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Participative Web: Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World
by Miraj Khaled 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

FYI. === Participative Web: Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World Government Conference Center, Ottawa, Canada Jointly Organised by the OECD and Industry Canada 3 October 2007 This site is directly accessible at: www.oecd.org/futureinternet/participativeweb The use of the Internet is characterised by increased participation and interaction of users to communicate and express themselves. The expanding use of the Internets inherent capabilities for creation and exchange is often called the participative web. It is an Internet influenced by new intelligent web services enabling users to contribute to developing, rating, collaborating and distributing Internet content and developing and customising Internet applications, driven by an expanding broadband base and easy-to-use software to create and distribute content. The collective intelligence of Internet users is driving new social and economic applications, with the participative web increasingly important across an expanding range of business, research and innovation and social activities. More open approaches to information creation, exchange and diffusion are being taken up extensively in government, education and other areas. As new models for creation, distribution and use of digital information are enabled by the Internet, new policy challenges for governments are emerging to provide the environment that enables and supports these development and diversity of use. Questions to be addressed in the Foresight Forum include: What does the future hold for the participative web? What are the trends and impacts on knowledge-creation, business, users and governments? What are the implications for enhancing confidence and trust in the Internet? What is the government role in providing the right environment for stimulating Internet innovation and economic growth? This first-ever international policy forum on the participative web will bring together experts from around the world, from policy makers and academics to business executives and a wide range of civil society to address these questions. The presentations and discussions around the themes of Creativity, Confidence and Convergence will contribute to the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, 17-18 June 2008. Previous yearly OECD Technology Foresight Forums have dealt with Radio-Frequency Based Identification Technologies (RFID) (2005) and Next Generation Networks (2006). --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

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'mobile media' -- the book
by Gerard Goggin 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

[now out -- apologies for x-posting] 'Mobile Media' edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth proceedings of Mobile Media 2007 an international conference held at the University of Sydney 2-4 July 2007 Featuring 33 innovative papers on contemporary mobile media from contributors across a range of countries and disciplines, this handsomely presented book collection offers a timely assessment of the transformations associated with mobile phones, mobile media and wireless technologies, and their social, cultural, psychological, aesthetic, design, and policy implications. AUS $45 (inc. postage) within Australia AUS$50 (inc. postage) elsewhere in the world Order form at: http://www.mobilemedia2007.net/12_proceed.html \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Editor, 'Media International Australia' Department of Media and Communications The University of Sydney e-mail: gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au OR gg(a)gerardgoggin.net p: +61 2 9036 6424 f: 61 2 9351 5444 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin From 3 Sept 2007: Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Commmunication at University of New South Wales, Sydney. New email address: g.goggin(a)unsw.edu.au

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Civil Society Practitioners Programme (CSPP)
by B. Lentz 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Civil Society Practitioners Programme (CSPP) -------------------------------------------------- We are inviting applications from the global South to fill two places on our Civil Society Practitioners Programme (CSPP). This visitor programme is intended for Civil Society Practitioners of distinction or outstanding promise who wish to visit the OII for a period of six weeks between February and December 2008, to undertake research concerning the social impact of the Internet and related ICTs. The successful applicants will receive: A subsistence allowance of 3800 GBP (7500 USD) to cover research expenses and living costs during their stay in Oxford A travel grant of up to 1000 GBP (2000 USD) for travel to and from the UK Applications will ideally be submitted by Civil Society Practitioners in or from the global South, active in the areas of freedom of expression, media reform, media justice, and communications and information policy in the globalized context of the Internet. Deadlines: The deadline for completed applications to reach us is 26 September 2007. Final notification of an award will occur in November 2007. Successful candidates will be expected to take up their six week residency in Oxford at any time between February and December 2008. Application and contact details: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/cspp/ This programme has been made possible through funding by the media policy portfolio in the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program of the Ford Foundation.

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Re: [Air-L] XML & Public DTD Repositories?
by loriken＠uiuc.edu 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

My colleague, Jerome McDonough, responds with this: >There aren't any 100% comprehensive registries for DTD and >Schema, but good places to start >looking are: >The Cover Pages >http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlApplications.html >IANA (registry for schema used in IETF protocols) >http://www.iana.org/assignments/xml-registry/schema.html Lori ___________________________________________________ Lori Kendall Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign loriken(a)uiuc.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:05:20 +0000 (UTC) >From: Alexis Turner <subbies(a)redheadedstepchild.org> >Subject: [Air-L] XML & Public DTD Repositories? >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Maybe I just need to finish my morning coffee, but I'm having a hell of a time >devising a Google search to find something like a link list or repository for >Public XML Schemas, especially any that have been recognized as standards (all I >end up with are endless pages of 'how to create your own XML DTD and make it >public - w00t!'). Any thoughts on a good place to look? >-Alexis > >+ -------- > redheadedstepchild.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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Summer 2008 ESRC Research Methods Festival in Oxford: Call for Research Ethics Session
by William Dutton 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Contribution to a Research Ethics Session at the 2008 ESRC Methods Festival The Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), part of the National Centre for e-Social Science, has been asked to organize a session on research ethics at the 2008 ESRC Research Methods Festival from 30 June to 3 July 2008. It will be held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, as was the previous festival in 2006, see: www.ccsr.ac.uk/ methods/festival/index.html Our particular session is scheduled from 9.15 – 12.45 (with a break) on 2 July. The basic format, which is flexible, would be 3-4 speakers with 1-2 discussants, leaving 30-40 minutes for general discussion. As a coordinator of this session, I am asking if you might be willing to propose a paper or be willing to serve as a discussant. The programme committee will need a provisional programme of speakers by September, so I will need to firm this up as soon as possible over August. Titles and abstracts would be due by the end of November 2007, but fuller versions of the presentations, ideally as a paper, would not be needed until May 2008. At this time, we are keeping the session open to a wide range of possible topics. We are interested in the issues raised by the application of advances in information and communication technologies, such as the Internet, both as a new research tool and new space in which research methods are applied. However, we are open to innovative treatments of ethical issues within any domain for research, including case studies, policy studies, frameworks for understanding the ethical issues of social science research, ethical issues arising within multi- or inter-disciplinary and international research, and research ethics as an object of study from any social science disciplinary perspective. From the OeSS project we have become convinced that ethical issues are rising in significance across a range of subject areas. Is this an inherent feature of new ways of conducting research, or a transitional phase? If you might be interested in participating, please let me know what topic(s) you would propose, and I will get back with you. Whether or not you are personally interested in contributing, I would welcome your advice on emerging issues or studies that should be incorporated in this session. Travel and Expenses: Travel is expected to come out the existing ESRC research budgets of participants. If you are not in a position to fund your travel in Britain from an existing ESRC research project, please let me know as we can apply for a limited amount of local travel funds. I don’t believe we are able to support international fares. Many thanks for considering this request. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Bill Dutton E-Mail: Director at oii.ox.ac.uk Director, Oxford e-Social Science Project and Co-Director, e-Horizons Project National Centre for e-Social Science: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/ Oxford e-Social Science Project: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/ oess/ e-Horizons Project: http://www.e-horizons.ox.ac.uk/

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Kronberg Declaration on the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing
by Jeremy Hunsinger 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/ 25109/11860402019Kronberg_Declaration.pdf/Kronberg%2BDeclaration.pdf We, the members of a group of experts who met on 22 and 23 June 2007 in Kronberg, Germany, at the invitation of UNESCO and the German Commission for UNESCO, with the generous sponsorship of BASF, discussed the future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing over the next twenty-five years: Recognizing that: • Knowledge is the key to social and economic development; • Creation, acquisition and sharing of knowledge have been going through dramatic changes because of rapidly emerging new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the societal transformations that they generate; • New approaches are needed to bridge international knowledge gaps while ensuring cultural and linguistic diversity; • The Internet and new education technologies provide manifold opportunities for all; • There is a need to continuously harness new technologies and processes to develop knowledge societies that are people-centered, inclusive and development oriented; --snip--- Stress the need to: a) Develop long-term strategies to efficiently harness the enormous potential of new communication and information processes and technologies for developing new approaches to knowledge acquisition and sharing; --snip-- f) Provide opportunities for all to participate in networked social learning, which is locally and globally relevant, which values tacit knowledge and enhances informal learning; g) Promote user-friendly ICT applications to make knowledge acquisition and sharing available to everybody anywhere and anytime; h) Support open access to and free flow of content through the development of open standards, open data structures, and standardized info-structures, as well as other elements of cyber-infrastructure necessary to support individual learners around the globe; i) Enable the creation of open content by practitioners in the developing world, and generally ensure the development of culturally sensitive content; etc. --end-- to me this seems a wise move, though I'd support a stronger set of recommendations. 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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Call for Papers - Indigenous Peoples Knowledge Society: Transformations and Challenges
by Philipp Budka 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention the following event and call for papers: KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity, and Transformation of Societies Vienna, Austria, 6 to 9 December 2007 Call for Papers for the section: Indigenous Peoples Knowledge Society: Transformations and Challenges / Indigene in der Wissensgesellschaft: Transformationen und Herausforderungen http://www.inst.at/kctos/sektionen_a-f/fiser_budka.htm Abstract: Of the more than 300 Million Indigenous Peoples recognized by the United Nations, a growing minority is actively shaping indigenous visions of a knowledge-based society. These visions are not simply indigenous responses to global mainstream debates over post-industrial development or techno-scientific culture, etc. More importantly, they articulate the actual deployment of new media and information communications technologies (ICTs) by indigenous communities to forward their own policies and practices. They frame how indigenous communities are mobilizing over the internet and on the Web to communicate their lived experiences and extend their local networks to global audiences, including and especially, a global indigenous audience. For academics in the field, online indigenous communities are opening up spaces of inquiry beyond the digital divide by actively co-creating virtual communities and transforming their cultural experience through ICTs (i.e., real life in cyberspace). Questions about resources, knowledge/power and access continue to be important, but they have become more complicated by issues of networking and social life, virtual reproduction, and information policy. These new social, political, and cultural forms of indigeneity will be discussed within this section. Details on Submission: You are invited to submit abstracts (250 words, English) till the 24th of August 2007. Please include your contact details (name, affiliation, email, and a brief bio). Successful candidates will be notified by the end of August. Full paper submissions should be about 4.000 words long, formatted according to the APA guidelines (e.g. http://www-distance.syr.edu/apa5th.html) and submitted by the 16th of November. Accepted papers will be published in TRANS – Internet Journal for Cultural Sciences (http://www.inst.at/trans/index.htm) and included in a book project (full text on CD-ROM, more info at: http://www.inst.at/kctos/publikationen_en.htm) Please note that the conference organizers are unable to fund travel or hotel costs for conference attendees. Please send abstracts to the section leads Adam Fiser (University of Toronto) adam.fiser(a)gmail.com and Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) ph.budka(a)philbu.net Abstracts should address one or more themes reflected in the following research questions: • How can/should social sciences describe and explain local indigenous knowledge production in a potentially global knowledge system? What are the socio-cultural and political inter-linkages between local and global? • How do indigenous communities integrate new media practices and ICTs into processes of local media production and networking to participate in socio-cultural life, political movements, economic development, healthcare, education, and so forth? • How might indigenous communities’ uses of new media and ICTs reflect challenges for diversity, conflict, global ethics, pluralism, gender, youth and heritage? • What best practices have indigenous organizations developed around the inter-linkages of knowledge production, new media, ICTs, and local/global community networks (that could inform practitioners and scholars)? All the best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu(a)gmx.net Dreyhausenstraße 18/7 A-1140 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger

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ur social network sites
by Barry Wellman 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

It's largely a question of definition, but Murray Turoff (soon joined by Roxanne Hiltz), and abetted by Peter & Trudy Johnson-Lenz, started EIES in the mid-1970s, after Murray civilianized the work he did for the US "Civil Defense" organization. This pre-Internet setup used a central dial-in server (at 10 cps, as I recall), reached by an 800 number. It had some nice features -- choice of real name, nickname, anonymous contribution; ability to recall messages; easy to set up conferences. It did email better than email does email now, albeit without attachments. Used in early US National Science Foundation experiments on scientific community. Linton Freeman had an article on its use in social network analysis. But the big book, which went thru 2 editions, is Hiltz & Turoff, _The Network Nation_. (1978, 1993). As a nice coincidence, there is a conference in Murray & Roxanne's honour at New Jersey Inst of tech, this October. Network Nation was named after the 1973 Craven-Wellman paper, "The Network City", but Paul & I didn't dream of the Internet then. (You could look it up.) 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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XML & Public DTD Repositories?
by Alexis Turner 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Maybe I just need to finish my morning coffee, but I'm having a hell of a time devising a Google search to find something like a link list or repository for Public XML Schemas, especially any that have been recognized as standards (all I end up with are endless pages of 'how to create your own XML DTD and make it public - w00t!'). Any thoughts on a good place to look? -Alexis + -------- redheadedstepchild.org ------- +

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history of social network sites
by danah boyd 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Nicole Ellison and I are working on our intro for the special issue of JCMC on social network sites. One of the sections in our intro is a history of SNSs; we're vetting it publicly to make certain that there are no issues or errors. If this is something of interest to you, please check out: http://www.danah.org/papers/worksinprogress/ SNSHistory.html (Feedback obviously welcome, or rather begged for...) We are also trying to make certain that we have an up-to-date list of publications on the topic (for the lit review section). If you're working in this area or know this area, could you check out: http:// www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html -- I'd love to know of work that's not listed here. Please please please chime up if you know something that's missing from this list. [Also, many of you responded a month ago when my essay on class and SNS spiraled a bit out of control. I haven't yet had the chance to respond to all of the thousands of emails and comments I received, but I did put together a long response to the major issues. If that's of interest: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ ResponseToClassDivisions.html And I *really* appreciate the comments from folks from AOIR - they were far more constructive than most of what I received.] I hope everyone's having a fantastic summer! danah - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - "cuz i don't care if they eat me alive i've got better things to do than survive" musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts

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