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Re: [Air-l] Research on ICTs & Older People
by ren＠aldermangroup.com 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

A resource that I have been introduced to recently are journals of practice based stuff such as nursing. An example is the Oncology Nursing Society (www.ons.org) who’s journal includes some interesting work done on Virtual Environments and treatment e.g. VIRTUAL REALITY INTERVENTION FOR OLDER WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER Susan Schneider, PhD, RN, AOCN®, Duke University, Durham, NC. (http://www.ons.org/xp6/ONS/Convention.xml/Abstracts.xml/03Abs /03_111.xml) I’m sure there is lots more of this type of work around. Ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:26:25 -0000 >From: "Loader, Brian" <B.D.Loader(a)tees.ac.uk> >Subject: [Air-l] Research on ICTs & Older People >To: "'air-l(a)aoir.org'" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >I'm currently undertaking a literature review on ICTs and care for Older >People and was hoping that list members may be able to suggest research >publications they are familiar with. In particular the use and design of >ICTs to facilitate independent living, human friendly design and training >requirements would be very helpful. > Please also let me know if you would like a copy of the review. > >Thanks, > >Brian D. Loader >Director, CIRA >University of Teesside >b.d.loader(a)tees.ac.uk > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Research on ICTs & Older People
by Loader, Brian 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

I'm currently undertaking a literature review on ICTs and care for Older People and was hoping that list members may be able to suggest research publications they are familiar with. In particular the use and design of ICTs to facilitate independent living, human friendly design and training requirements would be very helpful. Please also let me know if you would like a copy of the review. Thanks, Brian D. Loader Director, CIRA University of Teesside b.d.loader(a)tees.ac.uk

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Thank you to Aoir-ers/Internet, Japan, Sociability
by Mito Akiyoshi 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hi everybody, I am writing this to say thank you once again to those who responded my inquir y on this list. Your suggestions were much appreciated. I just submitted my dissertation (abstract below). Feel free to email me offlist if you are interested in my research. I will join the faculty of Senshu University (Tokyo) in April, 2004. If you have questions about the Internet/ICT in Japan or Japanese society in general, contact me. I have to confess I know very little, but I would be happy to share thoughs and ideas. Thank you, Mito Akiyoshi Graduating...Dept. of Sociology, the University of Chicago Joiniing...Dept. of Humanities, Senshu University Unmediating Community: The Non-Diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002 Theory: Existing sociological research on communication technology tends to de -sensationalize its object of study in an effort to disclaim technological det erministic accounts of its impact on community. Daniel Boorstin has argued, “ the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before” (Boorstin 1973 :72-3). Similarly, Claude Fischer finds that “Americans apparently used home telephones to widen and deepen existing social patterns rather than to alter them” (Fischer 1992:262). Such an emphasis on the conservative rather than re volutionary development of new technology is a sound and valuable approach tow ard rigorous analysis of social implications of communication technology. It is crucial, at the same time, to attend to the emergence of genuinely new t ypes of interaction and the re-prioritizing of existing relationships. Cultura l codes that govern communicative practices do more than just naturalize and l egitimate a new medium. They are also employed for experimental modes of comm unity building. The Internet is used both to maintain existing social ties and cultivate new forms of associations and community that would be otherwise imp ossible. Hypotheses: As a case in point, uses of the Internet in Japan are explored. The case of the Internet in Japan is an excellent example of community experim ents with a new communication technology constrained as well as enabled by tra ditional norms and values. I expect that the relative invisibility of the Inte rnet in Japan is explained, not by the absence of the interest in the technolo gy among the general public or by blind allegiance to traditional practices of communication, but by availability of alternative technology and by the very selective deployment of communicative possibilities offered by the Internet. Methods: A history of how the Internet gained acceptance in Japan. Statistical analysis of Internet user surveys. An ethnography of a virtual community. Results: When the Internet is used for a substitute for other communication me dia, concern toward traditional norms influences the manner in which the Japan ese make use of the Internet. The relatively well-defined system of values and norms, however, does not discourage them from trying out new ways of socializ ing.

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (february 2004)
by david silver 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Folks, a treasure chest of new reviews in cyberculture, available at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ David E. Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (MIT Press, 2003). Reviewed by Craig McFarlane Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence From Telegraphy to Television (Duke University Press, 2000). Reviewed by Dougie Bicket Andy Clark, Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2003). Reviewed by Steven A. Benko Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet (Routledge, 2001). Reviewed by Geoffrey Cain Chong-En Bai & Chi-Wa Yuen, eds., Technology and the New Economy (MIT Press, 2002). Reviewed by Suely Fragoso Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (MIT Press, 2003). Reviewed by Ted Kafala david silver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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9 new working papers + 1 thesis on freesoftware.mit.edu|opensource.mit.edu
by Karim R. Lakhani 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Hello All, <sorry for any x-posting> Please find below the following new papers on our website. As usual the authors will appreciate your direct feedback. Many thanks to all the authors that have submitted papers. Keep em coming! Best Karim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paper 1 Authors: Chan, Tzu-Ying & Jen-Fang Lee Title A Comparative Study of Online User Communities Involvement In Product Innovation and Development http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/chanlee.pdf Abstract: The literature lacks a conceptual understanding on how different types of online user communities can influence the product innovation and development. Therefore, this research attempts to understand this phenomenon by re-classifying the current online user communities from the perspective of product innovation and development and has resulted in five different models of user communities. We compare and discuss of the five models. Lastly, we will further discuss the deficiencies of the User Collaboration Innovation Communities, theoretically and practically, to suggest the feasibility of the research direction in the future. Paper 2: Author: Dahlander, Linus Title: Appropriating Returns From Open Innovation Processes: A Multiple Case Study of Small Firms in Open Source Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/dahlander.pdf Abstract: This paper addresses a largely neglected area within the growing literature on open source software (OSS) namely how firms generate returns and how that changes over time. Firms exist and sell a variety of products and services related to OSS, even though the OSS community has used legal and normative mechanisms to avoid property right claims and commercial transactions. The paper draws upon an explorative multiple case study of six small firms in Sweden and Finland that try to commercialize OSS, with rich empirical evidence from various data sources. The cases illustrate how firms try a variety of approaches to generate adequate returns and that selling services seem to be the dominant trend. By being adaptive and change ways of generating returns over time, the firms tackle the rapidly changing environment and uncertainty of what works. Firm also balance the relative inefficiency of traditional means of intellectual property right such as patents by putting greater emphasi s on first mover advantages and creating network externalities. Paper 3 Author: Hemetsberger, Andrea Title: When Consumers Produce on the Internet: The Relationship between Cognitive-affective, Socially-based, and Behavioral Involvement of Prosumers http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/hemetsberger1.pdf Abstract: This article advances our understanding of the motivational sources for consumer involvement in online joint innovation. The 'free' or 'open-source' software movement is the largest socio-technical network and most visible empirical evidence of this new phenomenon. The paper promotes a behavioral view of involvement and offers a conceptualization and empirical evidence of the relationship between cognitive-affective, socially-based and behavioral involvement in online joint production. An Internet survey with 1486 contributors to open-source software revealed that the extent of behavioral involvement is strongly related to the structure and strength of relationships between different motivations. The relationship between concern for self and concern for others especially distinguishes the level of contribution to online projects. Paper 4 Author: Hemetsberger, Andrea Title: Fostering cooperation on the Internet: social exchange processes in innovative virtual consumer communities http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/hemetsberger2.pdf Abstract: Virtual communities of consumers increasingly engage in voluntary collaborative production of digital goods and services which became highly successful in recent years. This paper offers a theoretical conceptualization and empirical evidence of the key elements and processes of exchange in those communities. Within a culture of gift-giving and generalized social exchange, knowledge as the main resource of the community is multiplied by giving it away freely to others and thus, fosters contribution behavior. Friendship, peer reputation and external feed-back provided by a global user community represent highly motivating social rewards which, combined with individual gain of knowledge, constitute a self-sustaining system of exchange. Paper 5: Author: Hemetsberger, Andrea Title: Understanding consumers' collective action on the Internet - a definition and discussion of relevant concepts for research http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/hemetsberger3.pdf Abstract: This paper offers a new approach for understanding online collaboration and collective action of 'prosumers'. It is proposed here that theories of collective action and social representations theory, in particular, provide a theoretical framework for studying the structural and social context of online collaboration of consumers, the social actors involved, and how public discourse contributes to shared meaning creation and dissemination in online communities. Processes of naming, classifying, personalizing and institutionalization give their actions ontological reality and contribute to the sustainability of the common effort. An overview and definition of these processes and relevant influencing factors is given and possible indicators of these concepts in open-source communities are highlighted. Paper 6: Authors: Hemetsberger, Andrea & Christian Reinhardt Title: Sharing and Creating Knowledge in Open-Source Communities The case of KDE http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/hemreinh.pdf Abstract: Our research suggests that knowledge is shared and created in online communities of practice through the establishment of processes and 'technologies' that enable virtual re-experience for the learners at various levels. It demonstrates that online communities of practice overcome the problem of tacit knowledge transformation through the usage of technological tools, task-related features, analogies and usage scenarios. Three questions guided our research. The first one concentrates on how community members organize content with regard to their daily routines that potentially transforms into knowledge for other members. Secondly, as open-source communities depend on attracting and socializing new members, we inquired how new members are enabled to accumulate the knowledge necessary for becoming a valued member. Thirdly, we asked how members co-create and conceptualize new ideas - create new knowledge - in absence of physical proximity. Re-experience is enabled by modular tas ks and transactive group memory, rigid guidance of new members, openness and legitimate peripheral participation, asynchronous communication, and virtual experimentation. Empirical evidence is based on an ethnographic investigation of the KDE project community. Paper 7 Author: Scherler, Thorsten Title: Open Source Software within organization - Critical factors for consulting http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/scherler1.pdf Abstract: The consultation of enterprises and organizations regarding the correct implementation of modern information technology is an important segment on the modern consulting market. The main focus of this work is to conduct the consultation in consideration of the topic “Introduction of Open Source e-Business Technologies”. Due to limited budget funds more and more enterprises are designing their value chain more cost-effective by using web based systems. Mostly all parts of the value chain can be supported by e-business technologies. To further reduce the costs this e-business technologies should be Open Source. Paper 8 Author: Prufer, Jens Title: Network Formation via Contests: The Production Process of Open Source Software http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/prufer.pdf Abstract: Why do both software developers and firms contribute to the production process of Open Source Software (OSS) despite not receiving direct monetary rewards for it? This papers extends results of the economic literature by modelling the OSS production process as an application contest to a "qualified network". The winners receive reputation and high investments. Investors searching for highly talented applicants profit from the selection mechanism of the OSS production process and finance it to receive inside information. We describe incentives for developers and firms and compare the mechanism with alternatives for its efficiency. Paper 9 Author: Masum, Hasan Title: TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/masum/index.html Abstract: Shared opinions drive society: what we read, how we vote, and where we shop are all heavily influenced by the choices of others. However, the cost in time and money to systematically share opinions remains high, while the actual performance history of opinion generators is often not tracked. This article explores the development of a distributed open opinion layer, which is given the generic name of TOOL. Similar to the evolution of network protocols as an underlying layer for many computational tasks, we suggest that TOOL has the potential to become a common substrate upon which many scientific, commercial, and social activities will be based. Thesis: Author McLaughlin, David Title: Opening The Code: Software Excellence As A Function Of Its Development Environment http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/mclaughlin.pdf Abstract: Software is an increasingly important component of the modern world; indeed, software forms the architecture around which today’s digital society is built. Because of the complex interrelationship between computer code, liberty, and the distribution of power in society, the environment in which code is produced makes a tremendous difference in the resulting structure of the world. An "Open" foundation for software development provides a variety of economic and societal benefits, but there are a number of preconditions necessary for its full deployment. One of the primary stumbling blocks is the need for the Open development process to demonstrate its capacity for producing "excellent" software. This thesis tackles that obstacle by first defining excellence in software, and then examining the software ecosystems that surround proprietary and Open Source conceptions of digital property in terms of their incentive structures--incentives that either encourage or discourage quali ty. Herein, this thesis demonstrates that not only can an Open Source development model produce quality software, but it also takes advantage of the complex adaptive systems model of diversity and adaptation to better meet the established criteria of an "ideal" software development system. -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management & The Boston Consulting Group, Strategy Practice Initiative e-mail: karim.lakhani(a)sloan.mit.edu | lakhani.karim(a)bcg.com mobile: 617-851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net/ | http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www http://opensource.mit.edu | http://userinnovation.mit.edu

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Hanging Out Gets Kudos
by Barry Wellman 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

She's too modest to tell you, but there's a really nice book review of Lori Kendall's _Hanging out in the Virtual Pub: Relationships and Masculinities Online. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2002. The review by UCLA community sociologist David Halle is in the January 2004 issue of _Contemporary Sociology_, v.33, n.1, p. 31-32. (CS is the major soc review journal.) Here are some excerpts: "In the course of this engagingly written, well-researched, and illuminating case study, Kendall examines almost the entire gamut of theories about the nature of online interaction." "Kendall's main conclusion is that online interactions are much more like those offline than is sometimes thought." Lori's book is a wonderful ethnography of a bunch of guys (and a few gals) highly involved in an online, text-based community (no cute little avatars).

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Assistant Professor in Environmental/Risk Communication (Rutgers University)
by Ulla Bunz 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Assistant Professor (tenure track) Environmental/Risk Communication, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University: Basic and applied research, teaching, and Extension outreach in the area of environmental or risk communication. Issue may vary (e.g., natural resources, land use, natural hazards, environmental and/or health risks). Research related to topics such as stakeholder involvement, risk perception, public information, science communication, environmental justice. The person filling this position will be expected to teach undergraduate courses in environmental or risk communication and have the possibility of graduate teaching in her/his discipline. Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in the land grant college (Cook College, which houses the multi-disciplinary Department of Human Ecology), and schools of policy, communication, and medicine, among others. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in social science related to the field of environmental/risk communication such as communication, journalism, psychology, planning, sociology, geography, environmental studies, law, urban studies, or anthropology. The successful candidate will have experience teaching, conducting research, and implementing outreach efforts. Send letter of application, two writing samples, and three letters of reference to: Environmental Communication Search Committee, Caron Chess, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520. Electronic submissions encouraged: humanecology(a)aesop.rutgers.edu. Applications will be reviewed starting March 1. Rutgers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. -- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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journalists weblogs
by Alexandru Leonties 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Does anybody know a good place on the web that integrates/aggregates weblogs of journalists? I am interested for a research on the credibility of such (journalism) weblogs. Thank you, ===== Alexandru Leonties Assistant Lecturer Journalism Department A.I.Cuza University Iasi + 40 740 049 246 aleonties(a)yahoo.com, leonties(a)uaic.ro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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RE: digital recording
by Zoe Dowling 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Bernie, As far as I am aware (and I've spent quite a bit of time looking into this recently) getting your minidisc recordings onto PC always involves recording back in real time, using one software program or another. However, there is some light at the end of the tunnel for MD fans (however this would mean ditching your current MD player and investing in a new one!) As reported on Minidisc.org: Sony hits a grand slam! Announcing Hi-MD (spec) a new Minidisc format based upon a 1GB MD medium and existing MD media reformatted to 300MB. Hi-MD equipment features uploading to PC for mic-input recordings, and built-in linear PCM as well as ATRAC3plus encoding at 256 and 64kbps. Hi-MD recorders also function as USB data drives. Available in April, recording equipment prices will be $200 (MZ-NH600D), $250 (MZ-NHF800), $300 (MZ-NH900) and $400 (MZ-NH1) with Hi-MD blanks costing about $7. Sony Press Release: http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/4270 Best, Zoe _________________________________________________ Zoe Dowling, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology, School of Human Sciences University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scp1zd/ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:11:58 -0500 From: bernie.hogan(a)utoronto.ca To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] digital recording Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hi Everyone, A thread was started last week about digital transcription software. This week I was wondering what people were using to actually get the digital files. I've been using a minidisc player and a program called WinNMD, but that is subpar since it only transfers in realtime. Any suggestions? Take Care BERNiE Bernie Hogan Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto

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cfp: LIFE WITH THE ULTIMATE CONGLOMERATE
by katharine sarikakis 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

**apologies for crosspostings** international journal of Media & Cultural Politics (MCP) LIFE WITH THE ULTIMATE CONGLOMERATE: a call for short essays on the politics of contemporary media content, control and policy We, the citizens, own the airwaves, yet we don't control them. The corporations that control them feed us a steady diet of electronic junk food and it is making our democracy sick. (Ralph Nader) The first half of the twentieth century produced pessimism about ideological control and social and cultural harm as a consequence of media expansion. By the end of the second half of the century, a variety of theoretical positions had posited the media as a usurpation of reality itself. Whatever the status of such claims, the media now claim a centrality which has profoundly redefined culture. To mark the launch of MCP, the Editors are inviting scholarly mini-essays of over 1000 and not more than 1500 words on any theme exploring the relationship between the contemporary media and the politics of representation, or policy, or control, and commenting on recent waves of pessimism about the media in culture (Virilio's concept of 'fin de siècle infantilization', for example, or Nader's 'electronic junk food'). Contributors are invited to address print, broadcast or electronic media as they choose, and likewise to adapt the theme to specific forms, genres, theories, practices, demographics, localities, audiences, pedagogic and research contexts, and topical issues. All contributions should be submitted to Katharine Sarikakis k.sarikakis(a)coventry.ac.uk by email attachment, by 31 May 2004. For details on style, please go to: http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/ Best wishes The Editors MCP Please note that MCP is also now accepting full length submissions for the inaugural volumes to be published in 2005, on general media and cultural politics themes. -- Dr Katharine Sarikakis Communication, Media and Culture Coventry University Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB, UK Tel:+44.24.76887474 Fax:+44.24.76887440 ******************** http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cms/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=583&a=3243 ******************** International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/mcp/

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