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Technical Communications Faculty Positions @ VT
by jeremy hunsinger 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Technical Communications Faculty Positions Virginia Tech's College of Engineering anticipates filling up to three tenure-track Academic Year (9-month) positions to support an initiative in the area of technical communications instruction and research. Successful candidates will be expected to develop an effective teaching program and to pursue scholarly work, including externally-funded research, in this subject area. Position duties will involve working with departments within the college to enhance the communication skills elements of their curricula and to provide some support for freshman courses. Some summer teaching and/or advising may be available. Appointments would begin in August 2004. Successful applicants will have a terminal degree in English or communications studies or engineering, or a related field. Degrees in both engineering and a communications-related discipline are desirable. In addition, experience working with engineers (in the engineering workplace or in teaching) is desirable. Previous teaching experience at the university level is desired. These positions will reside in the College's Division of Engineering Fundamentals, which serves as home department for all first-year engineering students and is currently being restructured as the Department of Engineering Education, with the technical communications area as one of the missions of the new organization. Opportunities for collaboration with professional writing faculty in the Department of English are available and will be strongly encouraged. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Review of applications will begin February 1, 2004 and continue until successful candidates are chosen. More information on the Division of Engineering Fundamentals and its mission within Virginia Tech's College of Engineering is available at www.ef.vt.edu. Virginia Tech has a strong commitment to diversity, and, in that spirit, the College of Engineering seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and people with disabilities. Online applications are encouraged. To apply online go to www.jobs.vt.edu and search for posting number 030336. Interested parties wishing to apply by mail should send a letter of application, complete curriculum vitae, and contact information for five references to: Chair, COE Communications Faculty Search Committee, Division of Engineering Fundamentals (0218), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0218. Individuals requiring assistance in the application process should contact Ms. Sharon Dudding, Division of Engineering Fundamentals, 540/231-6555, duddings(a)vt.edu. jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Telemedicine and eHealth conference - call for abstract
by svein.bergvik＠telenor.com 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Dear AoIRs This may be of interest to many of you. And a nice opportunity to visit the top of the world, experience the beautifull scenery of the north Norway coastline, and the midnight sun. The conference organizer, the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, was designated as the first World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine in July 2002. Tromso Telemedicine and eHealth Conference 2004: Citizen participation in eHealth: Challenges for research, technologies and health care organisations www.telemed.no/ttec2004 This conference is about people using eHealth for their own health purposes. The conference will provide a meeting place for exchanging knowledge and debating strategies between the key players in eHealth. We hope this event will strengthen efforts to maximize the potentials, and limit the pitfalls, inherent in eHealth developments. We invite citizen and patient representatives together with policy makers and experts from the field of health, social sciences and technology to submit abstracts along the following topics: Policy, Organization, Strategy: What should we strive for? Technology; Applications and Practice: What do we have? Research: What do we know and need to know? Deadline for submission is 2 February 2004. Svein Bergvik Telenor Research and Development PO box 6403 N-9294 Tromso, Norway svein.bergvik(a)telenor.com Phone: 0047 971 84448

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Re: [Air-l] readings on Power, Politics and Policy of the Internet
by Dan L Burk 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Jamie Boyle's "Foucault in Cyberspace" http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/foucault.htm Also, his "A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?" http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/intprop.htm Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Boalt Hall School of Law University of California, Berkeley Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School On 11 Dec 2003, jeremy hunsinger wrote: > It is that time of the year again, and I'm preparing my syllabi, and > I'm approved to teach a new senior seminar that I've entitled The > Internet: Power, Politics and Policy, which is going to be taught with > a focus on the 'individuals and institutions surrounding the research, > innovation, technology, and structures both social and political that > surround the internet both in the u.s. and the global context.' So I > have my ideas of what will be read, Abatte, Lessig, some RFC's, some > ISOC Documents, Some ICANN Documents, some ITU Documents, etc., but I'm > also interested in everyone else's opinions on the matter, so drop me a > note. > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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Worldwide IM business use
by Bonnie Strong 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

I am a graduate student in Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, & Technology Program. Two papers I am working on consider the impact of culture on ICT adoption. I am having difficulty finding recent statistics on Instant Messaging (or SMS) use in the workplace in the United States, Japan, and Sweden. If you have any suggestions about a source for this kind of market research that I may not have thought of, please e-mail me at bls7(a)georgetown.edu. Thanks for your consideration! Bonnie Strong Georgetown University

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readings on Power, Politics and Policy of the Internet
by jeremy hunsinger 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

It is that time of the year again, and I'm preparing my syllabi, and I'm approved to teach a new senior seminar that I've entitled The Internet: Power, Politics and Policy, which is going to be taught with a focus on the 'individuals and institutions surrounding the research, innovation, technology, and structures both social and political that surround the internet both in the u.s. and the global context.' So I have my ideas of what will be read, Abatte, Lessig, some RFC's, some ISOC Documents, Some ICANN Documents, some ITU Documents, etc., but I'm also interested in everyone else's opinions on the matter, so drop me a note. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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WSIS, ICT and the Millennium Development Goals
by John Daly 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

In conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society this week, the Development Gateway has published related materials on 16 of its topic pages, all of which can be reached from this one webpage: http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/130685/special/wsis/ You might be especially interested in the feature on "WSIS, ICT and the Millennium Development Goals. http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/222155/WSIS-Main.doc There has been a flood of documents prepared for WSIS, some of them based on careful examinations of experience over the past few years. John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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_Data Made Flesh_
by Phillip Thurtle 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Please excuse the self promotion but I think some on this list might be interested in the following. Phillip > > Announcing a New Publication from Routledge: > > _Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information_ > > Co-editors: Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle > > Contributors: Richard Doyle, Mary Flanagan, N. Katherine Hayles, Robin > Held, Eduardo Kac, Elisabeth LeGuin, Timothy Lenoir, Robert Mitchell, > Mark Poster, Phillip Thurtle, Steve Tomasula, Ann C. Villa, Bernadette > Wegenstein, and Kathleen Woodward > >> In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between >> bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the >> first collection to address the increasingly important links between >> information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely >> tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the >> bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush >> to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human >> being. The contributors gathered in this collection are leading >> figures in Cyberculture Studies and Science and Technology Studies, >> many of who have established the terms of today's academic discourse >> surrounding bodies and technology. >> > > "It's about time embodiment got considered in relation to data! . . . > _Data made Flesh_ does just this. It is fresh, multidisciplinary, and > does its work at a high level of critical and descriptive performance. > Bodies, materiality, and the dominance of an information metaphor have > had some attention, but the ways in which humans within the digital > and data world experience and act call for the kind of attention that > this book gives." > --Don Ihde, author of _Bodies in Technology_ > > > "By establishing once and for all the inseparability of information > and materiality, signifying practices and embodiment, _Data Made > Flesh_ will fundamentally reorient future debates over human > technogenesis itself. I can think of no more pressing task for > technocultural criticism today." > --Mark Hansen, author of _Embodying Technesis_ > > > I found this collection inspiring, innovative, and intellectually > stimulating. It offers an ultra-contemporary terrain of current > critique across a variety of academic disciplines and provides a new > conception of the term "information" with an emphasis on materiality > and embodiment." > --Barbara M. Kennedy, co-editor of _The Cybercultures Reader_ > > November 2003**6 x 9**320 pp > 30 halftones > Pb**0 415 96905 0**$27.95 >

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Publication of major study on the Information Society
by Wainer Lusoli 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Apologies for cross posting -------------------------------------- __EMTEL reports now available at http://www.emtel2.org/ The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL) was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. It was constituted as a research and training network within the programme Improving Knowledge Potential and oriented towards "creating a user friendly information society". EMTEL conducted interdisciplinary social scientific research between 2000 and 2003, about the information society from the perspective of everyday life. The final results of the research are now available at http://www.emtel2.org/ Seven reports deal with specific aspects of the everyday life in the Information Society: YOUTH: The Web Generation? The (De)Construction of Users, Morals and Consumption AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: A Social and Technological View of Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life: What bends the trend? WORK: Boundaries in a Space of Flows. The Case of Migrant Researchers' Use of ICT CONSUMPTION: An Ethnographic Study of Internet Consumption in Ireland: Between Domesticity and the Public Participation POLITICAL ACTIVISM: ICT-Usage among Transnational Social Movements in the Networked Society: to organise, to mediate & to influence MINORITY MEDIA: Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU: Addressing Cultural Exclusion DISABILITY: ICT and social inclusion in the everyday life of less abled people Five THEMATIC REPORTS cover overarching aspects of the Information Society: Media and Technology in the Everyday Life of European Societies The Information Society in Europe: Methods and Methodologies Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information Society ICTs in Everyday Life : Public Policy Implications for 'Europe's Way to the Information Society' Living and Working in the Information Society: Quality of Life in a Digital World Contributing partners are as follows: . ASCoR, The University of Amsterdam . COMTEC, Dublin City University . IPTS, Seville . LENTIC, The University of Liege . Media@lse, London School or Economics (co-ordinating centre) . NTNU, University of Trondheim . SMIT, Free University of Brussels . TNO, Delft . SINTEF, University of Trondheim For more information, please refer to the EMTEL Network website (http://www.emtel2.org/) The site also features the proceeding of the Network Conference, held in April 2004. (www.emtelconference.org) Yours Sincerely, Roger Silverstone EMTEL Co-ordinator r.silverstone(a)lse.ac.uk On behalf of the EMTEL Network

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announcement - for summer 2004
by Radhika Gajjala 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

WS 694 Technology, Migrancy and Globalization Summer 2004 _______________________________________________________________________ see links from http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik for updates. Instructors: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University Annapurna Mamidipudi, Dastkar Andhra Bowling Green State University Campus meetings May 12 through June 2nd noon to 5 pm M-F International Online analogue meetings will be scheduled once the participants have been identified and accepted duration May 12 through June 2nd. _____________________________ General Description: Technologies and their uses have shaped and in turn been shaped by dominant production processes, community practices and cultural activities throughout history. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the practices of travel and communication fostered by modern and postmodern modes of work and play through an engagement with digital technologies. Therefore this course - put it very broadly - examines various issues regarding labor, migration and globalization at the intersection of the digital and the analogue, by attempting to juxtapose various cultures of production locally and internationally in an effort to show how technology, migrancy and globalization are linked to our everyday lives whether in the US or in India. The specific context(s) of instruction and dialogue: One of the instructors will bring an academic perspective and draw on her research and expertise with digital media and the other instructor will bring an activist/field-work perspective and draw on her expertise working with communities using weaving technologies in rural India. Both have published co-authored essays juxtaposing these contexts (see for instance Gajjala and Mamidipudi 1999, 2002, 2003 and forthcoming 2004). In this course, through various activities, virtual engagements, community related projects and lectures, we suggest a close examination of multiply mediated contexts of technology design and use as a model for understanding the scope for empowerment of underprivileged women and men through information communication technologies. We will use several available digital and distance technologies for interaction (webcams, moos whatnot). Process: Part of the workshop is designed as a virtual engagement between two groups of people from different geographical locations. The two instructors are geographically situated in different parts of the world one is teaching from Bowling Green Ohio, USA and the other is teaching from Hyderabad, India. There will be workshop participants from both locations. Each group will also have some on-site activities and a required field visit to a local site where technology, migrancy and globalization intersect. Students will have to draw concepts and understandings based readings, discussion, lectures and other class activities to produce a final project that can be delivered in one - or a combination of the formats specified in this syllabus. The course will be delivered in six modules one module per week both online and on-site (students in BGSU will be meeting in the computer lab as scheduled and students in Hyderabad will be meeting as determined by the on-site instructor there) STUDENTS NOT RESIDING IN BOWLING GREEN, OHIO ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER PLEASE CONTACT radhik(a)bgnet.bgsu.edu for further information on how to do so.

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Air-l via RSS
by Lilia Efimova 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Hi, I'm a quiet newcomer and I'm quietly wondering is there any way to receive this list via RSS? This would make my life much easier :) Regards, Lilia http://blog.mathemagenic.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lilia Efimova <mailto:lilia.efimova@telin.nl> Telematica Instituut P.O. Box 589 Phone: +31 53 485 0 327 Enschede Fax: +31 53 485 0 400 7500 AN The Netherlands http://www.telin.nl/

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