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

Re: peace
by Eszter Hargittai 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Thanks Aldon, for bringing up the topic of blogs and pointing to some of the key blogs for those interested in the war. From Internet researchers, I would hope to see more work on this particular use of the medium. I know some projects are starting up (e.g. see http://www.onblogs.org ) but I think more work is needed. For one thing, I think it would be really helpful to get some data on how many Internet users out there even know what a blog is and how many read one/more, and then see how many actually maintain one. To those of us who've gotten into blogging - reading and writing, or just reading them frequently - it sometimes seems the whole world is blogging. But then I realize that most people don't even know what the word means and the friends who do only do so b/c I'm telling them about blog related info all the time. (I also have a miniscule amount of survey data that suggest average users don't know what "Weblog" means.) There's some work out there specifically about blogging and the war. I suspect Kara Kerwin (http://www.karakerwin.net ) of SUNY-Buffalo hasn't added to this thread b/c she's busy collecting data for her current project (we exchanged emails at 3am last night as she was very much in the midst of collecting data for her blog & war related research). There are many many blogs out there, many of them very interesting. I'll just add two to the list both of which have lots of political commentary although not just about the war: Alas, a blog at http://www.amptoons.com/blog Body and Soul at http://bodyandsoul.blogspot.com Once you're on a blog, you can follow links from there to find others. Blogs have been an essential source of information for me during recent political events. They point to interesting material that the mainstream media do not cover and they allow for conversations. In the past 24 hrs I've seen several bloggers post info on what's been happening in their area or what sources of info they're turning to these days, both issues that address David's questions. I highly recommend joining in on the blogging phenomenon, whether as a participant, as a researcher or both. Eszter http://www.eszter.com | http://www.esztersblog.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com

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RE: [Air-l] Request for citations--past aoir conference papers th at have been published
by Matthew Allen 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Mia I am still waiting to get my piece from 2001 published...not sure when it will come out; will forward details to you 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: Mia Consalvo [mailto:consalvo@ohio.edu] Sent: Friday, 21 March 2003 4:02 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Request for citations--past aoir conference papers that have been published Hello, As you may know, I'm working with the AoIR Research Annual Working Group, which is currently putting together a compendium of research papers given at the first three AoIR conferences (Kansas, Minneapolis, Maastricht). In addition to the research papers we are publishing, we would also like to include a listing of the papers that have been presented at any of these AoIR conferences that have subsequently been published as a journal article, book chapter, or as part of a book. If you have presented a paper at a past AoIR conference and have had that paper published in such a form, could you please send the citation to me OFF LIST at consalvo(a)ohio.edu? We would like the list to be as complete as possible, to demonstrate the breadth and depth of Internet research, as well as the remarkable productivity of AoIR folks! Thanks for your help with this, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. AoIR Research Annual Working Group, Chair 213 RTVC School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 (740) 597-1521 consalvo(a)ohio.edu _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: [Air-l] peace
by KeithDoyon＠aol.com 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

sj wrote: <<The interesting question that Danny initially asks, that I've been interested in for a very long time, is to do with our expectations for community. Should we expect discussion of the war, silence about it, or ignorance of it, how do those expectations come about and how do they change? >> and mt added: << In other on-line communities I have participated in, the communities generally had a set of "business rules" roughly governing online behavior and themes. >> I haven't previously posted on this topic, not because I don't share strong feelings, but rather because, in my strictly personal experience, I have never participated in any online community that didn't have something akin to "a set of 'business rules' roughly governing online behavior and themes" without sooner or later experiencing an acute time and attention/energy allocation conflict, due to large numbers of posts far afield from the "theme" of the list I was trying to keep up with. It's like attending a committee meeting with a weak chairman who lets discussion meander indefinitely ... such meetings are exhausting. So is keeping up with posts. Somewhere along the line, something else has to be sacrificed to do it. But they're fascinating and informing, so I keep reading ... lol Here's to a compationate victory, leading to a long, agreeable peace. Keith

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Re: [Air-l] peace
by Mark Tempestilli 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Colleagues, I would begrudge none their right to air their opinion about Operation Iraqi Freedom. In any traditional classroom setting this week at my institution, everything tends to relate to the war. My affiliation explains why this is so, although I would bet most institutions are finding similar trends. This seems to be natural and healthy. The questions on what we should expect from this list--as a community medium--are important. I for one, would like to ensure that the on-list discussion maintain a relationship to "internet research," which in and of itself is broad and shifting in definition, but clearly relates to the internet and associated media. Any issue that has a triangular relationship with "internet research" seems to me to be fair game. For example, how the internet is used as a medium of war opinionmaking is "in." I would also say that the fact that we are using the internet for our discussion doesn't qualify everything as "in." It would be a useful enterprise, perhaps over the summer period to crunch through what we expect from aoir as a "community" and how we expect to use email/web/internet media as tools to that end. In other on-line communities I have participated in, the communities generally had a set of "business rules" roughly governing online behavior and themes. This would indeed be useful in two ways, since we could "research," discuss, and contemplate the roles and functions and behaviors of online communities in the process. On another note, I would like all to know, from a professional warrior's point of view, that I love peace as much as anyone. I just don't believe peace at all costs is wise. I also would like to point out that few nations or their armed forces go to such great lengths to avoid harming noncombatants and even reasonably innocent erstwhile combatants (as in Saddam's conscripted Army) in war as the U.S. does. I think this is exceptionally humane, lofty, and absolutely necessary. Would it be that one day we could even achieve a priority that "collateral" human harm is above even that of our own men & women of the armed forces. This is an even worthier goal. As far as the relationship to the internet goes, it is the internet (TCP/IP) systems that are now deployed with our armed forces that enable them to achieve unique speed (compression of time), precision (compression of space), and adaptability (expansion of organizational behavioral potential), without which we could not continue to reduce the human cost of armed conflict. ("in") There is indeed also political-psychological dimension of the war, partially playing out via the internet. And this is another topic of continued worthy discussion. ("in") Regards, swift victory, and peace, Mark Tempestilli Captain, United States Navy Director of Network Centric Warfare U.S. Naval Academy email: tempesti(a)usna.edu phone: 410-293-1458 > "Those who will not risk, cannot win." - John Paul Jones

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Re: [Air-l] peace
by Wendy Robinson 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Cincinnati is unproudly as conservative as Seattle is liberal for reasons I don't want to go into (we can start with race relations and a proactive police force though). Nevertheless there have been war protests here, the local independent weekly is full of outrage, folks on campus seem as anti-war as ambivalent (only a few people I've talked with are solidly hawk, and they are undergraduates who haven't experienced war). What I find uncomfortable in the mainstream media is how quickly a chilling effect has settled in. Even those democratic senators speaking out about Bush's lip service at "diplomacy" a few days ago likely will quiet down now. The press has to cover the events and not be perceived as unpatriotic. But if anyone is likely to kill or be responsible for the death of Americans now, it's Bush. And those servicemen and women (and innocents, if there are terrorist retaliations) have extended families back home who want to believe in the president and feel pride in their efforts on behalf of the country.* Those families are voters. So it will be interesting to see who in Washington is still willing to speak up, even this time next week. I copy and paste from the close of Bush's Orwellian address to the nation: "My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others. And we will prevail." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wendy Robinson wgrobin(a)uc.edu Asst Prof, Dept of Comm wgrobin(a)fuse.net Univ of Cincinnati homepages.uc.edu/~robinswg 620C Teachers College, ML #02-0317 tel: 513-556-4468 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0184 fax: 513-556-0899 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 12:01 PM 3/20/03 -0500, you wrote: >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:19:47 -0800 (PST) >From: david silver <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu> >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >Subject: [Air-l] peace >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >i attach a few preemptive apologies to this post: apologies if the topic >strays from what some believe to be appropriate discussion areas for the >list, apologies for leaping to a soapbox to exclaim a personal position.

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RE: [Air-l] peace
by Drouin.Jacques＠ic.gc.ca 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

For those of you who are interested in the Canadian/US experience with broadband Internet, here are some comparative OECD stats on BB internet penetration: The following tables show the number of broadband subscribers for 2000, 2001 and June 2002 in both Canada and the US. as well as total broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants and growth rates. The data clearly show that Canada has a significant lead over the U.S. in broadband penetration and that growth is rapid in both countries. Number of Broadband Subscribers in Canada and the U.S. (Includes DSL subscriber lines, cable modem subscribers and other) 2000 2001 June 2002 Canada 1,392,600 2,730,000 3,178,800 U.S. 5,559,975 12,792,812 16,068,271 Total Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants 2001 June 2002 Canada 8.88 10.3 U.S. 4.65 5.8 Growth rate of broadband subscribers (based on OECD figures) 2000-2001 December 2001 to June 2002 Canada 96% 16% U.S. 130% 26% Source: OECD December 2002 TISP report entitled "Broadband Access for Business". Anther source, Comscore Media Metrics (march 2003), show a 53.6% broadband subscription rate among Internet connected homes in Canada vs 33.8% in the US. I also recommend you visit our broadband program site at : www.broadband.gc.ca to learn more about our broadband pilot program for rural and northern communities. You will see that 89 applications involving 1149 rural and remote communities applied so far to the program. These communities are now developing connectivity business plans which they have to submit by May 22. Through a competitive selection process, selected applications will receive government funding of up to 50% of eligible expenses to bring broadband capability to their community. We expect another wave of about 100 applications by March 28 involving perhaps another 600-800 communities. Now, think of the potential these communities represent for research purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Irene Berkowitz [mailto:berkowitz@mail.temple.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] peace Hi Steve, For a moment of digression to academic things. The paper I just submitted to AoIR is about transpositions/tranformations on time and space and the focus on time. Great minds think alike. It is really difficult to put together and grossly understudied. Hope all is well in spite of the war. I feel hopeless, except to make my students more aware. I It's important to note that all conversations occur in some sense at the expense of others, in part because when a voice is raised it is difficult to raise others without causing a din, but mainly because such is time (itself an _enormously_ under-studied matter in internet studies, the cost of a focus on space) Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Request for citations--past aoir conference papers that have been published
by Mia Consalvo 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hello, As you may know, I'm working with the AoIR Research Annual Working Group, which is currently putting together a compendium of research papers given at the first three AoIR conferences (Kansas, Minneapolis, Maastricht). In addition to the research papers we are publishing, we would also like to include a listing of the papers that have been presented at any of these AoIR conferences that have subsequently been published as a journal article, book chapter, or as part of a book. If you have presented a paper at a past AoIR conference and have had that paper published in such a form, could you please send the citation to me OFF LIST at consalvo(a)ohio.edu? We would like the list to be as complete as possible, to demonstrate the breadth and depth of Internet research, as well as the remarkable productivity of AoIR folks! Thanks for your help with this, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. AoIR Research Annual Working Group, Chair 213 RTVC School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 (740) 597-1521 consalvo(a)ohio.edu

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peace...
by noci 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

hello laura, well you've mentioned the way Bush was elected... that made some memories come up here, memories about the public outrage i witnessed back then. Some people started being really afraid of what they guessed would happen with Bush as the leader of the one and only remaining super power. i was one of them, and it's an uncanny feeling seeing all of these fears becoming real just now. i've spent a lot of my childhood in the United States, it's very good memories of a peacefull, stable and self-conscious country. What i've been thinking of during the last months, in fact ever since 9/11, is the way the atmosphere in the US has changed from stability to concern, and yes, almost panic.. It's outrageous to imagine the new way of life terrorism has brought upon all US residents. "If we let them change the way we live, the terrorists have already won" what does one draw from that statement? have they already won? it makes me terribly sad to see how people's lives are being affected- and that's a universal phenomenon, fear does not differentiate between pro-war and anti-war citizens. i feel sorry for all of the good-hearted people i know in the US, all suffering from "heightened alert levels". by the way, "code red" would effectively mean martial law, a government spokesperson said a while ago. check indymedia international.. it's so horrible! as for the "polls"... well, there's many sociologists (if not the majority) on this list, so we all know about the vailidity of "quick polls" having the arrogance to actually represent the "public opinion". from my point of view, i belive those polls have long since become tools of propaganda. did you notice, as the war was coming closer, the polls suddenly started indicating 60 somewhat percent of the Americans actually agreeing with it? I don't believe that. I just refuse to believe that. watching the news now, dumbfounded. please take good care of yourself, everyone-- and yes, peace, peace.. max ps thanks david! :)

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comparative access statistics
by Janne Bromseth 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi all - I am searching for some comparative statistics on Internet access and use, in particular looking at developmental patterns in the United States vs Europe, (my qualitative analysis of Nordic discussion groups needs som hard numbers in trying to contextualize their outgrowth in the bigger historical picture and I have been lazy, and need to document (what I hope is right here!) if north-americans expanded usage before us, generally speaking, to make probable my qualitative impression that these more 'local cultural oriented groups' relating to the Nordic countries came later than the north-american-dominated international groups... So statistics from the beginning of the 90-ties and forward and with numbers from both the US and Europe would be great! (most of what I've looked into very quickly now is from the last 3 years..) It suddenly became an urgent matter, just about to finish an article and it's kind of important to be correct on these issues.. ;) Thanks so much for any help! All the best Janne Bromseth Janne C.H. Bromseth Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning/ Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier Center for feminist- and genderstudies/Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU, 7491 Dragvoll Tlf.: 73 591388(j/w) 73 521681 (p) 99573225 (m) URL: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/itk/kv_bromseth/bromseth-index.htm

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New Email Worm Already Exploits the Iraq Conflict
by Denise Carter 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

New Email Worm Already Exploits the Iraq Conflict A new worm, called W32/Ganda-A, which was first detected on Monday, is a mass-mailing worm that spreads by sending email to contacts from the Windows Address Book. It appears to have started in Sweden, and sends out messages in either Swedish or English, depending on the systems' language. So far, quite a few variants have been found. Here are a few of the English subject fields found: Screensaver advice, Spy pics, GO USA !!!!, and G.W Bush animation. For more on this Worm, visit: ==> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.ganda.a@mm.html ==> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749802011.html

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