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Convention Schedule, Media Ecology Association, June 22-26, 2005, New York City
by J Sternberg 24 May '05

24 May '05

THE SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus New York, New York June 22-26, 2005 updates and details at http://www.media-ecology.org THE BIASES OF MEDIA Media are often criticized for the biases of their content, but media ecology is also concerned with the intellectual, emotional, temporal, spatial, political, social, metaphysical, and epistemological biases associated with different forms of communication and different types of technology. =================================== PROGRAM SCHEDULE (as of 5/24/05) =================================== WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2005 12 noon Pope Auditorium Lobby Registration Opens 2:00-3:00 pm Pope Auditorium Session 1.1 Welcoming Remarks Moderator — Janet Sternberg, Executive Secretary, MEA — Fordham University Lance Strate — President, MEA — Fordham University Dominic J. Balestra — Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Fordham University Nancy Busch — Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences — Fordham University Robert R. Grimes, SJ — Dean, Fordham College Lincoln Center — Fordham University Brennan O’Donnell — Dean, Fordham College Rose Hill — Fordham University Paul Levinson — Chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies — Fordham University 3:15-4:30 pm Pope Auditorium Session 1.2 Featured Presentation Moderator — John M. Phelan — Fordham University Between Cultural Studies and Media Ecology James W. Carey — Columbia University 4:45-6:00 pm Pope Auditorium Session 1.3 The Jesuit Intellectual Tradition and Media Ecology Moderator — Vincent Hevern, SJ — Le Moyne College Panelists: Randolph Lumpp — Regis University Paul A. Soukup, SJ — Santa Clara University Sara van den Berg — Saint Louis University Robert A. White, SJ — Gregorian University 6:00-7:30 pm Atrium Reception 7:30-9:00 pm Pope Auditorium Session 1.4 A World of Authors: Creating Media for People with Keyboards Moderator — Douglas Rushkoff — New York University Panelists: Michael Joyce — Vassar College Andrew Postman — Writer Katie Salen — Parsons School of Design David Shenk — Author Marina Zurkow — Artist THURSDAY, June 23, 2005 9:30-10:30 am Pope Auditorium Session 2.1 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA Media, Religion, and Culture Robert A. White, SJ — Gregorian University 10:30-11:30 am Pope Auditorium Session 2.2 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA Ong’s Living Legacy at Saint Louis University Sara van den Berg — Saint Louis University 11:45 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium Session 2.3 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA Communication Policy — No Gift to the Nation Everett C. Parker — Fordham University 12:15-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 2.4A-2.4E (rooms TBA) Session 2.4A Interfaces of the Media Ecology Perspective Moderator — TBA Haussmann’s Media Environment Joost van Dreunen — Columbia University A Progressive Preface to Media Ecology Marc Leverette — Rutgers University Nostalgia and Displaced Media Mark Shanahan — Fordham University Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology Michael T. Zimmer — New York University Session 2.4B Virtual Realities and Networked Ontologies: Mapping Minds and Spaces Moderator — TBA Panelists: Eric J. Gordon — Emerson College Robert MacDougall — Emerson College James C. Morrison — Emerson College Tracey Stark — Emerson College Session 2.4C The McGannon Center Enterprise — Twenty Years Later Moderator — James A. Capo — Fordham University Panelists: John Carey — Fordham University Nancy Gillis — Fordham University Margot Hardenbergh — Fordham University Tom McCourt — Fordham University John M. Phelan — Fordham University Sheea Sybblis — Fordham University Session 2.4D Bringing General Semantics-Based Media Literacy to Younger People Gregg Hoffman — Institute of General Semantics Session 2.4E Television and its Discontents Moderator — TBA Fan Cultures and Television Cynthia W. Walker — Rutgers University Rewriting the Narrative — A Case for Fanfiction Nadine Smith — Fordham University The Politics of Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America O. Hugo Benavides — Fordham University Don’t Believe Everything You Watch on Television: China’s New Stance of Political Propaganda Chin-Yunn Yang — New York University 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 2.5A-2.5E (rooms TBA) Session 2.5A Around the World with Media Ecology Moderator — TBA Adeus Meu Sertão: Music, Technology and Cultural Change in a Small Brazilian Town Robert Albrecht — New Jersey City University The Wiring of Bhutan: A Test Case for Media Ecology in the Non-Western World Ellen Rose — University of New Brunswick Understanding the New Media Ecology in Mexico Fernando Gutiérrez Cortés — Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México Media Ecology (McLuhan) in China Paul Grosswiler — University of Maine Session 2.5B Media Bias and the Emerging Online Communities Moderator — TBA www.auswanderer-forum.com: How an Online Forum Turns into a Site of Struggle over National Identity Gabriele Bechtel — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Reconciling Esprit De Corps and Individuality? Blogs as an Escape from Military Conformity for American Soldiers in Iraq Sandrine Dincki-MacDougall — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Identity as In-Formation: Blogging, Electronic Ethos, and the New Groupthink Robert MacDougall — Emerson College Celebrity Bloggers and Blogging Celebrities: Identity and Community through Interactive Conversation Liza Potts — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Session 2.5C Media Ethnography John Carey — Fordham University Session 2.5D Film Sense and the Reel World Moderator — TBA Welcome to the Aquarium of the Real: Film Reviews as Hegemonic Practice, Reading Open Water as Post-9/11 Allegory Kevin Taylor Anderson — University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race, Gender and Class Observed through The Matrix Brendon Ellington — Fordham University Social, Economic, Political, and Cinematic Disaster: A Burkean Analysis of Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Inferno as Formally Dysfunctional “Equipment for Living” Carlnita P. Greene — University of Texas, Austin Mame is Not to Blame: The Femme Fatale in 1940s Film Noir and Her Effect on Female Viewers Siobahn Stiles — Fordham University Session 2.5E Explorations of the Electronic Media Environment Moderator — TBA Television and the Individual Jordan Beckerman — Hamilton College Taking Control of My Internet Addiction Monica Aversa — Fordham University Bridging the Digital Divide: Cell Phones and the Information Realm Joshua Huling — Hamilton College The Institution of Race as Represented in Fighting Video Games Jacob McCall — Fordham University 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 2.6A-2.6E (rooms TBA) Session 2.6A Appearances of Childhood Moderator — TBA Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms Margaret Cassidy — Adelphi University Degrassi Goes Digital: The Centrality of Technology in Degrassi: The Next Generation Laura Tropp — Marymount Manhattan College “What Can Rugrats Be to You?”: A Rhetorical Analysis of Ethnic Diversity and Representation in Children’s Animated Series Minah Harun — Ohio University Children, Health, Science and Technology in Relation to Orality in the Electronic Era Stephen Weinstock — Independent Scholar Session 2.6B The Bias of Digital Communication Moderator — TBA News Worlds Pablo J. Boczkowski — Massachusetts Institute of Technology When Transparency Fails: The Internet Candidacy of Howard Dean Erik P. Bucy — Indiana University Digital Divide as a Reversal Consequence of the Internet: Assessing Power and Bias of Media Convergence on the Access to Global News Yana S. Terukhova — Rochester Institute of Technology Session 2.6C Eco Metropolis: Why Doesn’t Ecology Become a Part of the Mainstream Media? Pamela Peeters — Our-Planet.org Session 2.6D Grave Ecologies: Exhuming the Living Dead Moderator — TBA Reading the Undead: Zombies and Comic Book Culture Brian Cogan — Molloy College Stumbling Into the Future: The Zombie from Folklore to Film to Videogames Shawn McIntosh — Rutgers University The Horror of Indeterminacy Marc Leverette — Rutgers University Session 2.6E Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication Moderator — TBA Evolutionary-Minded View of Television Genre Preferences Peter Karl Jonason — New Mexico State University The Biases of Media: Infotainment’s Impact on Issue Cognition and Engagement Saman Talib — Rutgers University Narratives of Poverty and the Working Poor in Prime-Time Television Crime Dramas Heather Crandall — Washington State University, Pullman Advertising and Product Publicity Comparison Revisited Alex Wang — University of Connecticut 6:30-7:00 pm Pope Auditorium Session 2.7 Screening Moderator — TBA A Conversation with Neil Postman Video documentary by Toni Urbano and NYU-TV Productions — New York University 7:00-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium Session 2.8 Keynote Address Moderator — TBA The Flouting of the First Amendment Paul Levinson — Fordham University 8:30-9:30 pm Atrium Reception FRIDAY, June 24, 2005 9:30-10:00 am Pope Auditorium Session 3.1 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA Reflections on Walter Ong Paul A. Soukup, SJ — Santa Clara University 10:00-11:00 am Pope Auditorium Session 3.2 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA Teaching Speech Frank E. X. Dance — University of Denver 11:15 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium Session 3.3 Featured Presentation Moderator — TBA On Media Ecology Eric McLuhan — University of Toronto 12:15-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 3.4A-3.4E (rooms TBA) Session 3.4A The New Languages Moderator — TBA Addiction to Illusion: Media and the Evolution of Reality Frank Zingrone — York University Hollywood and Bollywood Storytelling in Romantic Box Office Hits: Similarities and Differences Eva Kolbusz-Kijne — Borough of Manhattan Community College The Heart of the Matter: An Exploration of the Persistence of Core Beliefs Robert K. Blechman — St. George’s University Media Ecology and the Arts Faye Ran — Metropolitan College of New York Session 3.4B Gecyberschaft: Understanding Virtual Community as a Complete Shift in Society Mary Ann Allison — New York University Session 3.4C Mediating Biology, Managing Environments Moderator — TBA Men, Women and Neuters: The Representation of Gender in Signage Pictograms Pedro Bessa — Universidade de Aveiro Conceição Lopes — Universidade de Aveiro Identity Crisis: The Impact and Effect of Alias’s Sydney Bristow Elizabeth K. Fitzgerald — Fordham University Songs of the Humpback Whale — A Case Study in Unintended Consequences Thomas Veltre — Wildlife Conservation Society News Coverage on Environmental Policy Issues J.R. Estes — Portland State University Session 3.4D Reassessing the Gender Biases in Menstrual Product Advertising Or, What’s with the Men in Menstruation? David Linton — Marymount Manhattan College Session 3.4E The Political Illusion Moderator — TBA Josiah Bartlett, Forgive Us for Our Sins! Albert Auster — Fordham University Deliberative Democracy and Framing Biases of Media Saman Talib — Rutgers University Montague Kern — Rutgers University Decision 2004: The Role of the Media in the 2004 Presidential Election Deirdre Mueller — Fordham University Howard Dean and the Internet: A Study of the Medium as a Political Tool Jessica Knapp — Fordham University 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 3.5A-3.5E (rooms TBA) Session 3.5A The Bias of Media Moderator — TBA Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It Thomas de Zengotita — New York University The Bias of Biases David Sobelman — Rosefire Film Inc. The Medium is the Message, the Bias is You James Maroosis — Fordham University Being and Nothingness in the Information Age Barry Vacker — Temple University Session 3.5B Break, Blog, Burn Moderator — TBA Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice Danah M. Boyd — University of California, Berkeley From Simmel to Weblogs: Women and Internet Adriana Braga — Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Media Sociography on Weblogs Jesper Tække — IT University of Copenhagen Constructing Liberal Community: The Bloggers of The Majority Report Joellen Easton — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Session 3.5C Neil Postman in Perspective and Retrospective Moderator — TBA Neil Postman and the Evangelicals Arthur W. Hunt, III — Geneva College Neil Postman’s Rules of Public Speaking Janet Sternberg — Fordham University Media Ecology as an Instrument of Exploration Terence P. Moran — New York University Session 3.5D Mirrors in the Infosphere: An Integral Look at Telecommunications Technology, the Chakra System, and the Evolution of Planetary Consciousness Steven Vedro — SRVedro Consulting Session 3.5E From Hidden Connections to Hidden Agendas: Truth and Consequences of the Anti-Narrative Bias in Organizational and Professional Communication Jean S. Mason — Ryerson University 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 3.6A-3.6E (rooms TBA) Session 3.6A Media Bias Towards “Tomorrow”? Moderator — TBA Feminism in the New Tomorrowland Rebecca Hains — Temple University Full Streets, Empty Meanings, and the Protests of Tomorrow Elisa Durrette — Internet Entrepreneur The “Zero” Tomorrow Barry Vacker — Temple University Session 3.6B Understanding New Media Moderator — TBA The “Cyberflesh” Dimension as the Newest Extension of Man María de la Luz Casas Pérez — Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Cuernavaca Love Online Aaron Ben Ze’ev — University of Haifa Understanding New Media: Extending McLuhan Robert K. Logan — University of Toronto Session 3.6C Games People Play Moderator — TBA The Electronic Pitch: Fieldnotes on Television Soccer and its Collective Reception in Brazil Édison Gastaldo — Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Golf as a Medium of Communication Aaron Honoré — Fordham University Games Artists Play: Interactive Narrativity and the Ludological Impulse Ira Nayman Spontaneous Social Play and Ludicity Design as a Strategy for Promoting and Defending Human Rights Conceição Lopes — Universidade de Aveiro Session 3.6D The Sexual Grotesque: Pomosexuality and Robopathologies on the Web Mark Dery — New York University Session 3.6E Revolt of the Mass Media Moderator — TBA Women as Target: Internationalization of the Women’s Magazine Industry in Taiwan Ping Shaw — National Sun Yat-Sen University Bias in Selecting Letters to the Editor? A Case Study Marisa Torres da Silva — Universidade Nova de Lisboa Am I Black Enough for You Baby: Can Black Management of a White-Owned Media Outlet Make a Difference? Arthur H. Hayes — Fordham University Do U.S. Mass Media Really “Massify” Our Society? What is “Mass” in Mass Media? Emil Coman — Eastern Connecticut State University 6:30-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium Session 3.7 Presentation of the 2005 MEA Awards Janet Sternberg — Fordham University Lance Strate — Fordham University President’s Address Moderator — TBA Media Ecology in a New Key Lance Strate — Fordham University Performance Media Ecology Unplugged Bill Bly — Fordham University John McDaid — New York University 8:30-9:30 pm Atrium Reception SATURDAY, June 25, 2005 9:30-10:45 am Pope Auditorium Session 4.1 Infotainment: The Blurring of the Lines Between News and Entertainment Moderator — Clifford G. Christians — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Panelists: Michael Delli Carpini — Annenberg School for Communication Bruce A. Williams — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 11:00 am-12:15 pm Pope Auditorium Session 4.2 Oh What a Blow that Carpenter Gave Me! Moderator — Donald F. Theall — Trent University Panelists: Paul Heyer — Wilfrid Laurier University Janine Marchessault — York University Harald E.L. Prins — Kansas State University Michael Wesch — Kansas State University 12:15-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00-3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 4.3A-4.3E (rooms TBA) Session 4.3A The Technological Society Moderator — TBA Notions of Progress Catherine Waite Phelan — Hamilton College The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Television, Tuned to a Dead Channel Barry Vacker — Temple University Man as the Machine: Rhetorical Dimensions of The Terminator Trilogy Stephanie Bennett — Palm Beach Atlantic University Technology’s Broken Promise: Reflections on Social Disintegration and Civic Renewal Barry D. Liss — University of Wisconsin, Marathon Session 4.3B Digital Imaging: Transformations in Visual Communication Moderator — John Carey — Fordham University Dancing Electrons vs. Engrained Silver: Technological Influences on Concepts of Visual Truth Julianne H. Newton — University of Oregon Presenting Oneself through Images: An Analysis of Online Dating Photos Lee Humphreys — University of Pennsylvania Digital FX in Movies Paul Messaris — University of Pennsylvania Jason Tocci — University of Pennsylvania Digital Imagery and the Eye of Cinema Stephen R. Prince — Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Presentation and Alteration of the Digital Self in Video Game Life Jennifer Stromer-Galley — SUNY Albany Transformed Social Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality Jeremy Bailenson — Stanford University Session 4.3C Iterations of Interface — A Surveillance Case Study Paul Guzzardo — MediaARTS Alliance Session 4.3D The Presentation of Self and Other Moderator — TBA “Frenemies?”: Images of the U.S.-E.U. Relations in Asia-Pacific Media Natalia Chaban — University of Canterbury Community Journalism: Hope for a Society Without Heroes Cuthbert Alexander — Fordham University The Impact of a Small Newspaper in the Maintenance of Language and Culture in Piana Degli Albanesi Eda Derhemi — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign From Supporting Roles to Leading Ladies Tara Southwell — Fordham University Session 4.3E Visual Representations of HIV and AIDS in Africa: Culture, Metaphor and Society Phyllis Dannhauser — University of Johannesburg 3:30-4:45 pm Breakout Sessions 4.4A-4.4E (rooms TBA) Session 4.4A Ancient Quarrels and Modern Rhetoric Moderator — TBA Doctus Orator of a Five-Sense or Three-Sense Sensorium?: Marshall McLuhan’s Media Ecology Bias and “Big Rhetoric” Steven Reagles — Bethany Lutheran College Epilogue to Plato: Eric Havelock and the Literate Bias Twyla Gibson — University of Toronto Logos: Ambiguities of Merger and Division Corey Anton — Grand Valley State University Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism and Media Ecology Stephen Weinstock — Independent Scholar Session 4.4B Media and Mind Moderator — TBA The Mind Outside the Head: Media Ecology and Cognitive Science Luiz Carlos Baptista — Universidade Nova de Lisboa Symbolic Foundations of Language and Number Heike Wiese — Yale University & Humboldt-Universität Berlin ICQ as a Tool of Thought Chin-Yunn Yang — New York University The Third Space: A Phenomenology of Embodied Mediation Marc Leverette — Rutgers University Session 4.4C Mime and Media via a Tetrad of Tetrads Wayne Constantineau — Habitat For Humanity Canada Session 4.4D Faith and Contexts Moderator — TBA Interpreting the Eucharist in Light of Media Ratios Kip Redick — Christopher Newport University Connecting to Non-Present Presence: Cyberspace and the Enactment of Religious Ritual Cheryl Anne Casey — New York University René Girard as Media Ecologist? Phil Rose — York University Conditions of Attendance: The Idle Hand as the Father of Modern Warfare Read Mercer Schuchardt — Marymount Manhattan College Session 4.4E Culture as Communication Moderator — TBA Media Bias and the Postmodern Sublime Virgil Moberg — Black Hills State University Semiotic Analysis of “The Golden Arches” Jordan P. Curtis — SUNY Potsdam How Television Represents America’s “Drug Problem” (and Why) Katrina Flener — Brooklyn College, CUNY Idleness as an Act of Resistance Gregory Christie — New School University 5:00-6:15 pm Breakout Sessions 4.5A-4.5E (rooms TBA) Session 4.5A Media, Consciousness, and Culture Moderator — TBA McLuhan, Ong, and Muller-Thym Fred Cheyunski — IBM Business Consulting Services Ecriture Aeshetics: The Literate Contours of Art-Cinema Narration Sheila J. Nayar — Greensboro College Signed Orality Pamela Miele — Fordham University The Eighteenth Brumaire of Marshall McLuhan Marc Leverette — Rutgers University Session 4.5B The Pragmatics of Media Ecology Moderator — TBA Physician-Patient Communication and Technology: The Changing Face of Medicine Gretchen Norling — University of West Florida Media Ecology as a Possible Theoretical Framework for Production Research Susan Jacobson — Temple University The Problem with Mediation in Educational Computing Hui-mei Justina Hsu — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karen Ann Ferneding — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Digital Technology and Social Change Rex Miller — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Session 4.5C Labyrinth as Medium Patricia O. Keeler — Brigham and Women’s Hospital Session 4.5D Rights and Copyrights Moderator — TBA Free Speech and Reporting on Rights: Canadian Newspaper Treatment of Hate Propaganda Legislation Lysanne Louter — Brock University Appropriation Art, Fair Use, and Structuralist Notions of Authorship Clay Guinn — University of Houston What Edelman’s Image Ownership Argument Can Teach Media Ecology Frederick Wasser — Brooklyn College, CUNY Session 4.5E News After 9/11 Moderator — TBA War as Entertainment: Television News Coverage of the War in Iraq Michelle Pulaski Behling — Pace University Framing, Network News, and the War on Terrorism Toni O’Dell — University of Houston The Whole World is Watching, But So What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Antiwar Protest Ronald Bishop — Drexel University Core Concern: Structural Imperialism and the Impact of September 11 on U.S. Coverage of International News Jack Rosenberry — St. John Fisher College 6:30-7:30 pm Pope Auditorium Session 4.6 Screening Moderator — Frank Zingrone — York University A rare recording of Marshall McLuhan at the 1965 Buffalo Spring Festival of the Arts 7:30-8:30 pm Pope Auditorium Session 4.7 Featured Presentation Moderator — Harald E.L. Prins — Kansas State University Explorations with McLuhan Edmund S. Carpenter 8:30-9:30 pm (room TBA) Reception SUNDAY, June 25, 2005 9:30-11:30 am Pope Auditorium Session 5.1 MEA Business Meeting Moderator — Thomas F. Gencarelli — Montclair State University All are welcome to attend 11:15 am-1:00 pm Session 5.2 Writing as a Creative Activity: Writers Discuss Their Medium Moderator — Meir Z. Ribalow — Fordham University Panelists: Marleen Barr — Fordham University Bill Bly — Fordham University Leslie Carroll — Author Paul Levinson — Fordham University John McDaid — New York University Douglas Rushkoff — New York University 1:00-1:15 pm Convention Adjourns =================================== Convention activities will take place at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in midtown Manhattan, located at 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 Directions to campus <http://tinyurl.com/4huww> Map of campus area <http://tinyurl.com/3wn6j> Accommodations will be handled by participants on an individual basis. No particular hotel is recommended nor are any hotel discounts offered for the Convention. A list of convenient hotels and hostels will be available on the MEA Web site. Note that this year’s Convention starts on Wednesday afternoon, June 22 and ends on Sunday afternoon, June 26. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Convention Fees for MEA Members US $40 Member Registration US $20 Student Registration (full-time student ID required) Convention Fees for Non-Members US $60 Convention Registration Only US $25 Student Convention Registration Only (full-time student ID required) Membership Fees (January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005) US $60 Membership US $30 Student Membership (full-time student ID required) Questions? Contact the Convention Coordinators Janet Sternberg Dept. of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-9993 718-817-4855 voice | 718-817-4868 fax netberg {at} compuserve.com Lance Strate Dept. of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-9993 718-817-4864 voice | 718-817-4868 fax strate {at} fordham.edu =================================== Media Ecology Association http://www.media-ecology.org ===================================

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IR: Graduate Student Paper Competition
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 24 May '05

24 May '05

Another reminder to students to submit 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. I believe I had an error in the previous reminder -- this is a call for full papers that go with submission to the IR conference. You do need to have submitted to the conference to be eligible for the competition. Also, this competition is only open to graduate students (graduate students at time of submission -- i.e., if you graduated in May 2005, you are still eligible for this year). /Caroline ---------------------------------------- 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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Web death ?
by Denise N. Rall 23 May '05

23 May '05

Dear Air-ers - I was trying to recall a paper given at Toronto that viewed the life & death of an online community. I believe it was called Everquest???? but now I'm not sure. Anyone who presented at Toronto on the life & death of an online community would you be so kind as to give the name of your paper here or send it to me off list. I am using it to illustrate the impermanence of online communities - any other references to 'off-line' or dead communities would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, 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

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Fwd: [Asis-l] Call for Proposals - JASIST Perspectives on Global IInformation Ethics
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 22 May '05

22 May '05

Of interest to IR researchers ... ---------------------------------------- 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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Six new papers on opensource.mit.edu + One new thesis
by Karim R. Lakhani 22 May '05

22 May '05

<sorry for any x-posting> Hello Folks I have uploaded the following papers on our website. Many thanks to all the authors for their submissions. Best Karim <freezing in Boston> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paper 1 Authors: Fleming, Lee & David Waguespack Title: Penguins, Camels, and Other Birds of a Feather: Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/flemingwaguespack.pdf Abstract: What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then integrate their voluntary communities in order to avoid the ever present danger of forking and balkanization. This is enabled by two correlated but distinct social positions: brokerage, and boundary spanning between technological modules. An inherent lack of trust associated with brokerage positions can be overcome through physical interaction or contributions within technological boundaries. Successful leaders are thus the product of strong technical contribution and a structural position that can bind the community together. Paper 2 Author: Iannaci, Federico Title: Coordination Processes in Open Source Software Development: The Linux Case Study http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/iannacci3.pdf Abstract: Although open source projects have been subject to extensive study, their coordination processes are still poorly understood. Drawing on organization theory, this paper sets out to remedy this imbalance by showing that large-scale open source projects exhibit three main coordination mechanisms, namely standardization, loose coupling and partisan mutual adjustment. Implications in terms of electronically-mediated communications and networked interdependencies are discussed in the final sections where a new light is cast on the concept of structuring as a by-product of localized adjustments. Paper 3 Author: Shah, Sonali Title: Open Beyond Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/shah4.pdf Abstract: The "community-based" model has generated many of the innovations we use on a daily basis. The social structure created by this model has cultivated many entrepreneurial ventures and even seeded new industries and product categories. In this paper, I discuss three elements of this model and present four exemplars of the model that span fields and centuries. I conclude by reframing our view of the innovation process as driven by the activities of firms and research institutions and discussing implications for firms and policy. Paper 4 (in Spanish) Author: Carlos Emilio Biscay Title: Open Source en el e-learning: ¿Una cuestión de mente? - Análisis del fenómeno del Open source en el e-learning, situación actualy tendencias - http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/biscay.pdf Abstract Primeramente vamos a ver ¿Qué es el Open source? ¿Cuáles son sus objetivos y sus características fundamentales?. En segundo lugar haremos un recorrido histórico de los últimos años, identificando los principales desarrollos del Open source y sus tendencias, especialmente en el área de la educación superior. En tercer lugar mostramos el Proyecto Sakai, donde un grupo de Universidades de Primer nivel están uniendo fuerzas para integrar y para sincronizar su software educativo en una colección de herramientas de Open source para e-learning. A continuación haremos mencionaremos los principales aplicaciones de OS en general. Seguidamente, he de tratar de poner de relieve los aspectos técnicos y psicológicos que están presentes en el Open Source y sus protagonistas y las razones económicas, políticas y culturales que se vinculan o crean un contexto favorable al crecimiento de las soluciones de open source en el mercado y especialmente en mercado del e-learning. Finalmente y como síntesis de estas cuestiones describimos el caso concreto de la Universidad de Wisconsin, que actualmente junto a otras instituciones educativas se ha sumado en el proyecto Sakai. Paper 5 Authors Ioannis Samoladas, Ioannis Stamelos Title Assessing Free/Open Source Software Quality http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/samoladasstamelos.pdf Abstract: According to its proponents, one of the most acclaimed advantages of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) is its superior quality. However, this suggestion is an open issue, since there is little concrete evidence to justify whether F/OSS quality is indeed better or worse than that of proprietary software products. The general perspective of this article is to discuss the current status of F/OSS quality and to assess its performance in various aspects of quality, based on existing literature. Specifically, this article will provide some answers to various questions raised by the assertion concerning the quality of F/OSS. In this regard issues addressed in this article include the quality framework, through which F/OSS quality should be investigated and the performance of F/OSS in various quality factors within this quality framework. Answers to these issues are given by providing evidence from various research papers, empirical studies and reports based on experience about the quality of F/OSS products. The overall results seem to indicate that F/OSS has achieved an acceptable level of quality, although there is more to be done in order to outperform proprietary software. Paper 6 Author: Imhorst, Christian Title: Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism? http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/imhorst.pdf Abstract: What does the hacker ethic have to do with anarchism? Why does Richard Stallman, an outstanding personality of the free software movement, described himself as an anarchist? We should not imagine the anarchists of the Free Software Movement to be like the cartoon image: A scruffy looking lunatic, with a crazy glint in his eyes and bristling with weapons. Instead of chaos, Stallman postulates a new form of order for the intellectual property in the terms of the hacker ethic - the access to knowledge should be free, decentralized, anti-bureaucratic and anti-authoritarian. Bachelor's Thesis Author: Frost, Jonathon Title: Some Economic & Legal Aspects of Open Source Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/frost.pdf Abstract: The emergence of open source software as a viable economic model has risen to the forefront in the debate on the future of the information technology industry. However, at first glance, the open source software development model is strikingly enigmatic and counterintuitive. To help better understand this phenomenon, this paper, through market data and economic theory, proceeds to ask and answer three related questions. First, what is the economic relationship between open source software development communities and proprietary software firms? Second, what are the resulting effects on market innovation and innovation incentives? And third, what legal mechanisms allow for the sustainability of open source software and should they be expanded or reduced? This paper concludes that open source activity appears to be generating four economic effects, whose net effect on innovation in the software market is ambiguous. -- 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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Re: [Air-l] Immigration, education, and "big brother" [was: Student of Concern ]
by Miraj Khaled 21 May '05

21 May '05

Many thanks to Ulla Bunz for the links for submitting comments/opinions to US Department of Commerce. This issue is being discussed in Slashdot.org with some interesting comments. [http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1825232&from=rss] The following comment from a fellow graduate student at a US university sums up foreign students' dilemmas to some degree. The last sentence is specially noteworthy: "If you keep driving smart people away like this, you will end up with none of the valuable knowledge you are trying to protect." [From Slashdot] http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150204&threshold=1&commentsort=… "I am a foreign graduate student in a US university, and I am seriously disturbed by the increasing restrictions on foreigners doing research in the US. First it was the visa problem that caused a vast drop of foreign graduate applications. Then they cut research fundings for fundamental sicence and prevented non-citizens from participating in DARPA funded research. Now we have this ridiculous license joke. US is at the forefront of scientific research because they were able to attract the smartest minds from all over the world, but it has come to a point that even I am seriously considering alternatives after graduating, and I am sure I am not alone in thinking about leaving. If you keep driving smart people away like this, you will end up with none of the valuable knowledge you are trying to protect." --- air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:47:00 -0400 From: "Ulla Bunz" <bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu> Subject: RE: [Air-l] Immigration, education, and "big brother" [was: Student of Concern ] To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-05-18/news/feature.html?src=default_rss Forcing students to get "export" permits for participation in certain university courses is just horrible! I've known for a while that there are so called "black listed" college majors. If you are either a student or a professor in any of these majors it is a lot more difficult for you to get a visa for the US. The list is long and you'd be surprised at all the seemingly innocuous majors that the US Department of Homeland Security considers threatening. I think Geography is on it, because you learn about GIS and global positioning systems, and Geology, because you learn about oil, etc. etc. A lot of international students have not been able to get student visas in the last year or so because immigration rules have become a lot stricter, even stricter than right after 9/11. I understand this is done to protect the United States from people who mean it harm. However, being an international person in the US, and being white, female, from a "friendly" Western country, and in a non-black listed major, I can't even imagine how bad it must be for people who are different from me, because even for me, who fits none of the "dangerous" categories (the article lists China, Cuba, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, and Syria as affected countries, but not Saudi Arabia), visa procedures have become even more invasive, slower, and sometimes, frankly, offensive. Apart from the fact that US universities make a lot of money off international students, requiring export visas of students just so that they can participate in regular class activities (like looking through a microscope!) is just horrible, horrible, horrible. I would like to encourage all of you to submit comments to the Department of Commerce - especially those who once replied to our AoIR survey they would not want to come to the US for a conference anymore because of the airport fingerprinting. The article doesn't explain how to go about sending comments or where. I searched the Department of Commerce website and found the original notice (from March 28, 2005) here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-6057.htm Here is an excerpt on how to submit comments: <Quote> Follow the instructions for submitting comments. E-mail: scook(a)bis.doc.gov. Include ``RIN 0694-AD29'' in the subject line of the message. Fax: (202) 482-3355. Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Regulatory Policy Division, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 2705, Washington, DC 20230, ATTN: RIN 0694-AD29. <Endquote> Here is the closing paragraph from the article referred to in the original message. I think it's pretty telling: Quote: While Gupta is already considering a new career path, [Rachel] Claus warns that rules like these have been dangerous in the past. "When the Third Reich was emerging, they said that only Germans of pure Aryan descent could attend German universities. Significant numbers of German scholars departed," she says. "That was detrimental for Germany, but was glorious for the U.S. "We got Einstein." http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-05-18/news/feature.html?src=default_rss Ulla ++++++ Miraj Khaled ============ techiemik(a)yahoo.com mindexplorer.blogspot.com Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. 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Job ad (ii): Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Bournemouth Media School, UK
by David Gauntlett 20 May '05

20 May '05

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Senior Lecturer - Interactive Media Bournemouth Media School £27,390 - £36,428 per annum Bournemouth Media School is one of the most highly regarded centres for media and marketing communication education in the UK with an outstanding reputation for the integration of professional practice, research and scholarship. Applicants are sought for a Senior Lectureship in the Media Academic Group to take a leading role in teaching and research or consultancy. For this post a relevant post graduate qualification, preferably a higher degree by research, is desirable. You will have expertise in the area of interactive media production and have the capability to lead curriculum development in interactive media at undergraduate and postgraduate level. You may be required to act as a Subject Leader in which case an allowance would be paid in addition to your basic salary. Further information, together with an online application form is available at: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/jobs/Med150.html Alternatively, to request the information by post please telephone 01202 964846 (24 hour answerphone) Please quote ref: MED150 Closing date: 23 May 2005 (Sorry, I should have posted this to the list earlier: if you are interested in applying but need an extra couple of days, email Fiona Cownie fcownie(a)bournemouth.ac.uk to say so). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Job ad: Lecturer in Media Theory at Bournemouth Media School, UK
by David Gauntlett 20 May '05

20 May '05

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lecturer in Media Theory Bournemouth Media School (1 Year Fixed Term Post) £23,643 - £29,479 per annum Bournemouth Media School is one of the most highly regarded centres for media and marketing communication education in the UK with an outstanding reputation for the integration of professional practice, research and scholarship. Applicants are sought for a Lectureship in the Media Academic Group to take a leading role in teaching and research or consultancy. For this post a relevant post graduate qualification, preferably a higher degree by research, is desirable. You will have experience in teaching Media Theory, with an emphasis on social and/or political aspects of television and new media. Your track record of research publications, or at least clear potential in this area, would be an advantage. Further information, together with an online application form is available at: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/jobs/MED149.html Alternatively, to request the information by post please telephone 01202 964846 (24 hour answerphone) Please quote ref: MED149 Closing date: 23 May 2005 (Sorry, I should have posted this to the list earlier: if you are interested in applying but need an extra couple of days, email Fiona Cownie fcownie(a)bournemouth.ac.uk to say so). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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first .eu domain is live
by Wainer Lusoli 20 May '05

20 May '05

You may have missed the first .eu domain ever going live! http://www.eurid.eu/about Need to update our Internet timelines... The geography of allocation seems to me taken straight from 1984 though * Central Regional Office and Head quarters: Brussels, Belgium (supporting registrars in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany & Austria with German, French, Dutch languages) * Northern Regional office: Stockholm, Sweden (supporting registrars in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania UK and Ireland with English, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian languages) * Southern Regional Office: Pisa, Italy (Supporting Registrars in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia with Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Maltese and Slovenian languages) * Eastern Regional Office: Prague, Czech Republic (Supporting registrars in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland with Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Polish languages) Cheers Wainer ----------------------- Wainer Lusoli http://www.lusoli.info w.lusoli(a)salford.ac.uk -----------------------

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FW: aiieee, they're in my hair!
by Ellis Godard 20 May '05

20 May '05

Smallest flying web server ever. Hmm.... -eg -----Original Message----- flying swarms of flocking robot clusters? what could go wrong with that? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/0157247

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