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

blogs at aoir
by Thomas N. Burg 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Dear mailinglisters, here is a list of bloggers at AOIR http://randgaenge.net/gems/AOIR_blogs.opml you can transclude (or include) that opml in other opml-files or blogrolling services. And here the html-rendered page http://randgaenge.net/outlines/AOIR_blogs.html You will also find the file here http://demo.weboutliner.com/webOutliner/# on the right side go to blogrolls. You can edit the list there If time permits I name the blogs, in fact anybody could do it by using the opml that's available Please keep me updated of new blogs for maintaing the list Cheers Thomas __________________ Center for New Media Danube University Krems http://randgaenge.net

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Birds of a Sociological Feather Flock Next Week
by Barry Wellman 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

This is a call for all those interested in the sociological side of the Internet to flock together in Toronto on Friday, October 17, 1130-1230. We'll roost at the Barrister's Bar of the Hilton Hotel, University Ave & Queen St. It offers a relaxed lounge environment, good for an informal meet and great with people who share similar interests. The occasion is Internet Research 4.0: the annual meeting of the international and interdisciplinary Association for Internet Researchers. The conference seems like a great opportunity to meet fellow sociologists who are Internet minded. Why at this 1130 time? We don't want to clash with other BOF groups who are meeting at 0800. Moreover, as sociologists, we will surely be out doing participant-observation of the Toronto nightlife to the wee hours beforehand. So, please come visit with your fellow sociologists. Some of us will probably continue out for lunch on the funky Queen Street strip. And while registration is not necessary, just to get an idea of who and how many are showing up at 1130-1230, please drop Tracy Kennedy an e-line. <tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca>, Thanks, Barry and Tracy _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at 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 To live is to network; to network is to live. _____________________________________________________________________

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Formation of "Community Informatics Researchers.Org"
by Michael Gurstein 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Community Informatics: Enabling Communities With Information and Communications Technologies At the Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society Colloquium http://www.ccnr.net/prato2003/ held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy a group of participants from some 7 countries and representing a variety of universities and research networks agreed to proceed to the creation of a formal Community Informatics Research Network (.Org) (CIRN). There was an agreement by the CIRN Interim Committee of the Whole that the organization would be open to participation and membership by individuals, institutions, for profit and not for profit enterprises and networks, with an active interest and involvement in Community Informatics Research and particularly those from Developing Countries. The approach agreed to was also that this organisation would seek to build a network of the related organizations that for subject, language or other reasons feel more comfortable operating on their own. In other words it would be pro-actively facilitating the formation of a structured open network among CI research groups. An interim executive steering committee consisting of Michael Gurstein, NJIT; Peter Day, U. of Brighton; and Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U., and Larry Stillman of Monash U. as the Interim Secretary/webmaster was formed to work towards the timely incorporation of the group as a not for profit society under the Australian corporations act. In addition, an invitation was extended by Dr. Peter Day and Brighton University to host CIRN's first research conference in the spring of 2004. The Founding conference of CIRN it was agreed, would be hosted by Monash University at the Prato Centre in late September 2004. It was also agreed that the CI Researchers list http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/ciresearchers would be the e-list for the organization and that a website based on the design developed by CQU would go on line as soon as possible and hosted by Monash U. in conjunction with CQU. Michael Gurstein agreed to provide an interim linkage with the newly created CI Research Network of the Commonwealth of Independent States formed in conjunction with the St. Petersburg (BIC) conference http://communities.org.ru/conference/ Several members of the Interim Committee of the Whole agreed to liase with a variety of other CI research networks and specifically the CRACIN network in Canada and the network which is currently being created in the United States. It was further agreed that efforts would be undertaken to find resources to move forward with the continued development of the Open Archive Community Informatics Text Book building on the work of Sergei Stafeev, Mike Gurstein and Michel Menou in the publication in English and Russian of Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects, Approaches, Instruments Part 1 of a CI Text book (St. Petersburg, 2003) And the website http://www.ci-text.dr.ag/ .... A statement to be forwarded to the World Summit on the Information Society on behalf of CIRN was adopted and will be circulated in a subsequent message. Those with an interest in either affiliating with the Network or learning more about it are invited to subscribe to the Research list or to the more general Community Informatics interest list. To subscribe send a message To: sympa(a)vancouvercommunity.net Message: Subscribe CIResearchers And/or Communityinformatics Best, Peter Day, U. of Brighton Michael Gurstein, NJIT Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U. Community Informatics Researchers News: * An informal meeting in conjunction with the Information, Communications and Society Conference at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/event/conference/iCS/iCS2003_programme.pdf , agreed that efforts would be undertaken immediately to begin the development of an on-line journal with interim resource support committed as available through NJIT/NSF; CIRA in Teeside, UK; Monash U. in Australia; and the CRACIN Network in Canada. A follow-up meeting to "brainstorm" on the design and development of the journal will be held in conjunction with the AoIR meeting in Toronto in October and with an interim discussion on the CIResearchers e-list as a lead-up to that meeting. * Dr. Peter van den Besselaar, Head of the Social Sciences Department Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (NIWI-KNAW) presented an important outline of the scope of Community Informatics Research including its links to his own work in Digital Cities and related Community Networks, in a keynote presentation at the Communities and Technology Conference in Amsterdam http://www-winfo.uni-siegen.de/wulf/CT2003/ . * Brian Loader and Leigh Keeble of CIRA/U. of Teeside with funding from the Rowntree Foundation have prepared a most valuable annotated bibliography of Community Informatics Research which they will be making available on line in the very near future. It is their intention to keep this up to date as a continuing resource for the CI Research Community. http://www.cira.org.uk * A Workshop bringing together US Community Informatic researchers and Practitioners was convened in April in Colorado Springs with the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation and organized by Richard Civille and Michael Gurstein. It was agreed at that meeting that follow-up action towards the creation of a US CI Researchers group would be undertaken as well as a number of other related follow-up initiatives. http://www.communityinformatics.org * The CQU/COIN team including Wal Taylor and Stewart Marshall have just published two books including "Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions" through the Idea Group publishers and "Closing the Digitial Divide" with Greenwood Publisher. They are pleased to invite Community Informatics researchers and practitioners to the Upcoming 5th annual ITiRA conference (IT in Regional Areas) in Caloundra, Queensland, Dec. http://itira.cqu.edu.au/2003/ * Bulletin: The CRACIN (Canadian Research Alliance For Community Innovation And Networking) proposal: PI's Andrew Clement, U. of Toronto; Michael Gurstein, NJIT; and Leslie Shade, Concordia U. has just been awarded a major 3 year grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to undertake a series of community IT/Community Informatics case studies across Canada and in conjunction with the larger CI Researchers Network. There will be a presentation on the project at the AoIR conference in Toronto Oct. 17.

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book publication - Society Online: The Internet in Context
by Philip Howard 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Dear AIRers: Over the last couple of years a number of scholars have been working with data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. These collaborators have contributed some of the fruit of their research to a collected edited by Steve Jones and myself, called Society Online: The Internet in Context. We began calling for contributions at AIR 2.0 in Minnesota, and are happy to announce that the collection is ready in time for AIR 4.0 in Toronto. The collection takes a 'spheres of life' approach to organizing the findings of the scholarship (community, politics, economics, culture, global & personal contexts), so it is ideal for senior undergrad classes or as an intro for grads looking to build a reference list on particular themes. Check out the big display that Sage will have at our meeting next week, there may be extra display copies. Many of the contributors will be at the meeting if you want to interrogate them about their work. The odd capitalizations in David Silver's title are not typos, he did that deliberately. See you soon! Phil Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/ Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones, Editors, Society Online: The Internet in Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage) http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/aboutsocietyonline.html CONTENTS Foreword (Rainie) / Prologue: The Case for Multi-method Research: Large Sample Design and the Study of Life Online (Witte) / Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and Society Online (Howard). SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENT - The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities (Norris) / Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online (Larson) / Bending Gender Into the Net: Feminizing Content, Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy (Shade) / Interrogating the Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media (Nakamura). WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE - Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An Analysis of Voter Preference (Stromer-Galley) / The Internet and Political Involvement in 1996 and 2000 (Rice and Katz) / New Media, Internet News, and the News Habit (Dessauer) / Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web After September 11 (Schneider and Foot). ECONOMIC LIFE ONLINE - sHoP onLiNE!: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture (Silver and Garland) / Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era (Neff and Stark) / Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills (Kotamraju). CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINE - Wired and Well Read (Griswold and Wright) / The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age (Peterson and Ryan) / Technology and Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users and Nonusers (Robinson, Neustadtl, and Kestnbaum). PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINE - Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication (Hargittai) / American Internet Users and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? (Starke-Meyerring, Burk, and Gurak) / Sited Materialities With Global Span (Sassen) / The Future of the Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions (Bainbridge) / Conclusion: Contexting the Network (Jones).

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reception & online course
by Daniela Papelbaum 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Dear AoIR friends, My name is Daniela. I´m a master degree student, on Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I´m doing a research on reception/audience in Internet, regarding on line courses. I´ve already looked for this subject on Latin America authors and didn´t find much about it. Actually, the Web is considered one among many others new information and communication technologies and not examined in its specifications. I would love to hear from people on this list that are aware of any group/author researching reception/audience in Internet or, more exactly, about reception & online courses. It will help me a lot. Thank you all!

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #848 - 7 msgs
by Adrian Miles 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

At 12:01 -0400 2/10/03, "Ren Reynolds wrote: > >As to ethics of citation, I see blogs just like any other web site, and >hence different from listserves which often have stated quotation rules. yep, i'd agree. the format I've always suggested to students is that http resources should be treated much like journals in terms of what sorts of information ought to be recorded, how, and where. i send my students to: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/publications/web_citation.html though Janice R. Walker's guidelines are the most rigorous and thorough that I know of: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html personally i don't see that citing a blog is any different to citing any other http resource. cheers Adrian Miles -- + interactive desktop video researcher [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + research blog [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au]

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #853 - 2 msgs
by iepf 2001 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

After Rob Kling, Edward Said, and now Neil Postman! who is going to be the next? --- air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > Send Air-l mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Neil Postman (Steve Jones) > 2. call for papers (NewMedia2004) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:15:25 -0500 > To: air-l <air-l(a)aoir.org> > From: Steve Jones <sjones(a)uic.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] Neil Postman > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > It is with deep sadness that I inform the list of > the death of Neil > Postman. 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I am > sure that innumerable newspapers and journals will > carry well written > obituaries and that I cannot hold a candle to those, > so I hope that > it will suffice to say that I mourn his passing and > send my > condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, > correspondents and > readers. > > Sj > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > From: NewMedia2004 <NewMedia2004(a)sta01.ioe.ac.uk> > To: "'air-l(a)aoir.org'" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:31:47 +0100 > Subject: [Air-l] call for papers > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > > Digital Generations > Children, young people and new media > > 26-29 July 2004 > London, England > > A major international conference organised by > The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and > Media > Institute of Education, University of London > > Computer games, the internet and other new > communications media are = > often > seen to pose threats and dangers to young people; > but they also provide = > new > opportunities for creativity and self-determination. > This international > conference will present the most exciting and > challenging new research = > on > children, young people and new digital media. We aim > to bring together > researchers from a range of academic disciplines - > including media and > cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, > psychology and education - = > and to > promote dialogue within and across research > traditions. We also aim to > develop dialogue between researchers, practitioners > in digital media, = > and > educators. Keynote speakers include David Buckingham > (University of = > London), > Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California), > Gunther Kress = > (University > of London) and Sonia Livingstone (London School of > Economics). The = > last day > of the conference will be an education day featuring > new research and > strategies for teachers, as well as workshops led by > practitioners, = > such as > games and web designers. > > Conference themes will include: =20 > * Digital divides: social differences in children's > uses of new media > * Globalisation and intercultural communication > * Changing youth and childhood identities =20 > * New media, schools and informal learning > * Regulation: censorship or consumer empowerment? > * Play, games and interactivity > * Children and young people as media producers > > > To submit a proposal for a paper, symposium or > workshop > Papers will be limited to 30 minutes, which should > include time for > questions and comments. If you would like to > present a paper please = > submit > a 400 word abstract with an indication of what > theme(s) you will = > address.=20 > > Symposia will be limited to 2 hours, with three or > four presentations = > on a > common theme. Proposals should contain a cover page > with the title of = > the > symposium along with names, affiliation, addresses > and emails of each > contributor. Each proposal should include an > overview of the session, = > not > to exceed 250 words, as well as 400 word abstracts > of each of the = > papers. > > Workshops on the education day (29 July) will be > limited to 90 minutes. > Proposals for workshops should indicate the target > audience as well as > facilities required (e.g. digital editing > equipment). We encourage > proposals for hands-on workshops. Please submit a > 400 word abstract. > > Abstracts and proposals must include your name, > affiliation, address = > and > email and should be submitted to: > newmedia2004(a)ioe.ac.uk DEADLINE: 31 > December 2003 > > Your abstract or proposal will be reviewed by the > scientific committee = > for > its suitability to the conference. You will receive > a reply by the end = > of > January 2004. 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RE: [Air-l] AOIR Toronto: last chance to get in on the gala
by Kendall, Lori 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Gah. Sorry to send that last message to everyone. Lori

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call for papers
by NewMedia2004 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Generations Children, young people and new media 26-29 July 2004 London, England A major international conference organised by The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media Institute of Education, University of London Computer games, the internet and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people; but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. This international conference will present the most exciting and challenging new research on children, young people and new digital media. We aim to bring together researchers from a range of academic disciplines - including media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology and education - and to promote dialogue within and across research traditions. We also aim to develop dialogue between researchers, practitioners in digital media, and educators. Keynote speakers include David Buckingham (University of London), Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California), Gunther Kress (University of London) and Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics). The last day of the conference will be an education day featuring new research and strategies for teachers, as well as workshops led by practitioners, such as games and web designers. Conference themes will include: * Digital divides: social differences in children's uses of new media * Globalisation and intercultural communication * Changing youth and childhood identities * New media, schools and informal learning * Regulation: censorship or consumer empowerment? * Play, games and interactivity * Children and young people as media producers To submit a proposal for a paper, symposium or workshop Papers will be limited to 30 minutes, which should include time for questions and comments. If you would like to present a paper please submit a 400 word abstract with an indication of what theme(s) you will address. Symposia will be limited to 2 hours, with three or four presentations on a common theme. Proposals should contain a cover page with the title of the symposium along with names, affiliation, addresses and emails of each contributor. Each proposal should include an overview of the session, not to exceed 250 words, as well as 400 word abstracts of each of the papers. Workshops on the education day (29 July) will be limited to 90 minutes. Proposals for workshops should indicate the target audience as well as facilities required (e.g. digital editing equipment). We encourage proposals for hands-on workshops. Please submit a 400 word abstract. Abstracts and proposals must include your name, affiliation, address and email and should be submitted to: newmedia2004(a)ioe.ac.uk DEADLINE: 31 December 2003 Your abstract or proposal will be reviewed by the scientific committee for its suitability to the conference. You will receive a reply by the end of January 2004. All presenters must register and pay for the conference prior to 31 May 2004. Deadlines Abstracts and proposals 31 December 2003 Response from review committee 31 January 2004 Registration for presenters 31 May 2004 Registration Fees Early Registration (before 31 May) £200 Late Registration (after 31 May) £250 Registration for one day £75 Student/Spouse £100 We are hoping to make available limited financial support to presenters for whom registration fees and travel costs would present a hardship. Please submit your request for financial consideration, along with the abstract of your conference paper, workshop or symposium to newmedia2004(a)ioe.ac.uk Accommodation HOTELSCENE in conjunction with the Institute of Education have arranged special discounted rates at selected hotels for conference delegates. Rates range from £59 to £145 per night. Further information is available at www.hotelscene.co.uk or by phone +44 117 916 6335. Social Events The Institute of Education is adjacent to Russell Square, near the British Museum, Covent Garden, West End theatres, Soho and Piccadilly. We plan to organise several social events, and delegates are also encouraged to explore London on their own.

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RE: [Air-l] AOIR Toronto: last chance to get in on the gala
by Kendall, Lori 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

I know I registered for the conference, and I'm pretty sure I paid for the gala as well, but I can't find my confirmation email to check. Can you tell me how to check on whether I paid for the gala? Or was that not up on the site when registrations started? Thanks! Lori Kendall

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