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re: [Air-l] conference request
by Hamilton, Stuart 04 May '04

04 May '04

Further to list talk about bogus conferences, I was involved in a little espionage work trying to track down some 'conference' organisers in 2002. A delegate to a pre-WSIS conference I attended, a nice guy from Nepal, told me a story about how his NGO had been approached to attend a conference in Brighton. After visiting the conference website and communicating with the organisers, his NGO stumped up the $400 dollars in registration fees and waited to receive more information. You can guess what happened next. I too visited the website (I worked for Brighton libraries for 4 years) and it was a pretty good job - if you didn't know the town (www.ngosummit2002.4t.com - it's still there, along with a picture of London on the front page!). Perhaps the full story should be related to anyone interested off list, but suffice to say it seemed to be quite an elaborate scam. If anyone is interested I'd be happy to relate it. It seems that there must be a market for this sort of thing out there, in the same way as the 419 situation... Stuart Stuart Hamilton IFLA/FAIFE PhD Student Royal School of Library and Information Science Birketinget 6 Copenhagen Denmark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-request(a)aoir.org To: air-l(a)aoir.org Sent: 5/4/04 6:01 PM Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1049 - 5 msgs Send Air-l mailing list submissions to air-l(a)aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-admin(a)aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. conference request (Wasserman Herman <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za>) 2. Re: re: IPSI conference (Jillana Enteen) 3. Re: re: IPSI conference (robert m. tynes) 4. Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg (Caroline Haythornthwaite) 5. Final Programme and Keynote Speaker (Charles Ess) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:04:45 +0200 From: "Wasserman Herman <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za>" <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] conference request Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Robert and Elijah mention a seemingly bogus conference call. I also got = one. Would be interested in finding out what's behind it. Herman

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Final Programme and Keynote Speaker
by Charles Ess 04 May '04

04 May '04

(Um, this conference invitation is for real - smile!) Dear aoir-ists: We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research centre in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will present the keynote address opening this year's conference on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Culture" (CATaC). Professor Wakeford's address is titled "Technology and mobility at the margins". The programme for CATaC'04 includes presenters from 28 countries focusing on six major themes (Culture: theory and praxis; ICTs and intercultural communication; ICTs and cultural hybridity; Culture and economy; Governments and activists in culture, technology and communication; and Culture, communication, and e-learning) as well as several themed sessions. The programme further includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by distinguished colleagues: 1: The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet 2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun," Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsommer celebrations on June 25-26. For additional information regarding the conference, including the abstract for the keynote address, complete programme, accommodation, registration, and travel information, please see the conference website, <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/> On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard åf Segerstad, and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in Karlstad. Please feel free to address any additional questions to: Charles Ess Drury University Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 04 May '04

04 May '04

What do you mean by "about" the web? Social aspects, technical, history? Perhaps if you can specify further we can help better. ... Meanwhile, let me (of course) suggest "The Internet in Everyday Life" (intro chapter for review) edited by Wellman & Haythornthwaite (2003). I also have a review chapter (co-authored with Chris Hagar) forthcoming in ARIST (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology) titled "The Social World(s) of the Web." I can't circulate widely at this time, but if you have a particular immediate need I could send a copy to you. /Caroline ------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----- Original Message ----- From: <air-l-request(a)aoir.org> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg > Send Air-l mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet (jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:10:11 -0400 > From: jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the > current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published > in 2000 or later would be great.

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conference request
by Wasserman Herman <hwasser＠sun.ac.za> 03 May '04

03 May '04

Robert and Elijah mention a seemingly bogus conference call. I also got one. Would be interested in finding out what's behind it. Herman

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Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet
by jgrubb＠buffalo.edu 03 May '04

03 May '04

Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published in 2000 or later would be great.

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RE: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet
by Kevin Tharp 03 May '04

03 May '04

Just for curiosity, I just did a quick search of UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations for dissertations with a keyword of "Internet" from 2000 to 2004. This produced a list of 3254 citations. Adding the keyword "Web" narrowed it down to 806 citations. Each of these dissertations is likely to have an extensive literature review. A narrower search is likely to be more useful. Internet and Trust - 74 citations Internet and Social Capital - 10 citations It would not be possible to write a literature review that could adequately cover "current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet?" Kevin W. Tharp Community Informatics Officer Senior Research Officer Faculty of Informatics & Communication Central Queensland University Rockhampton, Queensland Australia 07 4923 2566 k.tharp(a)cqu.edu.au http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Staff/Kevin_Tharp/ -----Original Message----- From: jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu [mailto:jgrubb@buffalo.edu] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:10 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published in 2000 or later would be great. _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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