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MP3 web player/streaming
by Ismael Peña-López 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Dear list, This might sound like an odd question... I need to be able to stream quite a huge collection of podcasts online. They are stored in a web (can be accessed through FTP too) server and classified in several folders. To make a long exposition short, I would like to either set up a sort of Spotify in my own web/FTP server or to have your usual flash player, but with the possibility to choose the files you want to play, instead of having it already preset. Or, in other words, with or without having to install locally a desktop application, I would like to be able to play the podcasts stored in my web/FTP server. Any ideas? Thank you very much, i. -- Ismael Peña-López Department of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia http://ictlogy.net Av. Tibidabo 39-43 08035 Barcelona

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Mobile Life 2010: Call for Practice Talks and Participation
by Prof. I. Kushchu 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES 2010 -------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE DATES: 27-28-29 October 2010 -- Registrations are open at www.m4life.org -- Draft Program Posted at http://www.m4life.org/conferences/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mlife2010pgm.p… WE ARE SOLiCITING INDUSTRY / PRACTICE TALKS, DEMOS AND COMPANY SHOWCASES: if interested please send email to organisers. The Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK, http://www.m4life.org conf(a)m4life.org -- The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (The EURO mGOV 2010) -- The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010) -- The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDevelopment 2010) The influences of mobile technologies range from personal relations to interaction in society, and from the transformation of the public sector to the dynamics of economic development. mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part in, and shape the development of the social impact of the mobile revolution. They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed in order to reach their goals. The three conferences will cover all aspects of mobile life, technology, services and implementation as they relate to individuals, society, economies and governments. PLENARY SPEAKERS Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org) Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts) Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT William H. Dutton, Professor and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College Ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria. HOW TO PARTICIPATE? Speaking: Professionals from Industry can still propose a talk summary. Organising: For panels, tutorials, demos or cases, please send a page long proposal. Exhibiting: If you would like a high visibility, more face-to-face interaction to introduce your business, products and services, this is a best option. Please request the exhibition pack. Sponsoring: The highest visibility and best impact during participation and a good way of supporting mLife events. CONFERENCE TOPICS Euro mGov: E-gov and m-gov integration m-Government Applications and Services Adoption of mGov M-government Best practices & Business Models Transforming Public Sector Mobile Health, Education, M-payment applications M-democracy, M-Voting Mobile Society: Mobile internet technologies, Standards and Protocols Mobile Devices and capabilities Impact of mobile communications, individuals and psychological issues Mobile phones and household interactions Mobility for improving impairments and disability Mobile Gaming, Entertainment, Social Networks Usability issues, Country and community case studies Mobile Development: The role of the governments, NGOs, private sector organizations Community building, Technology transfer and use Impact on developing economies Social and economical welfare creation Mobile Development Platforms FURTHER INFORMATION: Conference web site (http://www.m4life.org) for updates, detailed information on submissions and participation ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 327876 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 74, Issue 2
by André Brock 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Thanks to Brian, Gilbert, and Michael. I should clarify: the texts that i'm being asked to procure permission for are actually images. They're screenshots of the three websites' homepages used to help readers get a visual marker for the discourses examined of the article. To me, this complicates the discussion so far; in what way am i violating a website's copyright by reproducing a screen capture of their home page? i can see the problem (kinda, but not really) with reproducing huge chunks of text, or film clips, or audio performances longer than 6 seconds because i know of the deleterious effects on content industries of copyright violation </sarcasm>. i think the comments earlier about the chilling effects of copyright violation are on point. Whether in the EU, AU, or US, we (as AoIRies ('pronounced AIR-rhees')) should consider discussing this in greater detail at Gothenburg* and in this forum to come up with something similar to the ALA's guidelines on copyright and fair use, but focused on Internet/New Media Research. Carry on, André *those of us who can afford to go. -- Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

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christianity online
by Barry Wellman 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

I'd start with the works of Heidi Campbell, Communications, Texas A&M. And Ryerson U, Toronto, recently hosted a conference on the subject. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Permission to reproduce webpages?
by Philippa Smith 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Dear Gil, But what is the case if a website specifies that no reproduction of the website or its content may be used without permission? As researchers are we still legally bound to ask permission? Kind regards Philippa >>> "Gilbert B. Rodman" <gbrodman(a)mindspring.com> 09/02/10 11:29 AM >>> Two quick comments here, both AGAINST the notion that André necessarily has to ask for permission to use the images in question. First, "fair use" arguably disappears -- in specific cases, if not as a whole -- the moment you ask for permission. At the very least, asking for permission potentially prevents you from asserting "fair use" later (which you might still want to do if, for example, your request isn't answered in a timely fashion), since it demonstrates that you don't believe your quotation of the material qualifies as "fair use." Second, "fair use" isn't simply some technical quirk in US copyright law that allows scholars to get away with what is otherwise morally questionable activity. It is arguably one of the basic rights that enables us -- along with journalists, reviewers, critics, and a vast range of other cultural commentators -- to do our jobs. I'm willing to bet that the publisher André is dealing with is NOT making him secure permission every time he quotes printed texts. He undoubtedly needs to attribute such quotes properly, and there are likely to be restrictions on how much of a source he can quote ... but "fair use" is what allows scholars to quote words written by other people (and reviewers to quote bits of books, songs, plays, movies, etc.) in the ordinary practices of research, criticism, and commentary without having to formally granted permission to do so. Put a different way, "fair use" is one of the major things that keeps copyright holders from using charges of "infringement" as a backhanded means of controlling public commentary about the works in question. cheers gil On 09/01/2010 05:16 PM, Brian Holland wrote: > The AP is particularly litigious in this regard. They have an extensive licensing program and they expect folks to use it. In fact, the existence of such a program is a major factor against fair use -- i.e., it makes your claim of fair use less likely to succeed. > > - Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of André Brock > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:08 PM > To: Philippa Smith; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Permission to reproduce webpages? > > Thanks, Philippa! I appreciate the heads up. Fortunately, the sites we > examined (Racialicious, Jezebel, and Essence.com for those keeping score at > home) aren't pulling from AP (thank god!). > > I'll keep y'all posted on my progress and outcome. > > André > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Philippa Smith<philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz>wrote: > >> Just as an aside and to throw a spanner in the works - I've had a >> situation where we wanted to use a screenshot from an online newspaper >> but because the source of the article was Associated Press we had to >> get their permission as well to reproduce the text. This came at a >> financial cost. It's worth noting whether websites contain material >> from other sources that might also need permission. Unfortunately this >> is a can of worms scenario. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Philippa >> >> Philippa Smith >> PhD Candidate >> Institute of Culture, Discourse& Communication >> AUT University >> Auckland >> NEW ZEALAND >> >>>>> André Brock<andre.brock(a)gmail.com> 09/02/10 9:41 AM>>> >> Thanks to everyone who's answered me so far (Hi, Annette!). The legal >> advice was particularly helpful, and i'm going to follow Ulf-Dietrich's >> advice and contact the websites - i have contacts at a couple of them. >> >> Does AoIR have a specific statement on fair use of Internet/ICT >> materials >> for research in the field? I know we have an extensive sasking) >> >> André >> >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Andre Brock<andre.brock(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> For the first time in, well, ever I've been asked by a journal to >> obtain >>> permission from a website to reproduce a screenshot of a webpage. >> Not, to >>> be clear, of an image on the page - but of the page itself. I've >> been >>> offered the option of removing the image and replacing it with a URL, >> but >>> from an archival standpoint that's problematic. Webpages with dynamic >>> content change all the time, not to mention that authors sometimes >> change >>> formats/platforms, modify pages, or remove content that was included >> in the >>> original analysis. >>> >>> I don't want to miss the publishing deadline, but I need to know: >> "where >>> dey do dat at?!?" (translation: since when did fair use guidelines get >> bent >>> so badly in academic publishing?) >>> >>> André Brock >>> Assistant Professor, SLIS/POROI >>> University of Iowa >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Andre Brock >> Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI >> University of Iowa >> Iowa City, IA 52242 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/

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Invitation: Lift@Weimar - Sustainable Interaction with Food, Technology, and the City
by Jaz Choi 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Lift@Weimar - Sustainable Interaction with Food, Technology, and the City This workshop explores innovative approaches to understanding and cultivating sustainable food culture in urban environments via human-computer-interaction (HCI) design and ubiquitous technologies in urban environments. We perceive the city as an intersecting network of people, place, and technology in constant transformation. Lift Workshop @Weimar explores mobile human-food interaction and the role of interactive media in engaging citizens to cultivate more sustainable everyday human-food interactions on the go. Interactive media in this sense is distributed, pervasive, and embedded in the city as a network. The workshop addresses environmental, health, and social domains of sustainability by bringing together insights across disciplines to discuss conceptual and design approaches in orchestrating mobility and interaction of people and food in the city as a network of people, place, technology, and food. Speakers Mark Shepard, Assistant Professor, Departments of Architecture and Media Study at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Katharine S. Willis, Researcher / Artist / Architect at University of Siegen Marcus Foth, Associate Professor / Principal Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry) at Queensland University of Technology The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the speakers. IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, PLEASE REGISTER HERE: http://liftconference.com/lift-at-home/events/2010/10/31/lift-workshop-weim… This event is a part of the MediaCity 2010, International Scientific Conference: http://www.mediacityproject.org/en_EN/events/conference-10/ Please join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154534607892420&ref=ts If you have further queries, please contact Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:h.choi@qut.edu.au>). Hope to see you there! Jaz & Marcus ---- dr. jaz hee-jeong choi e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au w: www.nicemustard.com<http://www.nicemustard.com> p: +617 3138 8190 m: +61 433 167 151 ----

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"If pictures of you naked end up on an internet site"....
by Mary K. Bryson 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Interesting story ran today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) news site about naked pictures of a Canadian Judge that appeared online, that cites the learned opinion and judgment of the whole unfortunate event passed by the Dean of Law at a major Canadian University as follows: ³"If pictures of you naked end up on an internet site, it's quite difficult to say you have the credibility to be a judge," said Sébastien Grammond, dean of civil law at the University of Ottawa. Grammond said a judge ultimately represents the ideal of justice and therefore the judge's conduct and image reflect on the justice system as a whole. The judge is, in a sense, the embodiment of the justice system, something the Supreme Court has noted in a past judgment.² So Dean Grammond explicitly (a) decouples responsibility for the act of posting an image of a naked person (of a woman) on the net with the person (her husband) posting that image while simultaneously, (b) links culpability for the simple act of representation itself as it were with the person represented in that image... Truly bizarre (while very familiar) reasoning. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/08/31/judge-manitoba-douglas.ht ml Predictably, the person represented in those images, who did not post them online, ³requested to be temporarily relieved of her duties as a sitting justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.² Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/09/01/man-judge-steps-aside.htm l#ixzz0yJoew33o Interesting times. So many cameras and no where to go that is outside the frame. Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Archive: http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson Current Research: http://www.queerhealth.ca CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/

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Permission to reproduce webpages?
by Andre Brock 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

For the first time in, well, ever I've been asked by a journal to obtain permission from a website to reproduce a screenshot of a webpage. Not, to be clear, of an image on the page - but of the page itself. I've been offered the option of removing the image and replacing it with a URL, but from an archival standpoint that's problematic. Webpages with dynamic content change all the time, not to mention that authors sometimes change formats/platforms, modify pages, or remove content that was included in the original analysis. I don't want to miss the publishing deadline, but I need to know: "where dey do dat at?!?" (translation: since when did fair use guidelines get bent so badly in academic publishing?) André Brock Assistant Professor, SLIS/POROI University of Iowa

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Any online general education courses
by haijun 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Dear colleagues, Instead of doing a wild search, I'm coming here for help as this list has members around the world. Is there any educational institution out there who offers the following general education courses online (Preferably leading to a BS degree)? - English Composition - Humanities - Professional English Writing - Speech Arts - Introduction to Philosophy - General Psychology - Management to Organizations - Modern Foreign Language - Elementary Spanish Thanks! Please email me off the list. Haijun -- Haijun Kang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Instructional Technology) College of Lifelong Learning Jackson State University 3825 Ridgewood Road, Box 23 Jackson, MS 39211 Tel: 601-432-6132 (O) Fax: 601-432-6124

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Mobile Digital Interactive Storytelling 2nd cfp - New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
by Cunliffe D J (AT) 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Mobile Digital Interactive Storytelling New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Special Issue http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp Call for Papers Until recently a location's memory could mainly be accessed through media surrogates, such as books, drawings, film or audio files, or through face-to-face encounters with people who were able to knit people into the rich but hidden experience fabric of a place. The integration of low-cost pervasive and personal technology in the form of mobile devices and augmented reality into our everyday life starts to change our expectations about how to perceive the world around us. We are now able to leave traces of our emotional or intellectual experience as virtual attachments to any location. As a result we expect that any place, indoors or outdoors, reveals itself to us by confronting us with connection, context, and uncommon perspectives. Yet, any exploration is in itself an experience and so we desire that the revelation is compelling and enjoyable on an individual and group level. We expect to experience the world around us as a continuous, flexible, and networked exchange of ideas that are routed in where and who we are and how these intrinsic facets of our experience are connected to those of others. For this special issue we solicit novel papers describing approaches in digital storytelling that address the challenges posed by real world environments experienced through mobile devices. We look for work solutions for redefining our understanding of narrative structure and theory through interactivity in computer-generated story worlds that are tightly interwoven with the places we visit, the objects we touch, and the people we meet. Emphasis will be given to work that seamlessly integrate computerised story telling with real world experiences, including but not limited to: * Real-time techniques for interactive storytelling * Story generation and plot management engines for mobile environments * Interactive digital storytelling: theories, methods, and concepts applied to real world environments * Emotion design for storytelling * Educational digital storytelling * Experience design for interactive storytelling * Mobile urban drama * Novel narrative forms inspired by new technology * Storytelling and augmented reality * Collaborative environments for interactive storytelling * Interactive storytelling and gaming * Interactive and pro-active authoring environments * Evaluation and user experience reports of interactive storytelling applications Papers should be not longer than 7000 words including references and should follow the NHRM author instructions. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham. Important dates September 10, 2010 Paper submission deadline November 8, 2010 Authors notification December 14, 2010 Final copy due Summer 2011 Publication Guest Editors Frank Nack, ILPS, University of Amsterdam, nack(a)uva.nl Annika Waern, Interaction Laboratory, SICS, annika(a)sics.se

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