October 2004 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

SIMS @ UC-Berkeley hiring tenure-track professors
by aoir.z3z＠danah.org 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

My department is hiring: JOB DESCRIPTION The School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California-Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant, associate, or full professor level beginning in fall 2005. Preference will be given to applicants within 12 years of the PhD. Applicants should have received, or be about to receive, a doctoral degree in the Behavioral Sciences, the Social Sciences, Computer Science, Library and Information Science, Business/Management, or a related disciplinary or professional area. SIMS is an interdisciplinary faculty with a shared commitment to addressing issues related to information policy and ethics, the design of new genres of information and media, and the relationships among information and information systems and individuals, organizations, and society. Candidates should possess appropriate expertise and demonstrated research excellence and be prepared to work in a multidisciplinary setting. Relevant professional experience is also desirable. We are interested in applicants with research interests in the area of information management and systems. Fields of research include, but are not limited to: - Organization of information and metadata; - Social or behavioral aspects of the organization, creation, and use of information; - Relationships among information, information technology, information systems, and individuals, organizations, and society; - Online communication and work, virtual communities; - User-centered design of information systems and services; - Information assurance, including the quality, security, and privacy of information; - Information design and architecture The successful applicant will be expected to establish a quality research program and to teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in his/her area of specialty as well as to provide service to the School and University. Applications with vitae, a select subset of papers, a short statement of future research plans and interests, and the names of three references should be sent to the address given below by January 15, 2005. Mailing Address: Chair of the Search Committee School of Information Management and Systems 102 South Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference venues
by Philipp Budka 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Hi, The cities I mentioned as possible conference venues are just examples. Of course Budapest is a nice city and I am pretty sure that Chicago is one too. My point is, that we should start including other, in many respects marginalized, regions of the world in the diverse discourses about the internet. And having a conference in an, e.g., non-English speaking country of the South would signal that research from outside Europe and Northamerica is welcomed and recognised. As internet usage shifts from Northamerica and Western Europe to Asia and Latin America, researchers need to establish and renew networks and bonds to these regions. Cheers, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Rustengasse 5/10 A-1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net http://www.lateinamerika-studien.at -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Qualitative Methods Mailing List
by Annette Markham 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Dear friends, The recent AOIR pre-conference on Qualitative Methods was very productive and well attended. We had 27 participants from multiple countries and with a wide range of experiences, projects, and background. Nancy Baym and I would particularly like to thank our co-facilitators for this workshop, including: Christine Hine Lori Kendall Shani Orgad We're looking forward to continued dialogue about various issues and challenges in Internet research that involves qualitative inquiry. To that end, I welcome you to join in our conversations about qualitative research methods. The AOIR mailing list on Qualitative methods is up and running. As well, Terri Senft is hosting some post-conference conversations on her Live Journal. Here are some places to start talking, if you're interested: Terri's Live Journal regarding the Qualitative Research pre-conference http://www.livejournal.com/users/tsenft/#item259786 mailing list for AoIR Qualitative methods: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-qualitativemethods-aoir.org My Regards, Annette

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Journal of Community Informatics: Inaugural Issue
by Michael Gurstein 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

(Sorry for any duplication. Please forward as appropriate.) The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/ (JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its Inaugural Issue http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php . JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community Informatics research community and produced under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) http://www.ci-research.net This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through position papers, scholarly papers and other materials. The issue includes: An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of ICT for education, for administration, for health and perhaps most importantly, is demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable AND empower communities to move beyond traditional barriers and impediments to find a new and more equitable role in the Information Society. (Beaton) A description of an ambitious current research project examining the impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in Canada with an overall objective of providing insight toward the future of such programs and their impact on the larger society (Clement, Gurstein, Longford, Luke, Moll, and Shade) A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current success is transforming large areas of rural India (Jhunjhunwala, Ramachandran, and Bandyopadhyay) An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor) A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll) A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end. (Pigg and Crank) A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson) A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the methods and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and development as a response to rural poverty (Salvador) A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that are attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of the world. (Stafeev) and A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader in supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) . The second issue which will appear January 1, 2006, will consist of peer reviewed papers on "Sustainability and Community Technology" presented at the recent CIRN Prato conference http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences on this subject. The papers will be revised and edited as per conference feedback and a second round of peer reviews. The third issue scheduled for April 1, 2006 is currently soliciting articles http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php . The fourth issue, scheduled for July 1, 2006 has the tentative theme "Gender and Community Informatics" and will be edited by Lesle Reagen Shade of Concordia University. Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a Review section, documents and reports of CI significance, and commentaries on peer reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and those with a policy interest in CI and related matters. The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue) Editor-in-Chief Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Editor: Reviews Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Editor: Latin America and the Caribbean Michel J. Menou, France Editor: Information Systems Research Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Editor: Rural and Remote Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Editor: Layout and Design Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Editorial Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Lishan Adam, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes Para o Terceiro Setor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Joan Durrance, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, USA Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India Herbert Kubicek, University of Bremen, Germany Brian Loader, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados Michel Menou, France Kenneth Pigg, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico DF Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR, USA Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA Leslie Shade, Concordia University, Dept. of Communication Studies, Montreal, Canada Yero Sylla, University of Senegal, SAFEFOD, Dakar Senegal Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Review Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Brian Beaton, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net), Sioux Lookout, ON, Canada Donald Cameron, Australia Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada Beris Gwynne, Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Klaus Stoll, President, Fundacion Chasquinet, Ecuador Susan Webb, Community Development Foundation, London, UK

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (october 2004)
by david silver 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Christine A. Finn, Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press, 2002) Reviewed by: Julia Chenot GoodFox Author Response: Christine Finn Bertram C. Bruce, ed., Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries Into Meaning Making With New Technologies (International Reading Association, 2003) Reviewed by: Dianne Potts Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002) Reviewed by: C. B. Crawford Enjoy. david silver www.thedaybefore.org

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[Fwd: Re: [Air-l] blogs text?]
by jespert 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Air-l] blogs text? Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:04:46 +1000 From: "Jim Downing" <jim.downing(a)rmit.edu.au> Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Dear Greg, Bryan Alexander's bookmark page found here is a great resource for many things one of which is blogging Links to these articles found at it include Paul Andrews, "News by the People, For the People" (May 2002) Cameron Barrett, "Anatomy of a Weblog" (January 1999) Rebecca Blood, "weblogs: a history and perspective" Thomas Burg, "Learning and Weblogs" (Java presentation) Ellis, "All the News That's Fit to Blog" _____, "Weblogs for Professional Web Sites" (Feb 2002) Foley, "Are you blogging yet?" (July 2002) (.com value) Gilmor, "Journalistic Pivot Points" Grosso, "The Evolution of Blogs" (2002) Harrsch, "RSS: The Next Killer App for Education" (July 2003) Hiler, "Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem" (28 May 2002) _____, interviewed (22 June 2002) Meg Hourihan, "What We're Doing When We Blog" Jenkins, "Blog This" Jerz, On the Trail of the Memx: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy" (February 2003) Kling, "Is Blogging a Fad?" - some good information metaphors. Lasica, "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" - Part 1, Part 2 [May 2002] Mayfield, "Ecosystem of Networks" (February 2003) Microdot, Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story" (May 2003) Orlowski, "Back in the Bloghouse" Pasick, "Blogs May Piece the Fog of War" (December 2002) (Forbes) Rodgers "Targeted Serendipity" (2002) Shachtman, "Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of" (June 2002) Shirky, "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality" (February 2003) Stone, "The Blogging Revolution" (July 2000) Sullivan, "The Blogging Revolution" Cross, "Blogs: Learn to blog, blog to learn" Jenkins, "Blogs at the Heart of Cultural Change" Kruper, "Blogs as CMSes: Is their biggest advantage also their achilles' heel?" (August 2003) Long, "Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?" Oravec, "Bookmarking the world: Weblog applications in education" (April 2002) Sinha, "Experiments in Designing Online Communities" (2002) You will find that these reading would give the crtical overview perspective that you are seeking to impart. http://cet.middlebury.edu/bryan/bookmarq.html Hope this helps and if you use it perhaps you could e-mail Bryan your appreciation. All the best Jim Downing >>> Greg.Wise(a)asu.edu 09/24/03 11:41 AM >>> I'm revamping my class in New Media and was wondering if anyone knew of any new books out there on blogs that one could recommend be set as a course text (i.e., a shorter book aimed at undergrads or a general public). I'm not looking for "How To" books, but perhaps a more critical approach to the phenomena. I've noted a number of books on blogs listed on Amazon. Also, or instead, if anyone knows of any decent articles on blogs that might work as a critical overview to set instead of a whole book, I'd appreciate it. Offlist replies are fine. Thanks, in advance, Greg Wise _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l -- Jesper Tække - MA. Ph.D.-Student - IT University of Copenhagen - Dept. of Digital Aesthetics & Communication - Rued Langgaards Vej 7 - DK-2300 Copenhagen S - Phone +45 7218 5000 - Direct +45 7218 5037 - Fax +45 7218 5001 - http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/ - e-mail: jespert(a)itu.dk

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Fwd: Open access questionnaire: Call for respondents (fwd)
by jeremy hunsinger 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

> > > *Apologies for cross-posting* > > Dear Colleague, > > Open access to scholarly journal articles is a topic of growing > importance. > Open access enables free and immediate electronic access to a scholar's > work. Studies show that open access increases the impact of - and > number of > citations to - work made accessible in this way. > > We are interested in understanding scholars' views on open access > publishing > and self-archiving and would very much like to hear your opinions. > Please > would you help by completing the questionnaire at > http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OA/sarchiv.htm. It will be used to > inform > universities, research funders and scholars themselves of the state of > play > and how open access is progressing. > > Naturally, all responses will be treated as confidential and you may > opt to > remain anonymous if you wish. > > Thank you in advance for your cooperation. We do value your input and > advice. > > Yours sincerely, > > Alma Swan, PhD > Key Perspectives Ltd > Truro > United Kingdom > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Saudi crackdown on camera phones
by Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof) 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Saudi police have begun confiscating mobile phones with cameras if their owners use them in public, amid scandal about a phone clip of an alleged rape. Camera phones are already illegal in the kingdom, but until now they have been tolerated by the authorities. Footage of the alleged rape circulated by phone has caused outrage. Three men have been arrested over the incident. Two of them, accused of orchestrating the rape, are young men from prominent Saudi families. The third is Nigerian. A Riyadh hospital told the Arab News newspaper that it had been ordered by the authorities to confiscate any cell phone cameras being used inside the hospital. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3911219.stm Randolph Kluver Executive Director Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University Singapore 637718 phone (65) 6790-5770 URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

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Make History with the US Department of Art and Technology -- October through November Fourth on -empyre-
by Michael Arnold Mages 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

subscribe to the discussion at http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ The members of the U.S. Department of Art and Technology will do whatever it takes to keep America safe. That means amplifying our intelligence, taking action on all key fronts, and deconstructing and re-writing media texts. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led, virtual government agency. The US DAT functions as a conduit between the arts and the broader political and economic culture for facilitating the artists¹ need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the social sphere where ideas become real action. The Department proposes and supports the idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have significant and transformative social impact on the world stage. Secretary Randall M. Packer: Head of the US Department of Art and Technology and chief media arts advisory for the Federal Government, Sectretary Packer represents the United States in aesthetic and cultural matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. Joining Secretary Packer throughout the month are many of the agents and staff artists for the USDAT. Some of those attending will be: Under Secretary for the Office of Artist & Homeland Insecurity, Jeff Gates; Director of the Bureau of Pharmakogeographical Surveying, Trace Reddell; Commanding General of Operation Artistic Freedom, Andrew Nagy. Among the recent projects undertaken by the USDAT are: ---> The Experimental Party DisInformation Center, an immersive media installation subverting Republican propaganda. Three years in the making, the installation is the culmination of a project started by US Department of Art & Technology Secretary Randall M. Packer in 2001 when he created a ³virtual government agency² as a critique of the role of the artist in society. http://www.experimentalparty.org/ ---> Media Deconstruction Kit (MDK): MDK is a real-time system that alters broadcast media live and in real-time, transforming news stories, advertising, political pundancy, live up-dates, scrolls, and network logos into an immersive, sensorial, multimedia experience. (Randall Packer, Wesley Smith) http://www.experimentalparty.org/mdk ---> WetheBlog.org: A medium that offers an artistic alternative to the spin-doctors of the political parties. WetheBlog.org is the virtual community to participate in with media artists, cultural critics and other creative people who are repositioning themselves as new leaders in the governance of this planet. (Jeff Gates) http://wetheblog.org ---> Homeland Insecurity Advisory System: A Web-based initiative designed to broadcast the daily threat condition confronting citizens of the US and around the world due to the risk of our government-in-action. (Jonah Brucker-Cohen) http://www.usinsecurity.us -- -empyre- facilitates critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media by inviting guests -- key new media artists, curators, theorists, producers and others to participate in thematic discussions. To participate, subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ --

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Blogs
by Lauren Langman 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Dear All One of my graduate students want to do a dissertation on blogs, news, alternative political forums and info, if you have any work or references, please send information to her: Saher Selod email is sselod(a)luc.edu Thank you in advance, Lauren Langman

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