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Fwd: [Air-l] CfP GOR 2002
by lizabeth rodriguez 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

To whom it may concern: I would like to cancel my subscription to Air-1 and stop receiving the messages on my email. Please let me know if I have written to the correct person or if I need to do something else for cancellation. Thank you for your time and cooperation. Liz (rodrigl)

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CFP: Online Journalism
by Charlie Breindahl 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

2004 Call for Papers Announcement The 2004 International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin - April 16-17, 2004. For the first time, the symposium will include presentations of original research into online journalism. All presentations will take place on the second day of the conference. The first day is devoted to presentations and panels of online journalism professionals. Prior symposia have included representatives of the NYTimes.com, MCNBC.com and WashingtonPost.com. Deadlines for papers or three-page abstracts: March 1, 2004 Submission requirements: Academic papers should present original research into any aspect on online journalism including, but not limited to, changes in news content and presentation, business models for online journalism, shifting roles of journalists and readers, and the legal and ethical implications of globally accessible journalism. Papers should not have been published or presented at a prior conference. If a completed paper is not yet available, please submit a three-page abstract including details on research questions and methodology. Papers should be completed by time of the conference. All submissions will undergo a blind review. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2004. All submissions should be made electronically. Submit Today - http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/04callforpapers.htm For more information on the symposium, visit - http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/index.html

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factcheck.org
by Christian Nelson 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

I just recently became aware of factcheck.org (at www.factcheck.org)--a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which is housed at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and funded by the Annenberg Foundation. It's headed by Brooks Jackson, who created the "adwatch" and "fact check" series for CNN. Like Jackson's CNN projects, factcheck.org is devoted to publishing research about the accuracy of political claims on their web site. (They also have an email service that sends their reports out when completed.) As far as I can tell, this is something new on the Internet, that could really only happen with the Internet. Clearly, this project couldn't get off the ground if it had go to teh expense of distributing its product like a newspaper. And it seems differenet than other Internet political sites, in that it strives to be independent and is independently funded. Am I right about its uniqueness? --Christian Nelson

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Mobile Entertainment Conference: Early Bird deadline
by Jason Rutter 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Apologies for x-posting. Hi All, This is just a quick reminder that Friday is the deadline for the early bird registration fee for the conference "Mobile Entertainment: User-centred Perspectives". Up to and including Friday 23rd Jan standard registration is 225 UKP and Student registration 110UKP. Registration is available via www.mobile-ent.org. The event is hosted by the University of Manchester as part of the European Commission funded mGain project - www.mgain.org - and is taking place between 25th and 27th March 2004. Invited speakers include: Andrew Bud, mBlox Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs John Chasey, IOMO Patrice Chazerand, ISFE Bo Karlson, Wireless@KTH Anna Polishchuk, New Millennium Investment Tim Regan, Microsoft Research A draft programme as well as a list of events, speakers, and workshops is also available on the conference website www.mobile-ent.org. Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter Mobile Entertainment: User Centred Perspectives 25th-27th March 2004 www.mobile-ent.org ESRC DigiPlay Seminar series www.cric.ac.uk/cric/digi/digisems.htm ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester, M13 9QH. UK PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter

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Sixth International GOR Conference: approaching end of early registration
by Ulf-Dietrich Reips 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Dear colleagues, please note the approaching deadline for fee-reduced early registrations at the end of this month, if you would like to attend the Sixth International GOR Conference GOR 04 GERMAN ONLINE RESEARCH '04 30th and 31st March, 2004 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Conference Website: http://www.dgof.de/gor04/index_e.htm Program: http://www.dgof.de/gor04/programm_en.html Hoping to see you in Duisburg! Best wishes, --ur -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Psychologisches Institut Rämistr. 62 CH-8001 Zürich, Switzerland http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/reipspers.html

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Please send a new message when starting a new topic
by Frank Schaap 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

A request for the list members: Please send a new message when starting a new topic, don't reply to an old message and change the subject. When starting a new topic, please use the "new message" function of your e-mail program. Some of us use e-mail readers that sort the mail by thread. When you reply to an old message and change the subject, chances are that your e-mail reader will still insert an "In-Reply-To:" line in the header, and your message ends up in the wrong thread, or, if you happen to reply to a rather old message, it ends up being sorted into a thread that's no longer the e-mail reader's current messages window. You can see what the problem is here: http://fragment.nl/pics/thread.png or if you don't want to open your browser, here's an ascii version: + message title | + re: message title | |-+ re: re: message title | |-+ re: message title |-+ re: message title |-+ re: message title |-+ Suddenly a new topic appears here! Thanks! Frank. -- Barst [NL] http://fragment.nl/barst/ Fragments [EN] http://fragment.nl/fragments/

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Re: [Air-l] The Internet Is Changing The Way Canadians Socialize
by Jonathan Marshall 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

I agree with what people are saying here. This was one of the shocks that i had when i first gave a class on virtual communities. The extremely techno-literate Students not only were ignorant about mailing lists, Moos, IRC and so on, but couldn't see the point, and seemed to think that web sites with no provision for spectator writing were interactive.... However the part of the article that Mike posts does not actually say that people were using mailing lists, MOOs etc. They could laregly be using ICQ, email, and websites, and be interacting with their offline friends -- whether these are absent or neighbouring. The term "Internet chat" is meaningless in itself. The later part of the article does state that people are playing online games - although it does not say whether these are 'pair games' like chess, or 'multiplayer games', and states that 29% say they have participated in an online forum or bulletin board discussion. But nothing about how often or what kind of forums. So the issue is really does the survey investigate what modalities people are using, frequency of that modality use, or whether people are primarily pursuing group or individual contact? jon ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst(a)vcn.bc.ca> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:33 am Subject: [Air-l] The Internet Is Changing The Way Canadians Socialize > Vancouver, BC - Online Canadians, especially young online > Canadians, are > embracing the Internet as a way to meet new friends and stay in touch > with old friends according to an Ipsos-Reid study. Almost seven-in-ten > online Canadians (69%) have used the Internet for social interaction. > This includes such activities as taking part in online chat, playing > games with other people, using the Internet to contact someone they've > lost touch with, participating in forums or bulletin board > discussions,using online personals or dating services, or taking > part in an online > telephone call. Younger online Canadians are especially likely to use > the Internet in their social lives. In fact, 82% of those 18-34 > years of > age have taken part in some form of online social activities. The > studyinvolved 1,000 telephone interviews with Canadian adults and > 1,000online interviews with Canadian Internet users in September > and October. > > > http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2008 > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ========================================================================

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another physicist discovers social networks andthe internet
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

fyi, 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 _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:11:40 +0000 From: Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Reply-To: Mapping and visualising Internet infrastructure and Web space <MAPPING-CYBERSPACE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: Recipients of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE digests <MAPPING-CYBERSPACE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 20 Jan 2004 (#2004-6) There is one message totalling 47 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. New Book from Cambridge University Press ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:28:44 +0000 From: Andy Flower <aflower(a)CAMBRIDGE.ORG> Subject: New Book from Cambridge University Press List members may be interested in the following new title from Cambridge University Press. If you would like more information please follow the link at the foot of this email. Best wishes, Andy Flower Marketing Controller, Physical Sciences Cambridge University Press Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach Romualdo Pastor-Satorras Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona and Alessandro Vespignani Universit=E9 de Paris XI This book describes the application of statistical physics and complex systems theory to the study of the evolution and structure of the internet. Contents: List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. A brief history of the Internet; 2. How the Internet works; 3. Measuring the global Internet; 4. The Internet large scale topology; 5. Modeling the Internet; 6. The Internet robustness; 7. Virtual and social networks in the Internet; 8. Searching and walking on the Internet; 9. Epidemics in the Internet; 10. Beyond the Internet=92s skeleton: traffic and global performance; 11. Outlook; Appendix 1. Graph theory applied to topology analysis; Appendix 2. Interface resolution and router topology; Appendix 3. Numerical analysis of heavy-tailed distributions; Appendix 4. Degree correlations; Appendix 5. Scale-free networks: scaling relations; Appendix 6. The SIR model of virus propagation; Bibliography; Index. For more information please visit http://books.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=3D0521826985 ------------------------------ End of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 20 Jan 2004 (#2004-6) ***********************************************************************

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Re: RE: [Air-l] factcheck.org
by Jonathan Marshall 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Michael Gurstein <mgurst(a)vcn.bc.ca>writes > It does look interesting, but I think the real power of the net would > come (wait for it, it will come...) when rather than have one person > attempt to do the "fact checking", the ads/claims are packaged in > such a > way that they are thrown open to the whole world for fact checking > (somebody more adept at working with RSS feeds than myself could > probably devise the input on this in a few hours). > > Then one would have 24/7, thousands of eyeballs from every walk and > every corner checking the statements/mis-statements as they roll > out... I'm cyncical about this. The result would probably be that you would accumulate heaps of slurry and dis-info. Companies, political groups, and so on would make sure their spin doctors got in. Volume of confirmation would be important (it might make confirmation in fact), so they would flood these sites, and eventually it would be impossible to work anything out other than by the biases you already brought to the subject. The more checking up could occur, the more confusion becomes necessary. jon UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ========================================================================

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Re: [Air-l] The Internet Is Changing The Way Canadians Socialize
by Steffasong＠aol.com 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

In a message dated 1/20/2004 5:06:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, rowin.cross(a)strath.ac.uk writes: > 2. They are not familiar with the source of that "Giant > Sucking Sound." > Please, could someone explain what this is?! Rowin (intrigued and bewildered in Scotland!) Rowin, I am intrigued and bewildered here in the States! Pray, tell! Stephanie Stephanie Bennett Department of Liberal Arts Division of Humanities--Parker 380 Nova Southeastern University 3301 College Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314 "Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller

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