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universal ethics?
by Charles Ess 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi all, Radhika wrote in response to Peter T. PT >> If there are universal ethics we can prove these on the Internet. > > RG> whose ethics will be universalised do you suppose? and what kinds of > intolerances might that validate/legitimize? > Exactly the right questions - thank you, Radhika! And I would gently reply: I think we can propose an ethics that begins in part with the universal value implicit in the suggestion here that "universal" claims have all too often in the past served as excuses for colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression and violence - namely, that tolerance for Others (those whose identities, views, and practices may differ radically from our own) and affiliated presumptions of human equality should be endorsed exactly as the bases for criticizing claims to universality that instead led to colonialism, etc. I would add: this tolerance is not unlimited. Rather, I think it's quite possible to endorse tolerance as a universal value - but not thereby be committed to tolerating, say, fascist regimes and violent repression of women and minorities. On the contrary, by proposing that rights to integrity, autonomy, cultural identity, and so forth are, at the very least, strong candidates for universal rights (and their attendant obligations) - such universal rights and values provide precisely the grounds for criticizing earlier "universal" claims affiliated with colonialism, etc., as well as for criticizing contemporary expressions of violence and intolerance of "the Other". My (admittedly characteristic mid-Western [North American]) optimism on this point is fueled in part precisely by the success of the AoIR ethical guidelines. Admittedly, while our ethics working committee included members from Malaysia and Thailand, the background for the guidelines were largely derived from "Western" countries such as the U.S., the E.U., Scandinavia, and the U.K. Nonetheless, the guidelines are reported to us as being used in apparently effective ways in an increasing range of cultural venues. Moreover, my more recent work (with the help, I must hasten to add, of many, many colleagues in these domains) on Information Ethics and Internet Research Ethics in countries such as China, Japan, Thailand, and Korea also offer grounds for optimism. For example, two recent examples of Internet research in Japan demonstrate more or less perfect consonance with the AoIR guidelines recommendations regarding informed consent, protection of confidentiality, anonymity, and personal data, etc. Indeed, emerging conceptions of privacy and data privacy protection law in these countries - while clearly retaining distinctive cultural shape in their conception and application - are nonetheless recognizable cousins of "Western" conceptions and laws. This suggests that even across the considerable cultural differences, say, between the U.S. and Germany, on the one hand, and China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, and Hong Kong, on the other - there may be agreement on basic (universal?) values such as privacy, while at the same time recognizing the validity of clearly different implementations and understandings of what data privacy protection means in practice in each country, as shaped by very different cultural backgrounds, histories, and traditions. This is not to say that all cultural differences and resulting conflicts can be deftly side-stepped through such pluralism (I have examples of these as well). But I do think that universal values may be discerned - in part, through an on-going dialogue that works to critically assess any such putative values, precisely with a critical eye towards how any such values might in fact work in oppressive rather than liberating ways. Indeed, I think we make more progress towards some sort of shared, humane value system_s_ and ethics through such dialogues, rather than giving up the effort, however much previous failures and disasters might tempt us to do so. I _dont_ take Radhikas point to encourage such temptation but wanted to offer these comments. Hope this helps in some way. All the best in the meantime, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA voice: (1) 417-873-7230 fax: (1) 417-873-7435 homepage: www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html "The world can provide for everyone's needs - but not for everyone's greed." - Gandhi

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jesse jackson -- digital divide
by Barry Wellman 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

He sure didn't invent the term, digital divide, but Jesse Jackson did much to popularize it in the mid-late 1990s. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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FW: Announcing EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative
by Richard Forno 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Lauren is one of the few voices of reason on issues related to DRM and content control.....and privacy, and injecting sanity into the technology debate, etc, etc, etc. Highly recommend checking this site out. -rick Infowarrior.org ------- Original message ------- From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> Sent: 25/3/'05, 12:02 I'm pleased to announce "EEPI" ( http://www.eepi.org ), a new initiative aimed at fostering cooperation in the areas of electronic entertainment and its many associated issues, problems, and impacts. I've teamed with 30+ year recording industry veteran Thane Tierney in this effort to find cooperative solutions to technical, legal, policy, and other issues relating to the vast and growing range of electronic technologies that are crucial to the entertainment industry, but that also impact other industries, interest groups, individuals, and society in major ways. There are many interested parties, including record labels, film studios, the RIAA, the MPAA, artists, consumers, intellectual freedom advocates, broadcasters, manufacturers, legislators, regulators, and a multitude of others. The issues cover an enormous gamut from DVDs, CDs, and piracy issues to multimedia cell phones, from digital video recorders to Internet file sharing/P2P, from digital TV and the "broadcast flag" to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and "fair use" controversies. By working together, rather than fighting each other, perhaps we can all find some broadly acceptable paths that will be of benefit to everyone. For more information, please see the EEPI Web site at: http://www.eepi.org A moderated public discussion list and an EEPI announcement list are now available at the site. Public participation is cordially invited. Thank you very much. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren(a)pfir.org or lauren(a)vortex.com or lauren(a)eepi.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Re: Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?
by M. Deanya Lattimore 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi Laurent! > Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital > Divide"? Access Denied at http://www1.soc.american.edu/students/ij/co_3/digitaldivide/history.htm says that the origins of the term remain "shrouded in mystery" and suggests via Benjamin Companie's new book that Lloyd Morrisset might have created it, but again, there is dispute. As you point out, they report that Irving says that "I am certain I stole the term, but I am not certain who I stole it from." :-) Deanya http://www.deanya.com/ On Saturday, March 26, 2005, at 03:09 PM, air-l-aoir.org-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 03:21:54 +0100 > From: Laurent Straskraba <laurent(a)straskraba.net> > Subject: [Air-l] Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"? > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20050326032047.02025168(a)mail.straskraba.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in > NTIA > documents of 1994. Here is a reference: > http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html > > Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph): > http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm > > BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just > used it > a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for > popularizing it > with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he has no idea > where it > came from. > > Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital > Divide"? > > --- > 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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Jonathan Zittrain appointed to new professorship at the Oxford Internet Institute
by William Dutton 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

On behalf of my colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute, I am pleased to announce the election of Jonathan Zittrain to Oxford University's new Professorship of Internet Governance and Regulation. For more information, see: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/OIIPress_Zittrain_20050316.pdf Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles' Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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RE: Air-l-aoir.org Digest, Vol 8, Issue 35
by Axel Bruns 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

G'day ! Lee Jeng Hoon wrote: > I am looking for some academic literature that analyzes blogging or > bloggers. As many claim, bloggers show significant social impacts. > Especially, recent journalistic functions generate much concerns and > interests. Apologies in advance for the shameless self-promotion, but my forthcoming book Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production covers the field of news-related blogging in some detail. It's currently in proofreading, but should be out on Peter Lang later this year (in time for the AoIR conference in Chicago, I would hope :-). There's some preview information about the book on my Website at http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/28. Also, my colleague Joanne Jacobs and I have just begun work on a book project which will cover a broad range of current key uses for blogs. That one should be out by 2006. Again, some preview information is up at http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/158. -- Dr Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia Creative Industries Faculty Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548 Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?
by Laurent Straskraba 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hi, I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in NTIA documents of 1994. Here is a reference: http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph): http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just used it a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for popularizing it with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he has no idea where it came from. Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital Divide"? --- 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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digidivide confusion > search engines
by Barry Wellman 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

The search for the originator of the term "digital divide" suggests two things for me. 1. [Humorous]: some people think a term is invented the first time they ever heard of it. 2. [Serious]: we'd get a lot better evidence on this if we could sort search engine results in chronological order. Page rank ain't the only game in town. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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digital divide def
by Ed Lamoureux 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

try this <http://www1.soc.american.edu/students/ij/co_3/digitaldivide/ history.htm> The catchy phrase that describes the divide between the tech-savvy and those without digital skills has engendered another divide—disagreement among the experts as to who coined the term. Some claim it was a digital divide guru who worked formerly at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Others say the credit should go to a pair of former Los Angeles Times reporters. "No one really knows," says Andy Carvin, one of the coordinators of the Digital Divide Network at the Washington, D.C.-based Benton Foundation . "It's discussed several times a year on my digital divide listserv and every time someone is credited with coining it, that person posts a message saying, 'Nope, wasn't me.'" Many believe Larry Irving, the former assistant secretary for Communications and Information over at Commerce, may have coined the term. "I am certain I stole the term, but I am not certain who I stole it from," states Irving on Carvin's listserv. Jonathan Webber of the Industry Standard makes a compelling case that somewhere back around 1995 he and Amy Harmon, when both were with the LA Times, invented the term to describe the social division between those who were very involved in technology and those who were not. According to the Benton Foundation, the term was first used in discussions of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Advisory Council by former President William Jefferson Clinton circa 1993. A recently released book by Benjamin M. Companie entitled, "The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth," credits Lloyd Morrisset, former president of the Markle Foundation, with creating the term. Linguist Frank Dance maintains Morrisset also is unsure if he deserves the credit. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell/ http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/

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Re: Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?
by baterfly＠email.com 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hi, It might have been Lloyd Morrisett, the former president of the Markle Foundation, according to: http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/html/manuscripts/race/science.ht… or James Wolfensohn, president of the Word Bank (ironic, rather), in a communication at UNCTAD X, according to: http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/scholar/johnson2000/index.html Silvia Bethencourt Community Information Coordinator TRI Community Exchange Inc http://www.tricomm.org.au/communitynet Undergraduate Student Curtin University of Technology BA of Internet Studies http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/index.cfm > Hi, > > I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in NTIA > documents of 1994. Here is a reference: > http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html > > Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph): > http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm > > BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just used it > a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for popularizing it > with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he has no idea where it > came from. > > Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital Divide"? > > > >--- >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 >--- -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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