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Re: [Air-l] air-l Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8
by David Palfreyman 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hello all, I'm supervising a doctoral candidate at an early stage who has started experimenting with e-mail elicitation of data from students at our university in the United Arab Emirates. She's researching reading habits among our 95%-ESL student body, and recently experimented by sending an e-mail to all students, just saying "Do you like reading?". She's had quite a few responses, and is thinking about various aspects of this data: 1. quantitatively (e.g. how many answer "yes" and how many "no"). 2. quantitative data on how many non-responding students open the email and how many delete it without opening (this information is available at the click of a mouse to any sender for mails within the university email system). 3. reasons, examples, etc that students give about reading. 4. assumptions that students seem to make about her question (e.g. whether they interpret the question as being about reading in their first language (Arabic) or their second (English)). 5. targeting the responders (and possibly non-responders/deleters) as interviewees, either by e-mail or through personal contact, as appropriate. She's wondering about a) validity issues in e-mail "interview" data, and b) the potential of such minimal prompts/data for contributing to a study of an overall aspect of student culture. I wondered if anyone could offer ideas/ suggestions/ sources/ experiences in collecting and using this kind of data (not necessarily online - for example it's reminiscent of Milgram's "Lost-Letter Technique"). Thanks! David :-D

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Re: [Air-l] comparative cross-national diffusion of the internet
by Heidelberg, Chris 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Yes this is very interesting. Does anyone know of a good website site that has this data? I had one in my favorites until my PC died and it was lost. That is why I love macs. Anyone know of a good book on this as well. I would like to know adoption rates, first isp's and where country's rank. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nik John Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:42 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] comparative cross-national diffusion of the internet Plenty of histories of the Internet in the US have been written. Much has been said on the variables that it is claimed predict rates of Internet adoption in other countries around the world. However, I'm interested in when different countries first hooked up and especially when the first commercial ISPs started operating in different countries. Can anyone give me that information for the country they live in? Or direct me to historical reviews of the network in various countries? For what it's worth, I'm doing quite a micro-level, STS-style analysis of the appearance of the Internet in the context of Israel, a relatively early adopter, as far as I can tell. Any leads or information will be much appreciated! Nik ---------------------------------- Nicholas John, PhD Candidate Department of Sociology and Anthropology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Home: 03 578 1993 Mobile: 054 7609073 _______________________________________________ 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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Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences
by Axel Bruns 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

(Apologies for any cross-posts...) SAVE USD40 AND REGISTER FOR IR7.0 by 30 June!! Registration includes: - printed conference program - access to all conference keynotes, papers, roundtables on 28-30 September - wireless Internet access on the conference floor during the conference - lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee on 28-30 September - free conference reception on the evening of 27 September - free entry to a public lecture on the Internet in Indonesia on the evening of 28 September - membership of the Association of Internet Researchers until 30 September 2007 - valued at US$45 ($30 for students; $10 for OECD) AoIR Conference === Internet Research 7.0 === "Internet Convergences" Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, Australia === 27-30 September 2006 The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce that registrations are now open for its 2006 conference, to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Brisbane, Australia, on 27-30 Sep. 2006. This major international conference takes place in the southern hemisphere for the first time. Themed 'Internet Convergences', the seventh annual AoIR conference will explore how the Internet acts in both converging and fragmenting ways - physical, cultural, technological, political, social - on local, regional, and global scales. Internationally, AoIR is the leading academic association dedicated to research and analysis of the Internet and related network technologies. Established in 2000, it has grown to become a key player in supporting Internet research and disseminating findings. A key reason for holding the conference outside of North America or Europe is to emphasise the international perspective of this global, networked organisation. The conference will feature keynote lectures by Professor Guo Liang, deputy director of the Center for Social Development in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Professor John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology and Australia Research Council Federation Fellow. Conference delegates are also invited to attend a public lecture by Dr Merlyna Lim - this lecture is offered by the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies with support from the ARC Cultural Research Network and AoIR. Delegates are now able to register for the conference through the conference Website at http://conferences.aoir.org/. Conference registration also includes one year's membership of AoIR. In addition to conference registration itself, further registration options are available for the pre-conference workshops held on 27 Sep. 2006, the conference reception (free for all delegates), and the conference dinner. The IR7.0 conference hotel is the five-star Brisbane Hilton. There is heavily discounted conference accommodation available at the Hilton Hotel, starting from A$215/night (~ US$160). Please note that discounted rates are available through the Hilton Website during the conference period 27 Sep.-1 Oct. Should you wish to stay for longer, the Hilton is happy to make discounts available on request before and after this period. Please enter a booking for 27 Sep.-1 Oct. and indicate your extended stay in the booking comments - Hilton staff will endeavour to provide you with room discounts throughout your stay. Please see the Hilton's AoIR 2006 booking site at http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/private_groups/bsbhitw_air for more details. We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in September! Axel Bruns === Conference Chair Fay Sudweeks === Programme Chair Matthew Allen === AoIR President Gold sponsors: === Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) === Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (www.ici.qut.edu.au) === Creative Industries Faculty (www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au) Major sponsors: === Australasian CRC for Interaction Design - ACID (www.acid.net.au) === Peter Lang Publishing USA (www.peterlangusa.com) -- 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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Antw: air-l Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8 (Absence - Carl-Markus Piswanger)
by Carl-Markus Piswanger 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I am out of office. I will be back on June 19. I will read my Emails betweenwhiles. Carl-Markus Piswanger

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Re: [Air-l] question about online teaching/learning
by J. J. 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

very good question ... someone already mentioned the magic word: "revealing." Technology only helps expose what's already there and like everything else in the society, it is a field of struggle. Jarek >From: "Ellis Godard" <ellis.godard(a)csun.edu> >Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, ellis.godard(a)csun.edu >To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] question about online teaching/learning >Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:36:09 -0700 > >Speaking of video... > >How will porn impact the $100 laptop program, and vice versa, given that >children are the target recipients? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > > [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of J. J. > > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:06 AM > > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Subject: [Air-l] question about online teaching/learning > > > > > > Could the You Tube be one of a promising applications? > > > > >From their web site: > > YouTube is a place for people to engage in new ways with > > video by sharing, > > commenting on, and viewing videos. YouTube originally started > > as a personal > > video sharing service, and has grown into an entertainment > > destination with > > people watching more than 40 million videos on the site daily. > > > > http://youtube.com/ > > > > Jarek > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/

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question about online teaching/learning
by J. J. 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Could the You Tube be one of a promising applications? >From their web site: YouTube is a place for people to engage in new ways with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos. YouTube originally started as a personal video sharing service, and has grown into an entertainment destination with people watching more than 40 million videos on the site daily. http://youtube.com/ Jarek

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Re: [Air-l] One Laptop Per Child
by Charlie Lowe 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Elijah wrote, > I'm not certain that you can claim that they're technologically inferior > to Western technology, as they *are* Western technology. ;) I do think I > know what you meant, in the other sense of those words, too, and still > don't find the argument compelling. > > If we can build a perfectly usable 500Mhz laptop for a hundred bucks that > runs the *state of the art* in available software - that is to say, the > very same software (or its close kin, modified for the hardware of the > laptop) that is on my desktop here in Indiana - what's the use of having a > $3k "Western" desktop machine? I agree. What was interesting was the original post implied that somehow these laptops are inferior because they lack a hard drive. While the capacity of the drives is somewhat limited, flash drives are the next generation storage solution. Pretty cutting edge. At least Samsung thinks so http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1966644,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K… We might also revise our notion of what "state of the art" software means. The developers for the $100 laptop are working to create a very user-friendly software environment specifically tailored for the classroom. When I read Tom Hoffman and Chris Blizzard's discussion of the chat application and the way in which the software will allow students to create and share content, I see a machine that may be much superior for getting students discussing and collaborating than what comes stock from Dell or any of the other computer vendors (for many thousand more): http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200 Charlie Lowe

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comparative cross-national diffusion of the internet
by Nik John 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Plenty of histories of the Internet in the US have been written. Much has been said on the variables that it is claimed predict rates of Internet adoption in other countries around the world. However, I'm interested in when different countries first hooked up and especially when the first commercial ISPs started operating in different countries. Can anyone give me that information for the country they live in? Or direct me to historical reviews of the network in various countries? For what it's worth, I'm doing quite a micro-level, STS-style analysis of the appearance of the Internet in the context of Israel, a relatively early adopter, as far as I can tell. Any leads or information will be much appreciated! Nik ---------------------------------- Nicholas John, PhD Candidate Department of Sociology and Anthropology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Home: 03 578 1993 Mobile: 054 7609073

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Re: [Air-l] subcultures and the internet
by Heidelberg, Chris 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Peter Timusk: I am hoping that you can assist me with a minor, alright major statistics situation. When applying discriminant analysis would the ability to predict gender accurately at the rate of 68.2% be considered an effective or accurate measure with a processed sample population of 16,909 (8391 male cases and 8518 female cases -it has been weighted). My thoughts are that when one has a large sample like in a longitudinal study of students that 68% seems like a high error rate when one takes into account the 95% or the 90% accuracy rate commonly used in statistics or even the common plus or minus of 4% utilized in media polling. Am I correct in my assessment? If so can you explain why discriminant analysis would be good here. Do you think there is another method that may be a better fit here? Or am I incorrect in my assessment? Show me the way in this great debate. I guess in theory there is no "wrong answers" only better methods or processes for a given situation. I am not a statistician, so I am going to a person with a real background for help. If Peter can't help can someone on the board provide an assessment here. Chris Heidelberg -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Peter Timusk Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:55 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] subcultures and the internet reply below but I think I misunderstand what you are asking for. I am more commenting on Western subcultures around the world. But my knowledge of Muslim culture is restricted to recently finding out about how quotes of Mohamed are attributed by a type of voting system I really know nothing about various non western subcultures. On 8-Jun-06, at 4:37 AM, jespert wrote: > Dear list members, > <snip> > . I am interested in parallel > cultures, especially in Muslim parallel cultures in Denmark or in > other western countries growing via the internet, but other examples > on how subcultures develops and maintain them selves on the internet > also have my strong interest. > > If you have references for me or other input, on or off list I'll be > grateful > > Best Regards > Jesper I had been pointed to a punk blog from Iran before but can't find it right now This seems to be a German media report about Punks in Indonesia. Sorry lacking anything about the net. http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-203/i.html Punk must mean quite different things in your own culture than mine. I have read some of the references posted today to this email request. I would recommend them too. I am interested in the fact of punk rock coming along at the same time parallel to the net time vis via cyber punk fiction. You might check out feminism and music studies as I also think this sub field of music also came along about the 1990's at least in punk history but therefore net history. Peter Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics, B.A. legal studies M.A. legal studies applicant just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Air-l] Breeze Meeting request
by Heidelberg, Chris 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I am with a federal agency and we utilize online software, visual conference calls, satellite based training (which is now phone based and switching to VOIP), we are looking at Living Meeting, and I was just invited to a meeting where we are using other software. I am finishing up my dissertation now on Edutainment & Convergence and handhelds like smart phones, Blackberry's, Nexel walkie talkie/ phones, the iPod, pocketPCs and the new cell phones/smart phones (like the Korean versions)that utilize both VOIP and WiFi so that it switches seamlessly between the technologies when you enter buildings. As a film producer I have utilized handhelds like the Nextel, IM, message boards/groups like yahoo, and blogs to create instantaneous feedback. Dr. Taran should be looking at what her own company (actually the original AT&T since SBC purchased the name, history, long distance services and gov't contracts a year ago) is actually doing to compete against Verizon and others. The chief threat to the telecoms and cable is free/advertiser driven WiFi schemes that cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland and others are rapidly adopting in partnerships with local governments, the power companies who will utilize BPL to connect consumers, free Internet content providers who are using WiFi, satellite companies like DirecTV which is own by a major content provider Newscorp (Fox TV, News, Sports, FX, 20th Century Fox and numerous print publications) and emerging wireless technologies. These technologies will enable these training and educational tools to become even more portable and instantaneous. For example, I now utilize my Nextel to conduct national production trainings and meetings via direct connect with people in LA, San Antonio or wherever via speaker phone and pictures can be taken and loaded up via the web and sent to verify attendance in an audio environment. When I want to address an entire group, I can go on yahoo groups, Blackboard, my MySpace blog and have instant feedback. The blogs like eblogger and MySpace are very effective because I can refer students, fellow professionals to vodcasts and podcasts while they are reading and responding directly to the entire friends group and using RSS feeds to send or push future podcasts from audio messages via GoogleTalk or picture mail or video mail through Comcast. The hot applications right now are being created for smart phones and cells phones so that people can text, use IM applications for voice/text, use picture/text/voice combinations and now video is being utilized but not on a massive scale like it will be soon. Hollywood and other content providers are using mobi-sodes so an educator could utilize this method to show a program via cell phone, get students to send in voice comments via podcast blogs like eblogger and then respond via instant messenger directly and generally to the audience via the blog. The entire class or group would be kept together and expanded via RSS feeds. What state is Dr. Tartan located in Texas or New York I am guessing? I would love to interview her about this topic for my dissertation research this summer especially if she is in San Antonio or New York. I would like to help her. If she contacts me directly, I will see if I can special dispensation to do so from the government. As you know we are very meticulous these days about our systems, but maybe we can create a work around for her through a private outlet if there is an issue. My email address is chris.heidelberg(a)ssa.gov Chris A. Heidelberg Office of Communications, Office of Electronics Services - Internet Team Motion Picture Producer/Public Affairs Specialist Social Security Administration Headquarters -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of diana(a)opendrum.utt.ro Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:38 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Cc: ct1531(a)att.com Subject: [Air-l] Breeze Meeting request Dear collegues, A friend of mine Dr. Carmen Taran from Research and Development, AT&T, has sent me this message. Can somebody help her? Many thanks Diana I am presenting at the ED-MEDIA conference in Florida, on June 26th. I am looking to invite a few people via Breeze Meeting to speak for about 4-6 minutes about how online meeting software (e.g. WebEx, Live Meeting or equivalent) is used to deliver distance learning. If you are using any of these tools or something similar for any of your classes and you have some advice and you are available for 10 minutes in the afternoon on the 26th, please let me know and I will give you more details. The topics my students are interested in are related to ensuring student participation when students are at remote sites, scheduling practices, and ideas for other technologies used in synchronous distance learning besides the delivery platform. The students in my workshop would welcome a fresh and experienced voice - so I am looking forward to hearing from those interested. Carmen Taran Research and Development AT&T -- ****************************** Diana Andone School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Sciences University of Brighton W624, Watts Building, Moulsecoomb Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK Phone: (+44) 1273 643513 Email: D.M.Andone(a)brighton.ac.uk ****************************** _______________________________________________ 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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