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From Internet Wayback: SDF is 20 this week
by Alexis Turner 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Just a little bit of historical Internet nostalgia: ------------- The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 20 Years! from http://sdf.lonestar.org "It was on June 16th, 1987 that the SDF-1 received its first caller at 300bps. This little Apple ][e BBS of the late 80s turned into a Public Access UNIX System with the demise of "killer.dallas.tx.us" during the "Operation Sundevil" raids. Since then it has grown to become the oldest and largest continually operating PUBNIX on the planet...." ------ -Alexis

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CFP - Mobile Society Special Issue : Canadian Journal of Communication
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones, and portable computers are part of a changing landscape of communications and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance, the use of cell phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a remarkable shift in the telecommunications industry, the convergence of a number of technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of conducting person-to-person communication and creating community. In addition to these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS comprise integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so- called wireless world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens and consumers. The Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts. Possible themes include: Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video) Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies Wireless services and emergency communication Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones Community Wireless Networks Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds Art, design and mobile technologies Mobile genres and cellular convergence Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions website ( http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php ). Make sure to write in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor field, and to include it on the cover page of your article as well. Do not include your name on the cover page. Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers selected by the editors will then be sent for peer review for final decision. Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors: Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, [send email to bacrow(a)sympatico.ca via gmail] bacrow(a)sympatico.ca Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, [send email to kim.sawchuk(a)simpatico.ca via gmail] kim.sawchuk(a)sympatico.ca Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, [send email to smith(a)sfu.ca via gmail] smith(a)sfu.ca

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #3 (June 8, 2007) - Part 3
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

{part 3 of the June update on IR8 in Vancouver} Items in this part: - Facebook group for IR8 - Be a chair! Facebook Facebook continues to amaze me, and I hope some of you are enjoying it too. We have about 69 members of the group already. Join us: http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2331171313.<http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2331171313>There is also a Facebook "Trips" application (several, in fact) where people can share travel plans and so on. Check it out. Chairs No, we don't need help setting up the folding chairs before the sessions. We have the covered, actually. This is better. I have heard from a number of people who (tsk tsk) missed the submission deadline but still want to come. Well, have I got a deal for you! We're recruiting folks who would like to take part as session chairs. Send me your name, email, and areas of interest and we'll fit you in. You'll be on the program as chairing a panel (which might help with the expense form), and we'll get some interesting session chairs. Here are the duties: - introduce the participants - keep everyone on time - manage the questions and (if necessary) "seed" the discussion with an integrative question as a starter - make sure people have water and the a/v works (You don't have to fix it - just make the call). If you think you can do that, let me know: smith(a)sfu.ca That's all for now, folks. Next newsletter in July. But if you have any questions - let me know. -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #3 (June 8, 2007) - Part 2
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

{part 2 of the rejected IR8 update} Items in this part: - program update - being carbon neutral - reusing badges Program This is NOT the detailed program with the crucial element that everyone is waiting for: "when do I present MY paper?" You're going to have to wait a bit for that. Mia is working as hard as she can and is trying line things up into themes and so on. As you can imagine, this is a tricky business. Anyone interested in helping her should pipe up. Everyone else could take a look at the draft program<http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=oudk1o6evtrviddgmqanmjgfes%2540gro…>. That's a google calendar "embed" and you can subscribe to it in your own calendar system, I think. Carbon neutral Yes, we have looked into it and it IS possible: you can arrive in Vancouver with a clear conscience. Or a clear conscience about your environmental impact, at least. There may be a link on the registration site where you can donate money to a good cause (planting trees, typically) and arrive relieved. And we all think better when our consciences are clear, right? If you haven't heard about this before, here's a story about it from Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2006/09/12/carbon-farming.html And if you want to start early: check out this story on wikipedia about personal carbon trading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_carbon_trading Re-Use (of Badges) Even better than reduce and recycle, we can re-use things. And what better thing to re-use at a conference than the badge holders? Those little plastic things on strings that accumulate in your closet and behind your office door and in a drawer of your desk. You know - I bet you have about a dozen of them somewhere, don't you? Well, the call is out - send them to me and I will use them at our conference. And you can feel even better about yourself (what with the carbon neutral donation and the reused badges, you're going to be getting quite full of yourself now, aren't you?). Here is what you do: grab as many as you can find, put them in an envelope, post them to me. Here is the address: Richard Smith SFU/CPROST 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 CANADA I already have about 50 of them (in just two envelopes, plus my own collection), so we are about 20 per cent there. Come on people, get behind it! At the very least, show up at registration with a badge hold already around your neck. Everyone who does that gets a kiss from me. Well, maybe not a kiss, but something nice. -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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[AOIR 8.0] Vancouver Conference Update #3 (June 8, 2007) - Part 1
by Richard Smith 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

{The Air-L listserv software rejected your prolix conference chair last week, so here's another try - in two parts} Dear air-o-philes, Already a month has passed and I am writing to you again about things air-y. Not aery. Though that would be nice. Items in this update: 1. the hotel discounts (get 'em while you can) 2. the (early bird) registration is available: http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf Hotels If you haven't booked your hotel yet - and some people have, so don't think it is too early - now is the time to do it. Both hotels have online registration systems, perfect for an internet researcher. Two options are available: 1. Lovely hotel, someone else (or your grant) is paying: The Delta Vancouver Suites - $189, with complementary internet and right across the street from the conference venue. Mention "Association of Internet Researchers" to get the discount rate. Here is a link to more information on the IR8 wiki: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Delta_Details 2. Pretty good hotel, but you are paying youself and are trying to save money : Ramada Downtown Vancouver - $79, with wireless internet included and a block and a half from the conference. Mention "AIR1563" to get the discount rate. Here is a link to more information on the IR8 wiki: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Ramada_Details Both of these are nice hotels, and I have stayed in both of them myself. We only have limited numbers of rooms in each one, and these are very good rates, so book early. If you get turned down, let me know and I will try to negotiate a few more rooms. If you want something a little different, a funky little place out of the way - well... get online and start looking! Seriously, though, if you do want suggestions, let me know and I'll see what I can come up with. Registration Some people are keen to get not only their hotel sorted out but the conference fees paid, too. Good for you! We like that kind of organized, forward thinking kind of person. And we like to reward early payment with an "early bird" discount. Discount from what, you ask? Well, the fees *have* been set, and here they are: 1. Student (early bird): $185.00 2. Professional (early bird) $285.00 3. Student (regular) $215.00 4. Professional (regular) $335.00 As you can see, you save $50 by registering early! How cool is that? And think, with $50 you can buy a nice dinner in Canada. All the details on the registration site, being set up as I type this, by Alex Halavais, are available from the IR8 wiki: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0 If you have any questions, by all means, let me know. At that site you will be able to register for the banquet and hopefully even donate money to make your trip "Carbon Neutral". We think of everything! Register now! http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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Google's privacy
by J. J. 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy." None of the 22 other surveyed companies -- a group that included Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL -- sunk to that level, according to Privacy International. from: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/11/google.privacy.ap/index.html Jarek

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Registration for IR8.0 now open
by Alex Halavais 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Hello, all, Registration is now open for Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play at the following URL: http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf We've opened later than we did last year, and so we have also pushed the "early bird" deadline, for reduced registration fees, back to July 14. If you have any difficulties or questions when registering, please do not hesitate to drop me a note at help(a)aoir.org. See you in Vancouver! Alex -- -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //

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Re: [Air-l] women bloggers - data
by Jan Schmidt 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hi Paul, hi all, to add some empirical date to this interesting discussion: As others have pointed out already, women are not underrepresented in the blogosphere per se, but in the blogosphere that is most visible, that is the a-list and/or blogs which might be cited by journalists as "typical blogs". I've done some research on the German blogosphere which has a similar structure of attention/publicity as other blogospheres: There is a relatively small group of blogs that get a lot of visits/links (a-list), and the long tail which goes down to blogs with only a few, if any, readers. In a large-scale quantitative surveys I've conducted in 2005, there were about 45% women and 55% men among active bloggers; a content analysis done by colleagues of mine (who drew a random sample of german-speaking blogs) had even higher figures for female bloggers (about 65%). We recently checked the german a-list by looking at the 180+ blogs which made the "Deutsche Blogcharts" in 2006 (http://www.deutscheblogcharts.de; a top 100 list based on Technorati-Data, i.e. measuring popularity through inbound links). Of those, 61 % are run by individual male bloggers, 13% by individual female bloggers, 23% are group blogs (of which, again, 25 percent are run by a group of men and 71 percent by a mixed-gender group); 3 percent didn't give any information on the gender of the author. So women are highly underrepresented in this highly visible segment of the german blogosphere. We haven't looked in detail into the topics these top-blogs cover, but I'd say that a higher share of men than of women is blogging about topics that might attract more readers (e.g. IT, media, reflections on the state of the blogosphere itself, ...), thus giving these male blogs a higher visibility - and, subsequently, shaping the "public image" of blogs! The discourses about the potentials of blogs as well as banalization discourses both within and outside the blogosphere are implicitly gendered, I'd argue - see also the seminal Herring et al 2004 [http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html] As a last remark: Interestingly we found in a study of a popular german-speaking blog hoster (www.twoday.net) that centrality WITHIN this particulaer platform blog community correlates with gender: Highly central blogs on the platform are more likely to be run by women, and they tend to be of an "public online-journal style" (rather than focussing on political commentary or filtering). Right now, these findings have only been published in german - but in case you're interested in copies, just send me a private E-Mail. Best, Jan Has anyone on this list come across data or reflections on the apparent under-representation of women in the blogosphere? paul teusner fishers, surfers and casters - http://teusner.org/ bio - http://paulteusner.org/ -- Jan Schmidt Obere Sandstr. 9 96049 Bamberg +49 (951) 500 9014 +49 (177) 520 5199 jan.schmidt(a)bnv-bamberg.de http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress -- Jan Schmidt Obere Sandstr. 9 96049 Bamberg +49 (951) 500 9014 +49 (177) 520 5199 jan.schmidt(a)bnv-bamberg.de http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress

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itu publishes wsis golden book
by Jeremy Hunsinger 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

from http://i-policy.typepad.com/informationpolicy/2007/06/ wsis_golden_boo.html More than 375 submissions were made to the Golden Book by governments, international organizations, NGOs, companies and individuals, describing their work towards promoting ICT activities. ITU estimates that the activities announced during the Tunis Phase to promote WSIS goals represented a total value of at least € 3.2 billion (US$ 3.9 billion). Governments committed to implement projects for some € 1.9 billion, representing nearly two-thirds of estimated total value of all commitments, while international organizations pledged to carry out activities for around half that amount, i.e. 0.83 billion Euros. Business entities announced plans to realize projects for around 0.35 billion Euros and civil society projects amount to least 0.13 billion Euros. http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/Publication/GB-final.pdf 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

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Re: [Air-l] female bloggers: studies
by elw＠stderr.org 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

> Thanks for the links. I'm having trouble locating the first article. Can you > tell me what J&MC stands for? J&MC = journalism and mass communication quarterly not a familiar journal to me either - but a google on the title of the article was very productive. :-) --e

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