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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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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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Disseminating Research Results
by Ingbert Floyd 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

It seems we're not getting the word out about our research enough: Dvorak, John C. Academics: Get to Work! We need sociological studies about the Net and computers. February 21, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/k7vw6 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1928970,00.asp Intro: "Universities have got to focus their attention on computers and the Internet. There are far too many understudied phenomena bubbling on the Net, and it's time for academia to wake up. Valuable time is being wasted." 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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AOIR on AUT
by Derek McMillan 26 May '06

26 May '06

LOL. I am amused by the idea that supporting AUT would be political but opposing them is OK because it is non-political. This is doubleplusungood doublethink isn't it. FWIW I support AUT.There is an advert on British TV to encourage people to vote It says "If you don't do politics, you don't do anything." and suggests that if you are interested in the world around you then you are de facto interested in politics. I favour a boycott of Israel, not because of its effect of otherwise on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians but because we do not have to be accomplices in that brutal oppression and a boycott is a non-violent civilised way to express that. You have only to listen to the intemperate language with which the Israeli right has responded - rejecting AUT as irrelevant and in the same breath denouncing them as terrorists - to see that it is having an effect. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti
by M.B.Gaved 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi Sigal sounds interesting. Like Cameron, I'd ask about what definition you have for "online graffitti" - online archives of physical real-world graffitti one of my favourites is Banksy's own site: http://www.banksy.co.uk/ - online spaces which are set up for free expression (wow, this is so broad it could mean *anything*! perhaps, an online environment with a graphic tool set? anybody fancy trying to define this category?) - defacement of existing online content? years ago attrition kept an archive of hacked websites http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/ I am not sure who might be keeping current lists? good luck, let us know how you get on! Mark The Open University http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of M. Cameron Jones Sent: Wed 4/19/2006 11:44 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti Hi Sigal - On 4/19/06, Sigal <sigalz(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > This is my first post here, and I would like to have any idea about "online > graffiti" as a communication method. Are you asking about where you can find/see/study online graffiti? Or about existing research about it? Some examples of the former http://www.drawball.com/ http://worm.bluesfear.com/index2.html As for the latter -- I remember a CHI poster or paper a few years ago about it... found it. Carter, S., Churchill, E., Denoue, L., Helfman, J., Nelson, J. (2004). Digital graffiti: public annotation of multimedia content. CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Vienna, Austria. pp 1207 - 1210. - Cameron Jones _______________________________________________ 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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E-Gov Track @ HICSS40: 2nd CfP
by Jochen Scholl 15 May '06

15 May '06

Apologies for unintended double-postings-- CALL FOR PAPERS E-GOVERNMENT TRACK at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 40) ( http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ ) Over the past several years, the emergent study domain of electronic Government (e-Government, e-Gov) research (EGR), also referred to as digital government, has produced a rapidly increasing number of academic and practitioner contributions at HICSS and other leading conferences and journals around the world; for a short history of e-Government at HICSS, please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/Resume/HICSS_SH_EGOV.html . At HICSS40, this growing stream of research is represented through eight minitracks within the e-Government Track ( http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/ ) * E-Democracy * E-Government Emerging Topics * E-Government Information and Knowledge Management * E-Government Information Security * E-Government Infrastructure and Interoperability * E-Government Organization and Management * E-Government Services and Information * E-Policy, Law, and Governance HICSS40 also features a Symposium of the Global Electronic Government Research and Practice Community (January 3, 2007- first day of HICSS40) ( http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsymposium?sub=egovsymposium ) Please find the detail minitrack calls under the specified URLs: E-Democracy, co-chairs: S. Beaumaster (lead), A. Macintosh, & E. Welch http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/edemocracy?sub=edemocracy E-Gov Emerging Topics, co-chairs: T. Pardo (lead), J. Millard, & J. Scholl http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovresearch?sub=egovresearch E-Gov Information and Knowledge Management, co-chairs: Maria Wimmer (lead), Nichael Goul, & Jing Zhang E-Gov Information Security, co-chairs: G. White (lead) & S. Jones http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsecurity?sub=egovsecurity E-Gov Infrastructure and Interoperability, co-chairs: M. Janssen (lead), R. Klischewski, & H. Demirkan http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovinfra?sub=egovinfra E-Gov Organization & Management, co-chairs: S. Dawes (lead), C. Leitner, & T. Horan http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmgmt?sub=egovmgmt E-Gov Services & Information, co-chairs: A. Cresswell (lead), K. Eschenfelder, & K. Andersen http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsvcs?sub=egovsvcs E-Palicy, Law, and Governance, co-chairs: R. Krimmer (lead), K. Schildt, & P. Walden http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/epolicy?sub=epolicy IMPORTANT DEADLINES AND INFORMATION Abstracts Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15, 2006 Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15, 2006 Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15, 2006 Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee applies. September 16, 2006 General Registration fee applies until December 15. October 15, 2006 Cancellation penalties apply after this date. After cancellation of registration, papers will not be included in the Proceedings. December 1, 2006 Hotel rates are not guaranteed after this date. December 15, 2006 On site registration fee applies after this date. No refunds after this date. Hans J (Jochen) Scholl HICSS40 Electronic Government Track The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370C Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Tel: 1-206-616-2543 Fax: 1-206-616-3152 jscholl(a)u.washington.edu

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CFP: Trials & Tribulations - Negotiating Research Methods in Cyberspace
by kelly boudreau 10 May '06

10 May '06

*Concordia University; Montréal, QC November 10 - 11, 2006* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technological innovations such as the Internet, cell phones, MP3 players and video game consoles have changed the ways in which people work, play, interact, communicate and define who they are. As use of these technologies increases, so have the methodological opportunities for researchers who study the ways in which people, both children and adults, use and experience digital culture. Academic interest surrounding these emerging technologies varies as widely as the disciplines themselves. This poses a variety of challenges in researching digital culture given that every discipline employs unique methodologies specific to their field of study. As this type of research is still emerging, opportunities for the development of original and innovative ways of capturing on-line experiences continue to arise. This makes it particularly important for scholars across a variety of disciplines to come together to share the ways in which they have pushed the limits of traditional methods and overcome the challenges of research surrounding digital culture. We aim to invite those who have an interest in and experience with conducting research online, not only as a tool but as space of inquiry. We hope to attract a range of scholars, from students who are beginning their research to seasoned academics who can share their experiences working with digital methods. The goal of this symposium is to encourage informal discussion, therefore participation will be limited. For this, we invite papers that focus on but not limited to: * Ethical Issues * Researching video game console culture * Fieldwork Boundaries & Possibilities * From online & offline and back again: the question of merging identity * Post-Virtual Research: Situating the virtual as a space of inquiry after the real/virtual debate * Ethnography in cyberspace * The future of qualitative research online *SUBMISSION INFORMATION: * 300-500 word abstract, excluding references Deadline for Submissions: July 1st, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2006 Please send a copy of your abstract to *both* Shanly Dixon, Humanitites (dixons(a)alcor.concordia.ca) & Kelly Boudreau, Sociology & Anthropology ( kelly(a)gamecode.ca)

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Internet adoption rates by country and age: data sources?
by catherine middleton 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hello all, I'm looking for internet adoption rates on a national basis, breaking out adoption patterns by age. Any suggestions as to where to find these data would be most appreciated. I don't have a specific list of countries I'm interested in, at this point I'm just trying to see what is available. I am aware of the OECD and ITU internet adoption data, but as far as I know neither provides a breakdown by age of adopter. For anyone interested in this in the Canadian context, these data are found in the Household Internet Use survey, conducted by Statistics Canada from 1997-2003. It tracks household adoption only, so the age data refers to the age of the head of household rather than to individual adopters. Thanks for your help. catherine middleton cmiddlet(a)ryerson.ca

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Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti
by M.B.Gaved 08 May '06

08 May '06

I think you make some good points Jean I'd agree there feels to be a difference between a response to an existing text, and a declaration on a 'blank canvas' (reactive vs proactive?). The latter could describe scribbles on a designed graffitti space (sounds like we have examples of these existing online), or the appropriation of a currently empty space (including, I suppose, the creation of a new wiki article). The former might take the form of complete deletion of the original web text and replacement of ones own - like hacked websites of government bodies taken over to make a political message (maybe replacing a US military homepage with a text against the war in Iraq), or complete deletion of a wiki article and replacement with one's one text on the subject. However these leave no reference to the original text. Maybe to continue the metaphor of graffitti rather than complete appropriation, 'graffitti' requires that the original text or images are still visible and the additional contributions interact with the existing content? Perhaps the addition of further text in a different font and colour, or the editing of images in photoshop to provide an extra layer. Mark Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Jean Burgess Sent: Sun 4/23/2006 12:56 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti I think the case for the abuse of wikipedia working like graffiti only works if the metaphor is refined a bit - it's more like someone coming along to a community street mural and deliberately painting something out of step with the aesthetic and political values that have been implicitly or explicitly agreed on by the 'community' that is working on the mural. A bit different from walking up to the blank rendered wall of, say, a McDonald's and writing "ronald sucks" on it. In one case (the mural), the wall is constructed as open and 'writable' and in the second case (mcdonald's) it isn't, because of very clear binary distinctions between who owns the wall and therefore gets to paint it, and who doesn't. All of which makes wikipedia a far more interesting case, IMHO. cheers Jean Jean Burgess http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=196 ISSN: 1367-8779 Creative Industries Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3864 5603 Mobile: +61 401 733 755

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