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cfp: disability + ICTs special issue
by Gerard Goggin 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Dear air-listers, this themed issue may be of interest... 'Disability, Identity, and Interdependence: ICTs and New Social Forms' A call for papers for a special Spring 2006 issue of Information, Communication & Society edited by Dr Gerard Goggin, University of Queensland, Australia Dr Christopher Newell, University of Tasmania, Australia Our ideas of identity, the body, dependence and independence, welfare, and ability are undergoing rapid transformation; new social forms are emerging in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) take a central but yet little examined role. With the growing importance of new movements - such as the disability movement, the online welfare movement, or those concerned with independent living - ICTs have become an important part of envisioning and realizing change to daily life for individuals, as well as the architecture and systems of community and society. At the present time also there are nascent associated fields of academic inquiry and policy interest, such as disability studies, theories of identity, work on social exclusion, and reconsideration of the meanings of independence. Disability, for example, poses rich, complex questions and perspectives for thinking about identity, ICTs, and society. With greater awareness of disability and the protection given to the rights of people with disability through national legislation and international instruments, increasing attention is being given to researching and understanding the social implications of technology and disability. As governments and regulators enact new requirements for accessible technology, corporations and the 'third' sector are also grappling with how to incorporate disability and accessibility in their visions of ICTs. At stake in these developments are important questions about identity and ICTs. Concepts of welfare have been much debated, especially under pressure from global economic and political trends. ICTs now play an indispensable role in social and political organisation online around welfare issues, in state and private administration of welfare, in processes of identity-formation concerning welfare. While independent living is still to be achieved for many, there is now growing recognition of the balance between dependence and independence - and that all in society are engaged in understanding their interdependence and connectedness, something in which ICTs are offering innovative ways to understand such new social forms. In this light, we welcome submissions on topics such as (but not restricted to): * how thinking about disability, identity, and interdependence opens up new perspectives on understanding ICTs * case studies of particular technologies, accessibility, & disability * the implications of disability for ICT policy and design * new conceptions of welfare, online welfare movements and ICTs * independent living and ICTs * what are the implications of ICTs for the lives of people with a diverse range of disabilities and impairments, identities, and lives? Deadline for abstracts is 1 July 2005. Deadline for final submissions is Monday 12 December 2005. Potential contributors are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the editors: Dr Gerard Goggin, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (g.goggin(a)uq.edu.au) Dr Christopher Newell, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania (christopher.newell(a)utas.edu.au) -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia e: g.goggin(a)uq.edu.au m: 0428 66 88 24 www.gerardgoggin.net.au // www.cccs.uq.edu.au research blog: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~blogs/gerardgoggin/

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Disadvantage of the Internet
by Carol Perryman 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

'Silicon Snake Oil' is correct - I'd be interested in seeing if Stoll is still of the same opinion. It was a real departure from his prior work (Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage), and reads more like Nicholson Baker's 'Doublefold' - a raging and not always accurate opinion piece full of bias. There's no question that I myself am biased in making this comment, because he took out after librarians in one chapter. It is not a scholarly work, though it is worth reading, given his arpanet background. You might want to check out his 1999 book, 'High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian', as well (again, I was not impressed, but then we know about my own bias). He has apparently continued to criticise the internet, because a cursory amazon search shows a 2002 title, 'Logout', which I've never heard of. He's been cited tons, so it might help to look at ISI. Carol Perryman PhD student School of Information & Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - Mary Ann Evans, as George Elliot

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The Exception to the Rulers
by Derek McMillan 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

The Exception to the Rulers By Amy and David Goodman ISBN 1-4013-0131-2 Published by Hyperion When you think of a journalist do you think of a sleazy individual only interested in pop stars, royalty and sex scandals? Amy Goodman can make you think again. Amy Goodman is the reporter who faced the Indonesian military in East Timor in 1991 armed only with a microphone. She placed herself in harm's way hoping to help the brave civilians who were marching against the military and to tell their story to the world. The Indonesian military had a reputation for killing Australian journalists. Almost the first question they asked when they attacked her was "Australian?" "They had stripped us of our possessions, but I still had my passport. I threw it at them. When I regained my breath I said again 'We're from America! America!' "Finally the soldiers lowered their guns from our heads. We think it was because we were from the same country their weapons were from. They would have to pay a price for killing us that they never had to pay for killing Timorese." Her coverage of repression across the globe has been a dangerous battle to bring the truth to the public, hindered rather than helped by the corporate media. Imagine for example putting her coverage of Chevron's blatant support for vicious repression in Nigeria alongside adverts for Chevron! Amy Goodman and her brother have pioneered independent media in the United States. The hour-long TV program produced in New York and available over the internet at http://democracynow.org is a daily indictment of the war and the attack on civil liberties in the US and worldwide. It is surprising to watch as it has the format of a news program like any other but deliberately includes all the voices which the corporate media excludes. That includes voices like that of Rita Lasar who lost her brother in the terrorist attack on the twin towers, a few blocks from the studios where<em> Democracy Now!</em> is broadcast. Rita's brother stayed in the building because he would not leave his quadraplegic friend behind. On September 14th Bush used his name and his story in his speech at the National Cathedral in Washington. "Rita quickly understood how her brother's gentle heroism was being used. She wrote a letter that appeared in the New York Times on September 18th 2001. "It is in my brother's name and mine that I pray that we, this country that has been so deeply hurt, do not do something which will unleash forces we will not have the power to call back." and of the fireman who lost four of his squad "As a rescue worker I can't say: we lost so let's kill six thousand more." It is no accident that when the Democrat witch-hunt against Nader was at its height, when Michael Moore and Naomi Klein had crossed the picket line and supported Kerry, Democracy Now! Interviewed Nader and enabled him to expose the dirty tricks and the lies being used against his campaign. Her book "The Exception to the Rulers" is a withering and closely argued indictment of "Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media that loves them." If you want chapter and verse on the links between Big Business and the Bush administration; between the corporations and corrupt totalitarian regimes around the world and all of them with the media in the US: this is the book to read. One example of the power of independent media among the many in the book is the battle of Seattle in 1999 - "My colleagues and I from <em>Democracy Now!</em> Spent long hours in the streets with journalists from the independent media centre, being gassed and harassed by police dressed in black futuristic body armour as we attempted to report what was happening to the world. "While the networks were quoting the police saying that they were not using rubber bullets, independent media reporters were uploading minute-by-minute images as we all picked up the bullets off the street by the handful." In advocating independent media, Amy Goodman does not ask to be admired. She asks to be emulated. You can get your local library to get a copy. It is very useful work of reference for students of independent media. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 16/01/2005

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CfP :: "Technology for Education in Developing Countries" [IEEE 3rd International Workshop]
by Miraj Khaled 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

FYI. ==== IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/tedc2005/ In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2005) July 6, 2005 Kaohsiung, Taiwan CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of this third international workshop is to bring together researchers, and educators to discuss various issues involved in developing new techniques and on novel uses of technology for education in developing countries. In developing countries, conditions, constraints, and resources differ sharply with industrialized nations, creating special challenges for the technical and educational research communities. We seek high quality submissions of original unpublished research on all aspects of technology for education in developing countries. Researchers and educators with new perspectives on applications of technology in this context are strongly encouraged to submit their work. Accepted papers will be published in the ICALT 2005 conference proceedings. Details at: http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/tedc2005/ ----------------------------------- ===== Miraj Khaled ============ techiemik(a)yahoo.com mindexplorer.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Fwd: Full-time Tenure-Track – Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Electronic Visualization
by Steve Jones 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

<< Full-time Tenure-Track – Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Electronic Visualization << Salary and Rank: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor depending upon qualifications. Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. << Qualifications: MFA or equivalent required. College level teaching experience desired with a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate and graduate education. The candidate should have a strong professional/research record in art or design with emphasis on real-time interactive graphics and/or virtual reality. The successful candidate will demonstrate experience in graphics programming languages as well as interactive media theory and practice. << Description: The School of Art and Design seeks a candidate to teach real-time computer graphics programming, interactive computer experiences and/or the production of 3D computer animation. The candidate would be encouraged to participate as a leader in research and media creation at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and the new Center for Virtual Reality in the Arts. There are opportunities for cross-disciplinary teaching with our Graphic Design and Industrial Design programs. << General Information: The computer art and design experience in both undergraduate and graduate Electronic Visualization programs focuses on real-time and interactive computer graphics, utilizing both programming languages and software packages. The undergraduate program is taught in the collaborative Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) sharing resources with Industrial design and Graphic Design. The graduate program operates out of the world renowned Electronic Visualization Laboratory, which is a shared facility of the School of Art and Design and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The Electronic Visualization program is also interested in developing curriculum in the areas of computational design, museum exhibit design, game design, and location-based entertainment. See the URL http://www.evl.uic.edu for more information on EVL. See the URL http://www.uic.edu/aa/artd for more information on the School of Art and Design. The School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is one of four units in the College of Architecture and the Arts, which includes the School of Architecture, the Department of Art History and the Department of Performing Arts. The School of Art and Design offers education to more than 100 graduate students in both MFA and MA programs and 600 undergraduate students majoring in Art Education, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography/Film, Electronic Visualization and Studio Arts. The University is located just west of the center of the city. Outstanding museums, research libraries, theaters, commercial galleries, music venues and design studios provide a dynamic arena for professional and personal development. The diversity of cultural and professional activity in art and design found in Chicago is reflected in the wide range of curricular options offered by the School. The University of Illinois at Chicago is the largest institution of higher learning in the Chicago area, with approximately 25,000 students and 3,500 faculty. Application Procedure: Complete applications must include a letter of intent not more than one page, a resume with exhibition/publication record, a list of three references (including phone and e-mail), and documentation of visual work (preferred formats: DVD and/or CD ROM in standard web formats of VHS (NTSC) video tape). Web sites will also be reviewed when appropriate. An index of the visual documentation with project descriptions and applicant's role in any collaboration should accompany the application. Work will be returned if a stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed with the application. Please send to: Chair, Electronic Visualization Search Committee School of Art and Design (M/C 036) The University of Illinois at Chicago 929 West Harrison Street Chicago, Illinois 60607-7038 For fullest consideration applications must be submitted by February 1, 2005. Review of applications will continue until position is filled. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. UIC is an AAEOE.

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Worker sacked over blog comments
by Rowin Young 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

I thought this might interest some: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4167629.stm "An Edinburgh man has lost his job over comments made about his employer in an online diary, or "blog"...."

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semi-annual request for teaching sites
by Nancy Baym 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

I am preparing my syllabus for an upper level undergraduate class titled Communication and the Internet and am seeking relatively current recommendations for online readings on each of the following topics: race. class and/or ethnicity (how are different peoples using the net? diverse attitudes toward/experiences of the net? presumed whiteness of the net? etc) hate online (I will show the HBO documentary hate.com and would like to follow up with any readings that help students understand the phenomenon. Something post 9/11 would be particularly nice). Thanks in advance for recommendations, if you email me offlist I will post a summary to the list. Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern)
by Andrew Herman 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Rich. Wow! This is extremely helpful. I will be in touch once the project takes a more defined shape. AH Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 13/01/2005 1:26:57 am >>> Her are a couple of things you might want to look at. First there are a couple of books that are article collections: Katz, J. E. and Aakhus, M. 2002. "Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fortunati, L., et al. 2003. "Mediating the human body: Technology, Communication and Fashion." London: Lawrence Erlbaum. There is also the book Machines that become us edited by Katz I have a book out: Ling, R. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Leslie Haddon has just come out with a more general book on ICTs in everyday life Haddon, L. 2004 Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life : A Concise Introduction and Research Guide There are some Finnish books on design. I don't have their titles right here but Ilpo Koskinen at the University of art and design, Helsinki is a good place to start there. Also Nalini Kotamraju at Berkeley has done a wonderful service by collecting much of the literature in the area into a Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research bibliography. You can see that at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html Let me know if this helps. I would be interested to hear about your research proposal. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 23:40 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern) Rich- By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature. Thanks. Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>> Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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

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RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern)
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Her are a couple of things you might want to look at. First there are a couple of books that are article collections: Katz, J. E. and Aakhus, M. 2002. "Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fortunati, L., et al. 2003. "Mediating the human body: Technology, Communication and Fashion." London: Lawrence Erlbaum. There is also the book Machines that become us edited by Katz I have a book out: Ling, R. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Leslie Haddon has just come out with a more general book on ICTs in everyday life Haddon, L. 2004 Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life : A Concise Introduction and Research Guide There are some Finnish books on design. I don't have their titles right here but Ilpo Koskinen at the University of art and design, Helsinki is a good place to start there. Also Nalini Kotamraju at Berkeley has done a wonderful service by collecting much of the literature in the area into a Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research bibliography. You can see that at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html Let me know if this helps. I would be interested to hear about your research proposal. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 23:40 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern) Rich- By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature. Thanks. Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>> Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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

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Re: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility
by Andrew Herman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Ooops. My apoligies for responding on the LISTSERV. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> aherman(a)wlu.ca 01/12/05 5:41 PM >>> Thanks, Alex. Have we met yet? Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca 01/12/05 4:44 PM >>> Andrew, By coincidence there's an article about RIM and Mike Laziridis in the January issue of Wired. Here's the URL to the online article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 I might be interested in working on something like this and will talk to you about it at WLU............Alex Kuskis ********************************************************** Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate, OISE/U of Toronto Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier U Associate Faculty, Royal Roads U alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca alex.kuskis(a)utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman(a)wlu.ca> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility > Dear Friends- > > I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the > Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a > multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development > of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in > Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), > advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and > ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a > comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and > his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES > series. > _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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

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