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

cross-cultural materials online
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

Colleagues: If you're interested in issues of cross- and inter-cultural communication online, you're invited to review the materials I prepared for a just-completed Master's course at IT-University, Copenhagen, "Cultural Homogeneity / Hybridity / Diversity Online": http://www.itu.dk/~chess/IRCulture/CourseStructure.html This is the course description - which is further linked to the course outline and annotated bibliography. I'm hoping to soon add a couple of the student projects completed for the course - they proved to be extremely interesting and highly practical analyses of these topics as focused on (a) how MacDonald's sites vary around the world, apparently in efforts to meet the communicative preferences of diverse cultures (especially as viewed through Hall's distinction between high content-low context and high context-low content cultures) and (b) a Danish website oriented towards helping minority communities here, with a critical analysis of how far the website appears to succeed in addressing diverse communities with diverse communication preferences. Comments and suggestions welcome! And happy holidays - Charles EssVisiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

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CATaC'04 deadline extended
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

Dear AoIR-ists: With apologies for cross-posting - please distribute to interested colleagues and appropriate listservs: Deadlines for CATaC'04 have been extended! In order to create a greater equality between general submissions and those intended for the two specific panels (one co-chaired by Susan Herring and Brenda Danet, and the second chaired by Michel Minou), we have decided to push back the deadline for _all_ submissions to CATaC'04 as follows: All papers (full - 10-20 formatted pages, short - 3-5 formatted pages) due: 1 February 2004. Please also note that _short papers_ (_not_ extended abstracts) are now required for the Herring and Danet panel on the Multi-lingual Internet. These changes are noted on the updated website, <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac> With all best wishes for happy holidays, Charles Ess Fay Sudweeks Co-chairs, CATaC'04

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Mediation and Transnational Identity
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Friends- Sometime last summer I sent a message to the group asking for assistance on a course I am putting together on (Trans)national Identity and Mediation. The community came across with some wonderful sources and suggestions. Alas, although those messages have been gobbled up by the Comcast Pacman. So, I am submitting the request again. Any suggestions would be most helpful. Below is a description of the course. Although course focuses somewhat on Canada, any and all suggestions about the general topic would be appreciated [Trans] National Identities, New Media/tions and the Place of the Public. This course explores the ways in which communications technologies shape national identities and understandings of public goods. We consider transformations and contestations of the public sphere, the public domain, intellectual property, freedom of speech, and multiculturalism in the face of an intensification of global population and cultural flows. The course will explore relationships between communications technologies and national identities with a particular emphasis on Canada. We consider key concepts such as the nation, the public (the public sphere and the public domain), citizenship, the national imaginary, and the national symbolic. The objectives of Canadian cultural policy will be addressed and Canadas cultural self-understanding as a society made up of relationships between founding nations, First Nations, and committed to multiculturalism will be critically examined. The course will first explore communication theories developed in and for Canadian society under conditions of mass media communications. We will then consider the extent to which processes of globalisation and new information communications technologies are posing new challenges to national identity and new opportunities for alternative forms of nation-building. We consider key concepts such as deterritorialization, transnationalism, diaspora, counterpublics, and global civil society. We will ask whether emerging social movements and networks (of aboriginal peoples, cultural diasporas, farmers, and governments committed to maintaining cultural diversity in the face of global trade) enabled by digital technologies strengthen or undermine the nation or demand that we conceptualise it differently. Thanks, Andrew P.S. TO PHILLIPE VANNINI--How does this sound for a panel/session for the Stone? -- Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in Digital Communications and Cultural Policy Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture York University 4700 Keele St.TEL 3007 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 (416)736-2100 x 30157

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Participate in new study!
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Dear colleague: There is a new experiment online. If you have 20-30 minutes and would like to help with this study, then please do so at http://www.katzenlabyrinth.com/cgi/trans/trans.pl?s=ail Many thanks and best wishes, --ur

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Results of 2 min experiment (Internet-based experimenting: replication over night)
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Dear colleagues: A few weeks back I asked you via this mailing list to participate in a 2 minute Web experiment. Here are the results and some background information. During Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) conference I had the pleasure of listening to a fascinating talk by Craig McKenzie on information leaking as an alternative explanation of the framing effect. (The framing effect describes the phenomenon that people make remarkably different decisions if the same fact is described "positively", i.e. "the cup is half full", from when it is described "negatively", i.e. "the cup is half empty"). As my own methodological goal for that conference I had set an overnight replication of one of the experiments in first day's presentations using our group's tools for Internet-based experimenting, to be able to present the results along with our methodology on the second day of the conference. The slides from this talk are now available online at http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/SPUDM_03/index.html - I recommend downloading one of the Quicktime movies. The presentation contains the results of the studies and the URLs to the tools used. Thanks again for taking part in the study. Best wishes from Zürich and happy holidays, --ur ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Psychologisches Institut Rämistr. 62 CH-8001 Zürich, Switzerland http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/reipspers.html

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Book announcement
by Charlie Breindahl 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262700948 The Wired Homestead edited by Joseph Turow and Andrea L. Kavanaugh The use of the Internet in homes rivals the advent of the telephone, radio, or television in social significance. Daily use of the World Wide Web and e-mail is taken for granted in many families, and the computer-linked internet is becoming an integral part of the physical and audiovisual environment. The internet's features of personalization, interactivity, and information abundance raise profound new issues for parents and children. Most researchers studying the impact of the Internet on families begin with the assumption that the family is the central influence in preparing a child to live in society and that home is where that influence takes place. In The Wired Homestead, communication theorists and social scientists offer recent findings on the effects of the internet on the lives of the family unit and its members. The book examines historical precedents of parental concern over "new" media such as television. It then looks at specific issues surrounding parental oversight of Internet use, such as rules about revealing personal information, time limits, and Web site restrictions. It looks at the effects of the Web on both domestic life and entire neighborhoods. The wealth of information offered and the formulation of emerging issues regarding parents and children lay the foundation for further research in this developing field. The contributors include Robert Kraut, Jorge Reina Schement, Ellen Seiter, Sherry Turkle, Ellen Wartella, and Barry Wellman. Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Andrea L. Kavanaugh is Senior Research Scientist and Assistant Director at the Human Computer Interaction Center, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 6 x 9, 456 pp., 20 illus., paper, ISBN 0-262-70094-8 An MIT Press Sourcebook ______________________ David Weininger Associate Publicist The MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617 253 2079 617 253 1709 fax http://mitpress.mit.edu

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PhD Studentship in Internet Research / Webometrics
by M.Thelwall＠wlv.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Title: An Exploration of Web Manifestations of University-Industry-Government Relations in the UK Academia, government and industry do not and cannot operate in isolation in a modern economy. Academic research is now also conducted inside industry as well as in partnerships between industry and universities. An important new role of government is to promote university-industry collaboration and practice-oriented, problem solving research (Mode 2 Science) rather than more abstract and theory oriented research (Mode 1 Science). As with any area in which the government spends enormous amounts of money, there is a need to assess value and to understand the processes that links funding to desirable outcomes (increased national competitiveness). The object of the PhD is to explore a source of information about UIG connections: the web sites of the organisations concerned. The objective is not to assess the quality of connections, but to evaluate the extent to which such connections are visible on the web and can be used to extract useful knowledge. How to Apply This post is available to an Information Science or Social Science graduate, Internet Researcher or other graduate with relevant expertise. The research is of an interdisciplinary nature and the student will need to gain knowledge of areas outside of their discipline. This will include learning web page creation and studying selected statistical techniques. The studentship is to run for a three years with a bursary of £7,500 p.a. In order to apply, visit the URL below or email Mike Thelwall m.thelwall @ wlv.ac.uk [remove spaces before using] with a copy of your C.V. Applicants from outside of the UK are welcome. The deadline for receipt of an email is 31 March, 2004. Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk

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Fwd: CFP: SHOT 2004
by Phillip Thurtle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Friends: Please note the emphasis on media and IT in the CFP below. All the best- Phillip Begin forwarded message: > From: "Carsten Timmermann, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit(a)mail.h-net.msu.edu> > Date: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:57:54 AM US/Pacific > To: H-SCI-MED-TECH(a)h-net.msu.edu > Subject: CFP: SHOT 2004 > Reply-To: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and > Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH(a)h-net.msu.edu> > > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:45:26 +0100 > From: "Anastasiadou, I." <I.Anastasiadou(a)tm.tue.nl> > Subject: Call For Papers: SHOT 2004 > > ---- > Call for Papers > > The International Society of the History of Technology will hold its > annual meeting in Amsterdam from October 7-10. The Program Committee is > seeking proposals for both individual papers and complete panels. In > particular, the committee welcomes work-in-progress from researchers of > all stripes (including graduate students, chaired professors, and > independent scholars), and papers from those new to SHOT who believe > that > an engagement with history can help their own work, regardless of > discipline. > > This year the program will focus on the specific themes outlined below. > While the committee is open to proposals not falling strictly within > the > themes, we nevertheless do encourage submissions that enter a dialogue > with them. > > *Water > The geography and history of the Netherlands lends itself to a focus on > water; this, broadly defined, forms one of the conference themes. > Access > to and control of water has been central to human life, and it is a > long-contested resource; this has inevitably had a technological > component. Agricultural, domestic, industrial, hygienic, and > therapeutic > applications of water have been components of all civilizations. The > committee seeks papers and panels on technology and water in oceans, > lakes, rivers, canals, aquifers, spas, springs (including geothermal), > and > on rain, plumbing, sewers, or any other water-related topic, including > political, social or cultural relationships organized around or > influenced > by water. > > *Transatlantic Community > Building on the water theme, we also welcome papers and panels related > to > the creation, maintenance, and expansion of the Atlantic Community, > defined here as including North and South America, Europe, and Africa. > Possible topics include technological components of transatlantic > interactions, competitions, exchanges, and the circulation of goods, > services, people, ideas, and artifacts. > > *Camouflaged Technologies > We are looking for papers addressing the historical and political > trajectories of technologies in camouflage, whose actual uses were > hidden > to avoid political, social controversy or prosecution under the law. > Examples might include controversial technologies such as nuclear > power, > and illicit activities such as drug use, burglary, prostitution, or > music > piracy, where producers and consumers camouflaged actual uses of these > devices. > > *Non-Aligned Technologies > The committee also seeks proposals considering what we call non-aligned > technologies -- technologies that remain outside or resist larger > networks, systems, geographical regions, or historical settings. > > *Information Technology (IT) and Media Studies > Information technology and media are frequently the separate subjects > of > specialized academic fields. The program committee seeks proposals that > problematize their intersections and/or their distinction in a > historically informed fashion. > > Deadline is April 1, 2004. Please submit your proposals to > shot2004(a)tm.tue.nl. > > Proposals for individual papers must include: > 1) a one-page abstract; > 2) a one-page curriculum vitae, including current postal and e-mail > addresses. > > > Proposals for complete sessions must include: > 1) a description of the session's theme; > 2) a list of the presenter's names and paper titles; > 3) a one-page abstract and one-page c.v. for each of the presenters > (with > postal and e-mail addresses); > 4) a one-page c.v. for the commentator, chair, and session organizer > (if > s/he is not one of the session's panelists). > > The session description should clarify how individual papers > contribute to > the session's overall theme. > > Applicants may submit as follows: > > * Electronic application: send one single e mail message to the program > committee e-mail address: shot2004(a)tm.tue.nl with electronic copies of > all > elements of the complete proposal as attachments, formatted in > Microsoft > Word (any version of Word is fine, but it must be in Word). > > Guidelines for submission: > · Whether submitting an individual paper or a complete panel, the > program > committee needs to receive a separate attachment for each item (vita, > paper, and so on). > · Please save your proposal with your last name and the word 'proposal' > (for example brown.proposal.doc) > · Please save your c.v. (idem for panel members) also with your last > name > and the word 'vita' (for example brown.vita.doc) > · In case of a panel, please save their abstracts with their last name > and > the word 'abstract' (for example brown.abstract.doc) > · The file names for all attachments should end in .doc (for example > johnsonvita.doc) > > Once the program is fixed the committee will make arrangements to make > the > accepted abstract available on the World Wide Web (details pending and > to > be announced). > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > H-SCI-MED-TECH > The H-Net list for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology > Email address for postings: h-sci-med-tech(a)h-net.msu.edu > Homepage: http://www.h-net.org/~smt/ > To unsubscribe or change your subscription options, please use the > Web Interface: http://www.h-net.org/lists/manage.cgi

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African American Experience in Cyberspace -- new book
by Kate Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New book out: -- The African American Experience in Cyberspace: -- A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History -- by Abdul Alkalimat -- Pluto Press, 294 pages, $18.95 -- 1-800-232-0223 (20% discount available, "code PL60") Ten historical stages of development and 20 aspects of society and culture comprise the chapters of this basic guide to the Black content in cyberspace. This is a research tool to speed up your access to the best most scholarly and accurate information in cyberspace. Introduction by Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: "In an era when the advances of the Internet and web technologies have threatened the very existence and relevance of books, Alkalimat, a cyberspace maven if there ever was one, has written an indispensable book for students, teachers, and scholars of the Africana experience who want to know what the Internet can do for them." Mark Kornbluh, Executive Director, H-NET, Michigan State University: "[Alkalimat's book] is not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet." Dorothy Washington, Librarian of the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University: "This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library where users want to use cyber-sources to better understand African and the Diaspora." Gloria H. Dickinson, President of ASALH: "Read this book and keep it close by your computer. This book begins a new era of research and teaching." more information at: http://www.africa.utoledo.edu/faculty/newbook.html

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CFP: Workshop on >>e-Voting in Europe<< to be held 7th-9th july 2004 in Austria
by Robert Krimmer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Readers! The European Science Foundation, the working group "e-Democracy" of the Austrian Computer Society and the research group e-Voting.at are jointly announcing the following call for papers for the workshop "e-Voting in Europe" from 7th till 9th of July 2004. For more details see below, http://e-voting.at/main.php?ID=80 and http://e-voting.at/ted. Important Dates: Draft of the paper....................15th February 2004 Notification of acceptance .......... 15th March 2004 Receipt of the final paper............23rd April 2004 Seasons Greetings, Alexander Prosser Robert Krimmer --- Liebe Leserinnen und Leser! Anbei finden sie den Call for Papers für die Tagung "e-Voting in Europe" von 7.-9. Juli 2004 in Bregenz/Vorarlberg, die von der European Science Foundation, der OCG und der Forschunsgruppe e-Voting.at organisiert wird. Nähere Details finden sie unten und im Anhang oder auf http://e-voting.at/main.php?ID=80. Die Konferenzwebsite ist http://e-voting.at/ted. Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch wünschen Alexander Prosser Robert Krimmer --- The ESF TED Workshop on Electronic Voting in Europe Technology, Law and Politics Jointly Organized by Working Group "e-Democracy" of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and Institute of Information Processing and Information Economics University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna (WU Vienna) Supported by ESF: European Science Foundation (ESF) within the project TED: Towards Electronic Democracy Internet-based Complex Decision Support Aim --- The aim of this ESF Workshop is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, government and industry in order to - Formulate the issues involved (technology, law and politics) in implementing e-voting. - Report on implementations, their legal, organisational and technical framework, the project experience made and future plans. - Analyse the effects of e-voting on our democratic system and voter behaviour. Topics ------ The idea of this workshop is to discuss the development in this field in a 3-day workshop with 2 tracks that deal with the topics from a theoretical view as well as real-world case studies. - Implementation issues of e-voting, whether technical or legal, preferably combined with their application in real or test elections. - Social and political analysis of the effects of electronic voting. Venue ----- The workshop "Electronic Voting in Europe" will be held in Bregenz/Austria (Lake of Constance). There will be no parallel sessions and sufficient space will be given to informal communications. Working language ---------------- The working language of the workshop will be English. Contributed papers ------------------ The full paper submissions will be subject to a double-blind review. Electronic submissions shall be made through the platform provided at http://e-Voting.at/ted or by e-mail to e-voting(a)wu-wien.ac.at, which serves as an online-system for the whole review process. Deadlines --------- Draft of the paper....................15th February 2004 Notification of acceptance .......... 15th March 2004 Receipt of the final paper............23rd April 2004 Accommodation ------------- Participants are responsible for their accommodation. The organisers will reserve blocks of accommodations at the conference location. Fee --- Before 25th April 2004 ...... 150 EUR / student fee.......75 EUR After 25th April 2004.........200 EUR / student fee .....100 EUR The registration fee covers participation in regular, poster and computer sessions, one set of preprints, welcome party, conference dinner and three lunches. If you cancel your registration before May 31, 2004, you will obtain 50 percent of the registration fee refunded. No refund will be made after this date. The proceedings will be sent by mail in any case. Publication ----------- All papers accepted for the Workshop will appear in the Workshop Proceedings. The Workshop proceedings are intended to appear as an edition in the Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences of the Springer-Verlag. Best Paper Award ---------------- The IPC will award the best contribution presented at the Workshop. Accommodation ------------- Accommodation for the participants of the Workshop is possible in the conference location hotels nearby the conference location. International Programme Committee --------------------------------- A. Prosser, Austria Chairman W. Polasek, Switzerland N. Braun, Switzerland J. Scholl, USA R. Traunmüller, Austria National Organisation Committee ------------------------------- R. Krimmer Chairman R. Kofler Web General Enquiries ----------------- Prof. Alexander Prosser The ESF TED e-voting workshop Institute of Information Business and Information Economics WU Vienna, Pappenheimgasse 35/5, A-1200 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43/1/31336/5615, Fax: +43/1/31336/905622 E-Mail: e-Voting(a)wu-wien.ac.at Web: http://e-Voting.at/ted The ISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org) To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to isworld as: isworld_2(a)newsletter.krimmer.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the ISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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