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cfp Corporal Literacy
by Rob van Kranenburg 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

CALL FOR PAPERS Corporal Literacy Maaike Bleeker: New developments in a variety of disciplines - ranging from philosophy to medicine to cognitive science - argue for a revaluation of the body as actively involved in processes of world making rather than a passive decoding machine. This revaluation of the body points to the necessity to change our understanding of the role of the body in processes of perception and meaning making. Corporal literacy understood as the bodily capacity to read and make sense also changes the notion of thought and meaning itself, the idea of what it means to do thinking, to make meaning, to rationalize. "What is important" write Lakoff and Johnson in their Philosophy in the Flesh, "is not just that we have bodies and that thought is somehow embodied. What is important is that the very peculiar nature of our bodies shapes our very possibilities for conceptualisation and categorization." Corporal literacy describes these abilities of the body to perceive, read and make sense. It is a strategic term, with which we want to make a space for interaction and collaboration between researchers approaching questions of bodily meaning making from various backgrounds. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books 1999: 19 Rob van Kranenburg: In A future world of supersenses, Martin Rantzer of Ericsson Foresight claims: "New communication senses will be needed in the future to enable people to absorb the enormous mass of information with which they are confronted," According to him the user interfaces we use today to transmit information to our brains threaten create a real bottleneck for new broadband services. "The boundaries of what constitutes consumer electronics and computers are getting blurred," said Gerard J. Kleisterlee, the chief executive of Royal Philips Electronics. "As we get wireless networking in the home, everything starts to talk to everything." Implementing digital connecitivity in an analogue environment without a design for all the senses , without a concept of corporal literacy, leads to information overload. In a ubiquitous computing environment the new intelligence is extelligence, "knowledge and tools that are outside people's heads" (Stewart and Cohen, 1997) In a ubiquitous computing environment the user has to be not only textually and visually literate, both also have corporal literacy, that is an awareness of extelligence and a working knowledge of all the senses. It is our claim in staking out a field of corporal literacy that in contemporary performance and theatrical practice we find an actualization of (and ways of dealing with) the bottleneck scenarios that are envisaged by information experts. At Big Consumer Electronics Show, the Buzz Is All About Connections January 13, 2003 By SAUL HANSELL, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/technology/13DIGI.html?ex=1043457162&ei=1… A workshop/panel in the Conference: MULTILITERACIES: THE CONTACT ZONE 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl and maaike.bleeker(a)hum.uva.nl. Remember to give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number and 50 word biodate. Location: Ghent, Belgium Date: 22-27 September 2003 Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003 Contact Persons: Rob van Kranenburg - Maaike Bleeker Contact Email: kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl - maaike.bleeker(a)hum.uva.nl IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 March, 2003. Notification of acceptance: 31 April, 2003. Program available: 15 August, 2003. Early bird registration: before 28 March, 2003 Details regarding the program, registration and hotel accommodation will be sent out in February 2003. If you submit an abstract, you will automatically receive this information -- web: http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/rob mail: kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl mobile: ++32 (0) 472 40 63 72 Call home first 0032 9 2333 853

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3 New Papers and 1 Book on opensource.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hello All, Some members of the list may be interested in these papers. Sorry for any X-posting. Best, Karim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [F/OSS-Community] 3 New Papers and 1 Book on opensource.mit.edu Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:40:25 -0500 From: Karim R. Lakhani <lakhani(a)MIT.EDU> Organization: MIT Sloan Spoudaios Paizen Research Project To: discuss <discuss(a)opensource.mit.edu>, community <community(a)opensource.mit.edu> Hello All, Happy New Year! The year is off to a great start. Over my holidays I recieved 3 papers and 1 book on free software and open source. Many thanks to the authors for their contributions. Here are the details: Paper 1 Author: Nuvolari, Alessandro Title Open Source Software Development: Some Historical Perspectives http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/nuvolari.pdf Abstract: In this paper we suggest that historical studies of technology can help us to account for some, perplexing (at least for traditional economic reasoning) features of open source software development. When looked in historical perspective, open source software seems to be a particular case of what Robert Allen has termed "collective invention". We explore the interpretive value of this historical parallel in detail, comparing open source software with two remarkable episodes of nineteenth century technical advances. Paper 2 Authors: Schmidt, Klaus & Monika Schnitzer Title Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/schmidtschnitzer.pdf This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give rise to market failures: (i) large economies of scale, (ii) crucially important innovations, (iii) significant network effects and switching costs. We analyze the differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to these market features and ask whether open source as an alternative to proprietary software can mitigate these problems. Then we discuss the implications of various forms of governmental support for open source. Paper 3 Authors: West, Joel & Jason Dedrick Title Open Source Standardization: The Rise of Linux in the Network Era http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/westdedrick.pdf Abstract: To attract complementary assets, firms that sponsor proprietary de facto compatibility standards must trade off control of the standard against the imperative for adoption. For example, Microsoft and Intel in turn gained pervasive adoption of their technologies by appropriating only a single layer of the standards architecture and encouraging competition in other layers. In reaction to such proprietary strategies, the open source movement relinquished control to maximize adoption. To illustrate this, we examine the rise of the Linux operating system from 1995-2001, particularly the motivations of organizational buyers and suppliers of complementary assets, and Microsoft’s reaction to its success. Book Editor: Hahn Robert Title Government Policy Towards Open Source Software (Edited Book) http://www.aei.brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=296&aei_bro Abstract: Can open source software?software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify?survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and copyright policy. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has become a lightning rod for controversy in the field of information technology. Contributors: Chapter 1: Government Policy toward Open Source Software: An Overview; Robert W. Hahn Chapter 2: What Good is Free Software?; James Bessen Chapter 3: Politics and Programming: Government Preferences for Pomoting Open Source Software; David S. Evans Chapter 4: Open Source Baselines: Compared to What?; Lawrence Lessig Chapter 5: The Future of Software: Enabling the Marketplace to Decide; Bradford L. Smith Send me more of your papers!!! -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani(a)mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www ============================================== _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community(a)opensource.mit.edu http://opensource.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/community -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani(a)mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www ==============================================

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breaking the rules
by Ulla Bunz 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

I've been collecting some literature on online norms, especially in group interaction. I want to look specifically at a group's reaction to such violation. I have a lot of the "flaming" literature, especially that which comes out of communication research. I also have a few "interactional norms" pieces (i.e., Postmes 2000) that are related to impression making. I'm aware of a couple of famous cases (such as the guy deleting all his email in the WELL, or the LambdaMoo "rape" case). I'm looking for additional work that examines specifically how a group/community reacts to norm violation and what happens to the people who violate the norms in the long term. I'm sure there must be a lot of research out there on this topic, especially in the "community" research field, and hopefully in disciplines other than communication. I'd also love to hear about non-US incidents (I read German and French), and though the research I'm aware of is all about email, the web, and usenet, I'd love to hear about other interactional media in which norm violation took place. To many of you this might seem like an obvious question and you're pulling your hair, thinking, "how come she doesn't know about this stuff," but I would really appreciate some help to add to my current literature review. Any pointers as to how a group/community reacts to norm violation and what happens to the people who violate the norms would be much appreciated. Please send your advice Off List to me personally at bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu, and I will make sure I compile a summary to be posted here (rather than clogging up everyone's mailbox with lots of messages). Thanks so much in advance! Ulla ********************** Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu **********************

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Informal programming learning?
by David Wiley 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

<lurk mode=off> Everyone, I'm looking for references to the informal (trans. extracurricular) learning of programming. We all know (or may be) geeks of great prowess who never took a CS course. These people frequently relied on the Internet to receive help, get feedback, etc. Anyone know of any research pieces that detail (or at least reference) this phenomenon? Thanks in advance. /me recedes into shadow... <lurk mode=on> -- http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/ "I'm much more interested in being right today than I am in maintaining that I was right yesterday."

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Re: [Air-l] Informal programming learning?
by Irene Berkowitz 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Jeremy, Not a reference to specifically learning programming, but the "Social Life of Information" by John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid is about the phenomenon of the "practice of learning." IB >>> jhuns(a)vt.edu 01/27/2003 7:38:30 PM >>> there is, as i recall, at least one such work at opensource.mit.edu, i'd be interested in hearing of others. <lurk mode= on> ! error mode not present On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:23 PM, David Wiley wrote: > <lurk mode=off> > > Everyone, > > I'm looking for references to the informal (trans. extracurricular) > learning of programming. We all know (or may be) geeks of great > prowess who never took a CS course. These people frequently relied on > the Internet to receive help, get feedback, etc. Anyone know of any > research pieces that detail (or at least reference) this phenomenon? jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () 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 Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu

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TLT Cooperative Online Courses
by jeremy hunsinger 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

from DEOS-L, Subject: TLT Cooperative Online Courses State University of New York (SUNY) Teaching, Learning and Technology Cooperative online courses are coming! The SUNY TLT Cooperative in partnership with the SUNY Training Center is offering eight-week, non-credit online professional development courses. Registration is now open and courses begin February 12, 2003. Course titles include: Basic Copyright for Higher Education Basic Web Page Design: Using HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) Best Practices in Online Learning: Lessons Learned from SLN (SUNY Learning Network) Career Centers Without Walls: Developing Career Services Designing a Course in WebCT Designing an Online Course in the Blackboard CMS Incorporating Info Literacy Tasks into Web-Enhanced Courses Intro to Web Animation using FLASH MERLOT for Faculty Development Professionals Multimedia for Educators Online Pedagogy: Creating a Successful Web-Enhanced Course Online Survey's: The Complete Workshop Plagiarism: Detection and Prevention Teaching Science Online You can see the complete list of TLT Cooperative online courses and register at the SUNY Training Center website: http://www.tc.suny.edu TO REGISTER or to VIEW A CLASS DESCRIPTION: (In 3 Easy Steps) 1) Go to the SUNY Training Center web site at http://www.tc.suny.edu 2) Click on "Click here to View or Register for an Event." 3) Click "TLT Cooperative Courses" to select and complete the online registration form for a particular course. To learn more about the SUNY Teaching, Learning, and Technology Cooperative see http://tlt.suny.edu/TLTCoop/overview.htm Questions? Contact the SUNY Training Center at (315) 464-4078 or via e-mail at suny_training(a)tc.suny.edu jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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CONF: The New Web Of History
by Karim R. Lakhani 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

This conference may be of interest to some on our list. THE NEW WEB OF HISTORY A CONFERENCE ABOUT CRAFTING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON-LINE MARCH 28 AND 29, 2003 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Colleagues, The Dibner/Sloan History of Recent Science and Technology Project (HRST) and the Dibner Institute invite you to a conference on the novel opportunities and challenges that the World Wide Web presents for historians of science and technology. The conference has two goals: first, to provide a snapshot of some of the most original projects that use the Web to produce, present and disseminate scholarly and educational materials; and second, to examine critically the challenges as well as the opportunities that such projects face. The conference will be held on March 28th and 29th in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We plan three sessions, each of which includes presentations concerning recent and on-going projects: New Methods, about new tools and approaches for doing history on line; New Products, about the use of new media and the production of content; and New Challenges about issues faced by researchers, academia, and publishers. Each day will conclude with a panel of historians, administrators and program officers offering responses, reflections, and discussing future prospects. The confirmed speakers and commentators so far include: Babak Ashrafi, HRST and MIT Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, HRST and Paris X University Jed Z. Buchwald, HRST and CalTech Daniel Cohen, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Gregory Crane, The Perseus Project, Tufts University Michael Cusumano, Sloan School of Management, MIT Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University Slava Gerovitch, HRST and MIT Gerd Grassoff, University of Berne, Switzerland Stephen M. Griffin, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation Rob Iliffe, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT Timothy Lenoir, HRST and Stanford University David A. Mindell, HRST and MIT Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Roy Rosenzweig, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Zick Rubin, Copyright Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts Henning Schmidgen, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Harvey Shoolman, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine George E. Smith, Dibner Institute and Tufts University Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton University Marney Smyth, MIT Press James Sparrow, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University We hope that you will join us for what promises to be an interesting examination of new possibilities for our discipline. This conference is organized the History of Recent Science and Technology Project [http://hrst.mit.edu] and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Dibner Fund. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND, PLEASE CONTACT CARLA CHRISFELD AT CARLAC(a)MIT.EDU FOR 617-253-8721. SPACE IS LIMITED

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New Nerdi Website
by Paul Wouters 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

New Nerdi Website and WISER project We have started a new European project on Web Indicators last year, called Wiser. More information about WISER can be found at our updated Website http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi. You will find additional information about our activities there, that may be useful to internet researchers and science and technology studies. regards Paul Wouters Dr. P. F. Wouters Programme Leader Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi) NIWI-KNAW The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences PO Box 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands T 3120 4628654 F 3120 6658013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi paul.wouters(a)niwi.knaw.nl

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response rates to pop-up surveys on health issues
by John Powell 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

Hi all Does anyone have any references to papers which have surveyed health users (particularly users of health virtual communities) using pop-ups, and calculated response/recruitment rates? Or has anyone conducted such a survey themself? I want to compare the recruitment rate in my study with those found in other similar research. Many thanks! John Dr John Powell Clinical Research Fellow London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine john.powell(a)lshtm.ac.uk

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Benchmarking government web site and online service
by Mattia Miani 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

Dear Aoirs, I am currently working in a research project aimed at analyzing the quality of government web site in Emilia-Romagna (one of the twenty Italian administrative division, roughly equivalent to a U.S State or a German Lander). We are studying both the quality of what is offered online and the interactivity of thoese services offered online. We are much concerned in benchmarking, that is in comparing our situation with other European and World regions (that's different from National and Local level...). If you know any research that could be useful for this purpose or are interested in this knind of project, please read the rest of the message and send any reference. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Benchmarking Information Society in the Regions of Europe The Emilia-Romagna Telematic Plan The Emilia-Romagna region has recently launched its Regional Telematic Plan 2002-2005. For the year 2002, attention is focussed on: · Broadband infrastructure in the region o A network for Romagna o A satellite for the mountain districts o In Emilia the network runs along the rails · TETRA, an emergency network · Interactive public services · Online General Practitioners and Paediatricians · Digital land registry · E-Procurement for Public Administrations · Support for enterprises operating in the sector In this framework, the Regional Government has launched a benchmarking action, in order to compare itself with other regions in Europe. Quantitative data and comparison between regions provide a great decision-support tool for local policy-makers. Ervet, the Regional Development Agency, is in charge of the execution of the project, which was already carried out successfully as a pilot in the Province of Parma. The benchmarking indicators The benchmarking action is consistent with and takes accoun of main eEurope actions, current European projects such as BISER, and priorities of the Regional Plan. Although not yet finalised and open to discussion, actual indicators for benchmarking are: - Interactivity of public services and quality of public websites - Connection of research centres and universities to Research Networks - Internet access in households - Number of places and graduates in ICT - Number of Public Internet Access Points - E-commerce in enterprises - E-procurement in Public Administration - Availability of broadband connection - Internet connection in schools - Dimension of ICT/multimedia sector WHAT WE HAVE We are already aware of a number of pieces of research, among these: Benchmarking Eeurope http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/benchmarking/text_en.htm Bartelsmann Foundation: Balanced e-government benchmarking http://www.begix.de/en/frames/content.html Accenture, Governments Closing Gap Between Political Rhetoric and eGovernment Reality, studio del 2001 sull'e-gov in 22 paesi http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enWeb&xd=Industries\Government\gove_st udy.xml http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=industries\government\gove_me thod.xml I materiali del laboratorio di Benchmarking della comunicazione pubblica in rete organizzato da Urp degli Urp http://www.urp.it/Database/urpdegliurp/urp.nsf/pagine/35DC4B691A14E2C8C1256C 52002557DA?OpenDocument Cheklist per il controllo della conformità dei siti ai requisiti per l' assegnazione del dominio gov.it (valido per la pubblica amministrazione centrale) http://www.mininnovazione.it/ita/intervento/normativa/dominio.shtml AIPA - I servizi in rete offerti sui siti web delle regioni italiane e delle province autonome Quaderno n. 11 - Luglio 2002 http://www.aipa.it/servizi%5B3/notizie%5B2/Rilevaz_servizi_in_rete.pdf AIPA - I servizi in rete offerti sui siti web dell'amministrazione centrale italiana, Quaderno n. 6 - Ottobre 2001 http://www.aipa.it/servizi[3/pubblicazioni[5/quaderni[3/quaderno_6.pdf Censis - Città Digitali e analisi dei siti della PA centrale (arpa-l, arpa-c) http://www.rur.it/rur/ http://www.censis.it http://www.censis.it/censis/ricerche/2001/paonline/index.html Darrell M. West, Assessing E-Government: The Internet, Democracy, and Service Delivery by State and Federal Governments, Providence (RI), Brown University, 2000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/polreports/egovtreport00.htm l Altri studi, compreso il follow-up di quello del 2000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/policyreports.html Is Your Local Government Plugged In? Highlights of the 2000 Electronic Government Survey Prepared for ICMA and PTI byDonald F. Norris, Patricia D. Fletcher, and Stephen H. Holden University of Maryland, Baltimore County February 27, 2001 http://icma.org/download/cat15/grp120/sgp224/E-Gov2000.pdf INVOLVEMENT If you are working on some similar project, especially in Europe, please contact me outside the list (my email is katanankes(a)yahoo.com) we are looking for partners for future efforts and for polishing our methodology. Mattia Miani University of Bologna ITALY

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