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Pew Report: PII Future of the Internet 3
by Richard Forno 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

The Future of the Internet III A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance, more forgiving human relations, or better home lives. December 14, 2008 Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project PDF Report @ http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_FutureInternet3.pdf

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Re: [Air-L] this song reminds me of AoIR :)
by suely＠unisinos.br 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

YT says *This video is not available in your country* :( But... me and my colleagues are sure that our internet friends will help us with that! Suely >>> Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> 12/14/08 8:13 PM >>> as long as we're sharing ... <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcVnhNjWV0> (Along these lines, a big shout out to Suely Fragoso and her colleagues whose paper / PowerPoint presentation, "Just like me, only better" at CATaC'08 this summer made this point with especial power - as did contributions by Zelenkauskaite & Herring, Seymour et al, Gunawardena et al, and Rabaa¹i & Gammack.) enjoy! - c. > http://allmyinternetfriends.com/ > > have a great sunday > > -j > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Political Science > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Virginia Tech > Information Ethics Fellow > Center for Information Policy Research > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > http://wiki.tmttlt.com > http://www.tmttlt.com > > > You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. > --Mark Twain > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.

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this song reminds me of AoIR :)
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

http://allmyinternetfriends.com/ have a great sunday -j Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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Planning for JITP-2010 Conference Begins - "The Politics of Open Source Software"
by Stuart Shulman 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

With all the wheels in motion for the 2nd annual JITP special issue conference (YouTube08) and journal production under way from the 1st (Web 2.0), now is an opportune moment to begin work on what will be the 3rd Annual JITP special issue conference, JITP-2010, which is tentatively slated for April, 2010. The conference theme will be: "The Politics of Open Source Software" JITP-2010 is accepting volunteers and suggestions for the Program Committee. If you would like to be a part of this planning effort, please send email directly to: Michelle Sagan Gonçalves <mgoncalves(a)pubpol.umass.edu> (Conference Manager) and Charlie Schweik <cschweik(a)pubpol.umass.edu> (Conference Co-Chair) Please cc me (editor(a)jitp.net) when you do and put JITP-2010 in the subject line. thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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Re: [Air-L] percentage of Internet access?
by Jay Hauben 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi, I spoke about internet access in China in my presentation at IR9. One early paragraph of my paper reads: Internet adoption in China is rapidly expanding as it has been since 1995. Such expansion is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. It was reported in July 2008 by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC, http://www.cnnic.com.cn/html/Dir/2008/07/31/5247.htm) that there are more than 253 million Internet users in China. In comparison, the US was reported to have 223 million users. Such numbers are only approximations and in the Chinese case probably unknowable because of wide spread account sharing and multiple aliases. Approximately 40% or over 100 million of these users in China participate in online forums, some of whom also contribute to the over 100 million Chinese language blogs. CNNIC reports that a still smaller set of net users, about 23% or 59 million are active contributors to forum and chat room discussions. Among the users in this group, I would locate net users who are "netizens", who practice some form of netizenship, that is, contribute actively to the Internet to effect social and political change. CNNIC also reports that net users in China on average access the internet 19 hours/week. I hope that helps on the question of % access for comparison. The over 250 million net users represents about 20% of the population of an estimated 1.3 billion people living in China. The talk I gave in Copenhagen can be seen at: http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/j-talk.doc A draft of the paper on which it is based can be seen at http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/j-paper.doc Some nice memories of Copenhagen. Take care. Jay

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"YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" - Final Call for Papers - Updated to Reflect New Travel Support Provisions
by Stuart Shulman 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Call for Papers - Updated to Reflect New Travel Support Provisions "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States" April 16 & 17, 2009 - Amherst, Massachusetts http://youtube08election.crowdvine.com/ A two-day University of Massachusetts Amherst workshop jointly hosted by the: Departments of Political Science, Computer Science, and Communication Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Public Policy and Administration College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) *Submission Deadline: January 7, 2009* Submission Website: http://www.criticalmath.com/method/p.php?org_id=12789&l=submitpaper Conference Home Page: http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/ Keynote Speakers Day 1: Richard Rogers, Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Director of govcom.org. Dr. Rogers is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from other media. Rogers concentrates on the research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet. His research involves studying and building info-tools. He studies and makes use of the adjudicative or 'recommender' cultures of the Web that help to determine the reputation of information as well as organizations. The most well-known tool Rogers has developed with his colleagues is the Issue Crawler, a server-side Web crawler, co-link machine and graph visualizer. Day 2: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Approach The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches rooted in political science, media studies, and communication scholarship. The JITP Editor strongly endorses new and experimental approaches involving collaboration with information and computer science scholars. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to: - citizen initiated campaign videos, - candidates' use of YouTube, - bloggers use of YouTube to influence the primaries or election, - the impact of YouTube on traditional or new media coverage of the election cycle, - the effect of YouTube on citizen interest, knowledge, engagement, or voting behavior, - social network analysis of YouTube and related election-oriented sites, - political theory or communication theory and YouTube in the context of the 2008 election, - new metrics that support the study of the "YouTube Effect" on elections, - archives for saving and tools for mapping the full landscape of YouTube election content, - use of YouTube in the classroom as a way to teach American electoral politics, or - reviews of existing scholarship about YouTube. Paper Submissions Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a manuscript following one of the six submission formats by January 7, 2009. These formats include research papers, policy viewpoints, workbench notes, review essays, book reviews, and papers on teaching innovation. The goal is to produce a special issue, or double issue, of JITP with a wide variety of approaches to the broad theme of "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States." How to Submit Everything you need to know about how to prepare and submit a strong JITP paper via the JITP web site is documented at http://www.jitp.net/. Papers will be put through an expedited blind peer review process by the Program Committee and authors will be notified about a decision by February 15, 2009. A small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Other paper authors will be invited to present a poster during the Friday evening reception. All posters must include a "YouTube" version of their research findings. Travel Support We anticipate having the ability to support the travel expenses of the presenting author of accepted papers. Should the number of accepted papers exceed our ability to provide travel support, funds will go first to graduate students and then on an as-needed basis for other authors. Best Paper and Poster Cash Prizes The author (or authors) of the best research paper will receive a single $1,000 prize. The creator (or creators) of the best YouTube poster/research presentation will also receive a single prize of $1,000. Conference Co-Chairs Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst (mailto:stu@.edu) Michael Xenos, Louisiana State University (mailto:xenos@lsu.edu) Program Committee Sam Abrams, Harvard University Micah Altman, Harvard University Karine Barzilai-Nahon, University of Washington Lance Bennett, University of Washington Ryan Biava, University of Wisconsin Bob Boynton, University of Iowa John Brigham, University of Massachusetts Amherst Tom Carlson, Åbo Akademi University Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway University of London Greg Elmer, Ryerson University Kirsten Foot, University of Washington Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeff Guliati, Bentley College Mike Hais, Co-author, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics Matthew Hale, Seton Hall University Justin Holmes, University of Minnesota Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute Mike Margolis, University of Cincinnati Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst John McNutt, University of Delaware Ines Mergel, Syracuse University Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California-Information Sciences Institute Antoinette Pole, Montclair State University Stephen Purpura, Cornell University Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project Ken Rogerson, Duke University Jeffrey Seifert, Congressional Research Service Mack Shelley, Iowa State University Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chirag Shah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Wilkerson, University of Washington Christine Williams, Bentley College Morley Winograd, University of Southern California Quan Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Stout Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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percentage of Internet access?
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Does anyone have a reference for global internet use? Specifically, what percentage of the global population has access to the Internet (obviously this would be an estimate). Thanks Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.

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Fwd: [Sigdl-l] Just Published: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - The First Two Years
by jeremy hunsinger 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> > Date: December 10, 2008 10:18:48 AM EST > To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr, WSIS <wsis-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr>, rscao-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr > , sigdl-l(a)asis.org, sigkm-l(a)asis.org, ecollaboration(a)dgroups.org, > Web2ForDev <web2fordev(a)dgroups.org>, ica-l(a)mailman.srv.ualberta.ca > Subject: [Sigdl-l] Just Published: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - > The First Two Years > > Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - The First Two Years > > Edited by Avri Doria and Wolfgang Kleinwächter in coorperation with > the IGF Secretariat. > > A UNESCO Publications for the World Summit of the Information > Society - Special issue co-produced with the ITU and UNDESA (2.34MB) > > Download Full-text Book: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/hydera/IGFBook_the_first_two_years.pdf > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anup Kumar Das > New Delhi, India > http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them > now._______________________________________________ > Sigdl-l mailing list > Sigdl-l(a)asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigdl-l

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Fwd: [Sigdl-l] Just Published: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - The First Two Years
by jeremy hunsinger 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> > Date: December 10, 2008 10:18:48 AM EST > To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr, WSIS <wsis-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr>, rscao-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr > , sigdl-l(a)asis.org, sigkm-l(a)asis.org, ecollaboration(a)dgroups.org, > Web2ForDev <web2fordev(a)dgroups.org>, ica-l(a)mailman.srv.ualberta.ca > Subject: [Sigdl-l] Just Published: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - > The First Two Years > > Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - The First Two Years > > Edited by Avri Doria and Wolfgang Kleinwächter in coorperation with > the IGF Secretariat. > > A UNESCO Publications for the World Summit of the Information > Society - Special issue co-produced with the ITU and UNDESA (2.34MB) > > Download Full-text Book: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/hydera/IGFBook_the_first_two_years.pdf > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Anup Kumar Das > New Delhi, India > http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them > now._______________________________________________ > Sigdl-l mailing list > Sigdl-l(a)asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigdl-l

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(tele)presence and CFP
by Matthew Lombard 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

A colleague mentioned that social presence was being discussed here so I finally subscribed. Presence folks have typically been most focussed on spatial telepresence (the sense - or illusion - that technology users get of being in a technology-generated, or partially generated, space) but there's much more focus these days on social telepresence (the sense technology users get of interacting directly with real or artificial people or other social entities). Although it's not reflected as well as it might be in the text of the call for papers below, social telepresence is central to many of the potential topics listed. There's lots more information, including a detailed concept explication statement, on the web site of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR); the url is <http://ispr.info) Best, --Matthew ***Apologies for cross-postings*** Special Issue of Virtual Reality on "Mediated Presence: Virtual Reality, Mixed Environments and Social Networks" Guest Editors: Prof Luciano Gamberini PhD and Anna Spagnolli PhD (University of Padova) Matthew Lombard PhD (Temple University) Often described as a sense of "being there" in a mediated environment, presence is broadly defined as a psychological state or subjective perception in which a person fails to accurately and completely acknowledge the role of technology in an experience. It is a rich, fascinating subject of scientific investigation, artistic exploration and diverse application, with increasingly important implications for the ways in which people interact and technologies are developed. Designing technologies and imagining practices to modify, prolong and reconfigure the possibilities of being present has been a continuous endeavour of the human species, from early attempts at constructing communication and transportation devices, to the many current technologies we continue to develop to reach other places and people. Originally focused on bringing "presence" from the real world to a simulated one, the phenomenon is today analyzed and investigated in the context of diverse environments and involves questioning simple distinctions between "'real" and "artificial". This opening to a wide range of mediated environments is accompanied by a growing involvement of different research fields that are continuously updating and modifying the contours of presence scholarship. The phenomenon of presence is challenging from a scientific point of view as much as it is viable in everyday life, where people participate in simultaneous mediated experiences, feeling present or copresent in digital locations without any need for explicit instructions and orchestrating technical and cognitive resources to control and enhance presence. What it means to be present in mediated environments is then an extremely relevant and enticing question, bearing all sorts of implications for the design and application of diverse technologies. This special issue aims at illustrating the variety of research questions and approaches that are needed in order to tackle the phenomenon of mediated presence in virtual reality, mixed environments and social networks. Topics include: o Presence in shared virtual environments and online communities o Presence in social interactions with virtual agents and digital counterparts; parasocial interaction and relationships o Real bodies, avatars and cyborgs o Presence and ubiquity with mobile and geo-location technologies o Presence as a socio-cultural achievement; practices, preferences and material resources to manifest presence o Linguistic and non-verbal strategies to create, negotiate and challenge presence in mediated environments o Realistic action in virtual environments o Cognitive processes and the sense of presence; neuro- psychology of presence o Presence affordances in digital technologies o 3D sound, acoustic environments and presence o Advanced broadcast and cinematic displays (stereoscopic TV, HDTV, IMAX) o Haptic and tactile displays o Holography o Affective and socio-affective interfaces o Presence analysis, evaluation, and measurement techniques o Causes and consequences (effects) of presence o Presence augmentation through social, physical, and contextual cues o Presence, involvement and digital addiction o Presence applications (education and training; medicine; e- health and cybertherapy; entertainment; communication and collaboration; teleoperation; usability and design; art and performance, etc.) The special issue will appear in the Springer journal Virtual Reality (www.springeronline.com/journal/10055) Submissions are invited from authors who contributed to 11th Annual International Workshop of Presence, authors who did not contribute to the workshop are also welcome. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should typically be around 8,000 words and of standard journal content: reports of original research, or review papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed in accordance with the journal's normal process. Papers should be submitted online in Microsoft Word format and uploaded to http://www.editorialmanager.com/vire/. In order to use this system, authors need first to register in it, wait to receive a password by e-mail and then log in. When choosing 'Submit new manuscript' they are asked to select on article type from a list. They must select: 'S.I. Presence'. Please direct all correspondence to luciano.gamberini@unipd.it,anna.spagnolli@unipd.it and lombard(a)temple.edu. DEADLINES (extended): Submission of paper: January 31 st, 2009 Notification of acceptance to authors: March 21st, 2009 Revised papers received by April 20th, 2009 Publication: June 2009 -- Matthew Lombard, Ph.D. Temple University President International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) (215) 204-7182 lombard(a)temple.edu http://matthewlombard.com http://ispr.info

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