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IR: Student Paper Competition, June 1st deadline
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 07 May '05

07 May '05

A reminder to students to consider submitting papers for the Internet Researcher's student paper award. Please send papers or a URL where the paper can be found to me at haythorn(a)uiuc.edu. If files are large and/or contain numerous graphics, please put on a URL rather than sending via email. Papers do not have to have been submitted to the IR conference to be eligible for this award. Below is the information as found on the IR conference call for papers. Please adhere to the deadline for submission. /Caroline GRADUATE STUDENT PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPATION We strongly encourage submissions of proposals from graduate students, and papers for consideration for a special Student Award. Students should note their student status with submission. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must send a full final paper to the conference organizers by June 1, 2005. ---------------------------------------- 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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the next executive and the future of aoir
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 May '05

07 May '05

I think it is very important for people to get involved in this election, and to nominate people to serve on the executive. This next period will be very important to AoIR, and there are quite a few possible directions that the association might head, for instance: Will we develop a journal? or adopt a journal? or something else? Will we continue to pursue the Annual, or will we go a different direction? What will become of the website, wiki, conference system, and other tools we use all the time? Will we have to raise dues? Will we begin offering competitive bursaries to the conferences to whom? Will we standardize the conference or will we continue our 'every one is unique style'? Will we require full papers in future conferences? Those are just a smattering of the issues that the exec will deal with in the next two years, and many of them directly affect all of you. I'm sure the rest of the exec can think of even more issues and I'm sure you can too. So I'm encouraging you to participate in the election, the discussions around it, to nominate people, and to determine AoIR's future. Personally, I know that I'm stepping down this term, though I might stand for election in the future. It has been a great experience, and I'd continue it if I could, but I'm entering a new stage in my career soon, and want to pursue a few other projects for a while. Other original members of the exec are also reaching the end of their terms and ex officio terms, so we need people to step up and take the reins of AoIR, and help determine its future. Let's open the discussion, 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

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what is the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)?
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 May '05

07 May '05

i just responded to the question off list, so i'll share my response on list with some minor changes. this response is being posted initally to the list known as air-l which is @aoir.org. air-l is an open list provided by the Association of Internet Researchers. ----- The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. ---- in short, we are an academic association. Other academic assocations are: the american sociological association, the society for the social study of science, and others. there are larger and smaller associations, and there are disciplinary and interdisciplinary association. we are incorporated in the u.s. as a non-profit 503c. the officers and the executive board determine almost everything about the association. air-l membership gets you reduced journal subscription rates, reduced book purchase costs at some presses, and reduced fees for the associations annual conference Internet Research, currently in its sixth year. 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

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An internet research conference
by Ulla Bunz 06 May '05

06 May '05

I'm forwarding the information below upon request. Ulla Bunz --------------------------------- Original Message --------------------------------- Subject: An internet research conference From: "David Smahel" <smahel(a)fss.muni.cz> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our conference "Cyberspace 2005" that we organize here in the Czech Republic: http://www.cyberspace.law.muni.cz/en/index.htm Call for papers CYBERSPACE 2005 CONFERENCE Brno, Czech Republic November 7-8, 2005 Organized by Faculty of Law in cooperation with School of Social Studies Masaryk University Paper abstracts are solicited for submission to the following workshops of III. International Conference Cyberspace 2005: - e-government, e-justice (chaired by JUDr. Danu¹e Spáèilová) - philosophy and sociology of cyberspace (chaired by Mgr. et Mgr. Martin ©kop, Ph.D.) - psychology and internet (chaired by PhDr. David ©mahel, Ph.D.) - law in cyberspace (chaired by JUDr. Radim Polèák) - crime and security in cyberspace (chaired by prof. ing. Vladimír Smejkal, CSc.) - regulatory framework of electronic communications (chaired by RNDr. Bohumír ©tìdroò, CSc.) Authors of accepted papers will be asked to present them and/or to make them available for publication in conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be provided with free accommodation, conference meals and admission to all conference events. All accepted papers will be peer refereed. Each submission requires author names, affiliations, addresses and e-mail addresses, the applicable topic and paper abstract. For papers with more than one author, indicate which author will serve as the point of contact. Abstracts submission due: May 31, 2005 -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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international collaborations
by Jeremy Hunsinger 06 May '05

06 May '05

this is an interesting article on international collaboration, including some material on ict's but it is a bit introductory. http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm? fuseaction=printarticle&dossier=13&policy=60 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

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Re: [Air-l] Down to the Wire
by Miraj Khaled 06 May '05

06 May '05

The Economist has published an article on the issue rebutting Thomas Bleha's findings. "Prophet of American technodoom" http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3887163 Incidentally, this Discussion Paper published in 2003 by the Oxford Internet Institute may be of interest to some degree. "Broadband Internet: The Power to Reconfigure Access" http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/OIIFD1_200308.pdf regards, Miraj Khaled --- air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:14:07 -0500 From: Lon Berquist <berquist(a)uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Down to the Wire To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Bob Crandell's study from a few years ago: "The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access," http://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/Crandall_Jackson_500_Billion_Opportu… Lon Berquist berquist(a)uts.cc.utexas.edu Quoting Ben Anderson <benander(a)essex.ac.uk>: > replying to myself. Bad form. But I missed off this ref which neatly > points out the low quality thinking in policy (and some academic) > circles on these issues and gives a timely review of the evidence > there is: > > Firth, L. and D. Mellor (2005). "Broadband: benefits and problems." > Telecommunications Policy 29(2-3): 223-236. > On 4 May 2005, at 10:10, Ben Anderson wrote: > >> On 3 May 2005, at 07:36, Ellis Godard wrote: >> Eh... Is there good data (heck, *any* data) that broadband increases >> growth, productivity, or quality of life? >> Not yet at the 'everyday life' level. There may have >>been macro-economic studies.... Miraj Khaled ============ techiemik(a)yahoo.com mindexplorer.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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2nd CFP - HICSS39 - Online Communities in the Digital World Minitrack
by Karine Barzilai-Nahon 05 May '05

05 May '05

Online Communities in the Digital Economy CALL FOR PAPERS Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai More information on the mini-track can be found at: http://www.e-business.fhbb.ch/hicss Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu We call for papers that address communities as a social phenomenon, the design of platforms and services, and community-related business models as critical success factors in the digital economy. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy (e.g., dynamics, relationships, information control, managing communities, flow of information in communities) - Community-related business models (e.g., productivity, trust, reputation systems) - Business Communities - Personalization and use of customer profiles - Case studies and topologies of Online Communities - M-Communities and hybrid communities - Design principles for community platforms (e.g., coordination, trust, normative values, design patterns and methods, implementations, architectures and components, personalization and avatars) - Formal or semi-formal models of communities and their platforms (e.g., conceptual frameworks, organizational models, cognitive models, multi-agent systems, formalizations) MINITRACK CHAIRS: Karine Barzilai-Nahon (Main Contact) Assistant Professor The Information School University of Washington karineb(a)u.washington.edu Mark Ginsburg Asst. Professor MIS U of Arizona mginsbur(a)eller.arizona.edu Blair Nonnecke Assistant Professor Dept. of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph nonnecke(a)cis.uoguelph.ca IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts- Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System August 15 Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk(a)nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl(a)u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar(a)hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king(a)jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis(a)indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen(a)aol.com; Dave Croasdell davec(a)unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague@hawaii.edu > Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu > Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis@indiana.edu >

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[Air-l] Cultures of eBay conference, registration ends May 16th 2005
by Ellis, Rebecca M 05 May '05

05 May '05

Apologies for cross-posting. Please disseminate widely. Registration for the conference closes on May 16th 2005. ************************************************************************ Cultures of eBay: making sense of social and economic aspects of the eBay 'phenomenon' August 24th-25th 2005, Colchester, University of Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html ************************************************************************ Who should attend * Academics in the fields of (but not exclusively): new media, e-commerce, cultural studies, sociology, human geography, HCI * Practitioners in relevant fields * Research students * Industry consultants Conference background This is the first independent UK conference which aims to look at the cultural, social and economic aspects of eBay. The idea for this conference originated from an ongoing ESRC project (RES-000-23-0433) at Chimera, a department of the University of Essex, which began in February 2004 and is due to end in January 2006. Results of this research project will be disseminated at the conference. The overall aim of this conference is to bring together academics, and practitioner groups from both business and the voluntary sector, to explore and 'make sense' of the cultural, social and economic aspects and implications of eBay, the Internet auction site. Keynote speakers: Rebecca Ellis and Anna Haywood, University of Essex, 'Virtually second-hand: results of a two year ESRC funded project on eBay' http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/beckye.html http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/annah.html Will Davies, Institute of Public Policy Research 'Implications of eBay for the policy community' http://www.ippr.org.uk/aboutippr/staff/?id=65 <http://www.ippr.org.uk/aboutippr/staff/?id=65> Tim Dant, University of East Anglia 'The immateriality of Internet shopping' http://www.uea.ac.uk/psi/people/dant_t.htm Delegate speakers include: Katrin Amelang, Humboldt University Berlin, 'Inconsistent Autonomies: Entangled subjects, architects of time and paradoxes in projects of self-employment based on eBay.' Monica Bouaru Turinici, Latts/Enpc, France, 'User courses and trust building on eBay.' Frank Cartledge, Theory Coordinator Design Communication, Chelsea College of Art, "'Keeping up with the Jones' the eBay way... (what they didn't mean to tell you)"/ "Let's Get Physical - eBay and the geographies of the real" Janice Denegri-Knott and Mike Molesworth, Bournemouth Media School, 'The ontological function of eBay as the actualisation of consumers'imaginations.' Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College, 'Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture: Film Collectibles and Fan Investments.' Aloysius Edoh and Patricia. K. Litho, University of East London, 'CMOA (Combinatorial Multi-attribute Auction): An Alternative to eBay.' Torben Elgaard Jensen, Copenhagen Business School, 'Commerce and/or Community - eBay's co-evolution of two different modes of ordering.' Yasushi Fujita, University of Texas, 'eBay Japan's Mistake.' Hilary Geoghegan, Royal Holloway, 'The virtual spaces of telecommunications enthusiasm: the internet, Yahoo! Groups and eBay.' Christian Heath and Paul Luff, King's College London, 'Transposing auction practice: formalising the informal, globalising the local.' Claire Hunter, 2CV: Research and Janice Denegri-Knott, Bournemouth Media School, 'eBay as a labourer of love: A study of collectors, their collections and their relationship with eBay.' Keyvan Kashkooli, Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, 'The Transformation of the Perfect Market.' Dan Laughey, Leeds Metropolitan University, "eBay, self-presentation and 'user authority'." Alan Metcalfe (University of Sheffield), Nicky Gregson (University of Sheffield) and Louise Crewe (University of Nottingham), 'The Unbearable Lightness of eBay.' Lyndsey Miles (presenter) and Marilyn Davidson, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, 'The characteristics, motivations and experiences of eBay entrepreneurs - an exploratory study.' Anna Notaro 'Exploring Race in the Digital Age: 'Blackness for sale' on eBay.' Joanna M. Robson, University of East Anglia, 'Receiving the message loud and clear? Audiencing and (web)sites of consumption.' Michele White, Tulane University, 'From eBay to eGay: Rendering "Gay Interest" in the Vintage Photography Category.' If you would like more information on accepted abstracts, go to the conference website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay/Accepted%20abstracts.html Important dates Formal registration for all no later than: 16th May 2005 Conference dates: 24th and 25th August, 2005. More information For more information on any aspects of the conference, please see the conference website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/index.html Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ____________________________________________

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Call For Proposals-CDDC
by Jeremy Hunsinger 04 May '05

04 May '05

Please distribute as appropriate. The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture(CDDC) is announcing an expanded call for proposal for our Research E-ditions, Hosting Services, and our new Digital Originals publishing series. CDDC in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its Research E- ditions series. The CDDC ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu ) has been in operation for nearly two years, and it publishes hypertext journals, hosts digital research archives, and cooperates with many international cyberculture organizations. As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review and then produce professional academic research works--either single- authored or edited collections--in a digital format. Proposals could take the form of an "e-book" that simply makes available a scholarly monograph in online format, or a collection of academic papers organized around a central theme, or a fully hypertextual experiment with new forms of digital discourse. Arrangements can be made for "print on demand" (POD) paper versions of these works, but the main focus of the CDDC is to explore the new communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered publication. The review processes will be as extensive and rigorous as those experienced in print academic communication, but it too will be conducted in a fully on-line format. Research E-ditions All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts, digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory, literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition, the CDDC is committed to proposals from applied and natural sciences that relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and environmental studies, and information technology and communications. Hosting@CDDC All topics and projects of academic interest that require hosting are solicited for the Hosting@CDDC project. We host and mirror several major projects and have space for many more. We host projects serving a broad set of communities. We provide basic facilities of web hosting and listserv hosting. Any requirements beyond basic hosting should be outlined in the proposal. Hosting is frequently used in conjuction with various forms of community software, e- journal software, or related software to support artistic, academic, and related content. Digital Originals Digital Originals is open access publishing for book-like digital projects. We are soliciting submissions from people who have materials that originate in the digital arena, and want them to be released either under a Creative Commons license or under an Open Content License. The original documents will be peer-reviewed, edited, and published with an ISBN assigned and made freely downloadable on the CDDC Website. Proposals: Initial proposals should take the form of a 1 page description of the project, including a description of the services requested, a description of the project's audience, and provide current examples of the work (URLS) that is to be hosted or published. All proposals will be peer reviewed with at least two reviewers and further information may be requested. The review process is as rigorous as any academic publisher. Proposals should be sent to CDDC(a)vt.edu Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Down to the Wire
by Miraj Khaled 04 May '05

04 May '05

Down to the Wire http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84311/thomas-bleha/down-to-the… Summary: Once a leader in Internet innovation, the United States has fallen far behind Japan and other Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly. By outdoing the United States, Japan and its neighbors are positioning themselves to be the first states to reap the benefits of the broadband era: economic growth, increased productivity, and a better quality of life. Miraj Khaled ============ techiemik(a)yahoo.com mindexplorer.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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