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

FW: ::fibreculture:: Fibreculture::Brisbane_2003::fibrepower:
by Danny Butt 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi I thought Air-l members may be interested in this. Cheers Danny -- http://www.dannybutt.net ------ Forwarded Message Fibreculture::Brisbane_2003:::::::::: fibrepower:: Currents in Australasian New Media Research and Internet Culture :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: July 11, 12, 13th:::2003 Fibreculture http://www.fibreculture.org Brisbane::Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts New Farm Park, Brisbane QLD Tel: 3358 - 8622 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Fibreculture::Brisbane_2003::::::Fibrepower::Schedule & Themes Three day Meeting Fri July 11, Sat 12, Sun 13th Powerhouse: Courier Mail room Fibreculture :: in association with critical new media studies sections in universities across Brisbane, invites you to a meeting in July 2003 on theory, policy, practice, and education in New Media and the Internet. Fibrepower :: Currents in Australasian New Media Research and Internet Culture will bring together practitioners in the academy and industry from around Australia and New Zealand to participate in critically informed debates about new media and its cultures. It follows the ANZCA03 conference (see http://www.bgsb.qut.edu.au/conferences/ANZCA03/index.html - 9-11 July at QUT Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane). :: Theme of the 2003 Fibreculture Meeting :: fibrepower:: In academic and popular discourses, new media, the Internet, and 'virtual reality' are often described as just this - a 'virtual' reality, an Other, a 'cyberspace' which is somehow disconnected from the 'real' and secondary to 'life' experiences and issues. It is rarely accepted in the dominant Internet discourses of commercial and social culture that the truth is vastly different. New media and networked technologies currently pervade our lives and connect us ever more closely and solidly as citizens of networked society. If information and knowledge, in the new economy, are 'power', then the copper, optical, or wireless fibres spanning the networks are conduits for this power; they are full of power, and powerful. Their daily influence and the network's influence on human society is real and tangible. Fibreculture:: wants to address this continued insistence on conceptualising networked life and Internet cultures as a separate, second-rate or exotic reality, a dichotomy which obscures fact and prevents any in-depth engagement with and critique of the power of 'fibre' over and in our everyday lives. Set in a literal and figurative locus of power from the previous, industrial, era, ::fibrepower:: will engage with a range of themes that disclose the unseen power of fibre-culture in the informational age. Outcomes of this event will include a high profile public forum, an online publication of refereed articles, and deeper connections between new media industries, the academy and others. The meeting will be held at the Brisbane Powerhouse from July 11-13, 2003. (For reports from past fibreculture meetings and updates on fibreculture 2003, please see the Website at http://www.fibreculture.org/.) :::::::::::: FRIDAY nite JULY 11th 7 p.m. Welcome and Registration 8 p.m. Session 1: Fibrepower in the Regions :: Headed by Gerard Goggin Public forum with Guest Speakers, Panelists, and Q&A (TBA) In Australasia regional and rural areas continue to miss out on reliable and fast access to the global networks. This contributes significantly to the growing digital divide, and carries important implications for public and private policy. How can we increase the fibrepower of the regions, and what are current examples of best practice? Gerard Goggin (g.goggin(a)uq.edu.au) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. He is writing a book entitled *Networked Imaginings: Cultural History of Australian Internet*, and has long had an interest in rural and regional internet and telecommunications (not least from living in the country himself). plus :: Introduction to the Fibreculture List & its Open Session, M/C Collaboration, fc Webjournal, and other Fibreculture activities with Geert Lovink, David Teh, Axel Bruns, and other list facilitators. **10 p.m. OPENING Art & Music :: Digital Literacies :: New Media Arts Exhibition :: Guest djs and vjs. No host bar. In conjunction with the conference, Fibreculture and fineArtforum are offering an online gallery space set up as an opportunity for artists to explore critical literacies and conference themes. An A4 gallery of resonant works will also be displayed at the meeting venue providing opportunity for practitioners and attendees to respond visually to the fibrepower themes both beforehand and during the discussions. Organized by Jane Turner. --- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Fibrepower::Weekend Schedule - Discussion Sessions Brisbane Powerhouse - July 12th and 13th SATURDAY JULY 12th 8 a.m.::Registration 8:45 a.m.::Welcome 9 - 10:45 a.m.::Session 2: Intellectual Property-Intellectual Possibilities :: Headed by Esther Milne and Kate Crawford The exercise of intellectual property rights can stifle the generation of intellectual property. The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been abused on any number of occasions. How can copyright be reconfigured for the networked age? How can creative rights be protected, and innovation ensured? How can fibrepower be harnessed to drive intellectual possibilities? What measures, policies and action should be implemented to protect indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property? 10:45 a.m. Morning tea & coffee 11:15 - 1 p.m.::Session 3: Information Warfare :: Headed by Steve Stockwell and Geert Lovink Weapons of mass destruction may remain elusive - but weapons of mass disinformation are evident in any political or military conflict, if you know where and how to look. Information warfare adds to the firepower of conventional weapons arsenals. How do we disarm the information warriors? How do we distinguish freedom of information fighters from info-terrorists? How do we keep truth from becoming a battlefield detainee? 1 p.m.LUNCH 2:00 - 4 p.m. ::Session 4: Fibre Access Geopolitics Wired :: Headed by Guy Redden Much has been made of the distributed nature of the Internet. Does this make it a means through which previously unheard voices can carry, enhancing democracy? Or is it more that network capitalism can now get its tentacles everywhere, determining access and usage on its terms? This session invites critical appraisal and geopolitical interpretation of the spread of informational networks. How does the digital divide play out across space, class and ethnicity? Is access a luxury? With Google in China and aol.com in Australia and numerous other mergers and shifts, who controls the networks? With concentration/convergence, will there be an enclosure of the networks, new ways of constraining and exploiting their use to the detriment of the 'online commons'? Will distributed fibrepower continue to give an edge to international activism, indigenous rights, direct democracy/publishing, and other mobilisations against the centralisation of power? At least relative to other media? Consideration also needs to given to how these matters can be regulated. Is it time for a United Networks alongside the United Nations and who would hold the veto rights?! ____ 4 p.m.:: Warchalking Walk - Methods & Details Bring laptop with a wireless modem installed. Anyone with knowledge, please attend. ____ 7 p.m. Fibreculture dinner (optional) __ SUNDAY JULY 13th 9 a.m. Registration 10 - 11:45 a.m.::Session 5: The Internet Is Not Virtual :: Headed by Axel Bruns The myth of a separate, containable 'cyberspace' persists despite all evidence to the contrary. Rather than perpetuating new age visions of leaving the body behind to virtually 'inhabit' cyberspace, it is important to begin to realise that cyberspace, or fibrespace, already envelops society; is society. What are the implications of this fact? For example, how can disciplines like teaching and publishing turn to integrating Internet content, literacies, and technologies as part of their core activities rather than as an adjunct afterthought? In doing so, how can this 'fibrepower' be released from the strangleholds of outdated mythologies? 11:45 LUNCH 12:45 - 2:30 p.m.Session 6 ::Teaching Fibrepower:: :: Headed by Molly Hankwitz and Danny Butt Debates over technology and education are often couched in between the university sector hanging on to its critical freedom, authority and scholarship vs. government policy directions which are pushing higher education, among other sectors, into more corporatized, privatised spheres. Meanwhile, schools, colleges, and universities are struggling to keep up with the pace of technology. Teaching methods and approaches to cybercultures lag behind and students are often forced to take the initiative into their own hands if they hope to build useful skills sets and acquire an understanding of new media. Whole communities miss out on participating if they cannot make their voices heard. How can teaching institutions redress this situation? What are some excellent practices? 2:30 - 3 p.m. Afternoon Tea 3 - 4:45 p.m.::Open Session:: No set topic. Discussion about the direction of fibreculture. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: REGISTRATION: Three-day registration includes attendance at all sessions, lunches, morning and afternoon teas. All prices include GST. :: Three-day registration $27.50/$55.00 :: Opening nite forum and art exhibition only $10.00/$15.00 (Prices are for students and other concession cardholders / non-students) Pre-registration forms are available from the fibreculture website: http://www.fibreculture.org/ Late registration will be possible during the meeting. Cheques, cash and money orders only, thank you. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: For more information and to subscribe to the fibreculture list: See http://www.fibreculture.org/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: For more inf. contact meeting organizers: Axel Bruns snurb(a)snurb.info Molly Hankwitz m.hankwitz(a)qut.edu.au Thank you to all participants and sponsors, John Hartley, QUT, UQ Media & Cultural Studies, M/C, fAf, Brisbane Powerhouse, Karen Hands, David Cox, Anna Zagala, and Jo Gray. Fibreculture 2003 sponsors: QUT Creative Industries Faculty http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/ - UQ Media and Cultural Studies Centre http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/ - M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ - fineArt forum http://www.fineartforum.org/ - Australian Network for Art and Technology http://www.anat.org.au/ - Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/ - Fibreculture is served by: Myspinach http://www.myspinach.org/ ::::::::::::::::::: ::posted on ::fibreculture:: mailinglist for australian ::critical internet theory, culture and research ::subscribe: fibreculture-request(a)lists.myspinach.org ::with "subscribe" in the subject line ::unsubcribe: fibreculture-request(a)lists.myspinach.org ::with "unsubscribe" in the subject line ::info and archive: http://www.fibreculture.org ::please send announcements to seperate mailinglist: :: http://lists.myspinach.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fibreculture-announce ------ End of Forwarded Message

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FACCT Online Forum - Empowering Patients Online
by Aryne Blumklotz 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Join us for a FACCT online forum Empowering Patients Online* featuring Gary Schwitzer Health care journalist and communications authority Tuesday, June 18 - Thursday, June 20 We invite you to participate in an online discussion about Web-based decision-support tools. Learn how these tools work, how they are developed, who is using them and how they benefit consumers. Log on for a few minutes each day to: * Learn about the top Web-based consumer support tools for online decision-making. * Discuss the pros and cons of the most popular tools. * Find out what consumers want and what these online products offer. * Generate ideas for building a consumer-centered model for online decision-making. *Empowering Patients Online is a free event - but you must register to participate. To register simply reply to this e-mail listing your name and e-mail address in the message space. We'll send you instructions on how to log onto the site and participate in the discussion. Aryne Blumklotz, MPH - Communications Coordinator FACCT - The Foundation for Accountability 1200 NW Naito Parkway, Suite 470 Portland, OR 97209 Phone: (503) 546-9717 Fax: (503) 223-4336 www.facct.org

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virtual reception theory (or still dense!)
by Denise N. Rall 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

> Dear AIR-ers - > Okay, I have refined my question. I think I am looking for literature that defines how reception theory differs when reception is mediated through a virtual audience. I have read a bit of Manovich, L. (200x). "Post media aesthetics: Medium in crisis [online]." Also quite a bit of Michael Heim, virtual realism. To me, he was talking about the differences in social identity when we present ourselves online (also Turkle). I am looking for the reception side of this equation rather than the presentation side and I don't know the CMC comm. theory too well. I have read _Secondary Orality_ and I don't think Ong is the answer, either. Thanks for any pointers in this direction! Denise [Maybe I'm still dense in which case ignore this email as well ;-)] ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Position Openings: Multimedia Program at Bradley University
by Ed Lamoureux 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

Bradley University Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts Multimedia Program Position Announcement: 2 positions Position 1: Assistant/Associate Professor, Multimedia Co-Director, Bradley University New Media Center Full-time, Tenure Track The Multimedia Program at Bradley University seeks a faculty member with cutting edge digital production skills and leadership potential to teach and create in an innovative undergraduate program. Position: Assistant/Associate Professor, Multimedia. The Multimedia Program at Bradley University is seeking a technologically sophisticated candidate to fill a tenure-track position requiring teaching, research/creative production, and administrative responsibilities. Responsibilities Teach interactive-program production courses in Multimedia; conduct New Media creative production/research; coordinate Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts New Media technologies, including personnel supervision. Serve as Co-Director of, and develop new opportunities for Bradley’s New Media Center. Rank Assistant or associate professor, depending on qualifications. Tenure-track appointment with appropriate terminal degree. Qualifications Required: Appropriate terminal degree completed or all but dissertation or thesis in New Media-related discipline. Record of successful university teaching. Cross platform experience relevant to an Apple computing environment. Evidence of successful (professional and/or published) multimedia design and production experience. Facility with production software, for example including Director, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut, Avid, Quark, Flash, PowerPoint, LightWave, QTVR, or similar software). Preferred: Professional computer-related job experience. Administrative and personnel-supervision experience. Curriculum development experience. Video production and/or animation experience a plus. Salary Competitive Starting Date August, 2004. Summer, 2004, teaching and/or administrative duties possible. Position 2 Multimedia Program Anticipated Position Announcement Temporary Instructor, Full-Time The Multimedia Program at Bradley University seeks a faculty member with cutting edge digital production skills to teach and create in an innovative undergraduate program. Anticipated Position for Academic Year 2003-2004: Temporary Instructor, Full-Time, Multimedia. The Multimedia Program at Bradley University is seeking a technologically sophisticated candidate to fill a full-time, non-tenure-track position requiring teaching and creative production. Responsibilities Teach interactive-program production courses in Multimedia, including (from among) web work, CD/DVD/Kiosk development, video production, digital photography, and/or animation/virtual environments; conduct New Media creative production; provide the Slane College with multimedia training and support. Rank Temporary (non-tenure-track) Instructor. Temporary full-time positions are contracted for one-year appointments that may be renewed for additional one-year appointments at the discretion of the university. Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree in new media-related discipline. Record of successful university teaching. Cross platform experience relevant to an Apple computing environment. Evidence of successful (professional and/or published) multimedia design and production experience. Facility with production software, for example including Director, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut, Avid, Quark, Flash, PowerPoint, LightWave, QTVR, or similar software). Preferred: Professional computer-related job experience. Video production and/or animation experience a plus. Salary Appropriate to degree requirements. Starting Date August, 2004. Applications Applicants may send digital files of application materials. Hard copy of application and vita/resume also required, along with contact information for three current references to: Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program Bradley University Peoria, IL 61625 ell(a)bradley.edu Online or digital materials may be submitted as supplementary aspects of the application file. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled. Bradley University, highly rated by U.S. News and World Report, is an independent, comprehensive university enrolling 6000 students. Midway between Chicago and St. Louis, Peoria hosts numerous professional arts organizations and is home for many interactive media firms and outlets. The Multimedia Program is in the Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts with the Departments of Art, Communication, Music, and Theatre Arts and consists of approximately 100 majors (and additional minors) taking course work in Art/Graphic Design, Communication/Audio and Video, Multimedia, and supporting departments (music, computer science, education, sociology). The program is unique among its peers and offers students and faculty numerous opportunities for professional and collaborative sponsored projects. Bradley’s renowned Caterpillar Global Communication Center, completed in 1996, is home to the Multimedia Program and the Department of Communication. The CGCC houses computer labs, videoconference facilities, high-end multimedia classrooms and technology and the interdisciplinary radio-television facilities associated with the Department of Communication. The Multimedia Program also utilizes facilities in the Heuser Art Center, the home of Multimedia’s other interdisciplinary partner, the Department of Art. Visit Bradley University online at: www.bradley.edu Visit the Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts at: http://gcc.bradley.edu/slane/ Visit the Multimedia Program at: http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/ Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378

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New papers on freesoftware.mit.edu | opensource.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

<apologies for X-posting> Hi All The following papers have been posted to our website. Thanks to all the authors for their submissions! See you all in the New Year! ~Karim~ PAPER 1 Author: Vadén Tere Title: Intellectual Property, Open Source and Free Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/vaden.pdf Abstract The notion of intellectual property is used in order to create digital commodities. While the commodification of code is useful for certain kinds of knowledge intesive work (the Taylorist forms), it severely disrupts other types of knowledge creation. Applying Scott Lash's division of knowledge creation into organisational and disorganisational types, we also gain insight into the different positions towards IP held by different wings of the FOSS community. PAPER 2 Authors: Garzarelli, Giampaolo & Roberto Galoppini Title: Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/garzarelligaloppini.pdf Abstract: The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS/OSS project organization is not hierarchical for the same reasons suggested by the most familiar theories of economic organization: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is ultimately the overhead attached to the benefits engendered by modular organization. PAPER 3 Author: Modica, Salvatore Title: Knowledge Transfer in R&D Outsourcing (and Linux-Vs-Windows) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/modica.pdf Abstract: Why did Microsoft not hire all those smart programmers who ended up developing Linux through the internet? Because, we answer, the value of the information about its operating system that Microsoft should have transferred to any of them to render her productive would have been too high compared to her expected individual contribution, so that after writing a contract with Microsoft the typical developer would have run away to sell the acquired knowledge on the market. On the other hand, knowledge transfer in R&D outsourcing is not always so critical, and for example in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries research contracts are extensively used, usually in the context of a long term relationship between firm and innovator. We analyze this kind of repeated interaction, and find that when the knowledge-transfer problem is not blocking, the firm should transfer to the innovator as much information as it is compatible with the latter's incentive constraints. PAPER 4 Author Dafermos, George Title: Blogging the Market http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/dafermos3.pdf Abstract: Weblogs have been recently characterised as the "open source media". And in much the same way that open source software is been deployed, marketed and sold within both commercial and non-commercial contexts, weblogs can advance both commercial and non-commercial objectives. However, in this primary - research paper, the focus is on the benefits that organisations can seize by embracing weblogs, and how weblogs are bound to revitalise marketplace and workplace conversations. In addition, several case studies are being analysed, ranging from Slashdot and Openflows to Amazon, Macromedia, Groove Networks, and Gizmodo. PAPER 5 Author: McCormick, Chip Title: The Big Project That Never Ends': Role and Task Negotiation Within an Emerging Occupational Community (Dissertation in progress) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/mccormick.pdf Abstract: This dissertation involved in-depth interviews of over fifty open source developers in two major open source projects. The primary areas of interest were 1) conducting an ethnographic study of the work practices and culture of 'post-burecratic' organizations to see what lessons these groups may hold for managing intellectual labor and 2) examining whether the open source movement represents a new professional model for software engineering. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAPER 6 Updated Paper Author: Chiao, Benjamin Hak-Fung Title: An Economic Theory of Free and Open Source Software: A Tour from Lighthouse to Chinese-Style Socialism (revised version) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/chiao.pdf Abstract The theory is that free and open source software is private property under the guise of common property. Such software is distributed mostly under the GNU General Public License. The intents in The GNU Manifesto suggest striking similarities between this license and communism. The resulting economic properties, however, are similar to those of Chinese-style socialism: both resulted from an increased separation of legal and economic ownership. The phenomenal growth of China in the last twenty five years and of such software in the past few years could be attributed to such separation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAPER 7 Abstract Submission Author: Muffatto, Moreno & Matteo Faldani Title: Open Source as a Complex Adaptive System - Published in Emergence 5 (3) http://www.emergence.org/ Abstract: The Open Source community and its activities can be considered to have the characteristics of a system. The Open Source system is distinctive because it is neither controlled by a central authority that defines strategy and organization nor totally chaotic. It can be placed at a middle position between a planned system and a chaotic one. In this sort of position there are non-formal rules which allow the system to produce significant results. The Complex Adaptive System theory can be used to better understand and analyze the Open Source system. This work presents a description of the main characteristics of the functioning of the Open Source community regarding its organizational structure and development process. The concept of complex adaptive system is then introduced and its functioning mechanisms briefly described. Finally, we will interpret the characteristics of the Open Source community in the context of complex adaptive systems theory. -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management & The Boston Consulting Group, Strategy Practice Initiative e-mail: karim.lakhani(a)sloan.mit.edu | lakhani.karim(a)bcg.com voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://spoudaiospaizen.net/ http://opensource.mit.edu | http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://userinnovation.mit.edu

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Setting up a panel on domestic internet use
by Sue Cranmer 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi I'm interested in setting up panels for the next AoIR conference and for the Digital Generations Conference to be held at the Institute of Education, University of London 26 - 29 July 2004 at http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/Events/main.html If anyone is working in this area (my own study is of how families use the internet) and interested in putting a joint proposal together for these conferences, please write to me. The deadline for abstracts for Digital Generations is 31 December. Both panels require 3 to 4 papers. Best wishes Sue

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SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCHOLARS
by Boris Kragelj 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi, We are planning to have nice little conference covering various aspects of communication science in Ljubljana next Autumn. Contributions from the area of internet & new ICT and their impacts on society & culture are especially welcome! You are all very welcome, and please, can you distribute this invitation further to the young scholars that could be also interested to participate... Thank you, Best regards, Boris ------------------------------------------------------ SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCHOLARS Communication in the Global World, 12-14 November 2004 (Ljubljana, Slovenia). CALL FOR PAPERS The Slovenian Communication Association (SCA) announces an international conference for young scholars on theoretical and empirical research of communication in the era of globalization. Young scholars - graduate students, doctoral candidates and recent PhDs - are invited to present their recent work in an environment that is hospitable to a diverse cultural experience. The first conference, held in May 2001, helped construct a bridge between young scholars from Central Europe and the two Americas. The conference allows for a broad range of issues and concerns to be addressed by the participants with no preferred theoretical or methodological perspective. Reports on work in progress, such as M.A. theses or Ph.D. dissertations, are also invited. About 30 papers will be selected for presentation, and prizes will be awarded by a panel of expert scholars for outstanding papers. The special panel includes Hanno Hardt (founding editor of Journal of Communication Inquiry, Faculty of Social Sciences, Univ. Ljubljana), Slavko Splichal (editor of Javnost/the Public, Faculty of Social Sciences, Univ. Ljubljana), and Breda Luthar (Chair of Dept. of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Univ. Ljubljana) Abstracts - with brief biographies of authors and their contact addresses - should be sent by March 1, 2004 (andrej.pinter(a)guest.arnes.si, vesna.dolnicar(a)uni-lj.si) Invited presenters will be notified by April 5, 2004, and final papers must be received by October 25, 2004. Also consult the conference web-page for more information: http://rcul.uni-lj.si/~fd_kom/CGWconference/call_cgw2004.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Boris Kragelj _________________________________ University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences Kardeljeva ploscad 5 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 5805 138 Fax: +386 1 5805 102 ----------------------------- RIS - Research on Internet in Slovenia (http://www.sisplet.org/engris/) SIBIS+ Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information society (www.sibis-eu.org)

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Fwd: Software art gathering/conference
by Steve Jones 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Begin forwarded message: > From: chip(a)wasbecause.com > Date: December 31, 2003 8:45:50 AM CST > Subject: Software art gathering/conference > > Run_me Getaway for Software Artists > > Software art presses the notion that all the materials of today's > society, for example word processors and email clients, are open to > critique and analysis and are subject to experimentation. Besides > addressing utilitarian tools, software artists also develop > astonishing formalist projects using code. If you want to get involved > with this important cultural field, consider attending Read_Me 2004 -- > a 'Software Art and Cultures Conference' which will be held in late > August, 2004 in Aarhus, Denmark. The festival will host seminars and > panels so that those researching and practicing in the fields of > programming, design and art can share findings. Software enthusiasts > and users are also welcome, and all participants are likely to enjoy > the city-wide Dorkbot camp that will follow the formal conference. > Until March 1, 2004, organizers are accepting abstracts so if you want > to present at Read_me, it's time to start working on your script. -- > Rachel Greene > http://www.runme.org/news/read/+14/

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Available Chat/IM Tools?
by MSJANEW＠aol.com 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Dear Colleagues: I am setting up an Illinois standards-based sports safety/science TV show and website for K-12 students. I would like to include chat and instant messaging as a component. The concept I have in mind is to use a website as an "after the show" vehicle for kids, teachers, parents, etc., to converse with afterwards. Does anyone on this list have info as to good tools that are available for low/no cost? Thanks, Matthew Newman Executive Editor Sports Smarts msjanew(a)aol.com

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" The changing of way to generate alienation"
by Paolo Manzelli 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Dear Devorah Kalekin for coming at the congress on the session Alienation Theory and Research: New Directions of the congress that will be held in July 7-11 in Beijing, organized in collaboration with the International Institute of Sociology. I need of an official letter of invitation. I would like to speak about the following issue " The changing of way to generate alienation in the transformation between industrial society in the world wide incoming knowledge society." See for example my recent paper on Job Insecurity and Continuous Training. see in : http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/pin/tasti3/progetto_forco.htm see also in : http://www.edscuola.it/lre.html My bedst regards and having a good succesful and happy new 2004. Paolo Manzelli -- PAOLO MANZELLI Director of LRE/EGO-CreaNet – University of Florence Via Maragliano 77 – 50144 Firenze – Italy Phone: +39/055332549 Mobile: +39/335-6760004 E-mail: LRE(a)unifi.it ; manzelli(a)invisibilmente.it http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html

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