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Community Technology Midwest: Springfield in November
by Michael Maranda 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

On behalf of the Illinois Community Technology Coalition and CTCNet Chicago Chapter, you are cordially invited to the second annual Illinois Community Technology Conference, to be held in Springfield, Illinois, November 16 and 17th in conjunction with the sixth annual Illinois Telecommunications Conference. This event will bring together organizations and advocates promoting digital literacy, access and equity in rural and urban communities and your presence is essential to any great Midwest community technology gathering. You'll find more information about the conference at http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference. But we're not only interested in your presence, we want your involvement! We've made the Share-Fair a significant part of this conference because the strength of our network lies in how we serve as a resource to each other. For more information or to participate in the Midwest Share-Fair, please visit http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/sharefair. We're also very excited to invite you to a reception at the new Lincoln Presidential Library in downtown Springfield 5:30-7:30 after the Share Fair on November 16th. The Future of Digital Literacy will be our theme and we will be presenting the first Midwest Community Networking Award to an honored and distinguished colleague from Ohio. This is also an opportunity to visit the new library, which opened last fall, on this "late night" where you can visit rooms until 8:30. The Library is right across the street from the new Lincoln Presidential Museum which opened this spring. We look forward to seeing you there. Let's make a bold statement for the Midwest! Best Regards, Michael Maranda ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 Join us for Digital Neighborhoods: Connecting All Chicago to the World, October 20th! http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/event Attend the Illinois Community Technology Conference, November 16-17, 2005. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference

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it's up?
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

It looks like the list is now working again, that's a good thing :) 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] E-democracy related papers
by Karine Barzilai-Nahon 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi Steve, Here are some two articles that I wrote in HICSS - and actually I was presenting an integration of them in AOIR.... The abstract in AOIR can be found here - http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=180&cf=3 which elaborater in two conference papers http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/pub/HICSSgatekeeping.pdf http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/pub/BoundedinCyberspace.p df And are more elaborated in my dissertation - http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/pub/PhDBarzilai.pdf Best Karine ------------------------------------------------------------- Karine Barzilai-Nahon Assistant Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840 (206) 685-6668, http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Steven Clift Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:34 AM To: Air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] E-democracy related papers If any of your e-politics/e-government/e-communities AOIR6 conference papers are shared online, drop me the abstract and a link that I can share with the 3,000 folks in my http://DoWire.Org network. Have a great conference. Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org _______________________________________________ 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/

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E-democracy related papers
by Steven Clift 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

If any of your e-politics/e-government/e-communities AOIR6 conference papers are shared online, drop me the abstract and a link that I can share with the 3,000 folks in my http://DoWire.Org network. Have a great conference. Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org

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New Doctoral Programme
by OII Enquiries 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL PROGRAMME FOCUSED ON INTERNET STUDIES The Oxford Internet Institute is now accepting worldwide applications from candidates who want to study the Internet and its social impact. We are a department of Oxford University chartered to pioneer the multidisciplinary study of the Internet. The Institute is dedicated to engaging in fruitful collaboration with policy makers, technologists, businesspeople, teachers, scholars and civil society entrepreneurs to inform and ground our research. We seek to understand the most difficult and relevant social puzzles, problems, and opportunities as the mainstream Internet enters the second decade of a multi-year buildout transforming the fundamentals of work, politics, education, entertainment, social interaction, and conflict. A small group of full-time doctoral students will join the OII in October 2006. Candidates must demonstrate talent, creativity, and zeal to perform outstanding research that will make a difference to the world -- to ask original, concrete questions, to adopt incisive methodologies by which to approach those questions, and ultimately to help positively shape the development of digital networked space and the peoples whose lives it affects. For more information on the OII's D.Phil programme in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences, please visit <www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/>. Kind Regards, Eleanor. ------- Administrative Officer Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel: 01865 287210 Fax: 01865 287211

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Fwd: [ISOC-members-announce] Announcing the IETF Journal - a new ISOC Publication
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: David McAuley <mcauley(a)isoc.org> > Date: October 7, 2005 9:45:24 AM CDT > To: isoc-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org > Subject: [ISOC-members-announce] Announcing the IETF Journal - a > new ISOC Publication > > > Dear Members: > > ISOC is pleased to announce the "IETF Journal", a new Internet Society > publication produced in cooperation with the Internet Engineering Task > Force. Our aim is to provide an easily understandable overview of > what's > happening in the world of Internet standards with a particular > focus on the > activities of the IETF Working Groups (WG). Each issue of the "IETF > Journal" > will highlight some of the hot issues being discussed in IETF > meetings and > in the IETF mailing lists. Our first issue takes a look back at the > recent > 63rd meeting of the IETF in Paris. > http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/ > > Best wishes to you all. > David > > > David McAuley > Membership Director > Internet Society > 703-326-9880, ext 104 > 703-963-5887 (mobile) > mcauley(a)isoc.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > ISOC-members-announce mailing list > ISOC-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org > http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isoc-members-announce > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: isoc-members-announce- > leave(a)elists.isoc.org > > Please note that by leaving this membership list you will also be > resigning ISOC membership. > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers

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Reminder - IR 6/Chicago blogging, tagging, wiki, IRC, survey, etc.
by Steve Jones 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Greetings to those of you in Chicago for IR 6 and to those of you not here with us! This is but a quick note to reiterate the information already sent (see below), to inform those of you not in Chicago for the conference that internet access had been spotty yesterday (Thursday), and to encourage all of you to please use the options we've made available this year for online participation. Thank you, and take care, Sj -------------------- I write to remind everyone of the several internet options we are making available for online participation in this year's conference. I have pasted below the text of a message previously sent to air-l that includes information about these options. Several people have emailed concerning blogging, so let me say a bit more about it. The easiest way to find who's blogging the conference and to access the blogs is to tag blog postings and to use the conference wiki. For more information about tagging the conference see http://emt.url123.com/aoir6. All of the following services use tags: Flickr Smugmug Wists Technorati BlogMarks 43 Things del.icio.us Tagsurf Furl Upcoming.org Jots de.lirio.us Consumating For those of you who are blogging from the conference using another service or your own server, you can set up an account at del.icio.us, or, if you don't want a del.icio.us account but you want to share links (be they to your own blog or whatever you'd like) just sign in with login aoir and password chicago and start bookmarking. Similarly, if you are not blogging but just want to read blogs, look at the bookmarks and tags once you have logged in with that common username/password. If you don't have a blog but you'd like to write about the conference just email it to erickaakcire.aoir -at- blogger d0t com. This is not a person's email address but a direct way to actually post to the group blog. The title of your message is the title of the blog post and the body of the message is the post itself. Please include your name and affiliation. For any questions/problems email Ericka at emtrevino -at- gmail d0t com or AIM erickaakcire. Sj -----------text of previous air-l message------------ We have made arrangements for several internet-based tools to be used during the upcoming conference in Chicago, for both participants who will be at the conference as well as for those of you unable to be here. All should be up and running by Thursday, Oct. 6, and some, like the wiki, are already available. 1. Tag This Conference! aoir and aoir6 You're it. We need your help to make it easy for all of us to find the websites, pictures & blog entries related to the conference. Just use the tags aoir and aoir6 in del.icio.us, Flickr or with Technorati, then check out http://www.technorati.com/tag/aoir or aoir6 for the combined results. What is tagging? It's a way to give online content a little extra context by adding keywords called tags. Usually people tag their own collections of bookmarks or photographs so that they can find them later, but they can also be used to help other people find online content. When we agree to use the same tag it's easy for everyone to find things. What are del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati? Del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager where users save their links. Anything with a URL can be bookmarked in del.icio.us and described by tags and extended notes. Flickr is a popular photo sharing site that uses tags. Technorati is a blog indexing site and it collects the tags that bloggers use to describe their posts. It also displays information from del.icio.us and Flickr in its results. Don't want to sign up for these services? No signing up required! Visit http://emt.url123.com/aoir6 for details. 2. The Backchannel Don't wait until the question and answer session to discuss an interesting presentation with your colleagues. Share ideas and comment on papers as they're delivered via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Each of the AoIR conference rooms has a corresponding chat room for backchannel discussion. Connection details and recommended chat clients will be posted in each room. Increasingly popular at technology conferences and in college classrooms, backchannel discussions allow for quick fact checking and can create a greater sense of community amongst both audience members and presenters. More details about the server and channels will be made available soon. 3. The Conference wiki A wiki is available for each conference session (organized by session, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0, as well as by meeting room, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0: _Theme_Pages). Whether you are a presenter, conference participants, AoIR member or air-l subscriber, share your thoughts about each session here. 4. Internet Survey How familiar are you with some of the trendiest Internet developments (such as wikis and blogs)? Would you like to compare your media consumption with that of your parents (and/or children)? Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete a "Generations Survey". When you finish the questionnaire, you will see a snapshot of the general results. The resulting data will be available to the conference attendees, AoIR members and subscribers to the AoIR e-mail list (air-l). All respondents will be anonymous. Link: http://generations-survey.notlong.com These efforts to use the internet to enhance conference participation are part of a project organized by graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Data from them will be made anonymous and analyzed for coursework. Thanks particularly to David Elfving and Ericka Menchen Trevino for their work on the technology for it. _______________________________________________ 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/

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Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
by Paul Chenoweth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Charlie, Indeed, the $100 Laptop initiative targets some of the poorest countries in the world and indeed there are human rights, social problems, and health crises that need as much or more attention...but let's be careful of 'throwing the baby out with the bath water', in essence saying that a continent is somehow unworthy of joining the technologically enabled world due to current problems, racial demographics, or geography. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Breindahl <charlie.breindahl(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 6:35 am Subject: Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop > I agree. Still, the stereotype might apply to a large proportion of > Africancountries and even the rest of the world's poorest > countries. Poor as in > "selling your child into slavery so that the child can at least > survive"poor. Under such circumstances, I just don't see the kid > proudly toting a > brand-new laptop strolling down the street to school. Denise has a > goodpoint (and so has Radhika). It is very, very unlikely that > those laptops are > going to do much good for the kids they were intended for. > > Best, > Charlie > > On 10/3/05, Paul Chenoweth <chenowethp(a)mail.belmont.edu> wrote: > > > > Denise, > > Ouch! I do not doubt your experience in Africa, however, your > comment> sounds like a terribly generalised condemnation of an > entire continent. > > > > Paul > > > > -- > Charlie Breindahl > External Lecturer > University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen > > Web: http://staff.hum.ku.dk/hitch/ > Phone: +45 35 32 81 14 > Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 > E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk > > "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed > to turn > into knights" > - Janet H. Murray > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >

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Re: [Air-l] role playing in MUDs
by Charlie Breindahl 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hey, and Frank Schaap has written a book based on his master's thesis, *The Words That Took Us There. Ethnography in a Virtual Reality.* ISBN: 90-5589-199-1. He blogs at http://fragment.nl/thewords/ Best, Charlie

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Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
by Paul Chenoweth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Denise, Ouch! I do not doubt your experience in Africa, however, your comment sounds like a terribly generalised condemnation of an entire continent. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 5:23 am Subject: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop > Okay, > > Great on the $100 laptop. But how many people on this > list have actually worked in Africa? > > Well I have, and I lived in a locked compound on an > agricultural resarch station and the number one > problem on the station was theft. I had a full time > cook who checked up on my house during the day and a > guard that patrolled the buildings at night. > > All I had in the building was some furniture, a lamp > and some clothes, no computers. I had a camera in > there. The computers were kept elsewhere in a double > locked room. The gates to the compound were also > locked at night. There were as I mentioned, patrolling > guards. > > Down the road from us was the power station. It was > surrounded by a DOUBLE barbed wire fence with a height > of at least 2.5 meters. To keep people from stealing > the electrical wire. > > Well and fine but how long are those laptops going to > stay in the hands of the children they are meant to > help. Maybe if the kid also has a handy AK-47. > > Cheers, Denise > > > > > > > > Denise N. Rall, PhD candidate, School of Environ. Science, > Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 > Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & Internet Researcher > Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Tuesdays or Mobile 0438 233 344 > http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >

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