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ethics -- aol data
by 'Gail Taylor 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

AOL has 8 privacy principles and none of them directly addresses how search information might be compiled or distributed to others. As a longtime AOL user, I might take exception with how the 8th principle has been applied in the past and more recently. I have, though, found that principles have been translated into practice consistently for the last 10 years or so. Here are the principles: (1) We do not read your private online communications. (2) We do not use any information about where you personally go on AOL or the Web, and we do not give it out to others. (3) We do not give out your telephone number, credit card information or screen names, unless you authorize us to do so. And we give you the opportunity to correct your personal contact and billing information at any time. (4) We may use information about the kinds of products you buy from AOL to make other marketing offers to you, unless you tell us not to. We do not give out this purchase data to others. (5) We give you choices about how AOL uses your personal information. (6) We take extra steps to protect the safety and privacy of children. (7) We use secure technology, privacy protection controls and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your personal information. (8) We will keep you informed, clearly and prominently, about what we do with your personal information, and we will advise you if we change our policy. ***************************** Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant "We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society. We have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior." -- Jerry Springer

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Re: [Air-l] First post
by Sarah Stewart 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi Mary-Helen I am doing my PhD through the University of Queensland. I have been meaning to start a blog but haven't got around to it. I have had a number of challenges along the way (which I am told will make me a much better person!!). So if you need another participant, please let me know. Sarah Sarah Stewart PhD Candidate Senior Lecturer School of Midwifery Otago Polytechnic Forth St Private Bag 1910 Dunedin New Zealand Tel: 0800 762786 sarahs(a)tekotago.ac.nz

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Re: [Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication
by dcogburn＠syr.edu 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Dear Betty, Digital Diaspora(s) is a term I have used. Keep well Cheers, Derrick -----Original Message----- From: Betty Hanson <betty.hanson(a)uconn.edu> Subj: Re: [Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication Date: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:31 am Size: 2K To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org I am searching for a label for ethnic communities that are created by either the Internet or satellite television. Does anybody have any idea what encompassing term I could use here. Virtual ethnic communities would apply only to the Internet. Betty Hanson At 12:00 PM 7/24/2006, Mark Bell wrote: >Folks, > >As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term. One professor told me >it was archaic and vague - asking if we should also refer to "pen mediated >communication". There certainly is a lot of research into how we communicate >in the digital, multi-channel, immersive environment, so we should have a >unifying term. > >It sounds like we need a new term but I agree digital communication and ICT >are far too broad. The work I am doing with Wikipedia is definitely >stigmergic in nature (or at least I hope to prove it is) but that is very >different from IM or email. > >M > > >On 7/24/06, Martin Garthwaite <marting(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Jillana, > > > > I would agree, if you look at a time line, I remember reading about CMC > > over > > 15 years ago, and I'll go out on a limb here and say that quite a lot of > > the > > research on CMC was done pre-mass adoption of Internet. So services like > > CompuServe, CIX and AOL that provided walled gardens that were not > > originally part of the Internet. CMC also referred to mailing lists like > > this one, e-mail, usenet groups, all these systems were pre-html > > technologies. > > > > ICT appears to me to be a catch all term, and I find digital communication > > a > > little ambiguous. > > > > Martin. > > m.k.garthwaite(a)lse.ac.uk > > MSc candidate media@lse > > > > On 7/24/06, Jillana Enteen <jillana(a)jillana.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm trying to sort out the differences in etymology and meaning > > > between CMC, ICT and digital communication. I'm having a hard time-- > > > other than recognizing the academic/educational basis for ICT and its > > > roots in IT, it seems to me that these terms are used interchangeably. > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > best wishes, jillana > > > Jillana Enteen > > > jillana(a)jillana.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Martin Garthwaite > > > > +447957 764819 > > +4420 7871 9656 (Skypein - call me and wherever in the world I am I'll > > either talk to you or get a voice mail) > > Skype id mgarthwaite1330 > > MS IM marting(a)gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ --- message truncated ---

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Re: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question
by Jay Hauben 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Dear Ulla. About the ARPANET, one node a month were brought up each month in late 1969. Each site had an IMP. The 4 IMPS formed the communications subnetwork. To each IMP was attached a host. These hosts were time sharing systems. Therefore the number of terminals or even computers connected via the 4 node ARPANET was more than 4. The history of the ARPANET and timesharing can be seen in chapters 6, 7 and 8 of "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet by Michael Hauben and ronda Hauben". An online version is at: http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120 The hard cover edition was published by the IEEE Computer Science Press in 1997. On August 30, 1969, the first IMP arrived at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which was to be the first site of the new network. It was connected to the SDS Sigma 7 computer at UCLA using the GENIE operating system. Shortly thereafter IMPs were delivered to the other three sites in this initial testbed network. At Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the IMP was connected to an SDS-940 computer using the SEX operating system. At the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the IMP was connected to an IBM 360/75 using OS/MTV. And at the University of Utah (Utah), the fourth site, the IMP was connected to a DEC PDP-10 using the TENEX operating system. By the end of 1969, the first four IMPs had been connected to the host computers at their individual sites and the network connections between the IMPs were operational. The researchers and scientists involved could begin to identify the problems they had to solve to develop a working network where there would be communication from host to host. The first sites of the ARPANET were picked to provide either network support services or unique resources. The key services the first four sites provided were(24): UCLA - Network Measurement Center SRI - Network Information Center UCSB - Culler-Fried interactive mathematics UTAH - graphics (hidden line removal) A much cited version of The Untold History of the ARPANET is http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html)

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JITP Launches and Seeks Reviewers and Editorial Board Members
by Stuart Shulman 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Folks, I am writing to you to announce the launch of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, (www.jitp.net) and to invite the members of the list interested in this subfield to join our reviewer and editorial board database by completing a brief web survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=90162489434 If anyone has already completed a variant of this survey (under the auspices of seeking feedback on what was then the Journal of E-Government) there is no reason to complete the survey again. We have ~200 completed surveys and a very large and growing database of potential reviewers. There is considerable excitement amongst this group about the direction of this journal. We plan to use a tailored database to make sure JITP reviewers get only the articles they really want to review and at a rate that is set by each reviewer. We are also building a sizable full editorial board out of this reviewer database. It includes graduate students making a mark and planning a career in ITP studies. If people are interested in the governance of JITP, they should take 10 minutes visit the survey, or else e-mail me directly to tell me about your ideas and interests relating to JITP. Thanks, Dr. Stuart Shulman Editor, JITP -- _____________________________________________ Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Senior Research Associate and QDAP Director University Center for Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu/ _____________________________________________

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AOL and research ethics
by Barry Wellman 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Besides legal stuff, it's clear that AOL didn't follow what's SOP procedures for preserving respondent, privacy in the social sciences. They thought they were by not directly releasing user-holder's name and accounts, but were so eager to be helpful that they didn't sanitize the data well. Always a concern, but one routinely dealt. OK, I gotta stop myself or else I go on another rant about computer scientists not knowing any social science -- in this case methods. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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ARPAnet history question
by Bunz, Ulla 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

When ARPAnet connected the four universities in 1969, were there only actually four computers connected to each other? If not, does anyone know how many? A source (not Wikipedia or your personal memory) for this information would be much appreciated. Thanks, Ulla ****************************** Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Florida State University University Center C, Suite 3100 Tallahassee, FL 32306 Phone: 850-644-1809 ******************************

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Re: [Air-l] air-l Digest, Vol 25, Issue 23
by Tama Leaver 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

(Re: 1. maybe a silly question.. but (radhika gajjala) thread) Hi Radhika and AoiRers, I was having a very similar conversation about Livejournal vs YouTube (vs MySpace) and the vague consensus we left with was the livejournal was a social networking system since it is often (primarily?) used as conversation space, as emphasised by the Friends lists (which is basically an embedded RSS reader with fancy livejournal avataring). YouTube wants to be a social networking system where conversations flow across the various YT videos, but it's in a pretty primitive stage. This is particularly evident since the most popular YouTube-related social networking happens on a different website focused on YouTube (the YouTube Talk site: http://youtubetalk.com/) Sadly, MySpace seems to offer social networking functionality beyond YouTube (since many, many YouTube directors points their fans/commentators to their MySpace pages for networking purposes) and MySpace is probably the best popular middle-ground for media and social networking, despite the fact that its design can, at best, be described as horrifically ugly! Just my ten cents ... Btw, as an Australian AoIRer, I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you in sunny BrisVegas in less than a month! Cheers, Tama -- Tama Leaver Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning (M400) University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia Ph: (+61 8) 6488 1502 email: tama.leaver(a)uwa.edu.au blog: http://tama.edublogs.org CRICOS PROVIDER No. 00126G Quoting air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org: > 1. maybe a silly question.. but (radhika gajjala) > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:09:25 -0400 > From: radhika gajjala <radhika(a)cyberdiva.org> > Subject: [Air-l] maybe a silly question.. but > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <a06230905c117ba488d9a(a)[192.168.1.102]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > why not ask, right? > > Is livejournal a "social networking system"? why or why not? What > about You tube? > > r > -- > Radhika Gajjala > Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator > School of Communication Studies > 302 West Hall > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, OH 43402 > http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik/index2.html

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Re: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I like this book too. /Caroline Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press. ---------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question
by M.B.Gaved 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

A really nice book to read on the early days of the internet is "Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the internet" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon pub: Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 0684832674 Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Bunz, Ulla Sent: Tue 8/29/2006 5:50 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question When ARPAnet connected the four universities in 1969, were there only actually four computers connected to each other? If not, does anyone know how many? A source (not Wikipedia or your personal memory) for this information would be much appreciated. Thanks, Ulla ****************************** Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Florida State University University Center C, Suite 3100 Tallahassee, FL 32306 Phone: 850-644-1809 ******************************

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