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Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open!
by Eleftheria Vasileiadou 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Dear Kate, Thank you very much for your prompt reply. Kind regards, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Communication researcher Department of Social Sciences NIWI-KNAW PO BOX 95110 Joan Muyskenweg 25 1090 HC Amsterdam Tel. +31 20 462 8637 Fax. +31 20 665 8013 Eleftheria.vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl http://www2.niwi.knaw.nl/en/maatschappijwetenschappen/staf/eleftheria/toon

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open!
by Eleftheria Vasileiadou 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

Dear Colleagues, Is there any preliminary programme of the conference available? What time does it start on Monday? Until what time does it last on Wednesday? I need this information to book accomodation/ ticket. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Communication researcher Department of Social Sciences NIWI-KNAW PO BOX 95110 Joan Muyskenweg 25 1090 HC Amsterdam Tel. +31 20 462 8637 Fax. +31 20 665 8013 Eleftheria.vasileiadou(a)niwi.knaw.nl http://www2.niwi.knaw.nl/en/maatschappijwetenschappen/staf/eleftheria/toon

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Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Possibly of interest to AoIR members ... > > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Volodymyr Kindratenko wrote: > > >> > I would like to invite you to participate in the Second >> > International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social >> > Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces. This workshop >> > will be organized in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on >> > Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'04), held September 7-10, 2004 in Nottingham, >> > England. Please find attached Call for Participation or visit workshop's >> > website at http://www.dynamo-interactive.com/ubicomp04/. >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > >> > Volodymyr Kindratenko >> > >> > PS: Please forward this CfP to anybody you think may be interested in >> > attending the workshop. > > > > > > * > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > Volodymyr Kindratenko, Ph.D. .......... kindr(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu > > > > > > National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) > > > University of Illinois (UIUC) phone: 217-265-0209 > > > 605 East Springfield Avenue fax: 217-244-2909 > > > Champaign, IL 61820, USA > > > http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~kindr > > > http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > *

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what are YOU doing on SEPTEMBER 11?
by david silver 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Folks, A few months ago, I posted information about The September Project to air-l. These days, the project has grown quite considerably. Please take a moment to read this email and please consider getting involved. david Here is a project that might interest some of you. The September Project is a coordinated effort to get people to gather in public places like libraries on Saturday, September 11. There, they will engage in talks, deliberations, and performances about democracy and citizenship. We believe libraries are the best infrastructure upon which to build because they are free, they are public, and they are distributed across this country and most countries. We are here http://www.theseptemberproject.org In the States, we are working with 101 libraries, schools, and colleges in 23 states. A map: http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp Participating libraries include public libraries, primary and secondary school libraries, academic libraries, libraries for the hearing and visually impaired, and juvenile hall libraries. Spain's El Proyecto Septiembre has stretched the project outside the US. They are here http://septiembre.ciberpunk.org. If you do not know Spanish, you can translate it by cutting and pasting the URL into this site http://babelfish.altavista.com With help from our friends in Spain, we are in contact with folks interested in setting up similar projects in Canada, Chile, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela. International hosts are planning events that focus on issues that matter to them. Our goal is to have 1000s of public spheres on Saturday, September 11, 2004. We believe that this is a way for all of us, the people, to assume an active and creative role in defining, shaping, and expressing what this day means to us. Having the events take place on September 11 -- perhaps one of the most contested entities in our times -- is a natural. What if internet studies scholars, centers, units, and departments help organize events? The mode of events is up to you and your communities: talks on freedom and democracy; deliberations on citizenship; performances on identity and nation, etc. All we ask is that the events are free and public. We hope all events will be accompanied with voter registration and encourage all US-based organizers to work with the League of Women Voters. I'd love to be part of a thread on air-l about what we can do. At the very least, please consider doing one (or all!) of the following: 1. Contact your local public, university, K-12, and/or correctional facility library to learn what they have planned for September 11. 2. Share the idea with the organizations to which you belong -- professional, civic, cultural, religious/spiritual -- and ask them to collaborate with their local libraries. 3. Volunteer at your local library as a speaker, performer, roundtable participant, and/or event coordinator. 4. Post, forward, and distribute -- locally, nationally, globally -- this message through as many channels as possible. 5. Show up at participating public spaces on Saturday, September 11, 2004. Bring your family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Thank you for your time. I hope you all get involved and I hope we can share ideas on this list. david silver www.theseptemberproject.org

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TASA Conference
by Marj Kibby 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Please send any response to this email directly to Wendy Mee: <w.mee(a)latrobe.edu.au> TASA '04 Conference 'Communication, Media and Cyberspace' Panel Latrobe University Beechworth, Victoria Australia 8-11 December 2004 Please see TASA Conference website for further information: http://www.tasa.org.au/conference/index.php 'Communication, Media and Cyberspace' This is a general invitation to researchers investigating social issues relating to communication, media and cyberspace. This panel seeks to engage with a diversity of approaches to the study of visual, text-based and audio technologies. We encourage papers which explore issues as wide-ranging as representation and identity; memory and visual culture; globalization and digital divides; the use of the Internet and other media in the delivery of healthcare and education; (dis)embodiment and emotion, and the media in nationalist and postcolonial politics. Postgraduate scholars and early career academics are particularly encouraged to apply. Please note the following: Full Papers Refereed - 3000 words, 200 word abstract, submitted by 31 July 2004 Authors of papers accepted for inclusion in the Refereed Conference Proceedings will be allotted 20 minutes in the conference session, plus 10 minutes for questions. (Alternatively, authors can submit a long abstract of between 500-750 words by 31 July and the full paper by August 15) Full Papers General - 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 You may if you wish submit a 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 of a paper for acceptance in this section of the conference even if you do not wish to be included in the CD. Papers of this length will be allotted 20 minutes in the conference session, plus 10 minutes for questions. Work in Progress Paper - 200 word abstract by 15 October 2004 The third option is that you may submit an abstract of 200 words by 15 October 2004 for a work in progress paper. These papers will be allotted 10 minutes in the conference session, plus 5 minutes for questions. Please direct all enquiries to Wendy Mee w.mee(a)latrobe.edu.au Thanks! TASA Office School of Social Science The University of Queensland ST LUCIA QLD 4072 Ph: 07 3365 7516 Fax: 07 3365 1544 Email: admin(a)tasa.org.au ABN: 17 398 473 186 Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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congrats to into the blogosphere
by jeremy hunsinger 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ made it onto yahoo's new and notable sites today http://dir.yahoo.com/new/

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PRESENCE 2004 deadline extended
by beareyso 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE PAPER SUBMISSION: JULY 15, 2004 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence PRESENCE 2004 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 13-14-15 October 2004 Final program and registration form available on the web site: <http://www.presence2004.org/> Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------ The PRESENCE 2004 Committee is pleased to announce the 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence and the Annual Call for Papers. Academics and practitioners with an interest in research, theory, technologies, and applications related to the concept of presence are invited to submit their work for presentation. PRESENCE 2004 is organized by the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) and the Medical Image Computing Laboratory, and supported by the European Union's FET Presence Research Initiative through the IST EMMA and IST OMNIPRES projects. Presentations are invited on: * Explications of the presence concept * Presence evaluation/measurement methodologies * Causes and consequences (effects) of presence * Presence in shared virtual environments and online communities * Social/affective interfaces, virtual agents, parasocial interactions * Presence-associated technologies: * Immersive, interactive, multimodal displays * Advanced broadcast/cinematic displays (stereoscopic TV, HDTV, IMAX,OMNIMAX) * Virtual environments/simulators * 3-D sound * Haptic/tactile displays * Presence applications: * Education and training * Medicine and therapy * Entertainment * Communication * Teleoperation * Presence and design * Presence in art * Presence and philosophical issues (e.g., the nature of 'reality') * The ethics of presence Proposals for workshops and panel discussions are also invited. In addition, the PRESENCE 2004 program will include exhibition of commercial products and non-commercial research projects Please see the conference website for abstract submission, instructions and other details. Conference Committee Conference chairs: Mariano Alcaniz (MedICLab) // Cristina Botella (UJI) Scientific Committee: Alexandros Bakalakos (European Commission) Anna Spagnoli (University of Padua) Anthony Steed (University College London) Cath Dillon (Goldsmith College) Erik Granum (Aalborg University) Frank Biocca (M.I.N.D. Lab) Fred Brooks (Worlington, Suffolk, UK) Gary Bente (University of Cologne) Giuseppe Riva (ATN-P Lab) Jane Lessiter (Goldsmiths College) John Waterworth (Interactive Institute) Jonathan Freeman (Goldsmiths College) Loretta Anania (European Commission) Luciano Gamberini (University of Padua) Matthew Lombard (Temple University) Mel Slater (University College London) Nat Durlach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Rita Lauria (NC A & T State University) Rosa Baños (Universidad de Valencia) Steve Ellis (NASA) Wijnand IJsselsteijn (Eindhoven University of Technology)

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M/C: 'open' issue now available
by Felix Stalder 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:06:57 +1000 From: M/C - Media and Culture <mc(a)media-culture.org.au> Reply-To: production(a)media-culture.org.au To: mc(a)media-culture.org.au Subject: M/C: 'open' issue now available FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 July 2004 M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue three in volume seven of the award-winning M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 'open' - Edited by Felix Stalder & McKenzie Wark Since the rebranding of Free Software into Open Source in 1998, "open" has become the buzzword for all things progressive on and off the Internet. Open Law, Open Hardware, Open Culture, Open Publishing, Open Access or Open Archives are just some of the many concepts which are being retooled to serve the more or less defined public good in the Information Society. Yet, at the same time, multinational corporations have become major actors in the Open Source Software area and commercial publishers are beginning to seriously look into Open Access models. In the background of the recent enthusiasm with "open" lurks the "Open Society" concept of Karl Popper, whose political preferences for Margaret Thatcher's neoliberalism are well known. 'Open' takes a critical look at this concept of the "open". Is it a temporary buzzword that signifies nothing but an astute sense of salesmanship? Is it an alternative social concept, or just yet another step in making capitalism ever more flexible? What is it that makes something "open" and are some projects more "open" than others? Is "open" always better than closed? How does "open" relate to areas where we might value closure, for example, personal privacy? Can we imagine an even more open concept of social, cultural and economic life? Feature Article Biella Coleman and Mako Hill "How Free Became Open and Everything Else Under the Sun" Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has been adopted as a political tool by leftist activists. At the same time, it has been embraced by large corporations to extend profits and has been criticized as an integral force in late capitalism. It has been adopted by members of the growing Commons movement as a model for limiting the power of capitalism. This essay attempts to confront the variability of these relationships through a cursory analysis of each field and through an look at FOSS philosophy and practice. It argues that Free Software exists as a politically agnostic field of practice - built on and through a broadly defined philosophy. It analyzes the way that this philosophy is well suited for the spread of FOSS technologies and its translation into the terms of radically different, even oppositional, social and political movements. Articles Dale Bradely "Open Source, Anarchy, and the Utopian Impulse" The utopian impulse evident in the discourse surrounding open source software development is addressed from the perspective that the liberatory promises of its anarchy-inspired politics is undermined by efforts to integrate its communal programming practices into existing market hegemony. William Thake "Editing and the Crisis of Open Source" The Free Software movement that began in 1985 and the newer "open source" movement, represented a serious threat to traditional methods of production and distribution. The idea of a non-proprietary method of cultural exchange was and is a radical departure from traditional models that have come to restrict creativity and free exchange. But contrary to the grand proclamations of some, what we are witnessing is the capture and transformation of elements threatening to capitalism, and a repackaging of open source concepts to be useful in a new flexible labor environment. Carol-Ann Braun and Annie Gentes "Dialogue: A Hyper-Link to Multimedia Content" This paper analyses an augmented chat space entitled Sandscript. The Web- site evokes a world etched on shifting sands, erased with time, uncovered by a process akin to the patient explorations of an archeologist. Key words spontaneously typed in by chatters trigger the appearance of texts and drawings in the chat space as well as in the surrounding frames. Here, dialogue serves as a hyper-link to content. The augmented chat space is a fluid "back bone" around which artistic content is articulated, prompted by unsuspecting chatters. Joseph Reagle Jr. "Open Content Communities" This essay sketches the characteristics of an open content community by considering a number of prominent examples, reviewing sociological literature, teasing apart the concepts of open and voluntary implicit in most usages of the term, and offers a definition in which the much maligned possibility of "forking" is actually an integral aspect of openness. Tony Sampson "A Virus in Info-Space: The Open Network and Its Enemies" Tony Sampson investigates the role of viruses in shaping the digital environment of the last 25 years. Paul Cesarini "'Opening' the Xbox: Linux, Microsoft, and Control" Paul Cesarini looks at the possibilities of turning the X-box into a low cost multi-purpose computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal 7.3 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Reviews is now available at <http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All contributors are available for media contacts: mc(a)media-culture.org.au. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----+-------+---------+--- http://felix.openflows.org

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Re: Photoblogs and MoBlogs (Zach Johnson)
by Douglas Galbi 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

>I've done some preliminary searching for academic research related to >Photoblogs >(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=photoblog&r=f) and >MoBlogs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moblog&f=1) and >so far have come up pretty short. Any references published or >otherwise would be most appreciated. Have you considered the literature on words, images, and gestures in making sense? There is a lot of interesting material spanning a wide range of disciplines. For an idea of what's out there, flip through "Sense in Communication" at www.galbithink.org Douglas Galbi

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Contact
by Dianne Looker 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi there, Since you sent your query to the whole AoIR list, I got to see it. I will be there - hopefully we can connect and talk about my research in more detail than you are getting from the e-mails we send to collaborators. Cheers, Dianne Looker Professor Of Sociology Acadia University Wolfville, N.S. Canada B4P 2R6 Phone: (902) 585-1257 Fax: (902) 585-1769 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of mwhitty Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:57 AM To: 'Association of Internet Researchers' Subject: RE: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open! Hi Kate, Is the full programme up now (or did I miss it?). Not sure if others would find it useful too; however, I would find it helpful to know what date I'm presenting so that I can work out what days to register for and book my trip. Regards, Monica Dr. Monica Whitty Queen's University Belfast School of Psychology David Keir Building Northern Ireland BT7 1NN Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 5654 Email: m.whitty(a)qub.ac.uk http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/whitty.html -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kathleen O'Riordan Sent: 24 June 2004 12:40 To: Association of Internet Researchers Cc: air-meet(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] AoIR conference registration now open! Dear Colleagues The registration for Internet Research 5.0, the 2004 AoIR conference, is now open. Please register via the 'Conference' page of the web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/ or www.aoir.org/2004 We extend a very warm welcome to participants in the AoIR conference and hope to see as many of you as possible there! Apologies for the delay in offering this service, as you will notice we still have a technical issue with the web form, in the interests of expedience, registration is via PDF in the interim. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Regards Kate O'Riordan Please distribute this notice. _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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