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Re: [Air-l] First Monday conference
by Andrew Herman 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Steve- This looks great! But what is the "Chicago Manifesto on Openness"? Andrew P.S. Nice piece in the Cultural Studies issue on intellectual property. I think Kembrew and Ted did a magnificent jobb of putting together and keeping us on task. P.P.S. The Music that Moves piece still rocks the house. My students loved it in my fourth year seminar. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> sjones(a)uic.edu 03/29/06 12:34 PM >>> http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/ FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content Presented by First Monday Held at University of Illinois at Chicago May 15 - 17, 2006

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First Monday conference
by Steve Jones 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/ FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content Presented by First Monday Held at University of Illinois at Chicago May 15 - 17, 2006 FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content is convened by the volunteer- run journal First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.org) the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) University Library and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) located at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and now a United Nations University Research and Training Centre. The UIC Library has provided a home for First Monday, including its Web server, since 1998, and provides the venue, logistical and content support for this conference. MERIT hosted the first First Monday conference in Maastricht, November 2001, and provides support for the content of this conference. Confirmed speakers for the Conference include Brian Behlendorf, Paul David and Jimmy Wales. Conference program online at http:// numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/schedule.php

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talk/write
by andrea baker 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Nancy, thanks so much for your references to Naomi Baron's work and your own paper also. cheers, andrea

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EXTENSION OF THE SUBSCRIPTION DATES FOR FILE 2006 / PRORROGAÇÃO DO PRAZO DE INCRIÇÃO FILE 2006
by Jeremy Hunsinger 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

FILE NEWSLETTER/// ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MARCH 28TH 2006/// SAO PAULO/// BRAZIL/// 28 DE MARÇO DE 2006/// SÃO PAULO/// BRASIL/// FILE FESTIVAL 2006 Extended the entries dates for FILE 2006 until April 10th, 2006 FILE electronic Language International festival will happen in Sao Paulo City from August 14th to September 3rd. It is open for new proposal such as multimedia installations, performances Internet art works, Games and Symposium papers all related to the digital culture until April 10th, 2006. In the last six years, FILE has shown what's been happening in the global networks related to digital and electronic arts, becoming a reference for studies and research on new media. It has exhibited web art, net art, artificial life, hypertext, computer animation, real time teleconference, virtual reality, soft art, games, interactive movies, e-videos, digital panoramas and electronic art installations and robotics, through interactive and immersive rooms. FILE SYMPOSIUM has become a meeti ng point in the city of São Paulo, proposing discussions and tackling the electronic-digital culture in its relations to art, science and technologies. FILE HIPERSÔNICA, the festival's sonorous branch, is on it's 4th edition and intends to elaborate connections between the world of images, the world of sonorities and the world of texts. Sound installations and real time performances will be presented by a number of groups and collectives, comprising both erudite and pop electronic music, but also electronic compositions, sound poetry, radio art, video music and sonic landscapes, as well as Djs and VJs presenting their sets through specific apparatus and installations with experimental and immersive projections. Please take a look at http://www.file.org.br/file2006entries/eng/ index.html [+] FILE FESTIVAL 2006 Prorrogado o prazo das inscrições para o FILE 2006 até 10/04/2006 FILE festival internacional de linguagem eletrônica está recebendo inscrições de novas propostas para instalações multimídia, performances, trabalhos de arte para Internet, Jogos e Palestras para o FILE Symposium até o dia 10 de abril de 2006. Nos últimos seis anos o FILE tem mostrado o que vem acontecendo nas redes mundiais no que tange às artes digitais e eletrônicas constituindo referência de estudo e pesquisa para as novas mídias. Foram expostos trabalhos de webart, netart, vida artificial, hipertexto, animação computadorizada, tele-conferência em tempo real, realidade virtual, soft art, além de games, filmes interativos, e- videos, panoramas digitais e instalações de arte eletrônica e robótica, através de salas interativas e imersivas. O FILE SYMPOSIUM se tornou um ponto de encon tro na cidade de São Paulo, propondo discussões sobre a cultura-digital eletrônica em suas relações com a arte, as ciências e as tecnologias. O FILE HIPERSÔNICA, braço sonoro do festival, está em sua 4ª edição e propõe elaborar conexões entre o mundo das imagens, o mundo das sonoridades e o mundo das textualidades. São instalações sonoras e performances em tempo real de vários grupos e coletivos tanto de música eletrônica erudita, como de música pop eletrônica, além de composição eletrônica, poesia sonora, radio arte, vídeo música e paisagem sonora. Djs e Vjs também se apresentam através de aparelhagens específicas e instalações com projeções imersivas e experimentais. Para se inscrever acesse http://www.file.org.br [+] Click here to unsubscribe Caso não queira receber a newsletter clique aqui Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Co-Director, New Media Center Associate Professor, Multimedia Program and Department of Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 <http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html> <http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/>

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Habermas and the Internet
by David Brake 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

The full text of his speech in German in PDF form is apparently here: http://www.renner-institut.at/download/texte/habermas2006-03-09.pdf The translation that is circulating around the Internet of some of what he said about the Internet from signandsight is: "On the one hand, the communication shift from books and the printed press to the television and the Internet has brought about an unimagined broadening of the media sphere, and an unprecedented consolidation of communication networks. Intellectuals used to swim around in the public sphere like fish in water, but this environment has become ever more inclusive, while the exchange of ideas has become more intensive than ever. But on the other hand the intellectuals seem to be suffocating from the excess of this vitalising element, as if they were overdosing. The blessing seems to have become a curse. I see the reasons for that in the de- formalisation of the public sphere, and in the de-differentiation of the respective roles." Did you translate that other paragraph you quoted yourself, Jeremy Hunsinger? Or was there another page on signandsight I missed? It is excessively frustrating that his speech has not been translated to English in full yet, so please add my voice to the request that someone translate it and post it to the list (and preferably put the translation onto a web page somewhere we can all link to). P.S. Can anyone suggest how one should refer to a speech using Endnote? I have ended up treating Habermas' speech transcript as an "Electronic Source" resulting in this: Habermas, J. (2006) Ein Avantgardistischer Spürsinn Für Relevanzen Renner Institute Last accessed: 28 March, 2006 Last updated: 9 March, 2006 Address: http://www.renner-institut.at/download/texte/ habermas2006-03-09.pdf. But I'm sure there's a better way... --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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Wikipedia vs. Nature article update
by Ingbert Floyd 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

FYI, Britannica has responded to the Nature article, and it's pointed, relatively detailed/in-depth response: http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf Ingbert Floyd PhD Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign -- ========================================== Check out the unofficial GSLIS Wiki: http://www.gslis.org/ Tell me what you think, if you find it useful, or if you have any ideas for how to organize it better. And if you feel comfortable doing so, I heartily encourage you to contribute content! This GSLIS is the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

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citation on peer review?
by Denise N. Rall 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Dear AIR-ers - If anyone has a good citation on peer review, I would be very grateful to receive it. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, Ph.D. submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html

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Re: [Air-l] myspace and race
by Mary L. Gray 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

hey folks, to add to Danah's run down of myspace and noted lack of participation from rural kids in the U.S.: from the ethnographic work I did of rural youth (predominantly working poor to lower middle class white folks) using new media in the U.S. (primarily rural KY and its border states), young people in non-metro communities did not use computers at school for myspace or other community networking because <drum roll> as poor as their school districts might be, the 1 thing their schools (often county or regional aggregate schools here) did was invest in tracking and website blocking software. Students couldn't view anything online without their moves being registered and documented. Most of the money and technology came from the State level. In other words, this is what the State budgets would offer...that and abstinence only sex ed of course. so, rural public library branches were some of the most important places for youth access outside of the home (and home access was limited to a subset of white middle class kids where broadband delivery was a luxury and not a given regardless of the means to buy it). So, rural youth are still a predominantly dial-up crowd in the U.S. really enjoying the list discussions these days. best, mg ________________________ Mary L. Gray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Culture Affiliate Faculty Gender Studies Department and American Studies Program Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 ph. 812/855.4379 fx. 812/855.6014 email: mLg(a)indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral On Mar 28, 2006, at 2:24 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:22:18 -0800 > From: danah boyd <aoir.z3z(a)danah.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] myspace and race > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <C9E5772A-623D-4CD0-8109-FBFA6A6FF35F(a)danah.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Sorry - i should clarify - i don't mean that there isn't diversity in > users. MySpace has more traction with youth from diverse backgrounds > than any site on the web. In the schools that i'm tracking, there's > no racial differentiation in MySpace participation. That said, of > the kids who i've talked to who refuse to use the site, 100% are > white (most come from wealthy backgrounds too... a handful view it as > a political stance against Murdoch... but the number of intentional > non-participants is relatively small). Urban and suburban kids are > more likely to participate than rural kids, but that's the only > segmentation i've really seen. But when it comes to race and class, > this is not stopping participation. Working class kids are all on > there - they log in at school mostly. (Interestingly, the poorer > schools are less likely to have the blocking devices on their > technology so underprivileged kids can log in at school while rich > kids can't.) [All this said, i have no official numbers - only what > i see on a daily basis... PEW is working on getting some formal > numbers though.] > > The lack of diversity that i'm noting is within a given network (on > all levels). Users' friends tend to use the same language, > representation style, have the same music identification, and, on a > performance level, read as the same race. Homophily at work. This > probably says something significant about offline interracial > friendships. Take some of the schools that i'm following in Los > Angeles and Oakland. These schools are typically half Latino and > half black. If i look at the kids' profiles, the Latino kids all > link to each other and the black kids all link to each other but > there is very little interracial connections. > > I hope that helps clarify. > > As for the clunky interface... well, that's exactly why teens wanna > be there. It's their space, not adult space. And all the better > that adults can't figure it out. <grin> > > danah

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (april 2006)
by david silver 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

hello! an excellent new batch of RCCS book reviews ( http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp ) this month: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Reviewed by Mary Chayko, associate professor of Sociology at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ, and author of Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age. Author response by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, professor of Philosophy and president of the University of Haifa. Laura U. Marks, Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Reviewed by Ted Kafala, professor of communication and media at the University of Cincinnati's College of Applied Science. Author response by Laura Marks, associate professor and Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. enjoy. david silver http://silverinseattle.blogspot.com/ subscribe? unsubscribe? https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cyberculture-announce

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Re: [Air-l] internet in movies, list so far
by Sara M. Grimes 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

"Avalon" is another multipler online game-themed movie - it's a Japanese/Czech Republic production. "Tron" might also qualify. "Cry Wolf" featured instant messaging. What about "Ghost in the Shell" (1 and 2 - or are you avoiding animation?)? On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:49:06 -0600 air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Here are the movies people have recommended to me so far -- THANKS! A > few people have also recommended searching the Internet Movie > Database: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=internet but I am > thankful for specific recommendations of movies you have actually > seen or heard about. If you can think of films not on this list, > please keep sending them! > > Closer > > Code Hunter (2002) > > Disclosure (1994)- > > eXistenZ (1999) > > Fear dot com. > > Firewall. > > Hackers (1995) > > Johnny Mnemonic (1995) > > Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) > > Lawnmower Man (1992) > > Matrix (1999) > > Matrix Reloaded (2003) > > Minority Report (2002) > > Mission Impossible. > > Must Love Dogs (2005) > > NetForce (1999) > . > Perfect Man (2005) > > "Pulse" > > Sandor/Ida (Swedish movie) > > Sneakers (1992) > > Something's Gotta Give. > > Swordfish (2001) > > Technolust > > Terminator 3! : Rise of the Machines (2003) > > The Net > > Thomas is love. > > Virtuosity (1995) > > War Games (1983) > > You've Got Mail > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > Sara M. Grimes PhD Candidate/School of Communication Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab Simon Fraser University

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