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RE: ew need a new word?
by hassan＠wwhmail.com 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi Barry, What about "Net Media"? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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not the new word
by Ed Lamoureux 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

I don't have one for "it." but I would like to note something that many of you know . . . just as a reminder. Many of my (former and present) colleagues in Departments of Communication have taken to referring to their Radio/Video/Television areas as "electronic media." Just as their work often overlaps with computationally based digitally enhanced production (new media); the name "electronic media" also overlaps. Yet, I suspect that inside 5 years, Communication Department-based academics in America will, for the most part, sub the term electronic media for "radio/television" fairly broadly. So that one's probably not a good one for computer stuff. 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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Fwd: ICT vacancies (project coordinator/webdesign/research) in India
by Laurent Straskraba 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

FYI Someone interested to work with ITforChange in India? Best, Laurent >IT for Change (www.ITforChange.net) is an NGO that works on issues >connected with information and communications technologies covering >research, policy advocacy and project implementation. > >1. Project Coordinator for a Grassroots ICT Project > >Location - Mysore > >We are looking for a project coordinator for an ambitious field based >intervention at Mysore. The candidate must have program management skills >with 10 to 15 years work experience, in the field of social development >and have excellent oral and written skills in Kannada. Key responsibility >would be to coordinate the design and implementation of the project. Prior >experience in working with rural women and comfort with basic use of >information technologies will be an advantage. Good people skills and >ability to scope out work within ambiguous contexts would be required. >Women candidates are preferred. > >2. Web Designer > >Location Bangalore > > > >The work involves development and maintenance of website for ITfC and ITfC >clients. > >Skills in html, CSS, PHP, SQL is required > > > >Oral and written skills in English and basic knowledge of Kannada, good >people skills and dynamism to excel in learning situations would be required. > > > >Part time possibilities can also be explored. > > > >3. Research Coordinator > >Location - Bangalore > >We are looking for bright and committed people to strengthen our research >team. We have vacancies for 2 positions senior research coordinator and >research coordinator. > > > >The work would involve primary and secondary research with skills in >qualitative and quantitative methods. > > > >The candidate should have an interest in Information Society issues including > >· Telecom and media policies > >· e-Governance > >· Social impact of technology > >· Intellectual Property Rights > > > >The candidate should be a PhD / M Phil or a post-graduate with at least >five years relevant experience. Appropriate experience in and a strong >perspective on people-centered development is desirable. The senior >research coordinator role envisages a fair amount of leadership with >capacities to independently take on research assignments.Excellent oral >and written skills in English, good people and team skills and dynamism to >excel in learning situations would be required. > >The organization provides excellent learning opportunities, a democratic >work space, and avenues for idea leadership. Salary shall be commensurate >with experience and background, and will not be a constraint in deserving >cases. Please send in your CV before the 31st March 2005 to >ITfC(a)ITforChange.net --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1) e-mail: laurent(a)straskraba.net web: http://www.straskraba.net ---

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SF Bay Area Law & Tech 2005
by Dan L Burk 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Of possible interest -- put on by the students at various SF Bay Area law schools. http://slata.stanford.edu/Conference05/ 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.edu

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New program?
by Ellis Godard 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

I'm told that Stanford is considering creating a department of online community studies? -eg

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Re: Cfp: Cultures of eBay conference, Registration is now open
by Ellis, Rebecca M 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Registration is now open. Please send expressions of interest by 21st March 2005 and abstracts by 31st March 2005. Apologies for cross-posting. Please disseminate widely. This is a call for papers, posters, and expressions of interest in attending a two-day conference at the University of Essex, UK: *************************************************************************** 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 *************************************************************************** Conference background This is the first independent UK conference which aims to look at the cultural, social and economic aspects of eBay. As such, this e-mail asks for early expressions of interest in attending, as well as being a call for papers and posters, in order to gauge the demand for this one-off conference. 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. Important dates Expressions of interest in attending (for non-presenters only), no later than: 21st March 2005 Abstracts and posters no later than: 31st March 2005 Acceptance notification: 22nd April 2005 PowerPoint presentations no later than: 29th July 2005 Formal registration for all no later than: 16th May 2005 Conference dates: 24th and 25th August, 2005. 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 themes The conference themes have been written in order to accommodate the interests of both academics and practitioner groups. See the conference website (Conference themes and scope section) for a full and detailed outline of potential research questions that could be addressed under each theme. Meta themes: eBay and identity: the presentation of self/ others and knowledge performance eBay and social capital eBay, consumption and consumer lifestyles Collecting in an e-society eBay and employment effects eBay, competition and the 'perfect market' eBay and the 'real' economy eBay and website design eBay and the consumer Representations of eBay Guidance for authors of papers It is not intended for authors to submit full papers for the conference. Presenters will be chosen by a panel on the basis of their submitted abstracts. Abstracts should be no more than 400 words. If you are interested in participating, please email your abstract to the conference administrator by 31st March, 2005. Please e-mail Mr Martin Hicks (hicksm and add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address) using the title 'eBay Conference.' The submission must include: . A title and abstract (400 words) outlining the work to be presented . Name(s) & contact details for each of the author(s) . Whether work is completed or on-going . Whether partly or wholly a student project . If work is subject to external constraints, (e.g. commercial sensitivity) Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by 22nd April 2005. PowerPoint presentations will be required by 29th July 2005. Guidance for poster submission Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are invited. If you would like to present a poster, please send details to Mr Martin Hicks (hicksm and add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address) using the title 'eBay Conference poster.' The deadline for poster submission is 31st March, 2005. The submission must include: . A title and brief abstract (250 words) describing the contents of the poster . Name(s) & address(es) of author(s) . Name of presenter of the poster, address, email, telephone and fax number (if available) . Whether work is completed or on-going . Whether partly or wholly a student project . If work is subject to external constraints, (e.g. commercial sensitivity) . A brief note indicating how the space afforded for display of the poster will be used, including any innovative suggestions for display or observer involvement. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by 22nd April 2005. There is no predefined layout and content format for poster presentations. A standard A1 poster board (approx 23 x 33 inches or 61 x 45.7cm) will be provided to display your work. For additional information on poster presentations, please refer to the conference website. More information For more information on any aspects of the conference, please see the conference website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/culturesofebay.html Additionally, please e-mail Mr Martin Hicks (hicksm and add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address) using the title 'eBay Conference' for early expressions of interest, or any queries you may have. To go to this e- mail address automatically, please go to the conference website. ____________________________________________ Rebecca Ellis Chimera http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/index.html Institute for Socio-Technical Research & Innovation University of Essex ________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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://aoir.org/airjoin.html

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Re: BlogTalk books availability
by Thomas N.Burg 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi, Please go here http://wiki.randgaenge.net/BlogTalks/TableOfContents2 and try to contact the email-addresses. It's almost impossible to convince amazon.com. Except if lots of people (flash-mob) ask for the book. Thomas ----------------------------------------- Thomas N. Burg Head of the Center for New Media Danube University Krems http://randgaenge.net http://blogtalk.net http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/znm AIM:thomasnburg Jabber:thob@jabber.ccc.de PGP http://randgaenge.net/gems/Files/pgppublickey.txt Am 16.03.2005 um 22:14 schrieb air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org: > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:14:06 -0500 > From: Lois Ann Scheidt <lscheidt(a)indiana.edu> > Subject: [Air-l] BlogTalk books availability > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <1111007646.4238a19e6a3d9(a)webmail.iu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Are there American retailers for the BlogTalk books? I've been > looking but I > only seem to find European vendors. I wanted to try to find a > domestic source > if possible to save on shipping and to get them into my hands as > quickly as > possible. If domestic is not possible does anyone have a > recommendation for a > site that a non-German speaker can navigate? > > Thanks in advance > > Lois Ann Scheidt >

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BlogTalk books availability
by Lois Ann Scheidt 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Are there American retailers for the BlogTalk books? I've been looking but I only seem to find European vendors. I wanted to try to find a domestic source if possible to save on shipping and to get them into my hands as quickly as possible. If domestic is not possible does anyone have a recommendation for a site that a non-German speaker can navigate? Thanks in advance Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (2005-2006) - School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com

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2nd. webconference on Electronic document TOMORROW
by Niels Windfeld Lund 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

************ SUBJECT : RTP DOC Live webcast [Electronic document : Author, Convergence], ************ RTP-DOC research network (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/rtpenglish/index.html) is pleased to announce its second Webcast conference on the thematics of electronic document. The conference will start on Thursday, March 17, 2005, from 10:00 AM (New York) to 1:00 PM. Live Webcast link can be accessed on http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/webconf/index.php You may use realplayer (http://www.real.com/realplayer.html) The conference is bilingual (French/English). French, American and Norwegian researchers will present their work as followed : Webconference on "Auteur" and convergence, March 17 Lyon, Pennsylvania and Tromso. Program : 16h30 - Quelques mots de bienvenue... 16h40 - Présentation des axes de recherche de l'atelier-auteur par Evelyne Broudoux et Estrella Rojas 17h05 - Introduction par Jean-Hugues Réty de Nick Montfort, chercheur au Department of Computer and Information Science Université de Pennsylvanie, E.-U. Conférence de Nick Montfort : "authorship and electronic documents from the standpoint of electronic literature and blogging" 17h30 - Questions-Réponses avec Nick Montfort et débat avec la salle (en présence de Laura Borràs et à distance avec Niels Windfeld Lund) 18.00 - Presentation by Niels Windfeld Lund, Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, "Convergence - only one side (and less interesting) side of the coin than divergence ?" On convergence and divergence and their different impact on the documentation and documents 18.30 - discussion in the studio in Tromso and with colleagues in Lyon and US, Pennsylvania and California. It all ends 19.00, Norwegian time, 1pm New York, 10 am California time. welcome to the second webconference on electronic document To know more about RTP DOC Workshops, follow http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/rtpenglish/workshopsen.html. To know more about The Document Academy and DOCAM http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ *** RTP DOC also supports collective writing under the signature of Roger .T. Pédauque. Document: Form, Sign and Medium, As Reformulated for Electronic Documents. Roger T. Pédauque. Article. 12 septembre 2003. Working paper. http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00000594.html To know more about Roger's work, follow : http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/rtpenglish/pedauque_en.html. Best regards, Roger T. Pédauque -- Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Dokumentasjonsvitenskap - Documentation Studies Institute of Culture and Literature HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/index.html http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/dokvitnwl/dokkenind…

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Lecture on Internet research ethics, cross-cultural comparisons on privacy - online
by Charles Ess 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Dear AoIR-ists, I was honored to speak in early March at the 2005 national conference of Canada's National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR)/Conseil national d'éthique en recherche chez l'humain (CNERH), on the topic of "International Restrictions Affecting Internet Research: Conflicts, Risks, Resolutions?" The obligatory (and helpful, I hope) PowerPoint is available: www.drury.edu/ess/NCEHR_CNERH/ESS.htm The first part is a bit of an overview of Internet research ethics, following the AoIR guidelines, with some more recent literature and cases referenced. The second part examines notions of privacy and data privacy protection laws cross-culturally, starting with (now familiar) U.S. / Canada / E.U. / Scandinavian comparison, but then extending into an "East-West" (still useful shorthand, despite the colonialist dimensions?) comparison that includes attention to Japan, Thailand, South Korea, and China - initially with a view towards Buddhist and Confucian influences on notions of privacy and its relative importance (and/or lack thereof). Roughly, it is clear that Western attitudes towards privacy are largely affiliated with modernity, industrialization, and conceptions of the individual vis-à-vis democratic polity. National interests in many Asian countries in developing e-commerce, however, are forcing the development of data privacy protection, even if absent Western-style justifications grounded on individualism/democracy - though perhaps notions of the the latter, as transformed appropriately within specific cultural contexts/traditions/histories, may be discerned as emerging as well. In any event, I argue that a pluralism between Western and Eastern nations regarding notions of privacy and implementation of data privacy protections can be discerned - one that shows resonance, if not close agreement, on basic notions and values, alongside the multiple and irreducible differences that mark diverse national/cultural traditions/values/histories. As I happily acknowledge at the beginning of the lecture, this work represents a collaborative dialogue among many, many colleagues in Japan, China, Thailand, and Korea - especially as fostered by the invaluable work of my colleagues at Trier University, Karl-Heinz Pohl (Chinese Studies) and Hans-Jürgen Bucher (Media Studies), and made possible by a Fulbright-sponsored stay last fall at Trier. A more complete synopsis of the lecture will be published on the NCEHR/CNERH website (<http://ncehr-cnerh.org/>). If anyone would like to see it more immediately, please contact me offlist and I'll happily send it along. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions welcome! 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/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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