January 2003 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Fwd: Positions in Art+Technology at UC Irvine-Please Circulate
by Steve Jones 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

>ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (2) IN ARTS, COMPUTATION AND ENGINEERING (ACE), >UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE > >The University of California, Irvine (UCI) invites applications for >two tenure-track cross-disciplinary positions in the area of Arts, >Computation and Engineering (ACE), a new transdisciplinary program >supported by the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the Henry Samueli >School of Engineering, and the School of Information and Computer >Science. It emphasizes the development of cultural projects and >practices involving real time computation and interaction. For >details and application information, please visit >http://www.ace.uci.edu. >The successful candidates will play a core role in the ACE graduate >program and will have the opportunity to be centrally involved in >the research agendas of the Arts Layer of the California Institute >for Telecommunications and Information Technology (www.calit2.net) >These include the visualization, simulation and interaction lab, the >Game Culture and Technology Lab, and a (proposed) Center for >Research in Interactive, Telematic and Immersive Culture. >The campus has a vigorous research and teaching presence in such >areas as digital media arts, interactive installation, electronic >music, embodied interaction, live performance, game culture and >technology, computer graphics, immersive visualization and >simulation, HCI, CSCW, robotics, sensors, wireless and ubiquitous >computing. We are seeking candidates in any area of computing or >engineering and the arts that will complement or bolster these >emphases. >Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Engineering, an >MFA/MA in Digital Arts, dual degrees, or demonstrated equivalent >experience, with strong research credentials as evidenced by >scholarly publications, research projects and/or public exhibition >and projects. >Applications should include a cover letter, a statement of purpose >including a page each on pedagogy and research, an up-to-date CV, >three recent publications, audio visual documentation of >research/practice, and letters from three to five references. >Documentation of projects can be submitted on CD (Mac/PC compatible) >or VHS video. Websites and online projects can be submitted on CD. >Electronic applications are highly preferable. Instructions for the >submission of electronic applications can be found at: >http://www.ics.uci.edu/about/jobs/faculty.php and questions >regarding the process should be directed to profrecruit(a)ics.uci.edu >or: >ATTN: ACE Search >Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering >305 Engineering Tower >University of California >Irvine, CA 92697-2625 >USA > >Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of >curriculum vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to >applications received by February 28, 2003. >The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity >employer committed to excellence through diversity, has an active >career partner program and a National Science Foundation Advance >Gender Equity Program.

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Re: [Air-l] Call for reviewers for 2003 AoIR conference
by David J. Phillips 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

I'd be happy to serve as a reviewer. Here's a blurb: David J. Phillips studies the political economy and social shaping of information and communication technologies, especially technologies of privacy, identification, and surveillance. He is the author, most recently, of "Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online Pseudonymity and the Politics of Sexual Identity" (forthcoming in Information, Communication, and Society) and "Beyond Privacy: Confronting Locational Surveillance in Wireless Communication" (forthcoming in Communication Law and Policy) as well as numerous conference papers exploring the relations among policy, economics, ideology, culture, technology. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award to study wireless infrastructure in Finland in Fall 2002. The most appropriate non-streams would be: >Surveillance, Privacy, Security > >Technologies and Infrastructures Thanks for your work! djp David J. Phillips Assistant Professor of Radio/Television/Film University of Texas - Austin CMA6.120, Mail code A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1091 512-471-6624 (voice); 512-471-4077 (fax) djp(a)mail.utexas.edu

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: AILA Literacy 2003
by Bart Bonamie 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Apologies for any cross-posting. MULTILITERACIES: THE CONTACT ZONE 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy Location: Ghent, Belgium Date: 22-27 September 2003 Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003 Contact Persons: Ronald Soetaert - Bart Bonamie Contact Email: literacy(a)memling.rug.ac.be Website: http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila Official language: English MEETING DESCRIPTION: The concept of Literacy invokes multiple and complex interpretations. The concept is also approached from a varying number of perspectives: both as a problem and a solution to a problem. The theoretical and empirical base can be approached from a large number of perspectives (see themes). More than anything else, literacy is seen as a kind of social practice. As a consequence the focus shifts towards multiliteracies with special attention to kinds of literacy (high and low culture, multi-cultural interpretations) and to the role of media in relation to literacy. Our conference as a 'contact zone' - a space which brings into contact people from many different cultures and disciplines (de/re-)constructing, talking & thinking about the future of literacy and the literacies of the future. THEME & SUBTHEMES: The overall theme of the conference is Multiliteracies. (Sub)themes on this conference will include, but not be limited to: - Literacies and Development (Globalisation, social development, third world development etc) - Literacies and Languages (Reading, Writing, Minority Languages, etc) - Literacies and Identity - Literacies and Education (Special needs, ) - Specific Literacies (Digital, Media, Environmental, Youth, Family, Gender, Scientific, Numeracy, Emergent, etc) - Institutional Literacies (Academia, Schools, Museum...) - Cultural Literacies (Literacies & Cultural Studies) - Literacies & Research Issues - Literacies and Education (Academic, Special needs, etc) OBJECTIVES: - bring together a group of established and emerging scholars from around the world, - focus on the changing literacy practices of contemporary times, - have an interdisciplinary focus, - focus on cutting-edge work in the distinct and emerging fields of language and literacy research that make up literacy studies, as well as numeracy studies. GUIDELINES: Individual paper presentation and poster proposals should be no more than 250 words. Panels will generally include three or four papers or presentations. For panel proposals, the session organizer should submit a 150-250 word statement describing the panel topic, including abstracts of up to 250 words for each paper or presentation in the panel. - Paper presentations (time allotted 30 min) - Posters (space allotted 180x90 cm) Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to literacy(a)memling.rug.ac.be. Remember to give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number and 50 word biodate. All proposals will be reviewed by the Academic Advisory Committee on their quality and relevance to the themes of the conference. CONFIRMED KEYNOTES: - Shirley Brice Heath - James Gee - Brian Street - Catherine Beavis - Eddie Williams - Donna Alvermann - David Barton - Ilana Snyder 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. If you do not submit an abstract, send us an e-mail in order to receive our next newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit a man on the head with a fish, and he'll have a headache for a day Teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish and he'll have headaches for the rest of his life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bart.Bonamie(a)rug.ac.be - Dept. of Education - Univ. of Ghent (Belgium) http://memling.rug.ac.be - http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/bart

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Last Call for Abstracts: Proposals for September Conference at the OII
by William Stewart 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

>From: "Oxford Internet Institute" <enquiries(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> >To: <oii-news(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> >Subject: Last Call for Abstracts: Proposals for September Conference at the OII >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:22:21 -0000 > >Dear Colleagues > >As you may know, the OII is hosting an academic conference for Information >Communication and Society (iCS) ><http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html, a refereed journal >focused on the social aspects of information and communication technologies. >The conference will be held in the heart of Oxford, at the OII and Balliol >College, on 17th-20th September 2003. > >Proposals for papers should be submitted as abstracts of no more than 500 >words, and should include details of the proposer's name, position, >affiliation, and contact details. Please submit proposals electronically to >b.d.loader(a)tees.ac.uk in RTF, Word or PDF format by 31 January 2003. > >More details about this 'Call for Papers' and other OII events can be found >on >our events page <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events.shtml>http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events.shtml > >Regards, > >Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute > > 1.To remove your name from the oii-news mailing list, please send an email to: > majordomo(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk > >with the following message in the body text: > > unsubscribe oii-news > >No subject line is necessary; it will be ignored by the system. > >2. To change your address in the mailing list you should first unsubscribe as at 1. above and then re-subscribe by sending an email from your new address to: > > majordomo(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk > >with the following message in the body text: > > subscribe oii-news > >Again no subject line is necessary. > >Any comments or enquiries about the OII can still be sent to enquiries(a)oii.ox.ac.uk. >Yours, >Kunika Kono >Information Officer

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conf-ann First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology January 27-28, 2003 Main Auditorium U.S. Department of Commerce 14th St. and Constitution Ave. Washington, DC http://www.transformingenterprise.com/ (someone should let them know they weren't the first too) 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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call for papers
by Adrian Miles 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

hi of interest to many here: Call for Papers Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture Special Issue, 36.2, 2003. The Geopolitics of Electronic Messaging Editors: Mary Griffiths and Susan Yell mary.griffiths(a)arts.monash.edu.au sue.yell(a)arts.monash.edu.au Monash University, Gippsland Campus "The Geopolitics of e-Messaging" invites theoretically informed discussions of the social and political outcomes of P2P electronic communications, and case studies of the dynamics of governing new publics and the spaces of private communication. Email, webmail, voicemail, text messaging, ICQ, pxt, chat forums, digital television messaging, discussion boards, and now, wireless communications form distinctive protocols, and different capacities in users. New geographies of space and politics are made possible. But, not all that results from the increase in the kind and volume of communication is beneficial. The pressure on many users is to be always available and immediately responsive. Organisational communications may improve but increased surveillance is the corollary. At home and work, time is needed to manage "legitimate" electronic messages and users also deal with unsolicited spam, and with scams, and viruses. Many find themselves, either willingly or involuntarily, in new and compelling sets of relations with others. New etiquettes of interaction are emerging. The "free" space of limitless communication shows signs of shrinking back to more private and customised domains. For example, online communities now use gating technologies to secure themselves from all but identifiable messages. Individuals are increasingly using filters, junk folders and different accounts for protection of privacy. What is being gained or lost by these developments? Is an organised retreat from the exigencies of the most demanding and clamorous aspects of e-messaging starting? Can the new gated communities be thought of as publics? Do they provide evidence of undemocratic tendencies? What can be produced by the crossing of traditional communicative borders? What are the skills, capacities and literacies which are being formed by different messaging technologies? What counts as "nuisance mail" and how is it being dealt with? How are subjectivities being constructed and governed by compulsory participation in online work and educational communities? How are nations, communities, institutions, businesses and individuals managing the virtual spaces of electronic messaging across physical frontiers? Which technologies are being favoured to help sort and filter messages, and protect the privacy of the user? Conversely, why have weblogs, the privatised acts of publicity and broadcasting, become so popular? Full articles due: April 30, 2003. cheers adrian miles -- + MelbourneDAC2003 digital arts and culture conference [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: Visual Approaches to Website Analysis
by J. Sternberg 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: Visual Approaches to Website Analysis The following is a call for book chapters to be included in a book on visual approaches to website analysis, edited by Sally Gill. The website, as a new medium of communication, challenges our traditional methods for analyzing media. Beginning a little over a decade ago as a network linked by hypertexts to aid scientists and scholars with their research, the World Wide Web is rapidly evolving into a highly visual mass medium with commercial, educational, informational and entertainment uses for virtually every segment of society. With an increasing amount of activity now being conducted in the visual environment of the Web, it becomes crucial for everyone to develop an ability to analyze a site from a visual perspective. We are looking for book chapters that explore various approaches to website analysis from the perspective of visual communication, visual rhetoric, visual perception and cognition, signs and symbols, typography, and graphic design. Topics might include how the visuals of a website are used to define the purpose of the site, to attract users to a site and keep them engaged, to persuade, to guide users through a task, to create organizational or product identity, to garner support for a cause, to promote and aid learning, or to reinforce or challenge cultural values. Please send 2 copies of chapter submission by July 1, 2003 to: Sally Gill, Ph.D., 111 W. Pennsylvania Ave. #4R, San Diego, CA 92103-4055; email: sgill(a)alliant.edu or sally.gill(a)cox.net

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RE: Global data on Teen Internet use
by Amanda Lenhart 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Thanks to everyone who rang in with suggestions on the Global Internet Use by Teens/SMS thread. If you're interested, email me off list, and I'll send along a reply with everything that I've gathered both from this discussion and off-list. Thanks, Amanda Amanda Lenhart alenhart(a)pewinternet.org Pew Internet & American Life Project

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research opportunity in Amsterdam
by Anne Beaulieu 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Networked Research and Digital Information Within Nerdi's programme, a project has been funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) to study the use of metaphors within networks. To pursue this one year project, Nerdi is seeking a researcher (M/F) (Vacancy number PZ 014 (40 hours full-time *1) The successful applicant will be part of Nerdis team that presently consists of seven people. The project falls under the themes of collaboration and research methods, as laid out in our research programme (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi) See the call for applications under the heading 'reasearch opportunities' on our website or contact Anne Beaulieu (anne.beaulieu(a)niwi.knaw.nl) Dr Anne Beaulieu Networked research and digital information KNAW-Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Science Joan Muyskenweg 25 Postbus 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: (31)(20)462-8739 fax: (31(20)665-8013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi/anne/home.htm

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Sources for data on Internet use
by Susan Kenyon 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear all I am searching for references for studies that monitor Internet use, in the UK and abroad. I am thinking not only of statistical sources, but studies that monitor the role of the Internet in everyday life, like the UCLA CCP studies, or work done by the Pew Internet and American Life project. I would be very grateful if you could email me with details of any such projects that you are aware of. Thank you very much for your time. Susan Susan Kenyon Research Fellow in Transport and Social Exclusion Unit for Transport and Society Faculty of the Built Environment University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY Tel: 0117 344 3996 Email: susan.kenyon(a)uwe.ac.uk Web: http://www.transport.uwe.ac.uk

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