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Internet Studies
by Ursula.MAIER-RABLER＠sbg.ac.at 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi, I am preparing a course in "Internet Research" and compile a list with (empirical) Internet studies in different areas (e.g. usage, diffusion, e-commerce, education & schools, art & culture, everyday life, e-government ...). It's an introductory course and I would like to introduce the students with current major findings in the diffusion and usage of the Internet in different societal sectors. Is there something comparable with the PEW/Internet-Studies in Europe which is accessible for educational purposes? Can somebody suggest sources for such reports? Thank you in advance Ursula Maier-Rabler __________________________________________ Ass.Prof. Dr. Ursula Maier-Rabler, Academic Director ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria phone +43 662 8044 4800 | fax +43 662 6389 4800 info(a)icts.sbg.ac.at | www.icts.sbg.ac.at __________________________________________

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WISE KIDS and IT Wales Conference: "Teen Works 2005: Young People and the Internet"
by Sangeet Bhullar 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleagues, WISE KIDS and IT Wales are co-organising a one day conference entitled, "Teen Works 2005: Young People and the Internet", on the 15th of November 2005. The conference will be held at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, and is one of the events held as part of ict forum wales 2005. The conference aims to explore young people's awareness and use of the Internet and mobile phones, and look at current and upcoming trends in this area. It also aims to look at current research and guidelines in this area, and provide relevant examples and strategies that young people and adults can use to take advantage of the Internet and mobile phone technologies, whilst ensuring their personal safety. Through the specialist seminars in the afternoon, topics like child protection issues and moderating online communities will also be covered. The speakers for the event will include Rhian Davies, Assistant Children's Commissioner for Wales, Josh Dhaliwal, Director of Mobile Youth, Angus Cormie, Director of The Digital Business, Bill Westhead from the Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire and Tamara Littleton, CEO of eModeration. Young people will also be invited to attend and participate in the event. For more details and registration, please visit: http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conferenceregistration.htm Also, please feel free to circulate this notice to any of your colleagues who may be interested to attend. Best wishes, Sangeet Bhullar Executive Director WISE KIDS email: sangeet(a)wisekids.org.uk skype id: sangeetbhullar http://www.wisekids.org.uk Tel. +44 (0)1633 673339; Mobile +44 (0)7900 911940 This email and any file attachments sent with it may have confidential or privileged information. These are intended solely for the individual(s) to whom the email is addressed. If you have received this in error, you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. Instead, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify Sangeet Bhullar immediately by sending an email to sangeet(a)wisekids.org.uk or calling +44 (0)7900 911940. Thank you. This email has been scanned for viruses by Norton AntiVirus. Mae'n bosibl fod yn y neges e-bost hon ac unrhyw atodiadau ffeil a anfonir gyda hi wybodaeth gyfrinachol neu freintiedig. Ar gyfer yr unigolyn / unigolion y cyfeiriwyd yr e-bost ato / atynt yn unig y bwriadwyd hi. Os ydych wedi ei derbyn trwy amryfusedd, ni chewch gopïo, anfon ymlaen, datgelu na defnyddio unrhyw ran ohoni. Yn hytrach, a wnewch chi ei dileu hi a phob copi ohoni o'ch system a hysbysu Sangeet Bhullar ar unwaith trwy anfon e-bost at sangeet(a)wisekids.org.uk neu ffonio +44 (0)7900 911940. Diolch. Sganiwyd yr e-bost hwn am firysau gan Norton AntiVirus.

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DOCAM 05, Oct. 7-9 is about to come, Register now !
by Niels Windfeld Lund 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

If you plan to attend DOCAM,the international Document Research conference next week at SIMS, UC-Berkeley,it is now time for register. Registration closes in 2days The conference consists of 3 parts, a general plenary session, a ph.d. session and three parallel workshops in Artistic documents, Health care documents and document management. Speakers are coming from Norway, France, U.S.A and Canada. The program is here: http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/docam05/DOCAM'05programv1.htm Registration can be done here: http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/sommerskole/inscription.html Our key-note speaker this year is coming from GSLIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, professor W. Boyd Rayward Welcome at DOCAM 05 Niels W. Lund

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Chronicle article: Researchers Find That Keystrokes' Sounds Reveal What Is Being Typed
by ell＠bradley.edu 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education was forwarded to you by: ell(a)bradley.edu The following message was enclosed: things that make you go "hum" This article, "Researchers Find That Keystrokes' Sounds Reveal What Is Being Typed," is available online at this address: http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=6ynk4ja9wxjssce7fupavd7klep88bg7 This article will be available to non-subscribers of The Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed. The article is always available to Chronicle subscribers at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i06/06a03502.htm _________________________________________________________________ Finding it hard to keep up with all that's happening in academe? The Chronicle's e-mailed Daily Report keeps you up-to-date in a matter of minutes by quickly summarizing current events in higher education while providing links to complete coverage on our subscriber-only Web site. The Daily Report and Web access come with your Chronicle subscription at no extra cost. Order your subscription now at http://chronicle.com/4free?es _________________________________________________________________ Visit us on the Web -- http://chronicle.com Careers & advice -- http://chroniclecareers.com Opinions & critique -- http://chroniclereview.com Arts & Letters Daily -- http://aldaily.com _________________________________________________________________ If you have other problems or questions, please send a message to help(a)chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.

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Chronicle article: The Avatars of Research
by ell＠bradley.edu 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education was forwarded to you by: ell(a)bradley.edu The following message was enclosed: studying in virtual worlds This article, "The Avatars of Research," is available online at this address: http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=syf11ux7f8ixytmvdao9m3pqdlpljghx This article will be available to non-subscribers of The Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed. The article is always available to Chronicle subscribers at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i06/06a03501.htm _________________________________________________________________ Finding it hard to keep up with all that's happening in academe? The Chronicle's e-mailed Daily Report keeps you up-to-date in a matter of minutes by quickly summarizing current events in higher education while providing links to complete coverage on our subscriber-only Web site. The Daily Report and Web access come with your Chronicle subscription at no extra cost. Order your subscription now at http://chronicle.com/4free?es _________________________________________________________________ Visit us on the Web -- http://chronicle.com Careers & advice -- http://chroniclecareers.com Opinions & critique -- http://chroniclereview.com Arts & Letters Daily -- http://aldaily.com _________________________________________________________________ If you have other problems or questions, please send a message to help(a)chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.

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Teaching the Wikipedia
by erickaakcire.1532473＠bloglines.com 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I teach a public speaking & rhetoric class in college - largely to sophomore pharmacy majors, and I'm grading the first batch of speeches which are on a topic of the student's choosing but must be focused on social science. I've got about 15% of the speeches that uncritically cite the Wikipedia - clearly treating it as just another encyclopedia without knowledge of how it is written - or at least no mention of this. (I thought I mentioned what the Wikipedia is in at least one section, but perhaps not.) What I'm doing is explaining what it is and that it's a good place to look for background info but that they need to cite the original resources to use the material in their speeches. I'd also encourage them to do this for any encyclopedic sources. I could think of scenarios where it might be acceptable to cite the Wikipedia as proof of norms or accepted beliefs. So next week I'm going to discuss this with my classes along with more on source credibility generally. Any suggestions? How have you handled this? (I'm particularly interested in responses from other Wikipedia contributors & supporters.) Thanks, Ericka Menchen Trevino Graduate Student http://blog.erickamenchen.net

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AW: [Air-l] Internet Studies
by Ursula.MAIER-RABLER＠sbg.ac.at 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hi Kate, thank you very much for your help. Ursula -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] Im Auftrag von O'Riordan, Kate Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. September 2005 12:15 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: RE: [Air-l] Internet Studies Hi Ursula There is a report by the Oxford Internet Institute that might be useful for you - it is UK centric rather than pan-European: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/oxis/oxis2005_report.pdf All the best Kate _______________________________________________ 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/

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RE: [Air-l] Internet Studies
by O'Riordan, Kate 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hi Ursula There is a report by the Oxford Internet Institute that might be useful for you - it is UK centric rather than pan-European: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/oxis/oxis2005_report.pdf All the best Kate

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Virtual IR 6.0
by Steve Jones 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

We have made arrangements for several internet-based tools to be used during the upcoming conference in Chicago, for both participants who will be at the conference as well as for those of you unable to be here. All should be up and running by Thursday, Oct. 6, and some, like the wiki, are already available. 1. Tag This Conference! aoir and aoir6 You're it. We need your help to make it easy for all of us to find the websites, pictures & blog entries related to the conference. Just use the tags aoir and aoir6 in del.icio.us, Flickr or with Technorati, then check out http://www.technorati.com/tag/aoir or aoir6 for the combined results. What is tagging? It's a way to give online content a little extra context by adding keywords called tags. Usually people tag their own collections of bookmarks or photographs so that they can find them later, but they can also be used to help other people find online content. When we agree to use the same tag it's easy for everyone to find things. What are del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati? Del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager where users save their links. Anything with a URL can be bookmarked in del.icio.us and described by tags and extended notes. Flickr is a popular photo sharing site that uses tags. Technorati is a blog indexing site and it collects the tags that bloggers use to describe their posts. It also displays information from del.icio.us and Flickr in its results. Don't want to sign up for these services? No signing up required! Visit http://emt.url123.com/aoir6 for details. 2. The Backchannel Don't wait until the question and answer session to discuss an interesting presentation with your colleagues. Share ideas and comment on papers as they're delivered via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Each of the AoIR conference rooms has a corresponding chat room for backchannel discussion. Connection details and recommended chat clients will be posted in each room. Increasingly popular at technology conferences and in college classrooms, backchannel discussions allow for quick fact checking and can create a greater sense of community amongst both audience members and presenters. More details about the server and channels will be made available soon. 3. The Conference wiki A wiki is available for each conference session (organized by session, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0, as well as by meeting room, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0: _Theme_Pages). Whether you are a presenter, conference participants, AoIR member or air-l subscriber, share your thoughts about each session here. 4. Internet Survey How familiar are you with some of the trendiest Internet developments (such as wikis and blogs)? Would you like to compare your media consumption with that of your parents (and/or children)? Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete a “Generations Survey”. When you finish the questionnaire, you will see a snapshot of the general results. The resulting data will be available to the conference attendees, AoIR members and subscribers to the AoIR e-mail list (air-l). All respondents will be anonymous. Link: http://generations-survey.notlong.com These efforts to use the internet to enhance conference participation are part of a project organized by graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Data from them will be made anonymous and analyzed for coursework. Thanks particularly to David Elfving and Ericka Menchen Trevino for their work on the technology for it.

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AAG Chicago Panel Call
by Philip Howard 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

> John Carr & Kris Erickson > > University of Washington > Department of Geography > Box 353550 Seattle, WA 98195-3550 > > Phone: 206.543.5843 > Fax: 206.543.3313 > > > Contact emails: kriseric(a)u.washington.edu > carrj(a)u.washngton.edu > AAG Paper Panel title: Cyberspace: Owning, Controlling, and > Transgressing the Country Without Borders > > > While much of the debate surrounding the social implications of > cyberspace has revolved around question of its apparent lawlessness > and unregulability, some recent critical analyses have deepened our > appreciation of the ways in which a variety of tactics of regulation > are both at work in cyberspace, and continually challenged. This > panel is intended to explore some examples of how social order is both > generated and subverted within the emerging spaces enabled by a > variety of information and communication technologies (“ICTs’”). > > Presentation topics might include, but are not limited to: > ownership, regulation, and control of ICT’s; the use of > cyberspace for protest and resistance; cyberspace and nationalism, > militarism, and religion; the confluence of "virtual" and "real" in > the “War on Terror”; the market for digital surveillance > information; the changing relationship between ICTs, citizenship and the nation-state. > > Proposed presentations already include: > > - "Nametags, Roomkeys and SSIDs: the computer underground goes live > at DefCon." > > - "Open Source World;" The Creative Commons project as challenging and > reaffirming the global neoliberalism. > > Our aim is to enable a broad and theoretically diverse > conversation about power and resistance in cyberspace in current disciplinary contexts. > At the same time, we would like to make our presentations fun, > creative and provocative. If you have questions about participation > in this panel, please contact one or both of the panel organizers. All > applicants must submit their abstracts of 500 words or less, as well > as their PIN numbers by Monday, Oct. 10, 2005. >

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