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CFP: Con/texts of Invention
by Dan L Burk 11 May '05

11 May '05

Of possible interest, from Martha Woodmansee. DLB > Con/texts of Invention > A working conference of the Society for Critical Exchange > > With support from the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case > Western Reserve University School of Law; the History of Science > Department at Harvard University; the Washington College of Law at > American University; and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical > Studies of Science at the University of Chicago > > Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio > April 20-22, 2006 > > This conference interrogates the social and cultural construction of > invention - the diverse ways in which invention has been conceptualized in > the arts and sciences in the broadest sense, including literature, the > fine arts, entertainment, the physical and life sciences, law, economics, > medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, communications, > computation, finance, and business. Emphasis will be on the institutional > cultures, rhetorics, and histories of invention across these fields. In > this way the Society seeks to extend and deepen the inquiry of its > long-standing project on "Intellectual Property and the Construction of > Authorship" (see www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/IPCA_main.html) Papers reflecting > upon the impact of the "critique of authorship" will thus be especially > welcome. The conference will include lectures and panel discussions; to > facilitate discussion, papers selected for panels will circulate in > advance of the conference. > > Topics may include (but are not limited to): > > * the author as inventor * the inventor as author * imitation and > originality * psychologies of creativity * pathologies such as writer's > (or inventor's) block * genius * hack(ing) * tradition and the individual > talent, including the anxiety of influence * forgery * crimes such as > plagiarism and piracy * the inventor as hero * invention vs. discovery * > simultaneous discovery * joint/collective invention * useful and useless > knowledge * the idea /expression distinction * invention vs. innovation * > material and social inputs to invention * invention policy * narratives of > invention * depictions of invention, including patent drawings * invisible > invention * inventing organisms * invention in rhetorical theory * genre > and invention * invention and memory * invention in popular and children's > literature * pedagogies of invention * invention and self-help, including > creativity workshops and invention promotion services * cross-cultural > perspectives on invention * invention and power * imperialism and > invention * universities and invention * rhetorics of entrepreneurship * > representations of collaboration * corporate authorship/invention * > economies of invention * legal incentives and disincentives * private and > public domains * discourses of intellectual commons, including free > software and open source * collage and sampling * geographies of invention > * ethnography of invention * gender and invention > > Please send paper abstracts (no full papers please), a CV of no more than > three pages, and any suggestions for panel topics by October 5 to: > dar29(a)case.edu. > > Conference Organizers: > Olufunmilayo Arewa, Law, Case Western Reserve University > Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard University > Peter Jaszi, Law, American University > Adrian Johns, History of Science, University of Chicago > Martha Woodmansee, English and Law, Case Western Reserve University Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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User needs in digital repositories job
by Mike Thelwall 11 May '05

11 May '05

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Information Science - to analyse user needs in digital repositories A position has become available for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a 1-year project conducting analysing user needs in digital repositories. The approach will combine qualitative and quantitative methods, employing both colink analysis and interviews. The researcher will interview stakeholders for a range of types of digital repositories in the UK and use automated colink analyses to develop quantitative models of repository effectiveness and user base. Applicants are required to have * A Ph.D. in Information Science * Experience of postdoctoral research * Experience of analysing interviews for research purposes * Knowledge or experience of webometrics, or link analysis The project involves collaboration with another UK university and the researcher should expect to have to travel extensively within the UK for team meetings and conferences. Good communication and team working skills are essential. The salary is expected to be £24,450 for the year and the starting date is predicted to be 1 June 2005. Please contact Mike Thelwall m.thelwall(a)wlv.ac.uk by 20 May 2005 to request an application form or to express interest in the post. The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population, especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups.

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Know of humanities/social research on wireless?
by GTa3411203＠aol.com 11 May '05

11 May '05

I am also exploring the use of wireless devices to support workplace learning. Here are a few articles that might be helpful. Fortunati, L. (2005). Is body-to-body ocmmunication still the prototype? The Information Society, 21(53), 53-61. Fortunati, L. (2002). The mobile phone: Towards new categories and social relations. Information, Communication & Society, 5(4, 513-528. Green, N. (2002). On the move: Technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space. The Information Society, 18, 218-292. Jain, S. S. (2002). Urban errands: The means of mobility. Journal of Consumer Culture, 2(3), 385-404. Leonardi, P. M. (2003). Problematizing "new media": Culturally based perceptinos of cell phones, computers among united states latinos. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 20(2), 160-179. Rafael, V. L. (2003). The cell phone and the crowd: Messianic politics in the contemporary phillipines. Public Culture, 15(3), 399-425. --------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, Ed.M. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "There is no difference between living and learning." -- John Holt

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relation digital divide - knowledge gap
by Opgenhaffen Michaël 11 May '05

11 May '05

I'm doing research within the area of the digital divide. I was wondering if the causal relation between the digital divide and the knowledge gap is examined. Most of the time, these two concepts are described in relation to each other (digital divide leads to knowledge gap), but i didn't find a study that really describes the relation between these two concepts. Anyone that can help me out? Michaël

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job opportunity
by Ed Lamoureux 11 May '05

11 May '05

<http://www.bradley.edu/humanresources/Multimedia.html> Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts, Bradley University, Peoria Il. Multimedia Program Temporary Instructor, Full-Time august 05 start. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell/ http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/

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Fwd: [IP] Job opening: Technology-politics reporter in Washington, DC
by Jeremy Hunsinger 11 May '05

11 May '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > Date: May 11, 2005 9:11:44 AM EDT > To: Ip ip <ip(a)v2.listbox.com> > Subject: [IP] Job opening: Technology-politics reporter in > Washington, DC > Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> > Date: May 10, 2005 4:32:58 PM EDT > To: politech(a)politechbot.com > Subject: [Politech] Job opening: Technology-politics reporter in > Washington, DC > > > News.com seeks a reporter in Washington, DC to write about > technology and politics. > > This position will report to yours truly for day-to-day > assignments. Because I'm moving to San Francisco starting August 1, > we'd like to fill this position soon so I can work with the new > reporter in person over the next few months (and virtually > thereafter). > > This will be a full-time position with benefits, and the candidate > must live in Washington, DC or the nearby suburbs. > > Last I checked, the job description has not been posted on the CNET > Networks corporate site but the qualifications are similar to those > of a News.com associate editor position: > > http://careers.cnetnetworks.com/candidatebench/jobdetails.jsp? > reqId=8873&type=ALL > "The ideal candidate will hold a college degree in English, > journalism or a related field, as well as 1-3 years of writing or > editing experience, preferably related to technology. Candidates > should be familiar with AP style and with the rudiments of HTML. > Experience in print or online publishing under tight deadlines is a > plus. Candidates must have excellent English grammar skills, be > detail-oriented, produce high-quality work and handle multiple > tasks with speed and grace." > > You can find general information about CNET hiring policies and > company benefits here: > http://www.cnetnetworks.com/careers/?tag=cnetfd.ft > > If you're interested, please send a resume and writing samples to > declan.mccullagh/at/cnet.com with "DC JOB" in the Subject: line. > Please do NOT include Microsoft Word or HTML attachments; instead, > include a link to the documents or attach them as PDF files. Do not > call. Only send email. > > Please do not circulate this email message after July 8, 2005. > > Thanks, > Declan > _______________________________________________ > Politech mailing list > Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ > Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) > > > ------------------------------------- > You are subscribed as jhuns(a)vt.edu > To manage your subscription, go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > > Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- > people/ > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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RE: [Air-l] Know of humanities/social science research on wireless?
by O''Riordan, Kate 11 May '05

11 May '05

The Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University might be useful: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/ All the best Kate

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Fwd: Call for papers :: ICT4D and Universities
by Miraj Khaled 11 May '05

11 May '05

FYI. /// miraj -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for papers-ICT4D and universities Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:09:33 -0700 From: Raul Roman <rroman(a)u.washington.edu> "Information Technologies and International Development (ITID)" is a leading MIT Press journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with international development. ITID invites submissions for a special issue titled Information Technology, Higher Education, and Sustainable Development: The Role of Universities in Building Knowledge Societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This special issue will address how universities in developing countries are implementing innovative teaching, research and outreach activities that link ICTs to the development-related needs and activities of different local and national stakeholders, including scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, governments, civil society organizations, and rural communities. The issue will reflect how universities in developing countries are seeking to contribute to ‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D) efforts, the impact of their efforts upon society and universities, and the internal and external challenges they face in realizing a productive and meaningful place in the ICT4D movement. The goal of this ITID issue is to lay a foundation for research and policy making in this area. The issue carries the same title as a conference recently held in Manila (www.cis.washington.edu/manila2005 <http://www.cis.washington.edu/manila2005>). The Manila conference itself built on previous international meetings at Makerere University (http://www.makerere.ac.ug/dicts/conference) Cornell University (http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/conf/2004/ict) and the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/ict4d/events/ict4d-events-282979/ev…) that focused not only on building universities ICT capacity, but their capacity to leverage ICT to foster social and economic development. **For example, some relevant topics could be (a) the institutional capacity of universities to create knowledge tailored to different outside stakeholders; (b) the uses and effects of university involvement in community projects such as telecenters; (c) the creation of university programs that prepare students to become professionals in ICT-enabled development, or (d) efforts by universities to engage in local, national, or international policy-relevant research on emerging ICT issues. The topic of this ITID issue is broad and inherently multidisciplinary. The editors welcome a diverse pool of submissions from different fields such as political science, information science, communication research, education, rural sociology, computer science, telecommunications, economics, public health, and public policy, among others. The papers selected will present novel research that is theoretically grounded and methodologically sound, as well as those that relate to policy development and practical on-the-ground approaches to realizing the Millennium Development Goals and creating the building blocks of knowledge societies. Potential contributors should submit a 750-word abstract of the proposed article by May 31^st , 2005 to: itid-ed(a)mit.edu Visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/itid for specific instructions for authors. The guest editors of this ITID issue (in alphabetical order) are: Royal D. Colle (Cornell University), Christopher T. Coward (University of Washington), Colin M. Maclay (Harvard Law School), and Raul Roman (University of Washington). ----------------------------------- 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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terminology to describe developing countries
by Carolyn Wei 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hello, A few weeks ago I asked for input from this list on terminology to describe developing countries that had some analog technological infrastructure, if not the most digital, cutting-edge stuff. I had been calling such places "digitally emergent." Here's a synthesis of the comments I received from others on the topic, which are helpful for providing a more granular understanding of the words I've heard or used to describe developing places. * Second World (as in First, Second, and Third World. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World) -- very problematic term. It has ambiguous, multiple meanings. It is obsolete in the sense that it references a Soviet presence that no longer exists. * Fourth World -- see Manuel Castells' work. socially powerless places/people such as women, children, or ethnic minorities. Can mean ethnic minority populations who are not fully represented by their nation-state/government. Can also suggest completely unindustrialized places. * Information rich or information poor. a way to characterize societies as they transition to knowledge-based economies. "Information rich" suggests people with access to information, e.g., through the Web, newspapers, etc. This rich/poor split can apply to international digital divides as well as domestic divides (like well-connected/not connected people and places in the US) * Technology adoption terms applied to countries (see WIPO http://www.wipo.int/copyright/ecommerce/en/html/index.html#5 ; these terms are taken from the UNDP Human Development Report 2001 http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2001/en/pdf/completenew.pdf) These reference the amount of technological and human resources that are present for technology adoption: "leaders" - e.g., Finland, US, Japan "potential leaders" - e.g., Mexico, Greece, Czech Republic "dynamic adopters" - e.g., Philippines, Brazil, China "marginalized" - e.g., Sudan, Senegal, Nepal Thanks! Carolyn Wei Dept. of Technical Communication University of Washington

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Italy visit possible AoIR meetup
by Jeremy Hunsinger 10 May '05

10 May '05

I've had AoIR meetups in the past at various conferences and such, and I think it works great. So i'm proposing one for my next trip. I'm going to be in Turin(Torino) and Milan from May 17-23, mainly at the Triple Helix Conference in Turin. If you are somewhere near Northern Italy at that time, we can schedule a meetup, where several of us get together, have a meal, and talk. Generally these are fairly social events, where we talk about research, AoIR and related topics. In the past, I've done one in D.C. and one in Brisbane, and I think meetups are a great way to meet people that are working on related topics. So, if you are interested drop me a note off list to jhuns(a)vt.edu and I'll see what I can set up. Thanks, Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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