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

RE: [Air-l] resisting subpeonas
by Matthew Allen 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Australia's courts have effectively forced big universities including U Sydney and U Melbourne (?), to hand over records that permit identification of alleged copyright violators. I don't have a reference but zdnet.com.au will probably give you a quick rundown on it. The university I work at is running very scared on all aspects of Internet liability...our current management buzz phrase is 'compliance to avoid risk'...not necessarily in sync with academic freedom, or learning effectiveness, but, sadly I must admit, a fairly safe strategy in light of the record industry litigation elsewhere in Oz. Matt Allen

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The British are coming
by Frank Thomas 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

I guess this might interest some people on the list (to be read when the server is down): En Guardian! The British are coming--again. The launch of a U.S. edition of the unabashedly liberal Guardian may be just what the Bush-whacked U.S. press needs. http://www.nymetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_8938/ -- ...................... Dr. Frank Thomas Internet Research Rosny, France

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GLOBALIZATION
by D.Mepham 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Hi As a mature student approaching my first year at University to take a degree in Sociology and Education I would very much appreciate the opportunity to exchange thoughts with anyone who has the time to do so. My current topic is globalization. When it arrives by snail mail I shall also be taking a look at Giddens Sociology. I have studied Open Universitys DD100 Social Science course and am using their material to prepare for September. I am currently comparing definitions and attitudes towards the term globalization and have more questions than answers. Forgive me if these are naïve. Wiseman describes globalization as a slippery, dangerous and important buzzword of the latter part of the 20th century. Giddens describes the world as a runaway world all terms which seem emotive. Mulgan homes in on a negative kind of globalization through the unity shared over pollution and environmental matters. I dont have a good background in British History and am finding it difficult to compare the advancements in communications over recent decades with say the development of the phone and TV. I dont as yet have any advice on how to prepare for the education part of my degree any suggestions? Your responses on or off list would be greatly appreciated Daphne

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Reminder: AoIR t-shirt competition
by Ulla Bunz 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Just a reminder that the AoIR t-shirt competition is still going on. Check out current suggestions at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~bunz/aoir/logosite.htm Email designs to bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu by July 26. Ulla T-shirt Competition: As AoIR is growing, the executive committee is planning to create t-shirts and possibly other items (such as mouse pads, coffee cups) for the association. These items would be available for purchase over the Internet before the conference. So far, we have created four possible t-shirt designs, available for your perusal at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~bunz/aoir/logosite.htm We would like to invite other suggestions and open up a competition for the best t-shirt design. Charlie Breindahl and Ulla Bunz will choose the best design of all submissions and the winner will receive a free t-shirt. You do not need to be very artistic, just creative. You can create images, or simply send a text description of your ideas to bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu. There are only a few limitations that must be taken into consideration: - designs must include the AoIR logo, available on http://aoir.org - designs must be in black and white only The deadline for designs is July 26. Please send suggestions directly to bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu, not to the Listserve. Designs will be made available on http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~bunz/aoir/logosite.htm and we welcome constructive feedback. Thanks! Ulla ************************** Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 ************************** _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: [Air-l] Please help to find the number of school websites
by kisochkausa＠netscape.net 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Dear Sandra, I meant to say that I search for the number of web sites of secondary (or K-12) schools. Sorry. Ellen Lunts University of Rochester elunts(a)netscape.net "SCBR" <scbr(a)sinectis.com.ar> wrote: >Ellen, > >I am not sure of understanding exactly what you are looking for (if schools >as posgraduate level or schools as high schools) but if it has to do with >universities and post graduate schools, a good starting point can be the >Google´s special for universities that you can find at: >http://www.google.com/options/universities.html > >In this matter also, usnews.com in its surveys and rankings, has some >numbers that could help (i.e. they have a school directory of 363 US schools >offering master´s programs). > >I hope this helps. > >Regards, Sandra :) > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <kisochkausa(a)netscape.net> >To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> >Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:05 PM >Subject: [Air-l] Please help to find the number of school websites > > >> Dear list serv members, >> >> I search for the resent numbers of school and class web sites (in the USA >or worldwide) on the Internet. (I have 1998 data, but would prefer to >replace those with the new ones.) Any suggestions are appreciated. >> >> Ellen Lunts >> University of Rochester >> elunts(a)netscape.net __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

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Re: [Air-l] Please help to find the number of school websites
by Paul Chenoweth 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Ellen, May I suggest a first dtop with Educause... they manage the .edu domain names for educational institutions. 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 1010 Washington, DC 20036 202-872-4200 / 202-872-4318 (fax) info(a)educause.edu Paul Chenoweth, Web Developer Belmont University 615-460-6867 "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant". Mitchell Kapor ----- Original Message ----- From: kisochkausa(a)netscape.net Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:05 pm Subject: [Air-l] Please help to find the number of school websites > Dear list serv members, > > I search for the resent numbers of school and class web sites (in > the USA or worldwide) on the Internet. (I have 1998 data, but > would prefer to replace those with the new ones.) Any suggestions > are appreciated. > > Ellen Lunts > University of Rochester > elunts(a)netscape.net > > __________________________________________________________________ > McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. > Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free > trial today! > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp? promo=393397 > > Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! > http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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Please help to find the number of school websites
by kisochkausa＠netscape.net 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Dear list serv members, I search for the resent numbers of school and class web sites (in the USA or worldwide) on the Internet. (I have 1998 data, but would prefer to replace those with the new ones.) Any suggestions are appreciated. Ellen Lunts University of Rochester elunts(a)netscape.net __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

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democracy & culture; political flash apps
by Philip N. Howard 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

AIR Friends: I am a big fan of describing the role of the internet in political life as a story of democracy and culture. For a candidate, the bottom line may be winning. For candidates, the bottom line may be winning, but I would disagree with JSG if she means that the 'bottom line' for those of us studying political culture should be candidate victories. Stories about politics online always involve some exciting new innovation and some disheartening stories of ugly political tricks. So both McCain and Bradley campaigns were innovative in that they used the Internet to organize decent campaigns in states where they had no paid full-time staff. They raised big bucks online, but only after media blitz on the possibilities of an upset and many of those "pledges" were taken over the phone and processed through webforms by volunteers sitting at campaign HQ. I don't think its going out on a limb to say there are a number of legislative campaigns, both elite lobbyist and grassroots campaigns, that have won _because_ of the internet. If this is out on a limb I'd hope it can be part of JSG's tree. It is really important to move beyond win/loss measures of the internet's role in political culture. Looking for internet effects the traditional polisci way means treating a bunch of phenomena additively, such that campaign communications strategy is one of a dozen factors (along with charisma, financing, platform) that add up to a explain a candidate's victory. Will the internet be making a difference when a wired campaign strategy (wired/not wired) provides 51% of the explained variation in electoral outcomes (candidate win/loose)? Even if you could create the database for such a model, I'd bet that the role of the internet in candidate campaigns is increasingly important yet increasingly ubiquitous, not increasingly pronounced and distinct. Being interested in political culture should mean looking for the contours of complex interaction between the variables. As a Ventura IT guy said, they "didn't win because of the internet, but wouldn't have won without it." With the traditional, additive analytical frame, this statement from the Ventura campaign would make their case unworthy of study. I think the internet made a difference in the 2000 Presidential election, where difference = deep part of political culture, not wired campaign = victory. I think secondary candidates like McCain, Bradley and Nader got further than expected; campaign communications were significantly more agile than in 1996; online posturing became a crucial part of impression management in the 48 hours after the Florida recount debacle. Activists dreamed up some really effective apps, including vote-swapping apps, candidate-citizen affinity matching apps, campaign finance tracking apps and more. They also generated a huge volume of political humor in the form of jokes, art, flash ads etc, which circulated well beyond activist networks. I agree Dean's campaign is innovative and seems to have really integrated internet-based apps into its campaign communications strategies. But will he or the richer campaigns be using the bots that join lists to promote and 'engage' list members? What kind of datamining will they do online? What are the internal power relations like between IT consultants and other campaign workers? BTW i'm building a collection of political flash apps at http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/polart.html Do AIRers have any others I should add? There are a dozen there to play with, but i'd love more! Phil Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington

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Talk-backing
by Uyen T Nguyen Pham 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Dear Jacob, and others members, In Vietnam, “talk-backing” is becoming more and more common among about 400,000 Internet users (quite a small number in comparison with a population of 81 million.) Sorry that I am replying a little late. I am a newcomer to this interesting forum. I have been Director of one of the two most popular Vietnamese News sites, www.vnn.vn. By the way, I hope you all have gotten the second annual report on cyberspace: "The Internet under Surveillance - Obstacles to the free flow of information online,” (19 June 2003, Reporters Without Borders.) (http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsf.fr%2Farticle.php…) In the part about Vietnam, our site has been noted as a “government information site.” As one of the developers of this news site from a portal of an IT company, I think this is an overgeneralization. It seems typical that when we don’t have enough information, we paint situations with a broad brush. I am now studying at an American university, and I would be very happy to share what I know from my practical experience in our online journalism, if some of you are interested. Back to the “talk-back”: the Vietnamese are used to discussing news in offices, on the streets, everywhere. But though the Internet was introduced into VN in 1997, by the end of 2001, there were only the interactive form of forums (on or off-line). Not too much about responding to news items. The first “news” discussion online could be seen in the forum “Today’s issue” of vnn.vn since the day it was established in September 2001. The September 11th tragedy made the forum come into its own. An average of 200 opinions was received each day, and they were very opposite opinions. Another news site, “Readers write,” then opened, and found success too. The news networks from this time on became more interactive. We know that Vietnamese users like topics such as human interest, international politics (war, peace, conflicts ), and, of course, topics concerning their own lives (policies, prices, diseases). Human interest stories brought the audience to a new stage of interactivity. People wanted to help those in trouble. Our office even had to set up a group to receive donations and offers to volunteer. This is real interactivity! Another new common form of “talk-backing” is the online interview. In this, the Web sites invite people to appear as guests and interact with the public. This is done one or two times a week. An example is the interview with the president of IDG Patrick McGovern, who came to our office in Ha noi and responsed in the real time to questions of the VNN readers (http://www.vnn.vn/507/2003/7/18868/) These online, interactive interviews elicit a good response, especially if the topic or person is interesting, such as about hot issues. One thing I can see as a difference in the behavior of Vietnamese users is that they like to talk about macro issues and, most of the time, talk from an optimistic perspective. It seems like “talk-backing” is the kind of active political expression that the Vietnamese historically have been used to. There are about 400,000 internet users inside country and who knows how many from the2.5 million overseas. At the present time, “talk-backing” in all its forms should contribute to citizen involvement. I hope I could help a little, Jacob. And I would like to learn much from your opinions too. Regards, Uyen Thu Nguyen-Pham Fulbright Fellow California State University, Fresno Mass Communication & Journalism Department thuuyen(a)csufresno.edu

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Just appeared: Special issue of Swiss Journal of Psychology on "Studying the Internet: A challenge for modern psychology"
by Ulf Reips 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Hi all, please take note of the special issue of the Swiss Journal of Psychology entitled "Studying the Internet: A challenge for modern psychology" (edited by Kai Sassenberg, Margarete Boos, Tom Postmes, Ulf-Dietrich Reips). More information is available at http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~s0saka/sjp.html The special issue can be ordered at http://verlag.hanshuber.com/Zeitschriften/SJP/index.html (place a remark in the commentary textbox at http://verlag.hanshuber.com/basket/basket.php?ShowForm=yes&URL=&lang=e that you are ordering the Special issue 2/2003 only, if that is what you want ;-) Best wishes, --u -- ********** Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Psychologisches Institut Fax: 0041-1-6344929 Attenhoferstr. 9 CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland http://www.psych.unizh.ch/genpsy/reips/reipspers.html

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