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IR 6.0 political economy panel
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

I'm looking to put together a panel at 6.0 on the topic of the 'political economy of the internet' it will be broadly conceived and I'm looking for people who are interested. drop me a note off-list, if you are interested. 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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New Canadian University partnership supports open source publishing software development
by Miraj Khaled 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

New partnership supports open source publishing software development http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/news_releases/archives/news01200501.htm January 20, 2005 The University of British Columbia's Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Simon Fraser University Library and SFU's Canadian Center for Studies in Publishing (CCSP) have formed a partnership to support the maintenance and ongoing development of the internationally acclaimed open source software developed by PKP. Under the direction of John Willinsky (PKP), Rowland Lorimer (CCSP) and Lynn Copeland (SFU Library), the software development will remain focused on improving the scholarly and public quality of published research, supporting the efforts of those with little experience with scholarly publishing and publishing technologies, reducing costs associated with publishing, and supporting a variety of publishing and economic models, including various forms of open access to the contents of journals. Mario Pinto, Vice-President, Research at SFU, says: �This partnership is a great example of how libraries and researchers are working together, not only to ensure the preservation and cost-effectiveness of the publication of research results in the form of journal articles and research archives, but also to ensure the continuing development and maintenance of important software.� Donald Brooks, Acting Vice-President, Research at UBC, adds: �It is encouraging to see how this partnership will extend the university's innovative work in advancing the exchange of knowledge and sharing of scholarly resources on a global scale, and do so in the very spirit of collaboration that lies at the origin of the Public Knowledge Project.� At the heart of the partnership are three major software programs. Open Journal Systems (OJS) provides online management for journal submissions, peer reviewing, editing, and online publishing and indexing. Open Conference Systems (OCS) manages conference registration, programming and paper submission and publication. The PKP Harvester (PKPH) is used to automatically create an online index of materials from a variety of online sites including journals and repositories such as those housed at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, which are harvested and reside on an SFU Library server. PKP will continue to pursue research on scholarly publishing, while CCSP will take the lead with publishing development and associated training. The SFU Library heads up software production, implementation, and support, and provides a permanent home for the software . All three partners will contribute to this venture through in-kind and financial contributions and will work with partners, such as the Synergies project, in securing additional funding. The Public Knowledge Project focuses on the access question for research and scholarship, with a concern for increasing research capacities among universities in developing countries, as well as among professional communities and the public at large. The Canadian Center for Studies in Publishing at SFU is a university/industry initiative dedicated to the development of publishing in Canada and internationally, with a special focus on books, magazines and electronic media. The SFU Library has an international reputation for technological innovation and co-operation. - || - Websites: B.C. Public Knowledge Project: www.pkp.ubc.ca/sun/day2.html SFU library: www.lib.sfu.ca/ SFU Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing: www.ccsp.sfu.ca/home.htm ======================== ===== Miraj Khaled ============ techiemik(a)yahoo.com mindexplorer.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Hyperlink analysis tools
by Mike Thelwall 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

>Hello. > >I am a graduate student studying hyperlink analysis. I am looking for some >softwares to identifying the structures of web links. If anyone knows good >softwares for that, please, let me know. > >Thank you. >Jenghoon Lee I've put all my link analysis software on the web, including a web crawler and a link analyser. It integrates into Pajek for network diagrams and produces loads of statistics about counts of links between sites. The software is free for academic research and anyone is welcome to use it. http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk A related link analysis web site is at: http://linkanalysis.wlv.ac.uk And a preprint of what I hope will be a useful overview paper is now also available online: Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ecm1993/papers/Interpreting_SSLAR.pdf Mike Thelwall

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CFP: Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC-2005
by Todd Davies 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

*** Call for Participation *** 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice DIAC 2005 Website: www.online-deliberation.net May 20-22, 2005 Stanford University, Stanford, CA Abstract deadline: March 15, 2005 The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC 2005, will be held at Stanford University from Friday through Sunday, May 20-22, 2005. This conference is a follow-up to "Developing and Using Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy", a two-day seminar which was held at Carnegie Mellon University in June, 2003. At the end of the CMU conference, participants agreed to have a follow-up meeting at Stanford. We would like to solidify the conference as a regular event, and to discuss the possibility of establishing a new society for online deliberation that will bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners whose work bears on this area. This conference is also the latest in a series of conferences on Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC), presented in association with the Public Sphere Project (a CPSR Initiative). We welcome proposals for presentations and workshops from both within and outside academia. An edited volume of abstracts and selected full papers from the conference is planned for publication afterward through CSLI Publications, a division of the University of Chicago Press. Topics of interest include: * Online deliberation and groupware design * Computer-supported cooperative work * Uses and implications of the Internet for democratic participation * E-consultation and E-rulemaking * Online facilitation and community-building * Research on virtual communities * Uses of groupware in organizations * Online learning communities * Social decision procedures for online environments * Analyzing online dialogue * Email and listservs * Chatrooms and instant messaging * Message boards and blogs * Collaborative editing and wikis * Online organizing and petitions * Teleconferencing * Mobile communication and "smart mobs" * Smart rooms and iRooms * Immersive virtual environments * Multilingual online communities and machine translation * Secure communication and voting * Information systems support for deliberation * Lessons from "offline" deliberation and democracy * Distributed design * IP, ownership and "copyleft" * Digital divides, usability, and accessibility * Free speech and censorship online * Communication across platforms All of the above topics bear on whether Internet tools for deliberation can truly deepen democracy -- in groups, communities, and societies --and, if so, how. But work on these topics is spread over many and diverse disciplines: computer science, the social sciences, education, law, public policy, philosophy, social work, and information science, just to name a few. It involves scholars, designers, and practitioners from all over the world. This conference, like the one at CMU in 2003, is an attempt to bring these perspectives together so that we can all widen our horizons. The focus of the conference is not the Internet, society, and politics generally, but rather work that is especially related to online deliberation tools and their use. "Deliberation" denotes "thoughtful, careful, or lengthy consideration" by individuals, and "formal discussion and debate" in groups (Collins English Dictionary, 1979). We are therefore primarily interested in online communication that is reasoned, purposeful, and interactive, but the power and predominance of other influences on political decisions (e.g. mass media, appeals to emotion and authority, and snap judgements) obviously make them relevant to the prospects for deliberative e-democracy. Topics such as technology policy and social networks are of interest, but proposals around such topics for this conference should relate them to online deliberation. Proposals should be submitted under one of the following categories: PAPER PRESENTATION A proposal to present a paper may include an abstract of up to 300 words. Accepted authors will have until May 1 to upload a draft of their full paper so that conference attendees and an assigned discussant can read it before the conference. Paper presenters will have between 15 and 25 minutes to present their paper, depending on the time available in the final schedule. A limited number of papers will be selected for full-text print publication in a book that will be issued after the conference. Authors who are invited to publish their paper in the edited volume will have until July 1 to produce camera-ready copy. Papers that are not included in the book willl have their abstracts published instead. DEMO OR TALK A proposal to give a demonstration or talk may include an abstract of up to 300 words, which should describe the presentation that is being proposed. Accepted presenters will be given 15-25 minutes to present their work, depending on the time available in the final schedule. Presenters may, at their option, upload full papers on the conference web site prior to the conference, but a discussant will not be assigned if the submission is made in a category other than "paper presentation". Abstracts will be published in the edited volume that will be issued after the conference. PANEL OR SHORT WORKSHOP A proposal for a panel or short workshop may include an abstract of up to 500 words. The abstract should include the names of proposed presenters or hosts, as well as a description of the proposed workshop/panel. Workshops/panels are expected to last about 75 minutes. Presenters/participants may, at their option, upload full papers on the conference web site prior to the conference. Abstract-length (500 word) summaries of each workshop/panel will be published in the edited volume that will be issued after the conference, and will be due from the workshop/panel organizers by June 1. The conference online discusssion forum (linked from the conference homepage) is available as a venue for networking on panel and workshop proposals. EXTENDED WORKSHOP A proposal for an extended workshop may include an abstract of up to 700 words. The abstract should include the names of proposed presenters or hosts, as well as a description of the proposed workshop. Workshops are expected to last either for a hafl day or a full day. If a proposal is not accepted as an extended workshop, the proposed presenters/hosts may be offered the opportunity to do a short workshop instead. Participants may, at their option, upload full papers to the conference web site prior to the conference. Abstract-length (700 word) summaries of each workshop will be published in the edited volume that will be issued after the conference, and will be due from the workshop organizers by June 1. The conference online discussion forum (linked from the conference homepage) is available as a venue for networking on workshop proposals. The conference will be held at Stanford University in rooms equipped with overhead and laptop projection equipment, screens, and chalkboards. Presenters will need to take responsibility for any computer equipment, slides, or other audio-visual aids needed for their presentations. If space is available, we will try to facilitate impromptu workshops and group discussions that are organized informally during the conference. Organizers of these discussions will also be invited to submit 300-word summaries at the conclusion of the conference for publication in the edited volume. Co-sponsored by the Symbolic Systems Program, the Center for Deliberative Democracy, the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, in association with the Public Sphere Project (a CPSR Initiative) For more information, consult the conference website: http://www.online-deliberation.net/conf2005.

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Re: [Air-l] small i and MSW
by Irene Berkowitz 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Barry, Here's the URL http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010483191033.aspx ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:19:38 -0500 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: [Air-l] small i and MSW >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the >MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and >I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, >even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop >nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka >Word XP. > >Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as >American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first >letter of all major words. > > 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 > _____________________________________________________________________ > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://aoir.org/airjoin.html Irene Berkowitz Director of Curricular Publications Temple University Office of the Vice Provost 215-204-7596 Please note my new email address below and update your address records accordingly. irene.berkowitz(a)temple.edu

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Re: [Air-l] small i and MSW
by Irene Berkowitz 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I'm working in 2003 and it doesn't correct me, however, have you tried adding a "small i" internet to your custom dictionary? This might work. Of course you know that you can manually overwrite the "cap I" with a "lc i." ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:19:38 -0500 >From: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> >Subject: [Air-l] small i and MSW >To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the >MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and >I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, >even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop >nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka >Word XP. > >Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as >American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first >letter of all major words. > > 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 > _____________________________________________________________________ > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://aoir.org/airjoin.html Irene Berkowitz Director of Curricular Publications Temple University Office of the Vice Provost 215-204-7596 Please note my new email address below and update your address records accordingly. irene.berkowitz(a)temple.edu

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air-grad and Internet Research 6.0
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

air-grad is the air list dealing for graduate students. In the past, graduate students have taken the opportunity to organize and do some collaborative work, such as revising and critiquing proposals, for the annual conference. I think this is a great use of the list, though there are others. so if anyone wants to do that, feel free, I'm on there as are lots of other interesting people and usually it is less traffic than air-l. in anycase, if you are signed up, great, if you aren't http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-grad-aoir.org is where to do it. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Fwd: Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1, 0 fte): ''The Geography and Evolution of the European Internet infrastructure''
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I sent it to the air-grad list too Begin forwarded message: > From: Ragna Zeiss <R.Zeiss(a)fsw.vu.nl> > Date: January 20, 2005 9:01:04 AM EST > To: eurograd(a)lists.utwente.nl, STSGRAD-L(a)cornell.edu > Subject: Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1,0 fte): ''The Geography and > Evolution of the European Internet infrastructure'' > Reply-To: R.Zeiss(a)fsw.vu.nl > > > > Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1,0 fte) > > ''The Geography and Evolution of the European Internet > Infrastructure'' > > Job description > The project aims to understand why certain Internet nodes have grown > out to > major European hubs of high-end Internet and other nodes have not. We > expect, apart from the traditional determinants of geographical > location > and population density, that two other factors affect the growth of > bandwidth of a node. First, following Barabasi’s evolving network > model, > the self-reinforcing mechanism of preferential attachment future > connectivity is positively related to current connectivity is > important. > The time of entry of a location in the Internet will thus affect its > current bandwidth. Second, the more a host region is specialised in > specific internet-intensive activities (both in academia and > industry), the > faster its bandwidth grows. The project aims to model these > relationships > using graph theory, and to estimate the resulting model statistically > using > data on bandwidth, price (dependent variables), location, population > density, year of entry, and specialisation in internet-intensive > activities > (independent variables) for multiple European countries for the past > twenty > years. The effect of institutions and policies is also investigated by > means of case studies on selected Internet nodes in The Netherlands. > The project is financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific > Research (NWO-NVN). The candidate will become a member of the Urban > and > Regional research centre Utrecht (URU) and will follow Ph.D. courses > provided by NETHUR, ETIC and SIME. The project is a collaborative > effort > with dr. A. Scharnhorst (KNAW-NIWI) and prof. R. Cowan (MERIT, > Maastricht > University). > > Qualifications > Candidates with a Master’s degree of equivalent (drs.) in geography, > transportation studies, economics, sociology, operations research or > related discipline, preferably with experience with quantitative > research. > > Terms of employment > A full-time PhD-position for four years duration. Gross monthly salary > increases from € 1.813 in Year 1 to € 2.394 in Year 4. We also offer a > pension scheme, a health insurance allowance and flexible employment > conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Employment > Agreement of > the Dutch Universities and salaries are supplemented with a holiday > bonus > of 8% per year and a year-end bonus of 2% per year. > > Further details > For more information, including the complete research proposal, please > contact dr. K. Frenken at k.frenken(a)geog.uu.nl or (0031) (0)30 253 > 2466. > > How to apply > Applications, including curriculum vitae, a list of referees (with > e-mail > contact info) and a description of experience relevant to the research > project, should be sent before 11th February 2005 to: > Utrecht University, Personnel Department, Faculty of Geosciences, > Dept. of > Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, PO Box 80115, 3508 TC > Utrecht, The Netherlands, or e-mailed to peno(a)geog.uu.nl. Please > mention > where you originally saw our advertisement and quote vacancy number > 72025 > in all communications. > > > > Koen Frenken > > Home-page: http://econ.geog.uu.nl/frenken/frenken.html > Section of Economic Geography: http://econ.geog.uu.nl > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Fwd: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology and Industry
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Josh Greenberg <jgreenb2(a)gmu.edu> > Date: January 18, 2005 5:34:37 PM EST > To: stsgrad-l(a)cornell.edu > Subject: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of > Science, Technology and Industry > Reply-To: jgreenb2(a)gmu.edu > > Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, > Technology and Industry > June 6-10, 2005 > > The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University > invites scholars whose work speaks to the history of science, > technology and industry to submit applications for a workshop on the > theory and practice of digital history, to be held June 6-10, 2005. > Specific topics to be covered include genres of online history, > designing a website, creating a site infrastructure, digitizing > documents, identifying and building audiences for online history, and > issues of copyright and preservation. Participants will leave with a > deeper understanding of both the technical and methodological issues > raised by the practice of digital history, as well as the ways that > digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, writing > and presentation of history. > > Co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and the National > History Center, the workshop will be held at George Mason University’s > Arlington campus, conveniently located in metropolitan Washington, DC. > With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, there will be no > registration fee, and a limited number of scholarships are available > to defray the costs of travel and lodging for graduate students and > young scholars. > > As spaces and funding are limited, please submit an application form > by March 1, 2005 (available at > http://echo.gmu.edu/resources/workshops.php) > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Law and Technology: Journal call for circulation
by O''Riordan, Kate 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I hope this is of interest for some memebers......Kate (apologies for cross posting) --------------------------------------------------------- SCRIPT-ed: A Journal of Law and Technology ISSN 1744-2567 SCRIPT-ed is an online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual forum for articles,reports, commentaries, analysis, case and legislation critiques, and book reviews pertaining to law and technologies in the broadest sense. All articles are peer-reviewed by two referees. The Editorial Board of SCRIPT-ed invites high quality contributions for future issues of the journal in the general field of law and technology studies. Further details about the journal and information for authors can be found at http://www.script-ed.org Deadlines for the next issues: March 2005 issue: January 17, 2005 - Articles February 1, 2005 ? Analysis Section and Book Review June 2005 issue: April 17, 2005 ? Articles May 1, 2005 ? Analysis Section and Book Review Recent and forthcoming issues include contributions from: Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization Judge Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal, Bloemfontein, South Africa John Barton, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford University Keith Maskus, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado Raymond Wacks, Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong. Christopher May, Reader in International Political Economy, University of the West of England J K Mason, Professor (Emeritus) of Forensic Medicine, Honorary Fellow, Edinburgh School of Law

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