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<nettime> Product Placements in Learning Environments (fwd)
by robert m. tynes 08 Jul '03

08 Jul '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:15:49 -0700 From: Steve Cisler <cisler(a)pobox.com> To: nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net Subject: <nettime> Product Placements in Learning Environments I just finished writing a paper entitled, "Product Placements in Learning Environments: From Keystone-Mast to Microsoft" a sort of history of technology companies making donations to schools, tech centers, and telecenters. It begins in the 1920's and concludes with a new initiative by Microsoft in developing countries. As someone who has been engaged in these types of donations I thought this would be a good time to reflect on the trade-offs and expectations about this kind of corporate giving and whether you should be suspicious of geeks bearing gifts. http://eduaction.net/productplacement.html I'll be offline and camping in Canada for a week or so, but your comments are welcome. Steve Cisler # 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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question on digital recorder
by Annice Kim 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

hello everyone: i am looking into digital recorders & computer-based transcription softwares to record telephone interviews. if you have any experience using either, i'd appreciate hearing your comments & suggestions, off list. for those who are interested, i can compile & share all responses. thanks in advance, annice Annice Eu-Shin Kim, MPH Doctoral Candidate Department of Health Behavior & Health Education UNC School of Public Health Rosenau Hall, CB#7440 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7440 aekim(a)email.unc.edu 919.966.9691

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political email effectiveness vs. telephones
by Alicia A McBride 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

> Call your Congressional representatives and demand that they support the = > rollback. One phone call from a constituent is more effective than scores = > of email petitions.>>> > > I wonder if they say that intuitively, or based on evidence? > > Ildiko Kaposi I used to work for a political advocacy organization, and we always went back and forth on whether to ask people to call or email. We heard repeatedly from congressional offices that telephone calls were much more effective than email, because it took more effort on the part of the consituent. According to what we heard, hand-written letters have the most weight (although that might have changed since the anthrax scare), then phone calls, then email and faxes. But it was much easier to generate large amounts of email than to generate a similar number of telephone calls or hand-written letters. Also, it varies considerably from office to office. Some offices are well set-up to deal with email, while others aren't. We generally encouraged people to email in order to get them over the fear of actually contacting their elected officials, particularly when the issue wasn't urgent. When the issue was more time-sensitive or had larger potential repercussions, we asked people to call. These decisions were based more on instinct than research, though. Alicia McBride Graduate Student, Technical Communication University of Washington

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call for papers
by Joyce Nip 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

ìDigital News, Social Change and Globalizationî Conference Deadline for paper abstracts and panel proposals: September 1, 2003 Organized by Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, China, on the university campus, postponed to December 11-12, 2003 Second Call for Papers: Academic papers, project papers, and broadcast news items (in English or Chinese) related to online, satellite, television or radio news are solicited on themes including but not restricted to the following: * The past, present, and future of online journalism * Satellite news and globalization * Evolving policies and laws relating to online and broadcast journalism * News values and ethics in global journalism * Alternative digital news and social change * Online and broadcast news coverage Publication of Papers: The Information Society journal has agreed in principle to publish selected papers of this conference in a special issue. The possibility of publishing other selected papers in a refereed book volume is also being explored. Keynote speakers: John Simpson, CBE, BBC World Affairs Editor Nicholas Jankowski, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Nijmegen For details visit the web site: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~jour/DN2003 -- Joyce Nip, Ph.D. Assistant Professor & Conference Chair Department of Journalism Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong Hong Kong T: (852) 3411 7834 F: (852) 2336 1691 Email: joycenip(a)hkbu.edu.hk

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Re: [Air-l] RE: A POSSIBLE POSTING TO THE ASSOCIATION'S EMAIL LIST
by Ildiko Kaposi 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

>>> Call your Congressional representatives and demand that they support the rollback. One phone call from a constituent is more effective than scores of email petitions.>>> I wonder if they say that intuitively, or based on evidence? Ildiko Kaposi

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RE: A POSSIBLE POSTING TO THE ASSOCIATION'S EMAIL LIST
by David Peterson 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

Dear AIR-L Administrator: Below please find a message that I am submitting for possible posting as part of the Associations email list. Thanks. Sincerely Yours, David Peterson davidpet(a)mindspring.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FYI: PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN EFFORTS TO REVERSE NEW FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RULES THAT WOULD ALLOW FEWER CORPORATIONS TO OWN AND CONTROL AN EVER-GREATER SHARE OF THE U.S. MEDIA. OR GO DIRECTLY TO www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc AND FOLLOW THE SIMPLE STEPS YOULL NEED TO TAKE TO TELL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS THAT YOU WANT THEM TO VOTE TO REVERSE THIS BETRAYAL OF THE PUBLIC TRUST. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A message from Robert McChesney and John Nichols: Big media is getting bigger and our democracy is at stake. As you know, a month ago the FCC dramatically relaxed media ownership regulations, suffocating the cornerstone of American democracy: a free, fair, and open public debate. Because one million Americans raised their voices against the FCC decision, the Senate Commerce Committee recently sent a bill to the Senate floor for a vote that would roll back many of the rules. Today the challenge is to get that bill to the floor of the Senate and House for a vote. Take 3 Minutes to Stop Media Monopoly: Phone It In. Call your Congressional representatives and demand that they support the rollback. One phone call from a constituent is more effective than scores of email petitions. Go to www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc and follow the easy steps or read on for more information. (Don't worry, you don't need to know your Senators' or Representative's names, only your zipcode.) "Roll Back the FCC" legislation now has 38 supporters in the Senate (out of 100). We need 51 for passage. The House bills have the overlapping support of 65 cosponsors on HR 2462 and 146 on HR 2052. We need 216 for passage. The www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc website will tell you if your members of Congress are currently supporting rolling back the FCC. If they are supportive co-sponsors, then thank them for their support and ask that they keep the bill alive. If they not a co-sponsor, ask them to become one. (suggested script provided online) Want to learn more about this issue and media reform? Go to our new organization called Free Press at www.mediareform.net. Join Free Press. Call Congress. For our media. For our Democracy. Please send this email along to anyone else you think might be interested in having a healthy democratic media system. Robert McChesney & John Nichols Free Press MediaReform.Network

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Fwd: [CI] Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society:
by Michel J. Menou 06 Jul '03

06 Jul '03

Apologies for multiple postings Best regards, Michel J. Menou mailto:Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr This is a forwarded message From: larrys(a)vicnet.net.au <larrys(a)vicnet.net.au> To: communityinformatics(a)vancouvercommunity.net Date: Sunday, June 29, 2003, 3:29:25 PM Subject: [CI] Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society: ===8<==============Original message text=============== We invite your participation in -- Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society: A Colloquium Research Results, Lessons Learned, Policy Recommendations Please circulate this invitation widely to colleagues. Prato, Italy 15-16 September, 2003 www.ccnr.net/prato2003/. Second Call for Papers and Participation The Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Australia and the Community Informatics Research Group at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA , cordially invite researchers, practitioners and policy makers to participate in Many Voices Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society Colloquium to be held 15-16 September, at the Monash University Centre, Prato (Florence/Firenze), Italy. Many Voices, Many Places: Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society is meant as a complement to provide an opportunity for practitioners, researchers and policy makers from research centres, universities, cultural institutions, and agencies involved in governance to discuss and reflect on the role and opportunities for emergent communities as constrained by physical, distance, resource, political, and gender barriers for effective participation in an Information Society. The format of the session will be reflective and deliberative. Position papers are invited and more formal papers will be reviewed but presentation will be as introductions to discussion. For reasons of space we are constrained to no more than 40 participants as appropriate participation will be by invitation or by anticipated contribution. 50EU will be charged to cover immediate operating expenses. Please see the website www.ccnr.net/prato2003/ for registration & accommodation details. Mid-September 2003 sees a conjunction of several conferences where the role and impact of electronically-enabled communities will be discussed, including: Next 5 MINUTES 4, Amsterdam, 12-14 September Information, Communication, Society: A Research Symposium, Oxford 17th-20th September; and Communities and Technologies (C&T 2003), Amsterdam, 19 - 21 September. ----We aim to identify the structures and processes which enable collective memory, minority knowledge creation, and oral culture inclusive of all parts of societies and how these may be empowered to enhance effective social participation. The intersection of the discipline of community informatics with these dimensions of societal knowledge production (and the consequential empowerment and development of social capital) will also be explored. We are looking to provide a forum where those involved can discuss/summarize/theorize/and draw conclusions or lessons learned from some ten years of practical work and research experience in applying Information and Communications Technologies to enabling (and empowering) emergent communities (virtual and physical) framed as a contribution to the World Summit on the Information Society which will be held in Geneva in December of 2003. Some Possible Topic Areas for Discussion What are the "many voices" in the Information Society What are their barriers to participation and what opportunities do they present to themselves and to others as communities? How are these many voices "sustainable"? Many voices as communities of interest (and of place) Sustaining these communities Strategies for Innovation: What Do We Know and How Can it Be Promoted ICTs and Local Economic Development at the margins: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here Do ICTs contribute to Poverty Alleviation and if so, how can this be replicated? What is the role of institutions of cultural memory in developed and developing countries? Oral to electronically documented -- what is the process and what are the ethical and other issues? Telecentres-best practices; cost-benefit assessment; are they a solution for "universal access" What contribution can ICTs make to building Civil Society? Communities, ICTs and Emergent Democracy What is the (appropriate) role of the private sector? Colloquium Publication Proceedings, including refereed papers, position statements and related documents will be made available at the colloquium and for broader distribution in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Full Papers (up to 5000 words, including references) are due 1 August for refereeing and inclusion in the publication. Abstracts should be sent as soon as possible. This deadline is final if you wish to be included in the publication. Abstracts/papers should be sent to Professor Michael Gurstein (gurstein(a)njit.edu) or Larry Stillman (larrys(a)vicnet.net.au) Please also register your expression of interest to as either a speaker or attendee. Colloquium committee Michael Bieber, Associate Professor, College of Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology Michael Gurstein, (Visiting) Professor, School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Prof Don Schauder, School of Information Management and Systems, Monash University Dr Graham Johanson, School of Information Management and Systems/Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University Larry Stillman, School of Information Management and Systems/Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University Colloquium Sponsors The Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Australia New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA National Science Foundation ************************ Larry Stillman Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, www.ccnr.net 61 3 9903 1801 fax 9903 2564 ===8<===========End of original message text===========

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RE: [Air-l] Internet statistics for Australian homes, schools, an d workplace
by Matthew Allen 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

Hiya Don the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a good site but it costs money for specific reports and needs some skill in navigating around; you'll get some general advice there, however: http://www.abs.gov.au/ National Office of Info Economy (NOIE) is better - it collates stats from various places and is a little more up-to-date http://www.noie.gov.au my personal favourite for interesting stats on web/net use is the market research community - there's a site I can't quite remember ...lots of reports on commercial research findings. I have a dream *grin* to do PILP-type research in Australia...but AFTER the conference ;) Matt

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AEJMC Panel on New Media
by Jonathan Lillie 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

Hello all, I am trying to find someone going to AEJMC in Kansas City at the end of the month to take my place on a panel on new areas in new media research. Here's the abstract for the panel. If you are interested please email me ASAP at: jlillie(a)email.unc.edu Thanks, Jonathan PANEL SUMMARY: As new media technologies develop and gain attention as significant impactors upon society, the field is hard pressed to keep up. How do Mass Communication researchers evaluate the importance of developing communication technologies, and how should they approach new entertainment and information media? Panelists will discuss communication technologies that have been explored to a comparatively limited degree, addressing both the importance of these new directions and the approaches that might be taken. ----- Jonathan James McCreadie Lillie ----- jlillie(a)email.unc.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/jlillie ----- Managing Editor NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture http://www.nmediac.net ----- Park Doctoral Fellow The School of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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July on -empyre-: Net Blackness with Mendi + Keith Obadike and damali ayo
by Michael Arnold Mages 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

-empyre- takes great pleasure in welcoming three artists whose work explores the politics of race and identity. The plasticity of identity over the internet is a well known phenomenon. Internet utopians exalt in a genderless, colorless society that is available only though a digital medium. However, race remains a inextricably formative part of identity, and plays a central, contextualizing role in the nature of communication and social discourse. In the zealous search for terrorists, racial profiling has become a tool of US security agencies, and more palatable to that nation's population. Skin color has again become an acceptable way to identify those that may pose a threat to the hegemonic culture. Increasingly, the questions that surround stereotyped or commodified portrayals of race and ethnicity require satisfactory answers. Please join us at -empyre- for the month of July, to participate in the discussion where artists Mendi and Keith Obadike, and damali ayo explore and debate these issues. ---- Mendi and Keith Obadike are interdisciplinary artists working with music, live art, and conceptual internet artworks. Their works conduct inquiry into the implications of social and cultural networks as relates to blackness. Other areas of exploration include sex toys, current events, and commodification of race and identity. In August of 2002, they exhibited The Interaction of Coloreds, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. At Yale University Mendi and Keith premiered their Internet opera The Sour Thunder, which was commissioned by the Yale Cabaret and will be released on CD by the classical music label Bridge Records. The Interaction of Coloreds http://www.whitney.org/artport/gatepages/august02.shtml Blackness for Sale http://Obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html The Sour Thunder http://blacknetart.com/sour damali ayo is a self-described junk artist--defining junk as "things we once bought (or bought into) and keep around because we are accustomed to their presence." Working from her studio in Portland, Oregon, ayo uses installation, assemblage, sound, paint, fabric whatever it takes to investigate concepts that engage her curiosity as well as social and community issues in the US. Her most recent online work, http://www.rent-a-negro.com/ is a performance work enabled by the internet. -- Subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ --

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