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network analysis from MBOX
by Joao Cunha 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Hi Does anyone know of any software that will create a network analysis (as in the analysis of ties among people) matrix or chart from an MBOX file or any other email file format? Thanks a lot -Joao PhD Candidate MIT / Sloan

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CFP: 2005 ASIST INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST
by Merlyna Lim 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Apologies for cross-postings. ******************************************* *2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST* on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries More information is available from the Paper Contest page at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is pleased to announce its sixth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. The theme of the paper is: "Bringing Research and Practice Together - the Developing World Perspective." The paper topic may address either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: ∑ Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues: issues related to the role of information in society, such as information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or separating diverse communities. ∑ Information organization, management, access, and retrieval. ∑ Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and social contexts of information seeking. ∑ Information technology, social equity and development: IT and governance, IT & and the new economy, including the future of work and implications of technological hardware and software developments; the role of ICTs in conflict management, etc. The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005. Publishing opportunities Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process. Information for authors Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. ASIST Copyright Policy ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at domole(a)worldbank.org . Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest, including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and winning papers, and successful stories from previous winners.

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Futurist Media History
by John Laprise 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

I was passed this link which presents a great futurist history peering at where the Internet is going http://www.broom.org/epic/ John Laprise Ph.D. Student Media, Technology, and Society School of Communication Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA

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From online to offline
by michela.drusian＠unipd.it 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Hi all! I am working on a paper focused on what happens when chatters meet offline, with a sociological perspective.. could anyone tell me where I could find some bibliography about this topic? Thanks! Michela ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: webmail.unipd.it

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classic dys/utopian statements
by Nancy Baym 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

A dual question: Has anyone got particular favorite utopain or dystopian statements/landmarks about the internet? (preferably with citation) I'm thinking of things like famous ads promising us liberation from race age etc, Negroponte's "Being Digital," as well as quotations. -or- Does anyone know of any papers or lists tracing the uptopian or dystopian highlights of rhetoric about the internet? Thanks, Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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Re: classic dys/utopian statements (Nancy Baym)
by Antonio Roversi 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Alle 18:48, giovedì 10 marzo 2005, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> ha scritto: > Does anyone know of any papers or lists tracing the uptopian or > dystopian highlights of rhetoric about the internet? I would suggest: 1) Patrice Flichy, L'imaginaire d'Internet, Paris, La Decouverte, 2001 2) Gordon Graham, The Internet. A Philosophical Enquire, Routledge 1999. Antonio -- () ASCII ribbon campaign -- don't use HTML email /\

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Form an impression! (and help with my research....)
by Alastair Weakley 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hi I am looking for academics with an interest in technology to take part in an online survey about impression formation (my research is into the sharing of implicit and tacit knowledge with people over the Internet). I would be very grateful if you would consider sparing a few minutes of your time to take part in the survey which is available here: http://www.weakley.org.uk/experiment1/index.php Many thanks for your help. Alastair Weakley ___________________________________________ Alastair Weakley Creativity & Cognition Studios Faculty of IT University of Technology, Sydney Australia Tel: +61(0)2 9514 4637 Mobile: +61 (0)424316744 alastair(a)weakley.org.uk http://www.weakley.org.uk AIM: alwkly

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New AoIR Website
by Nancy Baym 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

AoIR is excited to announce the launch of our new website. As a member of AoIR, you will be able to: - access papers from AoIR conferences - view and access the members only area, and members benefits - create forums and post announcements - build collaborative community resources - maintain a blog - post and view job and conference announcements - post events to the communal event calendar - and other interesting features. Our hope is that the new system will provide a platform for our members to become more involved in creating online spaces and resources that benefit internet researchers. The site is designed so that members can take the initiative and build resources on their own. We will be adding and modifying content in the site as it develops and invite you to join us in creating the kinds of content you want to see. The new system is based on open-source drupal software. For information about how this works, visit the drupal handbook at http://drupal.org/node/6261. *** If you are already a member you will need to create a new account *** To do this, go to the http://www.aoir.org/?q=user/register user registration page. Give us a few days to double check that you're really a member, and then we'll send your login information. We will try to keep turnaround on this brief. If you are not currently a member, you will need to join aoir before you can use the full features of this site. Membership in AoIR includes other benefits including sizeable discounts on journal subscriptions and book purchases and a discounted registration fee for AoIR conferences. The URL to click to become a paying member of AoIR is in the signature file of every email on air-l. I want to thank everyone who has done so much work over the last few months to get this together including, among others, Jeremy Hunsinger, Ulla Bunz, and Charlie Breindahl. Have fun, explore the site, think about resources you want to build, and if you have questions or need assistance, please contact suggestions(a)aoir.org -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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counting google hits
by Barry Wellman 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Q: From a librarian: "Dear Barry: I do not know much about this debate, but I have a question for you: Please tell me how do you find in google the hits? what is the procedure? i.e. if I would like to know how many time the word Caribbean appears in Google, how will I proceed? Thanks for your help! Nelly" A: 1. Go to www.google.com 2. type in Carribean 3. Look at the light blue web bar on top of the first list of hits. It will show you the approximate number of hits: Example: "Results 1 - 10 of about 38,100,000 for caribbean" 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 () ASCII ribbon campaign -- don't use HTML email /\ _____________________________________________________________________

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CFP - HICSS39 - Virtual Communities Minitrack (fwd)
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

FYI. /Caroline ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:21:43 -0500 From: Raya Fidel <fidelr(a)u.washington.edu> Reply-To: rhill(a)asis.org To: asis-l(a)asis.org, sigdl-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] FW: CFP - HICSS39 - Virtual Communities Minitrack [Forwared for Raya Fidel. Dick Hill] Online Communities in the Digital Economy CALL FOR PAPERS Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ Virtual Communities have been studied from a variety of different perspectives. Examples range from communities of interest to communities of practice, from gaming communities to communities of transaction. Community building and community management can be a key success factors in the digital economy. They can either supplement existing or even represent new business models in the digital economy, or other form of continuous interaction and social relationships. The communities we target may be constituted as communities' platforms, Internet shops, portal sites, reputation systems, educational, groupware systems, electronic auctions, billboards, peer-to-peer file sharing infrastructures, enterprises or organizations. Product-centred communities are relevant for online companies, as for example the reader community at Amazon.com or mutual support groups for software development. Other communities might enhance real communities or other forms of social networks, like support groups, fun and discussion groups, technical and service communities and more. Furthermore, virtual communities can be formed on different platforms: forums, newsgroups, listservs, chats, instant messenging and more. As the examples show, online communities differ in their orientation. Nevertheless, there are common features which all types of communities share: common interests, practices, languages and ontologies with common semantics as well as normative issues. Communities are a sociological phenomenon. They can foster a social atmosphere for interactions and transactions. We are interested in the common and different as well. We call for papers that address communities as a social phenomenon, the design of platforms and services, and community-related business models as critical success factors in the digital economy. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy (e.g., dynamics, relationships, information control, managing communities, flow of information in communities) - Community-related business models (e.g., productivity, trust, reputation systems) - Business Communities - Personalization and use of customer profiles - Case studies and topologies of Online Communities - M-Communities and hybrid communities - Design principles for community platforms (e.g., coordination, trust, normative values, design patterns and methods, implementations, architectures and components, personalization and avatars) - Formal or semi-formal models of communities and their platforms (e.g., conceptual frameworks, organizational models, cognitive models, multi-agent systems, formalizations) More information can be found at: http://www.e-business.fhbb.ch/hicss MINITRACK CHAIRS: Karine Barzilai-Nahon (Main Contact) Assistant Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840 (206) 685-6668 karineb(a)u.washington.edu, website: www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb Mark Ginsburg Asst. Professor MIS U of Arizona 1130 E Helen St. #430 Tucson, AZ 85711 mginsbur(a)eller.arizona.edu Blair Nonnecke Assistant Professor Dept. of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph Guelph, Canada nonnecke(a)cis.uoguelph.ca IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission New Date! instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. Deadline to receive conference registration refund. Late registration fee $675 applies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION . HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. . Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. . (optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. . Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. . HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. . Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk(a)nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl(a)u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar(a)hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king(a)jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis(a)indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen(a)aol.com; Dave Croasdell davec(a)unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l

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