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semi-annual request for teaching sites
by Nancy Baym 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

I am preparing my syllabus for an upper level undergraduate class titled Communication and the Internet and am seeking relatively current recommendations for online readings on each of the following topics: race. class and/or ethnicity (how are different peoples using the net? diverse attitudes toward/experiences of the net? presumed whiteness of the net? etc) hate online (I will show the HBO documentary hate.com and would like to follow up with any readings that help students understand the phenomenon. Something post 9/11 would be particularly nice). Thanks in advance for recommendations, if you email me offlist I will post a summary to the list. 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: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern)
by Andrew Herman 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Rich. Wow! This is extremely helpful. I will be in touch once the project takes a more defined shape. AH Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 13/01/2005 1:26:57 am >>> Her are a couple of things you might want to look at. First there are a couple of books that are article collections: Katz, J. E. and Aakhus, M. 2002. "Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fortunati, L., et al. 2003. "Mediating the human body: Technology, Communication and Fashion." London: Lawrence Erlbaum. There is also the book Machines that become us edited by Katz I have a book out: Ling, R. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Leslie Haddon has just come out with a more general book on ICTs in everyday life Haddon, L. 2004 Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life : A Concise Introduction and Research Guide There are some Finnish books on design. I don't have their titles right here but Ilpo Koskinen at the University of art and design, Helsinki is a good place to start there. Also Nalini Kotamraju at Berkeley has done a wonderful service by collecting much of the literature in the area into a Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research bibliography. You can see that at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html Let me know if this helps. I would be interested to hear about your research proposal. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 23:40 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern) Rich- By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature. Thanks. Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>> Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern)
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Her are a couple of things you might want to look at. First there are a couple of books that are article collections: Katz, J. E. and Aakhus, M. 2002. "Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fortunati, L., et al. 2003. "Mediating the human body: Technology, Communication and Fashion." London: Lawrence Erlbaum. There is also the book Machines that become us edited by Katz I have a book out: Ling, R. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Leslie Haddon has just come out with a more general book on ICTs in everyday life Haddon, L. 2004 Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life : A Concise Introduction and Research Guide There are some Finnish books on design. I don't have their titles right here but Ilpo Koskinen at the University of art and design, Helsinki is a good place to start there. Also Nalini Kotamraju at Berkeley has done a wonderful service by collecting much of the literature in the area into a Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research bibliography. You can see that at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html Let me know if this helps. I would be interested to hear about your research proposal. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 23:40 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern) Rich- By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature. Thanks. Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>> Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility
by Andrew Herman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Ooops. My apoligies for responding on the LISTSERV. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> aherman(a)wlu.ca 01/12/05 5:41 PM >>> Thanks, Alex. Have we met yet? Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca 01/12/05 4:44 PM >>> Andrew, By coincidence there's an article about RIM and Mike Laziridis in the January issue of Wired. Here's the URL to the online article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 I might be interested in working on something like this and will talk to you about it at WLU............Alex Kuskis ********************************************************** Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate, OISE/U of Toronto Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier U Associate Faculty, Royal Roads U alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca alex.kuskis(a)utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman(a)wlu.ca> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility > Dear Friends- > > I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the > Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a > multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development > of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in > Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), > advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and > ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a > comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and > his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES > series. > _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility
by Andrew Herman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Thanks, Alex. Have we met yet? Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca 01/12/05 4:44 PM >>> Andrew, By coincidence there's an article about RIM and Mike Laziridis in the January issue of Wired. Here's the URL to the online article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 I might be interested in working on something like this and will talk to you about it at WLU............Alex Kuskis ********************************************************** Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate, OISE/U of Toronto Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier U Associate Faculty, Royal Roads U alex.kuskis(a)netscape.ca alex.kuskis(a)utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman(a)wlu.ca> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility > Dear Friends- > > I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the > Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a > multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development > of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in > Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), > advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and > ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a > comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and > his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES > series. > _______________________________________________ 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: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility (Intern)
by Andrew Herman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Rich- By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature. Thanks. Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> richard-seyler.ling(a)telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>> Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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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translation appreciated
by Barry Wellman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

A review of Wellman & Haythornthwaite _The Internet in Everyday Life_ (Blackwell 2002) in _Sociology_ 38, 4, July 2004: 641-643 says that "The Global Villagers" article I coauthored needs more: "sublating micro-narratival accounts of a global phenomenon". Although I am always eager to learn, this suggestion is not in a language I speak. My spell checker was no help, even when I set it to "English (U.K.)". The OED (2nd ed.) is no help either, as the first meaning of "sublate" is obsolete and the second and third meanings are different from each other. "Narratival," probably an offshoot of "narrative," does not even make the OED. I've asked the author of the review for a translation but received no reply. Hence, I look elsewhere: Can anyone translate in whole or in part? 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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Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility
by Andrew Herman 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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Director, Dept. of Communication, University of Ottawa
by Daniel Pare 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Ottawa welcomes candidacies for the position of Director of the Department of Communication. The Department is expanding, and offers undergraduate and graduate programs and in both media and organizational studies. The successful candidate will be able to project and to achieve a vision of the role this discipline shall play within our Faculty and our University, both of which are embarking on new strategic paths. Candidates should hold a Ph.D., have a significant body of publications and a strong record of research funding, possess administrative and university experience, and be fluent in English and French. Hiring will be at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in a tenure-track position. The starting date is July 1, 2005. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Equity is a University Policy. Each applicant should submit a curriculum vitae, examples of recent publications and arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to be sent separately by February 25, 2005 to: Dr. George Lang, Dean of Arts, University of Ottawa, 60 University Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5. La Faculté des arts de l'Université d'Ottawa sollicite des candidatures pour le poste de directeur ou directrice du Département de communication. Le Département est en pleine expansion et offre des programmes de 1er et de 2e cycle dans les domaines des médias et de la communication organisationnelle. La personne choisie sera capable d'élaborer et mettre en œuvre une vision d'avenir pour cette discipline au sein de la Faculté et de l'Université, qui sont elles-mêmes actuellement en processus de planification stratégique. Les candidats doivent être titulaires d'un doctorat, posséder un fort dossier de publications, avoir obtenu des fonds de recherche, avoir une bonne expérience universitaire et administrative, et maîtriser le français et l'anglais. L'embauche se fera au rang d'agrégé ou de titulaire. Ce poste mène à la permanence. La date d'entrée en fonction est le 1er juillet 2005. Toutes les personnes qualifiées sont encouragées à poser leur candidature. Toutefois, cette offre s'adresse de préférence aux citoyens canadiens et aux résidents permanents. L'université a une politique d'équité en matière d'emploi. Les demandes, accompagnées d'un curriculum vitae et d'un échantillon de publications récentes, et trois lettres de recommandation confidentielles transmises directement par les répondants, devront parvenir au plus tard le 25 février 2005 à : M. George Lang, doyen de la Faculté des arts, Université d'Ottawa, 60, rue Université, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5. -- *************************************************************** Dr. Daniel J. Paré, Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Ottawa 554 King Edward Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext: 2052 Fax: (613) 562-5240 ***************************************************************

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RE: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility (Intern)
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony. I know that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the way that it is used. However, there is a growing literature on mobile communications and the social consequences of that. There is also a pretty good design literature in that area. A lot of this literature is based on qualitative analyses. There is also a pretty good number of quantitative analyses in this area. Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:40 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility Dear Friends- I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series. So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity: 1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more specifically. 2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant) to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel. Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest. Andrew Herman Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ 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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