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Worldwide IM business use
by Bonnie Strong 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

I am a graduate student in Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, & Technology Program. Two papers I am working on consider the impact of culture on ICT adoption. I am having difficulty finding recent statistics on Instant Messaging (or SMS) use in the workplace in the United States, Japan, and Sweden. If you have any suggestions about a source for this kind of market research that I may not have thought of, please e-mail me at bls7(a)georgetown.edu. Thanks for your consideration! Bonnie Strong Georgetown University

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readings on Power, Politics and Policy of the Internet
by jeremy hunsinger 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

It is that time of the year again, and I'm preparing my syllabi, and I'm approved to teach a new senior seminar that I've entitled The Internet: Power, Politics and Policy, which is going to be taught with a focus on the 'individuals and institutions surrounding the research, innovation, technology, and structures both social and political that surround the internet both in the u.s. and the global context.' So I have my ideas of what will be read, Abatte, Lessig, some RFC's, some ISOC Documents, Some ICANN Documents, some ITU Documents, etc., but I'm also interested in everyone else's opinions on the matter, so drop me a note. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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WSIS, ICT and the Millennium Development Goals
by John Daly 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

In conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society this week, the Development Gateway has published related materials on 16 of its topic pages, all of which can be reached from this one webpage: http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis/ You might be especially interested in the feature on "WSIS, ICT and the Millennium Development Goals. http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222155/WSIS-Main.doc There has been a flood of documents prepared for WSIS, some of them based on careful examinations of experience over the past few years. John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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_Data Made Flesh_
by Phillip Thurtle 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Please excuse the self promotion but I think some on this list might be interested in the following. Phillip > > Announcing a New Publication from Routledge: > > _Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information_ > > Co-editors: Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle > > Contributors: Richard Doyle, Mary Flanagan, N. Katherine Hayles, Robin > Held, Eduardo Kac, Elisabeth LeGuin, Timothy Lenoir, Robert Mitchell, > Mark Poster, Phillip Thurtle, Steve Tomasula, Ann C. Villa, Bernadette > Wegenstein, and Kathleen Woodward > >> In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between >> bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the >> first collection to address the increasingly important links between >> information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely >> tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the >> bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush >> to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human >> being. The contributors gathered in this collection are leading >> figures in Cyberculture Studies and Science and Technology Studies, >> many of who have established the terms of today's academic discourse >> surrounding bodies and technology. >> > > "It's about time embodiment got considered in relation to data! . . . > _Data made Flesh_ does just this. It is fresh, multidisciplinary, and > does its work at a high level of critical and descriptive performance. > Bodies, materiality, and the dominance of an information metaphor have > had some attention, but the ways in which humans within the digital > and data world experience and act call for the kind of attention that > this book gives." > --Don Ihde, author of _Bodies in Technology_ > > > "By establishing once and for all the inseparability of information > and materiality, signifying practices and embodiment, _Data Made > Flesh_ will fundamentally reorient future debates over human > technogenesis itself. I can think of no more pressing task for > technocultural criticism today." > --Mark Hansen, author of _Embodying Technesis_ > > > I found this collection inspiring, innovative, and intellectually > stimulating. It offers an ultra-contemporary terrain of current > critique across a variety of academic disciplines and provides a new > conception of the term "information" with an emphasis on materiality > and embodiment." > --Barbara M. Kennedy, co-editor of _The Cybercultures Reader_ > > November 2003**6 x 9**320 pp > 30 halftones > Pb**0 415 96905 0**$27.95 >

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Publication of major study on the Information Society
by Wainer Lusoli 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Apologies for cross posting -------------------------------------- __EMTEL reports now available at http://www.emtel2.org/ The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL) was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. It was constituted as a research and training network within the programme Improving Knowledge Potential and oriented towards "creating a user friendly information society". EMTEL conducted interdisciplinary social scientific research between 2000 and 2003, about the information society from the perspective of everyday life. The final results of the research are now available at http://www.emtel2.org/ Seven reports deal with specific aspects of the everyday life in the Information Society: YOUTH: The Web Generation? The (De)Construction of Users, Morals and Consumption AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: A Social and Technological View of Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life: What bends the trend? WORK: Boundaries in a Space of Flows. The Case of Migrant Researchers' Use of ICT CONSUMPTION: An Ethnographic Study of Internet Consumption in Ireland: Between Domesticity and the Public Participation POLITICAL ACTIVISM: ICT-Usage among Transnational Social Movements in the Networked Society: to organise, to mediate & to influence MINORITY MEDIA: Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU: Addressing Cultural Exclusion DISABILITY: ICT and social inclusion in the everyday life of less abled people Five THEMATIC REPORTS cover overarching aspects of the Information Society: Media and Technology in the Everyday Life of European Societies The Information Society in Europe: Methods and Methodologies Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information Society ICTs in Everyday Life : Public Policy Implications for 'Europe's Way to the Information Society' Living and Working in the Information Society: Quality of Life in a Digital World Contributing partners are as follows: . ASCoR, The University of Amsterdam . COMTEC, Dublin City University . IPTS, Seville . LENTIC, The University of Liege . Media@lse, London School or Economics (co-ordinating centre) . NTNU, University of Trondheim . SMIT, Free University of Brussels . TNO, Delft . SINTEF, University of Trondheim For more information, please refer to the EMTEL Network website (http://www.emtel2.org/) The site also features the proceeding of the Network Conference, held in April 2004. (www.emtelconference.org) Yours Sincerely, Roger Silverstone EMTEL Co-ordinator r.silverstone(a)lse.ac.uk On behalf of the EMTEL Network

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announcement - for summer 2004
by Radhika Gajjala 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

WS 694 Technology, Migrancy and Globalization Summer 2004 _______________________________________________________________________ see links from http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik for updates. Instructors: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University Annapurna Mamidipudi, Dastkar Andhra Bowling Green State University Campus meetings May 12 through June 2nd noon to 5 pm M-F International Online analogue meetings will be scheduled once the participants have been identified and accepted duration May 12 through June 2nd. _____________________________ General Description: Technologies and their uses have shaped and in turn been shaped by dominant production processes, community practices and cultural activities throughout history. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the practices of travel and communication fostered by modern and postmodern modes of work and play through an engagement with digital technologies. Therefore this course - put it very broadly - examines various issues regarding labor, migration and globalization at the intersection of the digital and the analogue, by attempting to juxtapose various cultures of production locally and internationally in an effort to show how technology, migrancy and globalization are linked to our everyday lives whether in the US or in India. The specific context(s) of instruction and dialogue: One of the instructors will bring an academic perspective and draw on her research and expertise with digital media and the other instructor will bring an activist/field-work perspective and draw on her expertise working with communities using weaving technologies in rural India. Both have published co-authored essays juxtaposing these contexts (see for instance Gajjala and Mamidipudi 1999, 2002, 2003 and forthcoming 2004). In this course, through various activities, virtual engagements, community related projects and lectures, we suggest a close examination of multiply mediated contexts of technology design and use as a model for understanding the scope for empowerment of underprivileged women and men through information communication technologies. We will use several available digital and distance technologies for interaction (webcams, moos whatnot). Process: Part of the workshop is designed as a virtual engagement between two groups of people from different geographical locations. The two instructors are geographically situated in different parts of the world one is teaching from Bowling Green Ohio, USA and the other is teaching from Hyderabad, India. There will be workshop participants from both locations. Each group will also have some on-site activities and a required field visit to a local site where technology, migrancy and globalization intersect. Students will have to draw concepts and understandings based readings, discussion, lectures and other class activities to produce a final project that can be delivered in one - or a combination of the formats specified in this syllabus. The course will be delivered in six modules one module per week both online and on-site (students in BGSU will be meeting in the computer lab as scheduled and students in Hyderabad will be meeting as determined by the on-site instructor there) STUDENTS NOT RESIDING IN BOWLING GREEN, OHIO ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER PLEASE CONTACT radhik(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu for further information on how to do so.

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Air-l via RSS
by Lilia Efimova 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Hi, I'm a quiet newcomer and I'm quietly wondering is there any way to receive this list via RSS? This would make my life much easier :) Regards, Lilia http://blog.mathemagenic.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lilia Efimova <mailto:lilia.efimova@telin.nl> Telematica Instituut P.O. Box 589 Phone: +31 53 485 0 327 Enschede Fax: +31 53 485 0 400 7500 AN The Netherlands http://www.telin.nl/

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New Report: "Understanding WSIS"
by Hans Klein 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

The UN World Summit on the Information Society is currently underway in Geneva. This report on WSIS is now available at the IP3 website: "Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Perspective on the UN World Summit on the Information Society" http://www.ip3.gatech.edu WSIS is hard to understand. The 2003 Geneva meeting of the UN World Summit on the Information Society has brought thousands of people to Geneva to articulate a collective vision about the benefits and potentials of information in society and the policies needed to realize them. Even immediate participants have difficulty understanding what has been achieved. With so many recommendations, which ones will lead to concrete political action and social change? What is important and why? To help answer such questions, this report provides an institutional analysis of WSIS. It focuses on two main features: its characteristics as a policy forum and the mechanisms available to it for policy implementation. This institutional analysis is then applied to a set of WSIS policies to identify those with the greatest potential to lead to social change. Two policies stand out: Internet governance and security. The WSIS forum is well suited to bestow legitimacy on a proposal to alter the existing Internet governance regime, and the available implementation mechanisms are well suited to put such a proposal into practice. Likewise, WSIS is an appropriate forum for promulgating a global agreement on security, and the available implementation mechanisms are also suitable. Other policy topics considered are: free and open software, communication rights, intellectual property, human rights, and funding. To say these policies are good candidates for action is not to say that they necessarily will be endorsed and implemented. Nonetheless, by identifying issues that "fit" the world summit institution, this analysis can help set priorities for action and to gain understanding of outcomes. Report available at: http://www.ip3.gatech.edu WSIS web site: http://www.itu.int/wsis/ The Internet and Public Policy Project (IP3) promotes Internet policy-related research in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. It promotes dialogue between researchers within and outside the Institute, offering forums for debate and discussion. This report is a joint project between IP3 and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (www.CPSR.org) with funding from the Open Society Institute distributed through the Internet Democracy Project. Additional funding came from the Georgia Tech President Undergraduate Research Award Program. ###

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miserable failure
by Greg Elmer 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

try link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html in the google search to see who else has jumped on the miserable failure bandwagon Greg -- Greg Elmer Associate Professor Department of Communication Florida State University 356 Diffenbaugh Tallahassee, FL 32303 850.645.4692 (tel.) Co-Editor Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces http://www.carleton.ca/space/ ________________________________________________________________________________

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RE: [Air-l] newsgroups
by Marc Smith 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Some of the questions you raise can be addresed through the use of the Netscan system (htttp://netscan.research.microsoft.com) which reports social accounting metadata about Usenet newsgroups, authors and threads on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearaly basis since September of 1999. The tool is offered explicitly for academic research into the sociological organization of conversational social cyberspaces. Regards, Marc Smith ________________________________ From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org on behalf of jespert Sent: Tue 12/9/2003 3:24 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] newsgroups Dear All, I have been studding newsgroups for some years, but only in Danish, now I am going into the English Usenet and wow it is big. I am doing some kind of discourse analysis that I have developed and it is fine but when analysing I use so much time looking and thinking on a single string in a single group - so yes what I want to ask about is a form of a description on the structure of news saying e.g. how many groups are moderated, where and how do I find there instrument of foundation and FAQ if they have any, how dose them there is not moderated doing, how many are subscript to the different groups, is there any differences between e.g. the alt. and res. domains when talking topics, culture, history etc. I would like this information so I can navigate when finding my groups for empirical study and make a qualified selection. I hope that you will answer both by pointing to literature (hopefully online papers) and by commenting on my questions. Thanks -- Jesper Tække - MA. Ph.D.-Student - IT University of Copenhagen - Dept. of Digital Aesthetics & Communication - Glentevej 67 - DK-2400 NV Copenhagen NW - Phone +45 3816 8888 - Direct +45 3816 8881 - Fax +45 3816 8899 - http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/ - e-mail: jespert(a)it-c.dk _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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