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democratizing wi-fi
by Daniel Sutko 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hello everyone, I thought you might be interested in this public and international effort to democratize wi-fi. I wonder how long it will take the telecoms to file suit. Be sure to check out the access point map. (The map works in Firefox but not in Safari and I can't vouch for IE). Are there any other organizations that are this bold? http://fon.com -Dan Dan Sutko TA, RA, Master's Student Dept. of Communication, NCSU office: Winston 212 email: dan_sutko(a)ncsu.edu

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A teaching case on Wikipedia
by Karim R. Lakhani 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Dear AOIRers, I wanted to let you know that my colleague Andrew McAfee and I have prepared a teaching case on Wikipedia. This case will be taught to MBA students at the Harvard Business School this spring in the Managing in the Information Age elective course. The case is free online and is under the GNU Free Document License. You can get it here http://courseware.hbs.edu/public/cases/wikipedia/ Here is a brief synopsis: Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The “Articles for Deletion” process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner workings of a distributed community. Wikipedia administrators have to decide if an article on “Enterprise 2.0” should be deleted, kept or merged with some other article. The episode illustrates broader issues of IT-enabled community mobilization and engagement in distributed setting. Teaching objective: To show the delicate balance between issues of authority, expertise, community consensus and norms of behavior in a distributed setting. To discuss success and failure modes in online communities. I hope to have a teaching note for this by April and also a teaching plan - if some of you use it before hand in class - I would be grateful if you would share your experience with me. Also your comments and suggestions for the case are very welcome! Best Karim --------------------------------------- Karim R. Lakhani Assistant Professor Harvard Business School +1-617-495-6741(o) +1-617-851-1224(m) http://spoudaiospaizen.net/

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Digital Aesthetic 2 Conference
by O'Riordan, Kate 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

digital aesthetic 2 Conference/Exhibition/Website Does the digital have the potential to change our perception of art? 16th - 17th March: Conference, University of Central Lancashire 17th March - 3rd June: Exhibition, Harris Museum & Art Gallery and other Preston venues Preston is soon to host a major digital arts event, Digital Aesthetic 2, bringing together some of the most significant artists, theorists, curators and academics working in the field of new media and digital art from around the world. The conference takes place on 16th and 17th March at the University of Central Lancashire whilst the exhibition runs from 17th March to 3rd June at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and other Preston venues. The project is supported by Arts Council England: North West, BBC, folly, Flux magazine, Holiday Inn, PAD and PR1 Gallery. Digital Aesthetic 2 is a multi-venue exhibition, conference and website organised by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and the Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), both in Preston. The conference and exhibition will highlight, explore and debate the issues and implications of new media and digital work within the field of international contemporary fine art. It follows the successful Digital Aesthetic conference, exhibition and website organised by UCLan and the Harris in 2001. Conference The aim of the conference is to facilitate good practice in the emerging area of Fine Art practice within the digital domain, to foster and communicate the dissemination of new and theoretical ideas and to provide a forum and to facilitate networking between artists, academics and writers. The conference will be chaired by Dr. Jane Prophet (UK) and the impressive line-up includes high profile international speakers such as Prof. Sean Cubitt (Australia), Prof. Bill Seaman (USA), Lori Zippay (USA) and Prof. David Garcia (Netherlands). The conference takes place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March 2007 at the University of Central Lancashire. Further information and booking forms can be found at www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk <http://www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk/> or call 01772 892656. Exhibition The exhibition will consist of work from artists of regional, national and international significance including Simon Blackmore (UK), Thomson and Craighead (UK), eBoy (Germany) (image attached) and Gary Hill (USA). Work will be on display at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and a number of other Preston venues including PAD, PR1 Gallery and St. John's Minster. The exhibition explores the possibilities of art in a world that offers ever increasing opportunities through digital technology. This is a rare opportunity to see and experience some of the foremost digital art being produced today. Admission is free and further information is available at www.harrismuseum.org.uk <http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/> or on 01772 258248. Website www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk The website will accompany the exhibition and will include web based artwork as well as the opportunity to participate in the event. Harris Museum and Art Gallery Market Square Preston PR1 2PP T: 01772 258248 W: www.harrismuseum.org.uk

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Parental consent
by Denise Bortree 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I'm planning to conduct an online survey of teen volunteers (ages 16-17), and I'm looking for suggestions on ways to secure parental consent. I would be interested to hear from those who have conducted online research with teens. What was your process for securing consent from both parent and teen? My IRB has indicated openness to collecting consent online if a suitable process can be identified. I would love to hear suggestions. Thanks. Denise Bortree Doctoral Candidate University of Florida dbortree(a)jou.ufl.edu

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CfP: Digital Cities 5 at C&T 2007
by Marcus Foth 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Cities 5 Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments Workshop at the 3nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007) June 28th, 2007, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Personalised mobile devices penetrate new urban spaces with a need for innovative products and services that enable the creative and consumption process to account for shifting social, cultural and psychological conditions. City residents now have the ability to communicate within groups, access media and entertainment content and manage their ‘digital lifestyle’ through SMS, mobile email, pictures and video. These innovative applications of locative media incorporate cultural and social patterns of interaction and user-led innovations that are yet to be fully explored. In addition to these informational and locative functions, locative media and mobile technology increasingly serve a discursive function as well. This is being manifested in a variety of rapidly emerging content genres (e.g., digital storytelling, blogs, e-zines, etc.) which are deployed between individuals as well as in networks of individuals. Digital cities have been promoted as a civic platform for citizens’ visions of the space they live and work in, complementary (and sometimes even alternative) to the much more institutional view of conventional e- government approaches. Locative media and mobile technology can enhance and augment digital cities and connect them in new ways to the physical city, enhancing civic participation and deliberation. Relevant Research Questions: How can a balance be achieved between the opportunities of locative media and mobile technology on the one side and issues of access, trust and privacy on the other? What is the role of locally relevant content (personal and community images and narratives) in the establishment of sustainable social networks as well as in the context of civic participation? What can we learn from the communication models of global social networking sites such as MySpace and plazes.com in order to animate local interaction and civic participation of residents and friends locally? What is the role of location, (geo)graphical representations such as maps of various kinds, in supporting people to understand and navigate the augmented urban landscape? What is the impact of these new technologies on the challenges in moving from e-government to e-governance, e-participation to e- democracy at the urban level? Will these technological developments help increase or decrease the opportunities for citizens to play a role in shaping sustainable cities? What are the implications for the architecture and urban design of cities and public spaces? Submission Details: Interested contributors should submit an extended abstract, 1500-2000 words long, stating the author’s name, affiliation, and contact information. This should be emailed to the workshop organisers before April 16th, 2007 and should summarise the author(s) research / practice background and interests as well as the work and results that will be described in a full paper. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2007. The acceptance of an extended abstract implies that at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and the Communities & Technologies 2007 conference. Selected contributors will be asked to submit a full paper before October 1st, 2007. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review and appear in an edited book to be published by Idea Group in 2008. The full call for papers can be found at: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/page4d.html Please email any questions and inquiries to both workshop organisers. Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth(a)qut.edu.au Fiorella De Cindio Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy fiorella.de.cindio(a)rcm.dico.unimi.it -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Room Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Foth,_Marcus.html

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Yourtube shares revenues with content providers
by Hugemusic 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

See http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070127/D8MTOAFO0.html Relevant to earlier discussions about audience labour and the ethics of social networking productivity and all that stuff ... But prolly good for some movie-makers ... Cheers, Hughie

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Symposium Announcement and Call for Papers--Trademark Dilution: Theoretical and Empirical Inquiries
by Eric Goldman 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

[apologies for cross-posting] [feel free to forward to others] ** *Symposium Announcement and Call for Papers* Trademark Dilution: Theoretical and Empirical Inquiries October 5, 2007 Santa Clara, California Symposium website: http://www.scu.edu/law/tmdilution/ Sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law *About the Symposium* This one-day symposium will bring together legal scholars and social scientists to examine trademark dilution as a legal and social phenomenon. Through the cross-disciplinary conversation, this conference will shed more light on the purported harms caused by trademark dilution and possible policy approaches to address those harms. The Santa Clara Computer & High Tech Law Journal anticipates publishing a complementary symposium edition of the journal. In addition, trademark dilution research will be collected at the symposium website ( http://www.scu.edu/law/tmdilution/ ), and videos from the event will be posted there as well. *Confirmed Speakers* (subject to change) Barton Beebe, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Robert Bone, Boston University School of Law Ron Butters, Department of English, Duke University Shari Diamond, Northwestern University School of Law Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law Jacob Jacoby, New York University Stern School of Business Xuan-Thao Nguyen, SMU Dedman School of Law Kenneth L. Port, William Mitchell College of Law Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center David Welkowitz, Whittier Law School *Call for Papers* If you are conducting empirical or theoretical research on trademark dilution and would be interested in presenting your research at the symposium or contributing to the symposium issue, please contact Eric Goldman ( egoldman(a)gmail.com ). Preference will be given to inquiries made prior to March 31, 2007. *For More Information * Professor Eric Goldman Director, High Tech Law Institute Santa Clara University School of Law 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phone: (408) 554-4369 Email: egoldman(a)gmail.com

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Asian Media research
by Alan Knight 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

It's not too late to submit a paper to Asia's leading Media and Communications conference to be held in Singapore on June 25/28. The Asian Media and Communications Research Centre (AMIC) is a unique, Asian centred Institution for Media and Communications research and professional development. Established in 1970, AMIC has members from Academia, Industry and Government in 28 countries. http://www.amic.org.sg/ AMIC offers a recognised and credible alternative to western paradigms where Americans and Europeans dominated dialogue on Asia affairs. As AMIC's Australian Board member, I urge you to tap into its intellectual unrivalled reservoir of conferences, training sessions, journals, books papers and CDs. AMIC's part of the Singapore conference will explore ³Media Education and Development: The Quest for New Paradigms². Papers are invited on the following themes and topics: Human Rights, Alternative and Community Media, Media and Culture Media Education, Media and Youth Media, Conflict and Crises, New Media and Digital Technology, Media and Development, Media Law and Regulation, Media and Gender, Media, Democracy and Communication Theories and Asian Perspectives, International Communication, Broadcasting and Media Industry Trends and Dynamics. See you there! Professor Alan Knight PhD Creative Industries Faculty QUT http://www.amic.org.sg/

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Re: [Air-l] interlinking URLS in university course discussion boards
by Marj Kibby 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I haven't used it for some years (my uni now says Blackboard only!) but one of the things I liked about it was the ability to link to a specific post or to another forum. http://www.motet.com/ Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 >>> Stephanie Jo Kent <kentcon(a)sover.net> 01/29/07 8:41 AM >>> Hi all, I finally agreed to teach an online course on interpersonal communication because I thought I would be able to use the discussions generated as actual 'samples' of discourse/dialogue in action: I've been thinking of this method as a bridge between the computer mediated format and the historical subject of the course (direct face-to-face interaction). I've been disappointed to learn that my university's platform won't support internal linking in the discussion boards - the URLS there "float." Does anyone know of a platform, or a patch, or a way around this problem so that I can craft lesson plans that direct students back to look at 'performances' of interpersonal communication that they have already enacted? Thanks, I'll compile a resource list if there's enough to warrant one. steph http://www.reflexivity.us _______________________________________________ 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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new book on information ethics
by Charles Ess 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Colleagues, On behalf of my co-editor, Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand), and our collected authors - including several sister and fellow AoIRists! - I'm very pleased to announce the following publication: Hongladarom, S. and Ess, C. (eds.). 2007. _Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives_. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Reference. <http://www.idea-group.com/reference/details.asp?id=6336> Chapters from some of the most prominent scholars and philosophers in information ethics, both within and beyond traditionally Western domains, address a wide range of central ethical issues from both theoretical and culture-specific perspectives. Individually and collectively, the chapters will help readers develop a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues created by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their possible resolutions. The Introduction summarizes the contributions, connects them to the larger literatures in information and computing ethics, and sketches the requirements and characteristics of a possible _global_ information and computing ethics - an ethics, we argue, that will be increasingly urgent for all users of ICTs, as more and more citizens of the world (now ca. 1/6th of the world's population) encounter and engage one another cross-culturally. To our knowledge, this is the first anthology to approach information ethics from such a wide range of perspectives - including multiple Asian and African perspectives, as well as those of peoples marginalized in developed countries. Table of Contents: Section I -Theoretical Concerns Chapter I: The Moral Status of Information and Information Technologies: A Relational Theory of Moral Status / Johnny Hartz Søraker Chapter II: Online Communities, Democratic Ideals, and the Digital Divide / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani Chapter III: The Mediating Effect of Material Cultures as Human Hybridiation / Lorenzo Magnani Chapter IV: Culture and Technology: A Mutual-Shaping Approach / Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler Chapter V: Mobile Phone and Autonomy / Theptawee Chokvasin Chapter VI: Ethics of Digitalization: Designing so as not to Hurt Others / Maja van der Velden Chapter VII: Privacy and Property in the Global Datasphere / Dan L. Burk Chapter VIII: Analysis and Justification of Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective / Soraj Hongladarom Section II - Specific Viewpoints Chapter IX: Information Privacy in a Surveillance State: A Perspective from Thailand / Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand Chapter X; Interactions among Thai Culture, ICT, and IT Ethics / P. Bhattarakosol Chapter XI: We Cannot Eat Data: The Need for Computer Ethics to Address the Cultural and Ecological Impacts of Computing / Barbara Paterson Chapter XII: Current and Future State of ICT Deployment and Utilization in Healthcare: An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Ethical Issues / Bernd Carsten Stahl, Simon Rogerson, and Amin Kashmeery Chapter XIII: Business and Technology in Turkey: An Emerging Country at the Crossroad of Civilations / Gonca Telli Yamamoto Chapter XIV: The Existential Significance of the Digital Divide for America¹s Historically Underserved Populations / Lynette Kvasny Yes, Amazon has it ... Cordially, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html> Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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