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cia and social science
by Barry Wellman 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Those of us 60+ remember Project Camelot, when the CIA enlisted social scientists to study South America. Project became known and imploded. See _The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot._ by Irving Louis Horowitz. 1967 This discussion has been deja vue all over again. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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RE: [Air-l] reflexive content
by Ellis Godard 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Ehh, oops... Try again... IIUC, yes. Meta-content in an online setting (!) might generalize about online discussions. Reflexive content would talk (not take!) about itself. This discussion for example, has entered meta-content in some sense, but hadn't been reflexive - until this sentence. :) -eg

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RE: [Air-l] reflexive content
by Ellis Godard 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

IIUC, yes. Meta-content in an online might generalize about online discussions. Reflexive content would take about itself. This discussion for example, has entered meta-content in some sense, but hadn't been reflexive - until this sentence. :) -eg > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf > Of jeremy hunsinger > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:21 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] reflexive content > > > I'd be inclined to say reflexive content is content in which the > content takes into account its strategies in relation/regard > to itself. > it is as such not meta, which would allow it to be external, > reflexivity requires both internal and externality.

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RE: [Air-l] Re: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 4, Issue 20
by Rowin Young 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

> > Before I answer the first question, could you please define > > "reflexive content?" > > Content about itself. Ideas about ideas. Interactions about interactions. > Is that the same as meta-content?

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Re: research on distinctions between personal/work email
by Matzat, U. 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Dear Catherine, On 8 Dec 2004 at 11:01, air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Hello all, > > phones). One of the things we're interested in is whether people make > distinctions between using their device for personal or for > work/professional usage. At the moment, we've got a specific interest > in email usage, but would also be interested in knowing about similar > distinctions being made for web surfing, IM or mobile phone calls. > > I haven't had much luck finding anything on this topic in the > communications databases in our library. I do expect that there is > some work out there on this topic, and am hoping that someone on the > list may be able to point us in the right direction. You might want to have a look at a paper of Sonja Utz: Strategic Email Use. It addresses exactly the distinction between private and professional usage of email. The abstract is available at http://www.dgof.de/gor02/index_en_4.html (You have to scroll down somewhat.) Regards, Uwe Matzat ======================================= Uwe Matzat Sociology Section Department of Technology Management Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands --------------- phone: +31 40 247-8392 email: u.matzat(a)tm.tue.nl http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/ =======================================

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Fwd: [Interpretation&methods] Faculty Position Announcement
by jeremy hunsinger 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

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Fwd: [isworld] Int J of Technology and Human Interaction, Inaugural Issue
by jeremy hunsinger 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Begin forwarded message: > From: Frank Land <f.land(a)LSE.AC.UK> > Date: December 8, 2004 10:55:58 AM EST > To: SOCIOTECH(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Fw: [isworld] Int J of Technology and Human Interaction, > Inaugural Issue > Reply-To: Frank Land <f.land(a)LSE.AC.UK> > > Dear Colleagues > > I thought this new journal is relevant for our pursuits. > > Frank > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernd Carsten Stahl" <bstahl(a)dmu.ac.uk> > To: "ISWORLD Information Systems World Network" > <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:51 PM > Subject: [isworld] Int J of Technology and Human Interaction, Inaugural > Issue > > >> Dear Colleagues >> I am delighted to announce that the first issue of the >> >> International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction >> (http://www.idea-group.com/ijthi) >> >> is now available. >> >> Table of Content: >> >> Giving Voice to Feminist Projects in MIS Research >> Lynette Kvasny, The Pennsylvania State University, USA >> Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester Institute of Science and >> Technology, UK >> Eileen M. Trauth, The Pennsylvania State University, USA >> >> >> A Taxonomy of Stakeholders: Human Roles in System Development >> Ian F. Alexander, Scenario Plus, London, UK >> >> >> Believe It or Not: Virtual Religion in the 21st Century >> Susan E. George, University of South Australia, Australia >> >> >> The Desire for Privacy: Insights into the Views and Nature of the >> Early >> Adopters of Privacy Services >> Sarah Spiekermann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany >> >> Abstracts of the above papers can be found under: >> http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/ijthi/volume_1.htm >> >> >> >> For more information, please visit the journal's websites: >> http://www.idea-group.com/ijthi or >> http://www.ijthi.net >> >> >> >> Dr. Bernd Carsten Stahl >> Editor-in-Chief >> International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction >> >> >> >> The ISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information > Systems (http://www.aisnet.org) To unsubscribe, redirect, or change > subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are > subscribed to isworld as: f.land(a)lse.ac.uk. Each Sender assumes > responsibility that his or her message conforms to the ISWorld LISTSERV > policy and conditions of use available at > http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm. >> > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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RE: FW: [chineseinternetresearch] National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on IRC chatrooms
by Allan A Friedman 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

I am curious what the major issue of concern is here. Is it that the CIA is involved clandestinely? While I agree that is somehat troublesome, the NSF has many portfolios in which the security community might (and probably does) take an active interest. Are we surprised that there is some sort of "reverse technology transfer"? Should we be upset by this? Alternatively, we could be upset at the monitoring of chat rooms. I have little experience in this sort of research, but Camtempe, Krishnamoorthy and Yener[1] describe an interesting system that finds clusters of social activity. But this occurs on an *open* system. There are countless ways to use Privacy Enhancing Technologies for group communication. IRC is not only unencrypted, but the protocol was designed to enable lurking. It's not even covert lurking though: the authors make no attempt to modify their IRC bot so that channel users are cannot see the surveilling bot. What is the privacy zone we should expect in open communication forums? If there is information to be gained by monitoring this sort of thing, why should any interested actor not exploit it? Companies like Intelliseek are already moving to capture and quantify consumer buzz. Whether they can successfully turn data into useful information is an interesting research and business strategy problem, but I am not sure that it is cause for concern. Using info gleaned from chat rooms for warrants, or intentionally mapping from an online identity to a legal identity--these seem like Bad Ideas. But is there a strong case for protecting an open system from passive surveillance? /\llan Allan Friedman Doctoral Student, Public Policy Kennedy School of Government [1] http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~yener/PAPERS/35.pdf

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FW: [chineseinternetresearch] National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on IRC chatrooms
by Charles Ess 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

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 Universität Trier Fachbereich II Fakultäten der Medienwissenschaft, Sinologie Universitätsring 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>http:// 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. In the paper, Yener and Krishnamoorthy predicted their work "could aid [the] intelligence community to eavesdrop in chatrooms, profile chatters and identify hidden groups of chatters in a cost-effective way" and that their future research will focus on identifying "topic-based information". -- -- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to: JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764 77501-Cancun Q. Roo Mexico http://www.cafecancun.com/portfolio Newsroom-l, news and issues for journalists http://www.newsroom-l.net/blog © info http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor <http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=129e02o8a/M=296572.5585671.6651487.3001176/D=gr oups/S=1705004924:HM/EXP=1101748008/A=2343726/R=0/SIG=12ivg7cu0/*http://clk. atdmt.com/VON/go/yhxxxvon01900091von/direct/01/&time=1101661608093081> Get unlimited calls to U.S./Canada <http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=129e02o8a/M=296572.5585671.6651487.3001176/D=gr oups/S=1705004924:HM/EXP=1101748008/A=2343726/R=1/SIG=12ivg7cu0/*http://clk. atdmt.com/VON/go/yhxxxvon01900091von/direct/01/&time=1101661608093081> Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chineseinternetresearch/ * * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: * chineseinternetresearch-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <mailto:chineseinternetresearch-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscr ibe> * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . ------ End of Forwarded Message

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research on distinctions between personal/work email
by catherine middleton 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hello all, I'm working with a colleague on a new project looking at the adoption of mobile devices (mainly palm pilots/blackberry type devices, but it's becoming harder to consider these as separate from mobile phones). One of the things we're interested in is whether people make distinctions between using their device for personal or for work/professional usage. At the moment, we've got a specific interest in email usage, but would also be interested in knowing about similar distinctions being made for web surfing, IM or mobile phone calls. I haven't had much luck finding anything on this topic in the communications databases in our library. I do expect that there is some work out there on this topic, and am hoping that someone on the list may be able to point us in the right direction. Thanks in advance, catherine middleton

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