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Re: [Air-l] digital divide in use - more suggestions?
by Sherida Ryan 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

In terms of digital literacy as an element of digital divide in use, I would suggest looking at: Burbules, N., & Callister, T. A. (2000). Watch IT: The risks and promises of information technologies for education.Boulder, CO: Westview Press. particularly Chapter 2 Burbules, N. (2001). Paradoxes of the web: The ethical dimensions of credibility. Library Trends, 49(3), 441-453. and Warnick, B. (2002). Critical literacy in a digital era:Technology, rhetoric, and the public interest. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Warnick, B. (2004). Online ethos: Source credibility in an "authorless" environment. American Behavioral Scientist, 48(2), 256-265. Hope this helps, Sherida Ryan Doctoral Fellow Adult Education OISE/UT At 02:20 PM 05/06/2005 +0200, you wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" >content-class: urn:content-classes:message > >[Crossposted to DDN + AOIR, sorry for that!] > >Hello everybody, > >I'm doing research within the erea of internet and the digital divide >(like many of you, i suppose ;-) ) >Most of the literature treats the internet as one uniform medium. In >reality, the internet exists of different applications like websites, >usenet, listserv, blogs, email, IM, ... > >I was wondering if there exists some research about the consequences of >this difference in use and it's relationship to the digital divide-theory. >Most of the time, the digital divide is constraint to the difference in >internet access, but the future will bring us perhaps only a difference in >internet use (some only use general websites, while others use all >different applications). > >The term 'digital divide in use' is somewhat what i'm looking for, but not >exctly i guess. Also the term digital literacy is quite helpful ... > >Anyone more suggestions about literature? Or your opinion about this subject? > >Thanks in advance! > >MichaÃ«l > > > > > >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [mailto:deborah.elizabeth.finn@gmail.com] >Verzonden: za 4/06/2005 22:47 >Aan: The Digital Divide Network discussion group >CC: >Onderwerp: [DDN] Bragging Rights in Boston > > > > (A version of this item is also available through my blog at > ><http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/2/903714.html>; > the blog version provides live links to more information about > some of > the people and organizations mentioned here.) > > > Dear Colleagues, > > On Wednesday evening, the Boston 501 Tech Club had a record > turnout of > over 70 nonprofit techies! It was the largest gathering ever in the > history of the regional 501 Tech Clubs. > > Here are a few factors that go into an event like this one: > > - We had a dedicated team of planners: Merove Heifetz of Earthwatch > Institute (the outgoing convener of the Boston club), Beth Sousa of > Families First (the incoming convener), Kathleen Sherwin of Tech > Foundation, and yours truly. > > - The planners met several weeks in advance, to get acquainted in > person, to brainstorm about desired outcomes, and to plan for the > transition to a new convener. We then stayed in touch by email and > conference call. > > - TechFoundation generously underwrote the cost of the venue, food, > and drinks. Furthermore, Kathleen Sherwin, ably assisted by Colleen > Higgins (also of TechFoundation), deployed her superlative skills as > an event manager. > > - TechFoundation also generously underwrote my time as a consultant > to bring various pieces of the puzzle together, and to do outreach to > individuals and groups who may not have previously known about the > Boston 501 Tech Club or considered attending one of its events. > > - The event was held outdoors at a time of year when most people > crave a little fresh air and sunshire, and it didn't rain. > > - The venue was easily accessible by public > transportation. (Parking > was also available, which definitely counts for something in Harvard > Square.) > > I'd summarize the most important take-aways in this way: > > - If you feed them, they will come. This costs money. > > - Events of this sort are labor intensive. Volunteers who have > other > full-time jobs can't be expected to do all the work. Hiring > professionals costs money. > > - It's important for potential attendees to receive personal > invitations (or to hear about the event) from people they know. > > However, it's also important not to overlook what we as the planners > could take for granted: our region can boast of a first-rate talent > pool of current and aspiring nonprofit techies. We have an abundance > of philanthropic spirit, utopian vision, and technological genius > here > in Massachusetts. Rich in human capital, we desperately need the > financial and institutional resources to bring it all together to > serve the nonprofit sector. This new partnership between the Boston > 501 Tech Club and TechFoundation may bring help to bring us to the > tipping point. > > Go, team! > > Best regards from Deborah > > P.S. Full disclosure of financial relationship: I used to serve as > TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of > its Boston TechConnect program, and am currently working with TF on a > consulting basis. > > > Deborah Elizabeth Finn > Boston, Massachusetts, USA > deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu > http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog > http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE(a)mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > digitaldivide-request(a)mailman.edc.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body of the message. > >_______________________________________________ >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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Fwd: Second Annual Peoria Prize for Creativity
by Ed Lamoureux 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Announcing the Second Annual $10,000 Peoria Prize for Creativity Last year, creative teams of artists, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from all over the country and the world competed for the inaugural $10,000 Peoria Prize for Creativity. I am pleased to announce the call for submissions for the Second Annual Peoria Prize for Creativity. The Peoria Prize is a $10,000 award for a creative project that is produced through a collaboration between a person or persons from the arts or humanities communities and a person or persons from the science, engineering, or business communities. It can be a project that is rendered in almost any form. I urge you to present this opportunity to your partners, colleagues, coworkers, and collaborators. Detailed information on the Peoria Prize for Creativity including a description of the prize and submission criteria can be found at www.peoriaprize.com. Creative teams with collaborators from all over the country and the world competed for last year's Peoria Prize. The winner of the 2005 Peoria Prize for Creativity was Hands Across the Ocean: The Lost Chord, an extraordinary project from the Digital Worlds Institute at Florida State University that involved 70 world-wide collaborators. A description of this winning project and those of the other two finalists can be found at <www.peoriaprize.com>. If you have any questions concerning the Prize, its sponsorship, or its procedures, please feel free to contact me as per the information below. I can't think of a better community of creative people than those represented by Dorkbot and ArtBots and their constituents who would compete strongly for this Prize. The Second Annual Peoria Prize for Creativity will be awarded in a special ceremony on April 28, 2006 at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois. Jeffrey Huberman, Dean Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts Bradley University Peoria, IL 61625 309-677-2360 office 309-677-3750 fax huberman(a)bradley.edu > > Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell/ http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/

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Re: [Air-l] Delphi Method & Webdesign
by Irene Berkowitz 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Experience with the Delphi, not for Web design. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:36:16 +0200 >From: "Niels Hendriks" <niels.hendriks(a)mda.khlim.be> >Subject: [Air-l] Delphi Method & Webdesign >To: <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >Hi List-members, > >does any of you have experience with using the Delphi method to initiate web design projects? > > >Thanks for your replies! > > >Niels >_______________________________________________ >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/ Irene Berkowitz Director of Curricular Publications Temple University Office of the Vice Provost 215-204-7596 Please note my new email address below and update your address records accordingly. irene.berkowitz(a)temple.edu

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AoIR Executive elections
by Matthew Allen 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Dear all I am pleased to announce that nominations for candidacy for election to the AoIR executive have now closed and a strong and diverse field of candidates has emerged. There is more than one candidate for all the positions (see below). We will now have a month of discussion and consideration prior to the commencement of voting in July. This discussion will take place through asynchronous (bulletin board) forums at http://forums.aoir.org. At this site, after creating a simple account (done automatically when you register), you may: - read the position statements of the candidates (that are based on answers to questions agreed by the current exec) - initiate discussion with any and all candidates by posting questions or raising issues with them - follow the debate between candidates and voters I will provide further information closer to the end of June on the simple voting procedure. I can announce that Jennifer Stromer-Galley of University of Albany has been appointed again as ballot counter. The candidates are: Vice President/President-elect Charles Ess; James Watt Treasurer Alex Halavais; Catherine Middleton; Monica Murero Secretary Irene Berkowitz; Sabryna Cornish; Elijah Wright Graduate Student Representative Ted Coopman; Anu Mundkur; Lois Scheidt; Gail Taylor; Stephanie Tuszynski; Elizabeth Van-Couvering Open Seats (3 to be elected) Ellis Godard; Stine Gotved; Caroline Haythornthwaite; Mark Johns; Randy Kluver; Holly Kruse; Ed Lamoureux; Kate O'Riordan; Antonio Roversi; Malin Sveningsson; Jamie Switzer; Michele White Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org

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[Fwd: The Politics of Open Source Adoption]
by Karim R. Lakhani 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hi All, This may be of interest to various folks! Looks very interesting... Karim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Politics of Open Source Adoption Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:00:57 -0400 From: Joe Karaganis <karaganis(a)ssrc.org> To: <opensource(a)MIT.EDU> Hello open source research group, I want to point your attention to our new posted, online collaborative report / wiki, and invite participation from your network. Could you circulate and/or post as appropriate? Thanks! Joe Karaganis Program Officer Social Science Research Council karaganis(a)ssrc.org (212) 377-2700, ext. 469 fax: (212) 377-2727 *The Politics of Open Source Adoption* Read – Contribute – Win! The Social Science Research Council invites you to collaborate on a real-time history of the politics of open source software adoption. We are pleased to offer a first version of this account—POSA 1.0 (500KB .pdf)--in both .pdf and wiki versions*,* at _http://www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA_ . POSA 1.0 includes contributions from Gabriella Coleman, Kenneth Cukier, Shay David, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Eugene Kim, Volker Grassmuck, Bildad Kagai, Nicolas Kimolo, and Jennifer Urban, and is edited by Joe Karaganis (SSRC) and Robert Latham (SSRC). Our project begins with the observation that accounts of the Free and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement, to date, have been oriented mostly by the improbable fact of F/OSS’s existence. At this stage of F/OSS development and advocacy, we want to ask a different set of questions—not how open source works as a social and technical project, or whether open source provides benefits in terms of cost, security, etc., but rather how open source is becoming embedded in political arenas and policy debates. For our purposes, understanding the ‘politics of adoption’ means stepping back from the task of explaining or justifying F/OSS in order to ask how increasingly canonical explanations and justifications are mobilized in different political contexts. POSA 1.0 maps many of the different kinds of political and institutional venues in which F/OSS adoption is at stake. It tries to understand important institutional actors within those venues, and the ways in which arguments for and against F/OSS are framed and advanced. It seeks to clarify the different opportunities and constraints facing F/OSS adoption in different sectors and parts of the world. It is an inevitably partial account that--we hope--can be extended and deepened by other participants in these processes. We invite your help in preparing POSA 2.0. To sweeten the pot, two prizes of $250 will be awarded to the best contributions to POSA 2.0 -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu

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Reminder call for papers - queer intersections
by O'Riordan, Kate 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Phillips Introduction This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer practices and theories. In the early to mid-1990s, the repercussions of queer theory were being engaged across academic feminism and lesbian and gay studies. At the same time, the internet was emerging as a key structuring device for academic networks, and as an important area of study. With the advent of the commercial web in 1994 the internet intersected with popular culture, and key questions of modernity - identity, community, governance, time and space - intersected with the web as it unfolded across multiple social domains. Whilst the mid-1990s wasn't the beginning of internet research, cybercultural studies, or queer, it was a period of sustained attention and excitement in relation to identity and the web. Since then, there has been intense collision and collaboration between queer theory and cyberculture, as the imagined ideal queer subject and the imagined ideal cybersubject came to occupy the same ground. Moving on from and challenging this formulation, the book aims both to document queer internet practices and to limn their theoretical implications at the intersection of the fields of queer, technology, and communication studies. Drawing on interviews with central actors, analyses of internet activity, syntheses of critical debates, and both new and historical research, the collection will provide both an overview and an in depth analysis of these engagements. We invite papers for consideration that complement either of the proposed sections of the book: Section 1 will provide theoretical contextualisations, histories and political economies of queer/communication technology intersections. Section 2 will showcase new and innovative work on queer sexuality and the internet that offers new insight, whilst also showing evidence of a rigorous connection to historical and theoretical context. Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to): · Sexual identities practices and communities · Art and activism · Consumption · Political economy · Representation · Performativity · Queer theory Target Market and Readership The book aims to provide a contribution to course materials for postgraduate and undergraduate work in digital/new media/internet and communication studies, queer theory, cultural and gender studies. The collection also aims to support postdoctoral researchers by providing a consolidation and bridging of existing and new work in the field. Deadlines Submission of 400 word abstract along with a CV: 1st of July 2005. Authors notified: 1st of August 2005 Draft chapters: 1st November 2005 Editors Kate O'Riordan, Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm k.oriordan(a)lancaster.ac.uk David Phillips, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin, http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/phillips, djp(a)mail.utexas.edu Dr Kate O'Riordan CESAGen IEPPP Lancaster University Furness College Lancaster LA1 4YG tel: 01524 592769 email: k.oriordan(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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Elections for the new AoIR executive
by Matthew Allen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear all I am pleased to announce that nominations for candidacy for election to the AoIR executive have now closed and a strong and diverse field of candidates has emerged. There is more than one candidate for all the positions (see below). We will now have a month of discussion and consideration prior to the commencement of voting in July. This discussion will take place through asynchronous (bulletin board) forums at http://forums.aoir.org. At this site, after creating a simple account (done automatically when you register), you may: - read the position statements of the candidates (that are based on answers to questions agreed by the current exec) - initiate discussion with any and all candidates by posting questions or raising issues with them - follow the debate between candidates and voters I will provide further information closer to the end of June on the simple voting procedure. I can announce that Jennifer Stromer-Galley of University of Albany has been appointed again as ballot counter. The candidates are: Vice President/President-elect Charles Ess; James Watt Treasurer Alex Halavais; Catherine Middleton; Monica Murero Secretary Irene Berkowitz; Sabryna Cornish; Elijah Wright Graduate Student Representative Ted Coopman; Anu Mundkur; Lois Scheidt; Gail Taylor; Stephanie Tuszynski; Elizabeth Van-Couvering Open Seats (3 to be elected) Ellis Godard; Stine Gotved; Caroline Haythornthwaite; Mark Johns; Randy Kluver; Holly Kruse; Ed Lamoureux; Kate O'Riordan; Antonio Roversi; Malin Sveningsson; Jamie Switzer; Michele White Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org

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Delphi Method & Webdesign
by Niels Hendriks 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi List-members, does any of you have experience with using the Delphi method to initiate web design projects? Thanks for your replies! Niels

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New publication from Programme for applied ethics and final workshop announcement
by Charles Ess 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear AoIR-ists, I hope the following will be of interest... please distribute to appropriate lists and colleagues as appropriate. -- 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: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ 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 == New publication from Programme for applied ethics * Publication no 6: Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society (Edited by May Thorseth and Charles Ess, 2005) 145 pages. * * This interdisciplinary anthology focuses on information technology. The authors discuss ethical and other disciplinary challenges regarding the use of technology in our multicultural and global society. The anthology contains interesting examples from different parts of the globe: the USA, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and China. The authors: Bu Wei, China (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Dag Elgesem, Norway (University of Bergen) Charles Ess, USA (Drury University, Missouri) Merete Lie, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Knut Rolland, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) May Thorseth, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Deborah Wheeler, USA (University of Washington) and Oxford <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents6.pdf> provides the table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=6> * Other publications in the publication series: * No 1 Applied Ethics in Internet Research (edited by May Thorseth, 2003), 190 pages. * * This is an international and interdisciplinary anthology, with contributions from researcher and research fellows who participated in the course "Internet and Ethics", the programme's first national graduate course. The authors discuss ethical and methodological challenges regarding internet research. Some of the central topics covered are: - Informed consent - Private vs. public sphere - Embodiment/Disembodiment - Internet cultures and scientific norms - Intellectual property - Methodological questions regarding data collection Click here <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents1.pdf> for table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=6> * * * The rest of our publications are in norwegian only <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/publikasjoner.php> : * #2: Anvendt etikk ved NTNU ["Applied ethics at NTNU"] * #3: Etikk og samfunnsansvar i norske økonomi- og ledelsesutdanninger ["Ethics and social responsibility in norwegian economy- and management education"] * #4: Globalisering og etikk ["Globalisation and ethics"] * #5: Psevdovitenskap og etikk ["Pseudoscience and ethics"] == Workshop Bridging Cultures: Interdisciplinary workshop on computer ethics, culture, and ICT (June 6th-7th, 2005) We would also like to remind you of our upcoming workshop, which is closely related to the themes in this anthology. Several internationally acclaimed scholars have been invited, including Deborah Wheeler, Luciano Floridi, Charles Ess and Bernd-Carsten Stahl. See our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridging_workshop.php> for more detailed information Although the registration deadline has expired, the lectures will be open to anyone interested. Please use our online registration form <http://www.anvendt etikk.ntnu.no/wregistrer.php> if you would like to be included in the list of participants.

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refs needed: analysis of users' internet traffic
by Ben Anderson 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I'm sure there was a thread about this some time ago but I can't find it in the archives. I'm looking for papers covering this sort of stuff: > I'm looking for references about the use of the Web (preferably using > web use records): what kind of applications are used, what websites are > visited, for how long, at what time of the day, etc. Do we know if the > way computers are used at home has been analyzed and in particular in > which room they are set up, who in the household are using it, how many > households own more than one computer, etc.? respond on/off list & I'll try to summarise. thanks -- Ben Anderson Deputy Director, Chimera, University of Essex Tel: +44 7710 187806 privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~benander

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