > > > 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

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Fwd: <nettime> IPv4 address space
by jeremy hunsinger 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

a nice little reference text for those interested Begin forwarded message: > From: t byfield <tbyfield(a)panix.com> > Date: Wed Sep 4, 2002 8:55:28 AM US/Eastern > To: nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net > Subject: <nettime> IPv4 address space > Reply-To: t byfield <tbyfield(a)panix.com> > > [from <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space>, > last updated 6 aug 2002. in many ways, the dotcom mayhem > was less a settling of a 'frontier' than a 'football match' > played on the field of IP# space. the names and dates say > something about who understood that. cheers, t] > > INTERNET PROTOCOL V4 ADDRESS SPACE > > (last updated 2002-08-06) > > The allocation of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address space to > various registries is listed here. Originally, all the IPv4 address > spaces was managed directly by the IANA. Later parts of the address > space were allocated to various other registries to manage for > particular purposes or regional areas of the world. RFC 1466 > documents most of these allocations. > > > Address Block Registry - Purpose Date > --------------- --------------------------------------- ------ > 000/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 001/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 002/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 003/8 General Electric Company May 94 > 004/8 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Dec 92 > 005/8 IANA - Reserved Jul 95 > 006/8 Army Information Systems Center Feb 94 > 007/8 IANA - Reserved Apr 95 > 008/8 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Dec 92 > 009/8 IBM Aug 92 > 010/8 IANA - Private Use Jun 95 > 011/8 DoD Intel Information Systems May 93 > 012/8 AT&T Bell Laboratories Jun 95 > 013/8 Xerox Corporation Sep 91 > 014/8 IANA - Public Data Network Jun 91 > 015/8 Hewlett-Packard Company Jul 94 > 016/8 Digital Equipment Corporation Nov 94 > 017/8 Apple Computer Inc. Jul 92 > 018/8 MIT Jan 94 > 019/8 Ford Motor Company May 95 > 020/8 Computer Sciences Corporation Oct 94 > 021/8 DDN-RVN Jul 91 > 022/8 Defense Information Systems Agency May 93 > 023/8 IANA - Reserved Jul 95 > 024/8 ARIN - Cable Block May 01 > (Formerly IANA - Jul 95) > 025/8 Royal Signals and Radar Establishment Jan 95 > 026/8 Defense Information Systems Agency May 95 > 027/8 IANA - Reserved Apr 95 > 028/8 DSI-North Jul 92 > 029/8 Defense Information Systems Agency Jul 91 > 030/8 Defense Information Systems Agency Jul 91 > 031/8 IANA - Reserved Apr 99 > 032/8 Norsk Informasjonsteknologi Jun 94 > 033/8 DLA Systems Automation Center Jan 91 > 034/8 Halliburton Company Mar 93 > 035/8 MERIT Computer Network Apr 94 > 036/8 IANA - Reserved Jul 00 > (Formerly Stanford University - Apr 93) > 037/8 IANA - Reserved Apr 95 > 038/8 Performance Systems International Sep 94 > 039/8 IANA - Reserved Apr 95 > 040/8 Eli Lily and Company Jun 94 > 041/8 IANA - Reserved May 95 > 042/8 IANA - Reserved Jul 95 > 043/8 Japan Inet Jan 91 > 044/8 Amateur Radio Digital Communications Jul 92 > 045/8 Interop Show Network Jan 95 > 046/8 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Dec 92 > 047/8 Bell-Northern Research Jan 91 > 048/8 Prudential Securities Inc. May 95 > 049/8 Joint Technical Command May 94 > Returned to IANA Mar 98 > 050/8 Joint Technical Command May 94 > Returned to IANA Mar 98 > 051/8 Deparment of Social Security of UK Aug 94 > 052/8 E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co., Inc. Dec 91 > 053/8 Cap Debis CCS Oct 93 > 054/8 Merck and Co., Inc. Mar 92 > 055/8 Boeing Computer Services Apr 95 > 056/8 U.S. Postal Service Jun 94 > 057/8 SITA May 95 > 058/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 059/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 060/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 061/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim Apr 97 > 062/8 RIPE NCC - Europe Apr 97 > 063/8 ARIN Apr 97 > 064/8 ARIN Jul 99 > 065/8 ARIN Jul 00 > 066/8 ARIN Jul 00 > 067/8 ARIN May 01 > 068/8 ARIN Jun 01 > 069/8 ARIN Aug 02 > 070-079/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 080/8 RIPE NCC Apr 01 > 081/8 RIPE NCC Apr 01 > 082-095/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 096-126/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 127/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 128-191/8 Various Registries May 93 > 192/8 Various Registries - MultiRegional May 93 > 193/8 RIPE NCC - Europe May 93 > 194/8 RIPE NCC - Europe May 93 > 195/8 RIPE NCC - Europe May 93 > 196/8 Various Registries May 93 > 197/8 IANA - Reserved May 93 > 198/8 Various Registries May 93 > 199/8 ARIN - North America May 93 > 200/8 ARIN - Central and South America May 93 > 201/8 Reserved - Central and South America May 93 > 202/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim May 93 > 203/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim May 93 > 204/8 ARIN - North America Mar 94 > 205/8 ARIN - North America Mar 94 > 206/8 ARIN - North America Apr 95 > 207/8 ARIN - North America Nov 95 > 208/8 ARIN - North America Apr 96 > 209/8 ARIN - North America Jun 96 > 210/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim Jun 96 > 211/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim Jun 96 > 212/8 RIPE NCC - Europe Oct 97 > 213/8 RIPE NCC - Europe Mar 99 > 214/8 US-DOD Mar 98 > 215/8 US-DOD Mar 98 > 216/8 ARIN - North America Apr 98 > 217/8 RIPE NCC - Europe Jun 00 > 218/8 APNIC - Pacific Rim Dec 00 > 219/8 APNIC Sep 01 > 220/8 APNIC Dec 01 > 221/8 APNIC Jul 02 > 222-223/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > 224-239/8 IANA - Multicast Sep 81 > 240-255/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 > > [] > > > > > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg > body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net > > 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

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Final draft - aoir ethics working committee
by Charles Ess 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

Colleagues: I'm very pleased to call your attention to the final draft of the document, "Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the aoir ethics working committee." <http://www.aoir.org/reports/DraftFIVE.html> This document articulates our best overview of the main range of ethical issues characteristic of the diverse venues and approaches to Internet research. It emphasizes first of all the importance of the extant ethical codes and guidelines already in place for the various disciplines at work in Internet research. At the same time, of course, the ethical situation is complicated by the realities that online research often differs in crucial ways from offline research - and that Internet research often implicates more than one discipline, each of which may invoke different, sometimes conflicting ethical assumptions. As well, our ethical decisions always take place in the context of national legal and ethical traditions: in particular, our document highlights the agreements and contrasts between U.S. and European Union law and ethical approaches. The range of issues and the diversity of pertinent disciplinary codes, ethical frameworks, and national legal and ethical traditions may make the possibility of resolving specific ethical challenges seem an impossible task. Nonetheless, as we have worked through specific issues, case studies, and the pertinent literature, we have discerned that it is quite possible - up to a point, at least - to clarify and resolve at least many of the more common ethical difficulties. Such resolution, in part, depends on recognizing the legitimacy of more than one ethical framework (whether as stressed by a specific discipline or national legal / ethical tradition) in attempting to resolve ethical issues - and thereby, the ethical defensibility of more than one response to a given issue. In philosophical ethics, this is referred to as ethical pluralism - a middle ground between some dogmatic insistence on a single right answer, and an ethical relativism that says "anything goes." In addition to stressing ethical pluralism, our document further emphasizes: * awareness of and sensitivity to cross-cultural contrasts (helped in part by the fact that the committee itself is made up of ethicists and researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries); and * ethics _is_ a matter of guidelines, applied through judgment honed by experience to specific situations and contexts - not "recipes" for algorithmically deducing _the_ correct ethical answer. In an effort to illustrate such pluralism at work, our document shows how to apply several different ethical decision-making frameworks to characteristic issues - in part, through the inclusion of several "ethical protocols" or question lists that aim to uncover the important ethical dimensions of a research project. To quote the Prologue: *This document - as it synthesizes the results of our nearly two years¹ of work together - is intended to aid both researchers from a variety of disciplines and those responsible for insuring that this research adhere to legal and ethical requirements in their work of clarifying and resolving ethical issues encounter in online research.* On behalf of the aoir ethics working committee, I commend this document to your careful consideration. Ideally, we would ask that aoir members raise whatever substantive criticisms and suggestions you would like to make on the aoir list, so that we can work through those and modify the document accordingly _prior_ to its presentation to the aoir membership in Maastricht for (we hope) approval. Of course, aoir-ists (a tense in classical Greek?) are also invited to send comments and suggestions off-list to me and/or any of the members of the ethics working committee. I here also want to express my profound thanks to the members of the committee for their diligence, insight, wisdom, and humor as we have wrestled with these issues and materials over the past months. The committee includes: Poline Bala Malaysia; Amy Bruckman USA; Sarina Chen - USA; Brenda Danet Israel/USA; Dag Elgesem Norway; Andrew Feenberg - USA; Stine Gotved Denmark; Christine M. Hine UK; Soraj Hongladarom - Thailand; Jeremy Hunsinger - USA; Klaus Jensen - Denmark; Storm King - USA; Chris Mann - UK; Helen Nissenbaum - USA; Kate O¹Riordan - UK; Paula Roberts - Australia; Wendy Robinson - USA; Leslie Shade - Canada; Malin Sveningson - Sweden; Leslie Tkach - Japan; John Weckert - Australia. I would also like to thank several aoir members (cited in the document) who pointed us towards important resources, etc. Looking forward to the discussion! Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Education is what is left over after you've forgotten everything that you've learned. (source unknown)

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Call for Papers @ ACLA
by Jonathan Lillie 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

Call for Papers for special sesion at the American Comparative Literature Association to be held at Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County April 4-6, 2003. POSTING (please cross-post) NMEDIAC (New Media and Culture), a journal out of U North Carolina Chapel-Hill, is sponsoring a special session on new media/culture at the April meetings of the American Comparative Literature Association meetings in San Marcos. The session will include three panels, a total of 9-12 scholars, writers and artists, that will meet over a two day period on the topic of new media. The sessions are intended to result in a journal issue dedicated to the topic. The session panels on new media will explore questions of digital poetics, genre, and the role of narrative models and metaphors from non-digital media, such as those of literature, film and performance on electronic writing and art. We hope to speculate on what happens to once vital metaphors and genres as media change (how the role of sci-fi and cyber-punk in cultural discourse in the 1980s has evolved in this era, for example). A special invitation is extended to digital artists and writers to join in a round table discussion about the peotics of hypertext and digital art. We also invite papers that consider how digital media compares to other era's marked by the invention of a new medium - the press, photography, or film, for example. Send paper and presentation proposals by Sept 24. Please send them via email to Roderick Coover at rcoover(a)artic.edu. Conference website: www.csusm.edu/acla2003 NMEDIAC (nmediac.net) has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses. In relation to previous work, NMEDIAC will provide an intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and past. ----- Jonathan James McCreadie Lillie ----- jlillie(a)email.unc.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/jlillie ----- Managing Editor NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture http://www.nmediac.net ----- Park Doctoral Fellow The School of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
by Viviane.Serfaty＠urs.u-strasbg.fr 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

L'Internet en politique, des Etats-Unis a l'Europe, Viviane Serfaty editor, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2002. 423 pages, 25 euros. The proceedings of the 2000 and 2001 colloquia held at the Strasbourg Political Science Institute (France) present a comparative, interdisciplinary approach of Internet use in English and French. Table of contents : PREMIERE PARTIE : CAMPAGNES ELECTORALES Foreword by Viviane Serfaty Kirsten A. Foot, Steven M. Schneider Online Action : In the US 2000 Political Campaign Wesley Wilson A History of the 2000 Presidential eCampaign of George W. Bush Viviane Serfaty Showdown on the Internet : the Aesthetics of Al GoreŽs and George W. BushŽs Campaign 2000 Sites Caroline Dominguès Capter le vote hispanique : les versions en espagnol des sites Internet dŽAl Gore et de George W. Bush Carrie Konold Internet Vote Swapping in the 2000 US Presidential Campaign:A New Form of Strategic Political Participation Stanislas Magniant, Bruno Villalba Mobilisations politiques locales et nouvelles technologies de lŽinformation et de la communication. Etude de cas : le Michigan et le Nord-Pas de Calais Nathalie Ethuin, Rémi Lefebvre Les balbutiements de la cyberdémocratie électorale. Contribution à une analyse des usages politiques dŽInternet : le site de Martine Aubry lors des élections municipales de mars 2001 Nicolas Sauger Première approche des pratiques virtuelles des partis politiques français Mattia Miani Communicative Functions of Italian Political PartiesŽ Websites Michael Parsons LŽintroduction de lŽInternet dans la vie politique britannique Leslie M. Tkach Japanese Political Parties on the Internet in the 2000 General Election DEUXIEME PARTIE : ESPACES PUBLICS, ESPACES INSTITUTIONNELS Divina Frau-Meigs La démocratie entre représentation et participation @Internet.gov Marc Clément Internet : lŽavenir radieux ! Hélène Yildiz Internet : un nouvel outil de communication multidimensionnel Laurent Zylberberg LŽappareil dŽEtat face aux technologies de lŽinformation et de la communication Sylvain Pigault Les territoires de lŽintercommunalité et lŽInternet : éléments dŽune réflexion Jean-Claude Bournez LŽInternet : laboratoire pour une nouvelle politique de lŽéducation populaire Philippe Hamman La politique Internet du Conseil de lŽEurope : la production dŽune institution virtuelle Sylvie Ollitrault Internet, soutien au militantisme sans frontières ? Fabien Granjon Engagement distancié, critique sociale par projets et usages dŽInternet Axel Lefebvre Espace public et technologies de lŽinformation : le cas du courrier électronique et du forum de discussion Viviane Serfaty Les groupes de discussion sur Internet entre constructions imaginaires et pratiques: un exemple aux Etats-Unis Cheers, Viviane Serfaty Associate Professor IEP de Strasbourg (France) www.vserfaty.cjb.net

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