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2003 Rural Telecommunications Congress - Sept 28 - Oct 1 - Washington, DC
by S Clift 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

-- Please forward as appropriate --->> - Steven Clift, Democracies Online Newswire, http://e-democracy.org/do 2003 RURAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONGRESS Sept 28-Oct 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. http://www.ruraltelecon.org/conference/index.php *** If you're concerned about rural vitality and rural-urban partnerships in the Internet Age, don't miss the third annual Rural Telecommunications Congress and conference, entitled "Rural Broadband: A Recommitment to America's Heartland" - Sept 28-Oct 1, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Washington, just down the street from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. To get more information and to register, go to http://www.ruraltelecon.org/conference/index.php Register soon, as the cutoff for reduced rate hotel rooms at the Hyatt Regency is August 28, and the early-bird registration discount ends on Sept 1. Fall is a busy time in D.C., so rooms will go fast. This is the third annual Rural Telecommunications Congress (RTC) conference and the first to be held right alongside the national policymakers in Congress. It is co-sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Rural Broadband Coalition. One of the greatest draws of the RTC conference is the extensive connections that attendees are able to make with each other because such a broad range of parties attend: community advocates, elected officials, broadband providers, regulators, and broadband users (including tele-medicine, e-government, education, and economic development). This year's RTC conference is organized into tracks based on the following communities of interest: * Infrastructure * Policy and Regulation * Tele-Health and Tele-Medicine * E-Government * Education * Community and Economic Development Keynote Speakers include * U.S. Senator Conrad Burns from Montana * Michael Copps, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission * Robert Atkinson, Vice-President of the Progressive Policy Institute * Alan McAdams, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers In addition, we have scheduled over 16 general and concurrent sessions on topics ranging from e-government to tele-health and telemedicine. A sampling of sessions includes: * Andrew Cohill on community networking * Harry Roesch on demand aggregation strategies * Judith Sparrow and U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program grant recipients Again - register soon (http://www.ruraltelecon.org/conference/index.php) and book your room now! Rooms in DC can be hard to find in the fall season. For more information visit the site: http://www.ruraltelecon.org/conference/index.php or call Jane Leonard, 2003 Program Chair at 651-645-9403 or jane(a)communitytechnologyadvisors.com

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RE: [Air-l] online jobsearch aids for grad students
by Kris Gowen 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

I know in the US many students turn to the Chronicle of Higher Education www.chronicle.com Even for non-academic jobs. L. Kris Gowen, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate FACCT -- Foundation for Accountability www.facct.org -----Original Message----- From: Denise Carter [mailto:denisecarter@denisecarter.net] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:13 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] online jobsearch aids for grad students hi Jonathan the main one these days in uk seems to be the Guardian job page - they will also store your cv and email you weekly with a list of jobs http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ FindAPost-Doc.com is a new site exclusively dedicated to advertising Post-Doctoral positions http://www.findapostdoc.com/main.asp regards denise _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Information, Communication and Society- Special Issue on e-Health Call for Papers
by Loader, Brian 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Information, Communication and Society- Special Issue on e-Health Call for Papers The area of e-Health is now huge and covers a wide range of socio-technical innovations in health service delivery and organisation. This Special Issue will explore just one key area of e-Health- the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the communication of health information and advice - both to patients/public and between members of the public. Health policy documents in many countries suggest that the greater availability of health information via the Internet will necessarily lead to the emergence of more informed patients who are better able to assess the risks and benefits of different treatments for themselves. The now widely used notion of 'informed choice' is indicative of the greater agency and sense of empowerment said to be experienced by such patients. Such thinking exists within sociology, too, where, following Giddens' notion of the 'reflexive consumer', there is some support for the idea that the overall expansion in medical knowledge via new media technologies such as the Internet will empower patients. This Special Issue of iCS seeks to explore the assumptions embedded in this 'informed patient' discourse through empirically-based papers which explore the extent and nature of Internet use in a range of settings and its relationship to patient empowerment and more equitable practitioner-patient relationships. Topic areas we hope to cover include: * Creation and use of health information websites by both health care professionals and the public * Use of the Internet in consultations between practitioners and patients * Online health chat and self-help groups * * Key cross-cutting themes we hope to examine include: * * Access and equality issues * Information quality * Practitioner-patient relations * Information and empowerment Deadline for submission of papers: Monday 17th November 2003. Co-editors: Flis Henwood, Brighton University, UK and Ellen Balka, SFU, Canada. Please send all submissions to: Dr Flis Henwood Social Informatics Research Unit School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences University of Brighton, Watts Building, Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ f.henwood(a)bton.ac.uk or tel +44 (0)1273 643341 Brian D. Loader General Editor, iCS CIRA, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS1 3BA UK Tel: +44 (0) 1642 342710 Fax: +44 (0) 1642 342711 www.infosoc.co.uk b.d.loader(a)tees.ac.uk

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online jobsearch aids for grad students
by Jonathan Sterne 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hi All, I've become the graduate job placement officer in my department (it's a communication department), and so I'm looking for suggestions for good resources online for grad students who are first hitting the academic job market. I've already got a bunch compiled, which you're invited to see and use as you like. You can find my joblinks page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne/joblinks.html OR just go to http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne and hit the "joblinks" link. My department only produces students in rhetorical or media studies -- no social scientists, orgcom, interpersonal, or media professionals. So the page is geared toward that audience, and I'm really only interested in links that would be useful to humanistic comm scholars going out on the job market for the first time. If you have suggestions, you can send them directly to me at jsterne(a)pitt.edu Thanks for reading. --Jonathan

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Mobile Consumer Behavior Report
by Philip Sidel 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hello, I just wanted to let you all know about our new report "The Emergence of Context" an in depth study of consumer behavior on the Mobile Internet. It can be downloaded for free at www.mocobe.com. I look forward to your comments on our work. --Philip Philip Sidel Assistant Professor of Marketing The International University of Japan Graduate School of International Management Phone: 81-(0)25-779-1400 Fax: 81-(0)25-779-4443 Email: psidel(a)iuj.ac.jp

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Web site analysis seminar
by Christine.Hine 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

There are a few places left at a seminar on web site analysis to be held at the University of Surrey on September 15th. This seminar is part of the Virtual Methods series funded by ESRC. Further details and registration information at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmsem6.htm Please book your place by August 29th at the latest. Christine Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific
by Danny Butt 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Kia ora koutou Please find below the website address and foreword info on the Digital Review of Asia Pacific, a book I think will be a valuable reference for researchers interested in ICT development in the region. I'd appreciate it if you could encourage your libraries etc. to purchase a copy. Visit the site for order details. We'll be working on a 2004/5 edition next year. Please also forward to anyone else you think would be interested. Cheers, Danny ------------------------------ DIGITAL REVIEW OF ASIA PACIFIC http://www.digital-review.org/ Riding the waves of change: Transforming the digital divide into digital opportunities Shahid Akhtar UNDP-APDIP Claude-Yves Charron Orbicom Maria Ng Lee Hoon IDRC-PAN "The new communications era should not be perceived as a purely technological phenomenon. Its ultimate impact is social and cultural, although technological advancement is the key enabler. This new era invites a change in social and cultural patterns." Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen1 (1996) The Digital Review of Asia Pacific aims to report on the state-of-practice of ICTs in the region, on the innovative ways the new technologies are being deployed to advance the socioeconomic development of Asia-Pacific countries and on emerging attempts to transform the digital divide into digital opportunities. To take stock of the situation and elicit some of the future trends involved, four organisations decided to come together on this initiative as co-publishers of this volume: the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Pan Asia Networking (PAN) Programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and, the network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications (ORBICOM) in close collaboration with Southbound. This publication is an extension of the innovative editorial concept for the Pan Asia Networking Yearbook published in the early years of the digital revolution by IDRC. The readership we are aiming to serve includes all who work at societal transformation through ICTs for development, including policy makers, members of industry, ICT specialists and development practitioners both within the Asia-Pacific region and on the international scene. The authors participating in this initiative belong to the same diverse constituencies as the target audiences and come from 27 economies in the region, including areas for which almost no data was available until very recently. The authors and members of the editorial board met in Kuala Lumpur in November 2002 to conduct a peer-review process, which determined the content of this publication and elicited the regional trends published here. They also enjoyed the opportunity of taking part in a public forum at the MIMOS headquarters while in Malaysia. A choice was made by the participants of the Kuala Lumpur meeting for a non-technology focus for this first edition of the Digital Review of Asia Pacific to complement the existing body of literature devoted mainly to connectivity, access and e-readiness issues, 2ensuring that this publication meets the current critical need of reporting on how the region is deploying ICTs for development. A number of our contributing authors took part in the Asia-Pacific regional consultation on the World Summit on the Information Society, and the series of case studies presented here provide us with an impressive diagnostic of the transition between the digital divide and the digital opportunities for the countries covered. These diagnostics will be updated on a regular basis via e-mail to registered subscribers. This publication will be followed up by the 2004-2005 edition. The case studies and the regional trends discussed in this edition present us with a unique source of information by key scholars, members of the industry and policy makers who are well established in their respective countries. The chapters provide solid, well-grounded and nuanced perspectives on current issues and challenges. They make a unique contribution to ongoing national debates concerning endogenous development and to regional and international debates leading to the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society of December 2003 in Geneva and November 2005 in Tunis. The regional trends provide us with the building blocks for a discussion on the leadership needed to effectively deploy ICTs to achieve development goals and about the different types of actors involved: national governments, corporations, scholarly communities, civil society and donor agencies. One of the weak links undoubtedly relates to the lack of leadership within some technology and scholarly communities to strengthen the response of the education system to the ICT revolution and to provide leadership in the localisation of content. A very young man, more than 40 years ago, presented a PhD dissertation entitled Struckturwandel der Offentlichkeit ,3later published by Herman Luchterhand Verl g (1962). One might consider, when reading the 28 essays here, that we could expand on Habermas' analysis of the role of the press in the creation of a new public sphere and consider that we are entering a new communications era, with the technologies and the cultural and social changes they induce, confronting us with a new type of public sphere, very different from the traditional mass media, much more participatory in nature and much more international. Such a new set of dynamics, be it in Afghanistan or in Japan, Timor-Leste, China or India, invites us to an unfamiliar way of riding the waves of change. We still have to learn how to cope with these new dynamics and to ensure that they allow for the realisation of the millennium development goals. Notes 1. Azzman Shariffadeen (1996). New Communications Era: Economic, Social and Cultural Consequences for Developing Nations. In A. Goonasekara, Y.S. Beng & A. Mahizhnan (Eds), Opening Windows: Issues in Communications . (pp. 104-12). Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. 2. Dutra, S., Lanvin, B. & Paua, F. (Eds) (2003). The Global Information Technology Report: Readiness for the Networked World . New York : Oxford University Press. 3. Habermas, Jurgen (Translated by Thomas Burger) (2000). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 11th printing. -- http://www.dannybutt.net

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Call for Entries: TARGET BLANK: 17. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA
by Benjamin Fischer 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENGLISH VERSION SEE BELOW! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TARGET BLANK: 17. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film Video Neue Medien Installation Performance Vortraege Festival 15.-18. Januar 2004 Warm Up 9.-14. Januar 2004 http://www.filmwinter.de Target Blank - der Stuttgarter Filmwinter geht in die 17. Runde - stets auf der Suche nach Innovativem, Kritischem und Unbekanntem in der Medienkunst und Filmkultur, nach den Zwischenzonen und Freiraeumen im Medienbetrieb. Nach dem Rekord von ueber 1300 Einreichungen beim letzten Festival sind alle Film-, Medien- und Kunstschaffende herzlich eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten in den Bereichen Film, Video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, Internet, Installation und Performance fuer den kommenden Filmwinter einzusenden. Einreichung Online-Projekte koennen direkt ueber die Festival Website http://www.filmwinter.de eingereicht werden. Anmeldeformulare fuer Film, Video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, Installation und Performance koennen im PDF-Format heruntergeladen werden. Deadline fuer Einreichungen: 15. September 2003 Preise In den Sektionen Film/Video und Neue Medien werden Preise in Hoehe von ueber 11.500 EUR vom Publikum und unterschiedlichen Jurykommissionen vergeben. Team-Work-Award Die Hoppe-Ritter Kunstfoerderung stiftet EUR 2.000,- fuer eine Film- oder Videoproduktion, die von einem Team realisiert wurde. Norman 2004 Preis der Jury fuer Film und Video in Hoehe von EUR 1.500,- Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart fuer Neue Medien Zwei Preise in Hoehe von insg. EUR 4.000,- gehen an Arbeiten aus dem Bereich CD-ROM/DVD-ROM oder an Projekte im Internet. Milla & Partner Preis Preis fuer Medien im Raum (Installationen) in Hoehe von EUR 2000,- DASDING-Publikumspreis Publikumspreise in den Bereichen Film/Video und Internet in Hoehe von jeweils EUR 1.000,- Sowie weitere Preise und die heissbegehrte Wand 5-Ehrenauszeichnung Neben den beiden Wettbewerben fuer Film/Video und Neue Medien wird das Festivalprogramm mit Spezialreihen, Panels, Praesentationen und Musikevents ergaenzt. Weitere Informationen: Wand 5 e.V. im Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A D - 70174 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49-711-226 91 60 Fax: +49-711-226 91 61 Mail: wanda(a)wand5.de http://www.filmwinter.de http://www.wand5.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TARGET BLANK: 17TH STUTTGART FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film Video New Media Installation Performance Lectures Festival, January 15-18, 2004 Warm Up, January 9-14, 2004 http://www.filmwinter.de Target Blank - the 17th edition of the Stuttgart Filmwinter is looking for innovative, critical, and unknown posititions in media art and film culture. After the record of 1300 submissions at the last festival the organizer Wand 5 cordially invites filmmakers, media producers, and artists to submit their work. Productions in the field of film, video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance are very welcome. Submission Internet-projects may be submitted online on the festival's website http://www.filmwinter.de. Entry forms and regulations for submissions in the field of film, video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance can be downloaded as PDF-file. Deadline for submission: September 15, 2003 Awards In the sections film/video and new media prizes amounting more than 11.500 EUR will be awarded by the audience and various jury commissions. Team-Work-Award The Hoppe-Ritter Art Sponsorship endows an award of EUR 2.000 for a team production in the field of film and video. Award of the Jury Award of the Jury for film and video of EUR 1.500 State Capital Stuttgart Awards for New Media These awards of EUR 4.000 go to an independently produced work on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or to a project published on the internet/www. Milla & Partner Award Award for media in space (installations) of EUR 2.500 DASDING-Audience Award Audience award for film/video and internet of respectively EUR 1.000 as well as further prizes and the popular honourable mention by Wand 5 Besides the competitions for film/video and new media a wide range of special programmes, panels, presentations and music events will be offered. Further information: Wand 5 e.V./Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A D - 70174 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49-711-226 91 60 Fax: +49-711-226 91 61 Mail: wanda(a)wand5.de http://www.filmwinter.de http://www.wand5.de

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ISEA2004 Deadline extended to 20 September, 2003
by Susanna Paasonen 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

************************************************************ ISEA2004: The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art ************************************************************ CALL FOR PROPOSALS ************************************************************ +++ Deadline extended to 20 September, 2003 +++ ************************************************************ http://www.isea2004.net - Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki - August 14 - 22, 2004 new media art - media culture research - electronic music - art and science - cultural and social applications for new media - New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at ISEA2004 in Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised between three cities and on the ferry travelling between these three Baltic countries. International participants and local audiences attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via television, radio, broadband Internet, and mobile networks. We are encouraging: Socially, critically and ecologically engaging work; Projects that bring the creative media to the streets; Projects that are worn on or inside people; Context sensitive work in the museums; Projects that float, dock or sail; Screen based media as it appears in 2004; Sea Fair: technological gizmos for ferry travellers and future media archaeologists to discover; Bridges between club scenes and art venues; Most engaging works from performing arts that engage new media, users, and audiences; Networks to network... Key themes for the event include: Networked experience (Stockholm) Wearable experience (Tallinn) Wireless experience (Helsinki) Histories of the new: media arts, media cultures, media technologies - all cities Additional themes include: Open source and software as culture (Helsinki) Critical interaction design (Helsinki) Geopolitics of media (Tallinn) Interfacing sound (Helsinki and on the Ferry - in collaboration with Koneisto - http://www.koneisto.com) We are currently inviting proposals for projects and papers for the exhibitions, conferences and associated programs during ISEA2004. Projects might include: works for exhibition in a gallery; workshops; installations in public spaces; live performance; interfaced screenings; games or shared environments; projects which encourage remote participation - etc. Proposals for the conference can include papers and panels but we are equally interested in workshops and roundtables: discussion formats that encourage participation and exchange of ideas. We are also working with a range of local organisations who may be able to host short and medium term residencies or workshops for artists who are keen to spend a longer time working with local artists and organisations. Information on these opportunities will be regularly added to the web site, so do register to receive updates. ISEA2004 will be an exciting week long event, but we are also interested in providing a space to build long term, sustainable exchange and collaboration. The time on the Ferry will provide a space for less formal dialogue and social intercourse, so feel free to propose workshops and meetings for the exchange of information and ideas. Our over all aim for ISEA2004 is to create an event which is thematically and critically coherent and provides new insight. Please note that ISEA2004 is a forum for artistic, academic, and culturally or socially relevant work that has not previously been presented in international forums (you may have showed/presented it in your local context). All submissions are done via our website using a web form and stored into a database. This procedure allows us to have the proposals reviewed by International Programme Committee (IPC) members. We very much look forward to hearing your ideas! For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info(a)isea2004.net Our partners for the event are: MAIN ORGANISER: m-cult, centre for media culture in finland http://www.m-cult.org HELSINKI: Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma http://www.kiasma.fi Conference: Media Centre Lume (University of Art and Design) http://www.lume.fi Electronic music: Koneisto (Festival for electronic music and arts) http://www.koneisto.com STOCKHOLM: Coordinator: CRAC, Creative Room for Art and Computing http://www.crac.org Conference: Moderna Museet http://www.modernamuseet.se and Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm) http://www.kkh.se Exhibition: Färgfabriken http://www.fargfabriken.se Electronic music: Fylkingen http://www.fylkingen.se TALLINN: Coordinator + conference: Estonian Academy of Arts http://artun.ee Exhibition: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia at The Art Museum of Estonia http://www.cca.ee ISEA2004 is produced in collaboration with ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts http://www.isea-web.org For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info(a)isea2004.net

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Electronic Media in 21st Century Social Movements
by Charles Tilly 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

For a chapter on 21st century social movements, I would welcome papers, bibliographies, crucial citations, or observations on how the availability and employment of electronic media have affected the organization and practices of recent social movements. I promise acknowledgments for items I use. Chuck T. -- Charles Tilly Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University Office 514 Fayerweather Hall, letters and packages 413 Fayerweather Hall, Mail Code 2552, Columbia University, New York 10027-7001, USA telephone 212 854 2345, fax 212 854 2963, electronic ct135(a)columbia.edu

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