July 2007 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

ICE-T again
by Barry Wellman 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

The last Aoir digest suggests that the response to my ICE-T proposal has run its course. As you may recall, I suggested Exchange be added to Information and Communication. I haven't archived or done heavy analysis, but the response on This List was unenthusiastic. More interesting to me were the reasons. Basically, "everything is communication" (Luhmannites), etc, or "everything is information: I wish the proponents of each would duke it out (we could make a YouTube video), but I won't join either camp. You can expand any definition of information or communciation to include anything. I could as easily as say (as a sociologist) that all is social organization and social relations. Take for example, sex: certainly, it is communication and social relations, and for the unprotected, all that DNA information is exchanged (after phone numbers). But like Carrie Bradshaw, I think more is gained by keeping sexual relations as a separate category. Where I made a mistake, by aiming for cute memorability, was the Exchange part for ICE-T. What I was really after was E-Commerce, especially the sending/selling and receiving/buying of Things. So we might call the E: "E-Commerce Technologies" to preserve the ICE-T. And if you think that such behaviour boils down to info or comm, go have it out with the economists. Which leads me to the larger point: do we need to disaggregate I and C? I work a lot in the C world, and it seems to me that interpersonal communication (on/offline) is different from civic involvement (what social network analysts call 2-mode connectivity -- person:organization). YMMV Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender these days _______________________________________________________________________

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Online activism
by Derek McMillan 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I have commented before that the anti-war protests in my home town were organised almost exclusively via a yahoo discussion group. At the moment the campaign for the radical Martin Powell-Davies is being organised via a yahoo discussion group, a blog http://electmartin.blogspot.com and a website http(a)//martin4vp.org.uk Martin is standing for vice president of the National Union of Teachers but he is a radical activist in his native Lewisham and the mainstream groups in the NUT are all opposed to his activist agenda. To be frank they are a little old and tired and "anything for a quiet life" these days..Martin's campaign is a direct challenge to the New Labour government and the NUT leadership are busy shying away from that. I also noted that the Campaign for a New Workers' Party has a facebook group. This is a turn-up for the book. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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A related conference: UDC2007
by Richard Smith 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Dear AIR, Some colleagues of mine in the School of Communication at SFU are organizing a conference on a theme that - I think - would interest many of the people coming to AIR. If you have the time, you might think of attending some or all of their conference, which happens right after ours, in downtown Vancouver. Here is their blurb: > You may be interested in a related conference, just a few days > later (Oct. 25-28), also in Vancouver. It's theme is "Enclosure > versus Emancipatory Communication in the Global City: A Conference > of the Union for Democratic Communications." > > Keynote speakers include Dorothy Kidd, Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer- > Witheford, and Mike Davis, noted author of Planet of Slums. > > Presentation topics also include democracy and the internet, online > journalism and media activism, alternative media, and > communications policy and history. For more details, see http:// > www.sfu.ca/conferences/udc2007 and http:// > www.democraticcommunications.org. Hope to see you at the conference, ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 New phone number: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ Skype - callto://richard_k_smith New book: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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Fwd: [Icommons] Open Call to Participate in Perry Bard's Global Remake of Vertov's "Man With A Movie Camera"
by Jeremy Hunsinger 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: joy.garnett(a)gmail.com > Date: July 13, 2007 2:03:03 PM CDT > To: "iCommons Artists in Residence (icair)" > <icair(a)lists.ibiblio.org>, "icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org" > <icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org> > Subject: [Icommons] Open Call to Participate in Perry Bard's Global > Remake of Vertov's "Man With A Movie Camera" > > today on newsgrist: > http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2007/07/perry-bards-glo.html > > New York artist Perry Bard has a new project that requires > participants! > > via MWAMC website: > http://dziga.perrybard.net/ > > Dziga Vertov's 1929 film Man With A Movie Camera records the > progression of one full day synthesizing footage shot in Moscow, > Riga, and Kiev. The film begins with titles that declare it "an > experiment in the cinematic communication of visible events without > the aid of intertitles, without the aid of a scenario, without the > aid of theater." It is often described as an urban documentary yet > the subject of the film is also the film itself –from the role of > the cameraman to that of the editor to its projection in a theatre > and the response of the audience. It is a film within a film made > with a range of inventive effects –dissolves, split screen, slow > motion, freeze frame–all of which are now embedded in digital > editing software. > > 2008: Man With a Movie Camera is a participatory video shot by > people around the world who are invited to record video according > to the original script of Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera and > submit it to a website which will archive, sequence and deliver the > submissions to The Big Screen ( www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/) in > 2007-08. When the work streams your contribution becomes part of a > worldwide montage, in Vertov's terms the "decoding of life as it is." > > This website contains every shot in Vertov's 1929 film along with > thumbnails representing the beginning middle and end of each shot. > > You are invited to interpret Vertov and upload your footage to this > site to become part of the database. See the Scene Index. > > PRESENTATION > 2008:Man With a Movie Camera will be streamed on four public > screens in the UK beginning in October 2007 on the Big Screen > Manchester > > All material on this site is public domain > > MORE INFO: > http://dziga.perrybard.net/ > > CONTACT > Please email perrybard(a)gmail.com for questions about this project. > > -- > 530 laguardia place #5, nyc 10012 > http://joygarnett.com > _______________________________________________ > Icommons mailing list > Icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons 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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Facebook Group Update
by Nancy Baym 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

The AoIR Facebook group has just topped 300 members, approximately 15% of list subscribers. If you're not on there and are interested, you can investigate further at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2468341531&ref=nf Nancy

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Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband
by Jeremy Hunsinger 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

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[AOIR8] Ramada sold out
by Richard Smith 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I wouldn't normally pepper you with more than one message per month, but I think I should let the list know that the cheaper of the two conference hotels - the Ramada - is now sold out, or soon will be. If you are looking for a nice hotel in Vancouver, I can recommend the Delta which is right across the street from the conference. http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Delta_Details I am also negotiating with another hotel, the Quality Inn, for some rooms. But I think you might - if you haven't already - want to start looking on your own. The internet, I hear, is very good for that sort of thing.... If anyone has special needs, or would like a suggestion on where to stay, please let me know. ...r

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Re: [Air-l] Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

In a previous year I think I suggested 5K. That's a workable size -- enough to say something but not too long to go overboard. Consider a range of +/- 1K around the 5. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:32:48 -0700 >From: Richard Smith <smith(a)sfu.ca> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0 >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >M-H, > >Not a dumb question. There is no recommendation on the site, as far >as I know. I have referred others who asked to Mia, the program >chair. My sense is that a paper of 20-30pp is about right, but I >haven't got any official word on that. > >Since the "proceedings" are electronic page length isn't the issue >that it might have been in the past. > >...r >On 12-Jul-07, at 4:24 AM, Mary-Helen Ward wrote: > >> I've been round and round the AOIR8.0 site and I can't find a guide >> to the >> length of a completed conference paper. Abstract 750 wds, but no >> information >> on full submission. >> >> I may have missed something... Can anyone enlighten me? >> >> >> M-H >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Dumb question about submissions for AOIR8.0
by Mary-Helen Ward 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I've been round and round the AOIR8.0 site and I can't find a guide to the length of a completed conference paper. Abstract 750 wds, but no information on full submission. I may have missed something... Can anyone enlighten me? M-H

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #4 (July 12, 2007)
by Richard Smith 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Dear AIRmobiles, It is that time of the month again.... the time of the month when I write to you with updates on the Internet Research 8.0 ("Let's Play") Conference, to be held at Harbour Centre in Vancouver, Canada - October 17-20, 2007. You know. That thing we do. In the fall (spring for your antipodeans). Here's what you have to do to be here (or be square) in Vancouver in the fall: 1. Get your registration in by July 15 to qualify for BIG early registration discounts. http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf&cf=5 2. Book your hotel room. Now. Or you won't get a discount and you'll be stuck in some expensive room far from the conference. a. RAMADA ($79/night): http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Ramada_Details b. DELTA ($189/night): http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Delta_Details 3. If you are a student, and want to be in the paper competition, get your paper in to Mia ASAP (July 15 is the deadline). Other than that, I don't have a lot more to say. I think I have flooded your mailboxes enough the past few months. If you have questions, send them to me (smith(a)sfu.ca) or post them to AIR-L(a)listserv.aoir.org. ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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