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CFP: Trials & Tribulations - Negotiating Research Methods in Cyberspace
by kelly boudreau 10 May '06

10 May '06

*Concordia University; Montréal, QC November 10 - 11, 2006* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technological innovations such as the Internet, cell phones, MP3 players and video game consoles have changed the ways in which people work, play, interact, communicate and define who they are. As use of these technologies increases, so have the methodological opportunities for researchers who study the ways in which people, both children and adults, use and experience digital culture. Academic interest surrounding these emerging technologies varies as widely as the disciplines themselves. This poses a variety of challenges in researching digital culture given that every discipline employs unique methodologies specific to their field of study. As this type of research is still emerging, opportunities for the development of original and innovative ways of capturing on-line experiences continue to arise. This makes it particularly important for scholars across a variety of disciplines to come together to share the ways in which they have pushed the limits of traditional methods and overcome the challenges of research surrounding digital culture. We aim to invite those who have an interest in and experience with conducting research online, not only as a tool but as space of inquiry. We hope to attract a range of scholars, from students who are beginning their research to seasoned academics who can share their experiences working with digital methods. The goal of this symposium is to encourage informal discussion, therefore participation will be limited. For this, we invite papers that focus on but not limited to: * Ethical Issues * Researching video game console culture * Fieldwork Boundaries & Possibilities * From online & offline and back again: the question of merging identity * Post-Virtual Research: Situating the virtual as a space of inquiry after the real/virtual debate * Ethnography in cyberspace * The future of qualitative research online *SUBMISSION INFORMATION: * 300-500 word abstract, excluding references Deadline for Submissions: July 1st, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2006 Please send a copy of your abstract to *both* Shanly Dixon, Humanitites (dixons(a)alcor.concordia.ca) & Kelly Boudreau, Sociology & Anthropology ( kelly(a)gamecode.ca)

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Fwd: [governance] Workshop on Information Security
by Jeremy Hunsinger 10 May '06

10 May '06

From: Milton Mueller <mueller(a)syr.edu> Date: May 10, 2006 10:16:19 AM EDT To: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org Subject: [governance] Workshop on Information Security Reply-To: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org, Milton Mueller <mueller(a)syr.edu> The Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure http://wesii.econinfosec.org/ October 23-24, 2006 Washington, DC SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Our information infrastructure suffers from decades-old vulnerabilities, from the low-level algorithms that select communications routes to the application-level services on which we are becoming increasingly dependent. Are we investing enough to protect our infrastructure? How can we best overcome the inevitable bootstrapping problems that impede efforts to add security to this infrastructure? Who stands to benefit and who stands to lose as security features are integrated into these basic services? How can technology investment decisions best be presented to policymakers? We invite infrastructure providers, developers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, security engineers, and especially policymakers to help address these and other related questions. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work to government and corporate policymakers. We encourage collaborative research from authors in multiple fields and multiple institutions. Submissions Due: August 6, 2006 (11:59PM PST) ======================================================================== Suggested topics (not intended to be comprehensive) ======================================================================== The economics of deploying security into: The Domain Name System (DNS) BGP & routing infrastructure Email & spam prevention Programming languages Legacy code bases User interfaces Operating systems Code origin authentication Measuring the cost of adding security Liability and legal issues Models of deployment penetration Measuring/estimating damages Empirical studies of deployment Establishing roots of trust Identity management infrastructure Internet politics Securing open source code libraries Antitrust Issues Adding security to/over existing APIs Privacy Issues Data archival & warehousing infrastructure ======================================================================== Program Committee ======================================================================== Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management Ross Anderson University of Cambridge Jean Camp Indiana University Huseyin Cavusoglu Tulane University Richard Clayton University of Cambridge Steve Crocker Shinkuro / DNSSEC Deployment Working Group Ben Edelman Harvard University Department of Economics Allan Friedman Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Adam M. Golodner Cisco Systems Larry Gordon University of Maryland Smith School of Business Yacov Haimes University of Virginia Cathy Handley U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration Barry Horowitz University of Virginia Richard Hovey U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Jeff Hunker Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management M. Eric Johnson The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College Jeffrey M. Kopchik U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Technology Supervision Branch Steve Lipner Microsoft Marty Loeb University of Maryland Smith School of Business Doug Maughan U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Doug Montgomery U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology Internetworking Technologies Group Milton Mueller Syracuse University School of Information Studies Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Andy Ozment MIT Lincoln Laboratory / University of Cambridge Shari Lawrence Pfleeger RAND Corporation Stuart Schechter MIT Lincoln Laboratory Bruce Schneier Counterpane Internet Security Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy & Management Andrew Wyckoff Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Bill Yurcik National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) ======================================================================== Workshop Sponsors ======================================================================== The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) ======================================================================== Paper Formats and Submission Instructions ======================================================================== See the workshop web site at: http://wesii.econinfosec.org/ _______________________________________________ WESII-committee mailing list WESII-committee(a)econinfosec.org http://econinfosec.org/mailman/listinfo/wesii-committee_econinfosec.org ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: governance-unsubscribe(a)lists.cpsr.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

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M/C Journal 'collaborate' Issue Now Available
by Axel Bruns 09 May '06

09 May '06

G'day ! Forwarding this FYI: > -----Original Message----- > From: M/C - Media and Culture [mailto:mc@media-culture.org.au] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2006 15:24 > To: mc(a)media-culture.org.au > Subject: M/C Journal 'collaborate' Issue Now Available FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 May 2006 M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue two in volume nine of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 'collaborate' - Edited by Donna Lee Brien & Axel Bruns Collaboration is a highly desirable and, increasingly, often a mandated element in many modes of Australian (and international) research, creative and business practice - and a factor on which successful and innovative outcomes, as well as funding, often depend. In many cases, however, participants in collaborative projects have a limited understanding of collaboration (in theory and practice) beyond that of a general concept, tossed about with nods of approval but rarely unpacked. In other fields of DIY content production, from open source software development to the large- scale distributed collaboration on projects such as the Wikipedia, collaboration often happens perhaps even more intuitively, but nonetheless produces results which can usually stand up to serious professional scrutiny. So how, and why, do we collaborate? This issue of M/C Journal features case study articles from the point of view of practitioners and researchers, innovative research about collaborative practice, examinations of authorship credits and copyright issues in collaborative work, including collaborative interventions like the creative commons, and wider insights into the apparent human need for interaction, collaboration, and what World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners- Lee has called 'intercreativity'. Feature Article "Copyright in a Collaborative Age" - Suw Charman and Michael Holloway There has never been a better time to collaborate. The Internet is providing us with ways to work together that were unimaginable even just a decade ago, and high broadband penetration means that exchanging large However, copyright law has, in general, failed to keep up with the amazing progress shown by technology and human ingenuity. It is time that the lawmakers learnt how to collaborate with the collaborators in order to bring copyright up to date. Articles "Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work" - Mark Elliott "Students 'at Risk': Dilemmas of Collaboration" - Nahid Kabir and Mark Balnaves "Riding Waves of Resonance: Morphogenic Fields and Collaborative Research with Australian Travelling Communities" - Geoff Danaher, Beverley Moriarty and P.A. Danaher "The Impossibility of Collaborating with Kathy, 'The Stupid Bitch'" - Sheryl Brahnam "The Wicked Problem of Collaboration" - Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister "Reflections on Practicing Student-Staff Collaboration in Academic Research: A Transformative Strategy for Change?" - Maud Perrier "A Cappella and Diva: A Collaborative Process for Individual Academic Writing" - Wendy Beck, Kerry Dunne, Josie Fisher, Jane O'Sullivan and Alison Sheridan "Would We, Could We, Did We Collaborate? Mutuality and Respect" - Belinda R. Tynan = Dawn L. Garbett "Metacognition through Group Practice in the New Media Classroom" - Chris Leslie "Creative Communities after Television: The Collective Authorship of Channel 101" - Elliot Panek "Off World Sounds: Building a Collaborative Soundscape" - Tara Brabazon and Stephen Mallinder "Posthuman Collaboration: Multimedia, Improvisation, and Computer Mediation" - Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean "The Convergence Potentials Of Collaboration & Adaptation: A Case Study In Progress" - Patrick West "Interruption/Interaction/Collaboration: A Critical Appraisal of the Textual @traction Interactive Event" - Ieuan Morris =========================================================================== Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006: 'street': article deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June 2006 'free': article deadline 26 June 2006, release date 23 August 2006 'filth': article deadline 21 August 2006, release date 18 October 2006 'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006, release date 13 December 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal 9.2 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit all three M/C publications at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All contributors are available for media contacts: mc(a)media-culture.org.au. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end -- Dr Axel Bruns, General Editor editor(a)media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia Creative Industries Faculty Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548 Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Fwd: Registration for IFIP-TC9 HCC-7
by Jeremy Hunsinger 09 May '06

09 May '06

> > International Federation for Information Processing > IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between Computers and Society" > > Seventh International Conference Human Choice and Computers (HCC7) > An International Conference in remembrance of Rob Kling > > Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? > > Maribor (Slovenia) > September 21-23, 2006 > > Venue: HCC7 moves to Maribor (Slovenia) > > A decision to organise the HCC7 Conference in Nova Gorica was made > under the assumption that a new Congress Centre would be open by > September 2006. It has turned out that the opening of the Centre > will surely be delayed and the conference would thus have to take > place at four different locations in the city. To avoid that and to > provide better working conditions for the conference participants, > a decision has been taken to move the conference to Maribor. > > Information, Accommodation and Registration on-line > > All information regarding the Conference Frame and the Programme, > as well as the on-line registration form and the accommodation may > be found at http://www.hcc7.org > > Scope of the Conference > Human choice and computers, Computers and Society, Social > Informatics, are terms referring to a similar preoccupation: How is > the human being and its societal environment kept in the centre - > How to build up an "Information Society for All" [UNESCO, 2002], > [eEurope, 2002] when developing our more and more complex ICT > (Information and Communication Technology) systems? > > Questions regarding programme and organization > Respectively: mailto:jberleur@info.fundp.ac.be and > mailto:franci.pivec@izum.si > > > -- > > ************************************************ > Prof. Jacques BERLEUR > Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix > Rue Grandgagnage, 21 Phone: +32 81 72-4976 > Mobile: +32 (0)475 548372 > 5000 NAMUR Fax: +32 81 72 4967 > BELGIUM Email: jberleur(a)info.fundp.ac.be > URL: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/ > ************************************************ > > -- > > ************************************************ > Prof. Jacques BERLEUR > Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix > Rue Grandgagnage, 21 Phone: +32 81 72-4976 > Mobile: +32 (0)475 548372 > 5000 NAMUR Fax: +32 81 72 4967 > BELGIUM Email: jberleur(a)info.fundp.ac.be > URL: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/ > ************************************************ > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.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/ LI-the journal

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netporn conference 2007
by Marije Janssen 09 May '06

09 May '06

We are currently looking for academics who are working on the subject of internet pornography and would like to present their work at an international conference in the Netherlands in February 2007. Last year the Insitute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli, hosted an international academic conference about netporn: 'The Art & Politics of Netporn.' Some of the speakers were: Mark Dery, Mikita Brottman and Susanna Paasonen. Subjects ranged from the sexual grotesque, indie porn to the issue of online censorship. For more information about this conference you can visit our website: www.networkcultures.org/netporn. The topics for the next conference will be: - amateur- and DIY porn - censorship - gender identity online If you think your work is suitable please sent an abstract to: marije(a)networkcultures.org The first conference was very successfull and made it possible for people to meet each other and exchange views on this topic that is still a taboo. We are looking forward to a second edition with fresh faces and new insights. We are also still very interested in essays about this subject for our netporn anthology. marije janssen institute of network cultures marije(a)networkcultures.org t: +31 (0)20 5951866 f: +31 (0)20 5951840 www.networkcultures.org

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Internet adoption rates by country and age: data sources?
by catherine middleton 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hello all, I'm looking for internet adoption rates on a national basis, breaking out adoption patterns by age. Any suggestions as to where to find these data would be most appreciated. I don't have a specific list of countries I'm interested in, at this point I'm just trying to see what is available. I am aware of the OECD and ITU internet adoption data, but as far as I know neither provides a breakdown by age of adopter. For anyone interested in this in the Canadian context, these data are found in the Household Internet Use survey, conducted by Statistics Canada from 1997-2003. It tracks household adoption only, so the age data refers to the age of the head of household rather than to individual adopters. Thanks for your help. catherine middleton cmiddlet(a)ryerson.ca

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Graffiti
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 08 May '06

08 May '06

Robert Gagne' in "The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness" wrote that early man was compelled to express himself with sticks in the mud. Graffiti, as irritating as it may be, is an expression of people without voice, pallet or that matter mud. Picasso was once asked, "What is Art?" He said, "Art is what the artists say is art". Graffiti may well conform to that definition and the more abrasive it is may be the message. Be it on a wall or the internet the surface is the pallet or the canvas and it is still art. The same forces that drive trivial research and papers drive graffiti in any medium. Graffiti on the side of a subway generally has a bigger audience. Reid _____ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) <mailto:wrc@tcfir.org> wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti
by M.B.Gaved 08 May '06

08 May '06

I think you make some good points Jean I'd agree there feels to be a difference between a response to an existing text, and a declaration on a 'blank canvas' (reactive vs proactive?). The latter could describe scribbles on a designed graffitti space (sounds like we have examples of these existing online), or the appropriation of a currently empty space (including, I suppose, the creation of a new wiki article). The former might take the form of complete deletion of the original web text and replacement of ones own - like hacked websites of government bodies taken over to make a political message (maybe replacing a US military homepage with a text against the war in Iraq), or complete deletion of a wiki article and replacement with one's one text on the subject. However these leave no reference to the original text. Maybe to continue the metaphor of graffitti rather than complete appropriation, 'graffitti' requires that the original text or images are still visible and the additional contributions interact with the existing content? Perhaps the addition of further text in a different font and colour, or the editing of images in photoshop to provide an extra layer. Mark Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Jean Burgess Sent: Sun 4/23/2006 12:56 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti I think the case for the abuse of wikipedia working like graffiti only works if the metaphor is refined a bit - it's more like someone coming along to a community street mural and deliberately painting something out of step with the aesthetic and political values that have been implicitly or explicitly agreed on by the 'community' that is working on the mural. A bit different from walking up to the blank rendered wall of, say, a McDonald's and writing "ronald sucks" on it. In one case (the mural), the wall is constructed as open and 'writable' and in the second case (mcdonald's) it isn't, because of very clear binary distinctions between who owns the wall and therefore gets to paint it, and who doesn't. All of which makes wikipedia a far more interesting case, IMHO. cheers Jean Jean Burgess http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=196 ISSN: 1367-8779 Creative Industries Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3864 5603 Mobile: +61 401 733 755

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Some new online papers on blogs
by Mike Thelwall 08 May '06

08 May '06

There is a blog workshop at the WWW2006 conference with all papers online at http://www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/program.html These are mainly quantitative approaches to blog analysis and some are only of interest to system developers but there are some interesting ones - Iranian and Chinese bloggers are both covered, and some papers show clear trends, for example about the relationship between social ties and continued blogging. My contribution is "Blogs During the London Attacks: Top Information Sources and Topics" Mike Thelwall Head, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/ *Now funding good PhD proposals*

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Re: [Air-l] internet in movies, list so far
by Eric Goldman 07 May '06

07 May '06

Sorry to revive a dormant thread, but I think this feature by WSJ is directly on point--and gives viewers some instant gratification. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-flash06.html?project=… Check out the comments, too. I had never seen the movie Swordfish, but the clip made me laugh out loud. Database hacking as a rockin' music video. Eric. -- Eric Goldman Marquette University Law School egoldman(a)gmail.com Personal website: http://www.ericgoldman.org Blogs: http://blog.ericgoldman.org and http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/ On 3/28/06, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> wrote: > > Here are the movies people have recommended to me so far -- THANKS! A > few people have also recommended searching the Internet Movie > Database: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=internet but I am > thankful for specific recommendations of movies you have actually > seen or heard about. If you can think of films not on this list, > please keep sending them! > > Closer > > Code Hunter (2002) > > Disclosure (1994)- > > eXistenZ (1999) > > Fear dot com. > > Firewall. > > Hackers (1995) > > Johnny Mnemonic (1995) > > Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) > > Lawnmower Man (1992) > > Matrix (1999) > > Matrix Reloaded (2003) > > Minority Report (2002) > > Mission Impossible. > > Must Love Dogs (2005) > > NetForce (1999) > . > Perfect Man (2005) > > "Pulse" > > Sandor/Ida (Swedish movie) > > Sneakers (1992) > > Something's Gotta Give. > > Swordfish (2001) > > Technolust > > Terminator 3! : Rise of the Machines (2003) > > The Net > > Thomas is love. > > Virtuosity (1995) > > War Games (1983) > > You've Got Mail

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