February 2005 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CFP Deadline extended
by Mark D. Johns 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

The Iowa Journal of Communication announces a 2005 special issue on internet communication, guest edited by Mark Johns. Manuscripts should be received no later than *** MARCH 1, 2005 *** Computer-mediated technologies (CMTs) are no longer the province of "techies," but have become everyday means of social interaction in our society. This interdisciplinary issue welcomes research on the impact CMTs have had in daily communication among family members and coworkers, colleagues and competitors, friends and strangers. Papers investigating how individuals communicate with one another through email, community mailing lists (listservs or USENET), instant messaging, weblogs, MUDs and MOOs, game environments, and other online venues will be considered. The issue will particularly focus on issues arising for researchers in effectively and ethically studying online communication, therefore papers dealing specifically with these "meta-research" issues, and papers suggesting particularly innovative adaptations of traditional research methods to the CMT settings are especially welcomed. We welcome submissions from researchers in a variety of areas. Any manuscripts not accepted for the special issue will be considered for the general issue of the journal. The IJC follows a policy of blind review so no author identification should appear in the body of the manuscript. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages and should include a title page that includes author(s) name, academic position, institutional affiliation, full address, telephone number, email address and brief author bio. An abstract of not more than 150 words should accompany the paper. All submissions must conform to the most current edition of the APA. Queries and manuscript submissions should be sent electronically to: Kimberly A. Powell, Editor, Iowa Journal of Communication, powellki(a)luther.edu. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain

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2nd CfP: Interoperability and Integration in e-Government (IJEGR vol 2, iss 2 )
by Jochen Scholl 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Apologies for inevitable double postings! Second Call for Papers INTEROPERABILITY and INTEGRATION have become top items on today's e-Government research and practice agendas. We invite you to join us in helping understand and shape these important worldwide foci in e-Government by submitting your respective research papers to the: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT RESEARCH Editors-In-Chief Patricia Diamond Fletcher (pfletcher(a)umbc.edu) Donald F. Norris (norris(a)umbc.edu) Published: Quarterly (pint & electronic) ISSN: 1548-3886 eISSN: 1548-3894 Special Issue Co-Editors Ralf Klischewski and Hans J (Jochen) Scholl The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is soliciting high quality papers for a special issue of the journal on E-Government Interoperability and Integration to be published as Volume 2, Issue No. 2, April-June 2006. We encourage the academic and practitioner community to submit articles related to the mission of IJEGR. The paper submission deadline for this special issue V2(2) is May 1, 2005. Mission: The mission of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research is to publish the very best original scholarly research on the subject of electronic government, broadly defined, and to publish top quality articles about electronic government from the practice. To this end, we invite submission of papers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The members of the Editorial Board represent this international and multidisciplinary perspective. Special Issue-related Research Orientations: Papers may address any aspect of e-Gov interoperability and integration including but not limited to the following topical orientations: (1) The technological (hardware, software, and middleware) dimension - The development, implementation, maintenance, and overhaul of government transaction processing and information systems (IS) - The integration of IS (legacy and e-Gov IS) to support inter-organizational components of e-Government - Scope and limitations of inter- and intra-governmental IS - Interoperability standards & frameworks (technical perspective) - Public key infrastructures - Web services for public administration - Semantic web for e-Gov applications - Specific infrastructural requirements for interoperability (2) The organizational, managerial, legal, and social dimensions - Infrastructure alignment & interoperability setup strategies (organizational perspective) - Internal effectiveness and efficiency (IEE) and increased responsiveness through interoperability - The various dimensions (vertical and/or horizontal; inter-agency, intra-agency, inter-governmental, and intra-governmental) of e-Gov interoperability and integration - challenges of dual-mode operations (traditional and e-Gov-based) in government - Operational interoperability (formal and informal networks) versus technical interoperability (software and hardware compatibility) - Infrastructure/interoperability performance and improvement evaluation - Legal and constitutional limits to interoperability and integration (3) The interaction and interdependency between (1) and (2) - Barriers to interoperability (privacy, ambiguity about statutory authority, openness to public scrutiny, trust, lack of experience, hardware/software incompatibility, data sharing standards and a lack of awareness of opportunities to share) - Strategies and innovative approaches to enhancing interoperability (managerial and technical solutions) - Inter-organizational process management, information management, and security/rights management - Constituents' resistance and recalcitrance This special issue is especially interested in papers that make substantial theoretical and/or empirical contributions to knowledge in the field. It seeks to systematically describe the phenomenon of e-Gov interoperability and integration. It also attempts to help government practice improve current interoperability methods and modes of integrated operation. We welcome submissions that employ either quantitative or qualitative methodologies or both. For all empirical manuscripts authors must clearly and concisely describe their research methods, data or evidence, and analytical techniques, particularly for less standardized methods such as action research, case studies, and current practices reports. Following the academic tradition, all manuscripts must be grounded in prior research and scholarly literature relevant to the subjects being investigated. Manuscripts that are essentially speculative in nature, that lack a theoretical or empirical base, or that are not grounded in prior research will not be considered. Coverage: The coverage of IJEGR is international and focused on original research in electronic government applications, management, and policy. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Best practices in e-Government * Electronic government applications * Governance and electronic democracy * Impacts of electronic Government * Information policy * Information security * Information privacy * Information access * Internal government processes and intranets * Measurement of performance * Strategic management of electronic government * Technology adoption and diffusion Review Process: A double-blind review is applied to all submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts for this call must be received, in electronic format (WORD), no later than May 1, 2005. All manuscripts must be sent directly to the editors at ijegr(a)umbc.edu. Authors will be notified by June 15, 2005 of the outcome of the review process. Final manuscripts will be expected no later than August 15, 2005. Any question relating to the submission and acceptance process should be directed to the journal's editors. Please familiarize yourself with submission guidelines by visiting www.idea-group.com/ijegr. For more information on submitting to the International Journal of Electronic Government Research, please visit our Web page at www.idea-group.com/ijegr. Please visit our web site for more information about the journal and its Editorial Board. Publisher: The International Journal of Electronic Government Research is published by Idea Group Inc., publisher of "Idea Group Publishing", "Information Science Publishing", "IRM Press", "CyberTech" and "Idea Group Reference" imprints. For additional information about the publisher, please visit their Web site at www.idea-group.com. A copy of this cfp can also be found under http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/Cfp_IJEGR_IOO.html

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Fwd: Group Processes in Computer-Supported Interaction Conference
by Nancy Baym 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

This looks like an event that might interest many subscribers to this list: > >We are please to announce the Conference on Group Processes in >Computer-Supported Interaction: Technological and Social Determinism >to be held at Miami University on April 1-2, 2005. The conference >includes an impressive line-up of speakers, including Russell >Spears, Tom Postmes, Craig McGarty, Adam Joinson, Melanie Green, >Andrea Hollingshead, Alan Dennis, Poppy McLeod, Suzanne Weisband, >Kai Sassenberg, Kip Williams, Joe Walther, Paul Paulus , and Susanne >Abele. > >We are currently seeking proposals for poster presentations on >topics related to the area of group-processes in computer-supported >social interaction. The poster sessions will be scheduled around the >featured presentations. We welcome proposals from any discipline >relevant to the theme of the conference; submissions can be of an >empirical nature or a theoretical/conceptual paper. Students are >particularly encouraged to submit poster proposals. > >Submission Guidelines: Authors must submit a 500-word proposal by >March 15, 2005. The abstract should present a brief yet detailed >description of the problem, methodology, results and/or potential >implications. Proposals should be submitted via electronic mail to >uhlerbd(a)muohio.edu. >For more information about the conference, please see the web site: >http://www.users.muohio.edu/uhlerbd/csi.html > > >Beth Dietz-Uhler, Gary Stasser, and Zak Birchmeier > >Beth Dietz Uhler, Associate Professor >Department of Psychology >Miami University, Middletown, OH 45042 >(513) 727-3254 >http://www.users.muohio.edu/uhlerbd -- 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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new reviews in cyberculture studies (february 2005)
by david silver 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke University Press, 2003) Reviewed by: Daniel Gilfillan, an Assistant Professor of German and Information Literacy at Arizona State University. Gilfillan is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled The Magic of Radio: The Experimental Turn in German Cultural Broadcasting from 1923-2003, which details the history of experimentation within Austro-German cultural broadcasting from 1923 to 2003 through close readings of various radio art projects and radio theoretical essays from that time period. Author Response by Jonathan Sterne Daniel Miller and Don Slater, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Berg Publishers, 2001) Reviewed by: Maria Rosales-Sequeiros, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain. Rosales-Sequeiros is currently writing up her Ph.D. thesis about international computer programmers' identity construction. Author Response by Daniel Miller Enjoy. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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RE: [Air-l] Deaf populations and Internet use
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

A while back I had a student who wrote her masters thesis on the use of SMS among the hearing impaired in Norway. She will have a paper in the book on texting that Rich Harper, Alex Taylor and Leysia Palen are putting together and should be out sometime soon. The actual thesis is in Norwegian but the article will be in English. She found that their freedom of movement was expanded in that they did not have to rely on place specific technologies or access to people who could eventually translate their needs into spoken language. An interesting twist, however, was that SMS made their social lives more transparent in the relatively small world of deaf persons in Oslo. Thus there were new demands on managing social interaction. 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 Christopher Helland Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:02 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Deaf populations and Internet use > > I'm looking for research about deaf/Deaf > populations and ininternetse. This might be more inintranethan ininternetut in "Extreme MaMakoverome Edition" they redid a house for a couple that was deaf and had an autistic child--very good episode. They wired the house with computers and monitors so that they could sign to each other from different rooms. It was the VaVardenamily Season 2 Episode 7 hthttp/ababco.com/prprimetimetxtremehomeibiosamilies/the_vavardonamily.htht… ===== PLEASE DONATE TO THE RED CROSS TO HELP VICTIMS OF THE TSUNAMI http://www.redcross.ca Christopher Helland, Ph.D. SSHRC Research Fellow Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3C3 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chelland/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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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