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Motion fails by two votes: "This house has confidence in voting via the Internet"
by Christian Sandvig 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Dear colleagues, I've written a brief conference report (well... a debate report) from today's event. I hope this is of interest, Christian **** Motion fails by two votes: "This house has confidence in voting via the Internet" 23 Jun 2003, Oxford, UK.\ Christian Sandvig (csandvig(a)uiuc.edu) This evening I attended a debate in the Oxford Union on the motion "This house has confidence in voting via the Internet". Jim Adler, CEO of e-voting technology company VoteHere, put the case for the motion. Jason Kitcat put the case against: Kitcat was the founder of an e-voting startup (in 1999) who has since renounced the idea and founded the Free e-Democracy Project. The debate was moderated by Prof. Stephen Coleman, best known for his work with the Hansard Society. The event was sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. The venue was the debating chamber of the Oxford Union: think of it as a stained glass temple to oration. The speakers addressed the motion, for and against, an expert panel commented on the presentations, and then two rounds of question and answer were held before a (non e-)vote on the motion. After the voting, some of the people sitting in my section commented that they voted for the motion despite the evidence presented by Mr. Adler, who was allegedly in support of it. His initial tactic to overcome the most damning objections to e-voting seemed to be not to mention them, but this did not serve him well after Mr. Kitcat and the audience began to speak. By the end of the evening he had admitted that voting online was problematic, and he had often asked the audience for blind faith in technological progress: sometimes directly and sometimes via truly tortured allusions to the early automobile and particle physics, among other innovations. He deferred more than one objection to e-voting by asserting that the technology presently exists to overcome the problem in question, but that the solution was too difficult to explain. I admit it was hard to assess some of Mr. Adler's case because he did not speak clearly or slowly -- for this he was heckled briefly. If you couldn't understand him on the webcast, this is not an artifact of the Web. Despite Mr. Adler's efforts against his own cause, several questioners (in person and via the Internet) eloquently came to his aid by highlighting the promise of e-voting for increasing turnout, experimentation, and voting in circumstances other than national elections. Most interesting to me: Mr. Adler was very clear in calling for verifiability, expert review of source code, and (shock!) even open source solutions if need be. I was personally surprised to find these positions from the CEO of VoteHere, and I wonder if he is representative of the industry in this. In contrast, Mr. Kitcat delivered a competent and thorough review of the risks of e-voting, doing an exceptionally good job of noting some of the problems with recent e-voting trial projects in the UK and elsewhere. With the aid of several questioners, over the course of the evening Kitcat developed a convincing argument that the emphasis on e-voting (particularly in the UK) is the result of governmental obsession with quantifiable benchmarks and show over substance. That is, noisy e-voting initiatives imply progress and suggest a solution to low turnout without addressing the fundamental problems that cause low turnout: perceptions among the electorate that their vote doesn't matter, they aren't well informed about the issues, and that politicians are interchangeable. This is a notable contrast to the US, where e-voting is often couched as a fix to an election system that is already broken and untrustworthy. Despite his strong performance overall, he never seemed able to meet the repeated suggestion (from Mr. Adler and the audience) that all voting systems have flaws. Although his presentation suggested to me that the Internet has fundamentally different and more significant flaws than other methods of voting, Mr. Kitcat did not seem able to incisively articulate them after questioning or in summation. Prof. Coleman chaired the event with a gentle dexterity and the expert panel provided some of the most significant comments of the evening. The debate was webcast (a first for the Oxford Union) and an archived webcast is due to be posted online soon. The archived Q&A is worth your time if you are interested in this area. After two hours, in a show of hands the motion failed by the narrow margin of two votes, leading to a cry of "recount!" URL: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/debate_230603.shtml -- http://www.niftyc.org/

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Fwd: CFP: Community & Technology 2003 Workshop - (Virtual) Community Informatics
by Michel J. Menou 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Apologies for cross-postings Best regards, Michel J. Menou mailto:Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr This is a forwarded message From: Michael Bieber <bieber(a)homer.njit.edu> To: Mike Gurstein <mgurst(a)vcn.bc.ca>, Michel Menou <Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr> Date: Monday, June 23, 2003, 5:25:28 PM Subject: CFP: Cmty & Tech 2003 Workshop - (Virtual) Community Informatics ===8<==============Original message text=============== Call for Participation (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2003) Amsterdam, the Netherlands Friday September 19, 2003 http://is.njit.edu/ci-workshop-ct2003/ We cordially invite you to participate in the (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop, to be held the first day of the C&T 2003 Conference. Researchers, students and practitioners interested in the areas of community informatics, virtual communities and communities of practice are welcome to submit either a position statement or a full paper for presentation. People are also welcome to attend without a position paper. (Virtual) Community Informatics lies at two cross-roads: bringing together people concerned with electronically enabling communities: local, virtual and Communities of Practice; and structuring collaborations between researchers and practitioners, including industry, in these three domains. (Virtual) Community Informatics promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas and experience found at this cross-roads, bringing together researchers and practitioners from many varied disciplines. Workshop Agenda We expect the discussion during the workshop to address the following questions, among others: - What interests should researchers and practitioners jointly have in community-support technologies? - How should we best to apply ICTs to support communities? - Which technologies best satisfy a community's tasks and needs (and the tasks and needs of individual members, for knowledge sharing and learning, etc.)? - What tasks and needs cannot be met with current technologies, and thus indicate new technologies that need to be developed? - How do we evaluate community technologies and their use? In general we are concerned with what researchers and practitioners in Virtual and Local communities can learn from the other regarding community technology. We shall look for collaboration opportunities that exist for both to come together regarding community technological support. Workshop Program Overview - keynote address - overview of and current issues in Community Informatics - paper presentations - panel of practitioners and researchers from both virtual communities and local communities - general discussion The workshop's focus will be on opportunities for technological support of both virtual and local communities. Deadlines: Full Papers are due July 15 Position Papers are due August 18 For further information and submission details, please see the workshop Web site: http://is.njit.edu/ci-workshop-ct2003/ --- Stay Informed on (Virtual) Community Informatics If you would be interested in further developments concerning (Virtual) Community Informatics, please email Michael Bieber (bieber(a)oak.njit.edu) or Michael Gurstein (gurstein(a)njit.edu) ===8<===========End of original message text===========

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June, 2003 AoIR Executive Committee Report
by Steve Jones 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

[My apologies...the previous post of this was for some reason truncated, here is the full report. -Sj] June 20, 2003 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Ulla Bunz Treasurer: Benjamin Bates Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2003 Conference Chair: Liss Jeffrey 2003 Conference Program Co-Chairs: Matthew Allen and David Mitchell Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess Elections Working Group Chair: Mia Consalvo Net Resources Working Group Chair: Charlie Breindahl 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. If you aren't reading this...well, you ought to be. I know it can get lengthy, and it can get detailed, but it's the single best way to know what AoIR is up to, and to find ways to get involved with it (in any number of ways from contacting the people who report to volunteering to work on something you see mentioned to making suggestions to...). 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1 The election process for AoIR executive offices is now under way. I will post a longer, separate email message about it soon, but suffice here for me to remind you of the timeilne: 1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Elapsed 2. END OF NOMINATION PERIOD: Elapsed 3. DISCUSSION PERIOD BEGINS: June 20, 2003 4. DISCUSSION PERIOD ENDS: July 11, 2003 3. VOTING PERIOD BEGINS: July 14, 2003 4. VOTING PERIOD ENDS: July 28, 2003 5. NEW COMMITTEE ASSUMES DUTIES: At the end of the General Meeting at the fourth annual AoIR conference, October 16 - 19, 2003. 2.1.2 As you will see below conference planning is well under way. I am delighted (and not just for reasons associated with our conference) that WHO announced last week that SARS appears to have been generally contained (today the announcement was that not only Toronto but Hong Kong, too, is free of SARS) and cases are on the decline. I will hope to see as many of you as can join us in Toronto in October. 2.1.3 If you have not yet registered for the conference or made a hotel reservation I encourage you to do so as soon as possible. Early registration fees are only in effect for a couple or so more weeks, and our hotel space is held for a limited amount of time. Please mention that you are registering for AoIR when you book your room at the Toronto Hilton (or use our Block Code - ASSA110703). As I have stated other times/other places, as AoIR has grown we have had to search for larger and larger meetings spaces, precluding most prospective college/university venues. This year we are meeting at a hotel in an urban area, and we have to meet the minimum occupancy with which we are able to use its meeting rooms - if we don't meet that occupancy rate then we'll have to increase the registration fees, to cover additional cost of the meeting rooms. The AoIR rate may be a few dollars more than the most discounted rate that you could get on your own, but that few dollars is in support of the facilities at the Hilton that we are using. I appreciate everyone's support of the conference and of AoIR. 2.1.4 While on the topic of support, I would like to reiterate some of the quite tangible benefits of AoIR membership. As a paying member of the Association of Internet Reseachers, you are entitled to a number of discounted journal subscriptions and book discounts. Journal Discounts: *The Information Society: An International Journal *Information, Communication and Society *e-Service Journal *CyberPsychology and Behavior * New Media & Society Books: Routledge Cyberstudies catalog These are described in greater detail at http://aoir.org/benefits.html. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 Participated in election planning and candidate encouraging. 2.3 Secretary (Bunz) 2.3.1 Counted votes, participated in discussions (below), and been waiting for warm weather. May 15 - June 15, 2003 This month on the executive list: - The AoIR election process has begun. Nominations were collected until June 13. Starting June 20, an online open discussion forum will be available for AoIR members and non-members to interact with nominees. Position statements and biographical information will be available online too. Details and URLs will be posted to air-l within the next week. - Along those lines, the exec has been monitoring nominations and has been sharing public information with air-l. - The exec has been discussing creating a conference blog for the upcoming conference in Toronto. Jeremy Hunsinger from the exec committee and Jason Nolan from the Toronto local committee are collaborating on this and it will happen. In addition, the exec is considering a list of blogs available from the air website. - The exec continues to monitor the SARS situation in Toronto but at this point does not foresee any problems for our conference scheduled for October. - The exec has noted suggestions about organizing conferences in countries that have few visa requirements, and/or non-first-world countries. - The exec has discussed ways in which the association can financially support people with lower incomes who would like to attend our conferences or become members. Unfortunately, at this point we are not able to subsidize travel or fees. Subscribing to and participating on air-l is and will remain free. The executive committee has been considering various options for improving accessibility to its conferences. - Jeremy Hunsinger announced that air-l is up to approximately 1300 subscribers now, so draft your messages carefully as they will reach a wide audience. - The exec has been in touch with the local conference organizers about the final (online) conference program and similar conference-related issues. - The exec has continued its discussion for the local host for the 2004 conference and things are looking good. The exec voted unanimously in favor of the proposed site. The announcement for the 2004 conference will be made at the Toronto conference during the General Meeting. Discussions about sites for 2005 and 2006 are in progress. Bids may be submitted at any time to Steve Jones. - The exec has been discussing the possible institution of an advisory committee for agenda setting, but is still uncertain as to its members, adding an additional layer to the organizational hierarchy, etc. - The exec has continued its discussions on increasing quality at the conference and in submission reviewing, and continuing its outreach and growth in a natural way. Ulla Bunz, Secretary 2.4 Treasurer (Bates) 2.4.1 Been on vacation (supposedly) most of the last month, though after some struggle and a lot of help from Jeremy, managed to stay largely connected and to keep up with conference and membership payments. Will be back in the office next week. 2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman) 2.5.1 Silver: took part in various discussions regarding the election; discussed ideas regarding the conference. 2.5.2 Wellman: Particiapting in exec committee deliberations. Watching brief on SARS. Lecturing about AoIR activities in Finland.Spent a good deal of time keeping abreast of SARS situation (and media scare elsewhere), and advising the Exec Committee and the Program Chair. Contributed to the ongoing deliberations of the Executive Committee. 2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade) 2.6.1 Allen: Less activity with respect to the conference this month. Mainly it has been chasing up details from presenters; finalising program; interacting with Conference Organiser to get program online. 2.6.2 Shade: Nothing to report. 2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup) 2.7.1 Nothing to report (been to Australia at conference) 2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl) 2.8.1 Hunsinger: this month has been election month, i've been busy: managing the nomination process, and am collecting the nominee info at nominate(a)aoir.org working with Charlie to get some bugs out of the website helping as necessary with conference stuff. posting election updates to air-l working on the aoir.org email system to lower spam rates and resolve other issues. responding to things on the executive list thinking about future conferences and how to manage them and trying to get some conversation going on air-l over the summer. 2.8.2 Breindahl: I have mainly discarded spam, which comes in ever-increasing numbers. As Jerry Pournelle says: "Spammers have got beyond the bounds of civilization. When you rob a million people of a minute, you have wasted two man years. [...] The First Amendment has nothing to do with this. You have the right to speak, but you don't have the right to make me listen at the cost of my own time." Also, on a happier note, I have updated the book list and put a new version of our logo on the aoir.org site. 2.9 2003 Conference (Liss Jeffrey, Chair; Matthew Allen, David Mitchell, Program Co-Chairs) 2.9.1 Dr Liss Jeffrey: The Toronto committee is hard at work, with new volunteers signing on to help out. Contact us at aoir(a)ecommons.net if you would like to join us. The Early Bird registration will now be extended to July 15, 2003. Please check the web site for information including the conference registration number. The early program will soon go online at www.ecommons.net/aoir. Matt Allen (who with his reviewers has done a tremendous job) remains the contact on all program-related issues. If you would like to propose a pre conference workshop, just drop us a line specifying topic, outline of seminar and time required, equipment or facility needs, expected or desired audience numbers, who you know locally (if anyone) who might help you with local logistics, who you expect would be most interested in your workshop/demonstration, and information on yourself and your background. This week we will be contacting all those who have submitted proposals to ask a few more questions or to confirm participation (Olivia Robertson is point person on this file and she will be in touch). The conference web site will be updated frequently so please check in. This week we will be adding the frequently asked questions (hotel, travel Rhiannon Bury is point on this rhiannon Bury <rbury(a)wlu.ca>). If there is a topic that we have not addressed, let us know and we will get it on there. Contact our point person on web informatics (Christie Hurrell: christie(a)ecommons.net ). Special thanks to Eric George, who has joined the steering/working committee and has helped all of us ensure that our Francophone members are included. Would you like to see a conference blog start now? Would you contribute? If so, please contact graig(a)ecommons.net Much more to come. Liss Jeffrey, conference chair. 2.9.2 Mitchell: No report. 2.10 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair) 2.10.1 As part of a conference on ethical guidelines for socio-economic research (The RESPECT conference, June 12-13, Budapest), I was invited to comment on proposed guidelines in light of the AoIR ethics working committee´s guidelines, research, and approaches. The RESPECT Project is funded by the European Union´s Directorate-General for Research, and has already developed a range of resources for research ethics in medical and social sciences - of interest, of course, because of their necessarily multi-cultural foundations and orientation. Both resources and planned guidelines will be useful for further reflection on Internet research ethics. I will post a more complete summary of the conference, including a preliminary resource list, to both the ethics working committee and the air-list as soon as I can upon my return to the States. 2.11 AoIR Research Annual Working Group (Mia Consalvo, Chair) 2.11.1 The AoIR Annual has come back from copy-editing, and all contributors have been forwarded their chapters to make the suggested revisions. Once that is done, the manuscript goes back to the publisher (Peter Lang) and into production. 2.12 AoIR Net Resources Working Group (Charlie Breindahl, Chair) 2.12.1 There has been no activity in the 'Net WG.

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June, 2003 AoIR Executive Committee Report
by Steve Jones 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

June 20, 2003 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Ulla Bunz Treasurer: Benjamin Bates Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2003 Conference Chair: Liss Jeffrey 2003 Conference Program Co-Chairs: Matthew Allen and David Mitchell Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess Elections Working Group Chair: Mia Consalvo Net Resources Working Group Chair: Charlie Breindahl 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. If you aren't reading this...well, you ought to be. I know it can get lengthy, and it can get detailed, but it's the single best way to know what AoIR is up to, and to find ways to get involved with it (in any number of ways from contacting the people who report to volunteering to work on something you see mentioned to making suggestions to...). 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1 The election process for AoIR executive offices is now under way. I will post a longer, separate email message about it soon, but suffice here for me to remind you of the timeilne: 1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Elapsed 2. END OF NOMINATION PERIOD: Elapsed 3. DISCUSSION PERIOD BEGINS: June 20, 2003 4. DISCUSSION PERIOD ENDS: July 11, 2003 3. VOTING PERIOD BEGINS: July 14, 2003 4. VOTING PERIOD ENDS: July 28, 2003 5. NEW COMMITTEE ASSUMES DUTIES: At the end of the General Meeting at the fourth annual AoIR conference, October 16 - 19, 2003. 2.1.2 As you will see below conference planning is well under way. I am delighted (and not just for reasons associated with our conference) that WHO announced last week that SARS appears to have been generally contained (today the announcement was that not only Toronto but Hong Kong, too, is free of SARS) and cases are on the decline. I will hope to see as many of you as can join us in Toronto in October. 2.1.3 If you have not yet registered for the conference or made a hotel reservation I encourage you to do so as soon as possible. Early registration fees are only in effect for a couple or so more weeks, and our hotel space is held for a limited amount of time. Please mention that you are registering for AoIR when you book your room at the Toronto Hilton (or use our Block Code - ASSA110703). As I have stated other times/other places, as AoIR has grown we have had to search for larger and larger meetings spaces, precluding most prospective college/university venues. This year we are meeting at a hotel in an urban area, and we have to meet the minimum occupancy with which we are able to use its meeting rooms - if we don't meet that occupancy rate then we'll have to increase the registration fees, to cover additional cost of the meeting rooms. The AoIR rate may be a few dollars more than the most discounted rate that you could get on your own, but that few dollars is in support of the facilities at the Hilton that we are using. I appreciate everyone's support of the conference and of AoIR. 2.1.3 While on the topic of support, I would like to reiterate some of the quite tangible benefits of AoIR membership. As a paying member of the Association of Internet Reseachers, you are entitled to a number of discounted journal subscriptions and book discounts. Journal Discounts: *The Information Society: An International Journal *Information, Communication and Society *e-Service Journal *CyberPsychology and Behavior * New Media & Society Books: Routledge Cyberstudies catalog These are described in greater detail at http://aoir.org/benefits.html. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 Participated in election planning and candidate encouraging. 2.3 Secretary (Bunz) 2.3.1 Counted votes, participated in discussions (below), and been waiting for warm weather. May 15 - June 15, 2003 This month on the executive list: - The AoIR election process has begun. Nominations were collected until June 13. Starting June 20, an online open discussion forum will be available for AoIR members and non-members to interact with nominees. Position statements and biographical information will be available online too. Details and URL= =92s will be posted to air-l within the next week. - Along those lines, the exec has been monitoring nominations and has been sharing public i

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Expert Evaluation.
by Bas ten Hove 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Dear All, my name is Bas ten Hove and I am a fourth year student Applied Communication Studies at the University of Twente, The Netherlands and I would kindly ask for your assistence. A subject that I am working on is a usability test of a website (www.th-i.nl, my own website).] My study combines heuristic evaluation and a Thinking Aloud protocol. However, for the Heuristic Evaluation I need some experts, preferably more then three and I am asking for your help in that matter. Would you have time (and energy) to evaluate this website? You might wonder why i haven't asked Thea van der Geest or Menno De Jong from the University Twente, but since they are both going on vacation next week they don't have time enough. I hope that you can help me. Yours Sincerely, Bas ten Hove

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The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication
by Dányi Endre 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

apologies for x-posting... C a l l _ f o r _ p a p e r s Submissions are invited for a conference on "The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication" to take place in Budapest, June 10-11, 2004. Four sections of submitted papers are planned on the topics of 1. GLOBALIZATION AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION 2. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND LOCAL LIFE 3. MMS AND VIDEO IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION 4. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE NEW INTIMACY Target dates: Submission of abstracts (max. 600 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by January 12, 2004. Abstracts should emphasize (a) where the proposed paper fits within the broader set of inquiries in the area of interest, and (b) what is new and substantial in the proposed contribution relative to the state of art in the field. Abstract submitters will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by February 2, 2004. Deadline for receipt of draft full-length versions of papers (max. 3000 words, references formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style): April 26. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed at the time of the conference to all participants. Deadline for receipt of final manuscripts for inclusion in the published conference proceedings: July 19. Speakers will include: Albert-László Barabási György Csepeli Jonathan Donner Leopoldina Fortunati James E. Katz Shin Dong Kim On-Kwok Lai Joshua Meyrowitz Kristóf Nyíri Mark Poster For further information do not hesitate to contact Kristóf Nyíri Director, Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences nyiri(a)phil-inst.hu http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/

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Invitation to Participate and request for assistance
by Kris Markman 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Dear AOIR colleagues, I would like to invite you to participate in a new study on email user names and anonymity. The call for participants and information on the study is below. I would also like to ask you to forward our call for participants to other lists, groups, or individuals that you think might be appropriate. We are trying to get a sample of world-wide English speakers to complete our Web survey, and so the international and interdisciplinary nature of AOIR made this list the perfect place to start our publicity. Thank you very much for your help and interest, and please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. -Kris Markman Doctoral Student The University of Texas at Austin jho-kmm(a)mail.utexas.edu or ut2003email_survey(a)earthlink.net survey URL: https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=2003emailsurvey P.S. I'd also love to get any feedback on the design and layout of the survey ********* You are invited to participate in an online study of email addresses. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding into how people personalize their email addresses, manage multiple email addresses/accounts, and experience anonymity when using these addresses. We would like to invite all English-speaking email users age 18 and over worldwide to complete our survey, and we eventually hope to have 400-500 respondents globally. This survey is being conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and has been approved by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, Clarke A. Burnham, Ph.D., Chair. Questions about this research may be directed to the chair at: The University of Texas at Austin, Office of Research Support & Compliance, P.O. Box 7426, Austin, TX, 78713. If you choose to participate it will take approximately 10 - 30 minutes to complete the survey depending on the number of email addresses you have. All of your answers will be kept confidential by the researchers. The information we collect will be used for academic research purposes only and will not be used by or sold to any commercial entities. To take the survey, please go to: https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=2003emailsurvey Thank your for your time and participation, and please feel free to forward this URL to any other individuals or groups you think may be interested. You should also feel free to contact us if you have any other questions about this project. Sincerely, "Anonymity and Identity Management through Email Usernames" Study Primary Investigators: Kris M. Markman and Craig R. Scott The University of Texas at Austin Department of Communication Studies ut2003email_survey(a)earthlink.net

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Black Hat 2003
by a-matwyshyn＠law.northwestern.edu 22 Jun '03

22 Jun '03

Will anyone else be attending Black Hat in Las Vegas next month? * * * Andrea M. Matwyshyn Affiliate Manufacturing and Technology Policy University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Adjunct Professor of Law Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, US a-matwyshyn(a)law.northwestern.edu

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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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blogosphere guide of interest
by Gina Neff 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

fyi: great graphical depiction of political blogs on the first link below. Poynteronline E-Media Tidbits Friday, June 20, 2003 Posted by Steve Outing 12:52:06 PM Guide to the Blogosphere Be sure to take a look at Mark Glaser's "Guide to the Blogosphere," published on Online Journalism Review. (Chart (http://www.ojr.org/ojr/uploads/1056011147.htm) and accompanying article (http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1056050270.php) .) The chart is especially useful in determining where you want to spend your blog-reading time; it categorizes some of the most "influential" general blogs as well as media/journalism/blogging blogs in terms of political leanings. Smack in the middle (where they should be) are media blogs such as E-Media Tidbits (http://www.poynter.org/tidbits) , Romenesko (http://www.poynter.org/romenesko) , IWantMedia (http://www.iwantmedia.com) , Cyberjournalist.net (http://www.cyberjournalist.net) , and PaidContent.org (http://www.paidcontent.org) .

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