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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: JoCDS ... Special Issue on CI and CD
by Michael Maranda 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Friends, Upon my return from recent travels I was very excited to find waiting in my bushel of mail: "Community Development: the Journal of the Community Development Society, vol 36, No 1, special issue on "Community Informatics and Community Development" with Kenneth Pigg as Guest Editor. Unfortunately the abstracts are not available online (yet?) but I hope that the titles and authors I will list will prompt you to consider how we in the broader Community ICT field can work more closely together with organizations such as the Community Development Society: http://www.comm-dev.org Their conference will be next June in St. Louis, and is themed "Communities that Click" unfortunately their site indicates that the call for abstracts closed Oct 31 but I am sure that committed and interested parties can be accomodated it would be really great for Community Informatics, Community Networking, CTC and Community Development folks to connect there. We really are in an era of a convergences. Titles and authors in this special issue: Introduction: Community Informatics and community Development . Kenneth E. Pigg Bowling Alone and Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities . James K. Scott & Thomas G. Johnson Library and Information Science (LIS) and Community Development: The Use of Community ICT towards a Social Equity Agenda . Bharat Mehra Information Technology and Community-Level Socio-Economic Development Greg Laudeman Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development Norman Walzer & Justin Colavito Do Information and Communication Technologies Promote Rural Economic Development? . Kenneth E Pigg & Laura D. Crank Participatory Action Research for Electronic Community Networking Projects Larry Stillman Bulding Knowledge, Buidling Community: Integrating Internet Access to Secondary Data as Part of the Commity Development Process Julie N. Zimmerman and Alissa Meyer The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP): Networking our Nation -- A Decade of Lessons Learned Amy Borgstrom, Don Druker & Judith Sparrow A good number of recognizable names! The Journal is avialble with membership in CDS, but I can't find info at the moment as to ordering individual copies by other means. Regards, MM ____________________________________________________________________________ Michael Maranda President, The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) http://www.afcn.org Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter http://www.ctcnetchicago.org Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition (ilCTC) http://www.ilctc.org Vice President, CAAELII http://www.caaelii.org Vice President, NPOTechs http://www.npotechs.org Attend the Illinois Community Technology Conference, November 16-17, 2005. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference

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new issue of JCMC - including theme issue on culture and communication
by Charles Ess 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Dear Air-ists, JCMC's special thematic section on Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication (edited by Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess), is now available on the JCMC website: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ This issue was inspired by (and includes) several presentations made originally at our biennial conference series on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication" (CATaC) in 2004, Karlstad, Sweden. This issue brings together both: successful uses of the frameworks developed by Edward T. Hall and Gert Hofstede for analyzing cross-cultural communication online (primarily, interestingly enough, advertising websites - and in this genre, these frameworks "work" better for fast-food and universities [!!!] than for, say, durable goods - see the first article by Marc Hermeking, Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtaet, Munich) and critiques of Hall and Hofstede, coupled with proposed new models - including one based on the work of W.E.B. Dubois - vis-à-vis critical applications and empirical studies in Singapore, international online classes, and "mainstream" vs. sites designed by and for African-Americans (Brock). The explicitly ethical impetus behind this work is: how do we develop forms of cross-cultural communication online that do _not_ colonize "the Other" by imposing Western cultural values and communicative preferences? That is, despite our fond belief that these technologies are "just tools," i.e., somehow culturally and communicatively neutral, they demonstrably embed and foster the values and preferences of their Western [indeed, largely white male middle/upper-class] designers - thus threatening a form of "computer-mediated colonization" as they are enthusiastically diffused throughout the globe in the name of wiring an electronic global village, ostensibly for the sake of democratization, freedom of expression, economic prosperity, etc. By contrast, if such computer-mediated colonization is to be avoided, we need to become much more savvy about how to undertake cross-cultural communication online in ways that acknowledge, respect, and foster the cultural values and communicative preferences that define distinctive cultural identities and persons. Enjoy! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies 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 Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Heidelberg, Chris 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Thanks Denise! This article was helpful because I am doing my dissertation on "Edutainment & Convergence: How Entertainment Techniques Can Be Utilized In Higher Education." This article is interesting because it mentions a fact that I have discovered in my research since 9/2003 when I began my doctoral program in higher education administration: there is only limited meaningful empirical research to guide and enhance the quality of distance learning. Australia, Canada and Great Britain appear to be ahead of us here in the United States on applying distance learning. In fact, most of the meaningful research that I found that specifically helped me emanated from those nations. This does not mean that the U.S. does not have some success stories. However, the U.S. appears to have allowed distance learning, especially online learning, to become dominated by for profit institutions which may be a problem. Specifically, because of this problem, I am investigating another model. I am looking at the technology and entertainment practitioners as my subjects for my qualitative study. After graduation or if I receive funding, I will hire and find a great quantitative researcher/statistician and I will do a larger study, and from that sample I will continue my qualitative efforts. Since I already work as a producer/director/writer, I know fellow practitioners in Hollywood, Houston/San Antonio, Miami/Palm Beach and here in the Washington/Baltimore area. I have conducted a few pilot studies and I am working on an interactive website. If you know of any articles that you believe can help me, please forward them to me. I really want to contact James Gee because he has some provocative thoughts on edutainment. It may not be a panacea but it has some merits. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Roversi Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:43 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher? Denise N. Rall wrote: > Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the >lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the >University of Southern Queensland or gave the paper there. Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Antonio Roversi 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Denise N. Rall wrote: > Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the >lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the University of >Southern Queensland or gave the paper there. Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio

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Birth of virtual communities
by Emilie MARQUOIS-OGEZ 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello everyone, I'm looking for examples of virtual communities that gave bearth to other virtual communities. I mean that the members of one virtual community (a mailing-list for instance) decided to have two virtual communities instead of one. The first one is about a subject and the second one is about another subject (linked to the first one, more specific, for instance). Have you ever heard of cases like this? Many thanks. Regards, Emilie Marquois-Ogez ---------------------------------------------- Emilie Marquois-Ogez Doctorante en informatique France Telecom R&D 38-40, rue du Général Leclerc 92794 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex France Equipes de recherche : - TECH/EASY/DIAG (France Telecom R&D) - Systèmes à objets coopératifs (IRIT - UT1) Tel : +33 (01) 45 29 81 91 Fax : +33 (01) 45 29 69 26 Page Web : http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/ceriss/soc/perso/marquois/Emilie% 20MARQUOIS.html

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Antw: air-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4
by Carl-Markus Piswanger 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I am out of office - for requests please call +43 (0)664 8340264 (Mailbox). I will be back on November 7. Carl-Markus Piswanger

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New mailing list: eBay studies
by Ellis, Rebecca M 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

I would like to inform the AOIR list membership of a new academic mailing list set up in response to our recent successful conference, Cultures of eBay, held in August 2005 at the University of Essex. To join the list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ebay-studies.html The list is regarded as an undisciplined space for the discussion of a variety of eBay research themes including (but not exclusively) eBay and... identity, community, social capital, collecting in an e-society, consumption, consumer lifestyles, employment effects, website design, usability, the 'real' economy, the 'perfect market' and representations of eBay. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary research and collaboration through a discussion of eBay-related ideas and ongoing research. It also welcomes postings on relevant calls for papers and conferences. ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ________________________________________ E: rellis(a)essex.ac.uk Adastral Park, PP1 Ross Building, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 3RE _________________________________________

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suggestions for lurking researcher?
by Charles Ess 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi all, One of my undergraduate students (and, indeed, for another class) would like to research message boards (as a lurker - though I've apprised her of the AoIR guidelines) to determine what relationship(s), if any, may exist between amount/kinds of information under discussion and the emergence of hierarchical / power structures. I just know that there must be a thousand citations out there that she should look at - if you have any to recommend, I'd be grateful if you could forward those to me. Many thanks! And cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies 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 Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Call for Papers: Barriers to e-Government
by Rebecca Eynon 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is soliciting high quality papers for a special issue of the journal on Barriers to e-Government, to be published as Volume 3, Issue No. 1, January-March 2007. The paper submission deadline for this special issue, is March 1, 2006. Abstracts are required by December 1, 2005. Papers may address any social, organisational, economic, legal, international, technological or other aspect of actual or potential impairments to the introduction, take-up and support of effective e-Government activities. For more information please see http://www.egovbarriers.org <http://www.egovbarriers.org/>

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IP3: "ICANN Reform: Establishing the Rule of Law"
by Hans Klein 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

The following is a policy analysis prepared for WSIS: "ICANN Reform: Establishing the Rule of Law" Abstract ====== Debates over Internet governance can be clarified by the recognition that ICANN is a regulatory agency. Its responsibilities for setting base prices, protecting trademarks, and controlling market entry are typical of a regulatory agency. Principles for good governance of regulatory agencies exist and should be applied to ICANN. These emphasize the rule of law, i.e. reliance on rules to limit power politics. ICANN's history shows how private governance can be captured by powerful players. At WSIS governments need to create and enforce a legally-defined framework that limits the power of all stakeholders -- including governments themselves. By establishing the rule of law, the politicized processes of ICANN can be replaced by more predictable, fair, and efficient decision-making. http://www.ip3.gatech.edu/images/ICANN-Reform_Establishing-the-Rule-of-Law.… Author: Hans Klein, Associate Professor of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Available at: www.IP3.gatech.edu ###

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