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The Social Movements Question
by Hans Klein 28 Jun '03

28 Jun '03

I know this question gets posed about every six months, but I hope you will bear with me ... :-) Can someone point me to some current bibliographies or literature reviews on Internet and social movements? Thanks! Hans =========================================================================== Hans K. Klein Associate Professor Tel: 404-894-2258 School of Public Policy, MC:0345 Fax: 404-894-0535 Georgia Institute of Technology hans.klein(a)pubpolicy.gatech.edu Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/faculty/hklein.htm ===========================================================================

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The Social Movements Question
by John McNutt 28 Jun '03

28 Jun '03

Hans-Check this link for a bibliography John McNutt -__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:26:08 -0400 To: air-l(a)aoir.org From: "Hans Klein" <hans.klein(a)pubpolicy.gatech.edu> Subject: [Air-l] The Social Movements Question Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org I know this question gets posed about every six months, but I hope you will bear with me ... :-) Can someone point me to some current bibliographies or literature reviews on Internet and social movements? Thanks! Hans =========================================================================== Hans K. Klein Associate Professor Tel: 404-894-2258 School of Public Policy, MC:0345 Fax: 404-894-0535 Georgia Institute of Technology hans.klein(a)pubpolicy.gatech.edu Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/faculty/hklein.htm ====== John G. McNutt Graduate School of Social Work Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 617.552.4036-Voice 617.552.1080-Fax www: http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/ Electronic Advocacy http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/electron.htm Research http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/cyberpol.htm Social Welfare Policy and Practice Group http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/swppg.htm Check out Our new Internet advocacy book at www.lyceumbooks.com Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have Won Some Victory for Humanity-- Horace Mann Computing is not about computers anymore. Its about living --Nicholas Negroponte The Best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker

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Help: Info. regarding history and evolution of MSN Messenger
by Jimmy Lau (FESCO) 28 Jun '03

28 Jun '03

Hello, Sorry for this interruption. Just stumbled upon your listing under search heading: History of Instant Messaging on Google, and thought you might be able to help. I'm trying to find information regarding the history and evolution of MSN Messenger (e.g., earliest version, features, and changes throughout its evolution) but haven't turned up much. Any feedback or leads would be welcomed and greatly appreciated. Thank you, in advance. Best, James Lau Microsoft Global Technical Engineering Center, Shanghai Communications Specialist

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ad for post doc
by dona a tversky 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

To whom it may concern... I work on a project studying the effects on children of participation in the Junior Summit '98, a global online community. My PI and I are currently looking for a post-doc in the Chicago area to work with us on some the of the data analysis, among other tasks. Can we post the ad with you somewhere? Many thanks, Dona Tversky ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Justine Cassell (currently MIT Media Lab; soon to be Northwestern University School of Communications) is seeking a post-doctoral fellow for a full-time, two-year NSF-funded position looking at children's development and technology use. The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Educational Technology or a related area and have experience in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Technological competence (Java, C++) is a definite advantage, but not required. Ideally the fellow will have a background in statistics with experience in traditional and non-traditional study design of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, and analyzing large sets of quantitative and qualitative data. The fellow may expect to come away with publications and writing experience. The fellow will be working with two teams: (1) developing and evaluating technology to support emerging literacy among young children; (2) analyzing (questionnaire, interview, and logs of online discourse) data from a large scale study of a children's internet community. Both teams consist of graduate and undergraduate researchers and are directed by Professor Justine Cassell. The position is based at Northwestern University in Chicago. Start date is as soon as possible (summer '03). The possibility exists of splitting this position into two half-time fellowships. Salary commensurate with experience. Please send CV and 2 letters of recommendation to: Professor Justine Cassell justine(a)media.mit.edu

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Re: [Air-l] Internet topologies
by Ruth Kaufman 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Thanks Moses and Frank. One thing that I think what would be useful would be papers about practical applications of concepts in urban planning and architecture to online user experience design. So far I've found this, but have not read it yet: Building Virtual Cities: applying urban planning principles to the design of virtual environments http://tinyurl.com/ffef . I am also interested in reading about perceptions of public and private spaces in virtual environments, research into what kinds of "virtual signposts" have emerged in user experience design, whether by design or by social production, and thoughts on cognitive mapping in cyperspace. I'm not particularly interested in data or network topology visualization tools. This is prep work for a redesign of a very large corporate web presence, not an analysis of cyberspace, in general. Thanks in advance! Ruth > Hi Ruth, > > I don't know if this fits to what you're looking for but I have a > paper on social topologies giving emphasis on the fluidity of the > Internet spaces: > > http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour/articles/nfc.pdf > or > http://www.emp.uc3m.es/~quattron/conference/papers/Boudourides.pdf > > Chhers, > > --Moses .................................................. Ruth Kaufman Web Strategy | Information Design ruth(a)ruthkaufman.com http://ruthkaufman.com ..................................................

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Fwd: Surveillance & Society | Mobilities and Surveillance Special (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

fyi. this is a new start-up journal with 2 issues out. In case you're interested, Jason Nolan, Steve Mann and myself have our Sousveillance article forthcoming in their third issue. It has been a pleasure to deal with the editors. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:03:25 -0700 From: Sarah S. Lochlann Jain <sarjain(a)stanford.edu> To: gomobility(a)lists.Stanford.EDU Subject: Fwd: Surveillance & Society | Mobilities and Surveillance Special > > > >> >> Call for Papers | Surveillance & Society >> http://www.surveillance-and-society.org >> >> >> Issue 1(4): Surveillance & Mobilities - Reminder. >> >> Deadline for submissions: August 31st 2003 >> >> Mobility has become a key theme across academic disciplines, and >> enabling, controlling and preventing mobility is one of the most >> important aspects of surveillance in the 21st Century. The Editors are >> calling for submissions on all aspects of surveillance and mobilities, >> for example: mobile communications technologies and global positioning >> systems; migration, borders and border control; transport; automated >> urban infrastructures; virtual mobility; and so on. >> >> As usual, we welcome both conventional academic and artistic >> submissions, and will also consider submissions not relating to the main >> theme of the issue. >> >> This issue will be edited by Colin Bennett mailto:cjb@uvic.ca and >> Priscilla Regan mailto:pregan@gmu.edu. >> Please send all submissions to them. >> >> Check the Submission Guidelines: >> http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/call.htm >> >> >> Dr David Wood >> Managing Editor, Surveillance & Society > > http://www.surveillance-and-society.org > > > > mailto:d.f.j.wood@ncl.ac.uk -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe gomobility" to majordomo(a)lists.stanford.edu

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debate on on-line voting
by Sandra Braman 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Many thanks to Christian Sandvig for the detailed and interesting report on the debate at Oxford on the question of on-line voting. A question: Years ago now James Carey pointed out that the "vote" is comprised of more than the voting moment, for it also includes public discourse about the issues and candidates being voted upon. For this reason, he argues, the question of electronic voting must include attention to the question of participation in public discourse about issues and candidates to be meaningful. Christian, in your report about the debate this topic doesn't appear -- was it raised at all? Thanks -- Sandra Braman

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1 book chapter and 7 <gulp> new papers on opensource.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Hello All, I am pleased to let you know that I have loaded the following on the http://freesoftware.mit.edu | http://opensource.mit.edu web site: ############################## Book chapter ############################## Author: Ilkka Tuomi Title: Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet. Oxford University Press, 2002, Ch 1. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/tuomi2.pdf Abstract: "Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation. It includes a detailed analysis of the Linux open source development model." The table of contents, references, and other related material is available at www.jrc.es/~tuomiil/moreinfo.html ############################################# Papers ############################################# Paper 1 Authors: Stefano Comino and Fabio M. Manenti Title: Open Source vs Closed Source Software: Public Policies in the Software Market http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/cominomanenti.pdf Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of public policies supporting open source software (OSS). Users can be divided between those who know about the existence of OSS, the ”informed” adopters, and the ”uninformed” ones; the presence of uniformed users yields to market failures that justify government intervention. We study three policies: i) mandatory adoption, when government forces public agencies, schools and universities to adopt OSS, ii) information campaign, when the government informs the uninformed users about the existence and the characteristics of OSS and, iii) subsidisation, when consumers are payed a subsidy when adopting OSS. We show that the second policy enhances welfare, the third is always welfare decreasing while mandatory adoption can be either good or bad for society depending on the number of informed and uninformed adopters. We extend the model to the presence of network effects and we show that strong externalities require ”drastic” policies. Paper 2 Author: Walt Scacchi Title: Open EC/B: A Case Study in Electronic Commerce and Open Source Software Development http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/scacchi1.pdf Abstract: This study investigates how to understand and transform an organizational system for internal or external operations using Open Source E-Commerce or E-Business capabilities. The objective is to identify and characterize the organizational resources and development capabilities that lie at the center of the initiative. Paper 3 Author: Walt Scacchi Title: Open Acquisition: Combining Open Source Software Development with System Acquisition http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/scacchi2.pdf Abstract: This study explores and develops concepts leading to the combination of best practices from open source software development (OSSD) projects with emerging capabilities for virtual system acquisition. Virtual system acquisition is an evolving approach to demonstrate significant improvements in reducing the cost and cycle time for acquiring software-intensive systems, while improving their quality. It employs techniques from electronic government applications together with those from OSSD. Paper 4 Author: Chris Jensen and Walt Scacchi Title: Simulating an Automated Approach to Discovery and Modeling of Open Source Software Development Processes http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/jensenscacchi.pdf Abstract: This paper describes a new approach to process discovery that examines the Internet information spaces of open source software development projects. Such knowledge can then be employed to determine the requirements and design of automated process discovery and modeling mechanisms that can be applied to Web-based open source software development projects Paper 5 Author: Margaret Elliott and Walt Scacchi Title: Free Software Development: A Case Study of Software Development in a Virtual Organizational Culture http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/eliottscacchi.pdf Abstract: This study examines how organizational cultural beliefs and values of a free software virtual organization influence software development processes. This study shows how these beliefs and values are manifested in software development methods, artifacts, and tool choice, as well as how dispersed developers cooperate and resolve conflict in a virtual community. Paper 6 Author: Walt Scacchi Date: April 2003 Title: Understanding Free/Open Source Software Evolution: Applying, Breaking and Rethinking the Laws of Software Evolution http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/scacchi3.pdf Abstract: This study examines whether the evolution of open source software conforms to the laws of software evolution that have been in development for more than 30 years. Given evidence and data that may not conform, it becomes necessary to consider how the laws and theory might be revamped to better account for the data that characterizes both conventional closed source software and F/OSS system evolution. Paper 7 Author: Walt Scacchi Title: Free/Open Source Software Development Practices in the Computer Game Community http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/scacchi4.pdf Abstract: This paper provides results from empirical studies that begin to outline some of the processes and practices for how F/OSS systems are developed in different communities. Examples drawn from the world of computer games reveal how processes and practices for the development and propagation of F/OSS technology are intertwined and mutually situated to benefit those motivated to use and contribute to it. -- =============================================== 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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Website Discourse analysis
by Shannon O'Lear 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Greetings, Can anyone suggest references for scholarly work that has examined discourses of websites? I am working on a project analyzing official websites (e.g., embassy websites) of newly independent states. References on prior work and related methodolgies would be greatly appreciated. I am not a regular member of this list, so please respond to me directly at solear(a)uiuc.edu. Thanks in advance, Shannon O'Lear Assistant Professor of Geography -- Department of Geography, MC 150 -- Room 220 Davenport Hall -- 607 South Mathews Avenue -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Urbana, IL 61801-3671 -- E-mail solear(a)uiuc.edu -- Tel. 217.244.9028 -- Fax. 217.244.1785

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FYI: new resource in Internet research ethics
by Charles Ess 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

Cher AoIR-ists: As someone who is looking for accessible resources for teaching online research ethics this fall, allow me to call to your attention a new publication that makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on Internet research ethics - and, I believe, will be of distinctive use especially in _teaching_ Internet research ethics: May Thorseth (ed). 2003. _Applied Ethics in Internet Research_. Trondheim (Norway): Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The book grew out of a conference and graduate course on Internet research ethics held in June, 2002, at NTNU. The first section of the book is made up of contributions by the conference speakers and serves as an introduction to the field of Internet research ethics: Dag Elgesem, "On the parallel between the norms of science and the norms of cultures on the Internet" Charles Ess, "Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: the BodySubject, (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death, and Internet Research Ethics" Chris Mann, "Generating data online: ethical concerns and challenges for the C21 researcher" Annette N. Markham, "Critical Junctures and Ethical Choices in Internet Ethnography" That is: the introductory material includes two more theoretical/conceptual approaches to Internet research ethics by philosophers engaged in applied ethics - and two very practically oriented guides by prominent researchers who have paid exceptional attention to ethics in their own work. (AoIR-ists might also note that the first three are members of the AoIR ethics working group. Chris Mann, in particular, is already deservedly well known for her 2000 book (co-written with Fiona Stewart), _Using the Internet in Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online_: the chapter on research ethics in this volume, in particular, served as a very useful required reading for the course. Annette Markham is of course prominent for her research, including her 1998 volume _Life online: researching real experience in virtual space_.) The second part of the volume is made up of the masters'-level research projects/papers developed by the course participants. These papers are equivalent to something like a semester/term research paper in the U.S. system: in addition, each paper was submitted to two of the participating conference faculty for critical review and comment, and revised accordingly. Hence they can be seen as something like "mini-masters" theses. Most of these contributions focus on specific ethical issues encountered by their authors in the course of a specific research project - and hence function as "real-world" case studies for teaching research ethics. Again, the AoIR ethics working committee is well represented here: the first contribution is from Janne C.H. Bromseth (who was also very much a central force in organizing the conference and course in the first place): "Ethical and methodological challenges in research on net-mediated communication". Further contributions include: Heidi Gilstad, "Ethical questions related to the development of telemedicine" Camilla Halvarson & Peter Lilliengren, "Private explanatory systems and informed consent online" Cecilia Löfberg, "Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Research with/on Children and Youths on the Net" Helge Ridderstrom, "Ethical challenges in research on youths' personal home pages." These last two address one of the thorniest areas of online research ethics - namely, ethical obligations, and how they might be met, to children and minors. (To my knowledge, this is one of the most complex areas because of the "constituency" - i.e., minors who are more vulnerable (and thus to whom more is owed in terms of protection, etc.) but who, at the same time, are not legally able to give (or, more fundamentally, fully understand the meaning of) "informed" consent. At the same time, to my knowledge, this area is among those least written about in the literature,. Hence these chapters are especially important and useful.) Two other contributions are written from more philosophical and theological perspectives: Roe Fremstedal, "Recognition between Internet users" Svein Sando, "Vulnerable bodies as ethical sensors" Fremstedal examines how far the Net may contribute to the sorts of inter-subjectivity (including recognition of "the Other" as _real_) required for discourse ethics and democratic deliberation in Apel and Habermas, and in light of Hegel's dialectic of recognition and Kierkegaard's existentialism (whew! great stuff for us philosophers!) Sando develops an equally interesting framework for research ethics, based on an overview of diverse Western philosophical and theological understandings of embodiment and the body, vis-a-vis contemporary theorists of embodiment and cyberspace such as Katherine Hayles and Barbara Becker. FWIW: both I and Sando develop views on embodiment that argue for a strong connection between our online and offline subjectivities - and thus for more of an analogy rather than disanalogy between online and offline research ethics. In any case, I believe the book will be of considerable value to both faculty and students who must confront the ethics of online research. To my knowledge, there are at least two other books coming out soon that likewise deserve serious attention - but this volume will be especially useful for teaching purposes as it includes not only solid theoretical reflections and orientation, but also a great range of _applied_ ethical reflection by both prominent researchers and masters-level students whose projects and reflections will be immediately accessible to their cohorts in other institutions. Finally - the book is most affordable: 100 Norwegian Kroner / 6.75 USD / 11 British pounds. (though I don't know what the shipping charges might be) Ordering address: Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, NO - 7491, Trondheim, Norway. By e-mail: <may.thorseth(a)hf.ntnu.no> As the Germans say, "Selbstlob stinkt" (self-praise stinks): I hope these comments will not be interpreted as such. Rather, despite my inclusion in this volume (smile), I hope this brief overview will be a useful FYI.. And, of course: any other suggestions for teaching resources would be most appreciated! All best wishes, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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