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RE: [Air-l] FW: [chineseinternetresearch] National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on IRC chatrooms
by John McNutt 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

What makes you think that they don't come to these things? Intelligence agencies from every nation try to keep up with new development and academic conferences would seem like a perfect opportunity to do that. While we tend to equate intelligence with James Bond and the like, a lot of what intelligence agencies do is the same thing that we do--analyze data. Why wouldn't they want our take on all of this? John McNutt On Sunday, November 28, 2004 1:14 PM, Charles Ess [SMTP:ess@uni-trier.de] wrote: | So shall we invite the CIA to the next AoIR conference? (smile) | | In seriousness, I thought this report would be of considerable to many | Airists who know something about chatroom research and how easy it is to | profile users... (_not_ smiling this time...) | | Charles Ess | Fall '04: Fulbright Senior Scholar | Universitat Trier | Fachbereich II | Fakultaten der Medienwissenschaft, Sinologie | Universitatsring 15 | 54296 Trier (Germany) | Office phone: (49) (0)651-201-3744 | Sekretariat: (49) (0)651-201-3203 | Fax: (49) (0)651-201-3741 | | Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies | Drury University | 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 | Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 | | Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html | Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ | | Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 | | | ------ Forwarded Message | From: George Lessard <media(a)web.net> | Reply-To: <chineseinternetresearch(a)yahoogroups.com> | Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:05:50 -0700 | To: Chinese Internet Research List <chineseinternetresearch(a)yahoogroups.com> | Cc: L mediamentor <mediamentor(a)yahoogroups.com> | Subject: [chineseinternetresearch] National Science Foundation to help CIA | spy on IRC chatrooms | | <http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39126120,00.htm>htt p:// | management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39126120,00.htm | | CIA checks out chatrooms | November 25 2004 | by Declan McCullagh | | [Excerpts] | | In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of research projects | that the documents indicate were intended to create "new capabilities | to combat terrorism through advanced technology". One of those | projects is research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, | N.Y., devoted to automated monitoring and profiling of the behaviour | of chatroom users. | | Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science | Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for | the research grants, according to a contract between the two agencies | obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and | reviewed by silicon.com sister site CNET News.com. | | EPIC director Marc Rotenberg, whose nonprofit group obtained the | documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said the CIA's | clandestine involvement was worrisome. "The intelligence community is | changing the priorities of scientific research in the US," Rotenberg | said. "You have to be careful that the National Science Foundation | doesn't become the National Spy Foundation." | | A CIA representative would not answer questions, saying the agency's | policy is never to talk about funding. The two Rensselaer Polytechnic | Institute researchers involved, Bulent Yener and Mukkai | Krishnamoorthy, did not respond to interview requests. | | Yener and Krishnamoorthy, both associate professors of computer | science, wrote that their research would involve writing a program | for "silently listening" to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel and | "logging all the messages". | | A June 2004 paper they published, also funded by the NSF, described a | project that quietly monitored users of the popular Undernet network, | which has about 144,000 users and 50,000 channels. 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Fwd: closing shop here
by Radhika Gajjala 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

fyi >X-Authentication-Warning: lists.village.Virginia.EDU: majoradm set sender >to owner-postcolonial@localhost using -f >X-Sender: satya(a)pop.cyberdiva.org >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 >Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:07:48 -0500 >To: postcolonial(a)lists.village.Virginia.EDU >From: Radhika Gajjala <radhika(a)cyberdiva.org> >Subject: closing shop here >Sender: owner-postcolonial(a)lists.village.Virginia.EDU >Reply-To: postcolonial(a)lists.village.Virginia.EDU >X-UVA-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at fork9.mail.virginia.edu > >Dear all, > >It has been a pleasure to learn about listing and moderating and to engage >in discussion here on the postcolonial list these past 9 years since I >took up the task of facilitating the list. I am now leaving Spoon and will >also no longer be moderating the postcolonial list. I have various >interfaces already in existence that are mutations and per - mutations of >my interests in postcolonial theory and the internet etc and those exist >outside spoon and will continue in various form(at)s - so I am not >altogether disappearing from cyberspace. > >My work with the spoon collective has allowed to me to continue >investigations regarding the email list interface, management, moderation >and communication. I have encountered all sorts of people and machines. I >started the third-world-women list, women-writing-culture list and the >sa-cyborgs list because of spoon (some histories of these spaces are >available in my book cyberselves) - all these are now silent and closed >down by default sorta. I may consider re-starting an offshoot of >sa-cyborgs via yahoo or something sometime next year - or not. Meanwhile >those interested are welcome to participate in my blogspaces, my >theoryhead formations and so on (see links in sig file). > >Below is a message from Malgosia Arkansas of Spoon explaining our >collective decision to shut down: > > >>This decision is part of a wider set of decisions having to do with the >>present circumstances of the Spoon Collective. The Collective, of which I am >>the sole surviving founder, has been operating continually for over 10 years. >>Of the 8 people who currently constitute it, 3 have been in it basically from >>the very beginning, and almost all the others for almost as long. >> >>When the Spoon Collective was originally created, a crucial aspect of its >>life >>was our own passionate involvement in the lists we created or took over. >>As vehicles for bringing into mutual contact and confrontation thinking >>people from all over the computerized world - people from astoundingly >>different walks of life and with astoundingly different ways of thinking, >>but with a shared passion for more accurate perception and deeper >>understanding >>- these lists seemed to us to present a stupendous potential for evolving >>new modes of thought and new modes of life. And it is essential to note that >>when we were motivated by a thirst for new modes of thought and life, it was >>for _ourselves_ that we wanted them. Our project was not about providing a >>public or academic or political service, discharging a societal duty, or >>providing platforms for this or that political organization or orientation - >>rather, it was about changing life - the life we think and live - right >>at the >>present moment. >> >>Over the years, however, our relationship with our lists gradually changed, >>and we now find our collective endeavor basically reduced to an indifferent >>performance of a not-excessively-bothersome piece of labor. The reasons for >>this are undoubtedly complex - the first and simplest one, perhaps, being >>that >>the same group of people has been doing the same thing for 10 years. If our >>goal had been less the stability of existing lists and more the preservation >>of our own passion, we probably could have done better. In any case, we find >>ourselves a bunch of burnt out and apathetic bureaucrats. >> >>I personally find thie prolongation of this situation no longer tolerable or >>sensical. As a result, I have (1) announced that I am quitting the Spoon >>Collective; (2) decided to close down a number of lists that I have been >>responsible for; and (3) declared the end of the Spoon Collective as a >>certain historic formation, and stipulated that the name no longer be >>used for >>whatever the present members may undertake in the future. >> >>A number of the other members of Spoon have expressed an interest in either >>continuing their present lists or initiating other collective projects at >>Virginia. We very much hope that no matter what develops, the Spoon >>archives, >>which, in large part, constitute an eminently useful and fascinating >>resource, >>can continue to be housed in their present location. In addition, a copy >>of the archives is being installed at the domain driftline.org, where they >>will soon be accessible over the Web. >> >>Yours, >>Malgosa Askanas > > >Radhika Gajjala >http://www.cyberdiva.org >blogs: http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdiv/october >research and teaching: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik >Collaborations on Theory heads, MOOing and tinymushing - >http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425 >"Object Stares Back" at http://cyberdiva.mudmagic.com/ >http://www.pmcmoo.org:7788/16287 > > > --- from list postcolonial(a)lists.village.virginia.edu ---

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NZ job: extended deadline
by Sean Cubitt 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Slight release of pressure from funding agency allows us to extend deadline for this post, and to accept applications from people who can start any time in 2005 - tho obviously we'd prefer to welcome you sooner! sean 240457 PROFESSOR/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/SENIOR LECTURER Department of Screen and Media Studies Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences CRITICISM AND CREATIVITY IN 21ST CENTURY MEDIA We are seeking an innovative teacher-researcher to join a dynamic and growing department in the university ranked first in the Communications, Journalism and Media Studies subject area in the recent Performance Based Research Fund assessment. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute significantly to the department's research profile and to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Existing specialisms include digital media (including games and mobile telecoms), indigenous media, political economy, creative industries, globalisation, audience and reception studies, media history and theory, media literacy, e-democracy. Applicants with significant research outputs in creative media are also welcome. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post by the end of 2005. A PhD in a relevant discipline or equivalent accreditation and professional standing will be required as will an international research reputation. Success in attracting external research funding and grants would be an asset. Further information regarding the University is available at http://www.waikato.ac.nz and additional information about the Deparment at http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film Enquiries of an academic nature can be made to Professor Sean Cubitt, Chairperson, Department of Screen and Media Studies, email: seanc(a)waikato.ac.nz Applications for all positions close on Friday 7th January 2005.

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Job vacancy: Research Fellow (Privacy and Self-Disclosure)
by A.N.Joinson 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

+++++++++++++++++ Apologies for any cross posting +++++++++++++++++++++++ INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY UK RESEARCH FELLOW - Privacy and Self-Disclosure Online (£18,265 to £27,339) Ref: 1304 Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow to undertake research on an ESRC E-Society funded project on Privacy and Self-Disclosure Online (PRISD). As part of a multi-institutional, international research team, you will be closely involved in the design, implementation and dissemination of a series of Internet studies that will investigate the links between psychological models of online self-disclosure, privacy and trust. You must have a good honours degree (ideally a PhD) in a relevant social science discipline as well as training and/or experience in social research methods. If you're a good communicator, have experience of collecting and analysing quantitative data, the ability to work collaboratively and independently as a researcher and good ICT skills (particularly online research methods) then we would be interested in hearing from you. The appointment will be made on the research grade 1A (£18,265 to £27,339) with a starting salary no higher than £22,507. The post is available for two years. For an informal discussion, please contact Dr. Adam Joinson (Tel: 01908 654811), e-mail: A.N.Joinson(a)open.ac.uk Closing date for applications: 9 December 2004 Interviews will be held: 20 December 2004 For an information pack please contact Recruitment Co-ordinator 01908 659059 or 01908 654127 (24-hour voicemail service) iet-recruitment(a)open.ac.uk Further details available from: www.open.ac.uk/employment We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Disabled applicants who meet the essential job requirements will be interviewed. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape. (Minicom 01908 654901 for hard of hearing).

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1. Re: Virtual Ethnicities/Online Hate Speech
by Peder Are Jensen 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

>From Peder Jensen, Master Student at the University of Oslo, Norway. Charles Ess mentioned searching for hate communities online. Have you tried looking at websites by Islamic extremists? You can track some of them through websites like these: http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://internet-haganah.co.il/haganah/ Yours sincerely, Mr. Peder Jensen.

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crisis in the Ukraine
by Ulla Bunz 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

I'm forwarding the below which was posted to Crtnet (the Listserve of the National Communication Association). I'm forwarding it a) to raise awareness of the issue, and b) as an example of how email can be a tool for social change, activism and digital empowerment. Ulla ---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu ---------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Communication Research and Theory Network [mailto:CRTNET@lists.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Automatic digest processor Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:05 AM To: Recipients of CRTNET digests Subject: CRTNET Digest - 22 Nov 2004 to 23 Nov 2004 (#2004-167) November 23, 2004, Number 8419 Communication Research and Theory Network a service of the National Communication Association --------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's note: CRTNET is taking a Thanksgiving break and will return Monday, November 29. Crisis in the Ukraine (Lance Strate) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tues 11/23/04 From: Lance Strate STRATE(a)FORDHAM.EDU I just received this message from a Ukrainian communication scholar associated with the Media Ecology Institute in Lviv. Lance Strate Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458 (718) 817-4864 (718) 817-4868 (fax) strate(a)fordham.edu Hi, Lance please pass my e-mail to all who want to know what is going on in my country now. Today is the first day after the second tour of our elections. You cannot imagine what is going here right now! I think nobody knows what can happen in the nearest future. Almost all of my friends and relatives didn't sleep at all last night watching TV. We have something like information blockade on the real facts. The only independent channel here is The Fifth Channel, its journalists gained their right to tell the truth by going on hunger-strike but the president and premier tried to block it up. Many journalists of other channels quit their jobs because they did not want to be engaged in falsifications and tell lies to their audience.. You cannot imagine what kind of falsification our premier (imprisoned for two times for violent acts and rape!) resorts to. Now we have various military troops round Kyiv and inside it as well as in Lviv. Last weekend the train with BTR and tanks arrived to our city. But the worst was during the calculation of the voting. The regime forced people to go and vote for their candidate, they would beat people, there were numerous attempts to steal boxes with bulletins. The voters organized by themselves guarding of their election districts. Two policemen were cruelly beaten and one killed when they tried to resist to groups of bands organized by premier who try to become PRESIDENT. In Donets'k (an Eastern region where Yanukovych's rating is the highest) more than 100% (!!!) of voters participated in the elections. There were attempts to steal election boxes, to burn them or to destroy them. Those who work in public offices were ordered to vote for Yanukovych under the threat of dismissal and some person on high public level were ordered to vote for him under the threat of death. Many students were kicked out of universities for their participation in the pre-election activities on the side of Yuschenko. Many journalists were beaten and their cameras were broken just because they wanted to be present at the elections districts. Even in Lviv where 93% voted for Yuschenko, some people tried to burn the boxes with bulletins and somebody put acid into the box which also destroyed the bulletins. All these things were organized in the regions where people voted mostly for Yuschenko. I couldn't remember such things even during the period of Soviet regime. Revolution is about to burst out in our country. All over Ukraine people are going on meeting and strikes to protect their choice. The world doesn't have any moral right to stand aside keeping silent. This is not a conflict between two personalities, this is a clash of two worldviews, of criminals and honest people, of the Ukrainian nation, which has made its choice and the ruling clique, which doesn't want to give up the power. Nearly to the last days we had the lack of information about everything going on in our country in world press. This is the kind of problem that cannot be handled by our country single-handedly, since freedom of speech in Ukraine leaves much to be desired. That is why we really lack truthful, balanced and reliable information about what is going on in our country. Your President says that your country is against terrorism. And what about crime as a state policy? Does he think it is less dangerous? I want to ask you to pass my e-mail to all the people in your country who can have influence on the situation in our country. Hope everything would be not so terrible as it looks now. Nataliya Gabor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Editor: Jennifer Peltak, NCA Editor-in-Chief: Tom Benson, Penn State University SUBMISSIONS: Readers are encouraged to contribute abstracts, articles, book reviews, announcements, comments, questions, and discussion on all topics relating to the general area of human communication. There is no charge for posting announcements, but they will be posted one time only. Send submissions to crtnet(a)natcom.org SUBSCRIPTIONS: Subscriptions to CRTNET are free to all. Readers may subscribe, sign-off, or obtain back issues by pointing their Internet browsers at <http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CRTNET>. ------------------------------

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counting hyperlinks
by Philipp Budka 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

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"Cyber-bullies" article in New York Times
by Willard Uncapher 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

The following item was published in the New York Times today and may be of interest to the list. Against the backdrop of idealized, more communitarian notions of evolving community on-line, notions that may expand off-line, here we have disruptive conflicts off-line entering the digitally mediated environments. I was also interested in how the messages sent were linked to the woman's cell phone. Perhaps we see the need to re-visit some notions of how to instill ethics as well. The bullying theme of the article drifts on to other times such as young folk only gradually coming to understand the power and implications of Internet communication. Willard ### http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/education/26bully.html Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar By AMY HARMON / Published: August 26, 2004 / New York Times The fight started at school, when some eighth-grade girls stole a pencil case filled with makeup that belonged to a new classmate, Amanda Marcuson, and she reported them. But it did not end there. As soon as Amanda got home, the instant messages started popping up on her computer screen. She was a tattletale and a liar, they said. Shaken, she typed back, "You stole my stuff!" She was a "stuck-up bitch," came the instant response in the box on the screen, followed by a series of increasingly ugly epithets. That evening, Amanda's mother tore her away from the computer to go to a basketball game with her family. But the barrage of electronic insults did not stop. Like a lot of other teenagers, Amanda has her Internet messages automatically forwarded to her cellphone, and by the end of the game she had received 50 - the limit of its capacity. "It seems like people can say a lot worse things to someone online than when they're actually talking to them," said Amanda, 14, of Birmingham, Mich., who transferred to the school last year. The girls never said another word to her in person, she said. The episode reflects one of many ways that the technology lubricating the social lives of teenagers is amplifying standard adolescent cruelty. No longer confined to school grounds or daytime hours, "cyberbullies" are pursuing their quarries into their own bedrooms. Tools like e-mail messages and Web logs enable the harassment to be both less obvious to adults and more publicly humiliating, as gossip, put-downs and embarrassing pictures are circulated among a wide audience of peers with a few clicks. The technology, which allows its users to inflict pain without being forced to see its effect, also seems to incite a deeper level of meanness. Psychologists say the distance between bully and victim on the Internet is leading to an unprecedented - and often unintentional - degree of brutality, especially when combined with a typical adolescent's lack of impulse control and underdeveloped empathy skills. "We're always talking about protecting kids on the Internet from adults and bad people," said Parry Aftab, executive director of http://WiredSafety.org, a nonprofit group that has been fielding a growing number of calls from parents and school administrators worried about bullying. "We forget that we sometimes need to protect kids from kids." For many teenagers, online harassment has become a part of everyday life. But schools, which tend to focus on problems that arise on their property, and parents, who tend to assume that their children know better than they do when it comes to computers, have long overlooked it. Only recently has it become pervasive enough that even the adults have started paying attention. Like many other guidance counselors, Susan Yuratovac, a school psychologist at Hilltop Elementary School in Beachwood, Ohio, has for years worked with a wide spectrum of teenage aggression, including physical bullying and sexual harassment. This summer, Ms. Yuratovac said, she is devising a new curriculum to address the shift to electronic taunting. "I have kids coming into school upset daily because of what happened on the Internet the night before," Ms. Yuratovac said. " 'We were online last night and somebody said I was fat,' or 'They asked me why I wear the same pair of jeans every day,' or 'They say I have Wal-Mart clothes.' " Recently, Ms. Yuratovac intervened when a 12-year-old girl showed her an instant message exchange in which a boy in her class wrote, "My brother says you have really good boobs." Boys make many more explicit sexual comments online than off, counselors say. "I don't think the girl is fearful the boy is going to accost her, but I do think she is embarrassed," Ms. Yuratovac said. "They know it's mean, it's risky, it's nasty. I worry what it does to them inside. It's the kind of thing you carry with you for a lot of years." The new weapons in the teenage arsenal of social cruelty include stealing each others' screen names and sending inflammatory messages to friends or crush-objects, forwarding private material to people for whom it was never intended and anonymously posting derogatory comments about fellow students on Web journals called blogs. "Everyone hates you," read an anonymous comment directed toward a girl who had signed her name to a post about exams on a blog run by middle-school students at the Maret School in Washington, D.C., last term. "They would talk about one girl in particular who had an acne problem, calling her pimpleface and things like that which was really mean," one Maret student said. "That stuck with me because I've had acne, too." One of the girls who started the blog said she and her friends had deleted all the posts because so many people - including some parents - began to complain. "I didn't see why they cared so much," said the girl, who preferred not to be identified. "It's obviously not as serious as it seems if no one's coming up to you and saying it." Rosalind Wiseman, whose book "Queen Bees and Wannabes," was the basis for the recent movie "Mean Girls," said that online bullying had a particular appeal for girls, who specialize in emotional rather than physical harassment and strive to avoid direct confrontation. But boys do their fair share as well, often using modern methods to betray the trust of adolescent girls. For instance, last spring, when an eighth-grade girl at Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, sent a digital video of herself masturbating to a male classmate on whom she had a crush, it quickly appeared on a file-sharing network that teenagers use to trade music. Hundreds of New York private school students saw the video, in which the girl's face was clearly visible, and it was available to a worldwide audience of millions. Students would go online at school while the girl was there and watch it, said one student from another school, who declined to be named. Horace Mann officials did not reply to requests for comment this week, but the student newspaper reported at the time that the school had set up out-of-school counseling for the students directly involved and held assemblies to discuss issues of sexuality and communication. The incident is not an isolated one. In June, a video showing two Scarsdale High School freshman girls in a sexual encounter, apparently taking direction from boys in the background, prompted an investigation by the Westchester County district attorney's office when a parent reported that students were sending it to each other by e-mail. A nude picture of a 15-year-old in Wycoff, N.J., taken with a camera phone, is still circulating after she sent it by e-mail it to her boyfriend and he forwarded it to his friends, other students said. Online lists rating a school's girls as "hottest" "ugliest" or "most boring" are common. One that surfaced at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y., a few years ago, listed names, phone numbers and what were said to be the sexual exploits of dozens of girls. But girls are not the only victims of Internet-fueled gossip. A seventh grader at Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan said she had recently seen an online video a boy had made of himself singing a song to a girl he liked, who promptly posted it all over the Internet. "I feel really bad for the guy," she said. To a large degree, psychologists say, teenagers are being tripped up by the same property of the Internet that has compelled many adults to fire off an e-mail message they later regret: the ability to press "send" and watch it disappear makes it seem less real. "It isn't quite the same as taking a dirty picture of your girlfriend and showing it to everyone in the school when you're standing there holding the picture," said Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of "Life on the Screen." "There's something about the medium that has a coarsening effect." But a growing number of teenagers are learning the hard way that words sent into cyberspace can have more severe consequences than a telephone conversation or a whispered confidence. As ephemeral as they seem, instant messages (better known as I.M.'s) form a written record often wielded as a potent weapon for adolescent betrayal and torment. A sophomore girl at Fieldston High School in the Bronx, for instance, agreed not to return this fall after a racist comment she wrote in an instant message to a friend about a boy who had spurned her ignited controversy last spring. The friend forwarded the message to the boy, and copies were distributed around the school the next day, people familiar with the situation said. Fieldston High officials declined to comment, as did the girl and her parents, who requested that her name be withheld to protect her at her new school. But several parents criticized the school administration for pressuring the girl to leave rather than using the incident as a means to teach a lesson about racist speech - and the pitfalls of instant messaging. "When you say things over the Internet, it feels like you are spewing into your diary," said Sandra Pirie Carson, the parent of a Fieldston graduate and a lawyer who offered to mediate between the school and the girl's family. "If she had said those offensive things to her friend on the phone, I have a feeling the friend wouldn't have called him and repeated what she said, and even if she had, I doubt it would have had the same effect." Many schools, ill-equipped to handle these new situations, are holding assemblies to talk about them and experts in traditional bullying are scrambling to develop strategies to prevent them. "It's so nebulous; it's not happening in the lunchroom, it's not happening on the school bus, yet it can spread so quickly," said Mary Worthington, the elementary education coordinator for Network of Victim Assistance, a counseling organization in Bucks County, Pa. "Over the last year when I've been out in schools to do our regular bullying program the counselors will say, 'Can you talk about e-mails or I.M.'s?' " For parents of several students at the Gillispie School in San Diego, such strategies were to be developed on the fly when online threats between their children and those at another school turned into a more classic form of bullying. About 30 students from Muirlands School showed up at Gillispie one afternoon last spring, carrying skateboards over their heads and calling out the screen name of one of the boys with whom they had been chatting online. Kim Penney, the mother of one of the Gillispie boys, said she had since removed the Internet cable from the computer in her son's room and insisted that he hold online conversations only where she could see them. "It was frightening to see the physical manifestation of this back and forth on I.M.," Ms. Penney said. "I just never thought of it as such a big deal." ###

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CfP ECIW '05
by Maura Conway 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Dear All, Some of you may be interested in the following Call for Papers. Regards, Maura ECIW 2005: THE 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION WARFARE AND SECURITY University of Glamorgan, UK, 11-12 July 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS . The Fourth European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW) is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants from Europe and elsewhere who are involved in the study, management, development and implementation of systems and concepts to combat information warfare or to improve information systems security to come together and exchange ideas. There are several strong strands of research and interest that are developing in the area including the understanding of threats and risks to information systems, the development of a strong security culture, as well as incident detection and post incident investigation. This conference is continuing to establish itself as a key event for individuals working in the field from around the world . The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of papers on both the theory and practice of all aspects of Information Warfare and Security. The conference in July 2005 is seeking qualitative, experience-based and quantitative papers as well as case studies and reports of work in progress from academics, information systems practitioners, consultants and government departments. Topics may include, but are not limited to, e-Intelligence/counter-intelligence, Perception management, Information warfare theory, Electro-magnetic pulse weapons, Information, computer and network security, Cryptography, Physical security, Security policy, Information warfare policy, Information warfare techniques, Hacking, Infra-structure warfare, National security policy, Corporate defence mechanisms, Security for small to medium enterprises, Cyber Terrorism, Ethical, Political and Social Issues relating to Information Warfare, Information warfare and security education, Legal issues concerned with information warfare and e-Crime, Cyber-terrorism. In addition to multiple streams of papers, the conference committee are inviting proposals for workshops and tutorials on topics related to Information Warfare and Security, and research methods applicable to this field. Submission details: Abstract details: The Abstract should be a minimum of 100 and no more than 300 words including keywords to be received by 31 January 2005. Abstracts have to include the proposed title for the paper, the full names, addresses and email addresses of all authors and a telephone number for at least one contact author. File type: Word for Windows. Submission: By email attachment to: <mailto:submissions@academic-conferences.org?subject=ECIW 2004 Submission>submissions(a)academic-conferences.org Full papers: Only required on acceptance of abstract. The full papers (between 3000-5000 words) will be double blind reviewed before being accepted for presentation at the conference and for publication in the conference proceedings. Submission date will be no later than 28 March 2005. Important Information: The selection panel of the conference committee will consider all abstracts received by the submission deadline to ensure that the proposed paper is relevant to the Conference. The authors of abstracts, which describe a relevant paper, will receive a notification of abstract acceptance. All full papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the conference committee to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of their abstract has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced. Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author registers and presents the work at the Conference (see the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration). Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee only allows an author to present one paper. Therefore if multiple papers are accepted for presentation different co-authors need to present each paper. Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2005 Notification of abstract acceptance: 14 February 2005 Full paper due for review: 28 March 2005 Notification of paper acceptance: 9 May 2005 Final copy of full paper due (with changes): 30 May 2005 Conference Web site: http://www.academic-conferences.org/eciw2005/eciw2005-home.htm

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Judith Amsel/SES/SCT is out of the office.
by Judith Amsel 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I will be out of the office starting 11/19/2004 and will not return until 11/29/2004. I am away from the office on vacation, but I will respond to your message when I return. If you need help with a Luminis CMS-related issue, please contact Amy Eagleston (aeaglest(a)sungardsct.com) You may also wish to contact Kathy Pecor at 801-257-4139.

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