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AoIR Toronto: Pre-Conference Lab Open House
by Rhiannon Bury 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

A number of labs will be opening their doors to AoIR delegates on Wednesday Oct. 15. Please note that this event was originally arranged as a lab tour. Now, individual labs have posted their hours on the website, and delegates are free to stop by as few or as many as interest them. Please use the following link for the most updated information. http://aoir.org/2003/conference.html#lab If you still have questions, please direct them to our Pre-Conference Coordinator: Olivia Robertson olivia.robertson(a)utoronto.ca. Rhiannon

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AoIR Toronto: Pre -Conference Workshops
by Rhiannon Bury 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

I would like to draw your attention to updated information on the pre-conference workshops Wed. Oct 15. If you are in the Toronto area or will have arrived in town by then, you can attend the following for NO fee through the generosity of the organizers. 1. Technology / Research / Ethics 8:30 am - 12:30 pm (Charles Ess) 2. Postcolonial Feminists meet Internet Studies 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Radhika Gajjala) Both workshops will be held at Ryerson University, within walking distance or a short cab ride from the Hilton. For more details, please use the following link: http://aoir.org/2003/conference.html#pre Rhiannon Bury !http://aoir.org/2003/conference.html#lab

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The Observer | Business | Breaking through with the Baghdad blogger
by Frank Thomas 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

For the blogging community: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1040861,00.html

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Request re AoIR conference
by Dianne Looker 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

I am in one of the Digital Divide sessions on Saturday (session 343). There is a family matter I need to deal with and, if possible, would like to switch with someone in one of the other Digital Divides sessions on Thursday or Friday (sessions 141 or 241). If anyone is willing to switch with me, please let me know. Thank you. Dianne Looker

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Hope to see you in Toronto
by Steve Jones 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

Greetings: I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it at the upcoming AoIR 2003 conference in Toronto, our fourth annual conference. The quality of papers and presentations promises to be outstanding, and I am grateful to Matt Allen, our program chair, and the numerous reviewers who looked over the many paper and panel submissions this year. As most of you know this will be my final conference as AoIR president, and it has been a privilege and an honor to oversee four of the best conferences I have ever attended. I will look forward to participating in future ones as a member! As has been the case the past three years I am nearly overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the program, and cannot wait to begin the meeting. A great deal of effort has gone into the planning of the conference, and much has particularly been contributed by Liss Jeffrey and volunteers and colleagues in Toronto. Should you have any questions or concerns, or need advice of any kind, please email the conference coordinators, they are AoIR's "go to" people on-site: Rhiannon Bury rbury(a)wlu.ca Catherine Middleton cmiddlet(a)ryerson.ca Olivia Robertson olivia.robertson(a)utoronto.ca I am sure they will be more than happy to help, and they have already been a tremendous help with conference arrangements, as have been numerous volunteers in Toronto (and vicinity) and in AoIR. Please also keep an eye on the official website for the conference - http://www.aoir.org/2003 - which will be progressively updated over the next few days, including links to the program. See you soon, Steve Jones President, Association of Internet Researchers Sj

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AOIR Toronto: Special Events
by Rhiannon Bury 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Hi all: We are now less than a week away from the start of the conference. This is the first of several messages you'll be getting from me in the next day or two. If anyone has sent a cheque for the gala dinner and/or the roundtable brunch instead of using Kagi, can you please email me at rbury(a)wlu.ca to ensure that we are are in receipt or that it's on its way. I want to ensure ensure that your meal is ordered and a ticket placed in your registration kit! I also want to draw your attention to the following special conference events Thanks Rhiannon ************************************************************** Art Installations Recent work by the following three artists will be available for viewing during the welcome reception and the pre-gala dinner cocktail. Each artist will introduce his/her work and be available to discuss their work. Thursday October 16 5:30 to 7:00 pm Location: TBA at welcome reception Vincent John Vincent and and Francis MacDougall "Innovation at Your Fingertips" JestPointT is the core technology powering Jestertek's line of interactive products. JestPoint utilizes advanced real-time computer vision techniques to isolate and track your hand, converting your simple gestures into direct mouse control in a variety of environments. JestPointT allows any screen of any size to be controlled from any distance. Besides numerous pu blic forum installations, JestPoint's stereo analysis and control technology is applicable for desktop PCs, corporate presentations, trade shows, education, security, entertainment, fitness and rehabilitation, and more. Saturday October 18, 5:30 to 7:00pm Locations TBA during pre-gala cocktail. 1. Johannes Birringer "reappearcances and oracles" Film installation by Johannes Birringer (editor) The first international Interaction Laboratory at the former Coal Mine Göttelborn took place in July 2003, produced by Industrial Culture Saar and organized by director/choreographer Johannes Birringer. Göttelborn is projected to become a future high tech location of the Saarland, a small state in southwest Germany bordering on France and Luxemburg. The Laboratory was designed as an experiment in the re-utilization of the abandoned site which now anticipates economic and architectural development. In this changing landscape of industrial culture, an innovative platform was seeded for integrated research in media and technologies, especially interactive performance and telecommunications. The film reflects the project introducing some of the poetic interactions with the location in the work of the 21 participants of the laboratory who came from four different continents. Camera: Jim Ruxton, Maria Stamenkovic, Beatrice Sauberbrey and Johannes > Birringer. Editor/Producer: Johannes Birringer 2. Lisa Naugle "Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope" (2001) A performance commemorating September 11, 2001 tragedies was conducted in real-time at New York University and the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, The Dance and Digital Performance Ensemble, directed by Lisa Naugle, explored new ways to work with technology, sending high-bandwidth audio and video back and forth using Internet 2. Internet 2 allowed each venue to receive sound and video simultaneously. The performers on each coast interacted in a structured improv isational mix using VBrick Systems' television-quality video-over-IP system, which enables each venue to receive sound and video in real time. One of the visual threads created with John Crawford was "The Machine Meeting Its Reflection" or the image of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center, meeting their own reflection in the windows; also creating a conceptual reflection on technology, the disaster of it and its power to bounce back and effect us.

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Professorships at the Oxford Internet Institute (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

fyi, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ 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 network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:43:25 +0100 From: William Dutton <William.Dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> To: William.Dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Subject: Professorships at the Oxford Internet Institute Dear Friends and Colleagues of the OII As you may know, the University has announced two new professorships in the OII: Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profigr.shtml Professor of Society and the Internet http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profsocint.shtml The URLs provide further information about both professorships, but do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to know more about either post. The closing date for applications is 24 November 2003. I would greatly appreciate your help in drawing these new posts to the attention of prospective candidates. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Bill Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles' Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Professorships at the Oxford Internet Institute
by William Dutton 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

The Oxford Internet Institute has established two new professorships. I would greatly appreciate your help in drawing these new posts to the attention of prospective candidates. Further particulars about these posts are available online at: Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profigr.shtml Professor of Society and the Internet http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profsocint.shtml The closing date for applications is 24 November 2003. Thank you. Sincerely, Bill Dutton Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles' Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Re: [Air-l] history of im
by Jim Downing 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Barb, This may help I've Got to Get a Message to You Instant messaging took a while to get here, but now it's here to stay. By David Rapp Trailing Edge October 2002 http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/trailing1002.asp >>> bwyskowski(a)comcast.net 10/12/03 12:59 PM >>> hello: i, too am looking for the history, my question is the same as yours. did you ever get a response? barb wyskowski, lawyer & student

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Barry Wellman Appointed North American Editor of Information Communication and Society (iCS)
by William Dutton 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Dear AoIR Colleagues: As an editor of Information Communication and Society (iCS), I am delighted to announce that Professor Barry Wellman of the University of Toronto has agreed to be our North American Editor. In addition to being a professor in the Department of Sociology, Barry Wellman is Director of NetLab at the University of Toronto and International Coordinator of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. He has been a central figure in the Association of Internet Researchers, since its inception, and has been selected as Chair-Elect of the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association. Barry Wellman has the academic stature, energy and networks to attract some of the best scholarship from not only North America but from round the world. For these and many other reasons, the current editors, Brian Loader at the University of Teesside and I, look forward to working with Professor Wellman to ensure the continued success of a truly international journal. Sincerely, Bill Dutton Editor, iCS Notes: Information Communication and Society (iCS) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html Professor Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/ Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles' Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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