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

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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Recall: [Air-l] Abstract: Measure of Discussion Activity in Threa ded Discussion Spaces
by Avner Caspi 21 Jun '03

21 Jun '03

Avner Caspi would like to recall the message, "[Air-l] Abstract: Measure of Discussion Activity in Threaded Discussion Spaces".

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Fwd: FW: Eighth Grade Science Project
by jeremy hunsinger 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

>> there is nothing like starting internet research early, respond as suggested as per your own judgment. >> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 >> Subject: Eighth Grade Science Project >> >> Hi, this is from Josh Walker and Aaron Skinner. We are 8th grade >> students >> at Sweetwater Jr. High in Sweetwater, TN. We are working on a >> project for >> our 2003 Science Fair. >> >> We are trying to see where, and how fast e-mail can travel in a >> period of >> ten days. We are keeping track of how much e-mail we get back, and >> from >> what cities, states, and countries they originate. We are hoping >> that you >> will be willing to help us with our project! >> >> There are only two simple steps that will help us to track this email: >> >> 1.. Please send an e-mail to the following address: >> joshaaron_scienceproject(a)yahoo.com >> >> In the subject line of the e-mail please include just your city, >> state, and >> country. Please do not include your name, and do not write anything >> in the >> body of the e-mail (We won't have time to >> read them all). Please respond only one time. >> >> 2. Then, please forward this e-mail to everyone on your mailing list. >> I >> will be keeping track of the number of responses, as well as the >> locations. >> Therefore, send them even to people in your same town. In our science >> project, we are trying to demonstrate how fast and how far >> information can travel on the Internet in a ten-day period. >> >> If you receive this e-mail after February 28, 2003 please disregard >> it, >> since the project will be over. >> >> Thank you VERY much for your help! >> Josh Walker & Aaron Skinner >> >> Frederica L. Baldwin, Ph.D. >> (310) 399-0804 / (909)677-7633 >> FAX: (310) 399-8016 >> >> >> Laura Wigley Smith >> Durham, NC >> >> >>

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Re: [Air-l] Theoretical Approaches to CMC Research
by John Daly 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

>As I wrestle with how to approach a research project involving CMC, >I'm curious as to what types of theoretical approaches researchers >on this list use when studying CMC. What are some of your >"favorite" theories with respect to CMC? Thank you! JS You might look at the people doing research on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: http://lester.rice.edu/browse/lstkeywordbrowse.aspx?ord=804 John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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<nettime> Thing.net press release re Verio/NTT (fwd)
by robert m. tynes 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:36:04 +0100 From: brian(a)thing.net To: nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net Subject: <nettime> Thing.net press release re Verio/NTT February 28, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THING.NET REMAINS ONLINE WITH NEW PROVIDER; SEEKS GREATER INDEPENDENCE Contact: thing-group(a)rtmark.com Contribute to Thing.net's independence drive at https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ As has been widely reported in the press, NTT/Verio, Thing.net's upstream service provider, recently informed Thing.net that it would unilaterally terminate its service contract. While the original date given for the cutoff was February 28, it is now timed for March 14, 2003. In the meantime Thing.net has signed with other providers to assure continued connectivity and will remain safely online. Socially and politically critical groups and artists with similar concerns continue to feel the chilling effects of unfounded legal threats from large corporations, who currently believe they can intimidate an ISP simply by complaining to the upstream provider. As C. Carr reported in the Village Voice, "technically, what's happened to Thing.net is not censorship. It's worse. 'What we have here is something that doesn't even go to court,' says Svetlana Mintcheva, coordinator of the Arts Advocacy Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship. "'They were just preemptively closed. It sets a kind of precedent where corporations can take away free speech, no matter what kind of First Amendment protections we have, and there isn't much to be done legally.' Verio reps declined to comment." Thing.net plans to fight such actions by working to achieve more independence from censorious upstream providers. Thing.net is in dialog with European ISPs about relocating some of its "mission-critical" elements there. "The advantage of this approach is that the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) doesn't apply there and the European Union just failed to get a majority for a similarly flawed law," says Wolfgang Staehle, Thing.net Director. "This will provide greater security with no compromise in service." Since an article in the New York Times on December 23, 2002, Thing.net has received many donations from individual and institutional supporters around the world, in addition to international press coverage. Among organizations that have contributed or promised to do se are The Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Warhol Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation. http://www.thing.net https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ http://bbs.thing.net http://thing.net/switch Background: In addition to terminating their contract with Thing.net, NTT/Verio took the dramatic measure, in response to legal complaints about a parody web site, of shutting down the entire Thing.net network for fifteen hours on December 3-4 virtually without warning. This affected web sites for such organizations as Artforum and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (and many more), seriously compromising Thing.net's service to its clients. The shutdown stemmed from a complaint by Dow Chemical Corporation over a web site created by artists' collective RTMark that parodied Dow and was hosted by Thing.net (http://rtmark.com/thingpr.html) Dow invoked the intellectual property and cybersquatting provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - a law that is regularly used by corporations to prevent free speech - in demanding that the site be taken offline. NTT/Verio, in turn, claimed to be obliged both to shut down Thing.net and to terminate their service under the DMCA. When NTT/Verio was unable to contact a representative of Thing.net during the evening hours, they shut down the entire network - rather than just the parody Web site - and subsequently threatened to terminate their service to thing.net. "Thing.net is a commercial ISP with years of solid service," says Wolfgang Staehle, Thing.net Executive Director. "Verio's arbitrary and punitive interruption of our services has made us look unstable and inflicted serious damage to our reputation." "What Verio has done," asserts Ray Thomas of RTMark, the group responsible for the Dow parody site, "is like a phone company cutting off a whole neighborhood for one prank phone call." To receive donations for the expenses associated with the switchover and for building a more secure network, Thing.net has set up a donation page at http://secure.thing.net/backbone/. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #646 - 10 msgs
by CRAIG MURRAY 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

I will be away and unable to read e-mail until 10th March

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Need Website based online survey software
by KeithDoyon＠aol.com 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

I'm doing some research, putting together a website based online survey, and am in need of appropriate survey design software that is "student priced" and not excessively technical. or challenging to set up. And I am certainly open to used software if anyone upgraded. Can anyone suggest anything or point me in the right directions? Please feel free to write to me off-list. Thank you. Keith

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RE: [Air-l] IMPORTANT - AoIR conference submission clarification and extension
by Matthew Allen 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

The suggestion about different submission dates has merit - I am sure I will add that to the list 'things to consider' for 2004 when I hand over to the next chair. Best wishes Matt Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/internet +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3152 (f) Program Chair, Internet Research Conference Toronto 2003 'Broadening the Band' -----Original Message----- From: Laszlo Ropolyi [mailto:ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu] Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:51 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Cc: SUELY(a)icaro.unisinos.br; sjones(a)uic.edu; Matthew Allen Subject: RE: [Air-l] IMPORTANT - AoIR conference submission clarification and extension Hello, There seems to be a natural solution of the problem: shifting the deadline of panels and that of the individual papers. A first deadline for panels and the second one for individual papers. In the cases of unsuccesful panel proposals every people could apply again as individual participant. Best wishes, Laszlo Ropolyi On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Matthew Allen wrote: > Hi there > > you submit EITHER in a panel OR separately. - basically you have to choose > and hopefully this ensures only very good panels are proposed, with good > papers all through > > We have found previously that some panels really were not of strong quality > and this is the way we are trying to ensure they improve - by making people > responsible for organising their paper into a good panel or submitting it > singly > > Best wishes > Matt Allen > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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RE: [Air-l] Methodological panel session (competing panels?)
by Matthew Allen 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Dear all just to assure you that we will ensure that, as best we can, the conference organising process will deal with any hiccups or problems. Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/internet +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3152 (f) Program Chair, Internet Research Conference Toronto 2003 'Broadening the Band' -----Original Message----- From: Annette Markham [mailto:amarkham@uic.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:56 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological panel session Hi Shelia, Nancy Baym and I have also put together a panel on methodological issues. Ours is structured as a roundtable among methodologists discussing various questions regarding quality, rigor, and procedures in qualitative inquiry and internet studies. What is yours going to be focused on? Maybe we can coordinate or cross discussions in some way? Cheers, Annette Markham At 10:33 AM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: >cotten(a)umbc.edu ****************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W. Harrison St. (m/c 132) Chicago, IL 60607-7137 Tel: 312-413-2124 amarkham(a)uic.edu ****************** _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (march 2003)
by david silver 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (March 2003) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes a number of full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. New reviews for March 2003 include: Steven Holtzman, Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace. Reviewed by Kevin Moist. Sally R. Munt, ed. Technospaces: Inside the New Media. Reviewed by Helen Kennedy. Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. Reviewed by Julian Bleecker and Graham J. Murphy, with a response from Lisa Nakamura. Georgette Wang, Jan Servaes, and Anura Goonasekera, eds. The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization. Reviewed by Josh Heuman. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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