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CFP: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities
by Panayiotis Zaphiris 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

CFP: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities Special Issue for Universal Access in the Information Society Journal http://www.springeronline.com/east/journal/10209/ About the UAIS Journal ---------------------- The UAIS Journal solicits original research contributions addressing the accessibility, usability and acceptability of Information Society Technologies by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, and through any media and device. Universal access refers to the systematic effort to proactively apply principles, methods and tools of universal design, in order to develop Information Society Technologies which are accessible and usable by all citizens. The Journal's unique focus is on theoretical, methodological, and empirical research, of both technological and non-technological nature, that addresses equitable access and active participation of potentially all citizens in the Information Society. For further information, please, refer to the "Aims and scope" section on the Website of the UAIS Journal. Aims and scope of this special issue ------------------------------------ A significant increase of the older population has led to various studies investigating the effect of age in utilizing the Web as an information resource. A report by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2001 stated that the estimated change in the total size of the world's elderly population between July 1999 and July 2000 was more than 9.5 million people, growing at an average of 795,000 people each month. This trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Recent research shows that older adults are beginning to incorporate Web use in their daily activities, mainly because the Web presents an opportunity for them to maintain a high quality of life. As a consequence, a variety of new opportunities and challenges related to the use of the Web by older adults arise in a Universal Access perspective. The main objective of this special issue is to bring together work by researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines who are interested in the interrelationships among web access, web usability and ageing. Contributions on novel methodologies, theories, products and design guidelines that address these issues, as well as on related case studies, are solicited. Main topics ----------- Authors of submissions should carefully explain how the work and results presented contribute to facilitating and promoting universal access. Contributions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics: · Information architecture and the older user. · Ageing-related disabilities and accessible design of web technology. · Empirical studies on web usability and older users. · Analytical studies & computational modeling of the older web user. · Social aspects of web and aging, including the effects of web use on personal well-being, as well as social determinants of successful web use (e.g. educational attainment, socio-economic status, etc.) · Emerging applications and interaction techniques with high relevance for older web users (e.g., WAP) · Social policy implications of web access for older users, especially including issues of public access to computing facilities, access to government services, and social/civic engagement. · Web-based learning and training for the elderly. Important dates --------------- Deadline for submission of papers: April 1, 2004. Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2004. Deadline for submission of camera-ready version of accepted papers: September 1, 2004. Expected publication date of the special issue: second half of 2004 or early 2005. Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically as PDF files to one of the Guest Editors of the special issue: Panayiotis Zaphiris (e-mail: zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk) Sri Kurniawan (e-mail: s.kurniawan(a)umist.ac.uk) R. Darin Ellis (e-mail: rdellis(a)wayne.edu) The call for papers and any updates about this special issue can be found at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/UAIS-Aging/ Manuscript preparation ---------------------- Please, refer to the "Instructions to authors" section on the Website of the UAIS Journal. Reviewing process ----------------- All papers will be peer reviewed by three reviewers, experts in the field, appointed by the Guest Editors of the issue in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Copyright information --------------------- Submission of an article implies that: - the work described has not been published before, except in form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis; - it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. For further information, please, refer to the "Copyright information" section on the Website of the UAIS Journal. -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Lecturer Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design School of Informatics City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri Also check my HCI blog: http://www.zaphiris.org/Resources/

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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 8:20:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, rowin.cross(a)strath.ac.uk writes: ahh... thank you! Gracias! 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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INTERNEWS SEEKS RADIO TRAINER/MENTOR FOR AFGHANISTAN
by George Lessard 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

------------------------------------------- INTERNEWS SEEKS RADIO TRAINER/MENTOR FOR AFGHANISTAN --------------------------------------------- Job Title: Radio Trainer/Mentor, Afghanistan SUMMARY: Journalism and radio production mentoring for new radio stations in Afghanistan. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Internews Network, a nonprofit media development organization, is seeking experienced, adventurous radio production and journalism mentors to assist in the startup of national independent radio in Afghanistan. Mentors will have the opportunity to assist in the creation of national programming to feed a network of local stations, Afghan-owned and operated, throughout Afghanistan. From January until the end of 2004, mentors will help an Afghan team develop news and current affairs programs to be fed by satellite to a network of stations around the country, starting with two hours a day in March/April. In 2003 Internews helped Afghan partners launch seven independent stations, and five more will be on air by February 2004. These 12 stations form the basis of a network of local and regional stations across the country. A local translator will be provided if necessary. Minimum term of employment is two months, with preference for three or more. Working professionals encouraged to apply. Salary negotiable. Specifics of the job include: * teaching fundamentals of radio production to Afghan staff. * teaching fundamentals of journalism to Afghan staff. * working closely with radio station management to design programming schedules. * helping define listenership interest and community relations. * liaison with other organizations in the region, such as humanitarian assistance and international organizations. * assisting the station on questions of sustainability. * research into media needs and potential pressures that could influence the stations' independence. QUALIFICATIONS * Five + years experience as a radio journalist and/or producer * Experience teaching radio journalism and or radio production * Media management experience * Overseas working experience in a developing world environment, preferably Central and/or So. Asia * Dari or Pashtu language skills desirable * Relevant university degree required -------------------------------------- IMPACS MEDIA AND ELECTIONS SEMINAR FOR PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES -- FEBRUARY 20-22, 2004 TORONTO, ONTARIO -------------------------------------- Increasingly, civil society organizations and media professionals are recognizing the centrality of supporting fair, accurate and responsible reporting of elections in countries where democracy is a fragile or a new idea. The Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS), a Canadian-based non governmental organization, is hosting a three-day seminar for reporters, editors, and media development professionals interested in sharing, developing and honing their skills in this field. Seminar topics will include risk assessment and security training, working with elections administrators and state-run media executives, developing effective training for new reporters, and the latest tools and resources for working in the field and evaluating success. Detailed case studies by reporters and trainers working in the field will offer lessons learned working in conflict-stressed states like Cambodia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Iraq. Detailed program and venue and travel information will be made available early in 2004. Check the media and elections portion of the website for updated info. http://www.impacs.org WHO SHOULD ATTEND: staff and trainers of media development organizations, those interested in pursing media and elections programming internationally, and reporters and editors delivering elections coverage in emerging democracies. HOW TO REGISTER: Registration is just $350 CDN + GST if you sign-up before January 20. After January 20, registration is $400 CDN + GST. Bursaries are available for applicants from the global south, students, or those who are under-employed or unemployed. Please send a one page CV and in a brief letter tell us how your attendance at the session will advance your professional development and the kind of contribution you can offer to discussions of media and elections. For more information: please email mediainfo(a)impacs.org or phone and leave a message for Amanda Gibbs, Media and Elections Manager 604-682-1953 (ext 105), 1-877-232-0122 (105). ---------------------------------------- --- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Via / Excerpted / By / From / Thanks to: ************ Produced by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) 1616 H Street, N.W. - Third Floor - Washington, D.C. 20006. Telephone: (1-202) 737-3700 - Fax: (1-202) 737-0530. E-mail: editor(a)icfj.org - Web Site: http://www.icfj.org ********************************* © 2003 International Center for Journalists. All rights reserved. IJNet grants permission for its material to be reproduced or republished provided IJNet is credited. 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Live Cyber-Caucus experiment - Chat tonight (Now)
by Steven Clift 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

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Re: [Air-l] On Netnography
by Dan L Burk 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

This is a very interesting service. I hope that you've engaged good counsel and/or have excellent business liability insurance -- aside from the data privacy issues raised by your activity, you appear to have massive copyright, trespass, and unauthorized access issues, across multiple jurisdictions. Lots of exposure, not easy to sort out the sources of liability. (And I'm not even going to mention all the ethical issues -- Charles Ess or somebody else can do that.) Should be plenty to keep you on your toes. Best of luck, Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011 On 18 Jan 2004, Fernando Polo wrote: > Dear all, > > Our company has recently launched a service to discover online consumer > insights from discussions held in Internet (newsgroups, message boards, > etc). We use our proprietary technology to crawl the web, store and text > mine the contents, and visualise the outcome (everything in real-time), > combined with analysis provided by a team of sociologists. > > We have heard of some companies using ethnography and even netnography > (or cyber ethnography), and we have gone through research by R. > Kozinets, and some other forerunners, but I would appreciate very much > if you can provide me with more case studies or citations of firms using > this methodology. > > If you want to receive more information about our service, just send me > a mail. > > Thank you all in advance. > Fernando Polo > > _____________________________ > www.dicelared.com > Tel/Fax +34 914 453 721 > fernando.polo(a)dicelared.com > _________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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Re: [Air-l] On Netnography
by Charles Ess 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

As a follow-up to Dan's message - as far as ethical issues in general, I'd recommend the AoIR ethics guidelines (www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf) as a series of questions that have now proven helpful to researchers around the world in determining just what the ethical issues of a given project / approach / methodology, etc., might be. In addition, if your research is going to involve anyone from the European Union, you should be aware (if you're not already) that the data privacy protection laws for the E.U. states are considerably stricter in a number of ways than those enforced in the U.S. For a comprehensive overview of E.U. data privacy law and correlative steps for researchers, the materials gathered at the RESPECT project website are the best I've seen (though Dan certainly knows better than I on this): http://www.respectproject.org/main/index.php following especially the link http://www.respectproject.org/main/data.php which introduces the research and final report of colleagues at the Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (CRID) / The Research Centre for Computer and Law at the University of Namur. The Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research, at http://www.respectproject.org/ethics/ethics.pdf is also absolutely first rate. Enjoy! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not identity - Confucius ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan L Burk" <burkx006(a)umn.edu> To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] On Netnography > > This is a very interesting service. I hope that you've engaged good counsel > and/or have excellent business liability insurance -- aside from the data > privacy issues raised by your activity, you appear to have massive > copyright, trespass, and unauthorized access issues, across multiple > jurisdictions. Lots of exposure, not easy to sort out the sources of > liability. (And I'm not even going to mention all the ethical issues -- > Charles Ess or somebody else can do that.) Should be plenty to keep you on > your toes. > > Best of luck, > > Dan L. Burk > Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor > University of Minnesota Law School > 229 19th Avenue South > Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA > *************************************** > Voice: 612-626-8726 > Fax: 612-625-2011 > > > On 18 Jan 2004, Fernando Polo wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Our company has recently launched a service to discover online consumer > > insights from discussions held in Internet (newsgroups, message boards, > > etc). We use our proprietary technology to crawl the web, store and text > > mine the contents, and visualise the outcome (everything in real-time), > > combined with analysis provided by a team of sociologists. > > > > We have heard of some companies using ethnography and even netnography > > (or cyber ethnography), and we have gone through research by R. > > Kozinets, and some other forerunners, but I would appreciate very much > > if you can provide me with more case studies or citations of firms using > > this methodology. > > > > If you want to receive more information about our service, just send me > > a mail. > > > > Thank you all in advance. > > Fernando Polo > > > > _____________________________ > > www.dicelared.com > > Tel/Fax +34 914 453 721 > > fernando.polo(a)dicelared.com > > _________________________ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l >

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The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections
by Dányi Endre 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

apologies for x-posting... :: Call for papers :: Submissions are invited for a conference on The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections to take place in Budapest, June 10-11, 2004. Five sections of submitted papers are planned on the topics of 1. GLOBALIZATION AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION 2. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND LOCAL LIFE 3. MMS AND VIDEO IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION 4. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE NEW INTIMACY 5. NETWORKS, LINKS, CONNECTIONS Target dates: Submission of abstracts (max. 600 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by February 12, 2004. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Abstracts should emphasize (a) where the proposed paper fits within the broader set of inquiries in the area of interest, and (b) what is new and substantial in the proposed contribution relative to the state of art in the field. Abstract submitters will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by March 2, 2004. Deadline for receipt of draft full-length versions of papers: April 26. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed at the time of the conference to all participants. Deadline for receipt of final manuscripts for inclusion in the published conference proceedings: Sept. 19. Conference organized by the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary) Please note that the conference will be a strictly non-smoking event. Please, check out the conference website http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/

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On Netnography
by Fernando Polo 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Dear all, Our company has recently launched a service to discover online consumer insights from discussions held in Internet (newsgroups, message boards, etc). We use our proprietary technology to crawl the web, store and text mine the contents, and visualise the outcome (everything in real-time), combined with analysis provided by a team of sociologists. We have heard of some companies using ethnography and even netnography (or cyber ethnography), and we have gone through research by R. Kozinets, and some other forerunners, but I would appreciate very much if you can provide me with more case studies or citations of firms using this methodology. If you want to receive more information about our service, just send me a mail. Thank you all in advance. Fernando Polo _____________________________ www.dicelared.com Tel/Fax +34 914 453 721 fernando.polo(a)dicelared.com _________________________

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Re: [Air-l] IR 5.0 Abstract length question
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Doh! Where can the CFP be found? -- Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in Digital Communications and Cultural Policy Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture York University 4700 Keele St.TEL 3007 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 (416)736-2100 x 30157 > Sarah and others, > > The 500-1000 word limit is correct. Note of course that within that > range the content of the abstract is more important than the length. > > Nancy > > >Hi all, > >Just a quick clarification question on length of abstracts. The CFP > >specifies 500 - 1000 words, but the online submission form requests > >no more than 750. Which is it? > > > >Thanks, > >Sarah Ford > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Deadline 18.01. 12Uhr/12am: Abstimmung DASDING-Publikumspreis Internet / Voting DASDING-audience award Internet
by Benjamin Fischer 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

English version see below ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINEABSTIMMUNG ÜBER DIE BESTEN WEBPROJEKT BEIM 17. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media 15.-18. Januar 2004 Nur noch bis morgen, Sonntag 18.01. um 12 Uhr, kann über den DASDING-Publikumspreis in Höhe von 1.000,- Euro abgestimmt werden. Zu sehen sind 21 internationale Netzkunstprojekte. Der Gewinner wird im Rahmen der Preisverleihung am Sonntag abend um 20 Uhr bekannt gegeben. Zur Abstimmung: www.filmwinter.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINEVOTING ON THE BEST WEB PROJECT OF THE 17TH STUTTGART FILMWINTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media January 15-18, 2004 Only until tomorow, Sunday 18.01. at 12 am, you can decide which project will win DASDING-audience award amounting Euro 1000,-. 21 international net art projects are presented in this competiton. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony on Sunday evening at 8 pm. For voting visit www.filmwinter.de -- Benjamin Fischer | benjamin[at]typedown.com | http://www.typedown.com/?RDCT=55343e09fb76de103c72

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