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FW: [JoCI] New Issue Published: Community Informatics and Indigenous Communities in Canada
by michael gurstein 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 Fax 604-602-0624 gurstein(a)gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: CI & Indigenous Communities in CanadaThe K-Net (Keewaytinook Okimakanak's Kuhkenah Network) Experience Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/27 Editorial -------- The K-Net Experience: Thematic Introduction to the Special Issue Brian Beaton, Susan O'Donnell, Adam Fiser, Brian Walmark K-Net, Community Informatics and Service Delivery: An Evolving Paradigm Michael Gurstein Articles -------- MyKnet.org: How Northern Ontario's First Nation Communities Made Themselves At Home On The World Wide Web Philipp Budka, Brandi Bell, Adam Fiser How K-Net and Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk are Using Videoconferencing for Community Development Mary Milliken, Susan O'Donnell, Elizabeth Gorman Out from the Edges: Multi-site Videoconferencing as a Public Sphere in First Nations Fenwick McKelvey, Susan O'Donnell Representation and Participation of First Nations Women in Online Videos Sonja Perley Implementation of Information and Communication Technology in Aboriginal Communities: A Social Capital Perspective Javier Mignone, Heather Henley Case Studies -------- Managing Changes in First Nations Health Care Needs: Is Telehealth the Answer? Josée Gabrielle Lavoie, Donna Williams Notes from the field -------- In Search of Community Champions: Researching the Outcomes of K-Nets Youth Information and Communications Technology Training Initiative Kristy Tomkinson A Community Informatics Model for e-Services in First Nations Communities: The K-Net Approach to Water Treatment in Northern Ontario Michael Gurstein, Brian Beaton, Kevin Sherlock Reports -------- Enabling and Accelerating First Nations Telehealth Development in Canada Valerie Gideon, Eugene Nicholas, John Rowlandson, Florence Woolner ON-LINE RESOURCES about Keewaytinook Okimakanak, the Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) and Associated Broadband Applications Brian Beaton ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net

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ASIST 2010 Annual Call for Papers
by Richard Hill 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

[Apologies for multiple postings] ASIST 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 22-27, 2010 American Society for Inforamtion Science and Technology Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem Complete Call at: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM10/am10cfp.html Deadlines: 1. Papers (short and long), Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: May 31, 2010 2. Posters, Demos and Videos: July 16, 2010 The ASIST Annual Meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centred on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. This year's conference is stepping away from tradition and re-inventing our premier conference in the guise of an innovative "ASIST 2.0." ASIST 2010 will consist of six tracks, each with its own program and reviewing committee to ensure that the conference meets your high expectations for standards and quality. Please note the important changes in format and content, and plan your submissions accordingly. Track 1 - Information Behaviour Track 2 - Knowledge Organization Track 3 - Information Systems, Interactivity and Design Track 4 - Information and Knowledge Management Track 5 - Information Use Track 6 - Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues Because each of these tracks represents a generic aspect of information science, each may be focused by additional elements. Types of Submissions: 1) Papers 2) Panels 3) Interactive Showcase a) Posters b) Demos c) Videos 4) Workshops - A Day of Special Themes Workshops will be held on the last day of the conference. For more information, please see http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM10/am10cfp.html: Dick Hill Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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possible workshops for ir11
by jeremy hunsinger 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

I'm thinking about putting together a pre-conference workshop at ir11. I'm torn between a few topics and I'd like to gauge interest before i go further. I'm thinking of one workshop as: 'Forms of the Critical in internet Research' in which we'd discuss what we mean by the critical. In my work, critical is an essentially contested concept, which means it is defined not singularly, but multiply and every paper should confront this multiple nature and try to bring meaning to the word critical within the theme of the conference. So the workshop would require papers a few months before, which we'd review and discuss and try to develop. Another would be much the same, but would center on the topic of Politics and the political. Ideally, i'd like to confront some of the politics of research in terms of internet research. otherwise, anyone interested in say... values in design for a workshop, infrastructure studies, or learning infrastructures? both of these would be open call workshop, probably with minimal external funding that would hope to develop some of the work toward a publishable form. We would need 10-20 participants for either, though we could get higher numbers. Everything would be reviewed before inclusion, etc. Finally, i could not do a workshop, which is an option i've not pursued for several years. thoughts? please respond offlist. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: [Air-L] distributed imagery and copyright (was: a question of open source ethics)
by Mridula 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

The issue with the independent ended up by the paper apologizing for the use of the 'all rights reserved' photo. Here is more on it the British Journal of Photography- http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=872764 To me (as a less than amateur photographer) the issue is very clear. When I post something under 'all rights reserved' that is how it should remain. If someone asked me permission for the use of a photograph and they are not for profit, I ask for a credit and let them use it. If it is a commercial site I ask for token money and usually in India you never hear from them again. In this part some of us use 'all rights reserved' to initiate a conversation. I once found, and not so long back, a photo of mine in an Indian national newspaper's Sunday supplement after cropping out (c) Mridula D from the image. Hence, the hesitation to use creative commons, that it would be taken as an excuse by everyone to use pictures. Regards, Mridula -- http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/

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8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 "web.sharing.tv.content"
by Lugmayr Artur 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 "web.sharing.tv.content" June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/ 3rd Call for Papers, Demos, Tutorials, and Industrial Exhibitions News - Full Paper deadline extended till 24th January 2010 - Tutorial deadline extended till 15th January 2010 - Short Paper deadline approaching 7th February 2010 (!) WE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 'INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ART' TRACK (!) New in EuroITV: - 4 tracks: interactive content & arts, HCI, technology, and media studies - video and TV in the age of Web 3.0. - EuroITV competition grand challenge - targeted and themed workshops - email list: on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 - proceedings published within the ACM Digital Library and special issues Thanks to our Sponsors: Nokia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year: * INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly attract the creative media production community dealing with interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, and consumers as content creators and contributors. * VIDEO IN THE AGE OF WEB3.0. EuroITV 2010 faces the challenges of TV as changing environment and explicitly invites contributions dealing with user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, IPTV, cross-media, broadcasting everywhere, 3D cinema/3D IPTV/3D content, and video.b * EuroITV COMPETITION GRAND CHALLENGE EuroITV 2010 also offers a competition opened for artistic content creators, application developers, and service designers to get awarded by EuroITV. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 15th, 2010: Tutorial Proposals (extended) January 24th, 2010: Full Paper Submissions (extended) February 07th, 2010: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos March 21st, 2010: Industry Exhibitions April 1st, 2010: EuroITV Competition Grand Challenge More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented work, will follow soon. More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ CONFERENCE TRACKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work. Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track . Studies of interactive, collaborative content & video . Storytelling . Digital gaming . Role playing . Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world . Distributed and networked experience design . Immersion . Social media in storytelling . Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social media . Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity . Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator . Towards a new form language for video & television . Social media utilizing online video as an art form . Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual worlds . Video and TV as alternate reality games Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction . User-centered design . Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services . Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media technologies . Studies on iTV and media usage . Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV . Case studies of successful/unsuccessful iTV systems and deployments of usability and user experience . Accessibility of iTV services . Cross-over media concepts and implementations . Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, privacy, security). Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies . Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security . Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modelling . Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption . Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning . Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things applications . Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies . New advertising and revenue models for television . User creativity on/via television: Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content . Ethical, regulatory and policy issues . Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children . Digital divide and e-inclusion issues . Methods for digital television research and design . >From mass media to mass self-communication . Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital convergence and experience economy Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies . Mobile TV . Ambient intelligence . Social TV . Digital content production . HDTV and digital cinema . Entertainment computing . Interactive services (games, betting, game shows) . Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems . Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction . Web 2.0 . Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV) . Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) . Multimedia communication services . Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search) . Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info(a)euroitv2010.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2010 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by subscribing on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 or sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject to: euroitv2010-request(a)listmail.tut.fi. Host: EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and Logistics / TUT Tampere (http://www.tut.fi/emmi) -------------- seuraava osa -------------- HTML liite on poistettu...

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CFP: IJEI special issue 'Digital technologies and educational integrity'
by Chris Moore 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Call for papers: 'Digital technologies and educational integrity' A special issue of the online refereed journal IJEI Edited by Chris Moore and Ruth Walker University of Wollongong This special issue of the International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI) seeks articles that address the impact of digital technologies on educational integrity. Many different terms have emerged in an attempt to capture the shifting terrain of media use and users in various networked environments: 'social', 'participatory', 'user-generated' or simply 'new' media. Common to the online interactive spaces of Web2.0 is the challenge of technologies and practices that are capable of changing the way we teach, learn, and share knowledge. How can we best engage and support students and colleagues coming to terms with the dynamics of these technologies and the development of new literacies? We are particularly interested in innovative research from scholars in cultural and media studies and/or the scholarship of teaching and learning, and welcome interest from other disciplinary researchers, who might consider a broad range of questions about digital technologies that critically unpack the conversation about academic integrity and go beyond a preoccupation with plagiarism and research ethics. Critical voices of concern, examples of best practice and consideration of the perceived impact of digital technology on institutional boundaries are keenly sought as is research exploring the collaborative approaches to social and participatory media that challenge conceptions about authorial identity and scholarly writing practices. Research examining the development of new literacies that celebrate the appropriation, adaptation and transformation of source material would fit well within the scope of this special issue. We also welcome reviews of relevant books or publications. Abstracts (max 500 words) due date: 31st March 2010 Full papers (3-6000 words) due date: 1st July 2010 Book reviews (1000 words) due date: 1st September 2010 Special issue release date: December 2010 Please send all enquiries and abstracts to the editors at ruth_walker(a)uow.edu.au. International Journal for Educational Integrity: http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/issue/current Submission style guide: http://www.unisa.edu.au/EducationalIntegrity/Journal_submission_guidelines.… About the editors: Chris Moore is a father, gamer and lecturer in Digital Communications, Games and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong. Currently researching Australian gamers and their cultural, economic and social contributions, this focus has emerged from analysis of the complementary and alternative regimes of intellectual property generation and management, including the Open Source movement and digital games modification sub-cultures and online learning practices. Ruth Walker teaches a range of academic writing programs in the Faculties of Creative Arts and Law at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests take a cultural and media studies approach to academic integrity, particularly regarding the impact of media technologies on critical writing practices. She is currently the deputy chair of the Asia Pacific Forum for Educational Integrity (APFEI).

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2nd CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems. IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials. All submissions are due 15 February 2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 February 2010 Notification to authors 15 March 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 January 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html

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Satellite-Linked PDAs Promise To Speed Haitian Relief Effort > John Dodge / SmartPlanet / January 15 2010
by gerrymck 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

As Haitians dig furiously through the rubble to find survivors and the dead, Global Relief Technologies (GRT) is planning to map and record the destruction on the ground to give relief workers critical realtime information as they race against the clock. The Portsmouth, N.H. company’s Rapid Data Management System will be used to collect data on the ground with PDAs. A variety of media - texts, reports, photos, video and tweets - are transmitted via satellite to an Internet-based and secure Collaboration Center custom-designed for the client and its relief workers. Satellite communications are critical because land lines and cell towers are down in the ravaged areas. With respect to Haiti, GRT is working with the Marines, National Guard, Red Cross and the USS Comfort floating hospital ship, which is heading to Haiti. Members in those units can securely access the Collaboration Center through any number of computing devices, PDAs and smartphones. [snip] Just about any rescue or reconstruction information can be handled within the RDMS to answer questions such as. is a building intact, partially damaged or destroyed? What’s it location? What does it look like before and after? Perhaps there are people still trapped inside. How many and for how long? What’s known about their injuries? What’s the local availability of resources? What are the detailed conditions of the roads, bridges and other infrastructure? And emergency alerts can be broadcast to field workers as events dictate. With the earthquake disaster and heartbreaking search for survivors dominating the news, local media outlets here in Boston with its sizable Haitian community have rushed to cover GRT. [snip] Source > Relevant Links > Graphic/Photo Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/ye93577 ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Re: [Air-L] Multiple Social Platform Uses + Web 2.0 and Handicraft + Racialization on the Web
by Denise N. Rall 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Dear Ostap - There is my own modest contribution - Rall, D.N. 2007. "Spinning around in a 'Martha Stewart world': Craft in the Age of the Internet" Australian Folklore, 22: 198-212. Also see - Humphreys, S., Grassroots creativity in new media environments : Yarn Harlot and the 4000 knitting Olympians (2008) Download http://hdl.handle.net/2440/51162 Publisher Carfax Publishing Limited Another good source for 'resistance' and fashion is the collection: (Ed) Palmer, A. and H. Clark (2005) Old clothes: new looks: Second Hand Fashion. Oxford: Berg. There is no mention of electronic media in this collection but plenty of networking (the old fashioned kind). Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Join the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org IR 11.0 Meets: 21-23 October 2010, U. of Gothenburg-Gothenburg,Sweden --- On Sat, 16/1/10, Ostap Bender <ostapben(a)gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ostap Bender <ostapben(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Air-L] Multiple Social Platform Uses + Web 2.0 and Handicraft + Racialization on the Web > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org __________________________________________________________________________________ See what's on at the movies in your area. Find out now: http://au.movies.yahoo.com/session-times/

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ACLU reports US Customs searches 1500+ digital devices at border in nine months]
by George Lessard 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

- RT @mediamentor: RT @michaelgeist: RT @eMichaelPower: ACLU reports US Customs searches 1500+ digital devices at border in nine months: http://ow.ly/XU7F [excerpt] The ACLU's analysis of the first batch of documents released by CBP reveals: In a span of just nine months, CBP officials searched over 1,500 electronic devices belonging to travelers. Under the current policy, they were not required to justify a single one of these searches. Travelers' laptops are not the only devices at risk of being examined, detained, or seized by the government. In fact, cell phones were the most commonly searched and seized devices between October 2008 and June 2009. Other types of devices that were searched and detained during this time period include digital cameras, thumb drives, hard drives, and even DVDs. Between July 2008 and June 2009, CBP transferred electronic files found on travelers' devices to third-party agencies almost 300 times. Over half the time, these unknown agencies asserted independent bases for retaining or seizing the transferred files. More than 80 percent of the transfers involved the CBP making copies of travelers' files.

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