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Re: new media and shock
by Stephanie Kent 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi all - I generally just lurk, but I was struck by a discontinuity in discussion last Thursday and think it bears on this question of becoming inured to shock. There were 6 posts on "London...the internet accounts" interspersed with 4 on "AoIR 6.0 Chicago 2005 Registration is now open", 1 each on "iCS 8.2", "Call for proposals", and "Internet and fun/joy/pleasure". In the three days since, "London" vanished, some of the other threads continued, and new ones appeared. This is no doubt the nature of most conversations on this list, and perhaps everything that could be said about shock and bearing up and giving sympathy was expressed in the comments that were posted, and/or continuation has moved to other venues. But I had some cognitive dissonance reading the disparate threads as business-as-usual went on for many (including me) while others were wondering just how "usual" their lives were going to continue to be. I'm not familiar with any of the literature on shock, but some levels or layers of protection are evident in the acts of just getting on with things, whatever those immediate things that consume us may be. At the same time, I'm aware it would also be counterproductive (at least to purposes of peace and justice) to mine the event for all its tragedy, as this would play into political efforts to cast the attack in symbolic terms that fuel nationalisms and other hatreds. Shock, by definition, puts one in a state of non-responsiveness; the challenge may be the degree to which that lack of response gets carried over or continued into the return to the mundane, especially after the state-of-shock has worn off. best, steph http://www.reflexivity.us On Jul 10, 2005, at 3:07 PM, air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Hello all--a colleague of mine asked me if I could help him with the > following question. I'm not an authority on the Frankfurt School or > its > theorization of shock but hope that some of you out there might be. > Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Ken > > > His problem/question is as follows: > > Much ink has been spilt over shock within Frankfurt School writings. A > concept clearly taken over from Simmel and Freud, shock runs to the > heart > of Benjamin's media theory. But have Benjamin and Adorno appropriated > the > term as face value without ever considering the implications of their > assertions? Adorno's thinking would seem to intimate that at some > future > date nothing will ever shock us anymore, for the body will have > developed > such a thick protective barrier that nothing harmful will ever get > through--an idea worth resisting in itself. > > Are there any sustained studies of the question of shock particularly > within the domain of media Are there any articles within media theory > that > address the matter of shock in a postmodern, digital world?

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Re: [Air-l] Invitation to review abstracts for IR7.0
by Fay Sudweeks 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi Yong-Chan Could you possibly do the IR7.0 reviews assigned to you ASAP? We need your reviews to make on decisions on most of those papers. Thanks Fay ----- Dr Fay Sudweeks School of Information Technology Murdoch University Murdoch WA 6150 Australia Tel: (08) 9360 2364 Fax: (08) 9360 2941 Web: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks Co-Chair CATaC conferences: www.catacconference.org Program Chair, IR7.0 Conference: http://conferences.aoir.org > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l- > bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Yong-Chan Kim > Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 5:50 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Invitation to review abstracts for IR7.0 > > Hi, I can review papers on the topics that I checked below. > Thanks, > > Yong-Chan > > Yong-Chan Kim, Ph.D > Assistant Professor > Department of Telecommunication and Film > College of Communication and Information Sciences > University of Alabama > Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 > Tel) 205-348-8652 Fax) 205-348-5162 > Web) http://bama.ua.edu/~ykim > > > [v ] Communities and Communication > [ ] Digital aesthetics > [ ] Economics and Commerce > [ ] Ethics, Law, Policy > [ ] Gaming > [v ] Globalization/Localization > [ ] Histories > [ ] Identities and Diversity > [ ] Informatics > [ ] Converging Technologies > [v ] Politics/(In)Equality > [ ] Research Methods, Metrics, Approaches > [v ] Social Uses and Consequences > [ ] Surveillance, Privacy, Security > [ ] Teaching/Learning/Education > [ ] Technologies and Infrastructures > [v ] Theories/Philosophies > [v ] Health and Welfare > > Thanks! > Fay > > ----- > Dr Fay Sudweeks > School of Information Technology > Murdoch University > Murdoch WA 6150 Australia > Tel: (08) 9360 2364 Fax: (08) 9360 2941 > Program Chair, IR7.0 Conference: http://conferences.aoir.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(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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network size and internet use
by Barry Wellman 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

In response to Greg Elmer's Q to the list: Yes, people with larger networks do use the internet more. We have only cross-sectional data. We don't know which way the causal arrow goes -- in fact, I suspect a positive feedback loop. larger nets > more internet use more internet use > larger nets See Jeffrey Boase, et al., "The Strength of Internet Ties" on the Pew Internet website. Jan 25 2006. See also Wellman & Hogan, et al., "Connected Lives: The Project" in Patrick Purcell's new book (Springer), _Networked Neighbourhoods)_. My website/publications has links to both of these pieces. 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 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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DOCAM '06 October 13-15, 2006 Call for proposals
by Niels Windfeld Lund 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

THE DOCUMENT ACADEMY INVITES: PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS AT DOCAM 06 October 13-15th, 2006 University of California, Berkeley School of Information South Hall, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. DOCAM 06 is the fourth Annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society. It is organized and co-sponsored by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, Norway and School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. We are delighted to announce that the key-note speaker this year will be Professor Geoffrey C. Bowker, Executive Director for the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. Professor Bowker will give his Keynote Address at the end of the conference and comment on the core questions and challenges for document research in the future. A preliminary program will be available online April 12 on the site of The Document Academy at http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ The conference will run from Friday October 13, 9am, and end Sunday October 15 at noon. Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document research and development are invited to submit proposals for full and short papers, ph.d.projectpresentations for plenary sessions or/and demonstrations and exhibits as soon as possible and not later than by May 19 2006 PLEASE OBSERVE : In order to keep the open ended discussion atmosphere of previous DOCAMs alive along with a growing number of participants, we have decided to have only plenary sessions and a relatively limited, but well selected number of presentations. For more details about submission: http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/06/DOCAM06CFP.html Looking forward to your proposal ! Niels Windfeld Lund, Chair of The Document Academy professor, Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, Norway Currently Visiting Professor, Academic year 2005-06, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 mailto:Niels.Windfeld.Lund@hum.uit.no OR mailto:nwlund@sims.berkeley.edu

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FW: _ From Counterculture to Cyberculture_ excerpts online
by Holly Kruse 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I was asked to forward this, and because it may be of interest to air-l subscribers, here it is... Holly Kruse holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Excerpts from Fred Turner's new cyberculture book From: "Dean Blobaum" <db(a)press.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, September 15, 2006 9:17 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear list moderator, The University of Chicago Press has just released Fred Turner's book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Turner explores the transformation of the cultural meaning of computer and network technology--from technologies of dehumanization and centralized bureaucracy to instruments of personal transformation and social revolution. Central to his story are a few influential San Francisco Bay-area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. We have two excerpts from Turner's book on our website. You can read the introduction and an excerpt about the Whole Earth Catalog and the emerging digital culture. Introduction: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415.html Chapter 4 excerpt: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415.html Fred suggested we contact you about these excerpts. I hope you will find them of interest and perhaps something you can post to the AIR-L list or other venues where they will find a readership. Thanks much. -------------------------------- Dean Blobaum The University of Chicago Press: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ Publicity blog: http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/ RSS feed of new book titles: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/rss/ Email notification of new titles: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/mailnotifier/

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CfP COST 298: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNEXPECTED. The user and the future of information and communication technologies. Moscow 23 - 25 May 2007
by Frank Thomas 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

- Apologies for eventual cross postings - The European network COST 298 Participation in the Broadband Society invites you to actively participate in our research conference in Moscow, 23-25 May 2007. The main objective of the conference is to create new knowledge about users’ creativity and facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge requires an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users’ abilities to shape and use ICTs. >From our perspective, the ‘broadband society’ refers to a possible, but not inevitable, substantial transformation of our experience of telecommunications based on these technologies allowing information and communication technologies to be used everywhere, all the time and by everybody. Given the widespread aspirations of Governments and companies to achieve this goal, the extent to which any such transformation has occurred needs, of course, to be evaluated in a balanced manner. Broadband technologies have resulted mainly from technological and institutional imperatives. To what extent have potential users managed to find ways in which such technologies can be useful, worthwhile and attractive? We certainly know from previous research this can require those users to be creative in terms of fitting ICTs into their activities or using them to find solutions to the everyday problems that they already encounter. But how much is being demanded of those users, what considerations have a bearing upon whether these technologies actually find a place in their lives and what new issues, of indeed problems, can these ICTs themselves create, especially if they really are ‘disruptive technologies’? Ultimately, we also need to acknowledge that users may well decide that their existing solutions suffice, in which case these new technological options may find only a modest place in their lives. Indeed, they may even be resisted or ignored. Whatever strategies users employ for assessing and dealing with such innovations, we need to learn more about these social processes, including strategies for dealing with the up and coming generation of new information and communication products and services. Only by so doing can we hope to empower them further in their relationships to technology and through this hope to increase the quality of their lives. In this conference, the organisers - COST Action 298 <http://coference.cost298.org> - invite technology and product developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics, to join our attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground. We ask participants to 1) strive to present their topic from a human-centric point of view as opposed to a technology-, product- or business-centric one, and to 2) present their topic in a language that attempts to transcend disciplinary boundaries, a language that non-experts can also understand, and to 3) not only report on their work, but also to engage in the conference debate which aims to develop ways to understand the interests of people and society, to evaluate developments against such an evolving understanding, and to chart interesting and desirable future directions. The emphasis of this event will be on networking and promoting a dialogue with colleagues from around Europe and the rest of the world. We look forward to seeing you in Moscow for a conference designed to be exciting, thought-provoking and challenging. *Dates:* Deadline for submission: *10 January* *2007 *Notification of acceptance : 28 February 2007 For further details please visit http://conference.cost298.org/ Cheers F. Thomas -- .......................................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (january 2007)
by David M Silver 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

folks, a new set of book reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] for january 2007: 1. From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy Author: Douglas Kellner Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003 Review 1: Robert Tynes 2. Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use Editors: Erik Bucy & John Newhagen Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004 Review 1: Cheryl Brown Editors response: Erik Bucy & John Newhagen 3. Media Debates: Great Issues for the Digital Age Editors: Everett E. Dennis & John C. Merrill Publisher: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006 Review 1: Tim Dwyer 4. No Safety in Numbers: How the Computer Quantified Everything and Made People Risk Aversive Author: Henry J. Perkinson Publisher: Hampton Press Inc, 1996 Review 1: Robert Whitbred coming very soon: Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect Christina Garsten & Helena Wulff, New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality Andreas Kitzmann, Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams Lev Manovich & Andreas Kratky, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database Bradley Quinn, Techno Fashion Richard Rogers, Information Politics on the Web T. L. Taylor, Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture Joseph Turow & Andrea Kavanaugh, The Wired Homestead: A Sourcebook on the Internet and the Family also coming very soon: a massive list of new and exciting books looking for reviewers. stay tuned. PEACE in 2007, enjoy. david silver university of san francisco http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/

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Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual
by Josep Vives 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Cross-post... ########################################### Apologies for cross-posting -------------------- ICFCA 2007 Workshop "Social Network Analysis and Conceptual Structures: Exploring Opportunities" -------------------- http://snafca.free.fr February 16, 2007 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The recent years have seen a renewed interest in an interdisciplinary effort aiming at analyzing social networks, in which both mathematical sociology and computer science play a notable role, relying altogether extensively on graph theory. This effort has mainly been fueled and supported by significant advances in computing capabilities and electronic data availability for several social systems: scientists, webloggers, online customers, computer-based collaboration-enhancing devices, inter alia. In particular, knowledge networks, i.e. interaction networks where agents produce or exchange knowledge, are the focus of many current studies, both qualitative and quantitative. Among these, community- detection issues such as finding agents sharing sets of identical patterns are a key topic. Social network analysis is proficient in methods aimed at discovering, describing, and plausibly organizing various kinds of social communities. The aim of this workshop is to investigate the opportunities for formal concept analysis in social networks by proposing possible bridges between these frameworks and by presenting issues of mathematical sociology which could benefit from conceptual structures, so as to eventually facilitate collaboration between the two fields. Therefore, we particularly welcome submissions of the survey type describing the state of the art in any of the fields listed below along with submissions specifying a concrete problem that still needs an efficient formal solution. Submissions may but do not have to address the possible use of formal concept analysis in these fields. TARGET AUDIENCE Social scientists using or willing to use formal techniques in any of the fields listed below; researchers in discrete structures and formal concept analysis interested in applications in social sciences. TOPICS Knowledge networks / epistemic networks Collective construction of knowledge, social cognition Social epistemology applied to social networks Social network analysis of communities of practice Information diffusion in social networks Affiliation networks Social network-based methods for community detection Web communities, open-source development communities Weblog analysis Social networking websites Collaboration-enhancing tools (in organizations, on the web, inter alia) Knowledge exchange devices Semantic web and social networks Knowledge management using social data Building semantics from collaborative environments Taxonomies and ontologies for scientific domains Network analysis for folksonomies Systems for folksonomy building Evolution of network structures ORGANIZERS Sergei Obiedkov (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - sergei.obj(a)gmail.com <//sergei%2Eobj(a)gmail.com/> Camille Roth (University of Modena, Italy & CREA/CNRS, France) - roth(a)shs.polytechnique.fr <//roth(a)shs.polytechnique.fr/> ################################################### Papers about similars topics in Online Congress of Observatory for Cybersociety ( www.cibersociedad.net) In Spanish: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2004/grups/grup.php?idioma=en&id=65 (deep Link) In various languages: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2006/gts/gt.php?perfilpagina=comunicaci… ------------------------------------------------------------------ Josep Vives Jounou Board Committee. Observatory for Cybersociety www.cibersociedad.net jvives(a)cibersociedad.net <//jvives(a)cibersociedad.net/> josep.vives(a)gmail.com <//josep%2Evives(a)gmail.com/> Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou jvives(a)cibersociedad.net josep.vives(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------

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unesco young scholars program
by Jeremy Hunsinger 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

(sorry for the u.s. bias, i'm reposting it from someone on my blogroll) UNESCO's Young Professionals Program (YPP) is extremely competitive. However, However, the United States is an "underrepresented state" in that we have fewer than our proportionate number of employees on the UNESCO staff (due largely to the fact that the United States had withdrawn from the organization for so many years). Each under- represented member state is allowed to submit twelve candidates for further consideration by UNESCO. U.S. candidate applications are reviewed by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. This year there were some outstanding candidates from the United States, and their applications have been forwarded to UNESCO with the endorsement of the National Commission and the Department of State. Alex Zemak, the Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission informs our editor that "Americans for UNESCO's representative Andre Varchaver contributed greatly to our Young Professional Review panel this year". http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php- URL_ID=11714&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Jeremy Hunsinger School of Library and Information Science Pratt Institute () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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JITP Referral Request
by Stuart Shulman 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

{Apologies for cross-postings} Based on the advice of the Senior Editorial Board, I am writing to ask for your input as I personally solicit submissions from scholars working in the areas relevant to the Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP). If there is someone you would like me to invite to prepare a manuscript for submission to JITP, please visit the referral page at the link just below. https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/jitp/db/ Based on your referral, I will write a personal e-mail invitation inviting the scholar to consider JITP as a publishing outlet. The message will also list the person (or persons) who made the referral and it will include attachments with the Call for Papers, Instructions for Authors, and our Referee Guidelines. The referral web page will have fields for the first and last name of the person you are recommending, as well as their e-mail address. It will also ask for your first and last names and e-mail address. It should take only a minute or less for each referral you send. Please send as many as you can! Reading v.100 n.4 of the APSR (the flagship journal of the American Political Science Association), I was struck by the fact that 100 years ago, the inaugural editor of that journal struggled to get the flow of good manuscripts started. Perhaps in the year 2106, longtime JITP readers will marvel at the fact that this journal went through similar early growing pains. With your help, I'm sure we can get the word out (and the manuscripts in) to make JITP a long term success. Many thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu University Center for Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net

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