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seeking ethnographers of information and communication technologies
by Jenna Burrell 04 May '04

04 May '04

Dear colleagues, We are constructing a web-based resource for ethnographic approaches to studying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The website will be based at the London School of Economics, Department of Sociology, and aims to network the growing ranks of ICT ethnographers, increasing communication and awareness of our work. The website will include: A searchable database of researchers and research projects A searchable bibliography Facilities for announcements Links to web resources In order to develop this network, we are using broad and inclusive definitions of both ethnography ('classic' ethnographies; in-depth, multi-method qualitative approaches; 'online' as well as 'offline' studies with some element of participant observation) and ICTs (internet, mobile communications, computing, radio&TV). And of course all disciplines and multi-disciplinary researchers are welcome. We are trying to identify all researchers and research projects in this domain for inclusion in our online database. If you consider yourself to be an ICT ethnographer according to the specifications described above, please fill out the form below with a little information about your current research activities and e-mail it to J.R.Burrell(a)lse.ac.uk . Let us know if you have any suggestions for other researchers (including postgraduates) who could be included in the database: building this network depends on networking with you! We will not include anyone without first contacting them directly and getting their permission. Your Name: Institution: Position: Project Names: URL: Keywords: Online or Print Publications: Short Description of Research Interests and Projects: Other researchers we should contact (including email address and institution, if possible): If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact Don Slater (d.slater(a)lse.ac.uk) or Jenna Burrell (j.r.burrell(a)lse.ac.uk) Thanks for your help. Don Slater Jenna Burrell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Don Slater Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE Tel: +44 (020) 7849 4653 Fax: +44 (020) 7955 7405 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jenna Burrell J.R.Burrell(a)lse.ac.uk MPhil/Phd Student Department of Sociology, London School of Economics ----------------------------------------------------------------

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re: [Air-l] conference request
by Hamilton, Stuart 04 May '04

04 May '04

Further to list talk about bogus conferences, I was involved in a little espionage work trying to track down some 'conference' organisers in 2002. A delegate to a pre-WSIS conference I attended, a nice guy from Nepal, told me a story about how his NGO had been approached to attend a conference in Brighton. After visiting the conference website and communicating with the organisers, his NGO stumped up the $400 dollars in registration fees and waited to receive more information. You can guess what happened next. I too visited the website (I worked for Brighton libraries for 4 years) and it was a pretty good job - if you didn't know the town (www.ngosummit2002.4t.com - it's still there, along with a picture of London on the front page!). Perhaps the full story should be related to anyone interested off list, but suffice to say it seemed to be quite an elaborate scam. If anyone is interested I'd be happy to relate it. It seems that there must be a market for this sort of thing out there, in the same way as the 419 situation... Stuart Stuart Hamilton IFLA/FAIFE PhD Student Royal School of Library and Information Science Birketinget 6 Copenhagen Denmark -----Original Message----- From: air-l-request(a)aoir.org To: air-l(a)aoir.org Sent: 5/4/04 6:01 PM Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1049 - 5 msgs Send Air-l mailing list submissions to air-l(a)aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-admin(a)aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. conference request (Wasserman Herman <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za>) 2. Re: re: IPSI conference (Jillana Enteen) 3. Re: re: IPSI conference (robert m. tynes) 4. Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg (Caroline Haythornthwaite) 5. Final Programme and Keynote Speaker (Charles Ess) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:04:45 +0200 From: "Wasserman Herman <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za>" <hwasser(a)sun.ac.za> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] conference request Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Robert and Elijah mention a seemingly bogus conference call. I also got = one. Would be interested in finding out what's behind it. Herman

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Final Programme and Keynote Speaker
by Charles Ess 03 May '04

03 May '04

(Um, this conference invitation is for real - smile!) Dear aoir-ists: We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research centre in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will present the keynote address opening this year's conference on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Culture" (CATaC). Professor Wakeford's address is titled "Technology and mobility at the margins". The programme for CATaC'04 includes presenters from 28 countries focusing on six major themes (Culture: theory and praxis; ICTs and intercultural communication; ICTs and cultural hybridity; Culture and economy; Governments and activists in culture, technology and communication; and Culture, communication, and e-learning) as well as several themed sessions. The programme further includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by distinguished colleagues: 1: The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet 2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun," Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsommer celebrations on June 25-26. For additional information regarding the conference, including the abstract for the keynote address, complete programme, accommodation, registration, and travel information, please see the conference website, <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/> On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard åf Segerstad, and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in Karlstad. Please feel free to address any additional questions to: Charles Ess Drury University Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 catac(a)it.murdoch.edu.au

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 03 May '04

03 May '04

What do you mean by "about" the web? Social aspects, technical, history? Perhaps if you can specify further we can help better. ... Meanwhile, let me (of course) suggest "The Internet in Everyday Life" (intro chapter for review) edited by Wellman & Haythornthwaite (2003). I also have a review chapter (co-authored with Chris Hagar) forthcoming in ARIST (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology) titled "The Social World(s) of the Web." I can't circulate widely at this time, but if you have a particular immediate need I could send a copy to you. /Caroline ------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----- Original Message ----- From: <air-l-request(a)aoir.org> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1047 - 1 msg > Send Air-l mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet (jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:10:11 -0400 > From: jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the > current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published > in 2000 or later would be great.

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conference request
by Wasserman Herman <hwasser＠sun.ac.za> 03 May '04

03 May '04

Robert and Elijah mention a seemingly bogus conference call. I also got one. Would be interested in finding out what's behind it. Herman

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Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet
by jgrubb＠buffalo.edu 03 May '04

03 May '04

Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published in 2000 or later would be great.

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RE: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet
by Kevin Tharp 02 May '04

02 May '04

Just for curiosity, I just did a quick search of UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations for dissertations with a keyword of "Internet" from 2000 to 2004. This produced a list of 3254 citations. Adding the keyword "Web" narrowed it down to 806 citations. Each of these dissertations is likely to have an extensive literature review. A narrower search is likely to be more useful. Internet and Trust - 74 citations Internet and Social Capital - 10 citations It would not be possible to write a literature review that could adequately cover "current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet?" Kevin W. Tharp Community Informatics Officer Senior Research Officer Faculty of Informatics & Communication Central Queensland University Rockhampton, Queensland Australia 07 4923 2566 k.tharp(a)cqu.edu.au http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Staff/Kevin_Tharp/ -----Original Message----- From: jgrubb(a)buffalo.edu [mailto:jgrubb@buffalo.edu] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:10 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Literature Review About Research Being Done About the Internet Is anyone aware of an article or book that provides a summary of the current research being done ABOUT the web or Internet? Something published in 2000 or later would be great. _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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DC Brown Bag on Korea's Net Election, US Virtual Civil War? - Wed May 5 - 12:15 p.m.
by Steven Clift 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

For those in the DC-area ... Steven Clift and CDT invite you to a brown bag lunch discussion on ... What: Brown Bag Presentation and Discussion: South Korea's 2nd Net Election - The Screen Shots US Election 2004 Online - A Virtual Civil War? When: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Where: Conference Room, Center for Democracy and Technology 1634 I St., NW, Washington DC 20006 (Corner of 17th and I Sts.) - http://cdt.org RSVP: Free. Bring your own lunch. Space is limited. RSVP by Noon on Tuesday, May 4 to: ari(a)cdt.org Or call CDT: 202-637-9800 Agenda: * Introductions * South Korea Net Election - Short Virtual Tour Presentation A preview for the 2006 election in the U.S.? Slides and Comment from Steven Clift's recent visit to Korea. More: http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/msg00173.html * Possible Discussion Topics Bring Your Global E-Election Insights - India, Korea, and more Skulduggery Online - Stories from the US E-Campaign Trail Virtual Civil War? - Plotting a Post-Election Recovery (Article Below) Join some old-tyme e-politicos and share your two cents Early Networking: If you would like to meet one-on-one or in a small informal group with Steven Clift before or after the event, e-mail: clift(a)publicus.net More on Steven Clift: Steven Clift is an e-democracy speaker and strategist who has spoken across 25 countries since helping create the world's first election-oriented web site in 1994. For more information and articles, visit <http://publicus.net>. He runs http://DoWire.org, the Democracies Online Newswire which reaches over 2700 e-democracy/e-government/e-politics experts in more than 80 countries. He recently released a 40 page report on e-government and democracy that he wrote for the United Nations: http://publicus.net/e-government Below is a short article titled "Saving Democracy from the Information Age." It should help spark our brown bag discussion ideas. From: http://www.publicus.net/articles/savingdemocracy.html Saving Democracy from the Information Age By Steven Clift, for CIO Government Magazine, Australia April 2004 For the past 10 years, governments have had unprecedented opportunities to use technology to connect directly with citizens. So why haven?t they? "Is this the end of politics as we know it?" In the United States, journalists around the country were recently falling over each other to write their local article on the Internet and the presidential election. People are using the Internet to "MeetUp.com" and get involved in the presidential campaign of their choice. It is a real story. I was actually asked the "end of politics" question by a reporter back in 1994 when E-Democracy.Org created the world?s first election-oriented Web site. Since then I have seen waves of excess hype and scepticism about the role of new media in elections, governance and community. As far as I can tell, the outcomes of elections, despite the Internet, are pretty much the same ? someone wins and someone loses. Most citizens remain cynical about politics and government. Beyond sorting through their e-mail and putting their biography online, politicians seem content to ignore online opportunities in governance until the next election cycle. Something has changed. For the past 10 years, governments have had the opportunity to use information and communication technologies through e-government to connect directly with citizens. Government has had the opportunity to become more accountable and transparent, and to build the trust of citizens. Instead, most governments have taken the path of services first and democracy later. Access to information has become easier and many representative processes are more open than before the Internet, but for the most part, what citizens experience has changed little. Taking a path is different from choosing a path. The vast majority of government "customers" want convenience and efficient service delivery; however, in democracies we are also "citizens". We are the owners of government. Government has focused on the one-way uses of the Internet and service transactions because few citizens have asked for anything different. Democracy in the information age is not a choice that will exist based on citizen demand. What has changed is that "politics as usual" has figured out how to use the Internet to further their narrow interests. Online advocacy, while democratizing in many ways, is primarily used to generate noise geared towards our representatives and public processes. Governments in wired countries now face a fundamental challenge. Political interests are raising their voices online, but governments, including our elected officials and representative institutions, are largely unable to "listen" online. When speaking in Eastern Europe, it really hit me: as designed, e-government is not able to accommodate the will of the people. The lack of investment in the online needs of representative democracy, compared to large investments in administrative services, is changing the balance of power in our democracies. Despite significant policy explorations by governments in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Victorian parliament, for example, it is amazing that the only state or nation to adopt a formal e-democracy policy is Queensland. (Also note the CitizenScape project in Western Australia.) Not that you need a policy to have significant government-based e-democracy activity, but it helps to move beyond rhetoric and experiments to real investments that save democracy from the negative aspects of the information age. What Should Be Done? At a World Summit on the Information Society session in Geneva, I promoted "democratic evolution" over the path of partisan "virtual civil war". (Check back with me after the 2004 US election. I predict online campaigning by "politics as usual" will poison many a citizen?s view of the medium in politics and governance.) Governments, as democracies, must act now in specific ways to ensure their ability to e-listen to citizens, to make better public decisions and to more effectively engage the public, civic organizations and business as they implement public policy. In my Geneva speech, I suggested that the following best e-democracy practices be made universal thorough the rule of law: 1. All public meeting notices with agendas and all public documents to be distributed at that meeting must now also be posted online. 2. All representative and regulatory bodies must make all proposed legislation and amendments available online the minute they are distributed as a public document to anyone. 3. Every citizen must have the ability to access up-to-date listings of all those who represent them at every level of government. Technology and practices must be implemented to allow citizens and, very importantly, elected and appointed officials to communicate effectively online with one another. 4. Funding must be provided and technology implemented to ensure citizens the right to be notified via e-mail about new government decisions and information based on their interests and where they live. Overall, when it comes to e-government funding, I suggest that no less than 10 percent be set aside for citizen input and democracy. Citizen input embraces "two-way" communication including usability testing, user focus groups, site feedback systems and surveys, and special applications designed for representative institutions and elected officials. After speaking hundreds of times across 24 countries, mostly to e-democracy interested governments, it is clear to me that what is possible is not probable. The best practices and e-democracy technologies are not being effectively shared. If we want the demonstrated potential of the new medium to spread, democratic intent will be required. The default path I see, without a political and resource commitment, is democratic decline. As we enter the second decade of e-democracy activity, now is the time to use the amazing online tools before us and build information-age democracy for our own and future generations. Copyright 2004 - For free reprinting/translation permission, contact: clift(a)publicus.net

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DC Brown Bag on Korea's Net Election, US Virtual Civil War? - Wed May 5 - 12:15 p.m.
by Steven Clift 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

For those in the DC-area ... Steven Clift and CDT invite you to a brown bag lunch discussion on ... What: Brown Bag Presentation and Discussion: South Korea's 2nd Net Election - The Screen Shots US Election 2004 Online - A Virtual Civil War? When: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Where: Conference Room, Center for Democracy and Technology 1634 I St., NW, Washington DC 20006 (Corner of 17th and I Sts.) - http://cdt.org RSVP: Free. Bring your own lunch. Space is limited. RSVP by Noon on Tuesday, May 4 to: ari(a)cdt.org Or call CDT: 202-637-9800 Agenda: * Introductions * South Korea Net Election - Short Virtual Tour Presentation A preview for the 2006 election in the U.S.? Slides and Comment from Steven Clift's recent visit to Korea. More: http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/msg00173.html * Possible Discussion Topics Bring Your Global E-Election Insights - India, Korea, and more Skulduggery Online - Stories from the US E-Campaign Trail Virtual Civil War? - Plotting a Post-Election Recovery (Article Below) Join some old-tyme e-politicos and share your two cents Early Networking: If you would like to meet one-on-one or in a small informal group with Steven Clift before or after the event, e-mail: clift(a)publicus.net More on Steven Clift: Steven Clift is an e-democracy speaker and strategist who has spoken across 25 countries since helping create the world's first election-oriented web site in 1994. For more information and articles, visit <http://publicus.net>. He runs http://DoWire.org, the Democracies Online Newswire which reaches over 2700 e-democracy/e-government/e-politics experts in more than 80 countries. He recently released a 40 page report on e-government and democracy that he wrote for the United Nations: http://publicus.net/e-government Below is a short article titled "Saving Democracy from the Information Age." It should help spark our brown bag discussion ideas. From: http://www.publicus.net/articles/savingdemocracy.html Saving Democracy from the Information Age By Steven Clift, for CIO Government Magazine, Australia April 2004 For the past 10 years, governments have had unprecedented opportunities to use technology to connect directly with citizens. So why haven?t they? "Is this the end of politics as we know it?" In the United States, journalists around the country were recently falling over each other to write their local article on the Internet and the presidential election. People are using the Internet to "MeetUp.com" and get involved in the presidential campaign of their choice. It is a real story. I was actually asked the "end of politics" question by a reporter back in 1994 when E-Democracy.Org created the world?s first election-oriented Web site. Since then I have seen waves of excess hype and scepticism about the role of new media in elections, governance and community. As far as I can tell, the outcomes of elections, despite the Internet, are pretty much the same ? someone wins and someone loses. Most citizens remain cynical about politics and government. Beyond sorting through their e-mail and putting their biography online, politicians seem content to ignore online opportunities in governance until the next election cycle. Something has changed. For the past 10 years, governments have had the opportunity to use information and communication technologies through e-government to connect directly with citizens. Government has had the opportunity to become more accountable and transparent, and to build the trust of citizens. Instead, most governments have taken the path of services first and democracy later. Access to information has become easier and many representative processes are more open than before the Internet, but for the most part, what citizens experience has changed little. Taking a path is different from choosing a path. The vast majority of government "customers" want convenience and efficient service delivery; however, in democracies we are also "citizens". We are the owners of government. Government has focused on the one-way uses of the Internet and service transactions because few citizens have asked for anything different. Democracy in the information age is not a choice that will exist based on citizen demand. What has changed is that "politics as usual" has figured out how to use the Internet to further their narrow interests. Online advocacy, while democratizing in many ways, is primarily used to generate noise geared towards our representatives and public processes. Governments in wired countries now face a fundamental challenge. Political interests are raising their voices online, but governments, including our elected officials and representative institutions, are largely unable to "listen" online. When speaking in Eastern Europe, it really hit me: as designed, e-government is not able to accommodate the will of the people. The lack of investment in the online needs of representative democracy, compared to large investments in administrative services, is changing the balance of power in our democracies. Despite significant policy explorations by governments in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Victorian parliament, for example, it is amazing that the only state or nation to adopt a formal e-democracy policy is Queensland. (Also note the CitizenScape project in Western Australia.) Not that you need a policy to have significant government-based e-democracy activity, but it helps to move beyond rhetoric and experiments to real investments that save democracy from the negative aspects of the information age. What Should Be Done? At a World Summit on the Information Society session in Geneva, I promoted "democratic evolution" over the path of partisan "virtual civil war". (Check back with me after the 2004 US election. I predict online campaigning by "politics as usual" will poison many a citizen?s view of the medium in politics and governance.) Governments, as democracies, must act now in specific ways to ensure their ability to e-listen to citizens, to make better public decisions and to more effectively engage the public, civic organizations and business as they implement public policy. In my Geneva speech, I suggested that the following best e-democracy practices be made universal thorough the rule of law: 1. All public meeting notices with agendas and all public documents to be distributed at that meeting must now also be posted online. 2. All representative and regulatory bodies must make all proposed legislation and amendments available online the minute they are distributed as a public document to anyone. 3. Every citizen must have the ability to access up-to-date listings of all those who represent them at every level of government. Technology and practices must be implemented to allow citizens and, very importantly, elected and appointed officials to communicate effectively online with one another. 4. Funding must be provided and technology implemented to ensure citizens the right to be notified via e-mail about new government decisions and information based on their interests and where they live. Overall, when it comes to e-government funding, I suggest that no less than 10 percent be set aside for citizen input and democracy. Citizen input embraces "two-way" communication including usability testing, user focus groups, site feedback systems and surveys, and special applications designed for representative institutions and elected officials. After speaking hundreds of times across 24 countries, mostly to e-democracy interested governments, it is clear to me that what is possible is not probable. The best practices and e-democracy technologies are not being effectively shared. If we want the demonstrated potential of the new medium to spread, democratic intent will be required. The default path I see, without a political and resource commitment, is democratic decline. As we enter the second decade of e-democracy activity, now is the time to use the amazing online tools before us and build information-age democracy for our own and future generations. Copyright 2004 - For free reprinting/translation permission, contact: clift(a)publicus.net

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possible book of interest
by Charles Ess 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Colleagues: While not directly focused on the Internet as such, the following may be of interest to Aoir-ists, especially vis-a-vis notions of literacy in electronic culture and the possible impacts of shifting from print to electronic culture. +++ Please post and distribute as appropriate. Apologies for duplications and cross-postings - Forthcoming book announcement. Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, edited by Charles Ess. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2004) Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media collects contemporary scholarship to address the question: What does critical thinking about the Bible - e.g., as applied in Jewish and Christian traditions of interpretation, theology, and our very understanding of what "Scripture" means - "look like" as the Bible (_the_ Book of the age of print) is transmediated from print to electronic formats? This volume, the first of its kind, is made up of contributions originally developed for a conference sponsored by the American Bible Society. Contributors represent a wide diversity of religious traditions and academic disciplines--philosophy, biblical studies, theology, feminism, aesthetics, communication theory, and media studies. Ess's Introduction summarizes the individual chapters and then develops their broader significance for contemporary debates regarding media, postmodernism, and the possible relationships between faith and reason. Table of Contents: Introduction: Critical Thinking, Biblical Texts, and Faith and Reason in the Age of New Media Keynote Address: Reasoned Judgment and Revelation: The Relation of Critical Thinking and Bible Study - Peter Facione Critical Thinking Within Biblical Texts: Bible Reading and Critical Thinking - Christof Hardmeier Critical Thinking for Ordinary Believers - Byron Eubanks Three Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Thinking and the Bible Let the Reader Understand: Biblically Disciplined Thought in Light of the Interrogative Model of Reasoning -Susan and Jim Bachman Critical Thinking in the Black Church - Isaac Mwase Women's Feminist Critical Thinking about the Bible - Elizabeth Dodson Gray Postmodern Perspectives Reading Scripture as Critical-thinking Christians in a Postmodern Era - James Voelz McLuhan and a Critical Electronic Ethos: Contexts in Collision or Harmony - Donald Colhour Hearing the Hum in a Wired World: Preliminary Musings on Virtual Reality and Evangelical Education - Ben Witherington Voices of Caution Images Have Consequences: The Impact of the Visual on the Word - Terry Lindvall Reading and Critical Thinking: Pentecostal Traditions vis-á-vis New Media - Michael Palmer Middle Grounds Bible Study, Critical Thinking and Post-Critical Thought: Cultural Considerations - Phil Mullins Bible Reading between History and Industry - Eep Talstra Prayer and the Internet - Kate Lindemann Contributors; Index. 348 pages. Available early summer. ISBN 0-7618-2863-X Paper $38.00 ISBN 0-7618-2862-1 Cloth $65.00 The book may be pre-ordered by calling UPA Customer Service at 1-800-462-6420. +++ Thanks! and cheers, 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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