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FW: Pakistan blocks YouTube
by Kluver, Randy 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Pakistan evidently blocked more than its own citizens from accessing youtube. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/pakistan.youtube/index.html

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PhD Studentship: UK Based
by T.R.Jordan 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

We have a PhD (ESRC funded) studentship now advertised across a range of areas, but anyone who's interested in Internet Studies of one sort or another can look up myself, Richard Collins or Hugh Mackay on our Departmental website and I'd be really interested in anyone applying in our areas of virtuality/Internet research. Studentship Ad is here: http://tinyurl.com/create.php Department Staff is here: http://tinyurl.com/2u4lfv Tim jordan

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Freedom and Its Digital Discontents: Information Overload ( Economist Debate Series)
by Gerry Mckiernan 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ If You're Not Been Overloaded [:-)] you may wish to participate/vote in this virtual debate. _Freedom and Its Digital Discontents: Information Overload ( Economist Debate Series)_ [ http://www.economist.com/debate/ ] /Gerry Tomorrow marks the opening of the latest debate in our three part series, Freedom and its digital discontents. Come to the hall to vote, comment and share your opinions with the floor. "This house believes that if the promise of technology is to simplify our lives, it is failing." Many of us are discovering that the proliferation of information tools, services and channels makes managing our own personal and professional information increasingly difficult. Some go so far as to claim that information overload is diminishing people's ability to be effective. Are there better ways to manage the vast amounts of information assaulting users on a daily basis? Do new technologies and information streams promote progress or confusion? And are people losing their ability to reflect rather than just react? The speakers PRO Richard Szafranski, founding member and partner, Toffler Associates. Founder member and previous managing partner at Toffler Associates, he has extensive consulting experience with firms in defence, security, aerospace, manufacturing, communications, services, and US and international government agencies. CON John Maeda, president elect of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Named by Esquire magazine as one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century, John Maeda first made his mark by redefining the use of electronic media as a tool for expression for people of all ages and skills. He is a world-famous graphic designer, visual artist and computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab and was a founding voice for simplicity in the digital age. As always, our debate will also benefit from the insights of notable guest participants. Watch for their opinions, but remember: your comments shape the debates and your votes decide its winner. Debate event schedule * Feb 26th - Opening statements posted * Feb 29th - Rebuttals: share your comments on the issues so far, and vote * March 5th - Closing arguments by the speakers. Post any additional comments you would like to share and vote for your winner * March 7th - Debate winner announced Happy Monday ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Lessons in Second LIfe
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

distribute as appropriate -jh Every Week on Monday (1:00-2:30pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ this week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: In-the- disciplinarity not Interdisciplinarity next week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: Second Life is about Texts jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ 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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Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
by Michael Zimmer 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

We're pleased to announce the publication of Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Information Science and Knowledge Management series by Springer. Contents include contributions approaching Web search engines from philosophical, cultural, critical, legal, economic, historical, political, and information scientific perspectives. The table of contents is pasted below. More information can be found at these links: Springer: <http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrie… > Amazon: <http://www.amazon.com/Web-Search-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-Information… > WorldCat: <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174131546> Our thanks to all the contributors! Michael Zimmer Amanda Spink Editors Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Part I: Introduction o Introduction (Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer) Part II: Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Perspectives o Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design (Alejandro Diaz) o Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet (Aaron Hess) o Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches (Rosa Mikeal Martey) o Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge (Lawrence Hinman) o The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an Infrastructure of Dataveillance (Michael Zimmer) Part III: Political, Legal, and Economic Perspectives o Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement (Brian Fitzgerald, Damien O’Brien, and Anne Fitzgerald) o Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine (Eric Goldman) o The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On Chance Exposures and Organizational Hubs (Azi Lev-On) o ‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines? (Paul Reilly) o The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic (Elizabeth Van Couvering) Part IV: Information Behavior Perspectives o Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model (Shirlee Ann Knight and Amanda Spink) o Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations and Connections to Health Related Outcomes (Mohan Dutta and Graham. Bodie) o Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues: Well-defined Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness? (Jenny Fry, Shefali Virkar, and Ralph Schroeder) o Conceptual Models for Search (David Hendry and Efthimis Efthimiadis) o Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective (Dirk Lewandowski and Nadine Höchstötter) Part V: Conclusion o Conclusions and Further Research (Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer) ----- Michael Zimmer, PhD Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School e: michael.zimmer(a)yale.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org

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Re: [Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan
by Julian Hopkins 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Conor, good point and you could well be right. Actually, the reason why that struck me in particular is because it struck a chord with some events that occurred in Malaysia (where I'm based) that highlighted the government/the police's lack of knowledge of how the internet functions. But I suppose that's the situation in many places, with the authorities lagging behind the private sector and individuals in terms of technology use. As for Fouad, apparently he was tracked to his home via the ISP. This is an example of something similar (tracking via ISP) in Malaysia: http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2007/07/anonymous_onlin.php . It also highlights the potential for online harassment (a woman was sent abusive and threatening emails). It seems to me that three years is very harsh - he did not try to benefit from it in any way or defame the Prince apparently. But it is most definitely a different cultural context, the other example that springs to mind is the King of Thailand and YouTube affair. Anyway, I hope they release the poor guy. Regards, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:57:15 +0100 From: Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <47C169AB.1040705(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I don't at all speak French, but couldn't the quote you use to demonstrate the authorities' ignorance be simply a nomenclature issue? In English all the time I find people mixing up "site" and "page." I don't think this indicates such extreme ignorance that the authorities are incapable of assessing Fouad's actions. More likely to me is that they understood roughly what he did, and are just motivated by politics which most of us on this list might be driven to call a bit extreme. Julian Hopkins wrote: > This might interest some people. > > Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan > > A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for > setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7258950.stm > > > There's also a website set up with a petition and more information about the > case: http://www.helpfouad.com/ > > There are some mitigating factors stated, one of which is interesting: > "La police marocaine ne comprend absolument rien ? Internet. Il est demand? > ? Fouad dans un des paragraphes pour quelle raison avait-il cr?? le site > Facebook ?" > (Translation: "The Moroccan police understands absolutely nothing about the > internet. It is asked of Fouad in one of the paragraphs [of the charge > sheet] for what reason had he created the Facebook site?") > > Cheers, > > Julian > > >

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The view from NYC, 2008 style
by Barry Wellman 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Surpasses the New Yorker cartoon Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:26:45 +0000 From: martin dodge Subject: New York Talk Exchange project hi, I just came across details on a new exhibition in New York, organised by Carlo Ratti and colleages http://senseable.mit.edu/nyte/index.html Described as follows: New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world." cheers martin End of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 19 Oct 2007 to 24 Feb 2008 (#2008-1)

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Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan
by Julian Hopkins 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

This might interest some people. Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7258950.stm There's also a website set up with a petition and more information about the case: http://www.helpfouad.com/ There are some mitigating factors stated, one of which is interesting: "La police marocaine ne comprend absolument rien à Internet. Il est demandé à Fouad dans un des paragraphes pour quelle raison avait-il créé le site Facebook ?" (Translation: "The Moroccan police understands absolutely nothing about the internet. It is asked of Fouad in one of the paragraphs [of the charge sheet] for what reason had he created the Facebook site?") Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins(a)hotmail.com

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[Comtech] Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:06:21 +0000 From: Chris Kimble <kimble(a)cs.york.ac.uk> To: comtech(a)fit.fraunhofer.de Subject: [Comtech] Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators Dear all, It is with great relief that I can finally announce that both volumes of the book Paul Hildreth and I have been working on for so long - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators - has finally been published. There were a few problems with the ISBN numbers for the individual volumes, which have now been solved. The full details of both volumes of the book, *with new ISBN numbers*, are available from: http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/index.html This site includes the full text of the introductory chapters to both volumes + abstracts and author biographies for the remaining chapters. The links to the ISBN numbers at the top of each page go to Amazon.co.uk and take you to either the individual volumes or the two-volume set; the link to the publisher's web site however only gives the option of buying a two volume set). -- Chris Kimble Chair of Board of Studies Department of Computer Science, University of York,York, YO10 5DD, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 433380 fax: +44 (0)1904 432767 Home: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble MIS group: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mis/

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Financial Psychology of Worry and Women
by Ricciardi, Victor 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

I thought this group would enjoy reading my new working paper on negative emotion and money management since it provides an interdisciplinary perspective. The paper is entitled The Financial Psychology of Worry and Women. The abstract of the paper is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1093351 Also, if you scroll down the webpage you can download a PDF file of the paper. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. All the best, Vic Ricciardi Contact information: Victor Ricciardi Assistant Professor of Finance Kentucky State University SSRN Coordinator: Behavioral & Experimental Research The Social Science Research Network at www.ssrn.com Work# (502) 597-6284 victor.ricciardi(a)kysu.edu Electronic copies of my papers are available from my author page at the SSRN Electronic Library at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=262799 _________________________ Editor, SSRN Behavioral & Experimental Finance Journal: http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fen_behav-exper-fin.html _________________________ Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP) See our web pages at: Home Page: http://www.ssrn.com Electronic Library: http://papers.ssrn.com Browse SSRN Electronic Library: http://ssrn.com/browse SSRN User Headquarters: http://hq.ssrn.com

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