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Free digital edition of The Fluxus Reader now available
by Ken Friedman 13 May '11

13 May '11

Dear Colleagues, The Fluxus Reader has been out of print for many years now. In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Fluxus in 2012, I've been getting requests for copies -- I don't have any, and I don't know anyone who does. It's clearly been a desirable book for some time. Owen Smith told me that he was already seeing used copies at $300 a few years back. Today, I did an Amazon search for used copies, and I found prices running from $449 up to $2,500! (The expensive copy seems to have a drawing in it, but even the "cheap" copies cost too much.) For a while, now I've wanted to make a free digital edition available, but the small typeface has made it difficult to get a clean copy. Rebecca Parker, manager of the Research Bank here at the Swinburne University library has gone to an expert outside service to prepare, digitize, and proof The Fluxus Reader. The digital copy is now available for download at: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234 Download times are swift over the net, but the complete book runs 36MB. To make it easy for those who only wish one chapter, Ms. Parker has also prepared a single PDF for each chapter for use as stand-alone texts. To preserve the coherence and continuity of the book, Rebecca set each chapter up with the front matter for the entire book. The book is an open access edition, configured for full search and accessible for copy and paste for scholars or students who wish to quote from the book. All details and pages are identical with the print edition. The PDF files are set to print out on a full-page format for easy reading. In my contract with the publisher, I kept the copyright of the book as editor. In making the digital edition of the Fluxus Reader available, I do so granting full permission for use in any format or medium. Please feel free to share this information, to distribute the URL, or to copy the book. Any library that wishes to add the Fluxus Reader to its digital resources collection is free to do so. Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life | University of Chicago Press | http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226033594

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Call for Papers: Intl Society for Presence Research (ISPR 2011)
by Matthew Lombard 13 May '11

13 May '11

CALL FOR PAPERS - Please distribute widely ISPR 2011 International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference Edinburgh, Scotland October 26-28, 2011 SUBMISSION DEADLINE extended to: JUNE 5, 2011 Academics and practitioners interested in presence (short for telepresence) are invited to participate in the Annual International Conference on Presence, to be held in Edinburgh on October 26- 28, 2011. The presence community comprises researchers in communication, computer science, psychology, entertainment, philosophy, the arts, education and other fields. Presence exists in two overlapping flavours - social presence and spatial presence. Social presence is the sense, the feeling and the experience of being with other people mediated by technologies such as teleconferencing, collaborative virtual environments, social networking, mobile communications and so on. In contrast, spatial presence is the sense, the feeling and the experience of being in another place by way of technologies such as immersive and non-immersive virtual reality, movies, games, mixed reality systems and books. ISPR 2011 follows a series of 12 successful PRESENCE conferences and provides an ideal forum for presentation of presence scholarship and applications that allow attendees to join together in synthesizing and expanding our collective knowledge and visions for the future regarding this compelling topic. ISPR 2011 is co-organized by the International Society for Presence Research and the Centre for Interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University. Topics Issues of prominent interest include (but are not limited to): o Mobile & ubiquitous presence o Philosophical perspectives on presence o Presence applications o Measures of presence o Presence in entertainment o Presence in games o Presence in medicine and therapy o Presence in the arts and humanities o Presence in mixed reality o Presence technologies o Presence theory o Psychological perspectives on presence o Neuropsychology of presence o Educational aspects of presence o The ethics of presence o Presence in the next 25 years We seek original, high quality papers that make substantial contributions to the field. All accepted papers will be collected in the official conference proceedings (with ISBN) and will also be permanently available for download on the ISPR conference archive on the ISPR web site (http://ispr.info) We expect to have all accepted papers included in the ACM Digital Library. Conference Format ISPR 2011 will have an interactive format in which all participants (attendees, presenters, invited speakers) attend each of the sessions as well as social events, allowing participants to exchange ideas and build knowledge together as the conference progresses. The language of the conference is English. Venue The conference will be hosted by Edinburgh Napier University. The conference events will take place at Craighouse Campus which is a fine example of the Scottish Baronial. Craighouse is only 2 miles (3km) and a short bus ride from Edinburgh´s medieval Old Town and Georgian New Town both of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Accommodations A free online booking facility will be provided via a link on the conference web site; delegates will be able to view information on each of several local hotels with rates from approximately £50 to £150 and book their room, receiving an automatic email confirmation. Registration Registration will open July 1, 2011. Fees include lunch and refreshments for 3 days, an opening evening reception, a conference dinner with wine at a traditional Scottish restaurant in Edinburgh´s old town on the evening of day 2, conference proceedings and more. Fees are in British Pounds - you can use the converter at http://www.xe.com/ucc to check other currencies. Until September 15, 2011 o Standard - 325 £ o Student - 250 £ o Standard + ISPR annual membership - 300 £ o Student + ISPR annual membership - 230 £ >From September 16, 2011 o Standard - 375 £ o Student - 275 £ o Standard + ISPR annual membership - 350 £ o Student + ISPR annual membership - 255 £ Submissions We invite researchers and practitioners to submit work in the following categories: PAPERS: Comprehensive descriptions of research or design work and/or theoretical investigation within the scope of the conference. Papers must relate to existing literature on presence and make an original contribution to it. Papers may be up to 10 pages in length including references in the ISPR 2011 template format available on the conference web site (http://ispr.info) All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings and will be allocated time for oral presentation. SHORT PAPERS: Short papers may be up to just 4 pages in the ISPR 2011 template format. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings and will be allocated time for oral presentation. PANELS: Sets of presentations on a single theme or topic within the scope of the conference. Submitters are encouraged to be creative regarding both the topic or theme and the format for panel proposals (formats that encourage guided discussion are particularly welcome). Panel proposals must identify and provide contact information for all proposed participants and be a maximum of 10 pages in length. Accepted panels will be included in the Proceedings. POSTERS: Visual display presentations. Poster proposals are limited to 4 pages including references in the ISPR 2011 template format. Accepted poster proposals will be published in the conference proceedings. Posters will be displayed on an approximately 70×40 cm board during a dedicated session of the conference and will be allocated a 2 minute oral preview. DEMONSTRATIONS/EXHIBITIONS: Step-by-step audiovisual demonstrations and/or hands-on experiences of non-commercial work within the scope of the conference. Proposals for demonstrations/exhibitions are limited to 4 pages in the ISPR 2011 template format. Accepted demonstration/exhibition proposals will be included in the conference proceedings and will be presented during a dedicated session of the conference. For the exhibitions of commercial products, please contact ISPR (ispr(a)ispr.info) for sponsorship terms and opportunities. All submissions will be made through the EasyChair conference online submission system (at the url below) and will undergo a double-blind peer-review process by at least two selected reviewers. Submission url: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ispr2011 Important Dates June 5, 2011 - Submissions due July 1, 2011 - Early registration opens August 15, 2011 - Notification of acceptance decisions September 15, 2011 - Finished, camera-ready papers due September 15, 2011 - Early registration closes October 26 -28, 2011 - Conference Conference Committee Conference Chair: Phil Turner (Edinburgh Napier University) Programme Co-Chairs: David Benyon (Edinburgh Napier University) Susan Turner (Edinburgh Napier University) Matthew Lombard (Temple University) For More Information Conference web site: http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/ispr/presence-conferences/ispr2011/ Conference questions: ispr(a)ispr.info -- Matthew Lombard, Ph.D. Temple University President International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) lombard(a)temple.edu http://matthewlombard.com http://ispr.info

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update: call for papers on Knowledge Management and Social Media
by Robert Mason 13 May '11

13 May '11

A reminder-the deadline for HICSS submissions to the new mini-track KM & social media is June 15; see http://ow.ly/4Krij Also-we have announced a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce on same topic: http://ow.ly/4Toit . Contact me or Dianne Ford (dpford(a)mun.ca<mailto:dpford@mun.ca>) with questions or for feedback on abstracts Bob Robert M. Mason Professor, the Information School University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2840 Twitter: rmason

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UNESCO - Africa-wide forum for Science, Technology and Innovation launched
by Monica Murero 12 May '11

12 May '11

Africa-wide forum for Science, Technology and Innovation launched Africa is the least advanced continent in ST&I. An Africa-wide forum which aims to give science, technology and innovation (ST&I) a more central role in the policy-making process was launched. The forum is a result of collaboration between UNESCO, UNECA, the African Union, ISESCO and other partners. All national African parliaments, the Pan-African Parliament and all regional parliamentary assemblies will be members. http://www.scidev.net/en/middle-east-and-north-africa/pan-african-parliamen… Monica ------------ Monica Murero , Ph.D. AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009 AoIR Honorific Lifetime Member Director E-Life International Institute Associate Professor in Politics of e-Government and in Sociology of New Technology University Federico II, Italy Consultant, World Health Organization LinkedIN: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/monica-murero-ph-d/16/52/606 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/monica_murero or @monica_murero Inviato da iPad

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1st Int'l Workshop on Values in Design - Building Bridges between RE, HCI & Ethics
by Michael Zimmer 12 May '11

12 May '11

==============================CALL FOR PAPERS================================ 1st International Workshop on Values in Design - Building Bridges between RE, HCI & Ethics held in conjunction with INTERACT 2011, 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 6th of September, Lisbon, Portugal Submissions are due 10 June 2011 Workshop website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign11/ ORGANIZERS ========== Christian Detweiler - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Alina Pommeranz - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Jeroen van den Hoven - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Helen Nissenbaum - New York University, NYC, USA AIMS AND SCOPE ============== In working with stakeholder requirements or user needs in design, various design methods in requirements engineering and human computer interaction, in specific user-centred and value sensitive design, are finding ways to deal with “soft issues”, “social issues”, “people issues” or values. At the same time, applied ethics has begun to pay attention to design. We believe that many of the approaches could complement each other in useful ways. The aim of this workshop is to bring together people from different disciplines to share knowledge and insights about how to account for values in technology design, and to work towards integrating approaches. The main theme is the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge, experiences and new ideas on values in technology design. The following list reflects (but is not limited to these) possible topics: - Designing for specific values (e.g. privacy, sustainability, trust, responsibility,...) - Experiences from value-oriented projects - Value Sensitive Design (VSD) - Value considerations in industry projects or product development - Understanding and relating different notions of values - Integrating value-oriented methods with software engineering/ design methods - Accounting for values in experience oriented designs, e.g. “fun” as a value - Values used in evaluations of User Experience (UX) - Dealing with soft issues, social issues, and people issues in requirements engineering - Value-based requirements engineering - Value elicitation & value tensions: dealing with a variety of stakeholder values - Value elicitation: methods from different research fields - (Digital) Tools for value elicitation - Personal Informatics and values - Capturing and reusing value knowledge (scenarios, design patterns, etc.) - Values in Persuasive Technology and/or Ambient Intelligence - Values in specific domains (health care, military, crisis management) - Values in Intelligent Systems (e.g. for decision support or automated systems) FORMAT ======= This is a one-day workshop divided into two parts. In the first half we will have four consecutive panel sessions: the values turn in design - “soft issues” in RE and UCD; the design turn in applied ethics; values across disciplines; and values in industry. Panels will be led by representatives in the respective field. Each panel will be initiated by short presentations by authors of accepted papers followed by a discussion with all workshop participants. In the second part, we will create groups of 4-5 participants with different backgrounds (RE, HCI and Ethics). Each group will be given a design case to work on using tools and methods proposed by the participants. The aim will be to create an overview of people issues, values, soft issues and (long term) social aspects emerging from each design case. In a debriefing session we will share experiences (regarding the cases and tools used) from the group work with all participants. Participants who wish to present their work as posters or demos will be given the opportunity to do so during the breaks. PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================= We invite technologists, designers, and ethicists working on topics related to values in technology design to submit original papers of the following kinds: - research papers describing recent results, user studies, study methods or ongoing work - statements of interests or position papers describing novel ideas or perspectives - papers describing novel systems, design cases or case studies from industry or academia All papers should represent original and previously unpublished work currently not under review in any conference or journal. Papers will be peer-reviewed and will be selected by relevance and likelihood of stimulating and contributing to a discussion related to the workshop theme. All submissions must follow the Springer Lecture Notes template for Microsoft Word (.doc files only). The maximum paper length is 8 pages, but shorter position papers are also welcome. Submit your paper electronically in PDF format to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vind11. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. In agreement with the authors papers can be presented as short presentations during panel sessions, or as posters or demos whichever suits the content of the paper most. Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. A selection of accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Ethics and Information Technology Journal. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================== Catholijn Jonker, Man-Machine Interaction, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands David Keyson, Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Cees Midden, Human Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands Barbara Paech, Software Engineering, University of Heidelberg, Germany Jens Riegelsberger, User Experience Team, Google, UK Alistair Sutcliffe, Centre for HCI Design, University of Manchester, UK Michael Zimmer, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA IMPORTANT DATES: =============== 10 June 2011: Paper Submissions Due 1 July 2011: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection 15 July 2011: End of early bird registration 6 September 2011: Workshop at Interact 5-9 September 2011: Interact conference INFORMATION =========== For further information please contact: c.a.detweiler(a)tudelft.nl or a.pommeranz(a)tudelft.nl

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Telecommunications law question
by Thomas Jones 11 May '11

11 May '11

Friends, If any of you are voice telephony professionals proficient in telco PBX networks and VoIP, could you please contact me offline? I have a question regarding "slamming" and what was (or is still?) known as toll skipping (never heard of it before today). Thomas Jones @othertomjones http://theothertomjones.com One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. -- Albert Einstein, On Education --

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Conference "Global Media Worlds and China": Uppsala University October 6-7, 2011
by Christian Fuchs 11 May '11

11 May '11

http://www.im.uu.se/MLeague2011/?languageId=3&siteNodeId=36303&contentId=-1 http://www.im.uu.se/digitalAssets/56/56848_MLeauge2011ver2.pdf http://www.im.uu.se/digitalAssets/56/56531_RegistrationForm-MLIS2011.doc Global Media Worlds and China 2011 MLeague International Symposium October 6th-7th 2011, Uppsala, Sweden Contribution abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2011 Organized by: International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication (MLeague) Communication University of China (CUC) Uppsala University (UU) Keynote speakers - Susan Brownell, University of Missouri, USA - Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK - Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, Canada The International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication, MLeague, Communication University of China (CUC) and Uppsala University (UU) invites you to attend the annual international academic symposium of MLeague organized by MLeague, CUC and Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, October 6-7 2011. The symposium is hosted by Department of Informatics and Media and Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. The theme of the symposium is “Global Media Worlds and China” and it is divided in three parts: - Global Media worlds entering China: global and international media in China - Media worlds of China: the transforming media landscape of China - China entering global media worlds: Chinese media going international and global Participants are free to address any relevant issues inside of these broad frames (for example cultural industries, innovation, media economy, digital media, media convergence, governance, digital media cultures, social media, new media ethics, immaterial rights, privacy, etc.). -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs(a)im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.at Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010)

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List of AoIR Executive Committee Nominees
by Mia Consalvo 11 May '11

11 May '11

Greetings, It is my pleasure to announce the list of nominees for AoIR's next Executive Committee (2011-2013). We will be posting candidate's statements on the Association's website once we receive all of them, and will notify you when they are ready to view. Ballots will be sent to all current AoIR members on May 24, 2011 with voting details enclosed. *Vice President* Ted Coopman Lori Kendall Monica Murero *Student Representative* Anthony Hoffman Trent Kays Kelly Quinn *Treasurer* Michael Zimmer (acclaimed) *Secretary* Catherine Middleton (acclaimed) *Open Seats* Andrea Baker Jillana Enteen Andrew Herman Soraj Hongladarom Mark Johns Gene Loeb Christopher Paul Ulf-Dietrich Reips Cristian Berrio Zapata Thanks to all for their interest, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-226 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA consalvo(a)mit.edu 617.324.1868

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a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research
by Niels Brügger 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi all, Just a short comment about robots.txt. Whether robots.txt should be respected or not by web archives is not as unequivocal as put by Jeremy below - there are national differences. The national Danish web archive Netarkivet.dk is based on the "Act no. 1439 of December 22, 2004 on Legal Deposit of Published Material", and here it is stated that the archive is not obliged to respect robots.txt. The rationale for this is that once it's out there it's out there, and as long as it's accessible to everyone it's 'public' - thus it's part of the cultural heritage, thus it should be archived. This also applies for password protected material IF everyone could get a password, no matter if s/he had to pay for it. And if you don't want it to be public, then don't put it out there - robots.txt does not prevent people to see it, then it's public and will be archived. In the Danish legislation ignoring robots.txt is being considered necessary to collect all relevant material. However, the acces to the web archive is very restricted: there's only acces for scholars, and you have to apply for acces. If interested, the Danish web archive has made a short fact sheet: http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/Fact%20sheet%20Webarchiving%20in%20Denma… And a FAQ: http://netarkivet.dk/faq/index-en.php - and about robots.txt: http://netarkivet.dk/faq/index-en.php#faq_robots Best, Niels Brügger ----------- Message: 9 Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 11:18:04 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research Message-ID: <B7115BE4-D7AA-4B72-8C70-CF029ADF6AEE(a)vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think the tendency is to muddy the waters immensely here, but I also don't think we need to muddy the waters in regards to the Document vs Research Subject distinction. If you were allowed to research facebook, then you could do it either way or both ways, having subjects and documents, having just documents, or having just subjects. But once we are dealing with documents, then the only question we have is whether those are published documents or not. I think that instead of muddying the waters and continuing to say it is not simple, as we are inclined to do as academics, is going to continue to cause us grief and possibly prevent perfectly reasonable research, and thus i think we should embark on the other strategy that says: 'We can make this simple'. If it is published, it is public and open to research, you determine if it is published using these guidelines. If it is not published, then what is it, is it a private diary? is it a private letter? who has rights to the material and how can it be released for research. If you are dealing with research subjects, in what way are you doing that? if you are just reading their postings... you are not interacting with them and not creating research subjects, if you are doing an ethnography or participatory or action research then yes you are interacting with them and you are creating human subjects, in short, a matrix of methods in relation to their objects would great ly clarify the document vs subject distinction. In terms of public private on the web, my position is more or less that if you put it on the web and you do not protect in in some manner via legal device, technical system, or otherwise, then you are producing a public document and that's the end of it. People I would argue that it does not matter if that was not your intent or that you wanted it to be private, what matters is that you committed something to the public record, and while you can withdraw it, once it is distributed, you might find that very difficult, and withdrawing likely doesn't change it's public status, it just changes the ease of access to that data. Robots.txt should not be ignored. it is one of the technical means that people use to secure their property on the web. If there is a robots txt and it prevents you from making a copy of something, then i'd guess that the owners of the material do not want you to use it for research, and you'd need to get permission. ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS February 2011 "Web Archiving — Between Past, Present, and Future", The Handbook of Internet Studies (eds. M. Consalvo, & C. Ess), Wiley-Blackwell 2011, pp. 24-42 Read more on the publishers website: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405185880.html April 2010 Web History (ed.), Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2010 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=310468&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1 January 2010 Website Analysis, Papers from The Centre for Internet Research, 12, The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus 2010, [ get an electronic copy at: http://cfi.au.dk/en/publications/paper/#a12 ] NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Research Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb(a)imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org

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considering how to think about facebook re: research ethics and maybe privacy
by jeremy hunsinger 11 May '11

11 May '11

Michael brought up the example of what the understanding of privacy might mean in a group marked private on facebook and what that would mean for a researcher. I responded comparing facebook to a privately owned shopping mall with publicly accessible stores and publicly accessible common areas, with all areas covered by video cameras and other surveillance technologies. That is still my perspective on facebook, but I wonder how much work can a group do on facebook to maintain any real sense of privacy beyond the request. By requested privacy I mean it is parallel to the signs that teenagers put on their doors in their parents home, it is a recognizable request for distance and separation that in most practical matters is respected 'day to day' but is summarily ignored once anything of import happens and sometimes even otherwise ignored. I'm thinking that much of what happens in regards to stated privacy on the web fits under something like either a requested privacy or really false privacy, with only 'real' privacy existing on the web (or the internet in general) when there really is no way to obtain the information provided without agreeing to the terms of privacy. Also there might be a difference between actually having a sense of 'privacy' in such public arenas and requesting anonymity, which is really the sort of value one might expect in a shopping mall, 'just another anonymous individual' thoughts? Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Political Science Virginia Tech Everything you can imagine is real. --Pablo Picasso

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