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role playing in MUDs
by Antonella Mascio 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Dear all, I'm starting to study the role palying in MUDs. Do you know if there are some interesting MUDs to visit? And do you know if there are some studies on this topic? thank you very much lella

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Jan Marco Leimeister ist außer Haus.
by Jan Marco Leimeister 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Ich werde ab 01.10.2005 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 10.10.2005. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. I will be away from my mail until Oct. 11, in urgent cases please contact uta.knebel(a)in.tum.de

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (october 2005)
by david silver 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) for OCTOBER 2005 include: [1] Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, by William J. Mitchell (MIT Press, 2003) Reviewed by Joseph Savirimuthu, Internet Law, University of Liverpool [2] New Terror, New Wars, by Paul Gilbert (Georgetown University Press, 2003) Reviewed by Kevin Douglas Kuswa, Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department, University of Richmond [3] The Postdigital Membrane: Imagination, Technology and Desire, by Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt (Intellect Books, 2000) Reviewed by Nicholas Ruiz III, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Florida State University [4] Virtual Christianity: Potential and Challenge for the Churches, by Jean-Nicolas Bazin and Jerome Cottin (World Council of Churches, 2003) Reviewed by Tim Detwiler, Communication Arts, Cornerstone University Enjoy. david silver subscribe? unsubscribe? https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cyberculture-announce

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Chicago - the weather is here...
by Steve Jones 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

For those of you planning your trip to Chicago for IR 6.0 next week, below is the current extended weather forecast (all temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit). While it only goes to Friday, if this past week was any indication the temperatures should be seasonable, with highs in the mid-60s to mid-70s and lows in the mid-40s to mid-50s. I doubt there will be need for heavy coats, etc. I've found the most accurate forecasts online here: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php? map.x=238&map.y=104&MapType=3&site=LOT&CiTemplate=1 You may have heard that Chicago's nickname is "the Windy City" and that it was given it in reference to cold winter winds. That is actually not likely true, see http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-win1.htm. However, given the prevalence of skyscrapers and other tall buildings, there are spots throughout the city (including on my own campus, in front of the 28-story tall University Hall) that do indeed feel like wind tunnels. Sj ---------------------------------------- Wednesday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 67. Wednesday Night: A chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low near 45. Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high around 62. Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Friday: Sunny, with a high near 64.

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constructing workers
by Jeremy Hunsinger 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY on "Constructing Workers" "Constructing Workers": A special issue focused on efforts to organize workers in contingent labor contracts who are often not considered employees. Increasing numbers of workers fit this description, and both unions and community organizations have sought, in various efforts, to help them organize for rights and benefits due workers with employee status. How do these groups organize? With what models? With what resources? How do they construct "workers" in such a way as to make contingent workers and contingent work less contingent? How do workers see themselves and their work? We would be interested in articles dealing with any of the following topics, or other related ones. * migrant and day labor * domestic worker organizing * sex worker organizing * workfare organizing * sweatshop organizing * worker centers * unemployed workers * retail worker organizing * organizing in industries that have become or are becoming more contingent * transnational labor identities (i.e., transposition of labor politics from home to host countries by immigrant laborers) * gender, race, ethnicity, and their intersections with organizing appeals * the negotiation of union-community relations * contingent workers' encounters with the state Deadline: JANUARY 10, 2006 Manuscript submission guidelines available at: WWW.SPRINGERONLINE.COM Send papers to: John Krinsky, GUEST EDITOR Department of Political Science, NAC 4/126 City College, City University of New York Convent Avenue at 138th Street New York, NY 10031 jkrinsky(a)ccny.cuny.edu 212 650-5236 jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers

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Re: [Air-l] Question: Did we abandon Birds of a Feather?
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

There are scattered rooms available during the conference with no sessions in them. Please feel free to use those for these meetings. Most rooms are also available lunchtimes (except for the 2-3 roundtables going on). /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:35:54 -0400 >From: Theresa Senft <tqs1450(a)nyu.edu> >Subject: [Air-l] Question: Did we abandon Birds of a Feather? >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Quick Question: > >Are we doing Birds of a Feather meets this time in Chicago? > > I was thinking about organizing an ad hoc get together or folks >interested in performance theory and internet studies (including but >also *beyond* identity issues) but couldn't find anywhere on the >wiki to propose such a thing. > >Apologies if the BoAF issue was talked to death on the list earlier >this year and abandoned as a possibility for Chicago. It certainly >wouldn't be the first time I thought it would be cool to do something >and found out that pink was no longer the new black. Or something. > >Thanks in advance for helping the clueless, see you in Chicago and >THANKS to the organizers for what looks to be a great program! > >Best, >Terri Senft > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-l-aoir.org(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/ ---------------------------------------- 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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Question: Did we abandon Birds of a Feather?
by Theresa Senft 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Quick Question: Are we doing Birds of a Feather meets this time in Chicago? I was thinking about organizing an ad hoc get together or folks interested in performance theory and internet studies (including but also *beyond* identity issues) but couldn't find anywhere on the wiki to propose such a thing. Apologies if the BoAF issue was talked to death on the list earlier this year and abandoned as a possibility for Chicago. It certainly wouldn't be the first time I thought it would be cool to do something and found out that pink was no longer the new black. Or something. Thanks in advance for helping the clueless, see you in Chicago and THANKS to the organizers for what looks to be a great program! Best, Terri Senft

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AOIR 6.0 need a roommate
by Irina Shklovski 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi, Sorry to send this to the general list instead of just posting this to the wiki, but the conference is really soon and the person who had promised to share my hotel room has has to cancel for personal reasons. I can not afford staying in the hotel room all by myself so this is a little plea to find someone to share a room with ASAP. Please contact me if interested, I have a room reserved at the Mariott already. Thanks! Irina

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[Fwd:IAMCR Announcing the International Researchers Charter
by Michel J. Menou 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

-------- Original Message ------ (apologies if you receive this more than once; please feel free to disseminate) Below is an initiative from some colleagues engaged with the ongoing World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes now ongoing, and culminating in the Phase II Summit in Tunis on November... This is part of our own Communication Rights initiatives to greater access of all to knowledge... ======== ANNOUNCING THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS' CHARTER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is planning to launch the Charter below in Tunis, after having announced it in its prepcom3 side-event. We are seeking YOUR SUPPORT either as an individual, an NGO, a family or a caucus to support the Charter and to broadcast it as widely as possible. Please take some time to read the principles and their implementation and then go to the following address for endorsement : http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iamcr/ For any more information you can contact the IAMCR-WSIS taskforce or go the site < iamcr.net> Divina Frau-Meigs and Marc Raboy, coordinators of the IAMCR-WSIS taskforce Text of charter below: The International Researchers¹ Charter for Knowledge Societies < an IAMCR contribution to the WSIS < Worldwide, research activity is confronted by diminishing budgets and increasing control of output by a variety of actors including governments, while researchers are being submitted to unprecedented and deleterious changes in their status, salaries and the independence of their investigations. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has helped to foster discussion worldwide on the need for unhindered and equal access to the means of communication and information content. The importance of information arising from high quality research in the humanities and the sciences has not, however, been sufficiently emphasized during the Summit. It has not emphasized the central role played by researchers in producing information, in promoting a better understanding of media and ICT systems and their content and functions, and in developing culturally relevant content and fostering communication in support of the attainment of inclusive and people-centred Knowledge Societies. Therefore, the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) calls upon researchers worldwide to subscribe to the following Researchers¹ Charter principles and recommendations for action: Charter Principles: 1. Researchers worldwide constitute a community of scholars that is central to the development of societies in which knowledge, information and culture are produced and appropriated in the service of humankind and in which researchers are entitled to seek, retrieve, receive and distribute information freely, regardless of geographical borders and the medium used, supported by information exchange enabled by ICTs; 2. Researchers¹ work should be conducted in working conditions which acknowledge that research is crucial to knowledge production and intellectual development and that researchers¹ contributions to knowledge are significant in achieving a better understanding among peoples, cultures and disciplinary traditions; 3. Researchers should be entitled to intellectual freedom and to transparent evaluation of their results by independent, legitimate public bodies; to express themselves as freely as possible without censorship or curtailment of the distribution of their intellectual outputs using all media and ICTs so as to maintain and expand the global public domain of research and to foster the capacity to contribute to cultural diversity, as well as to ensure informed participation by all citizens in social, cultural and economic activities, thereby promoting a democratic environment at all levels and in all contexts; 4. The results of publicly funded research should remain in the public domain so as to support the development, education and welfare of the general population; public archives, libraries, repositories of content and other Internet and information services worldwide should be accessible to researchers without barriers to access; 5. The universal free exchange among researchers of intellectual work should be regarded as being of critical importance to maintaining a democratic order; it is integral to capacity building for equitable development, to overcoming differences in gender and training, particularly with respect to women and junior researchers especially in developing countries, and in accessing other resources essential for development; it must be regarded as a common good and nurtured as a participatory and collective process involving a network of distributed intellectual work that contributes to lifelong capacity-building in all realms of human activity; 6. Culturally appropriate learning and research practices should be developed to foster community-based self-supporting systems of research; to promote open, collaborative and self-organizing publishing models and software development methods that are accessible to researchers and available in not-for-profit databases, libraries and archives; thereby supporting researchers as content producers and as active participants in the open access paradigm of knowledge creation and exchange, as outlined in various initiatives.[1] <#_ftn1> Implementing the Charter: a. IAMCR invites all researchers, including educators and computer and information science professionals, to adhere to the above principles, by signing this Charter. b. IAMCR invites researchers to strengthen opportunities for cooperation and exchange and to foster communication with all sectors of society with the aim of promoting greater understanding of the role and relevance of research and knowledge and their wide dissemination in society, by mobilizing decision makers worldwide to develop clear policies to implement the above principles. c. IAMCR recommends the establishment of an independent international Researchers¹ Complaints body where researchers can lodge complaints about violations of the above principles and receive an unbiased hearing; such a body should have a mandate to make cases public and to publicise university administrations and governments that violate these principles. Signing this Charter: IAMCR invites the world¹s leading bodies that support these principles and individuals to sign this Charter at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iamcr/ and to disseminate this Charter widely. Contact: divina.frau-meigs(a)univ-paris3.fr [1] <#_ftnref1> Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/www/?issue=4 ), Berlin Declaration (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html ), Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/ ), Open Courseware Initiative (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ), IFLA Internet Manifesto (http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/im-e.htm) etc. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/115 - Release Date: 29/09/2005

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Internet Studies
by Ursula.MAIER-RABLER＠sbg.ac.at 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi, I am preparing a course in "Internet Research" and compile a list with (empirical) Internet studies in different areas (e.g. usage, diffusion, e-commerce, education & schools, art & culture, everyday life, e-government ...). It's an introductory course and I would like to introduce the students with current major findings in the diffusion and usage of the Internet in different societal sectors. Is there something comparable with the PEW/Internet-Studies in Europe which is accessible for educational purposes? Can somebody suggest sources for such reports? Thank you in advance Ursula Maier-Rabler __________________________________________ Ass.Prof. Dr. Ursula Maier-Rabler, Academic Director ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria phone +43 662 8044 4800 | fax +43 662 6389 4800 info(a)icts.sbg.ac.at | www.icts.sbg.ac.at __________________________________________

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