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deceased on the ether
by Barry Wellman 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I may have said this before, hence will be brief. Another e-role re the deceased: I have been the Email Executor of the late great sf author, Judy Merril. Sacrilege to do an auto-respond, so I used her account (fortunately, I had the password) to respond to all messages to her personally for several months. My last act of friendship and homage to a great person. 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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ISCRAM program (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Here's a conference devoted to ICTs in emergency situations. Quite germane, with the Katrina experience. Murray Turoff's note is below. Contact him at NJIT Info Sci for more info about this conference. Historical note: One of the first "computerized conferencing" systems, EIES, was developed by Murray Turoff when he worked for US Civil Defense (now FEMA) in the early 1970s. 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 _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 01:44:56 -0400 From: Murray Turoff <murray.turoff(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: turoff(a)njit.edu To: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: ISCRAM program Barry We have accepted 60 very excellent papers for ISCRAM and they cover a wide variety of multidisciplinary topics. I encourage you to brows the program list of papers at http://www.iscram.org/doc/ISCRAM2006Program.pdf We also have three top notch keynoters and a panel on the Katrina Experience. The papers and half the current 130 registrations are form outside the United States. Papers on such topics as Information Systems or Communication system requirements, early warning systems, new satellite applications, personal area networks/sensors for first responders, visualization of complex data, interagency communications, command and control, etc. I am sure you would enjoy the meeting, but even if you cannot make it I would appreciate you forwarding this to others you might know who might be interested. I suspect we will hit 250 attendees and have to stop registration around that point. We have allowed a half hour for each paper to facilitate questions and discussion. We also have exhibit tables and other sponsorship options. If you would like a one page flyer which more fully describes the speakers let me know. http://is.njit.edu/turoff

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Myspace Profiles of the Deceased
by Ross Wolinsky 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hello All- My name is Ross Wolinsky. I'm a freelance writer currently working on an article that deals with grieving in the digital age. It focuses on the ways that new technology is being used (particularly by young people), the consequences of making the grieving process public (on public web pages), and what the phenomenon says about the growing role the internet plays in our lives. I've already talked to Lee Rainie on the subject. He referred me over to Steve Jones, who then advised me to post details about the project here. I'm looking to talk to anyone who might have an interest and/or some unique insights into the meaning of this phenomenon. Below is a portion of a query letter that goes into a bit more detail. If anyone has any interest, feel free to contact me via email at ross.wolinsky (at) gmail dot com. Thanks, Ross Wolinsky ----------------------------- Last weekend in Seattle a man named Kyle Huff left a party he was attending, came back with a shotgun, and opened fire. He killed six people before turning the gun on himself. Of the six people he killed, at least four of them have MySpace profiles. Now, a few days after the murders, their profiles have become digital monuments to the people they were. More comments are being posted by friends on these profiles in death than when they were alive. It's not unique to this incident, either. Teenagers are using MySpace as a way to work through their grief, and it's being done on public web pages. The flipside is that websites are now popping up dedicated to linking to the profiles of the recently deceased. It is a strange phenomenon, and one that's never been dealt with before. It never needed to be. I'm currently conducting research looking deeper into this phenomenon in the hopes of figuring out what exactly this says about the new ways that young people are using technology. I've already been in touch with several friends of the deceased in Seattle, a PR person from Friendster (responses pending from Myspace and Facebook), and a founding Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. I've also been talking to the webmaster at www.mydeathspace.com, an increasingly popular website that collects links to these profiles. The site started as a small livejournal community. He says he's now getting 50,000 hits a day. The article will focus on how online grieving is symptomatic of larger trends in internet usage, and also on the voyeuristic aspects of conducting what was once private on public web pages.

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Myspace profiles of the deceased
by Trish Bolton 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi Ross, you might find Kellner's 'Media Spectacle', Guy Debord's 'Society of the Spectacle' and Simon Cooper's piece 'The Democratising of Compassion' in Arena Magazine, No 75, Feb- March worthwhile. While more dealing with traditional media they should provide interesting background and context for your article. Cheers Trish Bolton

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Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World - Conference - June 29 - July 1 2006
by Steven Clift 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

This should be a great conference for Internet researchers interested in online citizen media as well as e-politics. - Steven Clift Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World Summit aims to unite media, political, education, technology sectors in charting the future of journalism June 29 - July 1, 2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst For the full details on the conference, see: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire If you register for "Tracks 1-5" I've worked out a $50 dollar discount. For "Tracks 2-5" the discount is $25. Simply put "DOWIRE" in the bottom "Optional Information" comment box. This conference is uniquely positioned to convene those engaged in politics and citizen engagement online with a larger gathering of new media and journalism leaders. Register from here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire Quick Details Hundreds of traditional and citizen journalists, political strategists, educators, bloggers, developers, technology and media researchers will convene June 29-July 1, 2006 at University of Massachusetts Amherst for the first Media Giraffe Project conference. The Media Giraffe Project, a non-partisan, interdisciplinary research effort of the UMass journalism program, is hosting the roundtable summit and how-to sessions designed to: * Consider and recommend answers to changes to the financing and practice of journalism * Bridge the gap between new and traditional media * Show and consider the impact of new media technologies on journalism and the "public sphere" * Spotlight emerging business models * Create new networks of media innovators which bridge traditional carriers among journalism, education, politics and technology * Watch and share innovations in media-literacy education. Who Should Attend The conference is designed for: * traditional media strategists, editors and practitioners * elected officials, political and public-policy strategists info-tech pioneers and entrepreneurs * operators of local-news websites and blogs podcasters and vloggers dealing with news, political and public- policy issues. * academic researchers and students * citizens who want "how-to" knowledge about participatory media anyone interested in new innovations in web, print, film and audio news creation, delivery and financing. Read the full announcement here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire Sincerely, Steven Clift Democracies Online http://www.dowire.org <- Visit the new blog/wiki/groups site. P.S. With my new DoWire Groups site, I am considering a new "Citizen Media" online group (e-mail list/web forum combo). Let me know if you are interested: clift(a)publicus.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steven Clift - clift(a)publicus.net Web: http://publicus.net Blog: http://dowire.org/notes NGO: http://e-democracy.org Replies to slc@ may be missed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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New I/S Journal - Journal of Law/Policy
by Richard Forno 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Greetings -- The current topic is (for me, anyway) quite interesting and directly relevant to my research, so I'm passing it along to my fellow AOIR's. Happy Friday, all. -rick "Federal Secrecy After September 11 and the Future of the Information Society, " http://is-journal.org/articles.php?level=1 I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society is an interdisciplinary journal of research and commentary concentrating on the intersection of law, policy, and information technology. I/S represents a one-of-a-kind partnership between one of America's leading law schools, the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, and the nation's foremost public policy school focused on information technology, Carnegie Mellon University's H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. The official citation format for I/S is: __ ISJLP __ (20YY).

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Re: [Air-l] Intro courses syllabi and texts
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

This is a good introductory textbook. Thurlow, C., Lengel, L. & Tomic, A. (2004). Computer-mediated communication: Social interaction and the Internet. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. My own syllabi on CMC courses I've taught are here http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/cmc590.html I'll be doing another course in the fall -- graduate level -- so you can look for an updated syllabus building there by August. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:19:50 -0700 >From: Irina Gendelman <irinag(a)u.washington.edu> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Intro courses syllabi and texts >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Hi Stephanie, > >check out David Silver's Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies >http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/courselist.asp > >Irina > >On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:44 AM, stuszyn(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu wrote: > >> Hello everyone. >> >> I'm trying to prepare a syllabus for a basic Introduction to >> Computer Mediated Communication course. >> I was wondering if anyone had any syllabi they would be willing to >> share to provide some >> inspiration. Also, I'd appreciate textbook recommendations if >> anyone's found a particulaly good >> intro book. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Stephanie Tuszynski >> >> ----- >> "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no >> survival value. Rather, it is one >> of the things that give value to survival." --C.S. Lewis. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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unesco report:Measuring and monitoring the information and knowledge societies: a statistical challenge
by Jeremy Hunsinger 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

there are some interesting maps and other representations of the information society in this report Measuring and monitoring the information and knowledge societies: a statistical challenge Author(s) Diane Stukel, Subramaniyam Venkatraman, Lydia Deloumeaux, Patrick Lucas, Melanie Smuga http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php- URL_ID=12851&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Editor(s) UNESCO Institute for Statistics Publication Date 2003 Publisher UNESCO Publication Location Montreal jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal

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Laptop studies
by adelina moura 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hello all, I'm a portuguese teacher and I prepare my PhD thesis in Mobile Technologies, if anyone know some studies about it tell me please. In this moment I begin a pilot study about 1:1 laptop, I need to know some researchs in this field too. Thanks for your time. Best regards -- Adelina Moura "Nosce te ipsum" Research area: mLearning Tecnologias móveis www.adelinamouravitae.com.sapo.pt http://linade.podomatic.com http://www.iep.uminho.pt/encontro.webquest

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Re: [Air-l] Laptop studies
by adelina moura 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Ok Mark, I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. I wait it. Regards. On 4/6/06, Mark Warschauer <markw(a)uci.edu> wrote: > > I have a book coming out in a few months > (Teachers College Press) entitled Laptops and > Literacy, based on two years study of 1:1 > programs in K-12 schools, and a few other > articles on the topic which I need to get updated > on my Website, but haven't yet done so. I'll > email you directly, Adelina, with a couple of > articles. > Mark > > At 12:00 AM +0100 4/6/06, adelina moura wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I'm a portuguese teacher and I prepare my PhD thesis in Mobile > Technologies, > >if anyone know some studies about it tell me please. > >In this moment I begin a pilot study about 1:1 laptop, I need to know > some > >researchs in this field too. > > > >Thanks for your time. > > > >Best regards > > > >-- > >Adelina Moura > >"Nosce te ipsum" > >Research area: mLearning > >Tecnologias móveis > >www.adelinamouravitae.com.sapo.pt > >http://linade.podomatic.com > >http://www.iep.uminho.pt/encontro.webquest > >_______________________________________________ > >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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Adelina Moura "Nosce te ipsum" Research area: mLearning Tecnologias móveis www.adelinamouravitae.com.sapo.pt http://linade.podomatic.com http://www.iep.uminho.pt/encontro.webquest

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