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[CITASA] Email list for Sociology - Communication & Information Technologies
by Keith Hampton 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

FYI. Please join the list... and if you are an ASA member, the section. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CITASA] Email list for Sociology - Communication & Information Technologies Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:49:17 -0400 From: Keith Hampton <knh(a)MIT.EDU> Reply-To: ASA CIT Section <citasa(a)MIT.EDU> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology To: CITASA(a)mit.edu Dear colleagues, Welcome to the new email list of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) section. This is an unmoderated email list open to members and nonmembers of the ASA. The purpose of this list is to support the mission of CIT. Mainly, to support, enhance and promote research, teaching and other professional activities related to: 1) social aspects of computing, the Internet, new media, computer networks, and other communication and information technologies, 2) the design and use of technology in teaching and research. The section council hopes that you will help us revitalize our newly renamed section by sharing your research findings, teaching materials, thoughts, and questions with members of this online community. All are welcome. Your students and colleagues can subscribe to this list by visiting: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/citasa Sincerely, Keith Hampton Section Council & Webmaster Assistant Professor of Technology, Urban and Community Sociology Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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AOIR Toronto: hotel contest
by Rhiannon Bury 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

At the risk of belabouring the point, I wish to once again encourage those of you planning to attend the October conference to book your accommodation at the Hilton. As an added incentive, the Hilton has donated several prizes. Below is the text with details. I already sent a .pdf version around to those who have registered for the conference. However, that list may have been incomplete and others not already signed up may be interested as well. *********************************************** Dear AOIR Delegate: Now that you have registered for AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band, we encourage you, if you have not done so already, to book your accommodation at the Toronto Hilton and be eligible to win some great prizes! You can complete the form on our website http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/hotel_travel.phtml and either email it to the hotel at the address listed or fax it to 1-416-869-1478. Alternatively, you can telephone 1-800-267-2281 toll free from Canada or the United States; international participants can call (416) 869-3456. Please indicate our block code: ASSA110703. Rooms are $224 CDN a night, taxes extra. If you wish to share a room, check out the roommate finder phorum: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2 Remember that your credit card is only used to secure your reservation up to 4pm on the day of arrival, and no charges will be made to your card until check out. All conference delegate, including those already booked, who have made reservations at the Hilton by 12:00pm (noon) EDT on Tuesday September 2 will be entered in a draw to win a dinner for two at one of the Hilton restaurants during their stay. Five additional people will win free internet access for their hotel room for the duration of their stay. Contest prizes have been generously donated by the Toronto Hilton. The draw will take place shortly thereafter, and winners will be contacted by email. If you have any questions or wish further clarification in making hotel reservations, please contact me at rbury(a)wlu.ca, or welshwitch75(a)rogers.com. We look forward to seeing you in Toronto in October! Rhiannon Bury on behalf of Liss Jeffrey, Conference Chair and the AOIR Toronto Working Committee

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CFP: The Life of Mobile Data Conference
by Sean Smith 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity April 15 16, 2004 University of Surrey, England The rapid adoption and diffusion of mobile devices over the past decade have altered the way information is generated, organized and communicated about individuals and their lives. The construction of new mobile data profiles, and of mobile, informatic selves, hold the potential to transform what is organizationally and interpersonally meant by privacy, individuality, community, risk, trust, and reciprocity in a mobilizing, and globalizing world. In order to examine these transformations, the RIS:OME project at the University of Surrey is hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference to address emerging social and cultural relations of mobility, privacy, identity, information and communication. This conference will bring together academic, industry and policy researchers and practitioners to critically address how mobile information and communications technologies structure relations of privacy, security, trust, power, identity and difference. There are a number of questions that inform the themes of the conference. In what ways, for example, do mobiles reconfigure the relations of trust, risk, privacy and reciprocity embedded in organizational and interpersonal data-sharing? In what ways do mobiles contribute to the construction of identity and of the information self? What is the relationship between mobile data and the individual? Who owns and controls the emerging, individualized mobile data image? What roles do consumption and consumerism play in the social relations of privacy, trust and security? Is the development of mobile technologies associated with emerging relations of risk, uncertainty and privatisation? What social, cultural and regulatory factors have influenced the generation of mobile data in different countries? How do these factors influence culturally specific understandings and practices of globalized and transnational privacy, risk and trust? Are regimes of information sharing and data protection patterned along axes of development and underdevelopment? What roles do national differences and political economies play in the construction of emerging mobile data relations? How are politics reconfigured within and between countries via mobile data technologies and changing mobilities? What critical approaches can be brought to bear on our understanding of diversity, difference and resistance in the generation of mobile data? How can we account for the rapid uptake of mobile devices, and the development of mobile data sharing, both now and in the future? We seek to bring critical perspectives to bear on the development and widespread uptake of mobile technologies and developments in information sharing and data profiling over the last decade. The conference organizers thus invite papers presenting empirically grounded and theoretically informed analyses of the social changes that mobile technologies and their data relations have brought about. Suggested themes could include, but are by no means limited to: · risk, trust and power in mobile information ownership, control, access and management · culturally specific patterns of informational trust and privacy · organizational structuring of mobile information paradigms · data subjectivity and the construction of identity through mobile technologies · mobile communications and emerging regulatory environments · privacy enhancing technologies, their problems, paradoxes and possibilities · privacy advocacy in the mobile environment · organizational and interpersonal information sharing · the lifecycle of mobile personal data: its generation, integration, profiling and mining · mobile surveillance, security and globalization · mobile data protection, data subjectivity and knowledge · information gathering and social memory Papers and panels are invited that address the conference themes. Paper length: 20 minutes. Panel presentations encouraged. Timetable: Submission of Abstracts: 500 700 words, October 31st 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: December 12th 2003 Paper Submission: February 13th 2004 Registration Deadline: January 8th 2004 All conference correspondence should be sent to the conference organizers at the addresses below. Further details of the conference will be posted to the RIS:OME website (http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk) as they become available. Conference Fees, Registration and Accomodation Details of conference fees and registration, and conference accommodation and availability, will be posted to the RIS:OME website as they become available. A limited number of rooms will be reserved on-campus for conference delegates. Requests for on-campus accommodation should be sent to the conference organizers in advance of the January 8th registration deadline. Conference Organisers: Nicola Green (n.green(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk) Sean Smith (s.a.smith(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk) RIS:OME Project (http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom Phone: +44-1483-689-460 Fax: +44-1483-699-551 With the support of Intel Corporation, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. _________________________________ Sean Smith Research Fellow, Mobile Technologies, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. ph: +44 (0)1483 686 966 m: +44 (0)7786 511 042

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Re: [Air-l] 2-Min-Study
by u.matzat＠t-online.de 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On 26 Aug 03, at 12:01, air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:48:20 +0200 > From: Frank Schaap <architext(a)fragment.nl> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-l] 2-Min-Study > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > > Dear colleague, > > thanks for taking part in a brief (2 Min) study: > > http://www.genpsylab.unizh.ch/frames66841/index.html?air > > *giggle* Done... you will share the results with us? Or is it a highly > classified black project? > > > Frank. This was the shortest study I have ever taken part! Since the results section probably won't be too long, I guess that Ulf will share the most important results with the list and nobody will mind of being overloaded with too much information. Uwe +++++++++++++++++++++ Uwe Matzat Institute of Social Sciences Sociology Chair I University of Duesseldorf Universitaetstr. 1 40225 Duesseldorf phone: +49 211 8112851 matzat(a)uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/~matzat !I send this email from my private !email address; please respond only to matzat(a)uni-duesseldorf.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++

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help - unsubscribe
by Amr31379＠aol.com 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

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Re: [Air-l] 2-Min-Study
by Frank Schaap 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

> Dear colleague, > thanks for taking part in a brief (2 Min) study: > http://www.genpsylab.unizh.ch/frames66841/index.html?air *giggle* Done... you will share the results with us? Or is it a highly classified black project? Frank.

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student project
by Adrian Miles 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

hi all apologies and some forbearance here, this is a press release from a group of students who are working on a blog project. They are primarily international students, have never seen a blog before, and have formed a production team that has developed all content, promotional material, etc. the course they are participating in is largely about teaching about collaborative production and networked media. I'm assuming some relevance to this community because they are playing with what is usually a nonfiction medium in a semi fictional way, blurring fiction and reality in a way that is reminiscent of reality TV, which they are realising. No-budget lo-tech intervention on their behalf. cheers Adrian Miles Media Release Professional Communication students at RMIT University have joined together to create an exciting online Blog called "Hannah's House". This blog is no ordinary Blog ; but one where an international student called Hannah, comes to Australia to study at RMIT. Come along her to experience Melbourne and all the pleasures, problems and with dilemmas Hannah has along the way!! Read Hannah's online diary as she takes us on her day to day journeys and shares her secret findings with us - her readers - about Melbourne and all its little quirkey but loveable points. You will hear about the best places to buy a beer, where the closest doctors can be found, cool dinner ideas to cook at home, great places to eat, shop and of course where to head for the best entertainment and information regarding university. Course Lecturer Adrian Miles believes the project created by the students will be extremely popular for new RMIT students, international and local, but will also have a following outside the university. As Adrian says "This is an innovative use of a blog because these students are taking a non fiction genre to develop an online personality to explore the experience of being students". One of the writers in the class, Lucy Doherty has enjoyed the new experience and opportunity the project has brought her. "It has been fantastic to be able to join all of the aspects and qualities we have gained through our degree in the last couple of years and put them into a real life situation and gain real results." Professional Communication is one of the many degrees offered at RMIT University, it incorporates all aspects of the media industry, such as journalism, TV and Radio Production and Public Relations. A combination of all of the skills learnt in this degree have been used in the development and promotion of 'Hannah's House'. People can visit Hannah online at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~hannah Or email Hannah at Hannahsblog(a)hotmail.com END Contact Details: Fiona McDermott PH: (H) 03 98790948 (M) 0407538127 -- + interactive desktop video researcher [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + research blog [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au]

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2-Min-Study
by Ulf Reips 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Dear colleague, thanks for taking part in a brief (2 Min) study: http://www.genpsylab.unizh.ch/frames66841/index.html?air Best wishes, --ur

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Art 101 Student
by Katherine Truitt 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hello, I am trying to find out some information on Guillermo Gomez-Pena for a research paper. I am currently enrolled in an Art 101 (intro to visual arts) through Honolulu Community College. I chose my topic to be on Gomez-Pena. My instructor and I are interested in learning on what Guillermo Gomez-Pena is up to after Sept. 11, 2001. I hope you can help me. Thank you, Katherine Truitt _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup

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summary of responses to digivide and international perspectives inquiry
by Ulla Bunz 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Recently I asked for help in finishing my syllabus. I indicated an interest in articles on the digital divide and international perspectives on how the web has changed other cultures in various ways. Thanks to the many people who emailed links, references, and papers! Below is a list of what I have received. Ulla http://www.aarp.org/olderwiserwired/Articles/a2003-07-18-olderadultsonli ne.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/itandsociety/v01i04.html http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=88 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i41/41a03401.htm http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/index.html http://www.gapresearch.org/ http://www.routledge-ny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415315034&CFID=1030848&CFTOK EN=88801308 http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com/newsite/jvs_papers/netfxinchina.htm Four articles Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess collected for the special issue of JCMC (vol. 8, no. 2) on CMC in the Middle East, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue2/ Dance, F. E. X. (2003). The digital divide. In L. Strate, R. Jacobson, & S. B. Gibson (Eds.), Communication and cyberspace: Social interaction in an electronic environment (2nd ed.) (pp. 171-182). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. [note: this chapter is new to the second edition] Journal of International Development 14(1). Special issue on ICTs and International Development New York Times April 23, 2000 WHEN VILLAGES GO GLOBAL How a Byte of Knowledge Can Be Dangerous, Too By SIMON ROMERO A recent article published in the Austrian Journal "Medien Journal" by Ursula Maier-Rabler 3 articles dealing with certain aspects of the Internet in South Africa by Herman Wasserman "Effective Use: A Community Informatics Strategy Beyond the Digital Divide" by Michael Gurstein Lim, M. (2002), 'CyberCivic Space in Indonesia: From Panopticon to Pandemonium?', International Development and Planning Review (Third World Planning Review), Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 383-400, ISSN: 1474-6743. Lim, M. (October 2003, forthcoming), 'From War-net to Net-War: The Internet and Resistance Identities in Indonesia', The International Information & Library Review, Elsevier Publisher, ISSN: 1057-2317 Lim, M. (October 2003, forthcoming), 'The Internet, Social Network and Reform in Indonesia' in N. Couldry and J. Curran (Eds.), Contesting Media Power: Towards a Global Comparative Perspective, Rowan & Littlefield, pp. 273-288. ---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------

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