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Re: [Air-l] virtual rape?
by Elizabeth Pass 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

These may be a little dated, but what I have on my shelf are Donna J. Haraway _Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse:T Feminism and Technoscience_ (1997) Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise, eds. _wired_women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace_ (1996) Wendy Harcourt, ed. __women@internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace_ (1999) James Brook and Iain A. Boal, eds. _Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information_ (1995) Most of the edited works are full of leaders in this area who are still doing work in the field. These books would be a good place to start exploring and then see what has been done since then. Elizabeth Pass ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:32:38 -0500 >From: Kathy Mancuso <kmancuso(a)gmail.com> >Subject: [Air-l] virtual rape? >To: air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org > >AoIRers, > >Who writes about virtual rape and sexual harassment other than Julian >Dibbell (or people arguing online about the mr bungle case who get >their facts from dibbell)? > >Thanks, >Kathy Mancuso >University of South Carolina >Department of Anthropology > >-- >"Sometimes, I get so sick of fighting. I have to slay the dragons of >the myth of heterosexual European [able-bodied] male society in my >dreams, then get up in the morning and be an activist . . . What if >there really was a level playing field? I would love to see how far I >could actually go. What if all I had to show off was my mad skills? >Wouldn't I really be able to fly then?" --Margaret Cho > >Websites for my projects: >Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com >Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium >Social software/blogging research (ask for CFP): http://del.icio.us/museumfreak >SC Student Anth Conf (CFP): http://www.cas.sc.edu/Anth/events/scconference.htm >USC does Britten's War Requiem: April 19, 7:30, Koger Center >_______________________________________________ >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/ ____________________________ Elizabeth Pass passer(a)jmu.edu Institute of Technical & Scientific Communication James Madison University MSC 1803, Keezell Hall B-6 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 w 540.568.8139 f 540.568.8070 C 540.246.6767

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Re: [Air-l] A new web annotation tool
by Judy Rice 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I agree about Explorer. Could you provide the names of the various governments that are warning against its use? This would help give validity to my words of caution. ------------------------------ On Mar 18, 2005 jeremy hunsinger wrote: >I'd strongly advise that people stop using explorer, various national >governments have advised against using it. and stopped using it because >of the huge number of security holes it provides. One of the best >strategies for information security is to avoid information >monocultures, and internet explorer seems to provide one of most >convincing case in points of this, because its basic core functionality >is tied into the o.s. itself, and thus its security problems are the >whole computers problem, whereas taking a browser like firefox, opera, >safari, etc. is far more safer because it is not a core part of the >o.s. and if it has an exploit, it is far less likely directly affect >the o.s.. Judy Rice User Experience Engineer Family and Church History riceja(a)ldschurch.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message may contain confidential information, and is intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: MMORPGs as MOOs/MUDs
by Kathy Mancuso 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

> Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:01:36 -0500 > From: Radhika Gajjala <radhika(a)cyberdiva.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] hanging out and mushes - performatively masculine > still? > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <a0611042abe68da67d933(a)[192.168.1.101]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > >On Mar 24, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Kendall, Lori wrote: > > > >>I'm also interested in what people have found on this issue. It is > >>worth noting that the mud I studied was more male-dominated (in > >>both numbers and culture) than many, if not most, existing at that > >>time. That group still exists online (with some loss of original > >>members and some new participants) and remains as male-dominated as > >>ever. But it has never been typical. > >> > >>As for the young generation of mush-ers, how active and big is it? > >>Even among my most online-active students, only a very few even > >>know what a mud/moo/etc. is. They participate on message boards, > >>blogs, IM, but don't mud. > > > >From your analytical perspective would the MMPORGs (eg Sims online, > >World of Warcraft, Second Life and so on) be the same as MUDs? I'd > >say that there would be plenty of people that don't know a MUD from > >a MOO but are active MMPORGers. > > I agree - they follow similar logics - but several players dont > necessarily know this. I think first of all we need a distinction here between MMORPG games that are ostensibly about scoring points/leveling/advancing (world of warcraft, knights of the old republic, everquest) and simulation games which don't have any of that and are more about roleplaying/performativity (second life, there). Correct me if I'm wrong Radhika, you know I don't know much about history, but this would be like the MUD/TinyMUD distinction, no? Re age: I am the younger generation of which we speak. I only personally or from online know one active MOO user under 30, who is part of LambdaMOO. A quick LiveJournal search turned up only 43 communities and 173 users interested in mu*, but this only tenuously points to a possible low interest among young people. It assumes a correlation between 1) youth and livejournal use 2) livejournal use and use of other internet sites and it also assumes that people actually bother to fill out the interests thing in their profile. All those assumptions are problematic, especially #2. There are already several people doing research in both fields: *http://socialstudygames.com/ is a site where a bunch of ethnographers come together to post about their work *http://xirdal.lmu.de/ is a study of the quake modding subculture, which is really interesting because of his research design. *http://www.alex.golub.name/log/ Alex Golub is a UChicago PhD candidate who is working on a project in Second Life among other places and teaches a class on this topic *there's definitely at least one other anthropologist who calls herself an "embedded ethnographer" on an MMORPG but I can't remember her name. > > > > >Do you think that the non-text based and unarchived nature of the > >games might make them harder to study? > > I would say you can study this - a triangulation of some particular > methodologies would be useful - self-observation (actually playing > and making notes), participant observation, reading manuals, and > doing an observation of other players while they are playing and you > are not, doing interviews... > > available static text transcripts are not necessarily the best way > even with text based moos really. Of course you can study it! How do you think ethnographers work in the offline world? No, it's not any harder--in some ways as an anthropologist it's harder to have your fieldsite online because you don't have the same Going To The Field separation experience as other people do and thus you find yourself typically living life half in the field and half at school and not doing either terribly well. I agree with Radhika. Go take notes while watching people fragging IRL at cons, if what you want to study is Quake. Observe your own participation in the world. Copy and paste text from the talk channels. Hang out in the world practicing some passive skill like fishing or sitting around town so that you're a participant, yet you can focus on chat. You might also look at avatars and the way they interact through emotes, and who follows who in groups. The hard thing about studying some MMORPGs would be that most of the activity takes place within clan groups, which means that you would probably have to qualify and maintain the requirements to be in one or maybe several. This is also true of some simulation games, surprisingly. Kathy Mancuso Department of Anthropology University of South Carolina -- "Sometimes, I get so sick of fighting. I have to slay the dragons of the myth of heterosexual European [able-bodied] male society in my dreams, then get up in the morning and be an activist . . . What if there really was a level playing field? I would love to see how far I could actually go. What if all I had to show off was my mad skills? Wouldn't I really be able to fly then?" --Margaret Cho Websites for my projects: Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software/blogging research (ask for CFP): http://del.icio.us/museumfreak SC Student Anth Conf (CFP): http://www.cas.sc.edu/Anth/events/scconference.htm USC does Britten's War Requiem: April 19, 7:30, Koger Center

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Reminder: GLS Conference Submission Deadline
by Alice J. Robison 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Just a brief reminder that submissions to the Games, Learning & Society Conference in Madison, Wisconsin June 23-24 are due in 1 week! Please see the conference website for submission details. Game designers, developers, researchers, and educators are encouraged to propose sessions for this unique conference. We hope to see you in Madison this summer! www dot glsconference dot com Thanks, Alice Robison GLS Conference Program Chair University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Open access journals
by Wainer Lusoli 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear all - Just come across this, and thought it was in the very spirit of AiR Directory of Open Access Journals (1485 at last count) http://www.doaj.org/ "The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact" Open source, between Lessig's pragmatics and the Open science initiative ethics, Internet enabled. Kind regards Wainer ----------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Fellow @ ESRI University of Salford http://www.lusoli.info -----------------------

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RE: [Air-l] hanging out and mushes - performatively masculine still?
by Radhika Gajjala 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

At 12:47 PM 3/24/2005 -0500, you wrote: >I'm also interested in what people have found on this issue. It is worth >noting that the mud I studied was more male-dominated (in both numbers and >culture) than many, if not most, existing at that time. That group still >exists online (with some loss of original members and some new >participants) and remains as male-dominated as ever. But it has never >been typical. Lori - I really liked your book:) >As for the young generation of mush-ers, how active and big is it? Even >among my most online-active students, only a very few even know what a >mud/moo/etc. is. They participate on message boards, blogs, IM, but don't >mud. I know (of) a few kids who still hang out and play in mushes (they also tend to be offline "gamers" hanging out at hobby stores and so on - but I really shouldnt generalise from my small "sample":)) - from College dorms etc = so I think these environments are still being built and used. r >Lori >__________________________________ >Lori Kendall >Associate Professor of Sociology >Purchase College-SUNY >lori.kendall(a)purchase.edu >_______________________________________________ >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: Academic Brain Trust May 12 St. Louis
by Steve Jones 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Bob McChesney <rwmcches(a)uiuc.edu> > Date: March 24, 2005 3:37:18 PM CST > To: sjones(a)uic.edu > Subject: Academic Brain Trust May 12 St. Louis > > > *********************************************************************** > ********** > > GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT > Please distribute widely to Scholars in Law, Communications and Media > Studies, Information Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, > American Studies, and more…. > > Free Press and the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research > (IIMPR) are hosting the kick-off meeting of the > ACADEMIC BRAIN TRUST > CONNECTING SCHOLARS TO MEDIA ACTIVISTS AND POLICYMAKERS > > Kick-Off Brainstorming Session > Thursday, May 12, 2005 > 4-7 PM > Millennium Hotel > St. Louis, Missouri > > > > Session Held in Advance of the > 2nd National Conference for Media Reform (May 13-15) > Featuring FCC members: Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein > Members of Congress: Diane Watson, Bernie Sanders > Also: Jim Hightower, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Al Franken, Juan > Gonzalez, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Janine Jackson, Laura Flanders > Hundreds of journalists, artists and independent media producers > And: More media activists than you can shake a stick at > For details: http://www.freepress.net/conference/ > > > > WHY DO WE NEED AN ACADEMIC BRAIN TRUST? > > > Collectively, academic researchers and scholars across many > disciplines comprise a grossly underutilized wealth of experience and > knowledge that is desperately needed right now in policy fights across > the country and across the globe. As public interest advocates and > activists wage lonely, under-funded campaigns around public > broadcasting, media ownership, Internet access, global media policy, > copyright, commercialism, and other important issues, there has been a > noticeable lack of input from the considerable talent in the field of > communication and media studies. It is a weak spot for those committed > to improving the media system, and it is a weak spot for the academic > community as a whole. > > The time to engage the larger scholarly community is now. A number of > crucial policy debates over the next few years will define our media > system for a generation, and have tremendous effect upon our > democratic culture. As scholars and researchers, it is our > responsibility to personally engage with these debates and to assist > citizen participation in deliberations on media policies that are > critical to the health of our democracy. To encourage civic > engagement around these issues, it is imperative that we jumpstart > media scholarship in the public interest, and work to link our best > research and our research skills with the public. > > The Academic Brain Trust is open to scholars from all fields > employing all possible methodologies. It is open to faculty and grad > students. It assumes no particular political views, only a belief that > the crucial media policies that shape our media system should be the > result of widespread informed public participation, and that scholars > have an important role in the process. Although Free Press and IIMPR > are hosting the kick-off session, the future of the Academic Brain > Trust will be determined by those who participate and take leadership > of this important opportunity. > > > OVER 50 SCHOLARS HAVE COMMITTED TO ATTENDING THE KICK-OFF SESSION OF > THE ACADEMIC BRAIN TRUST > PLEASE JOIN US! > > > > For more information on the KICK-OFF BRAINSTORMING SESSION of the > ACADEMIC BRAIN TRUST visit our website: http://academicbraintrust.org/ > > > *********************************************************************** > *********************************************************************** > ***************************************************** > > > Graduate students and junior faculty, particularly women and persons > from communities of color in the U.S., are encouraged to apply for a > limited number of travel grants that may be available, depending on > the timely receipt of applications, to attend the kick-off session of > the Academic Brain Trust and the 2nd National Conference for Media > Reform. > > > (These travel grants are different from the scholarships Free Press is > providing to the 2nd National Conference for Media Reform. The > deadline for applying for Free Press scholarships was March 15, 2005. > The Academic Brain Trust travel grants are specifically for graduate > students and junior faculty. People are permitted to apply for both, > but can only accept one.) > > > The deadline to qualify for these travel grants is Monday April 4 by > 6PM eastern time. Click here to learn more and apply: > http://academicbraintrust.org/

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RE: [Air-l] hanging out and mushes - performatively masculine still?
by Kendall, Lori 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I'm also interested in what people have found on this issue. It is worth noting that the mud I studied was more male-dominated (in both numbers and culture) than many, if not most, existing at that time. That group still exists online (with some loss of original members and some new participants) and remains as male-dominated as ever. But it has never been typical. As for the young generation of mush-ers, how active and big is it? Even among my most online-active students, only a very few even know what a mud/moo/etc. is. They participate on message boards, blogs, IM, but don't mud. Lori __________________________________ Lori Kendall Associate Professor of Sociology Purchase College-SUNY lori.kendall(a)purchase.edu

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Fwd: Berkeley spyware conference--April 1
by Dan L Burk 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

On 15 Mar 2005, Pam Samuelson wrote: > The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law > Journal invite you to register for our 9th annual conference on Spyware: > The Latest Cyber-Regulatory Challenge to be held on April 1, 2005 (Friday) > at the Bancroft Hotel in Berkeley, CA across from Boalt Hall School of Law. > http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt/spyware > Registration can be done online at: > http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/spyware/registration.html > > C O N F E R E N C E D E S C R I P T I O N > Utah has already made spyware illegal (although a state court has struck > down this law as unconstitutional). Even though the Federal Trade > Commission has concluded that new regulation of spyware is unnecessary, the > U.S. Congress is moving forward with its own regulation which would preempt > state laws such as Utah's. Meanwhile, Internet users are bombarded with ads > trying to sell them technologies that purport to detect and eliminate > spyware which may (or may not) have been installed on their computers when > they signed up for a product or service on the Internet. > Is spyware the latest form of malware, along with viruses, worms, spam, and > file-sharing of illicit content? Or are technologies embedded in users' > computer systems that monitor certain functions and offer updates, > services, or ads for products users might want an engine of e-commerce that > should remain unregulated and indeed encouraged? > How does and how should the law define "spyware"? What kind of notice and > consent should be required before installation of such software is > permitted? What obligations (if any) do makers of spyware or users of > spyware have as to collection and transmission of personally identifiable > information? Are some forms of spyware surveillance unlawful, even > criminal? Does spyware make user computers more insecure? What intellectual > property rights (if any) are implicated by spyware that serves ads to users > of websites that have their own ads to offer? Should states or the federal > government regulate spyware, or is effective regulation impossible given > the global nature of the Internet and the ease with which off-shore servers > can provide havens? > We hope to see you in attendance. > > S C H E D U L E - A P R I L 1, 2 0 0 5 > 8:30 - 9:30 am > Tutorial on Spyware Technology > - Jeffrey Friedberg (Microsoft Corporation) > 9:30 - 9:45 am > Break > 9:45 - 10:00 am > Introduction > - Pam Samuelson (BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law) > 10:00 - 11:15 am > Privacy and Surveillance Issues > - Paul Schwartz (Brooklyn Law School) > - Patricia Bellia (University of Notre Dame Law School) > - Ari Schwartz (Center for Democracy & Technology ) > - Seth Lesser (Locks Law Firm) > - Reed Freeman (Claria Corporation) > 11:15 - 11:45 am > Break > 11:45 - 1:00 pm > Intellectual Property and Contracting Issues > - Tim Ehrlich (Latham & Watkins) > - Dan Burk (University of Minnesota Law School) > - Jane Winn (University of Washington School of Law) > - Alex MacGillivray (Google) > 1:00 - 2:15 pm > Lunch break > 2:15-2:45 pm > Nelson Memorial Keynote Address > sponsored by > MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP > - Introduction: Dean Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law) > - Speaker: Christine Varney (Hogan & Hartson LLP) > 2:45 - 4:45 pm > Regulatory Challenges > - Peter Menell (BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law) > - Susan Crawford (Cardozo School of Law) > - Michael Geist (University of Ottawa) > - Ira Rubinstein (Microsoft) > - Henry Chesbrough (Haas School of Business) > - Deirdre Mulligan (BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law) > - Eric Goldman (Marquette University Law School) > > Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011 bits: burkx006(a)umn.e

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Fwd: knowledge = power = no money!
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

a bit of humor Begin forwarded message: > From: Elayne Coakes <coakese(a)WESTMINSTER.AC.UK> > Date: March 23, 2005 12:34:28 PM EST > To: SOCIOTECH(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: knowledge = power = no money! > Reply-To: coakese(a)WESTMINSTER.AC.UK > > Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can > never earn > as much as business executives and sales people." > > This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on > the > following two postulates: > > Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power. > Postulate 2: Time is Money. > > As every engineer knows: > Power = Work / Time > > Since Knowledge = Power > And Time = Money > Then Knowledge = Work / Money > > Solving for Money, we get: > Money = Work / Knowledge. > > Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, > regardless of the > amount of work done. > > Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make. > > Elayne Coakes (Dr) > Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management > Westminster Business School > Rm MG01 > +44(0)207 911 5000 x3338 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named only > and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you > must not copy or show them to anyone, nor should you take any action > based on them, other than to notify the error by replying to the > sender. > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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