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air-grad and Internet Research 6.0
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

air-grad is the air list dealing for graduate students. In the past, graduate students have taken the opportunity to organize and do some collaborative work, such as revising and critiquing proposals, for the annual conference. I think this is a great use of the list, though there are others. so if anyone wants to do that, feel free, I'm on there as are lots of other interesting people and usually it is less traffic than air-l. in anycase, if you are signed up, great, if you aren't http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-grad-aoir.org is where to do it. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Fwd: Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1, 0 fte): ''The Geography and Evolution of the European Internet infrastructure''
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I sent it to the air-grad list too Begin forwarded message: > From: Ragna Zeiss <R.Zeiss(a)fsw.vu.nl> > Date: January 20, 2005 9:01:04 AM EST > To: eurograd(a)lists.utwente.nl, STSGRAD-L(a)cornell.edu > Subject: Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1,0 fte): ''The Geography and > Evolution of the European Internet infrastructure'' > Reply-To: R.Zeiss(a)fsw.vu.nl > > > > Vacancy for PhD-researcher (1,0 fte) > > ''The Geography and Evolution of the European Internet > Infrastructure'' > > Job description > The project aims to understand why certain Internet nodes have grown > out to > major European hubs of high-end Internet and other nodes have not. We > expect, apart from the traditional determinants of geographical > location > and population density, that two other factors affect the growth of > bandwidth of a node. First, following Barabasi’s evolving network > model, > the self-reinforcing mechanism of preferential attachment future > connectivity is positively related to current connectivity is > important. > The time of entry of a location in the Internet will thus affect its > current bandwidth. Second, the more a host region is specialised in > specific internet-intensive activities (both in academia and > industry), the > faster its bandwidth grows. The project aims to model these > relationships > using graph theory, and to estimate the resulting model statistically > using > data on bandwidth, price (dependent variables), location, population > density, year of entry, and specialisation in internet-intensive > activities > (independent variables) for multiple European countries for the past > twenty > years. The effect of institutions and policies is also investigated by > means of case studies on selected Internet nodes in The Netherlands. > The project is financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific > Research (NWO-NVN). The candidate will become a member of the Urban > and > Regional research centre Utrecht (URU) and will follow Ph.D. courses > provided by NETHUR, ETIC and SIME. The project is a collaborative > effort > with dr. A. Scharnhorst (KNAW-NIWI) and prof. R. Cowan (MERIT, > Maastricht > University). > > Qualifications > Candidates with a Master’s degree of equivalent (drs.) in geography, > transportation studies, economics, sociology, operations research or > related discipline, preferably with experience with quantitative > research. > > Terms of employment > A full-time PhD-position for four years duration. Gross monthly salary > increases from € 1.813 in Year 1 to € 2.394 in Year 4. We also offer a > pension scheme, a health insurance allowance and flexible employment > conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Employment > Agreement of > the Dutch Universities and salaries are supplemented with a holiday > bonus > of 8% per year and a year-end bonus of 2% per year. > > Further details > For more information, including the complete research proposal, please > contact dr. K. Frenken at k.frenken(a)geog.uu.nl or (0031) (0)30 253 > 2466. > > How to apply > Applications, including curriculum vitae, a list of referees (with > e-mail > contact info) and a description of experience relevant to the research > project, should be sent before 11th February 2005 to: > Utrecht University, Personnel Department, Faculty of Geosciences, > Dept. of > Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, PO Box 80115, 3508 TC > Utrecht, The Netherlands, or e-mailed to peno(a)geog.uu.nl. Please > mention > where you originally saw our advertisement and quote vacancy number > 72025 > in all communications. > > > > Koen Frenken > > Home-page: http://econ.geog.uu.nl/frenken/frenken.html > Section of Economic Geography: http://econ.geog.uu.nl > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Fwd: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology and Industry
by jeremy hunsinger 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Josh Greenberg <jgreenb2(a)gmu.edu> > Date: January 18, 2005 5:34:37 PM EST > To: stsgrad-l(a)cornell.edu > Subject: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of > Science, Technology and Industry > Reply-To: jgreenb2(a)gmu.edu > > Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, > Technology and Industry > June 6-10, 2005 > > The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University > invites scholars whose work speaks to the history of science, > technology and industry to submit applications for a workshop on the > theory and practice of digital history, to be held June 6-10, 2005. > Specific topics to be covered include genres of online history, > designing a website, creating a site infrastructure, digitizing > documents, identifying and building audiences for online history, and > issues of copyright and preservation. Participants will leave with a > deeper understanding of both the technical and methodological issues > raised by the practice of digital history, as well as the ways that > digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, writing > and presentation of history. > > Co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and the National > History Center, the workshop will be held at George Mason University’s > Arlington campus, conveniently located in metropolitan Washington, DC. > With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, there will be no > registration fee, and a limited number of scholarships are available > to defray the costs of travel and lodging for graduate students and > young scholars. > > As spaces and funding are limited, please submit an application form > by March 1, 2005 (available at > http://echo.gmu.edu/resources/workshops.php) > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Law and Technology: Journal call for circulation
by O''Riordan, Kate 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I hope this is of interest for some memebers......Kate (apologies for cross posting) --------------------------------------------------------- SCRIPT-ed: A Journal of Law and Technology ISSN 1744-2567 SCRIPT-ed is an online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual forum for articles,reports, commentaries, analysis, case and legislation critiques, and book reviews pertaining to law and technologies in the broadest sense. All articles are peer-reviewed by two referees. The Editorial Board of SCRIPT-ed invites high quality contributions for future issues of the journal in the general field of law and technology studies. Further details about the journal and information for authors can be found at http://www.script-ed.org Deadlines for the next issues: March 2005 issue: January 17, 2005 - Articles February 1, 2005 ? Analysis Section and Book Review June 2005 issue: April 17, 2005 ? Articles May 1, 2005 ? Analysis Section and Book Review Recent and forthcoming issues include contributions from: Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization Judge Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal, Bloemfontein, South Africa John Barton, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford University Keith Maskus, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado Raymond Wacks, Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong. Christopher May, Reader in International Political Economy, University of the West of England J K Mason, Professor (Emeritus) of Forensic Medicine, Honorary Fellow, Edinburgh School of Law

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Job opportunity: IETF Director (IAD)
by Monica Murero 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

"The community that makes up the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has as part of a long-term administrative restructuring, decided to create an Administrative Support Activity, the Internet Administrative Support Activity (IASA). The IASA will formally be structured as a function of the Internet Society (ISOC). To run this activity, the IASA Transition Team is now seeking a highly capable individual to serve as IETF Administrative Director (IAD). The IAD will lead the work of supporting the organization that defines and develops the future Internet and associated technologies". A position description is on the ISOC website at: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/career/. You can apply at: https://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/career/jobapplication.php or by sending an email to iad2005(a)isoc.org. Monica ============================================ Prof. Monica Murero, PhD Director, E-Life International Institute Professor in Communication and Media Integration University of Florence - MICC, Center of Excellence for Media Integration and Communication Viale Morgagni 65 - 50100 - Firenze (Italy) Tel. +390 55423 7401 Fax +390 55423 7400 Website http://www.micc.unifi.it/organization.htm E-mail: monica.murero(a)unifi.it International Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) AoIR Executive Board - Appointed Seat http://aoir.org/mm.html http://www.captaindoc.com/interviews/interviews12.html ===========================================

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RE: [Air-l] Missing link to the IR 6.0 site
by Ellis Godard 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Charlie B wrote: > This association > is run entirely by volunteers. You are entirely welcome to > criticize how it's being done, but do consider contributing yourself. Input on this list is itself a contribution, IMO, but how 'bout a battery of suggestions for more direct ways to help? > Now that I have already reared my ugly head: A newcomer to > this list has asked me to politely request you to edit out > the redundant parts when you reply to a posting. Please try > to remember this - it really means a lot to the usability of the list. Input off this list is itself a contribution, IMO, but how 'bout a battery of suggestions for more direct ways to help? ;) -eg

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small "i" restored
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Readers with even a short memory will recall that a brief while ago, I asked how to get MS Word 2002 to accept my small-i "internet" as well as my big-I "Internet. (Am I the only one who thinks of Gulliver's Travels' Big Enders vs Little Enders when this discussion happens?) I want to report back that Andy Williamson's tip worked. I went to Tools, SPelling and Grammar, Options, Custom Dictionaries, and then Modify. (I only had 1 dictionary called "Custom"). I added "internet" in. I spell and grammar checked a document with both Internet and internet, and neither was flagged. Thankfully, I didn't have to use Jeremy Hunsinger's drastic notion of turning off my main dictionary. That sounds like a cure worse than the disease. 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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small i and MSW
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka Word XP. Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first letter of all major words. 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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Teen and College Bloggers
by erickaakcire.1532473＠bloglines.com 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hello, I am looking for literature on young people and blogging or creating home pages. My project will be interview based, but any type of related articles would be helpful. I will be considering both 13-17 year olds and those 18+ and enrollend in college in separate (for IRB purposes) but related studies. Thanks, Ericka Menchen

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Fwd: research on technology and the multicultural dialogue
by jeremy hunsinger 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

>> >> >> >> Hi everyone >> >> Next week there will be a multicultural dialogue using video >> conference and "interwise" between 3 colleges in Israel, Jewish >> religious, Jewish secular and Arab Moslem. The topics being discussed >> are academic in the field of multiculturalism in Israel between the >> Arab and Jewish populations. In the end we wanted to show a few slides > >> summarizing recent research on how technology can contribute to the >> multicultural dialogue. Can anyone out there please help with research > >> in this area. >> >> Thank you very much >> >> Elaine Hoter >> >> >> >> >> >> Dr Elaine Hoter >> >> Head of IT >> >> Talpiot 'Teachers College >> >> Tel Aviv >> >> >> > jeremy hunsinger > jhuns(a)vt.edu > www.cddc.vt.edu > jeremy.tmttlt.com > www.tmttlt.com > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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