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transdisciplinarity
by Michele White 16 May '05

16 May '05

I strongly disagree with Barry's indication that research that is without a disciplinary structure or "guidance" is inherently worse that other research. There may be questions that need to be posed in opposition to or without the safe and containing support of a discipline. It seems to me that feminisms, postcolonial studies, queer theory, and disability studies all suggested and continue to indicate that certain identities and questions have been prevented by disciplinary methods, boundaries, accepted areas of study, and beliefs. For instance, Linda Nochlin's "Why Are There No Great Women Artists?" suggested that prior to the 1970s that the education of artists and the field of art history rendered conditions where women could not be elevated to the status of great artist. Feminist critiques encourage us to look at what disciplines prevent, how they guide, and wonder about the ongoing disciplining of Women's Studies and Internet Studies. All my best, Michele

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trans/inter/non
by Barry Wellman 14 May '05

14 May '05

Thanks to Michael and Jeremy on their descriptions of transdisciplinarity. They make sense to me. It's basically about the establishment of new disciplines. What scares me is when trans... means nondisciplinary -- I have seen too many papers in conferences and in journal submissions that seem to have no disciplinary guidance -- old and new. Let trans be tran (and inter be inter), but non be gone! 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 _____________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] transdisciplinarity
by Nentwich, Michael 14 May '05

14 May '05

> I am searching for literature on transdisciplinarity compared to > interdisciplinarity (within the context of new media content > production). I am grateful for any kind of info, particularly for > online available articles and papers. You might be successfull to find something when trying the Swiss transdisciplinarity website that includes a huge and well- ordered bibliographic database on transdisciplinarity: http://www.transdisciplinarity.ch/ (the site is in English) Good luck, Michael ------------- M. Nentwich http://eiop.or.at/mn/ author of "Cyberscience" http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/3188-7

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RE: [Air-l] relation digital divide - knowledge gap
by Opgenhaffen Michaël 13 May '05

13 May '05

Thanks Eszter, Redhika, Ulla, Danny, Paula and others for your help. I understand that my question was not well formulated, my excuses for that! This is quite a complex domain for me and I want to get it right. Therefore, an additional question: If I got it right, the knowledge gap is the situation that some groups (high-class, white, rich, well-educated, ...) are getting smarter en smarter (because of there learning-abilities and -motivations and other benefits) and the other groups aren't, so that the gap between the info-rich and info-poor is widening (cfr Matthew-effect). Since the success of ICT, we can observe sort of a same distinction between those who can work with internet and computers and those who can't or won't. Those who can work with ict, benefit from that use, while the groups for who it could be great to work on (for closing the knowledge gap) aren't working with ict so that again, the gap is widening. I now i formulated it very briefly, but is this in general correct? My question is twofold: 1) Can i describe the difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users as 'a knowledge gap'? I thought I read it somewhere, but as i read your answers, i begin to think that the knowledge gap is more a social phenomenon and not the difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users. 2) If this difference can not be called 'knowledge gap', which concept do you suggest to describe this possible difference in knowledge-output between users and non-users? Thankx a lot in advance. I know my English is not as good as my dutch is, but i hope clear anough to understand. Michaël ------------------------- Michaël Opgenhaffen Translation studies and journalism Lessius school Antwerp Belgium

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trans/inter
by Barry Wellman 13 May '05

13 May '05

Somebody just queried this list about research comparing to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. What's the difference, besides different jargon communities? 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 _____________________________________________________________________

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new media theory + social software
by Kathy Mancuso 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi everyone, I don't want to say too much because I'm still trying to figure out what I'm thinking about, but does anyone know if anything has been done connecting the new media as art/visual product literature (here I am thinking Manovich on montage, Landow on hypertext, interface design theory) with current research on social software (danah boyd, Clay Shirky, the CoP crowd, et al)? So the visual aspects of social software. I am not thinking here so much of network mapping applications, of which there are plenty. Thanks, Kathy Mancuso

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transdisciplinarity
by Philipp Budka 13 May '05

13 May '05

Dear List, I am searching for literature on transdisciplinarity compared to interdisciplinarity (within the context of new media content production). I am grateful for any kind of info, particularly for online available articles and papers. Best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Rustengasse 5/10 A-1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net http://www.lateinamerika-studien.at -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++

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RE: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Dmitri Williams 12 May '05

12 May '05

Jim- Go to http://terranova.blogs.com/ It's where virtual world issues get posted and debated by most of the leading scholars and by the game developers, too. You'll also find a ton of links to people and papers in the area encompassing social psych and ethnographic approaches, but also legal and economic ones as well. -Dmitri ******************** Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:19:19 -0400 From: jcumming(a)email.unc.edu Subject: [Air-l] Virtual Worlds/Game Studies To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20050511101919.vjqrfumqw48ss808(a)webmail2.isis.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format="flowed" I'm a recent BA grad who is planning to enter a grad program focusing on virtual worlds and digital media in Fall '06. In the meantime, I am looking for meaningful work/experience related to those subjects - I'm particularly interested in the social psych & ethnography of online cultures, and their "emergent" qualities in relation to designers' intentions vs. players' use. Any suggestions? I already know of the conference recently posted on the listserv. My apologies for adding to the inboxes, but I was told this would be an excellent source of input. Thanks. Jim University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill --------------- Dmitri Williams Assistant Professor, Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Webology: Volume 2, Number 1, April, 2005
by Alireza Noruzi 12 May '05

12 May '05

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting firstly. We are pleased to inform you that the third issue of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ----------------------------- Editorial -- Saeid Asadi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/editorial3.html ----------------------------------------- Information Search Strategies on the Internet: A critical component of new literacies -- Laurie A. Henry -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a9.html ----------------------------------------- Information searching habits of Internet users: A case study on Medical Sciences University of Isfahan (MUI), Iran -- Asefeh Asemi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a10.html ----------------------------------------- Web Impact Factors for Iranian universities -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/a11.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ----------------------------------------- Regards, A. Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne, France

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nominations
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 May '05

12 May '05

the nomination period is still open, it stays open until the end of the month. This is your chance to make a difference in AoIR, to determine the next few years, to develop and pursue an agenda that will benefit the association as a whole, so consider running for office. Note we also need volunteers and interested parties for systems management of aoir, so if you know someone with those talents and some spare time, nominate them too. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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