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Convention - Media Ecology Association, Rochester NY June 5-8, 2003
by J Sternberg 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION June 10-13, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York Sponsored by The Department of Communication and The William A. Kern Professor in Communications College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology <http://www.media-ecology.org> MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS Media Environments and the Liberal Arts How do changing media environments influence the ways in which people express themselves, communicate with each other, and pass on knowledge to future generations? From cities to cyberspace, and ancient writing systems to digital communication technologies, media help shape human interaction, understanding and organization. This conference explores the various ways in which past, present and emerging media environments influence human life in general, and its self-examination via the liberal arts disciplines. These include the subjects of inquiry and the way research is conducted, changes in human and mass communication, policy-making and evaluation, individual expression and representation, formation and change in cultural attitudes, media representations of natural environments, emerging digital expression, hyperfiction, digital poetry, and the social impact of media. Featured speakers include Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert, Douglas Rushkoff, and Denise Schmandt-Besserat. PRE-REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees for MEA Members US $30 Member Pre-Registration (before May 1, 2004) US $40 Member Registration (after May 1, 2004 or on-site) US $20 Student Registration (full-time student ID required) Convention Fees for Non-Members US $60 Convention Registration Only US $25 Student Convention Registration Only MEA Membership Fees (January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004) US $40 Membership US $20 Student Membership (full-time student ID required) A printable version of the pre-registration form is available online at <http://www.media-ecology.org>, where the Convention schedule will be posted and updated periodically. News about the event is also available at the Convention Blog <http://www.rit.edu/~sbbgpt/mea-rit>. Mail completed pre-registration form and check or money order payable to Media Ecology Association to: Janet Sternberg, MEA Executive Secretary Dept. of Communication & Media Studies Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458-9993 718-817-4855 voice | 718-817-4868 fax <netberg {at} compuserve.com> Payment from outside the United States can be made through PayPal® at <http://www.media-ecology.org/joinmea/intlpay.html> Sessions will be held on the RIT Campus. The conference hotel, located on the RIT Campus, is the Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport. Free shuttle service is available between the Rochester airport and the hotel. Please mention MEA when making hotel reservations to receive the convention rate. Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport 175 Jefferson Rd. Rochester, NY 14623 800-333-3333 toll free 585-475-1910 | 585-475-9633 fax <RHI_RONY {at} Radisson.com> Questions? Contact the Convention Coordinator: Sue Barnes Communication Dept. Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester, NY 14623-5604 585-475-4695 voice | 585-475-7732 fax <sbbgpt {at} rit.edu> DEADLINE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION: May 1, 2004

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Re: [Air-l] resources (non-linear WWW)
by m.whitty＠Queens-Belfast.AC.UK 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Bella Dicks and Bruce Mason are doing some work in this area at Cardiff University http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/3/3.html Cheers Monica > > > >A graduate student I know is looking for resources on how to analyze > >(nonlinear) information on the WWW. Can anyone recommend any resources > >(books, articles, sites) I could pass on to him that might be helpful? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Susannah > > >

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CSCW 2004 Paper Deadline Extension
by Reddy, Madhu 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Dear Colleague, The papers submission deadline has been extended until Monday, March 22, at 5pm PST, with the following conditions: - You must submit the title, keywords, and abstract by the previously stated deadline of Friday, March 19 at 5pm PST. - The keywords, title, and abstract *cannot change* after this time. This information is used in the reviewer assignment process, which will begin on Saturday, March 20. NOTE: This extension is for papers *only*. The Notes submissions are still due Friday, March 19. Please forward this message to anyone who you think may be interested; our apologies if you receive multiple copies. If you have any questions, please visit our web site (http://www.acm.org/cscw2004) or contact us by email (cscw2004-info(a)acm.org) Madhu Reddy CSCW 2004 Publicity Chair

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New online law journal
by Andres Guadamuz 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Dear all, The AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh has just launched SCRIPT-ed, a new online journal dedicated to study the interaction between the law and new technologies, particularly in the fields of intellectual property and information technology law. The journal can be found here: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/index.asp -------------------- Andres Guadamuz Lecturer, School of Law University of Edinburgh Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz(a)ed.ac.uk http://www.anduin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/personal.htm

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fading away electronic
by Barry Wellman 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

As a sidebar to my Timeline article which I announced yesterday (altho new thoughts are coming in: VT-100 nostalgia, for example): I sent the URL to a bunch of old friends from Harvard grad school days. As I am 61, they too are 60ish. A bunch of e-addresses are bouncing back, as No Such User, etc. So this is how old scholars fade away as they retire, etc. Their e-addresses are the first to go. Sounds like a study for someone. 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] Barry's 40 years of computing
by Rowin Cross 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Thanks for posting this, it's fascinating. ________________________________ From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org on behalf of Barry Wellman Sent: Wed 17/03/2004 20:17 To: communication and information technology section asa; aoir list Subject: [Air-l] Barry's 40 years of computing Some readers of these lists may enjoy my personal computer timeline, of over 40 years. 11 pages worth. If so, it's at Bruce Damer's wonderful Digibarn, worth looking at it in it's own right: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/barry-wellman/ 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 _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Community Informatics Doctoral Colloquium: Prato 29 Sep 2004
by Marcus Foth 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

Call for Participation Community Informatics Research Network, Inc. (CIRN) Inaugural Conference 2004, Prato, Italy Doctoral Colloquium =================== The CIRN Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students working in Community Informatics or a related discipline a special forum on 29 Sep 2004 where they will have a chance to present their research plans and discuss them with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a 2 page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Please submit your 2 page application by 1 April 2004 to: Marcus Foth at m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 1 June 2004. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an 8 page paper on their research by 1 August 2004. For further details please visit the conference website at http://www.ciresearch.net/prato2004/ or contact the organiser of the CIRN Doctoral Colloquium, Marcus Foth, at m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Furthermore, research students are encouraged to attend and present work-in-progress as part of the regular conference stream, and there will be a prize given for the best paper submitted by a student. Conference Host: Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University Sponsors include: Claremont Graduate University Queensland University of Technology Please forward to relevant lists, and please excuse cross-postings. Marcus Foth. 18 March 2004 -- Marcus Foth BMultimedia BInfTech(Media) MA(DigitalMedia) m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ Doctoral Candidate: Community Informatics Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone: +61 7 3864 3800 - Fax +61 7 3864 3723 - The Works Z1-515F http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/

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Re: [Air-l] freedom and related issues
by Jonathan Marshall 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

ET <et(a)tarik.com.au> wrote: > Last weekend I travelled to Melbourne for the graduation party of a > family member. [snip] > All those listening to the discussion expressed amazement that in the > year 2004 a university should demand that students bow to a member of > the staff. [snip] > Should any of us be surprised that the kind of organisations that demand > students bow to staff members would be purging staff websites? So do you think that there ever was a time when universities had graduation rituals and they did not purge the writings of staff members? simply, if there was then the ritualism is irrelevant. I'd also suggest that you misunderstand the nature of ritual here. This is not a defense of purging of web sites, by the way, but a simple statement that some social groups understand ritual in different ways to others. In our society, ritual is usually seen as interferring with authenticity or genuineness, and therefore as fake or authoritarian. Suprisingly authoritarianism can often become more pronounced without ritual, because then you only have violence left with which to impose order. If you don't show respect to the presenter of your degree, do you have any respect for the degree? does anyone? Human groups, will have rituals, even if they are rituals to show how non-ritualistic they are :) So I'd sugggest that ritual is largely irrelevant here, although perhaps it would be better if another form of ritual grew up which was more appealing to modern people. > Should any of us be surprised that organisations that demand strict > obedience to process should disregard the basic human rights and > freedoms of staff and students alike? Well this is true of most organisations. If you have worked in business or the corporate sector, you would see the same things. Its not simply unviersities I suspect, and its a pretty common suspicion, that it has something to do with size. After a certain size it becomes impossible to run organisations in a personal manner - not that that gets rid of 'process', demands for obedience and so on, but it tends to lessen the possibilties of misunderstanding, incompatability etc. However, misunderstanding and incompatibility might be a good thing in terms of the organisations ability to adapt :) > Should any of us be surprised that elements of one academic "faction" > feel under siege from a larger faction? > > All of this comes back to human rights, and the respect, or lack of > respect, that is generated in universities. I'd say this has a lot to do with the respect or lack of respect for human rights and 'dissenting views' in the wider society. We might note the huge 'culture wars' which we have all observed. Removal of funding from groups which disagree with corporate orthodoxy, or right wing history. The sacking of public servants who give advice or information counter to the wishes of their politicians, and so on. But in a more general way we might note that spokespeaople seem to disagree with abuse rather than argument. That there is little dialogue. Little attempt at problem solving. In which case it would be hard for universities, or any other organisation, not to suffer from the same kind of inflexibilities - especially so the more beholden they are to outside interests - and we see the permeation of universities with corporatism everywhere. Again, I'm not sure if anything was ever different, but it seems to me it was. In any case the question is not so much about universities, but about why this is the case generally. > We are all different, I doubt if any two human brains work in exactly > the same manner, yet it seems to me that in universities there is an > obsession, at times, with rigid adherence to process rather than > stimulating or even allowing individual students to develop their own, > and perhaps better, process. I'd suspect that this would become more pronounced, the more that universities become 'education' and 'career' focused. People employing students seem to want people who can obey process, who can fit in and do what they are told - not people who might question things, or who might wonder if the system they are working for is destructive. [snip] > All of the above is about process, but the world is totally > disinterested in process, the world wants results. > The world doesnt want another 50 conferences on how to feed the worlds > starving. The world wants food to go into the mouths of the hungry. Well you see this brings up the issue of what is a result. Maybe 'the world' is not the same as 'the powerful'? Maybe some influential people would prefer immediate profit to feeding the hungry? Maybe the process giving the result is simply invisible to most of us? Its called 'economic realism', the 'way of the world', 'impractical' etc. > We can not talk about freedoms on one hand insofar as university > staff websites is concerned if we do not support > the right to intellectual freedom of the student. Just to be difficult, there are always limits on freedom - out of necessity. If the student decides to write in a language they have made up and no one else understands then they can't expect to be marked well no matter how brillian their ideas - same goes for the academics. 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. 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Barry's 40 years of computing
by Barry Wellman 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Some readers of these lists may enjoy my personal computer timeline, of over 40 years. 11 pages worth. If so, it's at Bruce Damer's wonderful Digibarn, worth looking at it in it's own right: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/barry-wellman/ 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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new open source conference info
by Bernie Hogan 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Hi Everyone, Here's the latest news about our open source conference at UofT. The speaker's list is great, and the energy is there (we might even have some Microsoft presence...should make the business model session a little provocative). Feel free to check out the website. http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca/ It should be a good time. Take Care, BERNiE -- March 15, 2004 - Toronto FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Digital Entrepreneur Bob Young To Deliver Keynote at Toronto Open Source Conference LULU.COM CEO, TICATS OWNER AND RED HAT CO-FOUNDER TO DISCUSS INNOVATION IN DIGITAL MARKETPLACE Bob Young, CEO of Lulu.com, new owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and co-founder of the world's most successful alternative software company Red Hat, will deliver the keynote address at the Open Source Conference May 9-11 at the University of Toronto. Young will address how the open exchange of information stimulates innovation in the marketplace in both the software and publishing industries. Titled "Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions," the conference will take place Sunday, May 9, to Tuesday, May 11, at Convocation Hall, 31 King's College Circle. Bob Young will deliver the keynote address May 10. "It is a myth that successful businesses have to maintain proprietary control of their product and marketplace in order to be successful. Innovation is ultimately the key to success for any business. Closed systems actually discourage innovation," says Young. "At Red Hat we were not in the software business, at least not in the same sense that Microsoft is in the software business. Instead we succeeded by giving more power to our customers and responding to their needs. We are doing the same thing now with Lulu.com, an on-demand publishing tool that provides consumers with access to an open marketplace for content. Lulu.com challenges the assumptions of conventional publishing the same way that Red Hat challenged the assumptions of the software industry." Red Hat is the largest distributor of Linux, the most popular open-source operating system. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Young is truly an open-source visionary according to conference chair Ron Baecker. "He is an imaginative and successful entrepreneur, as well as a thoughtful and entertaining communicator. We are honoured he will be participating as our keynote speaker and as presenter at our 'business models' session." Full details on Young's role in the conference are available at its Web site, http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca. - 30 - Please contact: Ron Baecker, Conference Chair (416) 978-6983, rmb(a)kmdi.utoronto.ca Kelly Rankin, Conference Coordinator (416) 946-8512, kelly(a)kmdi.utoronto.ca ============================================================= SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Topic of Young's address: "In a free-market-based democracy the consumer and citizen are one." The speech will be an autobiographical journey through issues that include open source, free software, open content, public domain, public good, entrepreneurship, business, free markets, democracy, customer service and profit. Young will explain how understanding 18th century philosophers, from Adam Smith to Ricardo and Mill, can help identify business opportunities that are not only highly profitable, but extremely beneficial to society. Young studied philosophy at UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Named one of BusinessWeek's top entrepreneurs in 1999, Young also founded The Center for the Public Domain, a foundation that supports the growth of a healthy, robust domain of knowledge and the arts. He is currently CEO of Lulu.com, a marketplace for digital content. Conference registration: a discounted fee of CDN$395 for the entire event is available until March 19, after which it increases to CDN$495. Price at the door is CDN$595. Single-day and discounted volume registrations are available. The conference is presented by the following organizations within the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: Knowledge Media Design Institute, Connaught International Symposia Fund, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, Citizen Lab of the Munk Centre for International Studies, Department of Computer Science, Information Policy Research Program, the University of Toronto Libraries and their Resource Centre for Academic Technology. The support of these organizations is hereby acknowledged: Communications and Information Technology Ontario, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Linux Professional Institute, Seneca College, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Caseware International, Novell, Inc., Openflows Networks Ltd. and The Commons Group. - 30 - -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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