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VKS Lecture: Embodying Information
by Anne Beaulieu 12 May '06

12 May '06

Lecture: Embodying Information by Philip Thurtle Monday 12 June 2006, 16.00, IISG, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam. The Virtual Knowlegde Studio (VKS-KNAW) is pleased to announce that Philip Thurtle will deliver a lecture entitled Embodying Information 1900/2000: Information Processing and Genetic Knowledge at the Turn of Two Centuries. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Philip Thurtle is Assistant Professor of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Comparative History of ideas Program at the University of Washington, and holds a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Stanford University. More information about this event is available at https://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl:10031/en/lectures/ -- The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS-KNAW) T +31 20 850-0270 F +31 20 850-0271 Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl

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Journal Issue: AJETS Issue 6 out now
by Matthew Allen 12 May '06

12 May '06

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIETY Sixth issue out now. Available at www.swin.edu.au/ajets In this issue: Finding Love Online: The Nature and Frequency of Australian Adults' Internet Relationships Elizabeth Hardie and Simone Buzwell An Overview of Assisted Reproduction in Australia and Directions for Social Research Karen Bell Active Fathers, Natural Families and Children's Origins: Dominant Themes in the Australian Political Debate Over Eligibility for Assisted Reproductive Technology Deborah Dempsey Gene Technology and its CitizenSubjects Rosemary Robins Book Reviews M. Fuller, Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture, Reviewed by M. Finn. L. Leung, Virtual Ethnicity: Race, Resistance and the World Wide Web, Reviewed by K. Farquharson. --- The seventh issue will be entitled Internet Convergences and will be coedited by Matthew Allen, Axel Bruns and Fay Sudweeks. This special issue, based on selected papers to be presented at the 7th Association of Internet Researchers conference (Brisbane, September 2006), will explore the 'convergence' of network media technologies. By exemplifying how contemporary scholars are using the notion of convergence to examine the still emerging technologies of the Internet within society, the issue will consider how convergence is a concept for thinking differently about media technologies. This edition will be available online early October, 2006. --- If readers have ideas for special editions on other themes, please let us know. For more information about AJETS email: ajets(a)swin.edu.au or visit our web site at www.swin.edu.au/ajets

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Web-based research collaboratories and software?
by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dr. 11 May '06

11 May '06

Greetings, I wonder if anyone has used web-based research collaboratories and web-based collaborative research analysis software (e.g., something like Nudist or Qualrus online for multiple, geographically dispersed, researchers to use) and could direct me to relevant sites and perhaps share experiences. Thanks much, Doreen ****************************************************** Doreen Starke-Meyerring Associate Director, Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication Department of Integrated Studies in Education McGill University Montreal, Canada ******************************************************

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Humanities/Social Science Computing Symposium, May 30th, York University (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 11 May '06

11 May '06

fyi 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: Thu, 11 May 2006 19:42:01 -0400 From: John Bonnett <jbonnett(a)brocku.ca> To: jbonnett(a)brocku.ca Subject: Humanities/Social Science Computing Symposium, May 30th, York University Symposium Announcement: The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Social Sciences and the Humanities http://www.brocku.ca/computingsymposium The computer is offering important new possibilities for scholars. Heightened processing power, new categories of software, and, indeed, novel conceptions of computing are offering scholars opportunities to analyze, express and instruct in ways unimaginable even in the early 1990s. Some human science researchers know this. We believe more should. For this reason, the Canadian Committee for History and Computing and the Society for Digital Humanities are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of the symposium The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The purpose of the symposium will be to introduce scholars to a wide array of new technologies and approaches, with non-technical papers on topics ranging from the use of virtual reality to construct model sites in ancient Rome to the use of simulations to plan for pandemics and the use of software to model the impact that emotion plays in individual and group decision making. The symposium will be convened 8:30 a.m. on May 30th, 2006 at York University during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The symposium is open to all Congress delegates, and there is no charge to attend. The day-long proceedings will take place at Vanier College, Room 135, with an evening reception to follow at Founders College Assembly Hall. To attend, you must register through the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. When registering, the Congress requires you to do two things: * Register as a Delegate for the Congress (Fee: $150.00) * Register for the conference or conferences that you wish to attend at the Congress. To attend the symposium, you will need to select Society 910 (No Fee). If you HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED for the Congress, you can sign-up for both the Congress and the Symposium at the Congress website: https://media6.magma.ca/www.fedcan.ca/congress2006form/ IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED, you CANNOT amend your registration on the Congress website. Instead, you will need to complete the registration form and fax it to the Congress. To access the form, go here: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2006/registration/delegates.htm At the top of the page, you will have two options: * One will be to download the registration guide. * The second will be to download the registration form. Select this one. Once you have the form, you will need to: * Indicate that you have already registered. * Indicate that you are amending your registration to include Society 910. There is no registration fee to attend this symposium. * Fax the form to (613) 236-4853 For further information, please contact John Bonnett at: jbonnett(a)brocku.ca

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FW: 2006 OLT Conference: Call for abstracts
by Axel Bruns 11 May '06

11 May '06

Dear AoIRers, some of you might be interested in participating in this conference as a useful warm-up before AoIR 2006 - it takes place in Brisbane the day before the AoIR conference workshop day... You are cordially invited to participate in the: QUT Online Learning & Teaching Conference 2006 "Learning On The Move" Tuesday 26 September 2006 Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Learning is definitely on the move in a plurality of locations and via a plurality of technological devices. The challenge for educators is to identify how we can use the mobility provided by new technologies and devices, to enhance learning and provide a quality, active, engaged and connected educational experience for students. The OLT 2006 Conference - Learning on the Move - invites participants to provide perspectives on this challenge in line with one of the following sub themes: * Active learning and mobile devices * Learning innovations * Extreme learning * Learning systems * Learning design in mobile environments * Building collaborations amongst learners Abstracts are due by 31 May 2006 and should be uploaded to the submission information site on the OLT Conference website: https://olt.qut.edu.au/udf/olt2006/ Queries can be directed to: Allison Brown Conference Chair Associate Director - Teaching and Learning Support Services - Learning and Teaching Resources -- Dr Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia Creative Industries Faculty Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548 Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No.: 00213J

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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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Fwd: [governance] Workshop on Information Security
by Jeremy Hunsinger 10 May '06

10 May '06

From: Milton Mueller <mueller(a)syr.edu> Date: May 10, 2006 10:16:19 AM EDT To: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org Subject: [governance] Workshop on Information Security Reply-To: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org, Milton Mueller <mueller(a)syr.edu> The Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure http://wesii.econinfosec.org/ October 23-24, 2006 Washington, DC SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Our information infrastructure suffers from decades-old vulnerabilities, from the low-level algorithms that select communications routes to the application-level services on which we are becoming increasingly dependent. Are we investing enough to protect our infrastructure? How can we best overcome the inevitable bootstrapping problems that impede efforts to add security to this infrastructure? Who stands to benefit and who stands to lose as security features are integrated into these basic services? How can technology investment decisions best be presented to policymakers? We invite infrastructure providers, developers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, security engineers, and especially policymakers to help address these and other related questions. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work to government and corporate policymakers. We encourage collaborative research from authors in multiple fields and multiple institutions. Submissions Due: August 6, 2006 (11:59PM PST) ======================================================================== Suggested topics (not intended to be comprehensive) ======================================================================== The economics of deploying security into: The Domain Name System (DNS) BGP & routing infrastructure Email & spam prevention Programming languages Legacy code bases User interfaces Operating systems Code origin authentication Measuring the cost of adding security Liability and legal issues Models of deployment penetration Measuring/estimating damages Empirical studies of deployment Establishing roots of trust Identity management infrastructure Internet politics Securing open source code libraries Antitrust Issues Adding security to/over existing APIs Privacy Issues Data archival & warehousing infrastructure ======================================================================== Program Committee ======================================================================== Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management Ross Anderson University of Cambridge Jean Camp Indiana University Huseyin Cavusoglu Tulane University Richard Clayton University of Cambridge Steve Crocker Shinkuro / DNSSEC Deployment Working Group Ben Edelman Harvard University Department of Economics Allan Friedman Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Adam M. Golodner Cisco Systems Larry Gordon University of Maryland Smith School of Business Yacov Haimes University of Virginia Cathy Handley U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration Barry Horowitz University of Virginia Richard Hovey U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Jeff Hunker Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management M. Eric Johnson The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College Jeffrey M. Kopchik U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Technology Supervision Branch Steve Lipner Microsoft Marty Loeb University of Maryland Smith School of Business Doug Maughan U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Doug Montgomery U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology Internetworking Technologies Group Milton Mueller Syracuse University School of Information Studies Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Andy Ozment MIT Lincoln Laboratory / University of Cambridge Shari Lawrence Pfleeger RAND Corporation Stuart Schechter MIT Lincoln Laboratory Bruce Schneier Counterpane Internet Security Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management Andrew Wyckoff Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Bill Yurcik National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) ======================================================================== Workshop Sponsors ======================================================================== The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) ======================================================================== Paper Formats and Submission Instructions ======================================================================== See the workshop web site at: http://wesii.econinfosec.org/ _______________________________________________ WESII-committee mailing list WESII-committee(a)econinfosec.org http://econinfosec.org/mailman/listinfo/wesii-committee_econinfosec.org ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: governance-unsubscribe(a)lists.cpsr.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

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M/C Journal 'collaborate' Issue Now Available
by Axel Bruns 09 May '06

09 May '06

G'day ! Forwarding this FYI: > -----Original Message----- > From: M/C - Media and Culture [mailto:mc@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2006 15:24 > To: mc(a)media-culture.org.au > Subject: M/C Journal 'collaborate' Issue Now Available FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 May 2006 M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue two in volume nine of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 'collaborate' - Edited by Donna Lee Brien & Axel Bruns Collaboration is a highly desirable and, increasingly, often a mandated element in many modes of Australian (and international) research, creative and business practice - and a factor on which successful and innovative outcomes, as well as funding, often depend. In many cases, however, participants in collaborative projects have a limited understanding of collaboration (in theory and practice) beyond that of a general concept, tossed about with nods of approval but rarely unpacked. In other fields of DIY content production, from open source software development to the large- scale distributed collaboration on projects such as the Wikipedia, collaboration often happens perhaps even more intuitively, but nonetheless produces results which can usually stand up to serious professional scrutiny. So how, and why, do we collaborate? This issue of M/C Journal features case study articles from the point of view of practitioners and researchers, innovative research about collaborative practice, examinations of authorship credits and copyright issues in collaborative work, including collaborative interventions like the creative commons, and wider insights into the apparent human need for interaction, collaboration, and what World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners- Lee has called 'intercreativity'. Feature Article "Copyright in a Collaborative Age" - Suw Charman and Michael Holloway There has never been a better time to collaborate. The Internet is providing us with ways to work together that were unimaginable even just a decade ago, and high broadband penetration means that exchanging large However, copyright law has, in general, failed to keep up with the amazing progress shown by technology and human ingenuity. It is time that the lawmakers learnt how to collaborate with the collaborators in order to bring copyright up to date. Articles "Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work" - Mark Elliott "Students 'at Risk': Dilemmas of Collaboration" - Nahid Kabir and Mark Balnaves "Riding Waves of Resonance: Morphogenic Fields and Collaborative Research with Australian Travelling Communities" - Geoff Danaher, Beverley Moriarty and P.A. Danaher "The Impossibility of Collaborating with Kathy, 'The Stupid Bitch'" - Sheryl Brahnam "The Wicked Problem of Collaboration" - Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister "Reflections on Practicing Student-Staff Collaboration in Academic Research: A Transformative Strategy for Change?" - Maud Perrier "A Cappella and Diva: A Collaborative Process for Individual Academic Writing" - Wendy Beck, Kerry Dunne, Josie Fisher, Jane O'Sullivan and Alison Sheridan "Would We, Could We, Did We Collaborate? Mutuality and Respect" - Belinda R. Tynan = Dawn L. Garbett "Metacognition through Group Practice in the New Media Classroom" - Chris Leslie "Creative Communities after Television: The Collective Authorship of Channel 101" - Elliot Panek "Off World Sounds: Building a Collaborative Soundscape" - Tara Brabazon and Stephen Mallinder "Posthuman Collaboration: Multimedia, Improvisation, and Computer Mediation" - Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean "The Convergence Potentials Of Collaboration & Adaptation: A Case Study In Progress" - Patrick West "Interruption/Interaction/Collaboration: A Critical Appraisal of the Textual @traction Interactive Event" - Ieuan Morris =========================================================================== Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006: 'street': article deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June 2006 'free': article deadline 26 June 2006, release date 23 August 2006 'filth': article deadline 21 August 2006, release date 18 October 2006 'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006, release date 13 December 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal 9.2 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit all three M/C publications at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All contributors are available for media contacts: mc(a)media-culture.org.au. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end -- Dr Axel Bruns, General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia Creative Industries Faculty Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548 Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Fwd: Registration for IFIP-TC9 HCC-7
by Jeremy Hunsinger 09 May '06

09 May '06

> > International Federation for Information Processing > IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between Computers and Society" > > Seventh International Conference Human Choice and Computers (HCC7) > An International Conference in remembrance of Rob Kling > > Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? > > Maribor (Slovenia) > September 21-23, 2006 > > Venue: HCC7 moves to Maribor (Slovenia) > > A decision to organise the HCC7 Conference in Nova Gorica was made > under the assumption that a new Congress Centre would be open by > September 2006. It has turned out that the opening of the Centre > will surely be delayed and the conference would thus have to take > place at four different locations in the city. To avoid that and to > provide better working conditions for the conference participants, > a decision has been taken to move the conference to Maribor. > > Information, Accommodation and Registration on-line > > All information regarding the Conference Frame and the Programme, > as well as the on-line registration form and the accommodation may > be found at http://www.hcc7.org > > Scope of the Conference > Human choice and computers, Computers and Society, Social > Informatics, are terms referring to a similar preoccupation: How is > the human being and its societal environment kept in the centre - > How to build up an "Information Society for All" [UNESCO, 2002], > [eEurope, 2002] when developing our more and more complex ICT > (Information and Communication Technology) systems? > > Questions regarding programme and organization > Respectively: mailto:jberleur@info.fundp.ac.be and > mailto:franci.pivec@izum.si > > > -- > > ************************************************ > Prof. Jacques BERLEUR > Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix > Rue Grandgagnage, 21 Phone: +32 81 72-4976 > Mobile: +32 (0)475 548372 > 5000 NAMUR Fax: +32 81 72 4967 > BELGIUM Email: jberleur(a)info.fundp.ac.be > URL: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/ > ************************************************ > > -- > > ************************************************ > Prof. Jacques BERLEUR > Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix > Rue Grandgagnage, 21 Phone: +32 81 72-4976 > Mobile: +32 (0)475 548372 > 5000 NAMUR Fax: +32 81 72 4967 > BELGIUM Email: jberleur(a)info.fundp.ac.be > URL: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/ > ************************************************ > 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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netporn conference 2007
by Marije Janssen 09 May '06

09 May '06

We are currently looking for academics who are working on the subject of internet pornography and would like to present their work at an international conference in the Netherlands in February 2007. Last year the Insitute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli, hosted an international academic conference about netporn: 'The Art & Politics of Netporn.' Some of the speakers were: Mark Dery, Mikita Brottman and Susanna Paasonen. Subjects ranged from the sexual grotesque, indie porn to the issue of online censorship. For more information about this conference you can visit our website: www.networkcultures.org/netporn. The topics for the next conference will be: - amateur- and DIY porn - censorship - gender identity online If you think your work is suitable please sent an abstract to: marije(a)networkcultures.org The first conference was very successfull and made it possible for people to meet each other and exchange views on this topic that is still a taboo. We are looking forward to a second edition with fresh faces and new insights. We are also still very interested in essays about this subject for our netporn anthology. marije janssen institute of network cultures marije(a)networkcultures.org t: +31 (0)20 5951866 f: +31 (0)20 5951840 www.networkcultures.org

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