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26th International Conference Information Technology Interfaces 2004
by Vesna Dolnicar 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Maybe someone would be interested in participating at the following conference: ITI 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS 26th International Conference INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES ITI 2004 With a Special Session: "ITI in the Century of the Gene: Challenges and Opportunities" Cavtat / Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 7-10, 2004 More info: http://iti.srce.hr/index.html AIM The aim of the ITI Conference is to promote the communication and interaction among researchers involved in the development and application of methods and techniques within the broad framework of information and communication technology. ITI seeks papers that will advance the state of the art in the field, and help foster increased interaction among academic, engineering and business communities. TOPICS OF INTEREST (in alphabetic order) Special Session: "ITI in the Century of the Gene: Challenges and Opportunities" Computing in Business and Finance Databases, Data Warehousing, and Information Systems Data Mining, Statistics and Biometrics Distance Education and Internet Collaboration Human Interfaces and Interaction Information Society Intelligent and Multi-Agent Systems Knowledge Management and E-Commerce Modeling , Simulation and Optimization Networking, Middleware, and Distributed Platforms Theory of Computing, and Computing Methodologies Many greetings from Slovenia, Vesna Dolnicar _________________________________ University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences Center of Methodology and Informatics Kardeljeva ploscad 5 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 5805 352 Fax: +386 1 5805 101 e-mail: vesna.dolnicar(a)uni-lj.si RIS - Research on Internet in Slovenia (http://www.sisplet.org/engris/) WebSM - Web Survey Methodology (http://www.websm.org/)

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hallucinating cyberspace -origins
by Eero Tarik 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

hi gang, correct me if I am wrong but didnt Gibson, when he created the word "cyberspace", define it as "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by legitimate operators". So when I refer to anybody "hallucinating" about cyberspace I am indeed being correct as per the true meaning of the word. Cyberspace is, according to the author of the word, an hallucination. To create cyberspace, one hallucinates. Nobody was being insulted, nobody was being ridiculed when I suggested some hallucinate about cyberspace, I was merely describing cyberspace as the author intended. I trust the confusion has now ended. Of course, if some people want to take the word cyberspace and then re-invent its meaning.... well, thats another issue :-) note to Jonathan - I did put forward a project in the online discussion group in one of my internet studies units but it was suggested to me that I might like to keep it under my belt for a post graduate effort. to conclude... I'm sure the famous modern philosopher, Bart Simpson, if asked his opinion on this matter would remark... " hundreds of billions of web pages to study and you want to talk about cyberspace????" see ya Eero Tarik

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Dissertation on camgirls online for AoIR folks.
by Terri Senft 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi Friends, At the last AoIR Conference, I spoke with some of you about my forthcoming dissertation/book, Camgirls: Gender, Micro-celebrity and Ethics on the World Wide Web. The project is a feminist ethnography of women who use webcams and journals for self-expression/ promotion online. While researching, I also ran a live webcam from my home. A few days ago, I put the finalized version of my first three chapters online for my subjects' final okays. I've provided links below for anyone on AoIR interested in reading. Introduction: The ethical challenge of difference in the age of the global brand http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/intro1.htm Chapter One: I'd rather be a camgirl, than a cyborg http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/ch1B.htm Chapter Two: Real live camgirls: from telepresence to tele-ethicality http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/ch1B.htm Please feel free to look thus stuff over or avoid it entirely. More importantly, I hope you give a shout if I should know about your work in this (or a related) area! I can reached off-list at terri.senft(a)nyu.edu Or, you are always welcome to drop by my LiveJournal at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tsenft Thanks for your time, Terri Senft Theresa M. Senft Auxiliary Adviser, Gallatin School of Individualized Study Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 519 (212) 998-7333 email: terri.senft(a)nyu.edu

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Re: first post (An Internet Without Space/reply to Elijah)
by Eero Tarik 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Elijah, you wrote that I was coming across as a bit rude, even for an Australian ( whatever that means). If this is so, I apologise although with so many hardened academics in here I hardly think they could offended by anything I would have to say given the challenging environments they work in. Maybe I watch too much TV but isn't academia full of overheated debate, back stabbing and aggressive rivalry? Cant imagine a little mouse like me upsetting people from that environment :-) Anyhow, I won't argue with you as to whether there has been a lot or little number crunching going on or whether academia should be results oriented. I'm sure those arguments go on every day in universities and I'll let the taxpayers of the world worry about the results issue. I should point out, however, that I am no stranger to crunching numbers. For the past decade I have developed a global reputation in a few sports as a statistician who produces interesting and innovative results - results that have been widely published, results that could then be found easily, results that pleased an international audience with far more knowledge of the mechanics of the sport than I possessed. Results produced without concepts, without official "methods", but produced efficiently and by being relevant the statistics earnt myself an international reputation. I have designed web pages for the worlds largest single sport website, created globally accepted statistical rankings, had my statistically backed theories published in official sports annual journals and been quoted widely and used as a source in daily newspapers,TV and radio in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In my field of online sports statistics I was a world leader. I am no stranger to numbers, no stranger to getting from point A to B in a straight line and no stranger to being relevant. And it is my goal to produce relevant results in the field of Internet Research, without conceptualising/ hallucinating, without using geek speak, but producing results that are efficient, able to be understood by every English speaking person on the planet and published widely by the media for the benefit of the public - and my results will be relevant. That may be a brash Australian attitude, but its the only one I know and Im sure every Texan on the list would understand it !! Time will tell if I succeed or fail... :-) regards, time to do some assignments... ET

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Oops there goes the thread RE: [Air-l] Re: first post (An Internet Without Space)
by Bruce Mason 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

>>> D.Slater(a)lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>> > Hello thread - I've snipped all of the following quotes for sanity's sake. As a general watcher, ethnographer and folklorist I agree entirely with the deleted text... But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired (in the broadest term) users. Bruce

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cms recommendations
by Frank Schaap 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I realize this probably is a bit off topic, but then again, I wouldn't know a better place to ask this question off the top of my head. For a small project I'm looking for a content management system with the following characteristics: * open source/freeware * create/maintain a fair amount of static content * ability to create and navigate that content in sections/categories * but also provide news in a blog-like section * integrated image gallery * preferably integrated forum This will run on a FreeBSD server that supports MySQL, PHP and Perl. I'd prefer a dynamic system that generates pages on the fly from the db, but I can work with a system that generates static pages. I've got the project running with MovableType (except for the forum of course) but because of the large amount of static content, I'm now maintaining more than 30 page templates and that's only going to increase. I'm looking for something a bit more manageable :) Recommendations and advise welcome. Frank. -- Barst [NL] http://fragment.nl/barst/ Fragments [EN] http://fragment.nl/

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Re: [Air-l] Re: first post (An Internet Without Space)
by Jonathan Marshall 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Rhiannon Bury <welshwitch75(a)rogers.com> > As Deborah Britzman say, ethnographic accounts are > "overinvested in second hand memories." seriously, what isn't? One thing I found about doing internet ethnography, was that i didn't have to rely solely on my memories or other people's memories and retellings. I could go to the archives and re-read. It was often interesting to observe how my memories of what happened often did not match the re-reading. And it became at least partially possible to start to see how memories, or narratives of things, were constructed. Not surprisingly, these narratives of group events had a lot to do with the narratives common offline. Political narratives seemed particularly important, in making sense of others and events. Which suggests that politics is where 'myth' resides in the contemporary world. > As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I use > Foucault's conceptualization of the heterotopia. It was my data > that > led to me to work with this notion, not the other way around. Yet, > the > participants would not necessarily describe their "spaces" as > heterotopic and might think it's just a bunch of academic whooey > for all I know (but just be too polite to say so.) I agree (for what that's worth :), we can't always expect people to use the same terms as analysts do. Indeed analysis should *add* something. The problem, I guess, is that if it doesn't seem relevant (because of the terms employed) then the ethnography can seem exploitative, and if it does seem relevant it may do nothing more than summarise local common sense - or even worse lead to attempts to exert power over (as opposed to with) others. jon UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ========================================================================

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asking for advive in a research about telejornalism in the web
by Joao Martins 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi everybody, I am starting a research about telejournalism in the web and wants to ask for advice: did anybody knows about articles, thesis, books or anything else on that subject? Thanks João == joao_martins(a)terra.com.br Iuperj - Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Universitary Researcg Institute) - Universidade Candido Mendes - Candido Mendes University __________________________________________________________________________ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/

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asking for help in a research about telejournalism in the web
by João Martins 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi everybody I am starting a research about telejournalism in the web, and, at this early beggining, I am trying to collect everything that I could find about that matter (academic research, thesis, articles, books). Could Anybody help me? Thanks, Best regards, João Martins == joao_martins(a)terra.com.br Iuperj - Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Universitary Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro)

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Re: [Air-l] Dissertation on camgirls online for AoIR folks.
by Theresa M. Senft 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Dude, is this a koan? At the risk of boring folks with a re-post, here are URLs for the first three chapters of my book on Camgirls (which is what I am going to assuming Andrew was asking about...) I now return us to our regularly scheduled space debate :) Introduction: The ethical challenge of difference in the age of the global brand http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/intro1.htm Chapter One: I'd rather be a camgirl, than a cyborg http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/ch1B.htm Chapter Two: Real live camgirls: from telepresence to tele-ethicality http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/diss/ch1B.htm Please feel free to look thus stuff over or avoid it entirely. More importantly, I hope you give a shout if I should know about your work in this (or a related) area! I can reached off-list at terri.senft(a)nyu.edu Or, you are always welcome to drop by my LiveJournal at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tsenft ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Herman wrote: where or where, Terry? Theresa M. Senft Auxiliary Adviser, Gallatin School of Individualized Study Adjunct Assistant Professor , Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 531 (212) 998-7333 terri.senft(a)nyu.edu http://www.echony.com/~janedoe

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