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Slava Kozlov/EHV/DESIGN/PHILIPS is out of the office.
by Slava Kozlov 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

I will be out of the office starting 2007-07-23 and will not return until 2007-08-08. Hi, I am out of the office till August 8th. When back, I will respond to all your emails as soon as I can. Have a nice time!

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Are my online friends for real?
by Ericka Menchen Trevino 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

The article from the BBC "Are my online friends for real?" adds a different spin to this old question. >This week I received this intriguing message from a man who moves in London's new media circles. > >He wrote: "I met somebody the other day who told me that online networking was so important, and >he didn't have the time, he was paying somebody to be him online. To blog, network, post etc . >£1,000 a month too. " Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6260210.stm - Ericka Menchen Trevino

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Fwd: Jobs at Avenue A | Razorfish
by Jeremy Hunsinger 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

A former student of mine is looking for some more new hires:) Begin forwarded message: > From: Erin Scime <Erin.Scime(a)avenuea-razorfish.com> > Date: July 23, 2007 12:30:02 PM EDT > To: jhuns(a)vt.edu > Subject: Jobs at Avenue A | Razorfish > > Hi Professor Hunsinger, > > > > We are going through a major hiring blitz here at Avenue A | > Razorfish. > I wanted to pass the news on to you in case any of your students > and/or > colleagues and friends would be interested in working here (offices in > San Francisco, LA, Portland, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, > Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, and other world offices). I've included > the > link to the job postings page to get a sense of what kind of jobs are > here (Librarians/digital librarians would fall into User Experience > here). > > > > https://jobs-aquantive.icims.com/aquantive_jobs/jobs/candidate/ > jobs.jsp? > ss=1&searchLocation=&searchCategory= > > > > I've been really happy here (good benefits, pay and laid back > culture). > If you know anyone that may be interested, they should send their > resume > and cover directly to me at erin.scime(a)avenuea-razorfish.com by August > 2, 2007. > > > > I hope your transition to your new position goes well! And thanks > again > for giving me a great reference for this position! > > > > Best, > > Erin Scime > > > > Erin Scime | Senior User Experience Associate | direct 212 798 > 6778 > | mobile 718 710 8672 | fax 212 798 6601 > jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.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/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Re: [Air-l] online identity resources
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

>I'm researching online identity (specifically how it's different online and >how it's the same as offline) and would love thoughts on what the *key* > resources are. > Thanks! > Miriam Miriam - what precisely do you mean by "different online and the same offline"? Do you mean how for certain people their online identity is radically different than their offline one but for others there is no distinction? The latter part is pretty much my entire dissertation. ;) Or were you thinking of something else? I've always found Judith Donath's work on identity very helpful to me (Donath, Judith S. "Identity And Deception In The Virtual Community." Communities in Cyberspace. Eds. Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollok. New York: Routledge, 1999.) Also Lisa Nakamura, of course (Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, And Identity On The Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.) Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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CFP Network Nation Festschrift - Hiltz/Turoff
by Michael Bieber 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Network Nation and Beyond A Festschrift in Honor of Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff October 12 - 13, 2007 New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights - Newark, New Jersey, USA http://is.njit.edu/events/fest07 INVITATION Festschrifts celebrate honorees' legacies through original publications influenced by their contributions. Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff continue to actively contribute after more than 30 years to the fields of computer-mediated communication and decision support, online learning, delphi and emergency response. Their groundbreaking book "The Network Nation," published in 1978 and updated in 1993, has been hailed as a landmark, visionary publication. This festschrift will both honor their contributions upon retirement from their full-time academic positions and explore how their legacy will continue to influence research and societal developments in the decades to come. The festschrift includes keynote and research presentations, numerous opportunities to socialize and network, and a dinner at which people can relate stories about working with Roxanne and Murray, and their ideas. A special journal issue will follow. The research community is invited to join the celebration, and also to express their good wishes to Roxanne and Murray online. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS / SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE We invite session proposals, refereed research papers and posters addressing the Network Nation in 2007 and beyond, which consider: - the legacy of Starr Roxanne Hiltz and/or Murray Turoff - current research inspired by their contributions - insightful speculations on future research and societal developments influenced by their foundations Special sessions will be reserved for research presentations by advisees of Roxanne and Murray from the last three decades. Especially high-quality papers will be reviewed and edited further for a special journal issue. Details will be forthcoming. DEADLINES Session Proposal deadline: August 13, 2007 Paper Abstract deadline: August 20, 2007 (strongly requested) Full Paper deadline: September 10, 2007 Poster deadline: September 17, 2007 (no abstract required for posters) Journal Article deadline: January 22, 2008 Journal article submissions also will be invited from festschrift submissions. Registration Deadlines - early-bird: September 10, 2007 - regular: September 24, 2007 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Keynote addresses will be delivered by Ronald E. Rice and Ben Shneiderman. Keynote panelists include Linda Harasim, Abbe Mowshowitz, Karen Swan and Bartel Van De Walle. (Additional keynote panelists to be announced.) SENDING GOOD WISHES Expressions of good wishes will be presented to Roxanne and Murray, and displayed on the Festschrift Web site. Please post your comments on their legacy online. FURTHER DETAILS For further information, registration, travel and hotel information, please see: http://is.njit.edu/events/fest07 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Bieber, Professor and Acting Chair, Information Systems - Collaborative Hypermedia Research Lab (Co-Director) - Digital Library Service Integration, IntegraL and IntLib Projects (PI) Email: bieber(a)oak.njit.edu URL: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber IM/Skype Phone: profbieber (AOL/Google/MSN/Yahoo/Skype) Phone: (973) 596-2681 FAX: (973) 596-2986 [email/IM preferred] Calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.com/profbieber Information Systems Department - College of Computing Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology 5500 Information Technology Center University Heights, Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Giuseppina D'Agostino is out of the office.
by Giuseppina D'Agostino/osgoode 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I will be out of the office starting 07/23/2007 and will not return until 08/16/2007. I will only have intermittent access to emails and I will respond to your message when I return. In case of an emergency, please contact my assistant Mary Rosati 416.736.5030 x33147.

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online identity resources
by Miriam Simun 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Following the great list-off that followed the gendering of technology posting, I'm coming out of hiding with a question of my own: I'm researching online identity (specifically how it's different online and how it's the same as offline) and would love thoughts on what the *key* resources are. Thanks! Miriam

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Re: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology?
by Brown, Karl 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I did some research on this while at school and found the following sources useful: 1) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10610 Includes interesting research about the use of mobile phones and computers by housewives in Japan, as well as a story of how teenage girls turned the business-focused pager into a text-messaging device. 2) Michèle Martin. "Hello, Central?" Gender, Technology and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Great book on the gendered use of the telephone. 3) Sadie Plant. Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture. Doubleday, New York, 1997. Not really research per se, but a creative blend of fiction and nonfiction in the cyberfeminist genre that draws on research in gender studies of technology and weaves an alternative history of the central role women have played in the development of technology. A fun read. Points out, for example, that early computers were often women calculating artillery tables with slide rules...the word computer originally meant "a person who computes" (see also "The Age of Female Computers" -> http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/12/skinner.htm) -- Karl Brown Associate Director, Applied Technology The Rockefeller Foundation | 420 Fifth Avenue | New York, NY 10018 email: kbrown(a)rockfound.org | tel: (212) 852-8363

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Re: [Air-l] Is all Communication Commercial?
by William Bain 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Charlie Balch wrote "At a basic level we are all communicating feed and don't hurt me. Once that message is received we can discuss what car I should buy or even the nature of communication." I just received the post with this due to a computer glitch. Just wanted to add: That was basically (!) what I had in mind tho without the background reading you mention, which certainly ratchets up the interpretation. It was the fight/flight duality in mamals that was in my mind but also the basic functions of cells (respiration, excretion, reproduction, growth, mobility if memory serves). No, I haven't worked it out in detail, but that cellular exonomics, so to speak, was in my mind as well as at the human level the psychology of making sometimes instinctual sometimes more cultural chioices as they occur. I think its been proven that fetal consciousness in the womb is developed to learn linguistically (interpreting at least tone of voice so as to distinguish between anger/calm, happy/sad, etc). But I don't know the actual age at which this begins. Sorry for all lthis halfway researfch but it seems to me that it was Melanie Klein who developed a theory interpreting agression based on infants' interpretation of a good and bad breast, the former one giving milk, the latter not. Then finally : ) there was the thought which I have from reading Julia Kristeva to the effect that the child must lose touch with the "maternal object" in order to enter into the process of symbol creating. I may have been hasty about assuming that commerce and economy (in the production, not the thrifty sense) are separate. For commerce my battered Webster's Ninth Collegiate gives (1) "social intercourse : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments". An interesting development from my pioint of view. Thanks again for your comments! Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more.

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[Fwd: CFP: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'08)]
by M.J. Menou 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Apologies for cross-posting MM -------- Message original -------- Sujet: CFP: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'08) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:23:59 +0800 De: catac(a)wirth.murdoch.edu.au Pour: Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr CALL FOR PAPERS ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 June 2008 Université de Nîmes, France Conference languages: English and French www.catacconference.org The biennial CATaC conference series 10 years old in 2008! provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives in their presentations and discussions of the conference theme and topics (listed below). Nîmes, inhabited by Celts since the 4th ct. B.C.E., became a Gallo-Roman city in 18 BCE, and is home to some of the best-preserved examples of Roman engineering and architecture. The Pont de Gard, an aquaduct bridge across the Gard river, serves as our primary metaphor for CATaC 2008: ICTs as technologies bridging cultures. Our venue in multi-cultural Nîmes further provides us with a number of cultural experiences and pleasures unique to the South of France. Finally, CATaC 2008 emphasizes francophone participation in a number of ways, including, translation provided for abstracts in French and English, and for questions and answers following presentations. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. TOPICS include but are not limited to: - Language as a core issue in cultural diversity with IT: are languages shaping a new IT world? - CMC as fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing "culture" and its impact on the use and implementation of ICTs - ICTs in the francophone world, including: influences of francophone usages globally and cross-cultural comparisons - Beyond glocalization and homogenization: new mixtures of identities and cultures as facilitated by ICTs - Empowerment and CMC, including issues of gender, languages and power (economic, political, social) - Values, ethics, justice, and ICTS - Cultural and linguistic diversity and e-learning SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Papers may be submitted in either French or English. We strongly encourage submissions to include abstracts both in French and English, since accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings with abstracts in both languages. We will translate abstracts if necessary. Accepted papers must be formatted according to the conference proceedings template (download from www.catacconference.org) The program also includes a panel on culture psychology chaired by Professor Alexander Voiskounsky. Submission Schedule: Full papers (maximum 15 formatted pages) - 14 January 2008 Short and panel papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 21 January 2008 Notification of acceptance - mid February 2008 Final formatted papers - 28 February 2008 See the conference website for further information about submitting papers, travel and accommodations, etc. SPONSORS Université de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Béziers CONFERENCE CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE VICE CHAIR Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier, France, marie-christine.deyrich(a)montpellier.iufm.fr PROGRAM CHAIR Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria ----- APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Les TIC: des ponts entre les cultures? Théories, obstacles, bonnes pratiques/ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6ème conférence internationale sur les Attitudes Culturelles dans la Technologie et la Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 juin 2008 Université de Nîmes, France Langues de la conférence : Anglais, Français www.catacconference.org La série de conférences biennales CATaC 10 ans en 2008 ! offre une tribune internationale pour faire létat de la recherche sur la façon dont les attitudes culturelles dans leur diversité influencent lintroduction et lutilisation des technologies de linformation et de la communication (TIC). Chaque conférence réunit des chercheurs du monde entier qui apportent des perspectives culturelles et disciplinaires diversifiées, tant dans leurs communications que dans les discussions sur les thèmes abordés dans le colloque (cf. liste ci-dessous). Ville celte depuis le 4e s. av. J.-C., devenue gallo-romaine en 18 av. J.-C., Nîmes regroupe un certain nombre de vestiges parmi les mieux protégés de larchitecture et de lingénierie romaine. Le Pont du Gard, aqueduc qui traverse la rivière Gard, sera notre métaphore principale pour CATaC 2008: les TIC établissent des ponts entre les cultures. Faire de Nîmes le lieu de cet événement sera loccasion dexpériences culturelles qui font le charme du Sud de la France. Enfin, CATaC 2008 mettra laccent sur la participation francophone, notamment par la traduction dans les deux langues de tous les résumés et par la traduction des questions et réponses à lissue des présentations. Des propositions originales sont attendues, en version longue (concernant en particulier des modèles théoriques, en relation avec des exemples illustrant valeurs culturelles, pratiques, etc.), ou en version courte (ex. description de recherches en cours ou de résultats préliminaires) THÈMES abordés (liste non exclusive): - Le langage comme question centrale pour la diversité culturelle des TIC: les langues façonnent-elles un nouveau monde technologique? - La communication informatique : promotion et/ou menace pour la diversité culturelle - Approches théoriques/pratiques pour analyser la culture et son impact sur lutilisation et la mise en uvre des TIC - Les TIC dans le monde francophone: influence au niveau global des usages des TIC francophones, comparaisons interculturelles - Par delà la glocalization et lhomogénéisation: nouveaux mélanges didentités et de culture induits par les TIC - Répartition du pouvoir dans la communication informatique : questions du genre, des langues, du pouvoir (économique, politique, social). - Valeurs, éthique et justice dans lemploi des TIC - Diversité culturelle et linguistique dans le e-learning PROPOSITIONS DE COMMUNICATION Toutes les propositions seront évaluées par un comité international de chercheurs. Les communications retenues seront publiées dans les actes du colloque. Il est impératif que ces propositions naient pas été soumises ou publiées ailleurs. Chaque proposition retenue sera présentée à la conférence par au moins un des auteurs. Les propositions pourront être rédigées en Français ou en Anglais. Il est fortement conseillé que deux résumés soient rédigés, lun en Français et lautre en Anglais, car, pour chacune des communications retenues, la publication dans les Actes comprendra un résumé dans chacune des deux langues. Si cela savérait nécessaire, nous procéderions à cette traduction. Le formatage des communications se fera selon le modèle Proceedings template, téléchargeable à ladresse www.catacconference.org. Le program comprendra aussi un symposium sur la psychologie de la culture. Il sera presidé par le Professeur Alexander Voiskounsky. Calendrier: Communications longues (15 pages formatées maximum) - 14 janvier 2008 Communications courtes ou pour le symposium (3-5 pages formatées) - 21 janvier 2008 Notification dacceptation - mi-février 2008 Version finale formatée - 28 février 2008 Voir le site de la conférence pour des informations complémentaires, sur les procédures de soumission, le voyage, le logement, etc. PARTENARIAT Université de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Béziers PRÉSIDENCE DE LA CONFÉRENCE Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au CO-PRÉSIDENCE Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier France, marie-christine.deyrich(a)montpellier.iufm.fr RESPONSABLE DU PROGRAMME Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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