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CFP --- New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design
by Ken Friedman 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Second Call for Papers/Posters Web site now online! New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design An international symposium defining graphic design for the future 9-11 July 2008 London College of Communication University of the Arts London United Kingdom New Views 2 seeks to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing today in terms of the profession and educational practices. At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate debate and to identify what new challenges might lay ahead for practitioners, academics, industry and the profession overall. Themes to be addressed might include: · Who are we? Problems of defining terminology: visual communication, communication design, graphic design, information environments · the role of graphic design for the 'real world' · graphic design and interdisciplinarity · graphic design and research methods · design writing/criticism and repositioning debates · practice-led PhD research in the field of graphic design · responsive curriculums and shifting paradigms · research, innovation and new critical thinking An accompanying exhibition of posters from designers, students and academics opens in London 9th - 21st July, 2008 and then travels to RMIT, Australia. A digital exhibition will also be presented via the conference website. Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 1 February 2008 Deadline for intention to submit posters: 1 March 2008 For full details: <http://www.newviews.co.uk> http://www.newviews.co.uk Or, contact the co-organisers: Professor Teal Triggs Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication Co-Director, University of the Arts London Research Unit for Information Environments, London, UK <mailto:t.triggs@lcc.arts.ac.uk>t.triggs(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk Dr. Laurene Vaughan Director of Research and Innovation, School of Applied Communication, RMIT Executive Member RMIT Design Institute Melbourne, Australia <mailto:laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au>laurene.vaughan(a)rmit.edu.au

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Deadline approaching: CFP: 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008)
by Dominik Flejter 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS REMINDER =========================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) Innsbruck, Austria May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2008 =========================================================================== In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication channel extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer" communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new ways to create, share and use knowledge in a social way. This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions, attitudes and even legal aspects as well as ways of working and doing business. It also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they actually do so and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging in the social, business and technology dimensions. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to social aspects of the Web. We want to facilitate discussion on topics including theoretical, empirical and applied studies related to: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Users in the social Web * User identity/identities on the Web * Activity patterns * Privacy / intimacy in the social Web * Psychological aspects of acting in the social Web * Analysis and reduction of the socio-technical gap in social software * Communities on the Web * User roles, leadership and interactions * Conflicts and their resolution * Social norms and their enforcement * Trust and reputation in communities * Relations of on-line and off-line communities * Social discourse and decision-taking on the Web * Large-scale social Web mining and empirical studies * Social network analysis * Associations mining from social network * Large-scale behaviour patterns and anomalies' mining * Moods' / opinions' / social problems' analysis * Experts finding on the social Web * Mining formal semantics from social sources * Methodologies of Web-based social macro and micro studies * Social Web and business * Social Web as a source of business information * Social Web as a business communication channel * Business models for social software and services * Specific types of social software on the Web (bookmarking, social networks etc.) * Use cases and best practices * Applications of Web-based social software * Social software architectures * Social software on the Semantic Web * Strategies for bootstrapping social software systems and bypassing the critical mass problem * Social software in information processing and retrieval * Social software in collaborative maintenance of content and data SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 5000 words * Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words * Position papers: max. 2500 words * Demo papers: max. 2500 words Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=SAW2008. The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org workshop proceedings publication service (open content). Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet (http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641). WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. The workshop will consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to presentation and discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal) devoted to discussion of several issues related to present and future of the social Web. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops (including workshops on Advances in Accessing the Deep Web (ADW 2008) and on E-Learning for Business Needs). IMPORTANT DATES * January 12, 2008 - submission deadline for papers * February 12, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 12, 2008 - submission of final papers * May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Dominik Flejter * Tomasz Kaczmarek * Marek Kowalkiewicz PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada * Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Andrew T. Fiore, University of California, Berkeley, the USA * Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia * Sebastian Kruk, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland * Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China * Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany ===========================================================================

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CFP --- Changing the Change Conference -- Reminder
by Ken Friedman 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

10-12 July 2008 CHANGING THE CHANGE: DESIGN VISIONS, PROPOSALS AND TOOLS An international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability Torino, Italy http://www.changingthechange.org -- Organised by Co-ordination of Italian Design Research Doctorates in cooperation with the Conference of Italian Design Faculty Deans and Programme Heads In the framework of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL TORINO 2008 An ICSID initiative of the IDA -- Endorsed by the Design Research Society -- The conference "Changing the Change" seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. At the heart of the conference, design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off. -- AIMS The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to the twofold transformation underway. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of vision, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that we refer to as "changing the change." The conference has a double aim: - to consolidate a design research culture and practice oriented towards a constructive critical attitude able to reach all design disciplines. The conference intends to focus on the way in which the question of "changing the change" is present and widespread throughout the research community and in relation to all design fields: from product design to communication design; from interior design to interaction, service and strategic design; from social design to fashion design. - to outline the state-of-the-art of contributions that design research is today able to bring to social conversation about the future. The conference seeks to bring visibility to significant results. This with particular attention to visions of the future, to feasible solutions and to tools to help bring them into being. It will also enable us to make of the conference and its published output a tool for communication with the outside world; a tool able to demonstrate what design research can offer today to help re-orientate the transformation underway. In view of these aims, the conference will centre on the presentation of research results that could make a positive contribution to 'changing the change'. It will welcome contributions that take as their starting point transformations that have already taken place and those underway, and the necessity to re-orient them towards more sustainable outcomes. It hopes to present the widest range of possible world visions, feasible proposals and the design tools that could bring them into being. -- THEMES The field of interest of the conference is vast and will be divided into various specific themes within which more precise, focused discussion will be possible. This organisation into specific themes will be undertaken after contributions have been selected, so as to take into account what will actually be proposed. For the moment we only indicate an initial, general division into the three themes already introduced: visions, proposals and tools. Visions: this section will present research results that lead us to imagine possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds. It includes the results of activities in the field of scenario design and more general visions produced by research into specific products, communications and services. It also includes a comparative analysis of visions emerging from design history and from a comparison of different cultures. Proposals: this section presents results of design research that give rise to concrete solutions containing elements of systemic innovation. They are also legible as concrete steps towards a new generation of sustainable products, services and systems. So, products, services and product and service systems are proposed along with the communicative artefacts that link several actors and artefacts together. It also proposes places for a new everyday life, the activities that take place within them and the new production and consumption networks that emerge from them. Tools: this section presents the results of research that aims to redefine and develop conceptual and operational tools which enable designers to operate within change and influence its direction. Such tools enable them to participate constructively in new design networks, and deal with emerging problems. Tools may be proposed for conceptualisation and representation, for calculation and appraisal of results or for stimulation and prototype making. -- AUDIENCE The conference will mainly be a meeting point for academics, researchers and research students in the field of design theory and practice. However, in uniting a high academic level with the effort to present concrete results of activities carried out, it will also be of considerable interest to the wider design community and to those economic and social operators who recognise the potential of design practice and design research. -- CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts should be between 500 and 700 words long, excluding the bibliography. The deadline for the reception of abstracts is January 21, 2008. Reception of abstracts will be acknowledged and notices of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 3, 2008. The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Full papers are limited to 6000 words. The deadline for full papers is on May 26, 2008. Selection criteria The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Coherently with the conference aims, the Peer Review Committee will base its decisions on three major criteria: (1) relevance to the topics of "Changing the change"? as outlined below and in the website, (2) focalisation, in terms of clarity of the vision, of the proposal or the design tool and theory they present, and (3) reliability, in terms of the quality of the design research on which the paper is based. More precisely: - abstracts must be clearly defined as visions, proposals or design tools and theories (please select the proper option at the head of the abstract template and delete the others) : visions refer to scenarios of possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds; proposals present specific solutions to specific problems; tools and theories introduce conceptual and operational devices enabling designers to operate in contemporary contexts. - abstracts must clearly refer to the contemporary context and to its on-going transformations (considering the different ways they are taking place in different regions of the world). In this framework, they should present design research results that, moving from a deep understanding of these transformations, propose a design contribution involving a re-orientation towards more sustainable directions. - abstracts must present design research results and clearly indicate the specific research programme they are based on (with its aims, methodology and main actors). Given these three pre-requisites, abstracts (and the papers that will follow) can deal with any topics in any design fields: from product to communication; from interior to interaction; from service to strategy; from social design to fashion. -- CALL FOR VISUALISATIONS Special consideration will be dedicated to abstracts/papers presenting design research projects with highly communicative visual results. Therefore, together with the abstract/paper, a visualisation can be submitted as material for an exhibition that will be organized parallel to the Conference. The visualisations do not substitute the papers. To be accepted for evaluation they have to refer to a paper that has to be selected by the Peer review Committee. The conference will host an exhibition based on the visualisations proposed by selected papers. These visualisations are not the traditional scientific posters. They are visual presentations of design research results. They have to show visions of possible worlds and proposals for sustainable solutions. Whoever intends to deliver a visualisation must submit a first draft together with the abstract of the paper presenting the research on which the visualization is based. (Deadline: January 21, 2008) -- PUBLICATIONS All selected and presented papers will be published on line, and placed in the conference website in printable form. A special peer review jury will adjudicate the best papers submitted. The best papers and the presentations of the keynote speakers will be published in book form. http://www.changingthechange.org --

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Re: [Air-L] WGA strike
by NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

There are also quite a few writers of and on the web who make quite a bit of money... I used to be one of them... technical writers for businesses (mine was telecom). All the work I did went to our website (*but Intranet) where all the standards of the operations for our data centers were published. I was sort of the department librarian as well as the writer. It just wasn't visible to anyone but the company (which was/is huge and worldwide.) Alas, I traded it all for the world of poverty-er- graduate school Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, GA CSTW Writing Center Tutor www.cstw.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Baron <webbaron(a)gmail.com> Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 5:07 pm Subject: Re: [Air-L] WGA strike > While, I do agree with Barry on the entitlements issue and find > the strike > to be fully justifiable, to be honest i doubt it is going to be > successful.There are currently many Web writers who do not happen > to be memebers of the > Writers Guild. Chances are they will be prepared to work for > little money > just to "put their foot in" and get published. Unfortunately, the > perceptionof the Web writing as non-commercial still appears to be > very strong in the > writers' community. Hopefully, this will turn around one day (and > the strike > may make this day come sooner rather than later). > > > > On 1/4/08, Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> wrote: > > > > 1. It's sad when the person criticizing the Writers Guild has > grammatical> trouble herself. > > > > 2. The logic is even sadder. As I understand it, she is saying > the writers > > > > are not morally obligated to a reasonable share because they > didn't back a > > tangentially related law 10 years ago. By the same logic, only > workers who > > voted for Bill Clinton should be entitled to union protection. > > > > YMMV > > Barry Wellman > > > _______________________________________________________________________> > > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director > > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > > 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 > > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 > > Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php > > Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days > > > _______________________________________________________________________> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > > -- > "My Body is my Temple" > "Be The Change You Want to See In The World." Gandhi > _______________________________________________ > 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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Diary exercise for classes
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

** Ready made class assignment on media use ** An invitation to join our in-class diary study on media use Lori Kendall and I, along with graduate students Gail Taylor, Sara Thompson, and Bradley Bond, are collecting diary data from classes. Since diaries require a fair bit of work from participants, we have created a class assignment that requires completion of a 3 day diary about media use, with submission of the diary to the study as optional. Instructors devise their own separate assignment based on the diary for their students submission for a grade. We are looking for volunteers to join the study and use our diary protocol -- approved by our institutional review board -- as part of their class. Our experience to date has been that the exercise is remarkably good for all participants to reflect on their media use. So, we find it both a good pedagogical procedure as well as a good research tool. We have forms available for use -- instructions, a diary template to complete, and permission forms -- and procedures for diary submission to us. When students hand in diaries to us for the research, we keep that information confidential and do not release that information to the instructor. We can also let you know how we has used this diary in conjunction with class assignments. If you are interested, please contact me off list and we can discuss the use of this diary exercise. We are keen to get as many classes as possible using this protocol and joining the study, so please do not feel shy about asking! /Caroline Haythornthwaite ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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UPDATE: Glossary: new media & journalism
by Niels Hendriks 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Some days ago I sent a message to this list to ask for help in preparing a course on the opportunities of new media for journalism students. I wanted to create a glossary with relevant terms. I've had some interesting suggestions (from a.o. Kevin Guidry, Jay Hauben, Bertil Hatt & Martin Garthwaite. Thanks!). They told me to add: SMS Flash mob/flash crowd - both linked to the mobile-idea Meme Reddit OhMyNews e-mail listserv instant messaging newsgroup ftp - The idea is that you first learn on the 'old' technologies to fully understand the importance and impact of the new ones. >From their suggestions I did not include domain squatting (not relevant - though Kevins argument that this term serves as a starting point for a broader discussion on the importance of domain names, is relevant.); Social network Software(I think this is covered by other terms); netizen (by creating a separate term for internet users, you are in fact marginalizing the people on the internet. In my opinion 'everyone' is using the net) & the triptic Journalist / Expert / Active Reader (they are covered in a separate lesson dealing with the produser-idea). But maybe I should include them... Any more suggestions? This is the list so far: Citizen media editor Citizen journalism Weblog Rss Mash-up Podcast Youtube Social bookmarking Web2.0 Social media Online community Folksonomy Social networking Tagging User generated content Wiki Gatekeeper vs Gatewatcher CAR Twitter Vlogging Digg/reddit OhMyNews Second Life Mobile internet ubiquitous computing privacy participative democracy reputation intellectual property rights/ creative commons smart mob flickr photoshop geotagging ftp sms e-mail listserv instant messaging newsgroup flash mob/ flash crowd meme search engine optimization/ search engine marketing __________________________________________ niels.hendriks(a)mda.khlim.be docent & projectmedewerker Communication & multimediadesign http://c-md.khlim.be (mob) 0032 476 24 29 45 (skype) nielshendriks Favourites: http://del.icio.us/nielshendriks LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nielshendriks __________________________________________

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Blog Archiving Technology Query / Facebook Tracking
by Peter Ryan 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Dear all, I'm contacting the list now with a few quick questions concerning blog tracking and Facebook tracking techniques, and if you have time to respond it would be greatly appreciated. ??? 1) Blog Archiving Platforms:?? We're currently getting ready for another Canadian federal election, which we're hoping to track electronically at the Infoscape Lab here in Toronto: www.infoscapelab.ca. We're trying to find a good blog archiver that imports/exports complete RSS files with full text entries into a database format that's easily interoperable with MSAccess or Excel (and can be automated). For example, RSS Owl allows people to export single entries into XML, but not aggregated entries for all blogs that mention a candidate like "Stephen Harper" with full text (as far as we know...). ?? The Canadian candidates we'll be tracking during this election are: Stephen Harper, Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton, Elizabeth May, and Gilles Duceppe. We also plan to track their respective political parties via tags and blog rolls; the parties are as follows: the Conservative Party, Liberal Party, New Democrat Party, Green Party, and the Bloc Quebecois.?? Any ideas, platforms, or scripts to do this sort of blog tracking for candidates would be fantastic. Were hoping to compile a number of innovative options. ???2) TechPresident.com Facebook Charts: http://www.techpresident.com/scrape_plot/facebook?? We're also trying to figure out how Tech President creates its beautiful Facebook candidate supporter charts (at the url above). We'd be interested in setting up something similar here for tracking our Prime Minister Candidates as above, and were looking for some quick and easy solutions. Any ideas or tips on how we could do this ourselves? Or what are other people doing in terms of this type of research? Again, were hoping to compile a number of innovative options which well share with the list. Thank you all for your time and consideration of this message.?? Sincerely, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Malachy Ryan, PhD Candidate Rogers Fellow, Communication and Culture Programme Instructor, Department of Politics and Public Administration Research Associate, Infoscape Lab: www.infoscapelab.ca Ryerson University

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Re: [Air-L] WGA strike
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Michael - I'm not following your connection between people who write for the web and the WGA. The WGA only represents film and tv writers. You can't become a Guild member until you meet certain thresholds of working in the film and tv industry. People who write "for the web" in general would never be part of the WGA. It's only for screenwriters who work on scripts and teleplays. And for years the studios have assumed that they can get unknowns in to fill the place of the more experience writers if they have to, but I think that's bunk. That's where all those "story editors" on reality shows come from. But again, the talent pool is limited (screenwriting is the single hardest branch of creative writing to do well) and it's going to run dry. (This is why the Guild has been fighting for years to get the reality show writers under their umbrella.) Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo Message: 2 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:07:19 +1100 From: "Michael Baron" <webbaron(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] WGA strike To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Cc: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Message-ID: <c78ecacf0801031407s5d85b7c7x5fdf48dc7c750a7d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 While, I do agree with Barry on the entitlements issue and find the strike to be fully justifiable, to be honest i doubt it is going to be successful. There are currently many Web writers who do not happen to be memebers of the Writers Guild. Chances are they will be prepared to work for little money just to "put their foot in" and get published. Unfortunately, the perception of the Web writing as non-commercial still appears to be very strong in the writers' community. Hopefully, this will turn around one day (and the strike may make this day come sooner rather than later).

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Re: [Air-L] writers striking for internet payment?
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Marcela - As a writer/director myself, I've been following the WGA strike very closely. Screenwriters are compensated at the rate of one-third of a penny for every digital download (i.e. iTunes), and nothing for streaming video. The networks are claiming when they stream a television show on their websites it's a "promotion" and therefore the current contract doesn't require them to pay the writers/actors/etc. The television writers feel they are not being fairly compensated. Neither are the actors or directors, for that matter. This is only one of the issues at stake, however. Residuals for DVD sales (which are currently at $.04 per disc) and other terms of the contract which expired in October are also on the table. I don't really see how the EFF would have any interest in this, as this is a business practice issue, not a legal one. There's no law requiring the AMPTP to pay anyone any specific rate for digital content. There's no question of access or legal activity, just corporations behaving badly because they think they can. I can tell you that the SEIU, the teamsters local in LA and both the Screen Actor's Guild and Director's Guilds are all supporting the WGA. The actors and directors have as much a stake in this as the writers, obviously. A completely partisan site on behalf of the WGA is www.unitedhollywood.com Also, for those of you who heard about the strike and like me immediately thought of all the craftspeople and below the line crew who are now out of work while the strike goes on, The Motion Picture & Television Fund has set up a Work Stoppage relief fund to help those people. You can donate online here: http://new.mptvfund.org/cm/Foundation/Donate%20Online.html Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo www.dlfilms.com Message: 1 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:58:38 -0500 From: "Marcela Musgrove" <mmusgrove(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] writers striking for internet payment? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <a000d0c60712311758v70bc62b9t5bafe3eb197c9041(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I hadn't really been paying attention to the writer's strike going on but just found out today that it's over writers wanting to be paid residuals when their TV shows are shown on the internet. So now I'm surprised that there hasn't been more online discussion/activism/petitions though I was able to see some videos on YouTube that explained what was going on. Has anyone been following this closely? Would this be relevant to EFF or any of the other advocacy groups? Happy new year! Marcela

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Event - Great Expectations - White House 2.0 Presentation and Discussion - 3-5 pm, 9 Jan 2008 -Washington DC
by Steven Clift 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Those Internet researchers in the DC area are welcome to join us at GW next week. Please share your ideas/research on what citizens will demand of the next White House online and related topics. - Steve *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=389 Post: Event - Great Expectations - Clift Presentation and Discussion - 3-5 pm, 9 Jan 2008 -Washington DC * What: Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governance, and White House 2.0. A presentation and facilitated discussion with Steven Clift, one of the first Internet and politics/government gurus dating back to 1993. * When: 3-5 p.m, Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 * Where: State Room, 6th Floor Elliott School (1957 E Street NW), George Washington University - Paid parking available in building. Bonus: Post-event happy hour gathering at Karma at corner of 19th and "I". * Cost: Free. A voluntary donation to E-Democracy.Org is encouraged at the event by check or donate now online. * RSVP Requested via Wiki Here - Space is Limited: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Great_Expectations * Sponsors: This event is hosted by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University (and host of the March 2008 Politics Online conference) and co-hosted by Ashoka - Innovators for the Public, the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. * Online Networking: Everyone is invited to join the new U.S. Democracy Online Exchange at DoWire.Org to continue event discussions as well as the E-Democracy.Org supporters group on Facebook. Details: Great Expectations: After the vote - citizens online, e-democracy in governance, and White House 2.0 Join Steven Clift for an afternoon exploring real world democracy and the Internet. The United States excels at online campaigning and advocacy - or put another way raising money and making noise online. Does this really matter when come election day those in power turn off the tools of interactivity? Can citizens really have a voice online and meet public challenges if we haven't developed an online listening infrastructure at all levels of governance and community? With the "e-campaign" of 2008 raising citizen expectations for the use of the Internet in democracy, Steven Clift will share his top ten "to do list" with examples from around the world that will help us meet those expectations in governance not just elections. Join us from 3-5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 9th in the State Room, 6th Floor Elliott School, George Washington University for a two part presentation. The first hour will cover ten online steps for government support of democracy spiced up with e-democracy in governance stories from around the world as well as an update on the "local up" strategy of E-Democracy.Org. The next "two-way" hour will focus on an in-depth discussion of the theme "White House 2.0" and reactions to the General Services Administration's new and extremely important publication on "How E-Government is Changing Society and Strengthening Democracy.? Access Steven Clift's contribution and links to the 46 short articles in this collection from: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=383 Steven Clift, a new Ashoka Fellow, is the Founder and Board Chair of E-Democracy.Org and convener of the Democracies Online (DoWire.Org) online community of practice. In 1994 E-Democracy.Org hosted the world's first election information website in Minnesota. Today, they host local Issues Forums (aka online town halls) across ten communities in three countries. His international democracy online story is based on public speaking visits across 27 countries. For articles, blogs, online groups and more see http://stevenclift.com *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=389 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit

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