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Demos and open source
by Derek McMillan 03 May '05

03 May '05

The influential "think tank" Demos has produced a new paper on open source. http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/wideopen/ Well the main point they are making is that the concept of open source is a very powerful one and can be extended to other realms outside operating systems and programs. They are very interested in an "open" approach to government. This is amusing in a way because Demos is linked with the government in the UK which is not open at all, except this week when it seems to be "leaking" like a sieve over the lies they told about the bloody Iraq war. The paper however has its merits. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 - Release Date: 29/04/2005

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blogging, reading and responding
by Barry Wellman 03 May '05

03 May '05

Re the "imagined audience" of bloggers, "reader response" research in literature, etc. has dealt with this since pre-internet times. Worth checking. (Sorry, I don't have any references. scholar.Google and ye shall find.) However, given that most blogs make audience feedback easy, there may well be some differences with blogs. My hunch is that blog-audience response is the usual reverse J-curve: a few people respond a lot. Hence bloggers may be mistaken as to who their audiences are if they only pay attention to their relatively few feedbackers. Never did any research on this. Just my .02. YMMV. 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 reviews in cyberculture studies (may 2005)
by david silver 02 May '05

02 May '05

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments, by Gary R. Bunt (Pluto Press, 2003) Reviewed by Alan Sondheim, author of Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001), Vel (Blazevox, 2004-5), Sophia (Writers Forum, 2004) and The Wayward (Salt, 2004). Reviewed by Robert Tynes, adjunct faculty member at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala (MIT Press, 2003) Reviewed by Richard Holeton, head of Residential Computing at Stanford University, author of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Eastgate Systems, 2001) and Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (McGraw-Hill, 1998). E-Commerce and Cultural Values, edited by Theerasak Thanasankit (Idea Group Publishing, 2003) Reviewed by Kirk St.Amant, assistant professor of technical communication at Texas Tech University. 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] Permissions for web images that no longer exist
by Dan L Burk 02 May '05

02 May '05

Interesting suggestion, but unclear what the point may be. Copyright liability is strict in the U.S. and other jurisditions with which I am familiar; for liability to attach it doesn't really matter whether you engaged in good faith efforts to find the copyright holder or not. In the U.S., once you've lost an infringement suit, I suppose that the paper trail might allow you to avoid an increased damage award for willful infringement under the 504(c)(2) statutory damages provision. But at the same time it suggests that you knew or should have known the material was protected by copyright, so that you coudn't raise the 504(c) "innocent infringer" defense to get lowered damages. In fact, it may be that the paper trail *demonstrates* that the infringement was willful. So this practice appears to cut both ways, not necessarily to your advantage. DLB P.S. Disclaimer again. On 27 Apr 2005, Gilbert B. Rodman wrote: > If the publisher wants you to get permissions, but you've got not ready > access to the permission holders (or even any sense who those might be), > there's always the sort of notice/disclaimer that reads something like: > "every effort has been made to secure permission for use of copyrighted > materials. in the event of a copyright query, please contact the > publishers." Your publisher may not want to do that, but it's a common > enough practice that it's worth asking about. If nothing else, it helps to > demonstrate that you did, in fact, engage in good faith efforts to locate > relevant copyright holder -- especially if you keep a paper/e-mail trail of > those efforts. > > cheers > gil > > > At 4/27/2005 @ 01:03 AM, you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've run up against a problem that has my publisher stumped as well. If > >you're publishing a book or journal article and want to use pictures from > >a Web site, and you have the pictures but the site is no longer in > >existence, do you need permission? How would you handle this? > > > >And also, what is the site still exists, but all emails to the authors of > >the site bounce? > > > >Any help or pointers of where to look would be greatly appreciated. > >thanks! > >Mia > > > >Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. > >Kohei Miura Visiting Professor > >Department of Communication, College of Humanities > >Chubu University > >Japan > > > >Permanent address: > >Ohio University > >School of Telecommunications > >Athens, Ohio 45701 > >USA > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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://www.aoir.org/ > 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 bits: burkx006(a)umn.e

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Call for Book Chapters: Designing for Networked Communications
by simonhei＠ruc.dk 02 May '05

02 May '05

[Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005 Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development A book edited by Simon B. Heilesen and Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde University, Denmark. INTRODUCTION Designing for Networked Communications is to be a book about how we plan, use and understand the products and the dynamic social processes or tasks upon which depend some of the most vital innovations - social as well as technological - in the knowledge society. Networked communication is proliferating. To-day, not only are existing mediated forms of communication being remediated in electronic form, but also hitherto direct forms of communication in complicated social settings are being supplemented or even replaced by computer mediated communication (CMC). We are coming to depend on CMC-products. As a result, the way they function and the way we use them inevitably influences or even determines how we communicate and how we think about communication. Designing products for CMC may be seen as a cycle, where tasks require the creation of artefacts, and where artefacts condition modifications of tasks. The tasks that we wish to examine are processes of communication between individuals by means of computer networks (within and across organizations) as well as the dissemination of information from a sender to a target group. The artefacts include physical networks, hardware, software as well as the manipulation of symbols in the act of communicating. Designing is to be understood in a broad sense as (1) the underlying scheme for the planning, functioning and development of an artefact, (2) the actual arrangement and functionality of various elements of the artefact, (3) the development of strategies and adaptations required for performing tasks by means of the artefact in the given social context and subject to certain basic conditions, and (4) the development of creative strategies for social innovation and the identification of new tasks to be performed by means of a redesign of existing artefacts or with new artefacts. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK The book is meant to further our understanding of ICT-design processes by identifying strategies employed both by developers and users in the dynamic processes of creating and using artefacts. The various chapters will present and reflect on relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. Bridging the fields of HCI-design in Computer Science and Computer-mediated Communication in Communication Studies, the book will represent an interdisciplinary approach that is valuable for stimulating unconventional thinking and a creative exchange in and across two important academic and professional fields. THE TARGET AUDIENCE Professionals, researchers and students working in the fields of Communication, Computer Science (in particular HCI and system development), E-learning and Computer Supported Collaborative Work. RECOMMENDED TOPICS include but are not limited to the following - Theories and models of designing, - Overall strategies and methodologies, - Creative and/or sense making strategies and methodologies, - Social innovation strategies and methodologies, - Negotiation of meaning and collaboration, - Learning strategies and environments, - Organizational learning and learning cultures, - Organizational games and role plays, - Problem solving and decision making, - Workplace communication, - Distributed organizations/ workplaces, - Team work and team building, - Project management and leadership, - Knowledge sharing and knowledge management, - General communication for stationary and mobile users, - Dissemination of information and information searching, - E-publishing and Web-publishing. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 30, 2005, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 31, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 31, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., http://www.idea-group.com/, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to both editors: Simon B. Heilesen, E-mail: simonhei(a)ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3785 Sisse Siggaard Jensen, E-mail: sisse(a)ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3771 Fax: (+45) 4674 3075 Institute of Communication Studies, Journalism and Computer science Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark For additional information on the project, please visit the Designing for Networked Communications web site: http://www.ruc.dk/~simonhei/dnc/

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history of the internet
by Jeremy Hunsinger 02 May '05

02 May '05

in case you forgot some major points..... http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/internet_history/ 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 Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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GLS Conference Early Registration Extended to May 6
by Constance Steinkuehler 01 May '05

01 May '05

Games, Learning & Society Conference 2005 June 23-24, 2005 . Madison WI http://www.glsconference.com Early registration for the Games, Learning, & Society Conference has been extended to Friday, May 6, 5:00 pm CST. The official program for the conference is now posted. Speakers, discussion groups, interactive workshops, and exhibits will focus on game design, game culture, and games' potential for learning & society more broadly. Conference highlights include a two-day exhibit hall featuring interactive presentations and demos of games and an exceptional line-up of speakers including John Seely Brown, Edward Castronova, Doug Church, James Paul Gee, Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Jay Lemke, Kurt Squire, and Eric Zimmerman.

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