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[Fwd: [JoCI] FW: Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian
by Michel J. Menou 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah_a@yahoo.com] Sent: January 13, 2007 9:38 PM To: .../.... Subject: [SPAM] Special Issue JoCI on CI and Indian Friends: Here is the final call for papers for publication in a special issue of Journal of Community Informatics. Here is a tentative schedule: four months for papers (from January 15 2007 to May 15 2007), four months for editorial work (not to go beyond September 2007) and publication in October or November 2007. Journal of Community Informatics Special issue on India and Community Informatics Guest editor: Subbiah Arunachalam January 13, 2006. The Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net> brings together academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers from around the world. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics contains double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. (For a brief introduction to Community Informatics see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics>) A forthcoming special issue of the Journal will focus on India and community informatics. It is intended as a forum for specialists in India and elsewhere to systematize the research currently being undertaken by CI practitioners and academics with respect to CI in the Indian context. This issue will also integrate the national discussion with the academic research in community informatics worldwide. We would like to cover both the work of practitioners in the field and theoretical and methodological proposals directly and indirectly related with community informatics. We invite original, non-published articles. Comparative and analytical exercises, based on original research or secondary sources, are also welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics. If you feel that there is any subject related to Community Informatics and India worth including, please feel free to submit a paper or to consult with the guest editor. o General outlook of the issues of CI in India o Country Case Studies, including comparative studies with other countries o Discussion of specific issues, among them: o New analytical and methodological approaches to address, research or drafting of public policies regarding imbalances of access and usage of ICTs in India o Multilingual, multiethnic communities o The role of Community Based Telecenters and Cyber Cafes o Infrastructure development and regulation o IP regulation and its consequences for CI in the region o Community oriented ICT hardware developments o Community oriented ICT software developments o ICTs and Education in communities o ICTs and Health in communities o Strategic use of ICTs in communities o Approaches to sustainability of CI related projects o Small and Medium Business support within communities o Community based Business Models o Usability and Communities - Problems and Innovations in Human-Computer-Interaction It is expected that potential authors will submit both full articles for peer-review, as well as short pieces, commenting on specific experiences and / or policy / regulatory issues, to be reviewed by the guest editor. Authors of books and reports are invited to send them for comment in the book review section of the special issue. This issue of the Journal will accept submissions in English only. For information about submission requirements, please visit: <http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php> or to submit an article directly register as an author and upload to the system. A free subscription may be obtained by registering at http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/user/register For further information, clarifications, comments or suggestions, and to send papers for consideration, please contact the Guest Editor Subbiah Arunachalam [subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com] or the Editor in Chief: Michael Gurstein [Gurstein(a)gmail.com] -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou [at] gmail[dot]com Michel[dot]Menou [at]wanadoo[dot]fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php =====================================================================

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'Internet Histories' cfp
by Gerard Goggin 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

'Internet Histories' a pre-AoIR 8.0 workshop October 16, 2007 Vancouver, Canada Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. In this one-day workshop, to be held 16 October 2007 directly before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference (http://conferences.aoir.org) we aim to explore the questions, assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie the Internet’s diverse histories. In particular, in the spirit of our 2006 ‘Internationalising Internet Studies’ workshop (http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences/2006/conferences-2006-ine…) we start from the notion that the history of Internet uptake has been widely divergent across cultures and regions. In Asia, in particular, the initial PC-based phase of connectivity typical of the US and Europe, has not been replicated. Instead, Internet penetration was achieved via a variety of mobile devices, including Internet-enabled cell phones resulting in very different cultures of use and practice. Accordingly, we call for papers on Internet histories, including, but certainly not limited to the following issues: • what sorts of Internet histories are currently available, or in progress — whether national, country-specific, local, subcultural, community, or transnational and translocal? • what are the histories and trajectories currently missing and why do these particular lacunae exist? What histories of the Internet are being foreclosed, overlooked, or not yet imagined, and what are the implications of this? • who is currently writing, reading, collecting, valorising, or even enshrining Internet histories? • what are the dominant accounts of Internet history, or dominant assumptions regarding these? • what histories do we have of Latin American, African, Oceanic, or Asian Internet, for instance, compared to European or North American Internet? • what challenges does doing Internet history pose? what is specific about Internet history compared to histories of media, communications, or other technologies, or broad social or cultural histories? • how do our understandings of Internet and mobile technologies and cultures vary depending on the kinds of quite specific histories that condition these? • how do a researcher’s own culture and patterns of use determine the kinds of questions s/he may raise concerning the history of ‘the Internet’? This project brings together researchers working on country-specific and regional histories of the Internet as well as those researching Internet use by local and transnational subcultures and communities. This will be the first of what is anticipated to be a series of workshops, leading to an edited collection aimed at understanding the different historical patterns of Internet deployment and cultural and technological development. We welcome abstracts of no more than 500 words by Monday 16 April 2007. Please send your abstract to both organisers: Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au) and Mark McLelland (markmc(a)uow.edu.au) Acceptance will be advised by the end of April 2007. Subsequent to acceptance, presenters will need to register for the workshop and the AoIR conference via the AoIR online conference registration system. Please note that acceptance of your paper at the pre-conference workshop does not preclude you from also submitting a different paper to the main conference. For those selected, papers of 5,000 words will be due by mid-September 2007. Following the workshop, papers will be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on Internet Histories. The project website is: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/events/2007/inet-histories/ About the organisers: Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Dept of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia. His books include Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), and Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and he is currently working on a study of global mobile media. Mark McLelland lectures in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong. His publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2000) and Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005). Gerard and Mark are editors of Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge, 2007). -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dr Gerard Goggin ARC Australian Research Fellow Editor, 'Media International Australia' Department of Media and Communications The University of Sydney e-mail: gerard.goggin(a)arts.usyd.edu.au p: +61 2 9036 6424 f: 61 2 9351 5444 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

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Final CFC - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition - Deadline 31 Jan 07
by Rita Marriott 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposals Submission Deadline: 1/31/2007 Full Articles Due: 4/30/2007 Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition For more information please access the website http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=146 or send an e-mail to rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott Editor Birmingham University / UK --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

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CFP: those persistent boundaries (AoIR Conference 2007)
by Jillana Enteen 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

> > CFP: Those persistent boundaries > > Internet Research 8.0 > Vancouver Canada, October 17-20, 2007 > > This panel considers internet uses in transnational contexts. Since > initial considerations of the internet, which premised new media as > abolishing racial, ethnic, national and supernational boundaries, > cyberculture studies have noted that online practices conform to > geographical and cultural understandings of our physical world. > This session will consider the affects of internet use as internet > practices increasingly intersect with and reinscribe local > environments. There will be particular emphasis on non-western or > non-white internet participation. > > Send 200-word abstracts to j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu by 25 January. > > Jillana Enteen > Associate Director > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Gender Studies Program > 2-360 Kresge > 1880 Campus Drive > Evanston, IL 60208 > (847) 491-5872 > j-enteen(a)northwestern.edu > http://jillana.net > > >

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Final CFC - E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition - Deadline 31 Jan 07
by Rita Marriott 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposals Submission Deadline: 1/31/2007 Full Articles Due: 4/30/2007 Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition For more information please access the website http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=146 or send an e-mail to rita.marriott(a)yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you Best wishes Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott Editor Birmingham University / UK --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.

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AOIR 8.0 Panel Proposal "The Internet Goes to College"
by Marj Kibby 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

The Internet Goes to College This panel is inspired by the PEW report of the same name ( http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/71/report_display.asp ) and, it is proposed, will feature research that examines similar issues and practices in Colleges five years on. Topics might include: The Internet’s impact on college students’ daily lives. Students’ experiences with online distance education Online plagiarism and plagiarism detection Web-based communication between professors and students or students and students The use of the internet to deliver authentic learning experiences. The integration of web-based learning into the face-to-face classroom. Online administration / assessment / portfolios / Please email me privately with expressions of interest and ideas for papers. marj.kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au 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

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workshop
by T. Kennedy 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hello fellow SL researchers and educators! My name is Tracy Kennedy - I'm a Virtual Research Assistant for the Center for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of you may remember me from last November when I posted an invitation to our Virtual Open House at the Virtual Center for Digital Media where we talked about a new Masters of Digital Media (MDM) program at the Great Northern Way Campus starting in September 2007. The open house was a great success and we are moving forward to put together some innovative ideas & educational tools in Second Life for our 'real life' curriculum. One initiative that we are currently working on is transforming traditional style educational spaces (for example lecture halls and seminar rooms) into student designed collaborative learning environments. We would like to move beyond conventional 'real life' pedagogical delivery modes and encourage students to actively engage and participate in their learning milieu by creating virtual learning spaces & places, and have students learn technical design skills (and modding) at the same time. Having said that, I'd like to invite you to a workshop we are having at the Virtual Center for Digital Media (139, 34, 25) on Thursday January 18th - 1pm SLT where we will have a 'brainstorming' session to take the existing seminar room at the Virtual Center for Digital Media, and transform it into a dynamic, creative workspace that is collaboratively designed and built by a group of individuals - the intention is to show that a group of individuals can come together and create their own learning space. The following week (Wed Jan 24th 1pm SLT) we will put theory into practice and actually do the modifications and changes to the room to see what the end result might look like. However if you only want to come to the brainstorming session on the 18th - that's fine too - We're interested in your thoughts, ideas and expertise. If you have questions, please feel free to email me off-list at tracy(a)gnwc.ca. More information about the program here: http://www.gnwc.ca/mdm/ http://www.mastersofdigitalmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnwc Thanks! Tracy Kennedy ******************************************** Second Life - TracyTrail Blazer Virtual Research Assistant Center for Digital Media Great Northern Way Campus 555 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 1E2 tracy(a)gnwc.ca First Life - Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative Research Coordinator - NetLab - Center for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 www.netwomen.ca/Blog Research Director - Netwomen Consulting tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ********************************************

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Fwd: Conference Announcement: Virtual Women
by burkx006＠umn.edu 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Of possible interest. DLB -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:54:53 -0800 From: "Julie Cromer" To: <ipprofs(a)listserv.piercelaw.edu> Subject: [Ipprofs] Conference Announcement: Virtual Women Thomas Jefferson School of Law Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference Virtual Women - Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law Friday, February 9, 2007 Thomas Jefferson School of Law announces its Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference, Virtual Women - Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law, to be held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, on Friday, February 9, 2007. This conference will explore the various ways that the field of intellectual property can create an atmosphere for women that can be 'virtual,' offering rights and regimes that can appear less than genuine. Because of the more prominent role women and women's issues are playing in the field of intellectual property, Virtual Women: Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law explores this disparity and raises questions addressing these distinctions. The conference will address such questions as the role gender plays in motivating creativity, the gender of patent, how feminist theory can reconceptualize intellectual property, and the challenges women face in the practice and execution of intellectual property. Keynote speaker Rochelle Dreyfuss, will deliver the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, Girls Just Want to Have Fun: What Can Feminist Theory Tell Us About Incentives?, will investigate ways that feminist theory can explain and support incentive structures to make sure the laws are achieving the goals necessary to support the endeavors. Confirmed panelists include Ann Bartow, Dr. Boatema Boateng, Dan L. Burk, Dr. Carys J. Craig, Mallary DeMerlier, Michele Goodwin, K.J. Greene, Christine Haight Farley, Eileen Kane, Mary LaFrance, Doris Estelle Long, Malla Pollack, Adrien Pruetz, and Rebecca Tushnet. Panelists will present academic and professional work that ranges from exploring issues of gender on the Internet to examining the role of women in the field of biotechnology; from considering feminist roles in authorship and creativity to considering the feminine mystique of brands; from questioning issues of sex and fair use in copyright to issues of breast cancer and baby rights in patent; and from hearing women's voices in the arts to hearing feminist concerns in intellectual property. Since 2001, Thomas Jefferson's Women & The Law Project has hosted an annual conference, the first annual event in the West focusing exclusively on gender issues and the law. The conference series aims to advance the legal rights of women, promote gender-related scholarly work, share the expertise of faculty with the wider community, and facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue. To register and for more information, please visit our Web site at www.tjsl.edu/WLC <http://www.tjsl.edu/WLC> or contact Sherril Cohn at (619) 297-9700 x1414 or scohn(a)tjsl.edu.

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Reminder: CFP Communication Technologies of Empowerment, Leeds, May 18, 2007
by Francisco Seoane 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

ICS Postgraduate Conference: Communication Technologies for Empowerment May 18, 2007 Leeds, United Kingdom Submission Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2007 Call for Papers ICS Postgraduate Conference Communication Technologies of Empowerment Leeds, United Kingdom - Friday, May 18, 2007 The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) at the University of Leeds will be hosting a postgraduate conference for the presentation and discussion of research in communications performed by PhD students. Under the title Communication Technologies of Empowerment, this meeting seeks to bring together new scholars who are studying how the latest developments in communication are affecting our democracies by enabling new forms of political participation and citizen engagement. Whether you live in an established democratic system, a country in transition to democracy, or under an authoritarian government, new communication technologies are likely to have changed your political environment. The recent popular upheavals in Ukraine and Lebanon were in great part conducted through mobile phone messages. In Western Europe, the riots in the Parisian suburbs and the protests in Spain against the Aznar government regarding the authorship of the Madrid terrorist attacks would have been very different if the Internet and mobile phones had not become an integral part of our everyday lives. Meanwhile, traditional politics is trying to catch up with the digital age. Political parties are seeking to domesticate these new forms of horizontal communication, and so are governments, with potentially threatening consequences. Paradoxically, new technologies of communication can serve both to empower citizens and to survey and control them. A recent report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has shown that networked technologies can be effectively used by authoritarian governments to strengthen their repressive regimes. New forms of communication have become a key tool for global social movements. Whether their struggles are focused on questions of global justice, class, gender, race or the environment, activists have found in the decentralized and inexpensive nature of the Internet and mobile telephony the media they needed to organise themselves and make their actions public. Interestingly, these technologies are also being mastered by those actors who want to challenge the national and international orders through violent means. This reminds us that terrorism is in great part a communicative phenomenon, today more than ever before. If your research deals with questions such as the ones outlined above, or with issues related with the interplay of media, new technologies, citizenship, democracy and politics, we hope to hear from you. Please submit an abstract with a general description of your future research paper, indicating your topic, theoretical framework, research questions or hypotheses, method and expected results. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. If your proposal is accepted, we will ask you to provide a full paper. After your presentation, the paper will be published on the ICS website. Please, remember to include your full contact information: Name, e-mail and postal address, telephone number and academic affiliation for each author. Your paper presentation will be discussed and commented on by members of the academic staff from the Institute of Communications Studies who have expertise in your topic, method, or theoretical framework. This can be a golden opportunity for you to refine your thoughts, openly share your concerns, and receive constructive criticism from professors and fellow postgraduate students working in your area. It is also a great chance to start building or expanding your professional and academic network. Deadlines: - Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2007. - Deadline for full papers: April 30, 2007. Contact and electronic submission: - Qian (Sarah) Gong q.gong(a)leeds.ac.uk - Anna Zoellner csaz(a)leeds.ac.uk Conference website: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/index.htm ------- Francisco Seoane Perez Provisional PhD student Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds E-mai: icsfsp(a)leeds.ac.uk Webpage: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/staff/f.perez ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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CfP iCS Symposium on Changing Politics through Digital Networks
by bl506＠york.ac.uk 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Members may be interested in the following Call for Papers: Changing politics through digital networks: The role of ICTs in the formation of new social and political actors and actions. 5-6 October 2007 Political Science Faculty, University of Florence, Italy Organized by: Department of Political Science and Sociology (DISPO), University of Florence in collaboration with the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) based in the Department of Sociology, University of York Sponsored by: Information, Communication and Society (iCS) Key note speakers include: Lance Bennett (University of Washington, USA) Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) Tim Jordan (Open University UK) Michele Micheletti (Karlstad University, Sweden) It will address such questions as: How can ICTs be best used to facilitate the formation of social and political identities? Do the ways ICTs are embedded in new social and political movements contribute to change the sociological content of the relationships between them, their members and their constituency? How can ICTs be best used to influence political processes and outcomes at local, national and transnational levels? Theoretical and empirical works focusing on political and sociological aspects of such analytical dimensions as power structures, organization, technologies, communication, individual and collective behaviors are welcomed. The full cfp and submission details are available on the symposium website at: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/dispo/ -- Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506(a)york.ac.uk

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